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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Letters To The Editor
THANKS FROM rHURoooD MARSHALL

Editor: this a close wanted
this opportunity thanks
appreciation member staff for the
help and splendid cooperation each of Your
ssance could ask for but this
particularly chips down
II greater than and gratifying.
Needless without this cooperation would
able first
with segregation had it
made feel
the right track.
you win copy the auditors report of the
monies raised and the expenditures Of the school
funds better than anticipated
Negroes certainly contributed
Negro readers of this terrific
emergency money addition editorial
support paper prayers
story finally Negro press certainly
place ledger
the We confidence that continue
support oppos-
will continue with deprive
constitutional
them into and time will be
and will call friends other
help financially spiritually again
again that
at the beginning of this fight there battle
At the close Of this extend
readers snerest appreciation At beginning
of the offer hearest
New Year Above look to the future with the confidence
from the realization right
shall the cooperation
the work deserves It, No could
Thugood Marshall Director Counsel NAACP Defense
and Educational Fund, N. Y. City, Dec. 81, 1883
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Tom Roberts Was A Fine Man

The labor movement in the Upper Midwest is going miss
Tom Roberts veteran construction workers union official who
was buried the other day.
Tom Roberts secretaryreasurer of the Construction and
General Laborers Local 563 the type of union official who
self sacrificing and seadast in advancing the of
ganxed labor He also had the good recognize that the
employers had their rights Also and unless they prospered his
own union members would suffer unemployment.
Devoid of any color religious bias Tom would battle
anybody who tried to visit their preudces any Honest
hard working, and God fearing Thomas Roberts place will
be hard to fill in the labor in this section was
fine God rest his soul in peace
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Good Work Sterling Club

For the the Sterling Club of St. Paul has
been presenting civic award to the individual in the Dale
RondoS Anthony district who has contributed the most
community progress during the year.
The 1853 award went to Rev. Floyd d. Massey Jr for his
great leadership work in connection with the Maxed
school His choice logical and well deserved selection
However, the main point of this piece that think the
Sterling Club deserves pat the back for developing the
idea of award Such program will encourage others the
St Paul community render services the city and
beyond the call of duty"
II is not much that real workers and leaders seek credit
appreciation from the peopehey 1t is however
the sign of adult community when organization
like the Sterling Club decides publicly recognize and
claim individual merit in communal endeavor
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Minneapolis Has New Postmaster

Minneapolis has Postmaster, to the Postoffice
establishment but service the city He is Leon
ard Ramberg business executive and former alderman high
grade
mighty big shoes fill II is fortunate that the Republican ad
mnistraon able to the services of Mr. Ramberg
for the post
From this newspapers long observation of Leonard Ram
berg the Postmaster he of character and sub
who is deserving Of public confidence and support
he receives such from both the public and his
fellow postal workers Minneapolis will continue to have
outstanding U. s. postal system.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08

Glare and Ronald Mclaughlin Roblyn Christ
moving illustration from This Is The Way by Eliza
quotations from who Speaks For Man by
Dedicated to those who want peace
time. it read:
BLESSED ARE PEAoEMAKERs FOR THEY SHALL BE
CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD
Be We therefore mercifu your merciful
your them that you do good to them
pray them which depeuy use you and
youat we children Father which
his and sendeh rain on the just and
the unjust
shntoism:
away Requite evil with kindness
soft answer trneth away wrath grevous up
anger.
Recompense injury bad how
be right to cast him off?
Treat thy enemies equity proceed
approval malicious conflict and
any With the foolish make
dispute
man is not called just he carries matter by violence; no.
distinguishes right
by equity
by the law and by intelligence, he is called just
by they submit
heart They submit because their strength adequate
When subdes men by virtue IN their hearts they
pleased sincerely submit.
The people the most important element in a nation.
mercy conioned might.
perform Pleasing
each other you will attain the highest good.
upon enemies with sn-covering eye and act
with justice injustice whatsoever; forgive
ALL consider the whole of humanity family
earth
The most requisite mankind
oneness of the world of humanity.
Too heavy schedule great responsibilities
plus civic activities apparently caught
Seymour vicepresdent executive editor
TRIBUNE papers
ordered that he take a three
Sometimes fully appreciate a unit he
appears from his
has been driving himself at
job editorial chief Of important
papers Like most Of the papers top executives
seessy In the thick OF civic activity
fecive committees and boards which
the Upper Midwest but not
Of the papers he
Now he must forsake the active life a to
ticker that overworked
are many people we know including this pulling
MN TO get well again and be able
vibrant searching leadership supplied in the past
hope however that he will take
his first duty is to himself his nice
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Horn Serves People In Many Vows

