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Evening star., 1953-12-27
The Traffic in Narcotics
BY Harry J. Anslinger and William F. Tompkins.
dunk G. WdgnGllS; $4.5O.J
Reviewed by jack Jonos

NSVbGWS0 "
Much has been written
about the problem of drug ad-
diction, and too much has been
distorted and is inaccurate.
Mr.. Anslinger, United States
commissioner of narcotics.
and Mr.. Tompkins. United
States attorney for the
District of New Jersey.
seek to set the public straight
on the solid and grim
realities behind the more lurid
headlines. They discuss the
history of dope peddling. its
sociological implications. the
international picture and the
difficulties in enforcing mar
Evening star., 1953-12-27

KuniyoshD. In Washington.
she attended the Phillips GAL
lery School on a scholarship.
She has exhibited in group
shows for several years here
and elsewhere. An active mem
ber of the Mount Vernon Play
ers, she has designed sets and
posters for their productions.
At the present stage in her
career, it seems to me that pat
tern is her forte. Half of the
paintings on view are flower
and still-life themes, the best
being Spring Shoots" still
life echoing the vertical floral
bouquet, and Flowers In q
Vase" which fills It's space
nicely
Evening star., 1953-12-27

LUCRETIA MOTT, GIRL
OF OLD NANTUCKET. BY
tance Buel Burnett
(Bobbs-Merrill; $1.75O-Many
times little Lucretia had heard
her mother say that she had
a bold tongue. Quaker girls
were supposed to be meek and
demure. When Lucretia grew
up she became a fearless
spokesman for human rights.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

The Renaissance, to state 1t
as briefly and dramatically as
possible. was the time. when
the impression was abroad ac-
cording to Leon Battista AL
berti, that Men can do any,
thing with themselves if they
will" Such men of the Rem
aissanse as Michael Angelo, Da
Vinci, Thomas More and 9TH
ers left behind enough evi-
dence to make it a plausible
summary.
This collection catches a
good deal of the first fine
careless rapture Of that era,
when men began to marvel at
themselves, the new learning
and the world around them.
OF course, it was not all gold.
The editors rightly call atten-
ton to the fact that drawing
up balance sheets of the ex-
cellences and flaws of their
society was a favorite occupa-
ton Of writer's who were torn
between admiration for it's
achievements and dismay at
it's upheavalS."
The Bio and the Little
AS in many wide-ranging
anthologies-thiS one samples
merchants, artisans and peas
ants as well as giantS-some
of the lesser lights come off
better than the greater. The
editors have taken the posi-
tion that snippets of such
master works as Erasmus I'm
Praise of Golly" and Thomas
More's utopia" are quite fu-
tile. So we get instead letters
of Erasmus. It must be said,
however, that his humanistic
spirit, in all its serene lucidity
shines through his letter to
Luther on Free Will. And
representing More through
Nicholas HarpSifeld'S charm
ing portrait of a charming
man who was also a prodigious
scholar and a great saint, was
surely a happy stroke.
The general reader perhaps
thinks of the period as pri-
marily one of supreme achieve
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Isl VtOONS SOuSS
mounted cavalry under our
flag. The 26th Cavalry. he
wrote, gave invaluable service
in his withdrawal from the
Lingayen Gulf to Bataan in
1912.
Eorly Commanders
The book is a brief history
of the cavalry from the Revo-
lutionary War onward. The
Americans were slow to use
mounted men, but once Wash
ington realized their value in
the type of fighting he faced,
they played an increasingly
important role. The Polish
volunteer. Count Casimir Pu-
laski, commanded the first
real cavalry outfit. With his
death at Savannah in 1779.
he was succeeded by a roman
tic and aristocratic Irishman.
Stephan Moylan. who mar
ried a New York heiress and
was the first president of the
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick.
There were. as our cavalry de-
veloped, such arresting figures
as Gen. Light Horse Harry"
Lee. the father of Robert E.
Lee.
Cavalry, at first called dra-
goons and later mounted rifles,
was the one essential force in
what Theodore Roosevelt
called the winning of the West.
And Gen. Herr is no man to
romanticize the Indians of the
plains. though he gives them
due credit as fighters, calling
the Sioux perhaps the finest
light cavalry the world has ever
seen."
An OEnomentol Book
It is surprising to find a pro-
fessional military man dispar-
aging the victory of Zachary
Taylor at Buena Vista in the
Mexican War. Gen. Taylor
might have been, as the book
says, an inept general, but he
won his battles, which is all
any one could ask of a general,
and Buena Vista really was the
turning point of the war. On
the whole, though, Gen. Herr
and his collaboration, Mr.. WAL
lace, a historian, are fair in
their appraisals, and they give
equal space to the exploits of
the great cavalry leaders on
both sides in the Civil War.
THE Story of the United
States Cavalry" which does not
pretend to be a definitive his
tory, is happily free from the
stilted phrases of military
communiques. 1t is addressed,
in entertaining fashion, to the
general reader. It is an orna-
mental book, generously illus
trated with reproductions of
paintings, sketches and pho
tographs.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Crime
By Miriom Ottenberq

