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Library Treasures

The Manuscripts Division of
the Library of Congress re-
ports that it acquired close to
million items during the year
1852. We began to wonder if
they would have room for
much lhore, but it seems that
space is not yet a serious prob
lem. Among those whose pa
pers have found permanent
place in the Library last year
are Gen. Pershing, Newton D.
Baker, Cordell Hull, Harold L,
IckeS. Tom Connally and
Charles L. McNary.
Hospitable though it is, the
Library turns down many Of
fers of manuscripts. For in
stance, in cases where peo-
pie want to give papers that
are being collected in their
own locality, the Library will
tactfully urge that the gift be
made to local institution.
The Library's collection is
supposed to be of broad ma
tional interest.
The Manuscripts Division
primarily concerns itself with
material of political rather
than literary nature But in
cases where something choice
in the literary line. is offered it
can invoke its cultural in
f1uences" clause. Thus, it
would be possible to ac-
cept a Browning item on the
grounds that formation of
many Browning Clubs in this
country during the last CEN
tury proved the poet exerted q
cultural influence on Ameri-
cans.
Political ond Literory
One recent acquisition, a
collection of a hundred letters
from Woodrow Wilson to his
friend Robert Bridges. happily
combines the political and the
literary. Besides showing the
President in early maturity,
they reveal his bookish inter-
ests and, incidentally, his crit
cal powers.
On August %, 1881, he
wrote: "As an antidote to Bib
lical criticism, I've been read
ing aloud to my sister and
cousin a novel by Thomas
Hardy, the Trumpet Major"
have been fully repaid.
His style is fresh and vigorous,
his story graphically told, and
his characters admirably sus-
tanned
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A Tragic Insight Into Communist
Suroery on the Western Mind
The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind
BY czeslaw Milosz. (Altred A. Knopt; $780,

This bitter and provocative
book describes the plight of
Eastern intellectualS who must
choose between Self-exile and
conformity to the Soviet
Method. The author, a we'll
known Polish poet. served
Stain in diplomatic posts
here and in Paris. He finally
broke in 1851, for the same
reason he says, that a man,
who has convinced himself he
should eat live frogs for his
health, finds he just cannot
stomach them.
Mr.. MiloSz was active in the
Warsaw underground during
the Nazi occupation. That
hard school, where ignorance
was published not by bad
marks but by death" condi-
toned him as it did other
young intellectuals, most OF
whom perished in the abortive
Warsaw uprising. Nothing
they thought could surpass the
horror of those years. Then
the Soviets swarmed in from
the East.
Victims Of History
When the time for decision
came, Mr.. Milosz was strongly
sWayed by a desire to write in
his own tongue and to have a
hand in the new government
of his country. The situation
of the writer in the early days
of the New Faith was on the
whole enviable. Talent is
eagerly seized by the state and
pressed into service. Eastern
intellectualS feared that the
West never appreciated its
writer's and artists as much.
AS for the United States, he
says, "the man of the East
cannot take Americans seri-
ously because they have never
undergone the experiences
that teach men how relative
their judgments and thinking
habits are" Finally, there was
the feeling that history was
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Reading and Writing
British Poet Spender Sees Modern
Writers Returning to Orthodoxy
By Mury McGror

British poet Stephen Spender
and his wife spent coronation
week here, performing nobly
as cultural ambassadors. Sun
day night Mrs. Spender ma
tasha Litvin) played a bril-
liant, all Beethoven piano con-
cert at the Phillips Gallery.
Mr.. Spender gave a talk on
his theory of modern literature
at the Corcoran Gallery We'd
nesday evening and Thursday
at Phillips lectured on British
painting.
Mr.. Spender, tall with gray
ing curly hair, has been in this
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exhibition in Port-au-Prince.
He is represented in 4 perma.
nent and many private collec-
tionS.
Mr.. Dempsey's exhibition at
the Whyte is divided between
eXpreSSionist and abstract
paintings. Some of his works
(e.g. "Suburbia") are large. de-
tailed organizations with a
lavish use of pigment, mostly
dark-toned, highlighted with
white and bright colors; 9TH
erS. such as Spiral and
Space" have the appearance
of having been executed in a
tearing hurry. There is a touch
of humor in some of his works.
such as Birds and FISH" with
the arrow shaped creatures
streaking right and left, in
their respective elements.
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Soviet Civilization
BY CorlisS Lamont.
/Db iIooonnhinn1 Tihr0rM. c6

