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Evening star., 1953-10-04
Reading and Writing
We Visit Miss Prescott in Her 18th
Century Cottage Near Oxford
Bv Mov McGroN

LONDON (By AirmaiD -
I went to call on H. F.. M. Pres
colt in her little 18th century
cottage in the little town Of
Charlbury, Is miles outside of
oxford. There she lives with
absolute simplicity. She is as
pleased as a child over the
success of her book, but you
get the feeling it has not
moved her one inch off a life
time course of true scholar
ship.
Miss Prescott is one of those
ageless looking women. She
has short brown hair and a
face as narrow as those
seen in medieval stained
glass windows with a high
arched nose and fine brown
green eyes. She is courteous
in manner, meticulous in
speech and partakes in no
visible way of the eccentricity
said to flourish in the English
countryside.
She was charmed to hear
that THE Man on a Donkey"
had been so warmly received
in America.
ANY one could have written
the book who'd spent seven
years on it, as I did," she said,
with every evidence of sin
cerity.
Miss Prescott'S only COM
panion in her white-Walled
cottage is a black-and-white
fox terrier which attached him.
self to her on a walking trip
she made several years ago.
He goes by the name Of Henry
Pudsey, since she was at the
time in search of material re-
lating to an early bishop OF
Durham by that name.
A medievalist since her OK
ford days, Miss Prescott,
daughter of a Church of Eng
land parson, came to a consid-
Grafton of the Tudor period
through chance study of Mary
Tudor, the subject of an early
biography of hers now being
published in America.
She began THE Man on a
Donkey" during the war in
the south of England. She
knew only she wanted to say
something about religion and
to write about a nunnery, and
a mermaid she had read about,
in some medieval manuscripts.
A Rewording Journey
What she wanted to say
about religion was simply that
the Incarnation must be seen
anew by every generation. She
chose the simple serving maid
Male as a person to whom
the staggering fact of Christ's
coming would be an absolutely
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in sWank magazines, but the
man she marries turns out to
be mediocre and she has to
settle for a kitchenette apart
ment without even a private
bath. They are always going
to better themselves, but they
never can. There are pene-
trating passages, as when
Maud Martha muses. about her
husband while they linger in
a tony cafe: "She watched
the little dreams of smoke as
they spiraled about his head,
and she thought about hap
penings. She was afraid to
suggest to him that, to most
people, nothing at all hap
pens That most people mere
ly live from day to day until
they die. :"
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-10-04
Crime
Reviewed by Miriom Gutenberg

Reviewed by Miriam Gutenberg
Justice Has No Sword. BY
Max Franklin. CRinehart &
Co.; $2.75D
A st. Louis public welfare
worker is convinced her semi
senile relief client wasn't ac-
cidentally electrocuted in his
tub because he never bathed
on Tuesdays. The Homicide
Squad SCOTS but begins to
take her seriously when she
gets kidnapped. Woven into
the murder investigation are
a nicely balanced romance. a
knowledgeable discussion of
how a crime syndicate goes
about taking over a town and
an analysis of an honest Po-
lice Departments methods of
curbing the rackets.
1uC DOCCOE WAS d Dd"C"
BY Seldom Truss. doubleday
& Co.; $2.750
Crime Club
Everybody's got a secret in
this complicated chronicle of
strange doings at the Circle
of Youth-a club devoted,
theoretically, to erasing class
distinctions. A butler gets
murdered, a maid disappears
and a hearse rattles around
in the night. The unravelling
is done by Crime Reporter
Horace and Inspector Grid
leigh of Scotland Yard, who
cheerfully uses the most
hackneyed of all devices to
accomplish his objective. 4
Evening star., 1953-10-04
John A. Garraty. (Knopt;, S6.J