Lawyers Don't Hang. BY Glenn
Barns. (Arcadia House;
$2.5O.)
The advance man for a
State Senate Crime Commit
tee shows up in town and is
promptly liquidated. Till then
the town looked clean enough.
Now the officials have an en-
barrassing situation confront
ing them-more so beacuse
the beautiful lady prosecutor,
her deputy. the judges daugh-
ter and even the judge were
on the premises when the
investigator was slain. One
murder leads to another, sus-
picion hovers around the
judges pretty daughter and
the blood flows freely. It's all
told briskly with a nice at
tention to detail.
The Queens Awards, Eight
Series. Edited by Ellery
Queen. Little, Brown & Co.;
So
A taut and beautifully done
story of a man hunt by Steve
Frazee sets the pace for this
anthology of prize winners in
the eighth annual detective
short-story contest sponsored
by Ellery Queens Mystery
Magazine. The Frazee story,
MY Brother Down There"
took first prize and deserved
it. 1t tells, with compassion
and a fine feeling for both
character and nature, the at
titudeS of two members of q
posse seeking escaped con-
vlctS. Authors familiar for
their book-length whodunits
are represented in the collec-
tion along with newcomers.
There are tales of murder, re-
venge and pure detection with
a frequent emphasis on irony
and an occasional bit of
WhimSy. The Queen collection
is usually the top anthology in
the field.
Muted Murder. BY Sally Sin
clair. (Arcadia House;
$2.50.)
From a slow and somewhat
amateuriSh start, the author
works up to an acceptable puz-
zle about a girl who wants to
find out if her father really
did kill her mother nearly 20
years earlier. Her search takes
her to a crumbling town in
the deep South where she
encounters voodoo, queer
rumblings in the family attic
and her fathers former sweet
heart. The solution to the
murder is telegraphed early
and the damsel is unusually
distressed but the yarn has it's
Scary interludeS,
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Christmas Shows

Those who have Christmas
checks burning a hole in their
pockets. and wall space for a
good painting, will find for a
few more days, attractive of
ferings at several galleries,
especially assembled for this
season. The galleries were
listed here two. weeks ago.
The Whyte Gallery has 20
paintings by Washington and
Baltimore artists. Visitors can
be assured Of variety, ranging
from the beautiful flower and
fruit paintings by Marjorie
Phillips and Johr Gernand,
Leonard Maurer's- handsome
Snow Pattern" Lois Jones'
gay little Paris street scene,
Margaret Appich's charming
"Nocturne," all conservative,
to Herman Maril's draStically
simplified harbor, bert
Gates colorful Tomato
Plant" Mary Watkins Thack-
era's pleasing modern land
scape and Jacob Kainen's dec
orative abstraction.
The .Obelisk GGllery's exhi-
bition of major paintings in
minor Sizes" contains work by
Italian, French, American and
a JapaneSe-American artist. I
particularly liked the minia-
ture still life, simple and nat
uralistic, by Antonio Calder
ara, the meticulous surrealist
paintings by Rene Magritte,
Carlo Quaglia's small warm
harbor scene and Colombotto
Rosso's exquisite pen drawing
of a bird on a small marble
slab. The drawings and water
colors of Rome and Venice by
the young Scottish architect,
Robert Parkinson (his first
American show are interest
ing and, in some instances,
haunting.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Poland: White Eagle ono Red Field
BY Samuel L. Sharp (HarUard; $5)
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

abandon Poland and the other
satellites. Nor are we going
to war with Russia to free
them. There remains only
"containment" or liberation
without war''-the attempt to
build Western strength to the
point where it will be possible
to force a negotiated Russian
withdrawal,
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools
BY Paul Woodring. lMcGraW-Hiu; $780,
Quockey in the Public Schools
BY Albert Lynd. little, BrotUn;; $780,
Reviewed by james G. Deone
Evening star., 1953-12-27

