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Evening star., 1953-08-02
Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller
Jndustriolist and PhIonthropist
MS. (Scribner'S; 2 U0lS., $1O.J
Reviewed by Francis P. DouoIos

One Of the Nations fore
most historians has turned
from his usual paths to write
the history Of John D. Rookie
feller and Standard Oil. He
has done an excellent work
on an important chapter in
the industrial revolution in the
United States.
DR.. Nevins displays an OBJ
jectivity expected from a his
torian of his stature. He con-
dernns the ethics behind many
of the maneuvers in building
up the oil trust, particularly
Standards obtaining not only
rebates from the railroads on
its own shipments but also
drawbacks on rates paid by
competitors. At the same time
he makes clear the genius in
organization, attention to de-
details and skill in operations
of Rockefeller and his asso-
ciateS.
DR.. Nevins gives a carefully
documented account Of Rookie
feller as a philanthropist as
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Butler Annual

Samuel Bookatz, Eliot O'Hara
and Andrea Pietro Zerega of
the District of Columbia and
Mitchell Jameson of Linden.
Va, are all represented in the
18th annual midyear show at
the Butler Art Institute,
Youngstown, Ohio, which
opened July 4 to remain
through Labor Day. The great
majority submitted works in
open competition. Nearly 900
artists of 43 States and the
District submitted more than
1000 paintings, of which l66
oils and 95 water colors we're
selected. In addition, SO works
by artists, including Mr..
O'Hara, who served as judges
in previous ANIMALS, brought
the total to 313 paintings on
display.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Young Printmokers

The Museum Of Modern Art,
New York City, is inviting en-
tries for a public sale and ex-
hibition of recent work by
young American printmakers
IS years old or under. at the
Museum during the Christmas
season.
Requests for entry cards as
well as a detailed prospectus
Of the exhibition and sale
should be addressed to Miss
Nadia j. Porter, Junior Coun-
Gil Print Exhibition, the Mu-
scum Of Modern Art, IL West
Fifty-third street, New York
10. Cards must be completed
and returned postmarked not
later than September 80.
approximately 100 prints
will be selected by the Museum
for the exhibition, which will
be on view from November Is
through January IS, 1854.
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but to the 18th. They suggest
more Defoe and Richardson
than Dickens or Thackeray.
In Satan in the Suburbs" a
woman, in conversation, di-
vests herself of this: God
bless you for these words; they
are the first that I have heard
from which I derive any hope
of causing the truth to be
believed" In another story, a
girl, caught eavesdropping on
conspiratorS who plot to de-
stroy all, governments, thus
defends herself to the leader:
"Oh, reverend sir, I have been
but an unwilling and uninten-
tional offender"
One can only conclude that
Lord Russell is kidding his
readers, though he hardly
needed to say in his preface:
The stories are not intended
to be realistic -" 1t remains
to add that almost any jour-
neyman writer for pulp maga-
zines devoted to fantasies.
science-fiction or tales Of the
macabre could do better.
&C. B. j.
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years old the youngest in the
group, has remarkably mature
paintings, in a sharp clean-cut
technique.
William Delorme'S "City," q
large. dark allover pattern of
buildings, gives the effect of a
crowded metropolis. Mariana
Eckert and Andrea Lienau of
the Corcoran School, and Helen
yelling of American Uni
versity. have all experimental
with abstract idioms, as has
also David Driskoll Of Howard,
in one Of his paintings. His
other, a naturalistic work, is
superior. A. Harmel's better
painting of her pair is a ro-
matte landscape.
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For Cerumists

The Kiln Club Of Washing
ton will hold it's fourth annual
exhibition of ceramic art in
the Natural History building,
National Museum, beginning
September 4. The annual is
open to all artists and crafts
men residing in the District,
Maryland and Virginia. In
addition, there will be work by
an invited group of p-f1ight
American ceramists, and ex-
hibits from foreign artists
selected through their WASH
ington embassies.
A maximum Of five pieces
may be submitted in each Of
the following classes: Pottery.
ceramic sculpture, enamels
and stained glass, not previ-
ously exhibited within the
local area. Entries must be
delivered to the Natural His
tory building. north entrance
cloth and Constitution avenue
N.WO on Thursday, August 81,
between 8 and 4 o'clock. Out
of-town entries are to be sent
prepaid, addressed: National
Collection of Fine Arts, Room
20, Smithsonian Institution,
same address.
Further information can be
obtained from Mrs. Ada Apple
ton, telephone Hemlock A.
53l8.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Reading and Writing.
Library Demand Shows Good
Taste of Washington Readers
By Mary McGrorY