Few men have clinched a
place in history for themselves
through an overwhelming
hatred. Henry Cabot Lodge
was one.
Prof. Garraty's full-length
biography of the Massachu-
sets Republican Senator
reaches a climax with the &C
count of Lodge, with consum-
mate skill, engineering the
coupe de grace to the peace
pact and League of Nations
covenant which Woodrow
Wilson brought back from
Europe.
Lodge is portrayed - with
documentation-aS naughty.
cynical, selfish and a narrow
partisan to whom the only
good Democrat was a (politi-
cally) dead Democrat. He
hated Wilson and the League
was WILSON'S League"
He wrote in 1915, Il never
expected to hate any one in
politics with the hatred
feel toward Wilson" Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr., Lodges
grandson and Ambassador to
the United Nations, has writ
ten a number of dissents from
the authors judgments, and
explanations, which appear in
footnotes. In one modifying
footnote he insists this hatred
was in the Limited and purely
political sense"
Even before Wilson went to
Europe Lodge made efforts to
undermine his position there.
In Cleveland's time Lodge had
acted on the principal poll
tics stopped at the water line.
Now he wrote Arthur Balfour,
British Foreign Minister, ad-
vocating a peace at variance
with the views of Wilson.
He made at least one other
effort to strengthen the hands
Evening star., 1953-10-04
Books in Review
Prophetic Novel Gives a Terrifying
Glimpse of Future Totulituriunism
BY David Karp. Vanguard Press; $780,
Reviewed by CorteF Brooke Jones

This novel, with it's simple
title. easy beginning and de-
ceptively quiet development,
builds up to a glimpse of a
future totalitarian state dia-
bolical in its restraint, terrify-
ing in the subtlety with which
it governs.
The story is, for me, the
most arresting such projection
OF the imagination since
George Orwell's satirical
masterpiece, 1884" was
published a few years ago.
The two novels are equally
sinister in their conclusions
and implications, but, where
the state depicted in 1894"
was blatant and open in its
oppression, the government
described in "One" seems
even more darkly atrocious be-
cause it pretends to allow its
people to lead their lives.
Chilling Reality
When a writer turns himself
loose on the future he is apt to
indulge in an orgy of inven-
ton and discovery which
makes his opus seem uncon-
vincing even though the reader
knows more startling devices
have appeared in his time. Mr..
Karp, a young New York
writer, has avoided the temp
tation in this remarkable first
novel. He has refrained from
making life much different;
instead he has held tightly to
his theme and characters.
never letting them step out of
bounds. The result is a plaus-
ible narrative. chilling in its
sense of reality.
Thus, "One" does not seem
a satire at all. It is set in an
unspecified year in an un-
named country, smaller than
America but apparently a state
in which English is spoken.
The government is given no
label, but it operates under an
original formula derived no
doubt from the most effective
elements in communism. fas-
cism and other relationships of
the past.
The Esoteric Brotherhood
This state breathes down
the necks of all its citizens,
but most of them are hardly
aware of it, so effective and
even unobtrusive is the Or
ganization. There is still pri-
vate industry, of a sort, and
people are allowed measure
of freedom so long as they
Evening star., 1953-10-04
By Florence S. Berrymon

within a radius of so miles Of
Washington are eligible to sub
nit original oils, watercolors,
drawings, prints, sculpture and
ceramics, produced within the
last two years, and not previ-
ously exhibited at the Cor
coran. Prospectus and entry
blanks are available at the
gallery and will be mailed
upon request. A jury of dis
tinguished artists will meet
the middle of October, so
artists planning to enter works
should lose no time in OBJ
tanning entry cards.
For New Students
The faculty or the Corcoran
School of Art (Which opened
last Monday is now holding
an exhibition there primarily
for the new students, but the
public is welcome. Through
October 12.) Eight artiSt-in-
StructorS are showing Is
works, nearly all of which are
new, and most of them excel
lent examples of the reSpec-
tive artists individual styles
and techniques. Richard La
hey, principal, shows a large
crayon drawing, patterned
naturalism, of Perkins Cove"
and an abstract painting. BY
Eugen Weisz, vice principal.
are a self-portrait and a land
Scape.
Edmund Archer's Opening
Night" comprising a speak
ing likeness of himself and
four other heads, promises a
firm foundation in cOnserva-
tive painting for his pupils.
Jessalee Sickman's portrait
and figure painting. much
simplified, are more modern.
John Chapman Lewis recent
venture into painting human
beings has resulted in an in
teresting head done in slate
gray, but looking natural be-
cause of the careful selection
of surrounding colors.
Evening star., 1953-10-04
Maud Martha
BY GWendolyn Brooks (Hdrper;; $780,