To those who have in degree kept
Charles Horn surprise
other $4,000 toward the building of City Hall
However giving lavy his the public
public
This writer well recalls back in the
Charles Horn endeavong bring
about industrial where industrial hostility had
Indeed there particular
spent months brngin parties
then finally the meetings resulted plant
and he
deadlock that Mr. Horn of his time long bring
adjustments between employers and unions
That about valuable public service there
industrial peace
htude that benefits makes prosper
people happier,
That is the old attitude and practice
Anok and Minneapolis and everywhere
and happier.
all leading
The That something appreciate goes
by.-M Minneapolis
The who he advertise because
the ads like the dry goods merchant
because he doesn't thensiepy Eye
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08
Editorial Notes

We hear that the Minneapolis Sociates Club is planning
attempt revive the Council of Negro Organizations pro
gram. We hope what hear is true
Any Negro communities the size of St Paul and Mnneapo
lis needs to build understanding and cooperation between the
various organizations which make up the community
just because former attempts build organizations
two towns failed why such movement should not
again be tried with new leadership
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-01-08

AS deeply interested feel in national prob
lens sleep President Eisenhower Monday as he
breted the country TV his hopes for 1854 FDR speech
writers and his meodous had Just about spoiled u.s.
suppose.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
No EorIy Genius Is Found
In Mr. Wough's Collection
By Evelyn waugh little. Broom; ss7sJ
Reviewed BY Mary McGrory

sacrificed to the elder son, has
the polish Of his best novels.
The chief interest Of the
collection, actually, lies In the
insight 1t gives into Mr..
Waugh's development as q
writer. At %, In Cruise" he
takes q tentative thrust at the
world of the bright young
things whom he was to devas-
tate In such marvellous satires
as Decline and Fall' and "A
Handful OF Dust" Work
Suspended" represents Mr..
Waugh's one tribute to love.
It is a long, rather inconclusive
story. with q leisurely introduce
ton, and several passages that
are rather dull something Mr..
Waugh usually never is.
The title piece, Tactical
Exercise" a rather slick see
nario-type account of q hus-
band and wife who loathe each
other. reflects the authors ex-
treme displeasure with the So
cialistic government which
descended over his country
after the war. This displeasure
reaches full and ghastly ex-
preston in Love Among the
Ruins" a novelette, of fright
full invention about the world
Of 1884. This Is the keynote:
Tn the new Britain which we
are building, there are no
criminals. There are only the
victims Of inadequate social
service"
Mr.. Waugh, at 81, as at 7,
is warning readers of the con-
sequences of rash action.
Evening star., 1954-10-10

amount from q bank in Texas,
for which he served a prison
term. Surely it does not much
matter now. There is nothing
else in the record of o. Henry's
entire life to indicate that he
had a dishonest impulse. If he
did misplace the pitiful sums
named in the indictment, it
probably was more careless
ness than intention. In view
of his fight to Honduras, de-
spite his voluntary return, and
in the face Of his failure to
take the witness stand, he
might as well have pleaded
guilty. He went to such lengths
during his last eight years-in
New York, the only successful
period of his life-to conceal
his true identity for, fear some
one would find out he was a
convicted felon that he added
measurably to the task of BIZ
ographers.
Mr.. Kramer wrote a biog-
raphy Of Haywood Broun and
Ross and the New Yorker"
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
The Heart of O. Henry

