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Peoples Padre
BY Emmett Mclaughlin. deacon Press; $685.,

tell. It is a pity that he has
felt it necessary to accompany
it with a general attack on
the church he served so long.
He says he doubted" for
more than 10 years before he
unfrocked himself. He con-
cedes that there is much that
is good in Roman Cathol-
icism," but indicts it for
mental tyranny" and many
other things. It's theology, he
contends, strips man of his
strength, ability and powers
as it builds UP the limitless
power, majesty and inacessi-
bility of God" He adds: In
worship, in doctrine and in
morals the Protestant keynote
is love. In Roman Catholicism
it is fear" A Catholic "is for
hidden to think. He let's the
priest think for him. But he
does not realize that the
priests do not think either.
They. too, are forbidden to
read"
Such assertions will furnish
fresh material for certain
leaders in Christian dissension.
But they will contribute moth
ing toward unity at a time
when all Christianity faces a
foe that would like to extermi-
nate it. G. B. j.
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A best.selling husband and
wife writing team, the Over
streets. paid the Capitol a visit
recently. AS BELTS co-authors
of 1.-The Mature Mind" and
THE Mind Alive" Bonaro and
Harry Overstreet looked ma
ture and alive, and in point
of fact. quite happy. Taxed
with this, they admitted they
were happy.
Their verve and general
pleasure in life, reflected both
in their appearance and in the
lecture-duet they gave before
the Woman's National Press
Club set people to wondering.
# you look that way from
writing such a book, could you
achieve the same effect from
reading it. Legions of people
are experimenting to judge
from 1.-THE Mature Minds"
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New England Art

Wood engravings, litho-
graphs and other original
prints by I. j. Sanger make a
beautiful graphic arts exhibit
ton at the Arts Club through
next Friday, in conjunction
with the one-man show of
paintings by Garnet Jex ire
viewed last Sunday.
Approximately 40 of Mr..
Sanger's prints on view
tsome in colors) in the re-
ception rooms depict repre-
sentationally the beauty of
New England, chiefly New
H a m p hire and Vermont,
Canada's Gaspe and a glimpse
or two of Nova Scotia; the
artist has captured a few ur-
ban and industrial scenes with
equal skill. The landscape re-
gions have outstanding pic
torial beauty and Mr.. Sanger
has faithfully reflected it in
his prints. Wood engraving is
his forte, in which he demon
strates the greatest compe-
tence; a small number of
woodcuts coarser in line. are
not so successful (e. g., Lake
Willoughby" with too heavy
and black a SKYE
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British Prints

Pleasing. interesting subject
matter, naturalistic interpre-
tations and meticulous crafts
manship make the exhibition
of Contemporary Births h
Prints" now at Howard Uni
versity Gallery of Art a salts
flying show. This is the sec
ond group lent to Howard this
season by International Bust
ness Machines Corps fine arts
department.
Contemporary" is not pre-
ciSely accurate for these SO
prints, as some of them were
made in the 1920s, some in the
next two decades. A retro
spective print show of the past
80 years" would be. more
descriptive. Among the ar
fists represented are such
famous names as Sir Muir
head Bone C"Midnight in
Venice" a large lithograph)
and Henry Rushbury, keeper
of the Royal Academy in Lon
don, whose superb drypoint of
Durham Cathedral is one of
the shows outstanding works.
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The Republican Roosevelt
By John Morton Blum (Haruard Press; $500

Mr.. Blum's brief study is
not a biography, but a critical
appraisal of the President. the
politician and the man. 1t is
thoughtful and lively in its
summing up of a leader whose
explosive and often contra
dictory attitudes on public
questions make him difficult
to assay.
Sometimes the author is
acid in his criticism. but on
the whole he has at least tried
to be fair, emphasizing Theo-
dore Roosevelt's merits along
with his failings, as this his
torian sees them. 1t is one Of
those curious but not unfa-
miliar transitions of political
history that the first RooSe-
Welt should have been consid-
cred great progressive in the
first decade of the country
the term liberal was not so
much used then-and. by the
time his distant kinsman.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. came
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

