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Evening star., 1952-07-27

The cup that Christ used at
the Last Supper is the theme
around which this popular his
torical novelist and historian
has written long. reverent and
strangely appealing novel.
The story deals with the
struggles Of the early Chris
tians in Antioch. Jerusalem and
Rome, who spread their faith
in a hostile world. Decades
have passed since the cruci-
fixion. The surviving apostles
and disciples are old men, bravS
ing persecution, facing mar
tyrdom as they carry the Word
to familiar and strange lands.
Peter is in Rome, leader Of
numerous Christians who must
worship in secret. Paul goes
to Jerusalem to preach, defying
the murderouS zealotS, but soon
is in prison, awaiting tranSpor-
tation to Rome for trial. John
is preaching in EpheSuS. Luke,
too, is missionary, using his
spare hours to write his gospel
and the Acts of the Apostles.
James, Mark and Jude are do
ing the Masters work.
But the main character,
through whose eyes most of the
narrative unfolds; is fictitious.
He is a young Greek named
Basil, from Antioch. Born into
the family of a poor seller of
ink and pens, he is adopted
in his adolescence by the rich
1gnatius. Basil is a sculptor,
a natural genius who makes
startling likenesses in place of
the conventional, similar faces
customary in Greek and Roman
art. Ignatius, who has no son,
plans to leave his fortune to
Basil, but after his death the
rich mans unscrupulouS brother
gets a corrupt Roman judge to
set aside the will. The brother
sells Basil into slavery. Basirs
owner, a silversmith, capital
ICES on the boys gift.
Luke the Physician has been
commissioned by Joseph of Ari-
mathea, the wealthieSt man in
Jerusalem and the most devout
Christian, to find a gifted artist.
Luke has heard of Basil and
buys his freedom from the silver
smith. Basil is sent to Jerusalem
and enters the household of
Joseph. The aged friend of Jesus
has hidden the cup of the Last
Supper-a simple silver chalice
which glowS, even in the dark
ness, before the eyes of those
whose faith is deep enough. The
young Greek is to make an outer
chalice, cover for the sacred
relic and on it are to be carved
figures of the apostles and of
the Nazarene Himself. This will
involve wide travel, for the
youthful sculptor must see and
sketch from life those great men
of the new church.
Joseph's granddaughter De-
bora brings romance. She is
obviously in love with Basil.
Basil, strongly attracted to her,
is DETECTED for a time by q
Evening star., 1952-07-27
The Big Rape
BY James Wakefield 81

Mr.. Burke has approached
the seven-year-old subject of the
Russian entry into Berlin some
what in the spirit of Micky
Spillane. There is enough sex
and gore here to please the most
hardened addict of the crock
EN- and shock-em" school.
Calling it a documentary
novel" doesn't help matters any,
either. AS far as this reviewer is
concerned, there just amt no
such animal. Either it's fact,
and thereby non-fiction; or it's
fiction. which may be perfectly
we'll based on fact, but which
keeps it primary emphasis on
character, plot and style. In the
case of "The Big Rape" these
essential factors are cardboard,
crude and lurid, respectively.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

Miss Saunders, an English
writer, describes the lives of
her characters with that pene-
tration and incandescence that
one associates with similar
studies by David Lord Cecil.
The two fabulous Dumas,
Liszt. Rachel, Hugo and others
move across these pages, in
dulging in their whims, amours,
and yet leaving great monu-
ments to themselves. It makes
delightful reading, the purest
form Of historical escapism.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
News Of Artists and Exhibitions
Cartoons, Other Relics at Library of Congress
Recall Presidential Compaiqns for Us Years
By Florence S. Berrymon

