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other social functions all are
carefully delineated
As well, advice is given on good
walking manners, good camping
manners. telephone courtesy,
travelling etiquette, behavior at
both informal and formal dances
dressing for various occasions, and,
in fact nearly every sort of social
affair is discussed The book is
good for adults as well as ehIl-
dren.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-07-04

presiding elder OF the Jonesboro
district, was in the city visiting
with Rev. A. B. Woody, pastor
of Bethel AME church :. E, The
Christian Women conference
which was held in Little Rock the
the past week was success as re-
ported by Mrs, Willie Fleming,
Mrs. Estell Rucker, and Mrs, An
ME Mae Thomas. Mrs, Thomas
was a graduate from this Chris
tan conference, The theme was
christian Certaintes for Life To-
day" Rev. Roy E, Williams, a
native of Arkansas, who is home
visiting parents and friends VIII
be speaking Throughout the state
He will preach at the St, John
Baptist church, Jonesboro, July D.
He will also preach at Bethlehem
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l0udiln

Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Lloyd of
Huttig visited Mr.. and Mrs. Sol
Bureh recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Early Leon Hildreth and children
Of Detroit are here visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. M. Hill
dreth The funeral Of Mrs.
Aletha Burch was conducted at
New Jerusalem Baptist church :.
Media Delois Jones is spending
her vacation in Sparkman with
her aunt. Mrs. John King. if, j.
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bearden
Wayman Howard

NaNman howard
Mems day was celebrated at Mt.
Olive Baptist church June % Rev,
f. O. Jones was the speaker =.
The Brady district meeting was
held at the Greater Mt. Olive
Baptist church June 27 Mrs.
Cleo Brazial Of Detroit is visiting
relatives here =. Howard AIRING
ton spent his vacation here =.
Mt. Olive Baptist church will
hold its annual usher drill Sun
day Frank Newton is chairman.
Mrs. Verda Johnson, promin-
ent resident, entered hospital in
Texarkana where she will under
60 an operation The school
Improvement program that was
recently launched here is being
we'll supported So. 1t is important
that we be well informed OF cur
rent events. A good way TO do
this is to read your PRESS regu-
larly.
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BatesviIle

Prof A. M, Miller, the prinei-
pal of the Ethel o, Miller high
school, was home for the week
end. He was the principal speak
err for the annual Mems day pro"
gram which was held at the
Bethlehem Baptist church, The
visiting church was Friendship
Baptist, the Rev. Albert St Clair
is the pastor Rev. f. 5. Thomas
is pastor Rev Quinn, the
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IF that were all, the Book Of Judges
1 would not help us very much.
But the question is: Why does a ma.
ton lose It's freedom?
The answer given In this an.
Client book has been confirmed
In history many a time since. A
nation is free when II deserves
to he free; II loses its freedom
when II no longer deserves H.
= The careful reader can see IN the
Book Of Judges another line rising
and falling, the curying line Of the
nations faith and moral life When
they "went after other gods, that
Is, when they sank 10 the sins and
crimes which went with the worship
OF these "other gods" they lost
their morals and at the same time
lost their morale and their charac-
ter. And a nation that loses its
character is one that easily loses
its freedom.
II is the way mighty Rome fell
and Spain, and many another. II is
the way our own natio1 can fan
But the way out is also shown in the
Bible.
The Book OF Judges has beer
called the Book Of the Prodigal Ma
ssa.. n lie The vtnf, ~ Y,1af,'u elm bfti
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-07-04