Miss Brooks received the
Pulitzer Prize for Annie Al
len," a volume of poetry, pub
lished in 1949. Maud Martha"
is her first book of prose f1c-
ton. It is an unusual novel,
in purpose and technique. In
commercially brief space, with
the economy of phrase and
much of the imagery of poetry,
Miss Brooks has outlined the
life of her character. This is
done through a series of short
chapters catching Maud Mar
tha in various phases from
childhood to marriage and
motherhood.
Maud Martha is a colored
girl, from a middle-cl Chi
cago family. She longs for
the luxuries and the feasts of
the mind she has read about
Evening star., 1953-10-04

don't interfere with the state.
What gives the state its hold
is that whole generation has
grown up under its miniStra-
ton and these young people
have never known individu-
ality in the sense we have it.
They assume the state is all
powerful. not to be questioned,
and let it go at that. Churches
are still allowed, though the
old sects are giving way more
and more to the new Church
of State, which believes
vaguely in God, but not in
Christ, and encourages its
members to forget they are
individuals and merge them
selves in an esoteric brother
hood.
Officials of the state are
concerned with wedding out
heretics. A hereto is any one
who doubts the omnipotent
wisdom of the state and still
cllngs to individual traits.
Prof. Burden, who teaches
English in a small university,
is a spy for the state. He
makes daily reports on his
faculty colleagues, what they
say and do. When he is called
to the Department of Internal
Examination for routine ques-
tioning, an expert sees that
actually the professor is a
heretic-an unconscious her
etic, the most dangerous kind
with his espionage a mere
cover-up for his real person.
ality.
Reduced to q Cipher
A high officer named Lark
undertakes, with the full re-
sources of the department.
medical, pSychiatric, sociologi-
cal - to extirpate Burdens
hereSy. Officially the govern
ment has abolished punish
ment as a social concept, but
what Lark and his staff do to
Burden. under cover, as they
"pulverize his identity" and
reduce him to cipher
from one to zero" enlists your
sympathy for him, even though
at the start the teacher, with
his spying. was far from ad-
mirable. The climax is quietly
horrifying.
Mr.. Karp, who keeps himself
so well in the background, is
a gifted writer. It is to be
hoped that every one willing to
condone stateism in any form,
especially dedicated, upper
case Liberals, will read One"
Evening star., 1953-10-04
Effect
And Red Rule
On Religion
War, Communism and
World Relations

War, Communism and
World Religions
BY Charles S. Braden.
(H1rper & Bros $3.50J.
Reviewed by Casper Names
The impact of World War
II and communism on re-
ligions that girdle the world
is still going on. That both
have had a strong effect goes
without saying, though how
lasting is something the fu-
ture alone can decide.
But for the contemporary
world a partial answer may be
found in this scholarly survey.
Dr. Braden. professor of his
tory and literature of religions
at Northwestern University,
spent seven months visiting
distant lands to study the
phenomena at first hand.
The physical effect of war
upon NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
houses of worship was
quickly apparent. But the
deeper and probably more
lasting impact war and COM
munism have made only ap-
peared after searching investi-
cation. Religions in Japan,
China, Southeastern Asia.
India. the Islamic world and
Israel have been and still are
being effected, and Dr.. Braden
presents a careful analysis as
to how and how much. His
final chapter, on Christianity.
is a broader approach but
nevertheless gives keen and
succinct resume of this phase
of the study.
Probably the most enlight-
ening analysis the reader en-
counters is the chameleon-way
in which the Communists cut
their attitude towards re-
ligion to suit the area in
which they are operating. DR..
Braden ferrets out their in
sidious methods and brings
them into the open for all to
see. Here is a rewarding VOL
ume for present day readers
to own.
Evening star., 1953-10-04
The Third Angel
Doubleday; $685.
BY Jerome Weidman.