Since Mr.. Kramer has
chosen the form Of a biograph-
ical novel-part fact, part fic-
tion-his life Of the Short
story writer can add little to
a photography which remains
meager A years after o.
Henry's death. While Mr..
Kramer based his book on a
study Of pertinent books and
documents and interviews with
persons who might have help
full information, the invention
of many incidents and CONVEX
sations always leads in a biog-
raphy of this type to confusion
between the imaginary and the
factual.
The elusive personality of
Will Porter %. Henry's real
name) could best be captured
In a dramatic narrative, Mr..
Kramer felt. Certainly he has
written sympathetically of his
subject. Mr.. Kramer has
ducked the question of whether
o. Henry was guilty or tnno-
cent Of embezzling a small
Evening star., 1954-10-10

novel, THAT Winter" in which
he described the return of men
from war more perceptively
than has any writer I've read.
Reunion" is overlong and
has its faults, but its char
acters. If some are patterned
and hammered too closely to
any novelist's idea Of New
Yorkers, manage to be inter-
esting and lively.
"That Winter" was the story
Of what q few soldiers did their
first year out of the service.
Reunion" deals with o meet
ing which a handful of SOL
diers who survived after being
cut OF In the Bulge decided
then and there to hold in
exactly eight years.
The reunion is duly held, in
the sumptuous apartment Of
Jason Merrick, captain of the
company involved-of what
was left Of it. Within the eight
years he is a successful New
York lawyer, married to the
daughter of a very rich manu-
facturer. Seven other veterans
come to New York for the re-
union. some from quite q dis
tance. BY invitation, they bring
their wives. If they have such.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
BY Brig. c. H. Dewhurst (HougIton- -Mitain, 81
Review by William Hines


slams all but impossible to
deal with. But because illness
and not orneriness makes them
what they are. he thinks it is
of overriding Importance to try
to understand them, not in an
effort to get along with them
so much as to keep them from
Tipping their wigs and doing
permanent damage to the
world.
We Will Win
In the relatively brief COM
pass Of this book-173 pages
Brig. Dewhurst answers Cor
gives his answer to- the $64
question: "Who will win World
War III If 1t starts?" Answer:
The United States. He also
deals with possible means Of
waging effective anti -Commu-
mist propaganda war. the like
nhood of Chinese "Titoism,"
the Importance Of "face" to
the Reds. and q number Of
other crucial matters.
"Close Contact" Is at once
entertaining and Informative,
as well as valuable If only in
giving us insight into the
thinking Of one well-checked-
out ally.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
!. (Houghton Mi67in;; $685.
Reviewed by Froncis P. Douglas

All this is colorful background
for this historical romance Of
England Of the 1300s by Miss
Seton. who has "Dragonwyck"
and other popular novels to
her credit.
Katherine marries an i'm
poverished, oafish knight whose
manor house offers accommo-
dations against which a mod
ern worker would rebel. He
dies-under extraordinary cir
cumstances-but there's the
duke. one of the lean Plantag-
enets, waiting for Katherine.
She becomes his mistress, the
governeSs of his two mother
less daughters and the mother
of four Lancaster children.
Those children become the
forebears of a half a dozen or
so English monarchs. There is
a happy ending, historically
sound.
Miss Seton has done a lot
Of research in the England of
the times. the Plantagenets
and Katherine. 1t rewards the
reader with a solid historical
background for the story. On
the romantic side, the scenes
centering on the big silken-
sheeted bed recur perhaps too
often. But probably they are
good for trade.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Close Contact

From wars end to 1858,
Brig. Dewhurst was-as the
title Of his book states-in
"close contact" with the Rus
slams. First he was in Yugo-
slavia just before Tito made
the break. Later he went to
Potsdam, the Red headquar-
ters in East Germany, to
"haise" Gas he puts it, in the
interests of the Crown.
Out Of this eight-year ex-
perience, Brig. Dewhurst has
drawn q number of conclu-
sions. It Is possible that not
all his conclusions are valid,
but certainly they are interest
ing.
They Are Poronoiocs
Getting without undue delay
20 the core of the matter, Brig.
Dewhurst undertakes to an
swer the question: What's with
the Russians-not as indivi-
duals, but as members of the
Soviet machine? Simple, says
he. They are suffering from a
group manifestation of an
all-too-common psychic COM
plant. They are, in the mass,
paranoiacs.
This paranoia, Brig. Dew
hurst believes, makes the Rus
Evening star., 1954-10-10