Mrs. Jessie Graham has re-
turned home from Little Rock.
She has been visiting her sister
Mrs. Ida Mae Holt Mrs. Nor
lissie Griffen and Mrs Lille Duff
file are on the sick list along with
Mrs. Birda Mae Leonard who is
in a Monticello hospital where
she underwent surgery See
Inez Lindsey for the STATE
PRESS. Hove your news ready
when you get your paper.
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Speaking at a meeting of news
men at the Calvert distillery at
Louisville, w. w. Wachtel, Pres
ident Of Calvert Distillers Corp,
asserted that bootlegging has
continued to increase and the only
way to curb it is to lower the
liquor tax rate to realistic levels
and by better enforcement of laws
against moonshining.
He charged that the size of the
Federal enforcement staff was in
adequate to cope with large scale,
better organized, modern bootleg
FiBg. citing the fact that the Fed
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it wa said, indicates that gangs
are not broken up when a still is
seized but that only one of their
members is arrested.
Surviving members of gang
which operates a seized still set
up shop elsewhere" Mr.. Wachtel
said, "and recent still seizures
have included large units with
daily capacity ranging from 500
to 1000 gallons indicating that
the racket from production to dis
tribution is becoming better or
ganized."
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I church in Batesv,n.
o. o. - Johnnie Shell, an w W
sidney Watkins are on =. ~ NJ
lis. = Mrs Mildred Brow nr "
a week end visitor OF Mrs 'I = W
Sales, OF Little Rock NJ. as|
ME Mae Thomas visited with WIN :, ~
savannah Walton and Miss a. ~
Sales while in Little Roe. ''''|
The Missionary society Of D..
hem church is spoa.oring DSDS|
luck Friday evening in the 's.l
basement :. Bethel AMF o oS4 y
had its annual Womens d.W 'l1
gram Sunday. Mrs, sophi W.T. NJ
Is the president; Rev. A. p W.
ley, pastor. '"I
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eral enforcement staff today num-.
bers about 900 men which is 1920
smaller than the Alcohol Tax
Unit staff of the 1910 fiscal year.
This smaller size of the 2TU
staff was, he said, in spite of the
higher excise loss to the govern
ment per gallon Of illicit liquor to-
day, as against ten years ago,
reflected in the smaller ratio Of
arrests being made today.
Today's average of arrests was
about one person per still seized,
in contrast to 240 persons per still
in 1910. This low rate Of arrests,
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WiIIl1ot

The First Baptist church Of
Thebes celebrated the 18th ami
versary Of its pastor, Rev. F. II,
Harris on the fourth Sunday. The
church was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. Rev. J. w John
son delivered the anniversary SER
mon. Members and friends express
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The Cycle of Freedom

BANKING experts talk about bust
- ness cycles, and show diagrams
10 illustrate them. The stories in
Judges also make a kind ~ pattern.
a wavy line that climbs up and dips
down, over and over again The
curve is freedom, the low dip is
slavery.
The little nation Of Israel, or
rather the little gatheraiion Of
tribes not yet nation, that went
by that name, was struggling
for a place In the sun. Some
times they had no better than
n place In the shade. In the
shadows Of national weakness,
disgrace, defeat, slavery Of one
sort or another.
Other nations would "oppress
them In the various ways by which
one nation can Cypress another; by
armed invasion, by military oeeupa-
ton, by making slave laborers, by
exacting huge sums OF money. by
depriving them Of trade or territory.
And then after long time Of this, a
hero would arise and lead the PEG.
pie back 10 freedom.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1952-07-04

The New Jerusalem Baptist
church is planning a Sunday
school rally July 6, The public is
invited Have your news ready
when you receive your paper
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fering OF so m e
thoughts on I h e
B | b lie passages
which are used as
the Sunday school
lesson In m ore
than e | & h y diff.
ferent denonina-
tons Of the Chris
tian church. T h e
writer. whether
the writer OF this
column ar tkilge
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When They Did as They Pleased

HOWEVER, let's have No apollo
1 = gies for going anywhere in the
Bible, back or front. The voice Of
God speaks to US through ii, and we
can learn something from all parts
of it.
For the next three months the
lessons are TO be about the rise of
the Kingdom, from just after josh
ua's time to the reign of solomon
This week we have before us the
first and last parts of book
Uudges) that covers many genera
tions. This book contains some in
spring stories, and some so harsh
or revolving that they never are
studied in Sunday school.
The inspired prophet whe first
put these stories together and
commented on them makes
significant postscript at the
end, as If 10 explain some of the
more shocking tales: 7 ose
were the days when there was
no king, and every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
There you have one Of the keys
for understanding this strange Book
Of Judges, II is ths story of anarchy,
of men doing as they pleased. Do
laws annoy you? Do you sometimes
feel that this would be a better
world II we could do away with gov
eminent entirely and let every man
do as he likes? The Book OF Judges
shows what sort OF world that would
be-and you wouldn't like ii.
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Prodigal Nation
Lessen for July 6. 1852

syVoURE going a long way back
! for a Sermon" said neigh
Dor who reads this column, once
when the topic was jeremiah. Well,
this column isn't intended to be a
sermon. II is intended to be an of
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who write the books such as Tar
bells and Peloubet's that contain
lessons for a whole year, does not
pick out the topics. They were Sc
lected by large interdenomina.
tional committee some years be-
fore.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

