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Evening star., 1953-03-22

OF matter, have contributed to
the general debility. Marx
and Freud have conspired to
strip man Of dignity and re-
sponSibility. And two world
wars have done the most to,
ward fostering "a sense Of the
meaningleSSness Of life which
hampers and arrests the work
Of the novelist today with .
low view Of human nature"
To bring home all he means
he cites the case Of william
Faulkner, whose work bellies
the magnificent concept Of
the nobility Of man which he
set forth in his Nobel Prize
acceptance speech.
The modern American writer.
then, according to Mr.. Brooks,
is a staggering. nihilistic boy.
Worshiping youth, searching
for technique instead of sub
ject. he has no clear idea of
how to live the literary life"
Nor. has he any reservoir
of good will and hope to draw
on. Hemingway could see no
bility only in Spanish peasants.
Lewis Mumford alone wins the
authors full approval. Num-
ford he says, never for a mo-
ment lost that faith in the hui
man potential which has
marked all the major Ameri-
can leaders and thinkers" To-
days fashionable" orthodoxy
with it's "esthetic" emphasis on
sin rather than on Christian
love depresses him.
Mr.. Brooks departs COM
pletly in this rather didactic
volume from the mellifluous
periods of his literary histories.
He deplores nostalgia for
other ages in others, but he
himself seems lonesome for
the yearly, humanitarian era Of
"the Towering of New Eng
land" The steadily disap-
proving tone, not always illus
trated with examples, takes
away somewhat from the force
Of his structures.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
PhiIoteIic News
By james Woldo Fowcett

Albert ]. Robertson Of Iowa
will be the stamp collectors
4. friend in the Eisenhower ad-
ministration. He was sworn
in as Assistant Postmaster
General for Finance last Tues
day and entered upon his
duties Immediately. The
branch Of "the greatest busi-
ness in the world" over which
he will preside includes the
production and distribution of
stamps as well as money order
business. postal savings, regis
tered. insured and c. o. D.
mail. classification of postal
matter and management Of
revenues and investments.
Now SO years Of age, Mr..
Robertson In effect had three
careers before coming to
Washington. He has been
senior vice president and di-
rector Of the Iowa-Des Moines
National Bank and a. director
Of the Jefferson State Bank
and the Poweshiek County
National Bank at Jefferson
and Grinnell. Iowa. respec-
lively. In World War I he
was a first lieutenant with the
88th and 77th Divisions (In-
fantry) Of the A. E. F. in
France.
Mr.. Robertson also has been
active In community affairs,
working on social agency
boards. hospital and church
boards. In cultural organiza-
tions and various philanthrop-
ic campaigns. He Is a director
Of the Iowa Lutheran Hos
pital and a trustee Of the
Home for the Aged, DeS
MoineS; q trustee Of st. Kath-
arine's School. Davenport.
Iowa: a regional director Of
the United States Savings
Bonds drive and q member of
the executive committee Of
the Good Government Asso-
citation Of Des Moines. For
three years he served as presi-
dent of the Des Moines Com
munity Chest. An alumnus Of
the University Of Minnesota,
class Of 1915, he is interested
in midwest educational en-
terprises of idealistic as well
as strictly practical value.
Not a philatelist himself.
Mr.. Robertson nevertheless
has considerable knowledge of
the hobby. He has said that
he means to familiarize him
self with the routine patterns
and procedures Of the stamp
division promptly and prom
ises: 1--WE will work together"
Specialists in the stamps Of
Canada are advised that the
Montreal Star for Sunday,
March IA, contained a fasci-
mating illustrated feature story
entitled 1.-THE Queen Stamp
Is Born" by Robert McKeown
and Bert Beaver.
The Greater London Fund
for the Blind, 2 Wyndham
place, London. w. /, England,
has brought out a handsome
set Of poster labels for the
Coronation. Among the sub
jects are the Tower Of London.
st. James Palace and other
royal residences. Collectors
desiring specimens should send
remittance in amount Of 2sh
Cd plus return postage (45
Evening star., 1953-03-22

tire, his clever quips and his
slavish disciples.
Whistler's passionate addic-
ton to the limelight caused
him to lose most of the friends
he won through his charm
and his wit. His life. as his
present biographer remarks,
was often a series Of uuarrels.
assaults. insults and injuries.
The stories about his thrustS
at other artists, critics and
his public are endless, and
Mr.. Pearson can't have missed
many. His high-handedneSS
and loneliness, MIR. Pearson
thinks, can be traced to his
general sense Of being dis
placed-a Yankee abroad, an
innovator among the conven-
tional, an exotic among the
drab.
Mr.. Pearson, obviously de-
lighting in so Quotable a sub
ject, has written an almost
entirely anecdotal biography.
one that aims at no analysis
of the subject nor an appre-
citation of his place in the
world of art. Whistler is in
teresting enough, but not par
ticularly sympathetic.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Philotelic News
Postal Aide From Iowa
To Be Collectors Friend

