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Evening star., 1954-09-26
In the Name of Sanity
BY Lewis Mumford. (Harcourt, Brace;

BY Lewis Mumford. (Harcour
1t is no solution to the So
Wet challenge for us to build
up our new powers of total de-
struction, Mr.. Mumford con-
tends in these challenging
essays.
In the probable eventuality,
we would become merely part
ners in wrecking the world. he
feels. His appeal is for moth
ing less than a change in the
present prevailing traits in our
personalities, a substitution of
the higher tendencies for the
lower. This is an admirable
goal. but one easier to extoll
than hope for.
A Years Armistice
AS one practical interna-
tional measure he suggests a
years "armistice" for the
whole world. During this
year." he advises. "let us re-
strain every word. every ges-
ture, every move that would
convey hostility or belliger-
ence. Let our armies remain
where they are or withdraw to
their own territories :"
Pointing out that the atti-
tudes brought to all previous
conferences will achieve moth
ing, he adds: 1--WE believe it is
possible to transform these
rigid attitudes - though not
without risk to our respective
ideologieS by showing that
Evening star., 1954-09-26

neither totalitarianism nor
democracy, communism nor
free enterprise, can hope to
survive a war of extermina-
tion. Unless we are full of
blind hatred for humanity
itself, like Hitler and his fol-
lowers. that fact must give us
both pause"
American Automotons
We in America have lost our
souls and become automatons
for a science that is coldly in
different, Mr.. Mumford con-
tends.
Later in these papers he.
asks: How can we hope as a
people to rebuild normal
human personality as long as
we publicly commit ourselves
to preparations for the total
determination of our enemies:
Such a division between DR..
Jekyll, the healer, and Mr..
Hyde, the killer, is internally
disruptive. Even if absolute
justice were on our side-and
that is far from being true
the method would itself de-
feat the ends of that justice:
Namely. to establish a world
in which men of good will can
live in brotherhood and peace"
What we should do if Russia
refuses to go along with a
peaceful plan of dismantling
atomic and hydrogen engines
Of doom and settling Our diff
ferences by parley Mr.. Num-
ford does not say. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-09-26

unfortunately, is a sexy, super
fetal account of a young
writer who fell under the Rus
sian influence. The hero"
Jed Morris, is not an interest
ing young man. He is with
out character; he seems capa-
BILE of loving no one but him
self; he has no more morals
than a househy.
Love Them and Leove Them
When we meet him he is
aboard ship, returning from
Europe in the late 1920s. He
meets a girl Of the upper crust,
so he describes her, called
MarloWe-her maiden name
who is divorced. Jed has a
wife and child in New York.
He is about to compel his wife
to get a divorce, so he can
marry a girl named Felicia,
with whom. meanwhile. he is
living when he's in New York.
Though he talks of love, any
woman will do Jed for the time
being and he is very proud Of
his ability to bowl them over
quickly and leave them as
speedily.
Jed is writing plays. A little
theater in Greenwich Village
is producing them, but the
general public and the box Of
flee are little aware of that.
We are told Of Jed's great
talent, but he hardly makes
an intelligent remark through
out the book. He repeats Com
munist slogans, but you don't
feel he has any real convic-
tions about anything. His
divorce comes through, and he
and Felicia go to Hollywood.
where he becomes a highly
paid writer. There is no fur
ther talk Of their marriage.
Years later. after he and Fe-
licia have split up, and Mar
lowe comes back into his life
Jed's lawyer speaks of the
statutes relating to common
law marriage.
When. at the close, Commu-
mist discipline cracks down on
Jed and he is ordered to dis
pense with Marlowe, I couldn't
have cared less what happened
to him. The other characters
are more types than individ-
uals.
Arnold Bennett said in a
brief book about writing that
it is essential for the novelist
to create sympathy for his
chief character. Jed Morris
is one of the least Ikable
characters I've met in a long
time.
James T. Farrell. in his re-
cent trilogy, did a better job
of describing the young writer
of the '30s beset by commu-
nism, though, stylistically, Mr..
Dos PassoS is a much better
writer. At least Mr.. Farrell's
Bernard Carr had a measure
of integrity and an amount of
courage.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
The Age of Mountaineering
BY James Ramsey Ullmal
Tllman. (Lippincott;, S6.)

In this comprehensive book,
illustrated handsomely with
photographs and maps, the
author of The White Tower"
tells the story of mans con-
quest of mountains.
Mr.. Ulman, who began the
story with an earlier book,
High Conquest" brings the
narrative up to date. including
the victory of the British ex-
pedition over Mount Everest in
1858. The author has written
popular fiction about adven-
lures in other fields. such as
the Amazon jungles, but his
first love was the mountains
and he writes authoritatively
of their ways and their reluc-
tance to yield to men.
Why do men climb noun
tains? 1t is not. Mr.. ,Ulman
explains. for money or fame
or even in the interest of
science, though research of
various kinds has been a by
product of their ventures. 1t is
much the same impulse that
impels men to explore an
mapped lands or seas, to go
Evening star., 1954-09-26