BY Jerome We1dman. (DOubL
The author of It Can Get 1t
For You Wholesale" and other
novels and numerous short
stories is a close observer of
the life around him. In THE
Third Angel" while he does
some close observing of a small
town in Connecticut. he strays
into an involved and long
Winded plot which is not al
ways persuasive. The town is
drawn into a factional dispute
over the proposal to make a
national shrine out of the
estate of the local hero, an ad-
miral who was killed in the
South Pacific. An anti-Roose-
Evening star., 1953-10-04

welt columnist has tried to stir
up scandal about the ad-
miral and to blame him for the
heavy casualties resulting from
the invasion that cost his life.
All this comes to a climax at
an explosive town meeting, but
the story wanders on for
another 100 pages. The mar
rative as a whole is hardly alb
sorbing enough to justify the
space it takes. The vulgarity
with which some characters
express themselves is invari-
ably reported, though this is
largely irrelevant.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-10-04
News of Artists and Exhibitions
ID Ruth Barnet's patterned

and Ruth Barnet's patterned
'Beastees."
In the non-profeSsional di-
vision. three awards and q
mention for oils were bestowed
upon William c. ByerS' SOM
ber "Tratamos de Olvidar";;
James O'Brien's still life; Lucy
Gomersall's primitive NO
vember Dusk" and Lillian H.
Bricker's large "Rockport."
Evening star., 1953-10-04
One of the Most Controversial
American Statesmen of Our Age
Henry Cabot Lodoe. A Bioorophy
odge: A Biography
Reviewed BY Froncis P. DouqIo!

of European diplomats against
the American President.
Prof. Garraty has stated his
aim in the book was to avoid
both the whitewaSh and the
tar barrel. He has accorded
praise and condemnation
with an even hand. Behind
the volume was a careful
sitting of source material.
Evening star., 1953-10-04
Corcorun's Program

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
next Saturday evening will
have an invitation previeW, to
be followed by a public OPEN
ing Sunday of THE Print
makers America" the initial
event in a full and varied pro-
gram for 1o53-54. of exhibitions
for the public, and films. lee
lures on art and concerts, as
we'll as teas and other social
events for members of the
Corcoran Gallery Association
membership open to the pub
lic).
The Corcoran's 9th annual
area exhibition will open No
vember 21st. All artists living
The guardian., 1953-11-14

MRS. Brown (the former cara
Colley of Worcester, Mass, ane
Jacksonville, Fla.), others pres
ent being former Bostonians
Mrs. Belle Wayland Gillian, Mr.,
and Mrs. Hunter mabel Bare
kay), Mrs. virginia Roundtree
Cheltenham and Mrs. Eta Deas
of Boston and Jacksonville, Fla,
together with many others and
the 200 guest party by the l..
B. ThompSons in their mag
nificent home on the boulevard.
National Achievement Week
Program presented by the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Sun
day evening, November 8, at the
Harvard Divinity School, Cam
bridge, drew a small but most
appreciative audience to listen
to the distinguished prelate, DR..
Howard Thurman, to speak on
Opportunities and Response
bilities of Integrated Citizen
ship in Our Democracy" Mr..
Howard Gray, Mr. Herbert
Tucker (MC) and Mrs. Louis
Ashley (soloist) assisted on the
program. The friends present
had also the pleasure of meet
ing the Deans wife, whom they
found to be a most charming
and gracious woman. DR.. How
ard Thurman is Dean of the
Chapel, Chairman of the Board
Of Preachers and Professor of /
Spiritual Disciplines and Re-
sources in the School of The
ology at Boston University. |
Formerly Dean of the Chapel |
At Howard University, Wash |
ngton, D. c., the renowned |
scholar and theologian comes
10 Boston from San Francisco,
where he organized the Church
for the Fellowship of All Peo-
pie. A few of those seen were:
Nr. and Mrs Alfred Clarke, Mr..
drs. Sadie Merchant, Mr.. and |
Wade McCree, Mr.. Harold Scott, |
drs. McIntire of Holton, Me, |
Hiss Julia Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Robertson, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Ialcolm Lewis, Mrs. Adelaide |
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris, |
Mrs. Bessie Ferguson, Mrs. Olga
Miss Reba Ferguon,
Rev. and Mrs. Laviscount, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Dixon, Mrs.
Herbert Tucker.
The Guardian has deepest
The guardian., 1953-11-14