Washington's public library
patrons are not as other public
library patrons. II for no other
reason than that Capital resi-
dents have been miScalled
timid conformers, the fact
would be cause for civic pride.
A Saturday Review Nation
wide poll of 13 Libraries showed
that card holders in other
large cities slavishly followed
the best-seller lists. No so
Washington.
Washington readers, more
Evening star., 1953-08-02
WAS Captive in Korea
BY Philip Deane. Morton; $780,
Reviewed by EorI n. Voss

dents Of communism, for in
stance. Attitudes and COM
ments of the Reds Mr.. Deane
met proved, too, that Ameri-
can and United Nations broad
casts reached the people of
Communist Korea.
Everybody knew that So ma
tionS of the U. N. were fighting
against Korea and Red China.
Only thing was they drew the
wrong conclusion. They were
proud of fighting the world"
to a standof.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Three New Sogos Of Adventure
Take Reader to Fresh PeriIs

her work and communicates
her enthusiasm effortlessly.
She is a scientist full of mercy
for an uninitiated reader, con-
veying neither so much in
formation that she confuses
nor so little that she conde-
ScendS.
Caves of Adventure
BY Haroun Tazieff.
(Harper; $3.J
Now that Everest has been
conquered, mountain climbers
might be thought to have no
place to go. This dishearten-
ing notion will be dismissed
by a reading of "Caves of Ad-
venture" which describes the
hair-raiSing exploits of noun
taineers in REVERSE Now in
stead of climbing to the top
they can climb to the bottom,
which seems equally danger
Gus and therefore as appeal
ing to those who insist on risk
ing their lives exploring the
unknown.
Haroun Tazieff. a Pole, was
one of a team of daredevil
Frenchmen who made two
descents into the fabulous un-
derground caves of the ,Pyre-
nees on the Spanish border.
This is a foolhardy business.
requiring that one be let down
on a slim cable attached to a
winch. In the case of Marcel
Loubens. who gave his name
to one of these mammoth un-
derground caverns, it was
fatal. AS he was being hauled
to the surface after exploring
a giant underground river a
faulty Shackle gave way. and
he went gathering to the bot
tom of the cave. His two COM
panions sat for hours by the
dying man, but when the doc
tor came, it was too late. It
was a tragic end to perilous
adventure.
The author and his friends
continued their explorations,
heavy-heartedly, after Lou
benS' death. There was pos
sibility that the underground
rivers could be made a source
of hydroelectric power. But
the reasons for seeking the
cold, damp dark of those caves
go beyond the scientific. The
lure of the unknown, Tazieff
comedies, was what made an
unwilling speliologist (pot-
holef, colloquially) out Of him.
His story is simple and pow
erful one of men who simply
cannot resist going deeper into
the earth than men have ever
been before. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

Over the waves and under
them, up mountains and down
into them, through ice foes
and coral reefs-you can go
anywhere you like via the
printed page these days.
Since "Kon-Tiki" took thou.
sands OF enthralled readers
across the Pacific on a raft,
publishers have been issuing
books about the challengers of
nature just as fast as intrepid
authors can beat their way
back to a typewriter. Popular
science has never been more
popular. Three new entries in
the far afeld" field are avail
able to the stay-at-homes this
week.
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over, revealed a taste that was
as cultivated and varied as it
was independent. They do not
sound at all like the kind of
readers who read books be-
cause they want to be able to
talk about them at cocktail
partieS-as a matter of fact,
they might not even patronize
such frivolities. They sound
instead as though they read
the books they want to read,
books suggested by other
books, with an occasional ex-
cursion into the current crop
to see what's going on.
They are probably members
OF that disappearing cult Of
constant and sincere readers
who apply for their first card
at the age of seven, burrow
through the children's room,
and then move into the adults
room for weekly Shelf-by-shelf
raids that will keep them COM
ing into their old age.
Even Henry jones
While the rest of the Ma
tlon'S library patrons were
borrowing "Desiree," Anne
marie Selinko's marshmallowy
version of the Napoleonic era,
Washington went for "a Dogs
Head" a new but distinctly
off-beat item by jacques
Doutard. Their second fiction
choice, as opposed to the ma
tional favorite 1.-THE Caine
Mutiny" "a good novel, of
courSe), was Henry James
Wings Of the Dove" Battle
Cry" a novel of the Marines by
Leon Urls, was third on the
national poll. Washington pre-
ferred James Joyce'S ulysses"
if you don't mind. They are
reading Battle cry" but they
are also coping with the Teu-
tonic periods of Robert Musil's
"The Man Without Qualities"
Counter to another we'll
publicized trend, they also ap-
parently go to the movies. That
would explain the presence of
an old book, THE Loss of the
S. S. Titantic" by Lawrence
BeeSley. on the list at the same
time the movie was in town.
Also they like Bing Crosby's
Call Me Lucky" For laughs,
they seek Shirley Jackson's
superior chronicle Of domestic
didoes, 'Life Among the Saw
ages" Their other non-f1ction
choices again impeccable -
are Judge Learned Hands
Spirit of Liberty" and Regin-
aid Pounds biography of Ar
mold Bennett.
District Public Library Of
ficials are gratified but not sur
prised at the. splendid showing
of their patrons. It's all part
of a plan, they say. They
make the best-sellers available
but they refuse to crowd their
shelves with ephemeral trash.
They purchased Is copies of
the frothy but faddish de
Stree" But they have 19 copies
of H. F. M. Prescott's Man on
a Donkey" a towering achieve
ment in the same field of his.
torical fiction, and it is the
more popular of the two.
Which only goes to show that
the huckster's glib assumption
that the public is a 14-year-old
might be just a wee bit hasty
at least when applied to the
Nations Capital.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories
BY Bertrand Russell. (Sinoh G. Schuster; So

