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$3.50 DAY PER PERSON
Also special rates by groups of 8 and
4 persons. Lee. dble. and triple rms.
downtown. 1925 18th st. NV.
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THE JOHN KILPEN HOTEL
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CONN. AVE. AND sHoREHAM VAC.
Twin bedrm. for 2 girls: newly furn.
and decor; $3.50 week each. 1886
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Governmental Garage DoorS

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REFRIGERATOR SALE
$25 UP
Late models. Easy terms. Also rent
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APARTMENTS FURNISHED

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FURN.-Maple dinette set. walnut
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1904 CRrTTENDEN ST. N.w.-Larse
cor. rm.; 4 wind: next to bath;
nice Jewish home: Ben. wash. IA.
o-4203. To-
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FLOWING, DISCING. GRADING
Gardens, yards. lawns. Do 1t now.
Sc Wash. So. Md. area. HOME
w TERPUMP SERVICE, 10. S-6127.
Evening star., 1953-11-14

ened directly to the studs or to
any positive nail-holding sur
face.
Combination Ladder.
A newly patented combination
ladder now on the market is
actually five ladders all in one.
Patented notches in the side
rails provide automatic adjust
ment from one position to an
other For painting. cleaning
caves. troughs, ETC., there is q
fiat step extension ladder that
can be adjusted to the desired
height. In cases where you are
painting or redecorating above
a stairway, this ladder can be
adjusted to various pitch stair
ways with one ladder on one
step and the other part on the
fifth step up.
The steps are non-Skid treads.
reinforced with H-inch steel
rods, while the runs are IA inch
Evening star., 1953-11-14
Property
Continued From Page BID

born adds a fraction to the value
of all property in the commu-
nity," Mr.. Bethel said.
These figures enable today's
home buyer to predict that every
dollar he invests in a 1853 house
will be worth $1.05 in 1854.
"That Sc per cent increase
in value will work in reverse for
the fellow who has not yet
bought" Mr.. Bethel said.
Nearly every year that passes
adds Sc per cent to the house
he could have bought last year. T"
Washington market experience
shows" Mr.. Beitzell said, that
over the years, special local con-
ditions have maintained the up
ward trend of Washington s
property values regardless Of the
economic picture in the Nation" :"
Evening star., 1953-11-14
By D. M. Derwin

A new adaptation of mahog-
any is now being introduced.
Mahogany panels are pref1n-
ished at the point of production
and are of 3-ply construction
They are one-quarter inch thick
and come in six, seven and eight
foot lengths, 1914 inches wide.
Edge-grooved for a neat LAP
joint, each panel is held firmly
to the wall with concealed metal
clips. Thus all mailing through
the face of the wood is elimi-
mated. The panels may be fast.
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Prefinished Panels Held to Wall With Hidden Clip

smooth sanded hickory. Hard
ware used is extra strong, painted
to prevent rusting.
This combination ladder is
shipped completely fabricated
but unassembled to save the con-
sumner labor and freight costs.
Complete instructions are in
cluded with each ladder. Four
sizes are available. 10-foot ex-
tension which converts to s.
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foot step ladder, a 12-foot ex-
tension, 6-foot step, a 14-foot
extension, 7-foot step. and a To-
foot extension, 8-foot step.
A hammer and a pair of pliers
are the only tools needed for
assembly.
For further information, please
write to Mr. Derwin. Room 724,
Star Bldg, -inclosing self -ad-
dressed envelope.
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BY Simone de Beauvoir. (GroUe Press: 81