''If in one sense man is now
more like a god than he ever
was BEFORE" says Mr.. Krutch,
The has in another sense be-
come less godlike than he ever
previously imagined himself to
be-" In "today's thinking
Hamlet's "How like god" has
become ingloriously trans
formed into How like a dog"
We'd Rother Be Decd
A Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology dean told a con-
vocation in 1949-apparently
with some pride-that on the
horizon lay scientific ability
to control mems thoughts with
precision" Barely concealing
his dismay at such a pros
pect, Mr.. Winston Churchill,
who has triumphantly resisted
thought control all his life,
rose up to say he would be
very content to be dead" be-
fore that happened. So, it
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(Rinehart;: So

had happened. hoping Rhoda
will grow out of her homicidal
strain? There is, as the
mother accidentally discovers,
a HEREDITARY influence she
had never dreamed of. Mean
while the poor woman is
cracking from worry.
William March is an able
novelist, author of the World
War I novel Company X"
the recent October Island"
and other worthwhile books.
He is a serious writer, not one
to perpetrate a cheap shocker.
THE Bad Seed" is written with
artistry and restraint. The
author has avoided gruesome
detail. The story is revolving
more in its idea and implica-
tions. Why did he write it?
Juvenile crime, including
murder, has reached an alarm
ing stage in recent years. Per-
haps he wanted to show a
small monster could emerge
from a family of love and I'M
blemished conduct, a home
that never knew Squalor or
environmental evil. There is,
too, the hereditary "seed."
which seems far-fetched. ,
Or perhaps Mr.. March merely
was impelled to write the story
in the same way Poe was con-
strained to write 1.-The Fall of
the House of Usher" and Maui
PEASANT to write La Horla."
&C. B. j.
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Books in Review
Winston CIewes BIozes His Own
Troll in Writing of Romance
Peococks on the Lawn
BY Winston Clewes. (Dutton; So
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

Our day is UNDERSTANDABLE
cynical and diSilluSioned. It's
not easy to write of romance
for contemporary readers. To
escape the anathema of sem
timentalisrn, the writer is apt
to fall back on some slick form
ula, a Sprightly tongue-in-
cheek technique beloved by the
mass circulation magazines
and some book clubs. His usual
alternative is to reduce love to
sex, removing any esthetic
quality, as so many modern
novelists have done.
Witty and Delightful
Winston Clewes has managed,
however. to write a romance Of
old Ireland without following
either worn path. His story is
witty and delightful without
a trace of archness, dramatic,
touching at times without ever
seeming contrived. The mar
rative moves on two levels, the
adventure of a 40-year-old
English bachelor. who has
gone to the west of Ireland
to recuperate from a break
down, and a back look at the
goings on of some aging char
acters when they were young,
at the century's turn. The
episodes in the Edwardian era
Gas the Irish would never call
it, are handled with nostalgia
sympathy but without the
humorous condescension with
which writer's often view the
period.
Mr.. Clewes was born in Eng
land, but partly educated in
Ireland and he knows the ways
Of the Irish well enough. His
characters are presented with
understanding. The dialogue
of country people and trades
men is. as he offers it. more
a Tilt and a way of phrase than
q brogue and it is never over
done.
Like a lot of other British
novels. this one takes a good
while to get under way. But
once you get past the early
pages of Geoffrey's tentative
wandering about a countryside
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Bhowoni Junction
BY John Masters. (Viking; $3.50
Reviewed bx Earl H. Xoss