cents U. s.. Profits are pledged
to work in behalf Of the civil
ian blind.
Australia announces a new
3l2d red stamp bearing a por.
trait Of Queen Elizabeth, to be
placed on first-day sale April
81. The same design will be
used in the manufacture Of
Id and Sd issues scheduled to
follow that date shortly.
On March 2 the Cayman
Islands. British outpost in the
Caribbean about 200 miles
northwest Of Jamaica. re-
leased a 4d Queen Elizabeth
stamp featuring a medallion
portrait Of her majesty and q
view Of a lighthouse. Colors are
Evening star., 1953-03-22

become a geographical unit
and the means and the power
are at hand to give it organi-
zation." The questions are
when it will come. whether in
time to avert q new war or
after another war has been
fought. and what kind of gov
ernment-limited in power or
totalitarian. Mr.. Cousins
hopes for a government rep
resentative of the needs and
nature of man." He believes
that a federated United Ma
tions is potentially mans best
hope for achieving such a gov
ernment. Man can make the
world safe for diversity" An
interesting and often stimu-
lating book. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Books in Review
New Richard Wright Novel Presents
AStronge, UnforgettobIe Character
The Outsider
BY Richard Wright. [Harper; $685.
Reviewed by CoTter Brooke Jones

left his wife and three small
sons. He has taken up with q
young girl. Both his mistress
and his wife are pressing him.
So Is his piouS mother. He Is
worried to distraction. He does
not know what to do.
Nurtured in Violence
Here the author calmly and
without apology pulls q god
from a machine. Cross Is in q
subway accident. He loses his
overcoat with his identification
papers. A mutilated body Is
identified as his. This gives
Cross a chance to vanish and
take a new identity. He goes
to New York. Here he emerges
from his Chicago chrySalis as
a full-fledged Intellectual. He
dallies with Communists, not
because he believes in them
he knows them for the cynical
seekers of power they are-but
because he is safe with them;
his past does not matter. And
he killed a man getting away
from Chicago. He kills three
more in the course Of his ad-
ventures-simply because he
hates them and they don't
deserve to live.
But Cross is no Sadist, nor
has he a meSSianic complex.
His crimes are not 30 simple.
His motives are complex,
wrapped UP in the kind Of
world he has decided we live
in. And I've given away very
little Of the story. It concerns
q neo-nihilism, nurtured in an
age Of violence and terror.
What does it all mean? OBJ
viouSly the melodrama is not
to be taken literally. It is an
allegory Of our times. One key
Is found as Cross muses. on his
obliteration Of three men. two
of them Communists, the other
a Fascist. who were doing the
world only harm. Perhaps
he was staring right now at
the focal point Of history: If
you fought men who tried to
conquer you in terms Of total
power, you, too, had to use
total power, and in the end you
became what you tried to de-
feat. =" And again when the
district attorney "a character
as improbable but as strangely
real as Cross asks: Gould
there be a man in whose mind
and consciousness all the
hopes and inhibitions Of the
last 1000 years have died? A
man whose consciousness has
not been conditioned by our
culture?"
Mr.. Wright's only explana-
ton of his book is quoted on
the jacket: I'm The Outsider
I have tried to depict my sense
of our contemporary living as
l see it and feel it."
It's symbolism may well be
pondered long after the book
is read. Aside from that. "The
Outsider" is a terrific job Of
writing.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

Once you delve into the hu-
man details Of a criminals life,
it Is virtually impossible not
to rouse sympathy for him.
Mr.. Reynolds specifically dis
claims any desire to create a
sympathetic character out Of
willie the Actor" but skill
full as the author is, Sutton
emerges as an agreeable little
man who wouldn't Intentional
ly hurt a fly. This is the man
whose own estimate of his take
as a bank robber goes over
81 million, a man who deserted
his family. broke out Of sew
eral prisons and described him
self as . professional GRIM
inal."
Sutton's avowed purpose in
telling his life story. Mr.. Rey-
nolds reported. was to teach
youngsters that crime doesn't
pay--with himself as leading
example. Proceeds Of the book
are to be used to combat juve-
nile delinquency.
Throughout the book, told
mostly as q first-person narra-
tive, lip service is paid to the
theme that the criminal can't
win. Sutton, through Mr.. Rey-
nolds' typewriter. blames only
himself-not fate-for his ir-
resistible urge to rob banks.
He points to his life on the
run, an existence almost as cir
cumscribed as life in prison.
He points to the disasters that
overlook his fellow criminals,
the sorrow he brought upon all
who knew him. All that car
ries out his theme.
On the other hand. Sutton's
bank-robbing adventures as
well IS his jail-breaking at
tempts and successes are told
with such exciting detail that
ths reader = betrayed into
Evening star., 1953-03-22
The Wire God
Doubleday; $685.