sweeping and irritating gen.
eralities most foreigners dash
off after the quickest look
around, at the same time, she
has no gift for the revealing
anecdote. Nor has she that
most essential item of the
travellers luggage. a sense of
humor.
America Day by Day" is
also strangely unpopulated.
Mile de Beauvoir Identifies al
most every one by their mi
tials. which gives a faceless-
ness to the people she meets
or travels with. And this late
in the day-considering that
America has been discovered
by foreign travellers long since
impressions of our cities are
not quite enough. If Mile. de
Beauvoir has a point of view,
it was well concealed from this
reader.
Like many other observers,
Mile. de Beauvoir feels that
intellectuals have a pretty thin
time in America, that we are
generous, kindly, earnest and
lonesome. AS for the second
sex" here, American women
neither look like lovers,
friends nor companions" Her
book, neither provocative nor
profound, seems to me, if she
will pardon my French, rather
ennuyGnt.
M. Meg.
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the loss of an eye. is feared
equally by both factions.
1t develops that the Lou
biers are in particular terror Of
Terka. During the war, when
Rene and Terka both were in
the Maquis, there was a strong
attachment between them.
Later they broke off and Terka
was turned out of her tribe
for breaking a code. When the
Loubiers' pet goat dies mys-
teriouSly, Terka's "evil eye" is
blamed. There has been Sc
ries of unexplained accidents
to people and animals in the
little community. Then Mar
tine falls i'll, and finally when
Terka peers in a window of the
inn at her inadvertently, the
young wife is paralyzed. The
doctor, the only Skeptic among
villagers who believe implicitly
in sorcery, insists that the
paralysis is psychosomatic and
will clear up, but no one be-
lieves him at the time.
Juliet at first is sorry for
Terka and tries to help her
as she offers trinkets no one
will buy. Later Juliet, after
trying in vain to talk the Lou
biers and others out of their
superstition, is convinced that
Terka is a criminal and per-
haps mad. The story moves
to violent climax.
Miss Macardle takes so long
to develop her story and it
moves so slowly that much of
its impact is lost in detail. The
parish priest is a strangely IN
tolerant character. He not
only is certain that Terka is
a sorceress-a dubious aSSump-
ton by the author in an era
when priests are supposed to
be educated-but when the
poor gypsy goes to mass, he
orders her out of the church
as a minion of the devil. Per-
hapS such a thing could hap
pen. perhaps there are remote
spots in Europe where people
remain as ignorant. but Miss
Macardle has thrown a mantle
of medievalism over the whole
scene which seems anachro-
nistic. Juliet'S romance with
Michael, the young English
forestry expert, is obvious from
the first.
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liant promotional effort, and a
place in which legend has come
to elbow fact. There is no
shrewder executive in Ameri-
ca than Stanley Marcus, and
now he receives his due.
The author has corralled all
(well, some at least) of the
fabulous yarns of Texas bill
lionaires. of casual visitors in
denim who emerge bearing
mountains of furs, hilarious
mistakes, mistakes" that turn
out to be rare judgment-the
push, the excitement. the
ridiculous undertones of high
fashion, and the astonishing
evidence of the way a store has
come to extend itself over the
thought of a community.
Most readers will SAVIOR the
pungent Americana of this
book; and they will remember
it, too.
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Reading and Writing
Helen Hurtness Flanders Tells
Of Her New England Ballads

husband she wanted to dedi-
cate the book to him, he con-
scented on condition he could
do the wording. The some
times helpful" refers to those
occasions, not too numerous,
when he drove his wife on her
ad-hunting rounds and
helped carry into the farm
house kitchen or the field the
rather cumbersome recording
machine in vogue in the early
days when Mrs. Flanders be-
gan her search for the old
songs learned by ear.
Vermont Folk Music
Mrs. Flanders. a brisk,
brown-eyed lady. is a poet
rather than a trained must
clan. In 1880 she was ap-
pointed, with a number of
other writer's. to the Vermont
Commission on Country Life.
Her job was to return to Yer
monterS their heritage of folk
ballads. AS the daughter of
a Vermont Governor and wife
of a Senator, she has had no
difficulty in getting tradition
ally uncommunicative Green
Mountain folk to share their
songs with her.
Since 1910 when Marquee
rite Olney, trained must
clan, began to help her by
transcribing the tunes of the
songs, Mrs. Flanders has COL
lected six volumes of ballads.
Some 5000 items are housed
in the Flanders Building at
Middlebury College. Profits
from Ballads Migrant in New
England" as from her other
volumes, will go to the main
tenance of the collection.
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Dorothy Macardle. an Irish
writer. has published in this
country two novels of suS-
pense. 1.-THE UNLIMITED" and
1.-THE Unforeseen" Her new
novel is not of that species,
though it is slanted in the di-
rection of suspense, and, like
the other two stories, it plays
variations on a theme of the
supernatural.
For Dark Enchantment"
Miss Macardle had an idea
that was not bad at all. She
has not quite brought it off.
though her book is always
readable and wildly written.
The story concerns the vii
lage of st. Jacques, an an
cient and little-known place
stuck among high crags of the
French AlpeS MartimeS, soar
ing above the Riviera. Firth
Cunningham an irresponsible
English actor. and his 21-year-
old daughter Juliet stop at
the little town. Firth and his
wife have been estranged for
years and Juliet has been
brought up with her mother,
hardly more stable than her
father. on the Riviera. Now
the mother has gone off to
Argentina with a man and
Juliet is left stranded. Her
father, off somewhere to make
a movie, is merely taking his
daughter to the French Alps
for a weeks holiday: he has
no idea of being stuck with the
girl and hopes she will get a
job somewhere.
The ViIloge Sorceress
Father and daughter stay
at an inn run by a delightful
young couple, MARITIME and
Rene Loubier. When the
father leaves, Juliet has a
temporary job helping out at
the inn until the Loubiers'
soon-expected first baby is
born. Juliet has not been in
st. Jacques long before she
learns that the village has a
sorcereSs, an outcaSt gypsy
whom half the townspeople
placate with gifts and the
other half prosecute with
curses and sometimes stones.
Terka, still a young woman,
once lovely, but disfigured by
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Day by Day