action into a novel: Two MUIR
ders. an attempted rape. nu-
merous torrid bedroom scenes,
train wreck, Hindu-Moslem
riots, a foiled plot to assassi-
nate Gandhi, Communist in
trigue, a KIDNAPPING and a
tiger hunt in the grand Eng
lish colonial style. All these
and more in 1874 pages.
Beside the enjoyment of Mr..
Masters storytelling, the
reader takes away an anthem
tic picture of the political
forces which were prominent
at the time India was regain
ing her independence. The au-
thor, perhaps inevitably. al
lows the clever English Off
Ger to come out looking the
best. That will rankle Mr..
Masters Indian readers. but
they have the consolation that
his treatment of their prob
lens was more sympathetic
than they had any reason to
expect.
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people are convinced that
their passport to a new life
will be issued upon the death
of old Don Cornullo. who has
almost expired twice, but mi
raculously-some say devilish-
ly-reyived. He has shamed
the priest and shamed the
doctor. The whole town felt
itself in a state of suspended
animation until his fate
is resolved.
In his youth, an expansive.
open-handed man. Don Cor
nullo has become bitter
enough to enjoy making them
wait, especially for his money.
So each in his way tries to
hasten the death. Naturally
they find out, as every one does
that their worst troubles are
still of their own making.
Mr.. Fumento's little story is
a bit slow starting, and some
times contrived and needlesSly
detailed in execution. All the
same, it has plenty of life
and spirit and full measure
of characteristic Italian irony.
M. MEG.
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near the sea and his converse
tional Sparring with various
persons, the story takes on an
absorbing interest which holds
to the end-at least it did for
me.
The Little Roilwoy
Godfrey meets at a hotel,
which was once a private man
sion. with peacocks on the
lawn" the ancient, embattled
survivors of a project of 1900.
This was the building of one
of those light railways" they
have in Ireland, a 27-mile line
linking some popular resorts
of the day and available to
carry commercial quantities
of fish to the markets. There
is Lady Thomson, the former
Sherry O'Meara, widow of
the Scottish engineer who
built the little railway. It was
financed with British govern
ment funds which were to be
had in those days for any en-
terprise which promised to
exploit what resources of Ire
land the British had left unex-
plotted.
Once this hotel was her
fathers home and hers, but
in these later, tumble down
years. it has been the prop
erty of "Micky John" Dom
nelly. a poor peat-bog man
who grew powerful and was
general manager of the rail-
way. "Micky John" lives on
at the hotel, never exchang-
ing word with Lady Thorn
son-there is some secret
there. you may be sure-but
it is old Donnelly's daughter
Katie at whom Godfrey can't
stop looking.
Mr.. CleweS shows you the
long abandoned railway, with
its weed-covered tracks pass
ing empty resort hotels, de-
serted stations and the other
bleak mementos of a vanished
day and a forgotten prosperity.
Mr.. Clewes' last novel to
reach this country, Journey
Into Spring" was ably done.
"Peacocks on the Lawn" is q
much better book.
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to the presidency. relegated by
New Dealers to the Torys.
It should be remembered,
Mr.. Blum stresses. that Theo-
dore Roosevelt was from early
youth a professional politician
and, despite his ideals, he
never was above using the
presSures of his party, from
precinct level to national
committee. to further his aims.
Mr.. Blum feels that Mr..
Roosevelt was a very able and
successful President, but after
ward "let his leadership de-
generate to demagoguery, his
patriotism to perfervid chau-
vinism, his viable conserva-
tiSm to a creed akin to faS-
cism." This seems an unjusti-
f1ably scathing conclusion.
Mr.. Blum is associate pro-
feSSor Of history at Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology.
He is author of Joe Tumulty
and the Wilson Era"
&C. B. ].
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By Florence S. Bergman

Museum. 1920 S street, last
Wednesday, to remain through
next Wednesday, are greeted
at the top of the central STAIR
way by portraits of Robert E.
Lee and his beautiful wife
Mary, great-granddaughter of
Martha Washington. This pair
of portraits is happy choice
to inaugurate the exhibition,
which was assembled for the
benefit of Stratford, home Of
the Lees for two and a quarter
centuries, and birthplace of
Robert E. Lee. The portrait
shows him as a young officer
during his rapid rise in the
United States Army. hand
some and gifted. happy and
successful. with the tragedy of
divided allegiance still in the
future.
The exhibition, which was
described here in some detail
last Sunday. is effectively in
stalled in cabinets and glass
topped cases in the large sec
ond-f1oor gallery of the Textile
Museum. The most impressive
groups are the old silver. some
IS pieces, comprising a large
variety of objects. and the
portraits in several media,
from life-size in oil to minia-
lures exquiSitely painted on
ivory and charmingly framed.
The exhibition is open from
10 am. to 9 pm. admission
81 (children'S groups less). all
proceeds to go to Stratford
Hall
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would seem, would Mr.. Krutch.
So would most of us.
In the meantime, he has
watched the scientists on
slaught on mans dignity via
his free will and responsibility.
When modern man does the
wrong thing, has he as in a
simpler age committed sin?
Certainly not. He is the VIC
tim of his environment or his
subconScious pressures; he's
being a statistic; he's doing
what others are doing and
therefore is normal. In other
words he can't help it. And if
he still feels family human
after thus being stripped OF
his inner powers along comes
a scientist to show him an
electronic calculator next to
which (should one say whom?
he's a simpleton.
Mr.. Krutch goes to conSid-
cradle pains to prove mans
superiority to these ma
chimes. Needless I would say,
for those who have believed
all along the scriptural defini-
ton of man as being "a little
lower than the angels and
who in the face of Marx, Freud,
Darwin and DR.. Kinsey have
stubbornly insisted that man
is composed of body and soul.
The author. who starts off in
fresh and challenging fashion,
but becomes dull as he pro-
ceeds with the argument, does
not propose a mass return to
God as a conference.-the to
today's measure of man. He
just thinks it's high time we
came to regard him as more
like a god than a dog. Most
of his readers will agree it is
an excellent. not to say a
vital, proposal. M. Meg.
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Robert SeIph Henry