This first novel is a bitter
satire, but, like all persuasive
satires, it could we'll have hap
pened and perhaps has. It Is
q newspaper story that ex-
plores a world probably little
known to persons outside
newspaper work and not to
all newspaper people-the sep
arate journalistic planet OF
the big press association, the
wire service that supplies news
from everywhere.
George McCord, the "hero."
Is a back-stabbing, double
crossing go -.getter. who
marches to dazzling success
over the bodies Of fellow work.
ers. In Texas George was
half hearted student at the
university. He bored in from
part-time employe with the
fictitious organization called
World Press Service. George
ingratiated himself with the
division manager and got
into the business end, SELL
ing clients all over the
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Who Speaks for Man?

by NOI HAL NOu0ALAO' th h0IHt
Mr.. Cousins, who is editor
of the Saturday Review Of
Literature, tells of his recent
travels to Europe. Japan. Ko-
rea, India, Pakistan and Cey-
lon and the conclusions he
reached on the state Of the
world and what can be done
about 1t. He was, on some OF
these trips, a special emissary
of the State Department, as
signed to make contact with
cultural interests in certain
countries. especially in Asia.
His book, he explains, is not
intended merely to argue for
q world government. Such a
book is unnecessary. World
government is coming; in fact,
it is inevitable" This is so, he
feels, because the world has
Evening star., 1953-03-22
How WRONG
Can You Get
In 131 Pages?
Pentogon Politics
BY William H. Neblett.
pageant; $3.)

Sy w AAAAGSAAA 44s 4NSSASVbs
Pageant; So
Reviewed by WiIIiom Hines
Col. Neblett Gas he tells us
ad nauseum In this wild Screed)
has devoted 80 years Of his life
to the service Of his country as
a citizen-Soldier. (He is q past
president Of the Reserve Off
GERS Association Of the United
States.) Perhaps. during that
long stretch, he read too many
pieces Of military correspond
ence: at least, that would ac-
count for his apparently con-
fused state Of mind when he
Shutdown to write this book.
II one reads 1t aright-and
1t is hard to know If the read
ing was right or wrong. the
book is that weird-Col. Neblett
seems to have the idea that
Soviet expansionist policies are
o figment Of some ones imagi-
nation: that the Pentagon
started the Korean war; that
Gen. j. Lawton Collins is the
master mind behind an incipi-
ent military coup d'etat; that
the Smyth report contained all
the information necessary for
the construction Of an A-bomb;
that Alger Hiss and Judy Cop
lon sold atomic secrets to the
Russians; that the Pentagon
defeated Senator Tydings Of
Maryland at the polls in No
vember. 1850; that the contro-
versial medal recently given
Senator Joe Mccarthy was q
Purple Heart; that Hitler had
q small army when he invaded
Northern France In 1910. and
that o division can exist indefl-
nitely In the field without rear
area support.
He believes, too. that Gems.
Eisenhower and Somervell were
West Point classmates (Somer-
veil graduated q year ahead Of
the PRESIDENT: that four-star
generals retire on $4,000 a
year (they get $8,592.72); that
we had a 16-million -man armed
force on We day Eve had 1913
million) and a lot of other
things that just amt so.
SThe basic theme Of the book.
obviously, is not worth dis
-cussing-if, indeed, it has q
basic theme. The errors that
leap out at you as you skim
through it brands Col. Neb-
let's TRADE as unit for con-
sideration except in the light
Of the question: How wrong
can a man get in 131 pages7
Evening star., 1953-03-22
!, Willie Sutton
BY Quentin Reynolds Farrar, Sraus Young, Inc 5OJ
Reviewed by Miriam Ottenbera

plugging for him to pull OF his
coup. It's as though the GEN.
tral figure was Robin Hood or
the Count of Monte Cristo-
not q man who owes society
at least 200 years in prison for
his various crimes,
Mr.. Reynolds has done a
slick job on Sutton, one that
should interest criminologists
and psychiatristS as well as
laymen. It's doubtful If 1t will
convince many youngsters to
go straight but 1t probably
will contribute a considerable
sum to combating juvenile
delinquency.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

d o e s n t
t h / n k
they have
done much
" / t h ! t.
Contemp-
orary critics.
he thinks,
gen ally
! q Q X "a
I riendly
feeling for
the human
race" " Con-
temper ary
q u t h o r 8
have turned
Evening star., 1953-03-22