and one who now makes an ex-
cellent living playing the
horses. arrives from Miami
with a girl he picked up for the
trip.
There is one who has be-
come a lieutenant In the Reg
ular Army and who has been
hiding from his real identity
for a very good reason--ever
since he enlisted for World War
II under q phony name. An
other was a first lieutenant In
Capt. Merrick's company. The
others were non-comS or pri.
Yates and are following a vari-
ETY. Of occupations.
Two-thirds Of the book is
taken up with the morning and
afternoon before the dinner
which Merrick is giving to his
old buddies, These chapters
are concerned with the arrival
Of the. out-of-town guests and
more particularly with turn
backs sketching In their back
grounds, their earlier years.
One guest has escaped from q
veterans MP. hospital and OBJ
viously is mentally sick, but
none of the others know that.
Mr.. Miller builds up suspense
for the party, but does it very
slowly. He goes minutely into
the lives of all the veterans, of
their wives and children, If
any. The bartenders, busboys
and casual strangers they brush
are not neglected. The author
seemed to feel a Balzacian
compulsion to describe every
thing. It would have been q
better novel at much less
length. A purely technical fault
is in introducing characters,
then presenting them in later
chapters by their first names
only. This sends you back to
the cast of characters, which
fortunately is printed in front.
Sex is never slighted in the
sagas of these lives. but at least.
reading Mr.. Miller, you feel
that there are other elements
in life, not. as in John O'Hara
and others, that there is moth
ing else.
If Mr.. Miller could forget for
once that in modern novels
girls are never virgins and
married couples regard their
vows of fidelity as quaint and
absurd-if he would write
about people as he actually
observes them-he might do a
firSt-rate novel.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Tactical Exercise

Mr.. Evelyn Waugh started
out as q writer at the age Of
Z. THE Curse Of the Horse
Race" which opens this coll
lection of his shorter works,
reveals him as no precocious
genius but rather as q very
poor speller and a heavy
handed moralizer. The last
line: II hope the story will be
a Lesson (sic) to you never
to bet"
Mr.. Waugh's spelling i'm
proved In time. So. Of course.
did his touch, which became
the deftest and deadliest in
the world Of social satire.
Not His Best
Tactical Exercise" is no
assemblage Of little, MASTER
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Books in Review
Mr.. Miller Gets Beck on the Beam
In q Lively, Well-Plotted Story
Reunion
By Merle Miller. Viking; $685.
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
By Merle miller. fvsstng: $685.
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

Merle Miller is q young
writer well equipped to record
the current scene. He has a
sharp eye for the details Of
what passes for contemporary
living. especially among people
who regard themselves as So
phisticated. His dialogue al
ways has an authentic ring,
and he even has a sly humor
often missing from novels
these days. His characters
have few standards of conduct,
but at least they have some.
In his last novel, a Washing
ton story called 1.-THE Sure
Thing" he wrote with the in
dignation Of a professional
Evening star., 1954-10-10
For Boys and Girls
Richly Told Biographies Are Held
In High Favor by Young Readers
By Borboro NoIen
Editor and Lecturer on Children's Books

McNeer in "War Chief Of the
Semin0les," (Random House,
$3.50. The author grew up
in Florida, where the terrible
war-cry Of Osceola still echoes
In the swamps. Her great
grandfather was one of Os-
ceola's few white friends, and
his affection for the Indian
chief is carried like q torch
by Miss McNeer.
In Biblical Times
It may seem a long Jump
from the Apache Indians to
the Hebrews Of Judea, but the
theme of loyalty is like an
electric current in both stories,
sharp and strong. "The For
eigner" Iongmans, $2.75) is
the story of Ruth the Moabite
who said: "Where you go, I
will go. Your people shall be
my people, and your God shall
be my God" The author.
Gladys Malvern, may be re-
membered for another Biblical
romance Behold Your Queen"
in which Esther won the
beauty contest of her day and
throne as well.
Unusual Careers
Unusual careers have not
been neglected in the biog-
rapher's search for colorful
material. An astronomer
daughter on Nantucket one
hundred years ago is the
heroine of a book which
younger children interested in
the stars will read eagerly.
How Maria watched an eclipse,
discovered a comet, and be-
came the first astronomy pro-.
fessor at the first women's COL
lege is told by Grace Melin in
MARIA Mitchell, Girl Astron-
omer" (Bobbs, Merrill. $1.75).
"Nickels and Dimes" is the
title chosen by Nina Brown
Baker for her homespun story
OF F. w. WoolWorth (Harcourt.
$2.50). Frank Woolworth was
a farm boy with an impossible
dream, or so 1t seemed, of a
store where a customer could
buy what he wanted, even if
he had only five pennies to
spend. Franks hero was Ma
poleon, another poor boy who
made good after many fail
ures. AS Frank said, II guess
even Napoleon got discouraged
sometimes. Actually, Wool
worth is a much more SYM
pathetic hero than Napoleon,
as he makes his dream
come true. Full of homely in
cidents, plain talk, and down.
right persistence, "Nickles and
Dimes" presents a rugged
American boy, from "rags to
riches"
ChiIdren's Book Week
Almost every day now my
telephone rings with requests
from PTA chairmen for help
with school library or Book
Week programs. This is my
answer. Schools looking ahead
to the celebration of Children's
Book Week, November 1921,
should write to the Children's
Book Council, so West Fifty
third street, New York 10, N. Y,
for their free 1854 manual of
Book Week Aids" The council
also distributes, for a moderate
cost. Book Week posters, book
marks, and records.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites Draw
ings by Gluyas Williams Harper & Bros; $500