There is a sub-plot too COM
plex to detail. The chief of the
national police is a scoundrel
named Cinco. Fearing he is on
his way out, Cinco decides on
a coup which should restore
him to favor. He confides to
Dictator Teresa that there is
a conspiracy hatched to assas-
Sinate him at the duchess house
party. Cinco has the names, he
says, but must get the evidence
and so he plans to catch the men
in the act. The general agrees.
The conspiracy is in Cinco'S
mind, but he precedes to form
it by engaging a police spy
named Perro to hire some IA
natic. Perro knows just the
one. This half-mad fellow read
lily agrees to save the country
from the dictator. Others, in
cluding Fausta's lover-one of
them-get enmeShed in the
plot. 1t boils into an explosive
climax. Even the names of the
characters have comic signif-
1cance in Spanish.
Mr.. Moravia evidently has a
low opinion of such a layout.
At least there is not an adj
mirable character in the lot.
Morals, honor, decency are
qualities that probably are all
very well for the lower orders.
but of no concern to the
duchess and her friends. With
in its decadent. depraved set
ting, the story is amusing and
perhaps enlightening.
&C. 3. !.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Irish Literary Revival Helped Spark
Revolt That Shook Off Country's Chains
1000 Years Of Irish Prose: The Literary Revival
Edited by Vivian Mercier David H. Greene
Adair; s6J
Reviewed by Mory, McGrory

Sentimental Irish need not
apply" might have been the sign
tackled on their workroom door
by the editors of this workman
like collection Of representative
prose of contemporary Ireland.
The Mother Machree" flavor is
entirely absent. After all, as
the editors point out, people
of culture everywhere are in
tested in modern Irish literature
not because it either flatters or
lessons the Irish in the light
of the world but because its
achievement is formidable and
significant"
The great outpouring of the
Irish literary revival which be-
gan when Standish O'Grady be-
gan to bring to light the hidden
treasures of the Gaelic heritage,
was certainly formidable and
significant. Not only was it po-
etry and prose of the first order
produced in great profusion, it
had tremendous historical con-
sequences. There is no question
that it helped spark the revolu-
tlon, that eventually freed Ire
land from the centuries-old
grip of England. Yeats, whom
O'Casey, in an unusually rever-
ent, moment called "The Found
er," wrote of his own play.
"Cathleen Nj Houlihan"::
did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?"
Undoubtedly it did, as did the
fiercely nationalistic utterances
of other writer's of the time.
This in spite of the crack of a
Dublin wit that the Literary
Revival was nothing more
than a group of writer's who
lived. in the same town and
hated eachsother cordially" The
remark, the editors note, is
quite in character. while
writer's on the whole fueled the
fires thatburned in Irish hearts
Evening star., 1952-07-27

3race: S3.50.)
cruit them for work in his
furniture factory.
The situation, you will agree,
offers endless possibilities for
complicating mirth, and Mr..
Linklater hasn't missed a one.
The old biddies of the town un-
Willingly re-enact the plot of
the Bacchanals and chase the
nosy, joy-killing M. P. up a tree.
A little while later he is dis
covered dead-drunk on a hill
side in a hearse containing the
body of a stag. This will give
you the flavor. Being a gen.
erous man, Mr.. Linklater has
thought up several sub-plots
involving a broody preacher, a
game-warden trying to find a
wife through a marriage mart.
and three romanceS.
The story is occasionally
marred by some wordiness in
the writing, and Mr.. Linklater
has thrown in an extra charac-
ter or two who do little more
than slow down the romp here
and there. But it should trans
late onto film beautifully, and 7
nope that j. Arthur Rank gets
to work on it Immediately.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
LoxdoIe Hall
BY Eric LinkIatf

BY Eric Linklater. (Harcourt,
Just as it stands, "Laxdale
Hall" could serve as a scenario
for one of those mad and merry
British pictures which we i'm
port so thankfully. It has every
thing: A Highlands setting, a.
rich galaxy of mildly obsessed
gentry and village folk, a cum
ningly involved plot and a Sc
quence of events that range
from the quietly humorous, to
the wildly uproarious.
No reader OF this kind of
novel will be surprised to learn
that its heroine, Catriona
Matheson, daughter of the laird.
is hell-bent on producing Eu-
ripldes' Bacchanals with the
West Highlands townspeople
for the cast. simultaneously.
the village is invaded by two
sets OF upsetting foreigners.
Poachers are ravishing the
streams. An unbelievably fat
headed M. P. with an amorous
wife and a considerable entour-
age moves into view. to chide
the villagers for demanding a
pier and at the same time to re-
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Young BuItimoreunss