Simone de Beauvoir, a
leader of the Existentialist cult
in her native France and
known chiefly to Americans as
the author of 1.-The Second
Sex" here reports on a four
months stay in the U. S. during
an unspecified year. Those who
remember the terrific intensity
of her report on women will
find this account strangely
listless. I don't think she had
a wonderful time.
At the very least she must
be cited for consciousness.
She hit all the big cities-New
York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
San Francisco. Boston. New
Orleans. She traversed the
Southwestern desert by bus.
She visited many colleges and
many night clubs, where she
listened earnestly to jazz
bands, which seem to have a
special meaning for her. She
went to intellectuals' parties
where every one drank a lot
and argued noisily; she even
attended a marijuana party
and smoked three REFERS,
which had no effect on her.
Mile. de Beauvoir seems to
have suffered rather than en-
joyed it all. While it is COM
mendable in her that she has,
except in a few instances at
the end, abstained from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
News of Artists and Exhibitions

was given to Omar Darlington
for his Tropical Witchery,"
Swamp with dead trees,
which seemed to me less de-
serving than his romantic
panorama of a summer sea
seen from an interior, with
bright flowers on a window
sill.
Bronze medals went to An
drea Pietro Zerega and Lee At
kyns. Mr.. zerega's winning
oil, In Maryland" also struck
me as less meritorious than
another of his entries. The
best of Mr.. Atkyns' work is
sails in Moonlight" an abb
straction of overlapping facets
in a green-blue, gray and
white color scheme.
William F. Walters Oyster
House" oil, and Sheffield
Kagy's water color Morning
Mist" received honorable men,
lions. There are many en-
gaging and interesting works.
I particularly liked Eliot
O'Hara's stark Ancestral
Winds" John Perkins Maine
Coast" Minor Jameson's beau
tiful Along the Road" Fran
els Peters imaginative view Of
New York at twilight, and
Newman Sudduth's glimpse
of New Orleans "Vieux Care"
Membership has changed
considerably during the Land
scape Clubs several decades,
but the character of the work
produced is fairly constant;
predominantly tura listic,
competently executed, an d
pleasing as to subject matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
BY Florence S. Berrymon

rent show, "has been seek
ing new directions in plastic
expression" as the catalog
foreword states. Some of
them are interested in aspects
of Panamanian life: Lloyd
Bartley's patterned END of
Day." Juan Cedeno's Digging
Sand" (men and oxen) and
Guillermo Trujillo's admirable
water color, Outskirts of
Panama City" also Outskirts
of Madrid" where this artist
also studied, after receiving
his degree in Panama. Pablo
Runyon's Composition" of
shells is done in a meticulous
technique.
The six others express them
selves in various contempo-
rary idioms. Alfredo Sinclair
shows two abstract compost
, tions to which bits of glass
have been applied, presumably
for the heightened glitter and
COLOR. the effect is garish.
Landscape Annual
The Landscape Clubs an
nual exhibition adorns the
walls of the two reading rooms
at the Georgetown Public Lii
brary, r street and Wiscon-
sin avenue, to remain through
December 80. The Stars news
columns carried a brief an
nouncement at the time IF it's
opening. 1t is composed of
about so oils, water colors,
prints and drawings, by some
20 members. most of whom are
showing two or more works
each.
John Gernand Of the Phil
lips Gallery's staff was sole
judge, and made the awards.
The highest, a silver medal,
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Shenandoah Publishing House, $780,
Reviewed by Rex Collier
Origin of HeroIdry

Ordinarily one would not
expect to find romance in an
apparently technical report on
a genealogist's research into
the history of coats of arms.
But DR.. Calvin Kephart, a
retired Army Reserve colonel
and former attorney-examiner,
now residing in Shady Side,
Md, probed far back to the
adventurous and colorful days
of the First Crusade in his
successful quest for the origin
of European heraldic insignia.
There. in a council Of war
preceding the siege of Antioch,
the soldiers of Christendom
decided to paint their plain
shields with identifying signs.
as their enemies had done to
avoid confusion in battle, the
author asserts.
DR.. Kephart tells how the
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Neimon Marcus, Texas
BY Frank x Tolbert (Holt; $685.
Reviewed by Hortnett T. Kane