At the energetic age of 80,
Lord Russell, a leading philoS-
opher and mathematician of
our day, publishes his first fic-
tion-a volume of three nov
elettes and two short stories.
It is a tepid underestimate
to say that no one would have
expected such stories from a
man who in his essays has seen
the world and it's PHILOSOPHERS
with such clarity. They are
stories Of the fantastic and
grotesque. 1t is hardly sur
priSing that when a British
magazine printed the title
story anonymously and offered
a prize to any one who could
name the author, no reader
guessed right. Still more as
tonishing is the ornate, ar
chaic style of the tales-by the
man who won the Nobel Prize
in 1850, not for philosophy.
but for literature, the same
Russell who is famed for the
simplicity and clearness of his
prose.
In manner these tales go
back. not to the 10Th century,
Evening star., 1953-08-02

Master Of understatement
that he is, Mr.. Deane almost
CLOSES over many of the pain
full details of life in Red Ko-
rea's POW camps.
He confirms what others
have said about the amount of
raw courage it takes to sur
vive Communist, Asiatic priS-
oner-of-War treatment. His
story proves one thing: Brain
washing doesn't work on the
well-informed Western stu
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Republicans on the
Potomac


BY Jay Franklin.
Mcbride; $780,
Jay Franklin, a disilluSioned
New Dealer, gives his impress
sionS Of the new administra-
ton. They are. it may be said
without fear of overStatement,
favorable. He believes, after a
hasty and not too critical sur
vey, that the new team is a
wonderful bunch of fellows,
not exactly Supermen, but so
(almost) unanimously monog-
amous and of "old stock" that
anybody without rocks in their
head ought to feel privileged
to have them around.
President Eisenhower, he
says lis the American dream
walking" AS for his band of
associates, well, Mr.. Franklin
says, "it is the salt of the
American earth, the essence of
our society, the hope of our
future, the very best we have"
He voices softly one little de-
muir. Their greatest weak
ness is that, with certain ex-
ceptions, the New Republicans
, seem to lack human kindness"
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Art News
Great Engrovings
On Wood Shown
By Florence S. Berrymun