Philosophical Library; $5.)
The title may seem a contra
diction in terms. There can
be no doubt of the text-it is
a suavely written apologize for
communism and the Soviet
state. On page 81 we find DR..
Lamont stating: "Anti-Semi-
tism and other forms of racial
prejudice and discrimination
have almost entirely disap-
peared in Soviet Russia" The
recent newspaper record is
violently to the contrary. The
author is quite sure the so
Wet menace" is an artificial
concoction of the Western
world and that the Russians
really want peace. Climbing
out farther on his limb, he
adds the belief that the So
Wet people have laid the
foundations of a great new
civilization of enduring
achievement and high promise
!" This book should be USE
full to the Kremlin.-C. B. j.
The Cavaliers Cup. BY Carter
Dickson. civilian Morrow
& Co.; $2.50.l
The incompatible Sir Henry
Merrivale interrupts his sing
ing lessons (he's going to be
basso profundo) to take on a
locked room puzzle distin-
guished by the fact that no one
has yet been murdered there
nor any priceless possession
stolen. This is about as much
of q farce as Dickson has yet
concocted.
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FoIeer Americana

The Folger Shakespeare Lii
brary has also been laying up
treasures. Recently it came
into possession of a rare piece
of Americana which indicates
the grass-roots popularity of
Shakespeare in this country.
In 1890, the Home Sewing Ma
chine Co. put the bard to work
in a booklet called Shake
speare Boiled Down." which
combined synopses Of the plays
with broad hints about sewing
machines. To show the title
could be taken literally, the
title-page showed poor Will in
a pot slowly simmering down
to digeStible portions.
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with the Soviets and that he
and his fellows were provably
the victims of history. To sus-
tain them in their new life.
they had "ketman," an old
Islamic concept, whereby a
man who knows he has the
truth carefully shields it from
the infidels around and out
wardly conforms. All citizens
of the peoples democracies are
actors, but among intellectuals
the talent for deceit has
reached its peak.
In the StoIinist Couse
Mr.. Milosz gives case his
tories of four Eastern writers
who took UP their pens in the
StaliniSt cause. BY far the
most interesting of these con-
Germs Beta. a tough young
poet who went from the War
saw underground to Auchswicz,
and there saw sights that con-
vinced him that such beStial-
ity was the flower of capitalism.
On his return to Poland in the
privileged position writer's en-
JOY under the Method, he gave
up his fine gifts to write vi
cious journalese about the
west. He finally cut his wrists.
The demands of socialist
realism" were too great for his
fine mind and potentially low
ing heart.
Mr.. Milosz puts his faith for
whatever future may be not
so much in the west OF in
Christianity but in the faint
and ironlc hope that the new
imperium may at any time
trip itself in its own aero
battles. His book is valuable
not only for its insight into
Soviet surgery on the human
mind but also for its descrip-
ton of the attitudes that lead
men brought up in the vest
ern tradition, to travel the
road of seeming inevitability"
to conformity. M. McC.
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In Prospect

So far, 1853 has not been
distinguished for biography.
That situation stands to be
remedied later this summer
when "Tolstoy: A Life of My
Father" by Alexandra Toll
Stoy, and Leila: The Life of
George Sand" by Andre
Maurois, will be published.
Kate O'Brien, the dis
tinguished Irish novelist, has
1.-The Flower of May" coming
in september.
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Book Manuscripts Invited

for our free, Illustrated booklet titled To
the Author in Search OF a Publisher. II
tells how We can publish, promote and
distribute your book, as We have done for
hundreds of other writer's. All subjects
considered. New authors welcomed Write
today for Booklet WS. It's free.
Vontoas Press, Inc, 40 w. 81 ST., NY. l
CGlii.: eSSe HollyV'd Blvd. Hollywood 90
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painted distractions, in which
the major form resembles one
of Naum Gabo's threadlike
constructions. Sister Mary
Mercy's abstract Deep La
COON" dominated by blues,
conveys the implications of
the title.
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and Charles Gucky) Luciano.
None of them ever tried to
muscle" into her trade. There
was a terrifying period when
Dutch Schultz, trying to elude
Vincent Coils mob, used her
apartment as a sort of head
quarters. Dutch later was
liquidated. She doubts that
Lucky Luciano, an admitted
master of other rackets, ever
organized prostitution in New
York-or that any one else
did. She should have known,
she points out. &C. B. j.
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Cesare Pavese, who died in
1850, was considered one of
the most promising of the
younger Italian writer's. He
also was known for his trans
lations of American authors.
Evening star., 1953-06-07