The Whyte Gallery is Show
ing this month an exhibition Of
three or four paintings by each
of six young Baltimore artists,
selected in collaboration with
the Baltimore Museum. Three
are Is years old. one is 80, the
others are in between. Five are
natives as we'll as residents of
Baltimore. Other ties that bind
them are that all studied at
Maryland Institute (several had
additional study elsewhere) and
all have exhibited at the Balti-
more Museum of Art, and five
at the Peale Museum.
The show affords interesting
comparison with that Of young
Washington artists at the Whyte
Gallery last month. At the risk
OF sounding chauvinistic, I
think that was better show:
stronger, more mature.
In the current show, like
best the work of Robert Wirth,
included in whose trio is a
gouache on scratch board C"Ele-
mentalD which won an honor
able mention at the Corcoran
area annual last winter. His
other two paintings are abstrac-
tionS, one rectangular design in
ink and wash, the other swirl
ing. He has had the most event.
full career of the sextet. Born
IN Bayonne, N. j., he attended
New York University, Drexel In
Stitute and the PHILADELPHIA
Museum school. He spent three
years in the South Pacific area
with, the Army Engineers. He is
now a teacher at Maryland In
stitute and a free-lance de-
Signer.
Next. I like William Schneid-
er's simplifed, stylized birds and
his Marinish Impression of a
Cove" He worked with an agen-
cy as an advertising artist and
illustrator, is now free-lance
artist. He has exhibited more
extensively than any of the
others.
Various Teehniques Shown
To Judge by the current ron.
tributions, William o. Stein
metz has a f1xation on painting
subjects arranged in rows: Nuns,
basketball players, decoy birds,
Evening star., 1952-07-27

young adventures, Helena,
whom he first knew as a slave
girl in Ignatius' household.
Helena has attached herself to
Simon the Magician, a violent
anti-Christian who tries to
prove with his amazing tricks
that he can duplicate Christ's
miracles. He does succeed, be-
fore an astonished audience in
Jerusalem, in. making tongues
of flame seem to float over
their heads. Basil, meanwhile
converted to Christianity, enters
into a marriage Of convenience
! with Deborra to help her settle
her grandfather's estate, jeop-
ardized by the activities of the
girls anti-Christian father.
Eventually Basil goes to Rome
alone to find Peter. He finds
Simon installed as court ma
gician. Basil's fame reaches the
Emperor Nero and he summons
the youth. Basil dares make an
actual likeness of. the talented
and psychopathic ruler. Nero,
strangely enough, is pleased at
being made to look human in
stead of like god. But Helena,
scorned by Basil, who has
learned that he loves only De-
bora, denounces him to Nero
as a Christian. The young man
then is in deadly peril.
1.-The Silver Chalice" has it's
literary flaws. It is overlong.
Lengthy, rounded speeches often
halt the narrative at dramatic
moments. Basil is a sort of
earlier Sir Galahad, not always
persuasive in the asceticism he
shows even before his conver-
sion. But on the whole the story
is successful as a sympathetic
portrayal of pioneer Christians
and a colorful panorama of the
era. The writing, if too detailed,
has a poetic quality that lifts
it. There are inspired pas
sages, one of them the scene
when Basil defies Nero and ad-
mits his belief in the risen
Christ. And it is one modern
novel which can be commended
to the whole family. for it does
not contain a single lewd phrase
or describe one debased episode.
Nor does it lack interest on that
account. st. Luke, the historical
character who comes most into
the story, is a convincing por-
trayal.
There may be comparisons
with another equally popular
writer, the late Lloyd Douglas.
who published two recent novels
of the times of Christ, 1.-THE
Robe" and "The Big Fisher
man." Mr.. Douglas could set
down an absorbing story. But
Mr.. Costain is a better writer.
Despite his prolixity, there is
more artistry in THE Silver
Chalice" than in either of the
other novels. And the back
ground probably is just as au-
thentic. The story of THE
Silver Chalice" brings a message
of courage and hope across the
centuries.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
The Fancy Dress Party.
By Alberto Moravia. (Farrar. Straus & Younq: So