per G. Bros; $780,
telephone operators, surviving
the horrors of Sunday after
noon. Not side-splitting ex-
actly, just steadily amusing.
Because they are based on ac-
curate observation of charac-
ter rather than situation
alone, they are curiously un-
dated. Some are thinner than
others, but they are all good.
The best, I think, is a Won
derful spool about five authors
in the world beyond who con-
slider their posthumous value
to the world. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-10-10

pieces. Mr..
Waugh is at
his best in
the novel
form, where
the &C c u
mutation Of
/ n c i'd e n t
and the pre-
cision Of
S t rue ture
counts s o
much. Ger
tain Of the-
stories, like
"B e l l a
Fleace Gave
Evening star., 1954-10-10
The Benehley Roundup.

lngS py GluyaS Williams. III,
No one has quite taken Rob-
ert Benchley's place on the ma
tional literary scene. Mr..
Benchley could laugh at peo-
pie without tearing them to
pieces. He could laugh at him
self without running a mildly
funny situation into the
ground. He was gentle, but
not soft.
This collection shows Mr..
Benchley at his best, mildly
surlnising about exotic news
items, coping with noontime
Evening star., 1954-10-10

the mystic
rose Of tinted
glass in st.
Paul's W in
dow"
T h a t. s
Katherine. in
words t h e
author a S
S i G n s to
G o e + f r e y
G h a u c e r.,
K a t herine's
brother = / n
law. She was
a c a n d e n t
x a + h q r inc
Evening star., 1954-10-10
The Bridge Over the River
Kwoi
BY Pierre Boulle. Translated
by Kan Fielding.

Kwoi
BY Pierre Boulle. Translated
by Kan Fielding.
vanguard; S3.)
This French writer, who saw
exciting war service in the Far
East, has written an unusual
novel about an episode of the
great war in Malaga and Bur-
ma. The story deals with some
British soldiers who are prison.
ers of the Japanese on the
Burmese border. The prisoners
are required to build a bridge
for the new railroad that Is to
carry troops and supplies for
the invasion of India. The
ranking British officer, a colo
mel, is obsessed with the idea
OF putting up a f1rst-class
bridge, a structure so fine and
firm it will show the superiority
of the West. Meanwhile, three
officers from an ultrasecret
British sabotage unit in Call
cutta have slipped into the
Burmese jungles, helped by
partisans, to blow up the
bridge as soon as it is finished.
What happens is spun out
with fine suspense. The story
also Is an excellent character
study Of a stuffy colonel with
a one-directional mind. Incl
dentally, it is worth noting
that a French novelist has
been able to write an entire
book, never lacking in interest,
without bringing in q single
woman or even averting to q
love affair in restrospect.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-10-10

when John of Gaunt, the Duke
Of Lancaster, was nigh. Other
wise she was a matter-of fact
Katherine. tending to her
duties and her children.
Draw bridges are lowered
over moats, portcullises are
raised. knights tilt in the lists,
the duke rides from castle to
castle with a suite of knights
and men-at-arms, the Lam
caster herald trumpeting his
coming and a train of carts
laden with Golfers following.
Evening star., 1954-10-10
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AUCId1s duu
the result
W a s m or e
propaganda
than novel.
In "Reun-
ion" he is
back on the
b e a m. a t
RaSC mOSg
Of the time,
delineatin n G
q g ro u p
with the i'm
passive care
he devoted
to an earlier