It is rarely that a mans let
tiers are as revealing as these.
AnderSon's letters, most of
them published for the first
time, waste little time on the
trivia that concern most let
ters; in sum they state, each
in the feweSt possible words.
his plans, hopes. ambitions
and Illustrations from time to
time.
Perhaps these letters sketch
an inner biography that
eluded the two writer's who put
out formal biographies of An
derson a couple of years ago.
Sometimes they disclose more,
in their casual, unself- Unconscious
way. than he was able to get
into his photographed es-
say, "A Storyteller's Story"
Like q Posthumous Novel
Howard Mumford Jones, in
his introduction, says the let
ters. arranged in chronological
order wherever that was pos
sible), read like a posthumouS
novel" He adds: Surely there
are not many other instances
in which a mans letters thus
neatly confirm his works and
his works confirm his letters"
It does not follow that an
authors letters necessarily il
illuminate his struggles and
dreams or even are fair ex-
amples of his creative express
sion. For instance, a collection
of Sinclair Lewis letters, pub
liShed recently, show him al
most entirely practical and
prosaic. concerned with pro-
noting his books and squeezing
all possible royalties out of
them. It appears that many
persons, among them writer's
and composers, do not bother
to express themselves in let
ters. Not so Sherwood Ander-
son.
A Good Investment
Certainly Anderson was not
blind to the need for money
he often refers to it-nor was
he Indifferent to the critical
and public reception his books
received. And yet he usually
sounds more like an Anderson
character, trying to figure out
what life is all about, than An
derson himself concerned with
making a living, Once, back
in 1919, when his masterpiece,
"Winesburg, Ohio" was at
tracing critical acclaim but a
poor sale, he wrote a friend
wondering if he couldn't find
IAN angel" some wealthy per-
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story never quite rings true,
partly because it is told entirely
by the artists best friend, who
would have to be clairvoyant to
know as much as he does about
the hero's introspections.
M. Meg.
Tow Jameson
BY May Davies Martenet.
(Altred A. Knopt; $3.75.)
This long and lugubrious
story about a pretty Southern
girl who is just about ruined
by a socially ambitious mother
is told by the family butler, a
Southern mountain boy who
combines the qualities of Old
Dog Tray and Sidney Carton.
1t doesn't seem to have any
special theme or message, but
tirelessly transports Chloe
from one empty triumph 10
another while she secretly
pines for the boy next door.
The style is ambitious, though.
When there's trouble charac-
ters never ask each other how
they feel. It's always, How
is it with you?" M. McC.
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Books in Review
Sherwood Anderson's Letters Shed
Searching Light on Life and Work
Sherwood Anderson

Letters of Sherwood Anderson
Selected Edited by Jones Association
With Walter B. Rideout. little BroDn; $6J
Reviewed BY Corter Brooke Jones
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country since January. He
came, he revealed, through the
courtesy of Senator Taft. A
brief youthful dalliance with
the Communist Party made
him ineligible for entrance
under the McCarran Act. The
majority leader of the Senate,
prompted by Ben Tate. brother
of Poet Allen Tate, inter-
vened. thus enabling Mr..
Spender to spend four months
teaching at the University of
Cincinnati.
Now a leading figure in Eng
lish anti Communist circles,
Mr.. Spender is helping to
launch a monthly magazine
for the Congress for Cultural
Freedom, a band of Western
intellectuals who have organ
lied exhibits and symposia of
Western art and thought. He
is also preparing a book on the
ideas he expounded in his Cor
coran lecture. In brief, he be-
lieves that the revolt of poets
from orthodoxy to individual
ism which took place 100 years
ago, has now come full circle
and that the return to ortho-
doxy among modern writer's is
exemplif1ed by Eliot, Auden,
Greene and Waugh. While he
is himself outside of it, he calls
it "the realest phenomenon of
our time"
Next week, Learning Laugh
ter" the poets stories of chill
dren from many lands reset
tied in Israel. will be published.
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The Moon and the Bonfires