y
Now that the tumult and
shouting of the conventions are
about over. the public may en-
JOY the century and a quarter
backward glance at presidential
election campaigns, the theme
of an exhibition on view in the
Library of Congress. through
August. Composed Of materials
from the Library's collections
relating to such campaigns since
1924, it is located in the main
building, first floor, north gallery
and entrance area.
One quarter of the show is
composed of SO campaign car
toons made by the late Clifford
K. Bergman. The Stars politi-
cal cartoonist for nearly AZ
years. An illustrated news item
dealing with these was pub
lished in the news section of The
Star, June 10, when the exhibi-
ton opened. In view Of the fact
that most people interested in
politics have been glued to their
radio and television sets. if not
sweltering in Chicago, these last
few weeks, it seems worth while
to call attention again, to the
Library's timely historical ex-
hibition.
That history not infrequently
repeats itself, or as the French
ssay, 1.-The more things change,
the more they remain the same"
will probably occur to many visi-
tors to this show. Besides the
Bergman cartoon on contested
delegates of 1912, successfully
claimed by Taft, campaign so
like 1852 in its earlier stages,
one runs into Adlai Stevenson
(for Vice President with Cleve-
land) so years ago.
Wings Urged Economy
The economy bloc in Congress
which views with alarm our
multibillion debt. is matched
lin alarm, at leaSt) by the Whig
Party's Government expendi-
ture chart of 1890, to 1840, in
support of Gen. William Henry
Harrison against Van Buren,.
under whom, it estimated, the
annual per capita cost of Gov
ernment might be tripled to the
height of SHIT.
Early photographic cartoons
including some very crude af-
fairs of 1924 and shortly after,
some by H. r. Robinson con-
cerning the campaigns of 1886.
1840 and 1874, and by Nathaniel
Currier dealing with the mid
10Th century, fall far short in
variety of ideas compared to the
fertile imaginations of to-
days cartooniStS throughout the
country. The early sheets depict
with tiresome repetition foot
races and horse races, with
candidates faces on the horses.
Candidates and issues are re-
f1ected not only in cartoons and
posters, but in banners, buttons.
badges, sheet music and song
books on display. Today's candi-
dates also have theme songs.~
The emergence of new parties.
the first election decided by the
House of Representatives (for
John Quincy Adams, the first
platform" issued by the Demo-
Gratis for Martin Van Buren,
Q836), early use (1840 of
slogans and symbols and the
mucker pose Con behalf of Gen.
Harrison to appeal to the com
man man" and many another
now familiar issue and device,
provided variety for the parade
of candidates through the years
at the Library of Congress.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
'SutiricuI Impressions

Ernest Lothar's first WASH
ington exhibition was held
about a decade ago, at the
Whyte Gallery. It comprised oil
paintings the Viennese artist
had done in Santo Domingo,
where he had spent two years
after leaving his native land
following Hitler's invasion.
"The Flame" restaurant is
now showing '(through August
B. another facet of Mr.. Lothar's
impressions of the Dominican
Republics ink and water color
drawings, full of whimsy, i'm
agination and ,satirical COM
ments on the native scene, its
Inhabitants. Indians, pirates,
bandits. banqueting and revelry,
and a host of other things OBJ
served. These drawings at the
Flame are being shown for the
, first time anywhere.
Incidentally, Genevieve Long,
in charge of these exhibitions.
reported that three paintings
were sold from the collection of
Is by Washington artists, which
preceded the Lothar show.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

This 600-page document, on
which a staff of four experts
spent four years in writing and
research, is almost as great in
interest to the general public as
1t IS to the half million men
VINO were the Marine Corps in
1942-1945.
Among other facts. passed
over at the time they occurred.
Author Sherrod discloses the
near panic caused within the
United States Navy by Japan's
suicide pilots" Suppression of
Evening star., 1952-07-27
History OF the Marine Corps Aviation in World War n
by Robert Sherrod Combat Forces Press. s6Ml
orceS Press; $780,

news about the Kamikazes by
Admiral Nimitz for many months
and the death of President
Roosevelt d few hours after the
story was first divulged to the
public, lost full effect of the
suicide pilot phenomenon.
Much more or interest, that
was either unappreciated or UNI
disclosed at the time it hap
pened, is given proper perspec-
tive in this fine book. There are
64 photographs.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
The Prodigol Father
BY Edith Saunders Iongmans, Green G. Co.: $4J
Reviewed by Edwin TrbbIe
] by Edwin TribbIe

This is a brilliantly written
study Of Dumas Pere ct Fills
and "The Lady of the Camel
las" Paris in the middle of
the last century was a place of
incredible romanticism. Au-
thors lived lives more dashing
than their most daring plots.
It was the era of the grand
gesture and the complete lack
of conventional social customs.
1t is no accident than Bohemi-
anism came to mean Partisan
rather than anything pertain
ing to Bohemia itself.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
The Readers Digest
Murder Case