ANAJ VA 2A W WGA4N4A 4Au0 J4St
opened a selection Of master
pieces from the Rosenwald
collection. to remain through
January. (To be reviewed
later.)
In Block and White
Rowland Lyon is a WASH
ington artist in every sense Of
the word. Born here, he got
his B. A. and NJ. A. from George
Washington University; stud
led art at the Corcoran School,
later at the Cape Cod School
and Pennsylvania Academy,
and travelled extensively in
Europe, Egypt and Mexico. Son
of the late Gideon A. Lyon,
who wrote 10000 editorials"
for The Evening Star during
his long career with this pa
per, Rowland. too, was on The
Stars staff for a number of
years. He is now associated
with the National Collection of
Fine Arts, Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
The Division of Graphic
Arts. Smithsonian Building,
is showing, through January
8, 26 linoleum block prints by
Mr.. Lyon. They are based upon
city and waterfront subjects
and a few other themes. His
Sand Dunes" is a near-ab-
straction.
Jacob Kainen, curator of the
Division of Graphic Arts, says
of them, "They are reduced to
basic black and white pattern,
with middle tones almost en-
tirely eliminated. No emphasis
on texture or movement results
in an effect Of calmness and
deliberation. The subjects
have been turned into formal
arrangements. but so unob-
trusively that the feeling of
realism remains undisturbed."
Mr.. Lyon, well known as a
painter and sculptor, as we'll
as graphic artist. has won
many awards. particularly in
local exhibitions.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Books in Review
Recording the UnforeettobIe
History of the U. S. Cavalry
The Story of the U.S.. covoIry

BY John Major General u A. Retired and Edward
S. Wallace (Ltttle, BroWn; $6J
Evening star., 1953-12-27
European Communism

by FIdIIA bUIkVIIdU.
(HGrper;; $6.)
DR.. Borkenau, who broke
with the German Communists
in 1929, has written a detailed
study of the development of
the various European Com
munist Parties with emphasis
on the RusSian-directed pat
tern of confusion. B. F.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Art News
Rowland Lyon
Exhibition
By Florence S. Berrymon

The 1854 exhibition program
is starting a few days ahead
of time with the National Gal
lery of Art, which has just
opened q selection Of master
pieces from the Rosenwald
collection. to remain through
January. (To be reviewed
later.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
City Manager Plan
Advocated by Bush
To Improve Capital

Voicing the impressions of a
freshman Senator, Prescott
Bush. Republican, of Connecti-
cut, today advocated a city man.
ager plan of government for the
District, with residents given an
elected representative in Con-
gresS.
In a speech prepared for q
luncheon meeting of the League
Of Republican Women here, Sen
ator Bush said Washington is the
most beautiful city in America
and should be the best governed
Tap Best Brains.
washington should tap the
best municipal brains in the
country-all municipal managers
should be stimulated to help
Washington, out of their own ex-
perience," he said.
washington should have the
best police force in the country
and the best fire department
the best public words depart
ment. street cleaning. recrea-
ton, transportation, and all pub
lie services.
This would not be expensive
Suppose it meant stepping up
the Federal contribution from
II million to IA million? It would
be worth it in its good example
to all American cities.
1.-THE impression of a fresh
man Senator from Connecticut
is that the Federal Government
has found a habit of thinking in
very small terms about the Dis
trio Government, whereas. 1t
should, on the contrary. make 1t
a point Of pride to treat the Dis
trict generously. and demand
that it provide as Gilbert and
Sullivan might say, very model
Nations Capital!
People Would Be Glad.
eyes, the Federal Government
should encourage culture in the
Nations Capital by spending a
little money for it. and I believe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
Slight Drop Forecast
In Average Food Cost
By the Associated Press