Next Wednesday evening at
the Press Club, Robert Selph
Henry. a part-time historian
who is vice president of the
American Association of Rail-
roads, will be awarded the
Gold Medal Of the Civil War
Round Table.
The award, now in its second
year. is given to the writer who
has done the most toward
arousing informed and intelli-
gent interest in the Civil War
period. Last years winner was
the late Douglas Southall
Freeman. Mr.. Henry is the
author of 1.-THE Story of the
Confederacy." First With the
Most Forrest" and 1.-THE Story
of the National War"
Presentation will be made
by Representative Dondero,
Republican, of Michigan, a
faithful member of the round
table. Presiding will be Bruce
Cation, Round Table president
and another 1854 prize win
ner. He got the National
Book Award in History for
"A Stiffness at Appomatox."
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The Literute Few

Discouraging fact for early
spring courtesy Mr.. Edward
r. Murrow, radio commentator
locked in mortal combat with
a SENATOR:
Ten per cent Of the public
does 10 per cent of the reading,
paper-backs and all.
Debating fact: The English
read three times as much as
we do. the Australians twice
as much.
Conclusion: 1t won't stop
anybody from publishing so
much as one single syllable.
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New Shukespeureunu

Folger Shakespeare Director
Louis B, Wright is currently
smacking his lips over some of
the library's new acquisition.
Included in the $50 items of
the Loosely collection are four
sensational letters written by
James I of England, who had
reason to fear disclosures that
might be made in the Over
bury case, famous murder of
the time. Another letter an
nounces the birth of the baby
who became TIE Earl of South
ampton, patron of w. Shake
SnnQre
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News Of Artists and Exhibitions

BY Graham Clilverd is still
another excellent drypoint Of
Durham.
D. I. Smart'S handsome
etching Thames Side." Ray
mond Governs Kings Parade,
Cambridge" Norman James
'Limehouse Waterside." James
r. @. Orr's "Waverley Station.
Edinburgh" and James Pat
rick's romantic "Kyleskin" are
other particularly pleasing
prints, in the architectural and
landscape categorieS.
Worth seeing before it closes
next FRIDAY.
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mind is precocious; it might
belong to a 14-year-old. But
Rhoda Penmark, as her fine,
respectable mother finds out,
has killed three persons, coldly,
calculatingly, with demoniac
cleverness, because she wanted
things they had or because
she was angry with them. I'm
not giving away the whole
story, by any means. The
mother is faced with what to
do. Her husband is in South
America on a business trip.
Should she turn Rhoda over
to the police, put her in some
asylum or go on as If nothing
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Ludgin Collection