MIN success
is not
easy to de-
scribe. clas-
sify or eval-
uate. Such
com me ntS
could be
m a d e on
ally II AONS4
W i tn an
original ap-
proach, and
ce ainly
this off,
beat story Is
not like any
T romnmhor
Evening star., 1953-03-22
The Plantation

Mr.. Pierce has described
in the language Of the spirit
ual, the passing Of a South
ern gentleman. The ac-
ton Of his gentle, compassion
ate novel takes place between
one dusk and one dawn when
Mr.. Ed Rufin dies and Is laid
out in the front parlor.
Mr.. Ed to the ~colored help
on the place was not less than
a god. He dispensed justice
every day as a supreme au-
thority. infallible and rocklike.
Evening star., 1953-03-22
Van Wyck Brooks Finds American
Critics Lack Friendly Feeling
The Writer in America
BY Van Wyck Brooks. e. P. Dutton;; $3J
Reviewed by Mary McGroY

Van Wyck Brooks, the lit
erary historian who has done
so much to give American
writer's a sense of the past
Evening star., 1953-03-22

Mr.. Wright's new novel
his first full length work Of
fiction since Native Son" ap-
peared in 1910 and brought
Evening star., 1953-03-22

black and bright blue. This II
not q coronation commemora-
tive but rather q regular post
age issue Copies will be avail
able at stamp shops In WASH
ington or may be ordered from
the Crown Colonies Once In
London.
The Coronation stamps OF
South West Africa will carry the
Queens portrait, but each Of the
five adhesives also will feature a
native flower.
Scott Publications, Inc, New
York, has brought out a dollar
edition of the United States por-
ton of Volume / Of the 1858
Standard Postage Stamp Cata-
logue. It includes complete
United States listings and illus
trations, Confederate States,
Canal Zone, Guam, Hawaii.
Spanish and United States issues
for Cuba, Philippines and Puerto
Rico plus all United Nations
issues.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

The painter, Antonello, Is
represented on q new ISL red
stamp Of Italy.
Evening star., 1953-03-22

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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH

Cor. Washington and Prospect SITS.
The Church School for ToddlerS,
the Nursery, and the kindergarten
and Primary Departments, will be
held from 9:45 a. m. until noon on
Sunday The School for the Junior
and Adult departments will be held
from 9:45 to 10:45.
Morning Service of Worship will
be conducted at II o'clock, with a
sermon, Nativity Personalities" -
''The Magi," by the minister, Rev.
J. Russell Butcher. Special Christ
mas music will be sung by the choir.
The Christmas play, "The Holy
Grail" by Russell Bowie, will be
presented at o'clock, by the young
people of the church, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Evan Crosley.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
South Potomac Street

The Worship Service and Com
munion will be held at $50 a. m.
on Sunday. The minister, DR.. Will
liam M. Norment, will preach on,
sIsaiah's Visions of Christ" The
adult choir will sing the anthem, ga
Child is Born" by Self, under the
direction of Mrs. William E. Peacher,
Jr. A Nursery is maintained during
this service.
The Church School, Edward L.
Miller superintendent, will meet al
10:45 a. m, and the Christian Youth
Fellowship at $50 p. m.
The motion picture, 'PauPs First
Missionary Journey" will be shown
at the Evening Service of Worship
at 7:30 p. m. This is the sixth in {
series of motion pictures on ''Tht
Life of Paul"
All are always welcome at all serv
ices.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH
Franklin and Locust Streets

christmas Stars Still Shine" will
be the sermon subject of DR.. F. Berry
Plummer, the pastor, at the morning
church service on Sunday at HOO
o'clock. This service will be broad
cast over WEI.
"When Christ Came" will be the
subject of Rev. Joseph H. Yeakel
assistant pastor, at the evening serv-
ice at 7:30 o'clock.
The Sunday School, which had an
attendance of 781 last Sunday, will
meet at 9:45 a. m. and the Children's
Church and Nursery will meet al
HOO o'clock.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10