BY Cesare Pavese. (Farrar Straus & Young; So.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Navy Asks 10 Extend
Restricted Zone in
Potomac for Tests

The Potomac River Naval
Command yesterday requested
permission to extend the re-
stricted zone in the Potomac
River north Of the Morgantown
Bridge to permit additional
underwater explosive tests.
The Naval Ordnance Labora-
tory wishes to use an additional
area on the Maryland shore
lying across the approach to
Port Tobacco Greek for tests
directed from the Naval Prov
ing Ground. Dahlgren, Va.
Directions for Protests.
The request was forwarded to
the District engineer OF the
Army Engineers. Criticism or
protests against the plan should
be forwarded to the Engineer
Office at First and Douglas street
NV. prior to February %, it
was announced.
Inc POTOMAC already is Zoned
in the vicinity Of Pope's Creek,
Md, about two miles above Nor
gantown Bridge, to provide for
intermittent underwater firing
during daylight hours.
The testing craft display large
red flags during the firing peri
ods, to warn oystering and fish
Ing boats and other small craft
to keep at a distance of 1000
yards.
Boundaries Proposed.
Vessels moving at five miles an
hour or more under power and
using the dredged channel are
permitted to proceed through the
danger zone without restriction
unless especially notified to the
contrary.
The proposed new zone is
bounded on the south by a line
extending from a point on the
Maryland shore just across the
southeaStward to a point on the
Greek.
The area suggested lies north
OF the present channel.
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more than 200 members Of the
Board of Trade, the English
Speaking Union and other
Washington groups joining in
the welcome.
A member of the Conservative
Party and close friend of Prime
Minister Churchill, Lord Roch-
dale is recognized as an author
ity on world trade developments
as they affect relations between
Great Britain and the United
States. He served on Admiral
Nimitz' staff in the Pacific dur
ing World War II.
Evening star., 1953-02-01

Committee of
the Washing
ton Board of
Ira d e at /
pm. tomorrow
at the Wash
ington Hotel.
Lord Roch-
dale, president
of the world
wide textile
firm Of Kelsall
& Kemp, will
pre- S e mt his
v | e W s on
TRADE, N o t
In H.
Evening star., 1953-02-01
Agencies Goal Is Set
For Red Cross Drive

The Government divisions
quota in the 1858 District area
Red Cross fund drive in March
will be $698,70 E. Roy Dunn,
general campaign chairman, an
nounced yesterday.
William McCheSney Martin,
chairman of the Board Of Gov
ernors Of the Federal Reserve
System, has been renamed as
chairman of the division.
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Top British IndustriaIisf
To Address Trade Board

A member of the House of
Lords and one of Britain's lead
ing industtialists will speak to
members of the World Trade
Evening star., 1953-02-01
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Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-13

Paul Adams and his mother,
Mrs. Vira Adams attended the
funeral of their cousin, Harry
Merwin in Garrettsville on
Thursday. The burial was in
East Claridon, where Mr.. Mer-
win was former resident. Fol-
lowing the burial Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Merwin of Akron, Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Merwin of
Cleveland, Harmon Merwin and
friend of Columbus, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Kibler and Mrs.
Juanita Pfenniger were supper
guests of Mrs. Grace Kibler and
daughter, Mrs. Luella Szenmen-
yei.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwyn Evans,
son, Harry and Russell Buell.
visited High Brook Lodge on
Sunday afternoon. While there
the campers were entertained
by Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Meyer
and Mr.. Joe Koston of Chardon.
Mr.. Meyer brought his organ,
Mrs. Meyer played the accord
ian and Mr.. Koston the drum.
There was also group singing
by the campers.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-13
NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS

Sealed bids will be received by
the Huntsburg Local School Dist
rict at Huntsburg school, Hunts
burg, Geauga County. Ohio, until
500 PM, E.D.S.T., August 21, 1858,
at which time they will be pub
chase of coupon bonds at not less
than par and accrued interest in
the aggregate amount of $4,000
90, dated the first day of August,
1853. Such bonds shall bear interest
at the rate of 3-AfC per annum,
payable semi-annually on the first
day of June and December, of each
year, beginning on the first day of
June, 1854.
Provided however, that bids for
said bonds my be made for diff
ferent rate of interest in multiples
of a of 19o. Said bonds are issued for
the purpose of building class
rooms, cafeteria and alterations on
existing building and under the
icularly the Uniform Bond Act,
and in accordance with certain
resolution authorizing said bonds
passed July "a, 1853. Said bonds
were voted July IA, 1853 and are
payable from unlimited taxes.
Said bonds shall be numbered
from to rs inclusive; shall be in
and shall be due and payable as
follows: $3,OO0.00 December l, 1855
to 1875 and 100000 1875 to 1878
inclusive.
Both bonds and interest will be
payable at the legal depositary =
presently the First National Bank
of Burton, Ohio. Each bid must
be accompanied by certified
check payable to the Huntsburg
Local School District for not less
than 10 of the amount of the
bonds herein offered, said check to
be forfeited .as liquidated damages
in the event of default on the
part of the bidder All bids will
be considered and an award made
at $500 PM, E.D.S.T., August 2l,
1858; provided however, that the
right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
A transcript Of proceedings evil
dencing the legality thereof and
the printed bonds will be furnished
promptly Bids should be sealed
and endorsed "Bi for School
Building Bonds"
July "a. 1853
Ethel G. Clarke, Clerk 3cS3
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-13

the street and is to be re-
modelled.
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Stillwell
and Mrs. Ruth Davis attended
the Jenkins reunion at Claridon
Center on Sunday.
Edward Evans is taking a
years course of study at Car
negie Institute in Cleveland,
where he is preparing to be a
laboratory technician.
Mrs. Sara Slagle visited rela-
tives in Cleveland last week
and while there she also visited
Mrs. Jessie Inkster.
Gayle Adams and family at
tended the ceremonies at st.
Mary's church in Chardon on
Saturday morning and the re-
ception at the home in Munson
in the afternoon honoring Mrs.
Adams parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen Dieska, who were cele-
brating their so wedding ami
verSary. Mrs. Graver and Mrs.
Nellie Adams from here were
among the guests in the after
noon.
The East Claridon w. S. c. S.
will entertain the Middlefield
w. S. c. S. at a guest tea on
Wednesday, August 10. Mrs.
Clara Stressing, Mrs. May Zid
and Mrs. Olive Winchell were
appointed as hostesses. Mrs.
Alice Cottam in charge of de-
votionals and Miss June Evans
in charge of the program.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Smith
and children made a trip to
Niagara Falls on Monday of last
week.
Mrs. Frances Osmond of
Burton, Mrs. Clara Potter and
granddaughter of Southington
were recent guests of Mrs. Ruth
Davis.
Mrs. Lefie Champlain and
daughter, Mrs. Susan Cole of
Conneaut, visited the Elwyn
Evans family the latter part of
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust OLSEN
entertained their two grand
children from Cleveland last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Kile Wis
tied the formers sister, Mrs.
Susie Cramblet, and daughters
in Mentor, on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Hifield
and children of Washington
Court House, Mr.. Frank Klein
and Mrs. Cora Dague of Paines-
Vile called on Mrs. Will Adams
and Mrs. D. E. Graver last
week.
June Evans is at High-Brook
Lodge during August, assisting
in the recreational work there.
Mrs. Eric Falk of Cleveland
was a recent weekend guest of
her brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wick Adams.
Mrs. Grace Kibler, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Szemenyei, Mrs. Err
nest Pfenniger, Mr.. and Mrs.
J Stanley Kibler, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1953-08-13
Ober Cow Produces
1906 Pounds Of Milk

NEWBURY - A registered
Guernsey COW, Maple Lane De-
signer's Bella, owned by Lloyd
Ober, Newbury, put 11,906
pounds of milk and 621 pounds
of butterfat into the country's
breadbasket. This is according
to the official Advanced Reg
istry record released by The
American Guernsey Cattle Club.
bella" was a five year-old
and was MIXED three times
daily for 365 days.
The sire of Bella" is Fair
lawn Peerless Designer. Forty
nine sons and daughters of this
bull are listed in the Perfor-
nance Register of The Ameri-
can Guernsey Cattle Club.
This. record was supervised
by Ohio State University.