i Fisk University, was entertain
ed Sunday at dinner by Mr.. and
Mrs. Norris Davis at their home
on Walnut Ave. Among the din
ner guests were Rev. and Mrs.
S. L. Laviscount, Miss Olivia
Stokes, DR.. and Mrs. j. B. Hall
and few others The Will
lima B. Dabney'S are now well
established in D. c., where
"Bill" is serving on the ma
tional Red Cross
Mrs. Sadie Fitzallen left Fri
day FOR Jersey City to visit her
daughter and Son-in-law over
the weekend To renew
old friendships in Boston came
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Lewis of
Atlantic City last week, making
their headquarters at the
Touraine Hotel. They arrived
Friday after a three-day trip
to Canada and being in the
city until last Tuesday. Among
their Boston friends who en-
tertained for them was Mr..
Herbert Grant of Warwick ST.,
who, on Sunday, served a fine
turkey dinner to the following
guests: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank C.
Mrs. Willie Jackman g.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles G. Stew
ard. The viandS were all home
cooked by the host, who is an
expert in the culinary line
The guardian., 1953-11-14

turkey with all the fixin's, top
ped off with strawberry ice
cream and cocoanut frosted
cake The Women'S Service
Club members came out in large
numbers last Monday night for
the monthly meeting. Commit
tees are busy planning the fall
and winter program, the Spe-
cial affair being the Cabaret
and Dance on December IL at
the Dorchester Plaza. The door
prize is especially attractive,
being an infra-red electric
broiler. Ann Hawk, the efficient
chairman, has assembled
capable committee to work with
here -. Margaret Henderson
of Cambridge came home from
her weeks trip to Cleveland
bubbling over with enthusiasm
over her experiences. She was
the guest of her enterprizing
sister-in-law, Mrs. Marilla Jack
son, Cleveland'S No. 1 business
owning one of the most
up-to-date hotels in the city,
with all modern equipment and
decorations. The owners own
apartment is luxurious in the
extreme and could easily grace
the pages of Home Beautiful.
Margaret was especially en-
thusiastic over the integration
If the races she found in the
city, two of the biggest drug
The guardian., 1953-11-14

| sympathy for Toki Schalk
Johnson, former columnist on
this paper, and her family, in
the sudden death of her BROTH
er, Theodore Schalk, which oc-
Cured october % at his home,
!. $40 Massachusetts, Avenue. He
was 35. Funeral services were
held at the Norris Davis Fu-
neral Home on Walnut Avenue,
Saturday, October 81, with many
friends attending, together with
Toki, who flew from Pittsburgh,
and her sister, Lillian Schalk
Farley, from Detroit, Mich. He
is survived also by his wife,
Cora; a brother, George, who
is married to the former Paul
inc Averett, and the venerable
aunt Monte" (MrS. Nora Har-
ris), who now makes her home
at Resthaven. Rev. A. Roger
Williams of Massachusetts Ave.
Baptist Church, Cambridge,
conducted the services and
spoke words of tenderest SYM
pathy as only he can. Inter
ment was in the World War
II section of Mt. Hope Gene
terry. Mr.. Schalk, a tobacco
salesman, was a veteran of |
World War II and a Sergeant |
of a company in the Korean |
War.
In Springfield at the Octo-
Der meeting of the Community |
Club held at the home of the
president, Mrs. ]. Nelson Bry-
ant, the guest speaker was the
brother of member Helen
Worthy Holt, Mr., William
Worthy, Jr., of New York City, |
foreign correspondent for the
Baltimore Afro-American, who
had just returned from a two
year trip around the world. In
Korea, he was a member of
the United Nations team Of
press correspondents covering
he truce negotiations at Pan
nunjon. Mr.. Worthy talked on
We Provincial Americans" A
graduate of Bates College, Glass
If 1912, Mr.. Worthy was for
nerly press secretary to A.
Philip Randolph, president of
he AFL Brotherhood of Sleep
ng Car Porters. He went to
Europe in 1851 and studied at
,he University of Oslo Summer
Oslo, Norway, and in
Denmark at the Krogerup |
Hojskole. In January, 1858, he |
covered the All-Asia Conference
n Rangoon, Burma, for the
ocial-Democratic press of Eu-
'ope. He has written for The
Crisis, The New Statesman and
Nation of England; the Social
0emokraten, Copenhagen, Den
mark; La Tribune de Gene
rieve, Geneva, Switzerland;
Times, New Delhi,
India; Singapore Standard,
Singapore, Malaga; The Main
chi, Tokyo, Japan; and the
Chicago Jewish Forum. In |
Springfield, Mr.. Worthy was |
The guardian., 1953-11-14