BY Fulton Oursler. (Fdrrar,
StrGus & Young; $685.
Mr.. Oursler died two months
after completing this 412-page
report of the actual trial of
three men for the murder of
Readers Digest messenger.
A fourth man was involved
but turned States evidence.
The author, who was a Readers
Digest senior editor, devoted
five pages to the murder, 10
pages to its engrossing solution
and all the rest to unsufficiently
digested court testimony - in
Guiding such unnecessary items
as the judges instructions to
the jurors to go to lunch.
The author INDUCED in some
sweeping generalizations. He
called the case "a shocking.
socially significant example of
some of the gravest weaknesses
in our judicial and pathological
systems" because these bad
actors had been repeatedly
paroled. Certainly, men with
these criminal records were a
menace at large, but the author
did not analyse the background
of their parole, how it could
have been avoided and might be
avoided in future cases. He
also attacked the trial as "a
horrible example of the laws
delay because the trial of
three men for their lives took
seven weeks. And he was bitter
because the jurors were not in
formed of the mems records.
That, however, is a matter of
law, if the defendant does not
take the stand.
1t is hard to understand why
this scarcely embellished court
record of a routine trial should
be worth $3.95. M. o.
American Crisis Diplomacy
BY Richard w. Van Alstyne.
(Stantord; $780,
A careful historical study of
our diplomacy in Europe and
the Far East in our quest for
collective security over the last
80 years. B. r.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
He Hanged Them High

Reviewed by Joseph A. Fox
A bizarre chapter in the his
tory of American jurisprudence
began to unfold in the spring
of 1875, when Isaac Charles
Parker, a tranSplanted Missouri
lawyer, was commissioned by
President Grant and took Office
as United States judge for the
western district of Arkansas.
Judge Parker's jurisdiction ex-
tended over old Indian Terri
tory, where robbery and murder
were routine and, for the better
part of 20 years, the judge, as
sole arbiter of the law, admins
tered justice as he saw it-us-
ually at the end of a rope-from
his dingy chambers in roWdy
Fort Smith.
This is the story of his rule,
which, actually, was absolute
until around 1891, when Con-
gress thoughtfully enacted legis-
lation which permitted Supreme
Court review of capital puniSh-
ment cases.
When the court was dissolved
in 1896, Judge Parker had SEN
fenced 172 men to death, and
. had seen 88 hanged from a rude
gallows beneath the windows of
his headquarters. All had jury
trials-but the Parker juries al
ways knew what they were sup
posed to do.
Some little-remembered fig
ures march across the pages of
HE Hanged Them High
Cherokee Bill, Henry Starr, Belle
Starr, Texas Jack, Ned Chris
tie and others of that lawless
company.
MI. Croy has recalled a grip
ping interlude of the frontier
era in his well-documented mar
rative.
Evening star., 1952-07-27

This portrait bust OF Susan Anthony the famous
SufGg unOeled recently in Neo York Uniuesys Hall
OF Fame the aoork OF Brenda Putnam formerly OF Wash
ington father Herbert Putnam, librarian emeritus
of Congress- present at the Miss Putnam
represented in Washington by the fountain figure OF Puck at
the Foger Shakespeare Library and by number other oork
Evening star., 1952-07-27

all much simplified and two
dimensional. This row arrange
ment could become rather tire
some. Mr.. Steinmetz taught at
the Maryland Academy of Art
for two years. and is presently
working as a designer-crafts-
man.
Stanley Jacobson's large ex-
pressionistic abstraction "Per-
sonage Throwing Stone at
Miro" will inevitably elicit a
chuckle from those who are ac-
quainted with Miro's paintings.
Mr.. Jacobson studied with Hans
Hoffman.
Betty Cookies paintings Birds
in Cages" (verticaD. Cats on
Stools" (horizontaD and "Cat
Panel" primitively incised on a
panel in which natural knots
form eyes. give the exhibition
some comic relief, seem like work
by child with high l. @.
Actually, Miss Cooke has an i'm
pressive past despite her youth.
She obtained her B. F. A. at
Johns Hopkins, taught for a
while at Maryland Institute,
has exhibited jewelry and
leather work throughout the
country. She is now q free
lance designer and craftsman.
Two of La Rue Schneider's
works are collages, a form Of
painting" toward which I have
blind spot. However thought
fully composed and clever these
constructions may be, and de-
spite the half century or more
of the mediums use by now
highly respected artists. making
pictures out of oddments seems
to me essentially superficial.
Mr.. Schneider studied at Par
sons School of Design, one of the
country's best, spent four years
as a display and window de-
signer (Which profession may
account in part for the COL
lages). He is now a free-lance
artist. The Baltimore Museum
owns one of his paintings.
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Books in Review
Costoin Writes Appealing Novel
Of EurIy Christiun Missionaries