By Florence S. Berrymun
For a brief period in the
late 10Th century, an exquisite
graphic sarts technique was
=. developed and enjoyed a gold
en- age. before it was killed by.
a new mechanical process.
The former technique is illus
trated in a beautiful exhibi-
ton entitled American Wood
Engraving, 1880-'95" on view
in the gallery of the Division
of Graphic Arts. Smithsonian
building, through August. This
show is composed Of % signed
proofs, mainly on India paper.
by most Of the outstanding
members of the New School,"
as a group of these engravers
was called.
Prior to 1895, most pictures
in magazines. books and news
papers were engraved by hand,
those for magazines generally
on the epd-grain of a block
of hard, dense wood such as
Turkish lockwood, which per-
mitted fine, detailed engrav.
ing. First the wood engravers
reproduced pen or wash draw
ings, but later photographs
were developed directly on the
wood block:
During the last quarter of
the 10th century, American
wood engravers made a unique
contribution to graphic arts
by developing a new, highly
finished style previously un-
known in this medium. This
distinctive American style was
evolved chiefly in connection
with engravings made for
Scribner's. Harper's Weekly
and st. Nicholas.
Most of the more than 20
engravers represented in the
current show, were original
artists with characteristic
styles. Pirates Haven" for
instance, was both painted and
engraved on wood by Victor
Bernstrom.
Masters Work Engraved
All the other engravings on
view, however, are reproduced
from works by old masters,
painters of the 18th century
and popular illustrators. Tim
othy Cole was one of the top
men in this select group, as
visitors can see by his two en-
cravings: "St. Elizabeth" after
zurboran Reproduced above)
and Goya'S Balcony" both
remarkable facSimilies of the
originals, with a velvety tonal-
ity.
Henry Wolf was another of
the greatest of these engrav-
ers. He too, is twice repre-
Sented with Vermeer's Young
Woman at a Window" and
Weir's "Gentlewoman." other
engravings Of 18th century
paintings by artists still highly
regarded are Inness' Morn
ing" engraved by Elbridge
Kingsley. Vedder's Identity"
by S. G. Putnum, j. Francis
Murphys landscape by George
A. Teel, and Watts "Paolo and
Francesca" by William B.
Closson.
Nearly half the works on view
are popular illustrations in
type, sentimental genre sub
jects done in a naturalistic
style, yet engraved with the
same superb craftsmanship as
the few great paintings.
Jacob Kainen, curator Of
the Division of Graphic Arts,
said. "The perfection of the
halftone screen in the early
1905, which made it possible
to reproduce pictures quickly,
accurately and inexpensively
soon made wood engraving a
lost art and forced these fine
craftsmen to turn to other
means of earning a livelihood"
Evening star., 1953-08-02

Paul Calico is always read
able. For this novel he
should be awarded a varsity
20" for originality. even
though the play he worked out
to preserve a metaphor of
the gridiron once so familiar
to Mr.. Gallico's typewriter
does not quite come off.
His protagonist is an amiable
young Hollywood Swindler,
whose slightly dubious deal
ings with various studies have
fixed him so he can't get a
Job. At the end of his funds,
he must figure out something
lest he have to do the un-
thinkable-honeSt work. What
Joe dopes out is, so far as /
know, something new in the
way of a confidence game.
Joe reads a feature story
about the richest woman In
the world. Miss Hannah Bas-
combe, who lives in San Fran
cisco and inherited her fathers
mining kingdom, is IS. He1
greatest fear is death. She
does not want to die primarily
because the Government will
take most of her estate, which
she has doubled since her
fathers death. She'll find
some way, she tells the report
er sardonically, to outliVe
everybody.
BibIicoI Froud
Joe has an inspiration. He
finds a Bible and studies the
Old Testament for a month.
He concentrates on the patri-
archs who lived hundreds of
years each. AS if in answer
to an impiouS prayer, he falls
in with a Jewish youth, hand
some as a young god. who has
fled from Poland without
papers or destination and
deserted a ship. Ben-Isaac's
one aim is to get to Israel, but,
without passport or identiflca-
tion, how can he? Joe out
lines his scheme and the boy
reluctantly agrees to take part
in it. since it falls in with his
plans.
They go to San Francisco
and. after considerable diff
Guilty. are admitted to the
presence Of Miss Bascombe.
She is reputed to be very piouS,
and Joe, personable and per-
suasive young man, begins to
quote Genesis. What has all
that to do with her? the old
Evening star., 1953-08-02

well as a businessman. But
the chief interest is the oil
trust which came to control
about 80 per cent Of the in
dustry. It is significant that.
generally speaking. the busi-
ness atmosphere today is so
competitive that the word
trust" has practically lost the
meaning it had so years ago.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Books in Review
Hollywood SwindIer Who Found
RELIGIOUS Scheme q Boomerang

The Foolish In1mortoIs
BY Paul Calico. Doubleday; $2.50J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1953-08-02

bition can be had on request
for an art gallery pass at the
Playhouse box Office.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17
Cardinal Confirms
9-Year-Old Girl
AT Leper Clinic

LYONS, France-(NC)-A young
girl suffering from leprosy was
confirmed here in an unusual cere-
mony at clinic by His Eminence
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbish-
op of Lyons.
The nine-year-old child was
brought here for treatment from
her native mdo-China. She is a pat.
lent at the leprosy clinic attached
to the Catholic University of Ly-
ons, the only hospital in Europe
caring exclusively for lepers. Es-
tablished by the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, most of
its patients are priests who caught
the disease during their service in
the missions
The young girl was confirmed by
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17
HNS Honors Philadelphian

PHILADELPHIA - NC) - The
Vercelli Medal, highest honor of
the national Holy Name Society for
a lay member, was presented to Mi
chael L. Roche of this city, at the
annual dinner of the Philadelphia
Holy Name Union in the Bellevue
Stratford Hotel. The presentation
was made by Father Harry C. Gra-
ham, O.P.. fINS national director.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17