Let the children take part getting ready
They'll feel 50 grown and Important And not least to
be considered keeping them occupied will
foot One assignment them that's truly fun decorating
the household O course anything suggest must be too
pated Decorations done glass with securing
oapuds difficult they easy remove when the ho
days
recipe simple first sketch seasonal design door,
window mirror with silver of Then
securing powder and little water into thick paste and paint your
give the design perhaps richness and
depth When dry the will have firm texture that will
last through the holiday washed course
a damp cloth - 800
To achieve the thing with soapsuds-bat soap little
water with an eggbeater into merngueke stiffness Then using
water color bs pastry tube artistic
Typography the design to the glass
This artist printing his front door holiday greeting
can be read by pasersy and callers coming
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10

Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Bible selections will include the
story of Eutychus, who fell "and
was taken up dead" and from
Science and Health, "The life of a
man is Mind. The material body
manifests only what mortal mind
believes, whether it be a broken
bone, disease, or sin"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
Church NeUS
BROADCASTS
DEVOTIONAL

WEI, Monday through Friday
1915 a. m, Morning Devotions,
Rev. Theodore Haas.
WEI, Saturdays, 100 p. m, Sun
day School Lesson.
WJEJ-"The Minister Visits; 100
%. m. Mon, Rev. Theodore Haas;
100 p. m. Wednesday, Rev. Charles
M. LeFew; 1:3O p. m. Friday, Rev.
James E. Ault.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
ZION EVANGELICAL
AND REFORMED CHURCH

Corner Potomac and Church Streets
Church School will be conducted
at GAS a. m. on Sunday.
Morning Worship will be held at
IL o'clock, with the sermon, Gods
Word in Our World" being deliv-
cred by the minister, Rev Robert w.
Delp.
Youth Fellowship will meet at $50
p. m.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
Along The Potomac
from your Congressman
Dewitt S. Hyde

In all the fuss between Senator
Mccarthy and President Eisenhower,
nobody seems to have taken the
trouble to point out just where the
two men agree.
There have been two arguments
between them that have caused
many headlines during the past sew
eral weeks. One is their disagree
ment on conduct of U. S. foreign pol
icy. This led to distortions like the
following newspaper headline 1 saw:
Mccarthy Goes Over Eisenhower's
Head in Asking Public Support of
Plea for U. S. Policy Reappraisal."
That would imply that there is
some sort of limitation on how much
criticism of a President a member
of Congress can offer, and such is not
the case at all. l don't presume to
be judge of who's right in the argu-
ment between the two men-I think
the people will judge that themselves
in the light of future events-but 1
see no reason for a distortion of the
situation in the public mind.
The second disagreement, widely
reported, between Mccarthy and
Eisenhower deals with the issue of
Communism in government and
whether or not it will be an issue in
the coming Congressional elections.
Somehow the point has escaped most
people that actually they are not dis
agreeing at all.
The President has said that Com
muniSm in the present administra-
ton won't be an issue. He is right,
because his Justice Department and
Congressional committees are max
ing sure of that. But he has never
said that Communism in past admin
istrations will not be an issue = and
that is exactly what Senator McCar-
thy is talking about
Since he finished his last campaign
speech in 1852, President Eisenhower
has ceased personally to criticize his
predecessors in the White House. He
feels that as the leader of his coun-
try and of his party he should look
forward and plan a good program
for the country. But the members
of Congress have spoken otherwise
they want the voters to be reminded
of the comparative record of the
two parties in dealing with the Com
munist problem, and will do so with
out any objection on the part of the
President
On my calendar: Monday, which
is Bill of Rights Day, I address the
Optimists Club in Hagerstown. Tues
day I attend the Montgomery Coun-
ty Medical Society Dinner, and We'd
nesday dinner honoring DR.. Harry
| c. Byrd, retiring president of the In
iversity of Maryland.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
SERVICE AT FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
235 N. Potomac 81

Withhold not thou thy tender
mercies from me, o Lord: let thy
Iovingkindness and thy truth contin-
ually preserve me-" will be the Col
den Text at the 1900 o'clock serv-
ice on Sunday morning = the sub
ject being God the Preserver of
Man"
The entire service will emphasize
the life preserving power of God,
with passages from the Bible and
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-12-10
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST
CHURCH
N. POtomac, near Franklin

Church School will be held al
GAS a. m. on Sunday.
Morning Worship will be held al
II o'clock, with the sermon, Gre
sources of Bethlehem" to be deliver
ed by the guest preacher, Rev
Charles Miner, superintendent OF
Strawbridge Home.
Rev. Miners subject for the eve
ming Worship will be, mo Room in
the Inn"