The Silver Cholice
BY Thomas B. Costain. doubleday: $3.85J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1952-07-27
Crime
By Miriom Ottenbero

Campaign Train. BY the Cor
dons. Doubleday & Co.,
Inc; $500
Crime Club.
A Governor (party unknown)
is the nominee for President in
this election year special. Po-
litical realities are neatly woven
into a plot that centers on
somebody's efforts to get the
Governor as he tIavels cross
country on his campaign train.
Starring beside the candidate
are a stenographer burning for
revenge, a syndicate boss. a
campaign manager with prom
ises to fill, the greeter of wom-
ems groups and assorted news
men and press agents. This
whodunit excursion into politics
provides a diverting sequel to
what you've been watching on
television.
One-Man Show. BY Michael
Innes. Dodd, Mead & Co.o
$2.50.)
Red Badge.
A dilettante artist dies, pre-
sumably a suicide. A promo
tion-minded studio shows his
works. His last painting dis
appears and a duke complains
a couple of his masterpieces
are missing. Sir John Appleby
of Scotland Yard inadvertently
gets in the middle. gropes with
the multiple puzzles and winds
up in a locked furniture van.
It's all highly improbable but
frequently funny in a whim-
Sical sort of way.
A Gambit for Mr.. Groode. BY
George GriSwold. (E. P. Dut-
ton & Co., Inc; $2.500
Guilt-Edged.
Jim Furlong, author in search
of a pay check, is sent to Eu-
rope under mysterious circum-
stances, presumably to pick up
a newspaper. He gets other
obscure instructions from a
ubiquitous character named
Groode who has some connec-
ton with an international UNI
derground. Use of the double
bluff bewilders both Furlong
and the reader in this hammered
thriller.
Evening star., 1952-01-23
McCarran Bill Limits
Executive Agreements
BY The Assoeioied Press

Chairman McCarran, Democrat,
OF Nevada, of the Senate judiciary
Committee, has introduced a res
olution to limit the Presidents
power to enter into executive
agreements with other nations.
The resolution spoke of what it
called "a present tendency" to use
executive agreements in place of
treaties which, under the Consti-
tuition, are subject to ratification
by a two-thirds majority in the
Senate.
Senator 1McCarrans proposal
would subject to the following
limitations all executive or other
agreements entered into by the
President with foreign govern
ments other than treaties sub
mitted to the Senate:
l. They shall be of no force or
effect until and unless published
in full in the Federal Register.
2. They shall be subject to such
legislative action as the Congress,
lin the exercise of its constitu-
tional powers. shall deem neces-
sary and desirable"
3. "They shall be deemed to
terminate not later than six
months after the end of the term
OF the President during whose
tenure they were negotiated, un-
less extended by proclamation Of
the succeeding President"
Evening star., 1952-01-23
U. 5. Envoy 10 Vatican
Opposed, Defendeda as
7 CIergymen Debate