Yes, Frank Tolbert would
have us know, it's all, all true
what they say about the gilt
tering Neiman- Marcus store of
Dallas. Here are yarns to make
the reader blink, chuckle, sigh.
shake his head, told with a fine,
breezy Texas flourish, occa-
sionally a tongue in cheek, and
always with crisp humor.
Mr.. Tolbert has himself
rare subject here, and though
some may consider his tone a
bit too friendly at times, he
makes some sound points about
store arrangements between
those anecdotes. This is an or
ganization that has come to
dominate city, in almost I'M
precedented fashion, and this
is proof of the way 1t operates.
Neiman-MarcuS is several
things-a fantastic piece of
adept merchandising, a bril-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
Reviewed by William Hines

and Japanese records to bring
order out of the chaos that
prevailed in the islands IL
years ago:
Like practically all histories.
this one is to be read in
snatches, over a long period.
Some of the writing is rather
turgid, but some is lively and
crisp. The book as a whole
undoubtedly will be of greater
interest to those who were
there and who have wondered
for a decade what went on.
But it will be informative to
all. And like it's predecessors
in the series, this book Will be
a valuable addition to the his
tory of mans most expensive
pastime-war.
The book is we'll illustrated
and includes many maps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
The Age of Mon

Publication of a new study
of evolution, MAN, Time and
Fossils" practically conceded
with the news that Piltdown
man had a fake jaw, a cir
cumstance which could easily
have taken the joy out of the
authors life. However, Ruth
Moore, who turned up here
recently, seemed to feel that
Piltdown had done her a good
turn.
Miss Moore, a reporter for
the Chicago Sun-TimeS. who
wrote her book at the request
of publisher much struck
with one of her science stories,
says gleefully, THE removal
of that apelike jaw of his
removes one of the last OBJ
stacles to the thesis of the
book-that modern man is
only about $4,000 dnstead of
500,00O years old, and that
evolution has pursued a
straight course from ape-man
to people like ourselves"
FIuorine Dotine
AS a matter Of fact. says
Miss Moore. who is small and
stylish. f1uorine dating-which
with the discovery of radioac-
tive carbon IA and of South
African ape-man-has revolu-
tionized evolutionary theory,
had already proven that Pitt
down Man was only $4,000
years old. The new dating,
by tiuorine, was the thing
that made his odd jaw look
increasingly questionable and
that led to the reinvestiga-
ton that exposed the hoax.
With pardonable pride,
Miss Moore points out that in
her book she anticipated just
such a turn of events when
she said that Piltdown'S jaw
was almost indistinguished
from that of a young chimpan-
zee and that some anthropolo-
gists always insisted that it was
that of an ape"
Miss Moore tells the story Of
evolution through the pioneers
in the field. Of the great sci
entists whose discoveries she
studied, Darwin captivated her
completely, and she has hap
PLY embarked on a biography
of him. which should be ready
in about q year,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

preston" And he adds:
THE ritual of religion should
be a beautiful symbolism, not
a deadly bore or barebones
technicality." The author
urges a well-rounded life, with
social contacts and amuse-
mentS as carefully planned as
work. His crisply written
thesis points to the dominant
role of Christian faith in a
happy, well-adjusted life.
Father Wagner is inspirational,
but never pietistic. obj.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06

first crusaders carried polished
shields prior to the siege of
Antioch, but thereafter were
depicted as displaying insignia
in the manner of their foes
from the east. On their re-
turn home the bearers of these
new coats of arms preserved
them and passed them on to
their descendants, each of
whom usually added individual
embellishments. He estimates
that 80 per cent of American
families whose immigrant an
cestors arrived here before
1880 are entitled to use ancient
coats of arms, some of them
dating back to the Crusades.
This interesting volume was
published under auspices of
the National Genealogical So
ciety, of which DR.. Kephart is
a past president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
What Price Israel
VUUI F7TCE TSTUET
BY Alfred Lilienthal (Henry Regnery Co.; $685.
Reviewed by John c. Henry

tNSNtSVSA ~
There are many American
Jews who disagree with Zion
ism, who have been deeply dis
turbed at the creation of the
Zionist State of Israel, and
who feel that American poll
cieS of support for Zionism
have been cynical in their po-
litical implication and ill-ad-
vised from the standpoint of
genuine American interests.
Alfred Lilienthal is one of
these, and he has had both
the courage and the eloquence
to express his feelings. In this
book, Mr.. Lilienthal has writ
ten bluntly and bitterly of
Zionist political activity since
World War I, and particularly
of the tactics employed so sue
cessfully in the United States
since the end of World War
II. He has recognized that the
label of "humanitarianism"
which has been employed so
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-12-06
Mental Health in a Mad World
BY James A. Magner. Bruce; s3.75J

Father Wagner, who is pro-
curator of Catholic University,
has written a practical, down.
to-cases plea for sanity and
common sense in times that
tug people toward the neurotic
and the abnormal. IF re-
ligion." he writes. '"does not
serve to strengthen mental
health, it is not authentic re-
ligion." The worship of God,
he contends, should bring
joy, comfort and inspiration,
not resentment, fear and re-