interviewed on Radio Station
WMAS by Don Marven of the
WMAS staff. He is the son of
Dr.. and Mrs. william Worthy
of Boston and his sisters are
Myrtle Worthy Of Boston, Ruth
Worthy of D. C. End Helen Holt
Of Springfield.
1t was a very happy time Tor
DR.. and Mrs. John B. Hall of
Brighton when their tall son
and his wife, DR.. and Mrs. John
B. Hall III of Chicago, paid
them brief visit, and then
went on to New York, where
the doctor attended the Ma
tional Public Health Conven-
ton. A few of the couples
young friends assembled to
greet them at a small party
in the pleasant Brighton home,
the guest including DR.. and
Mrs. Marion Fort, Mr.. and Mrs.
Norris Davis, Mr.. and Mrs,
Robert Hughes, DR.. Henry Hill
and Mrs. Hill (Adelaide Crom-
welD, Mr.. and MRS. Julian d.
steele, Atty. and Mrs. A. J.
Cardozo, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
walker (Adelaide Holbrook) !, |
Miss Reba Ferguson, and Mrs.
Viola Minor :. During the |
visit to the Hub, where he spoke
1t st. Marks Church, President |
Charles S. Johnson, president of
The guardian., 1953-11-14

A flve-Week trip across the
country and back with the
special objective - the annual
convention of the Brotherhood
OF Sleeping Car Porters - was
the thrilling and jolly expert
ence of the William Coles eth
81 and WilIian) of Harold ST..
who are but just home, re-
porting having had a wonder
full time. It was not their f1rst
western travel experience, for
several times before the couple
has traversed the country; butt
this time they were in the COM
pany of some 400 others - II
carloads of members and
friends - all bound for the
same destination - Los Angeles,
Calf, where the convention
was held. First stop outward
was Chicago where the local
brotherhood entertained the
delegates and their friends at
a big reception. Going West,
the party toured Denver, pic
nicked at Salt Lake Beach, |
viewed the Royal Gorge, visited |
Old Mexico, & arriving in Los
Angeles, attended a mammouth
reception with the local Broth
erhood as hosts, 1900 being pres
ent; also attended the party
given by the Golden Gate ms
surance Company. Among the
other Fasteners enjoying these
delightful social gestures were
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Diggs of
the Hub, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L.
Williams Of West Medford, to-
gether with some twenty odd
other Hubites. And Mrs. Ger
trude Harmon, sistr of the New
York Amsterdam News editor,
was also a guest at these Spe-
;ial affairs. In Los Angeles the
coles were happy to greet for
ner Botonians, Mabel Barclay ]
Iunter and Virginia Roundtree
,heltenham, who a few months
go trecked westward to make !
Ter home in that Western city.
hollywood was also visited.
There Madam A. G. Bilbrew,
Hollywood music director of con-
siderabls fame, entertained at
brunch in their studio for Mr..
and Mrs. Coles. Other social
courtesies enjoyed by the couple !
in Los Angeles were the eve
ming affair given by Mr.. and