Food prices will be fairly stable
at an average level slightly below
1852, for the rest Of this year
the Government forecast yester-
day.
The Bureau of Agricultural
Economics said food consumption
will probably continue at about
the same volume as in the past
several years.
Larger supplies of beef and
veal, and less pork, were pre-
dicted.
The bureau reported that
stocks of some food commodities
on hand January l were quite
large, particularly meat. turkey
evaporated milk. dry skim milk
lard and wheat.
Stocks of a few were said to
be small, such as chicken, apples
and canned fruits and juices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
FatherL Children
From Fire, Then Dies
With Wife and Baby
by the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 2. - A
father led four Of his children
out of his blazing house early
today, then persisted along with
his wife and infant baby trying
to rescue them from a second
floor bedroom.
It was the second tragic fire
in this area in as many days.
Yesterday a man and three sons
persisted in a West Baltimore
row house fire.
SuffOeated and Burned.
Baltimore County Fire Depart
ment officials identified those
suffocated and burned to death
this morning as Irwin A. Stricken,
Il; his wife, Angela, 80. and s.
month-old Candice.
Four other girls, Claudia, IA,
Camille and Caroline, 13-year-
old twins. and Cynthia, 3, scam
pered to safety from their first
floor bedroom.
Claudia said her father dashed
back upstairs, then the children
heard screams as their parents
were caught in the swirling
smoke and flames.
Cause of the fire was not i'm
mediately determined, but Off
Gals said it apparently started
in the kitchen.
HuddIed in Bedroom.
The fire that swept through
q row house yesterday brought
death to three colored boys and
their father, Willie Murray, %.
Firemen found the bodies of the
boys-Archie, 3, Wallace, 4, and
Willie James, 7-huddled in a
corner Of the bedroom.
After he had been severely
burned, Mr.. Murray died in a
plunge from a third floor. Po-
lice said Mrs. Alethia Murray,
26, apparently also jumped from
q third-floor window with her
daughter. Swear -old Bertha, and
landed on the body of her hus-
band. The mother and girl Suf-
'fered burns and injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02

I have been defending the in
tegrity Of this relationship.
Dissent Called Target.
There is no question that Con-
greSS has the right as it has
the power to investigate for leg
islative purposes. What I en-
countered last week, however,
was not genuine inquiry but
public defamation intended to
extirpate from the colleges not
disloyalty but dissent.
II have never concealed my
views nor violated the impair
TALLY of the classroom. If the
appointed bodies of the univer-
sity will consider my record they
will discover my suspension to
be as unjust as it is unwise."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
| Temple U. Suspends
| Teacher Who'll Refused
To Talk al Red Quiz
BY the A.,oeioisd prs.s

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. a.
Temple University has suspended
a professor who refused to testify
before the House Un-American
Activities Committee. It charged
the teachers action had "delib-
ertaely created doubt" as to
his loyalty to America.
DR.. Robert L. Johnson. Temple
president. suspended DR.. Barrows
Durham. professor of philos-
ophy, under provisions of q State
loyalty law which requires the
university to guarantee that no
"subversive persons are in its
employ"
DR.. Johnson, in. a letter to
the professor yesterday, said DIR.
Dunham's refusal to answer
questions of the House commit
tee created doubt as to your
loyalty status"
Action Defended.
DR.. Durham replied strongly:
Il conceive that mo act of
mine could have better dis
played my loyalty to this coun-
try and its traditions than the
course I followed last Friday"
DR.. johnson today takes over
as head Of the International In
formation Administration, which
operates the Voice of, America.
Defending his action, DR.. Dun
ham said:
I'm an institution dedicated
to truth the relations between
teacher and student, between
teacher and teacher ought to be
protected. If teachers can be
required by inquisitors to reveal
the thoughts honestly expressed
by their students or, colleagues
nothing can be discussed in the
ella SSr00n and nothing laarnad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
Woman Is Set Afire;
Man Held in Death
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, March "A As
year-old handyman has been
charged with pouring benzene
over a 40-year-old woman COM
panion and setting her afire. The
woman died yesterday in a hos
pital, and the man was charged
with homicide.
Police said the two-Lillian
Waters and George Sumler. both
colored, had been living together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
Glue Speeds Binding

NEW YORK.-A new syn
thetic resin backbone for books
that permits mass production is
one thing that is making it
possible to sell more than $780,
O00. 900 pocket books a year in
the United States for IS cents
each: The new "hot-melt" type
Of adhesive takes seconds to
dry. compared with hours for
animal glue. which it replaces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
FurIey Says Eisenhower
Has 'Sturted All RIGHT
BY The Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 2.-Former
Democratic National Chairman
James A. Farley thinks President
Eisenhower started out all
right"
Mr.. Farley wished the Nations
first Republican President in 20
years success, and added: II
pray to God he can carry on"
The remarks by Mr.. Farley,
who actively campaigned for
Adlai e. Stevenson, the unsuc-
cessful Democratic presidential
candidate, were made Saturday
night at a dinner honoring
Samuel S. Koenig, a Republican
leader in Manhattan for so years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
u. 5. Lifts Ban on Sheep
And Cattle From Canada
BY the A.,eeio,ed Pres.

Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son today signed an order i'm
mediately opening United States
borders to imports OF Canadian
cattle. sheep and other domestic
animals and their products.
Imports had been barred for a
year because of an outbreak of
foot-and-mouth disease in the
province of Saskatchewan. The
disease no longer exists in
Canada.
Imports of Canadian cattle
were $4,000 head in 1851 and
officials expect the trade to re-
turn to approximately that level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02
Rosy Job Prospects

PITTSBURGH P).-For every
man who will graduate in June
from Carnegie Tech, there are
two jobs open. says Charles E.
Wangeman, placement bureau
head. Average monthly salary
offered male graduates with a
bachelor of science degree is
$3.50, about $25 more than a
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02

the people back home in every
State would be glad of it"
Senator Bush said he believed
residents of the District should
have a vote for President and
Vice President and a representa-
tive in the House. He also sug-
gested that "al these wonderful
dreams" could best be executed
if first class city manager
plan were put into effect" max
ing the city commissioners a
purely policy board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-02

INVASION CALLED OFFParis-Here the three French
girls whose trip to Engands Reading University called
of to avoid rupture of relations the stu
dent level The Juror when Reading goods learned
that the university had invited Michele Baudin Oeft
Marie ThereSe SmmOnet (center) Francine Colo gh
of the University of Paris preside Readings
carnival The outraged goods sent scany clad
protest to Prime Minister Churchill result of pub
cty the University of Paris girls left British goods supply
the glamOr. ZAP WrephOtO
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-03-20
REAL LEPREChAUN
MAKES APPEARANCE
AT CHAPEL PLAY
Third Fourth Graders Present St.
Patrick's Day Entertainment

Kitty Hawk.-St. Patrick him.
self showed up at chapel exercises
at Kitty Hawk school, Wednesday
morning. What's more, a real live
leprechaun, who can only be seen
by people who believe in him, was
there. Since everybody at school
saw him, all of them must be Irish,
The occasion for these distin-
guished visitors was a st. Pats
day program given by third and
fourth grade pupils taught by Mrs.
Roy Kessinger.
Those in the play were Bobby
Young, Ronnie Scarborough, Lois
Mann, Terry Beacham, Jerry
Beacham, Lionel Shannon and Col
by Freeman. All the other children
in the two classes assisted with
songs, when Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" Wearing of the Green
and Londonderry Air" For the
songs, Mrs. G. A. Whitfield played
piano Accomplishments.
The high school Emerson club,
which sponsors a cleanup contest
in the school, announced that the
picture prize went to Mrs. Irene
Midgett's fifth and sixth grade
room.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-03-20
TEACHER UNIT
HOLDS SESSION
IN KITTY HAWK
Committee Named to Nomi-
nate Slate of Officers for
Next Year

Kitty Hawk. - Local teachers
were hosts to the Dare County
unit of the North Carolina Educa-
ton association, Monday, when a
film, "The Teacher" was shown.
The program was in charge of the
public relations committee, of
which Mrs. Milan Meekins is chair
man. Mrs. Mary Evans, county SUI
perintendent, also spoke briefly
about plans for future meetings.
Because of ferry schedules,
teachers in schools on Hatteras
were unable to attend. Twenty
six, however, from Manteo, Wan
cheese, Manns Harbor and Kitty
Hawk were present.
In business session, R. B. Cobb
of Kitty Hawk, Mrs. G. T. West
colt and Mrs. Matilda Inge of
Manteo were named on a nominat-
ing committed. They will submit a
slate of officers for next year when
the unit meets at Hatteras in Ap-
ril.
Before the program period, the
teachers cast secret ballots on of
ficers for the state association and
on two amendments to the NEE.
A. constitution. Lloyd Finch of
Manteo, president of the Dare
county unit, is in Asheville this