Two Protestant clergymen last
night expressed opposing points Of
view in a debate on the merits Of
appointing an ambassador from
the United States to the Vatican.
The value Of the Vatican as a
listening post is greatly exag-.
gerated, said DR.. Glenn Archer,
executive director of Protestants
and Other Americans United for
Separation of Church and State.
On the other hand. DR.. Charles w.
Lowry, rector of All Saints Epis-
copal Church, concluded that such
an appointment would be a good
idea.
Their debate took place during
a meeting of the Christian Church
Council of Metropolitan Washing
ton, in Columbia Heights Christian
Church, 1435 Park road NV.
Would Uphold Principle.
DR.. Archer said that, among
"eager allies" information of
mutual interest and concern ought
not to be bargained for at the
price Of giving up a constitutional
principle-that of separation of
church and state. He added that
the appointment of an American
envoy to the Vatican would not
aid this Nation in its fight against
communism because the issue has
divided the country.
He charged that the Vatican is
In alliance with Fascist dictators
in different parts of the world,
and if I'VE are going to defeat
communism, we must win the Or
dinary common people of the
world, not by joining reactionary
forces, but liberating them from
their enslavement."
DR.. Lowry discussed the back
ground of tolerance in the United
States. pointing out that, in the
early history of this Nation, it was
the Church of England and plri-
tanism that were very intolerant,
whereas Roman catholicism had
o very good record for tolerance.
DR.. Lowry. who is author Of a
new book, Communism and
Christ" pointed up the threat of
communism and said the United
States. from the military stand
point, and the Vatican, from the
spiritual standpoint. feel a COM
mon realism and good sense in
the idea of collaboration in re-
Gistance to communism.
He said he believes an American
ambassador to the Vatican Is ex-
pedient for the United States,
especially since there is no reli-
gious issue involved in such rep
resentation.
Evening star., 1952-01-23
Home Board to Meet

The Corporation Of the PreSby-
terian Home will hold its annual
meeting 1880 am. tomorrow In
the home. 1918 Newton street
NV. The Rev. Henry B. Wood
ing will preside. Afterwards the
board Of managers will meet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-07
David Gerber, Karl
KldsSen At Hi-Y Camp

David Gerber and Karl Klassen,
Bluffton High delegates, arrived in
Camp Nelson Dodd Sunday for the
31st annual session of the Ohio Hi-Y
Camp for officers and club leaders.
They will share ideas with IA
Ohio High School boys who direct
the club programs in a 1000 COM
munities in the state.
The Camp will provide fellowship,
instruction in Hi-Y methods; inspira-
tional devotional programs and
recreation.
James Williams Ohio Hi-Y Secre-
tary will direct the program. Alvin
Deiss, Ohio Youth Secretary is Camp
Director. Leigh w. Soule, Northern
Ohio Secretary, will teach devotional
leadership courses and present Ma
tional Hi-Y materials.
DR.. Arthur Wickam of Miami
University, DR.. Samuel Hadley of
Kent State University, and Mr.
George Campbell, nationally known
song leader, will appear on the pro-
gram.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-07
Malcolm, Bdsinger
Weds In Colorado

Malcolm Basinger, son of DR.. and
Mrs. Evan Basinger of Spring street
was married to Miss Sue Rogers,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Rogers of Colorado Springs, Colo,
in a ceremony in the Presbyterian
church at that place Tuesday after
noon at o'clock.
The couple will live in Ann Arbor,
Mich, where Mr.. Basinger will be a
second year student this fall in the
University of Michigan College of
Law. Both the bride and bridegroom
are graduates of Wooster college.
DR.. and Mrs. Basinger flew to
Colorado Springs the first of the
week to attend the wedding.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-07

See me for cemetery monuments
and markers of all kinds; prices
right. Samuel Rxel, 121 Spring
st. Bluffton phone If
For sale-Used Marion electric
range, reasonable. WahlieS Floret
Gift Shop, S. Main st. Bluffton
phone.
Don't forget the ice cneam social
at Rawson school, August 13 at $3.50
p. m. Rain or shine.
Ice cream social and Isupper, Fri
day evening on Lafayette Methodist
church lawn by VS. s. In base
ment in event of raih.
It's the operating qbst of.oil burn
ing furnaces that counts, not the
original cost. Let Y show you why.
Stop in and'Gsee fhe new Lennox.
Fett gardwafe.
For sAls-Houss with dining space
in kitchen, large living room, 2 bed
rooms and bath 4 full storage space
in attic with pun down stairway
Garage attached to house. Shown
by appointment only. Clifford and
Dorothy Houts phone 253-G.
Parents off children eligible fol
kindergarten may contact Mrs. Wal.
ter Gratz.
For sale t1949 green Ford conver.
tible; excellent condition. Ronald
Diller, 239 S. Main. Phone 222-W.
For sale-Lot, size go by 200
located at 462 Cherry st. Mervin C
Diefendeifer.