Catholics, like DR.. Edward l.. Bren-
nan of Hartford, Conn, who be-
came the Guilds first president,
and DR.. Martin II. Hoffman of De
troit, now president, would discuss
the possibility of such an organi-
zation whenever they met, but it
was not until 1850 that the Guild
was born.
II happened at the Detroit con-
vention of the American Psychia-
trio Association. A small notice had
been inserted in the APA Journal
and as result 18 Catholic psychia-
trists met during the convention
and formed the Guild.
The founders decided to hold
their meetings, assist at Mass and
receive Holy Communion in body.
have Communion breakfast and
a dinner each year during the APA
convention. A constitution was
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17

SIECkER, Edward NJ, 81, 1856
Champion ave, Columbus, Apr. 10,
Corpus Christi church. Survivors:
his wife, Alvina; one son, three
daughters, one brother, six sisters.
WAGNER, Clara, 65, 882 Bruck
St, Columbus, Apr. 10, St. Mary's
church. Survivors,: seven daugh-
ters, two sons, ID grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
FLEMING, Martin j., Lancaster.
Apr. IL. st. Mary's church. Surviv-
ors: his wife, Mary, brother and
a sister.
CARY, Hannah, 81, ST. Raphaels
Home, Columbus, Apr. II, st. John
the Evangelist church. Survivors:
several nieces and nephews.
CARR, Francis G., 6 weeks old.
252 Preston rd., Columbus, Apr. 10,
Holy Rosary church. Survivors,: his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F.
Carr; five brothers and his grand
mother, Mrs. Louise r. Naddy.
/ YUHAS, Mary, 81, 1854 S. High
ST., Columbus, Apr. IL, st. Leo's
church. Survivors: two sons, two
daughters and three grandchildren.
SCHARBACH, Eunice, ~, Mari
on, Apr. IL, Holy Rosary church,
Toledo, Ohio. Survivors: daugh-
ter, a granddaughter and four
great-grsndchildren.
NELSON, Mary Louise, 5, Zanes-
vile, Apr. IL, ST. Thomas church.
Survivors: her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Nelson; three brothers,
sister, and her grandmother, Mrs
Ella Fisher.
WEISZ, Rose, SO, 1244 Wilson
ave, Columbus, Apr. 13, Corpus
Christi church. Survivors: two bro
theirs and two sisters.
HERMAN, George Anton, SO, for
merly OF Columbus and Carroll,
Apr. 13, Our Mother of Sorrows
Chapel, st. Joseph's Cemetery. Sur
vivors: two sisters, niece and
nephew.
MCGUIRE, John @, IS, formerly
of Columbus, Apr. 13, st. Mary's
church. Columbus. Survivors: his
wife, Elizabeth; a daughter and
two grandchildren.
MAUERMANN, Alvin L., 80,
Marion, buried in Milwaukee. Sur
vivors: his wife, Norma; his moth
er, Mrs. Emma Mauermann; six
sons and one daughter.
COLLINS, Bertram NJ, Zanes-
vile, Apr. 8, st. Thomas church.
Survivors,: one daughter, seven
grandchildren and a great-grand-
child.
BURNS, Anna E., Dennison, Apr.
6, Immaculate Conception church.
Survivor: one brother.
KAVANAUGH, James W., 16,
760 Z. Gates ST., Columbus, Apr.
ID, Corpus Christi church. Surviv-
ors: his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Kavanaugh; a brother, two
sisters, maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Wilhelmina Krause; and paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Frances kava-
paf1oh
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17

drawn up stating the Guilds prin-
eipal purposes as:
]. To acknowledge the existence
of God and to recognize His pri-
mary place above all His creatures.
2. To promote the proposition
that sound psychiatry has no con-
flict with the Christian moral Law.
3. To uphold the principles of
the Catholic Faith and morality as
related TO the science and practice
of medicine, in the speciality field
of psychiatry.
4. To assist the ecclesiastical au-
thorities in the diffusion of the
knowledge of Catholic medical and
psychiatric ethics.
5. To uphold Catholic hospitals
in their enforcement Of Catholic
moral principles in medical and
psychiatric practice.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17

the Cardinal after he had celebrat-
e6 Mass at the clinic for the pat
tents. Her sponsor was a city offic-
ial.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-04-17
Project Named For Bishop

QUEBEC - (NC) - Labrieville
is the name selected for the town
which will be erected by the Que.
bee Hydro in connection with the
huge hydro-electric development
on the Bersimis River. The devel-
opment was named to honor the
work of Bishop Napoleon Labrie,
GIN, of the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
which includes the area affected by
the project.