The widely read Italian nov
elist shows here a flair for sar-
donic comedy lacking in his
longer, more serious and, it
must be said, duller novels, such
as THE Woman of Rome" and
The Conformist."
There is nothing slow or dull
about "The Fancy Dress Party"
1t is a tour de force concerning
the goings on of high society
in an unnamed South Amer
lcan country under a Dictator
ship. 1t is comedy with tragic
trimmings, somewhat in the
classical mode. It also is a sa-
tire on the intrigues that in
varably surround totalitarian
regimes.
Gen. Teresa Arrange has
emerged as dictator of this
mythical but not implausible
country after a decade of civil
war has almost ruined it. He is
rounding so, with an undimin-
ished liking for younger women.
One Of them, a beauty named
Fausta, young widow, the gen.
eral covets especially. Fausta,
who has neither morals nor
scrupleS, is we'll aware Of the
great mans yearning and is de-
termined to make herself avail
able on her own terms. Her
ally and arranger is the
Duchess Gorina. She lures the
general to her country estate
under q promise to have Fausta
there. The duchess plans a
fancy dress party at which
many of the lands nobility are
to be guests.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

American architect (Floyd
MuelleD she has lived for sew
eral years in Pasadena, Calf.
She has had a number of solo
exhibitions in that State, but
this is her first in Washington.
Despite the scope Of her trav-
els, Mrs. Mueller seems to have
retained the inspiration of an
cient South American Indian
carvings. as this influence is
one of two uppermost in her
collection of about 20 paintings
now on view. Besides these rec
tangular compositions with their
favor of Aztec and Inca motifs,
another major factor in her
paintings is the triangle. She
has turned urban scenes. people,
animals and other subjects into
triangles, which gives a same
ness" to some of her paintings.
She is also interested in sur
face textures. A number Of
small tempera paintings are
done on what appears to be
crumpled paper, and some are
finished with gold flecks.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
,Farrar, Straus G. YOUNG: s.,

1rrdr, StrGus & Young: $3J
The heroine of this work is
a Hitler youth leader. who in
"Perils of Pauline" fashion es-
capes the fate which, according
to the author, befell virtually
every other German woman in
Berlin. The mistress of a ia
natcal SIS man. she lets neither
love nor loyalty stand in her
way when invited by a Soviet
officer to share his quarters in
her home. Supposedly she would
be just as hospitable to similar
suggestion from the American
conquerorS.
Mr.. Burke may well have had
the raw material for a novel
about the German attitude
toward successive conquerors. AS
he has presented it, however,
it is still very raw. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Indiuns and TriunqIes

Susana Guevara, whose ex-
hibition of tempera paintings
and a few in oils and silk screen,
IS the most recent offering at
the Pan American Union (to re-
main through August 13) has an
international background. Born
in Santiago. Chile, she spent her
early years in Europe, being ed
ucated in England, Germany
and France. In her 30s she
came to the United States and
studied at the Art Institute Of
Chicago. AS the wife Of an
Evening star., 1952-07-27

for a free Ireland. at the same
time they made fun of mad
political enterprises and lashed
with savage satire some histori.
cal aspects of the Irish Revolu-
tionary. BY way Of illustrating
the point they include Sean
O'Casey's savage satire of a
cowardly poet, Shadow of a
Gunman."
Further to show the close al
lance between poetry and pol
itics they have devoted a section
to the revolutionary documents
of AE. James Connolly and Pa
draic PearSe, not to mention
the stirring proclamation of the
Irish Republic, signed by the
leaders of the Easter Rising of
1916.
Anglo Ireland is sparingly
represented by an excerpt from
a novel by Elizabeth Bowen and
a rather quaint and irrelevant
, little sketch by Somerville and
Ross. For the rest, Synge,
Moore, Corkery, OFaolain are
shown working from what Yeats
called 1.-THE Living World for
Text. studying the peasantry,
not being picturesque" but
just themselves.
Naturally. every one will
quarrel with individual Selec-
tions. Those who have read
Ernie O'Malley's beautiful and
lyric Army Without Banners"
will regret that no sampling of
it was presented in the revolu-
tionary selection entitled Our
Own Red Blood" And Frank
O'Connor has written better
short stories than First Con-
fession," which the editors in
explicably Scall farce"
On the whole, however, they
have succeeded in showing
Irish writer's writing about their
country in both the eloquent
and sardonic terms which the
Literary Revival initiated.