@~S~NSJS SA0 OAAS 0NSAp6N P(t
son understands the term,
plays a minor role in much
avant-garde painting, includ-
ing a majority of the paint
ings lent by Earle Ludgin,
Chicago advertising executive,
to the Corcoran. He is &C
counted one of the 10 fore
most collectors of American
paintings in this country; has
been assembling his collection
for more than a quarter CEN
tury, and owns examples, it
is said. of "all the most prom
inent living painters" (which
might be considered fighting
words in some quarters).
The Corcoran has the dis
tinction of being the first mu-
scum in the East to display
even a portion of this mag
nif1cent collection" which
numbers some 300 paintings,
and was the subject of a fea-
ture article with color plates,
in a recent issue of LIFE.
In the selection now at the
Corcoran, are two paintings
by Max Weber, Flowers"
handsome composition, and
1.-TWO Patriarchs," one of his
penetrating interpretations of
the Jewish people.
Several other artists are rep
resented with two or more
paintings. Abraham Rattners
"Pieta" gives this tragic reli-
gious subject the appearance
and cOlors of stained glass,
while his jam-packed People
on Sixth Avenue" is a striking
example of his expressionism.
Stephen Greene's two paint
ings, Carrying the Cross"
and Resurrection" are typical
of his carefully painted,
strange, frail, sad-faced men.
The selection also includes
two of Ben Shahn's bitter,
satirical social comments, a
couple of Kurt Seligmann's
abstract SurrealiStic works,
and other pairs by Loren Mac
Iver cher repetitious "Votive
Candles" and her subtle COM
ent on e cummings: Cope
land Burg Chicago artist who
handles flowers and fish eff
fectively), Louis Guglielmi
CHS surrealistic Bridge" and
excellent little 'War NewsO.
Paintings I like best in the
group liz addition to several
mentioned above) are Louis
Bouche's "City Limits" a
dreary section, with an ad-
venturous boy; Milton Avery's
"Owl," Edwin Dickinson's
monochromatic portrait. and
Felice Casorati's Seated
Woman"
A number Of these paintings
were prize winners at the Art
Institute of Chicago (of which
Mr.. Ludgin is a trustee). Car
negie Institute, Pittsburgh,
and other art museums.
The exhibition will remain
through May 16.
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Cney redQ
m e thing
as terrify-
ing as a
bad dream.
THE Bad
S e e d" is
q bout a
c h a rming
little girl of
8. She is
quaint, old
f a S h i oned
in er
C o ur t e S y
and neat
ness. Her
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There Is no segregation In
Father Emmett's" hospital
and the several races that in
termingle in the area benefit
impartially. But the priest
was charged by his superiors
with neglecting his priestly
and parochial duties. He left
the priesthood and the Cath
Ollie Church.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, as he has
been for five years, has a de-
cidedly interesting story to
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Reading and Writing
overstreets Reflect the Happiness
They Tell You How to Achieve
By Mory McGrory

rapid ascent up the best-seller
lists.
The Family Team
The Overstreets-she is of
mature years, but still very
bonny, he somewhat older
have a pleasant existence.
Between coast-to-coast lecture
tours, they live, in winter in
California and in summer in
Vermont. They do their writ
ing in an old New England
farmhouse. On their first COL
liberation on mental-health
manuals, they divided up the
ideas equally. Then they
showed the manuscript to their
son to see if he noticed a sharp
difference in style. He saw
none, so now their method is
that whoever gets the idea
writes it. and the other. re-
writes It.
"We get our inspiration
from the cows" says Mrs.
OverStreet.
And from native farmers, "
amends her husband.
The OverstreetS will make a
return engagement on April
10, when they will address a
dinner meeting of the Wash
ington Booksellers Association.
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Copyright Cause

Lending special prestige to
the copyright cause at con-
gressional hearings last week
was a quartet of distinguished
authors: Carl Sandburg. Her
man Wouk. j. Frank Dobie and
Christopher La Fargo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

a n q EVOIu-
ton, condi-
t on ed to
believe he is
e i t h er an
animal or a
machine, he
d o e S n , t
k n o W
whether he
can survive
the perils
technolo g y
has created
for him, and
he may not
be sure he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

1O AZ yCoA o.
b e c a m e
W l d e ! y
ow n as
founder and
b vi lder of
st. Monica's
Hospital for
the poor. He
a SO Spon-
Sored an d
o b t q in e d
F e d e r q !
( un DIS for
three m q =.
jor housing
-1AA&a
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Freer Lecture

The next monthly illustrated
lecture on Oriental art will be
held at the Freer Gallery
Tuesday evening, April 20, at
$50. Prof. Max Loehr Of
the University of Michigan
will speak on Ancient Chinese
BronzeS.
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Anglo = In
dian girl,
torn b e.
tween West
ern a n d
Eastern cul-
lures. H e r
affairs with
a n Anglo
i IL u ! d IL, d
leftiSt In
dian and an
E n g | i S h
C o ! o n e l
S y m b o l.
ize the i'm
-A--L
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The Bad Seed
BY William March. (R

This novel can be recon-
mended only to those who
can take horror in stride, who
are not upset for days when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

Against the background of
midas postwar struggle for
independence, the author tells
of the life and loves of an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

Emmett Mclaughlin, q par
ish priest of the Franciscan
order in the impoverished
south side of Phoenix, Ariz.,
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The Measure of Man

BY Joseph Wood Krutch. z
Modern man doesn't think
much of himself, says Mr..
Krutch, and no wonder. Boxed
in by Marxism, Freudianism
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EurIy American

Visitors to Primarily Amer
ican," the loan exhibition
which opened at the Textile