Elizabeth Taylor is a member
of a vanishing breed, the
writer. For her obviously, the
choice of the exact word, the
launching of a sentence. the
shaping of a paragraph are
important matters. Every line
bears the mark of care, low
ingly and cunningly expended.
So far, Miss Taylor has not
found the theme worthy of
her craft. She is fascinated
by vague women who never
come to grips with life but
rather trail their hands Ian
guidly in its stream. She is
never so much interested in
the resolution of a situation as
she is in the moment when it
turns.
Her Shortcomings
Hester Lilly" the title story
in this collection exemplifies
her shortcomings. 1t relates
the shadowy, conflict between
a selfish, middle-aged wife and
her husbands young, Or
phaned niece, who comes to
live in her house. Miss Taylor
wanders abstractedly through
the minds Of the two women
to no particular avail.
But if the story shows her
weakness it shows her saving
strength, too. Into this vague
picture she sharply introduces
a village character, a Miss
Dispenser. mad as a halter,
but weirdly apt.
Miss Taylor has an eye and
an ear for such misfitS. When
she leaves the English coun-
try lanes and ventures into
the pubs, she always meets
with robust success. Her other
great find is Harry, the hero of
Evening star., 1954-09-26

Kraushaar Galleries of New
York City. After the exhibi-
ton closes in November it will
be circulated to colleges in the
South, under sponsorship of
the College Art Service.
The service was founded in
1948 with grant from the
Carnegie Corp. by Prof. James
". Herring, then head of
Howard University's art de-
partment. The services aim
is to circulate shows to
small colleges in Southern
States, which could not other
wise afford them.
Since Prof. Herring's retire
ment from Howard's faculty
in 1853 he has made the Bar
nett Alden Gallery headquar-
ters for the College Art Service.
This afternoon from 2 to S
o'clock is the last opportunity
to see the exhibition of alb
stractions by New York and
Washington artists. Nearly
half the paintings on view
belong to the gallery's perma-
nent collection.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Modern Germany: Its History and Civilization
BY Koppel S. Pnson. Macmillan; s10J
Reviewed by Belmont Fories

Germany has been a prob
lem not only for the world at
large; it has also been a prob
lem for the Germans them
selves" Prof. Pinson says.
It is the Germans them
selves with whom he is most
concerned in this thoughtful
survey of the forces that have
shaped modern Germany over
the past $50 years.
Efforts Of liberalism and
democracy to assert hem-
selves, as In the Revolution Of
Evening star., 1954-09-26

Acting on the old admoni-
ton, Know your enemy"
Princeton University's Center
of International Studies has
set out to find what makes a
Communist tick.
This book attempts to ex-
plain what is on a persons
mind when he joins the party
and when he breaks with it.
The information was gathered
in a series of interviews with
22l ex-CommunistS in Amer
ica, Britain. France and Italy.
The picture presented is
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Reading and Writing
Literary America Is PoinstokinqIy
Surveyed by the London Times
By Mary McGrory

Our English cousins. fire.
quently accused Of ingratitude
and more often of misunder-
standing, go far toward wip-
ing the slate clean, in one field
at least, in the new issue of
the London Times Literary
Supplement.
Most generously, the Sep
tember II number devotes 100
pages to American literature. :,
Under the general theme of
Its Independence and It's
Vigour," it exhaustively exam
ines the printed word in Amer
lea in all its guises. from phi
losophy to comic strips, from
poetry to science fiction. Mel
Evening star., 1954-09-26

who is the Presidents pastor,
makes the accumulation of
facts unrelated to each other
come to life by taking us with
Gen. Eisenhower on that his
toric day.
We are present, through the
authors alchemy, with Presi-
dent Eisenhower at National
Presbyterian Church tn a t
morning, in the Statler Hotel
where he strikes off what has
since become known as my
little prayer" and at the
startling moment when the
Nations new Chief Executive
Unexpectedly reads it to a
hushed multitude. Here DR..
Elson eptimizes in a beauti-
fully told vignette the key les
son of his work.
Chopter on Washington
For those of us residing in
the capital, his chapter on
washington, Symbol of the
Awakening" is a heartening
defense of a much-maligned
city. Not that the author
whitWashes or minimiZes our
city's bad points. He doesn't,
but neither does he permit
them to obscure the good
points-and they are far more
than the others.
DR.. Elson possesses a snap
py, short-sentence style that
makes reading a pleasure.
This is a volume every one
will want to read. It con-
tains a message none Of us
can ignore.
Evening star., 1954-09-26

where none have been. Scan
ming the heights, they saw more
than rock and ice and snow
and the immense blue empti-
ness of the sky. They saw. too,
a great challenge to their own
qualities as men: a chance to
conquer their own weaknesses,
ignorance and fear; a struggle
to match achievement to aspir-
alton and reality to dream"
Mountain climbing is a re-
cent occupation, as history
goes. Most of the worlds great
peaks have been climbed, in
the last hundred years. Before
that there were few attempts.
Mr.. Ullman takes up the story,
range by range, from Alaska to
the Andes, from the Alps to
the Himalayas. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
To Wake in the Morninu
BY Hilda Sidney Krech.
ch. (Macmilldn; $3.75J

by dlloa SlQney krecn. INA
This shapeless, cluttered.
chronicle of a college student
with two loves reads some
thing like the diary of a young
girl with total recall. Jessie
Colcord is a nice girl from a
nice family, and she has quite
a time making up her mind
between a cautious eligible
named Barry Jameson and a
vital Jewish lad named Lin
coin Frankel.
Mrs. Krech reproduces with
appalling fidelity the inanities
of adolescent conversation and
the veerings of her heroine's
emotions. Finally Josie takes
Evening star., 1954-09-26

complex and fascinating. One
point: Few of the Communists
knew what the party really
stood for when they joined.
Most joined because the Red
line currently supported some
cause they were interested in.
Another point: Many of the
Communists found it relatively
easy to leave the party. The
lot of an eX-Red may not be
as hard as has been pictured.
It is a valuable book for
any person interested in meet
ing the problem of commu-
nism.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
10th Annual

William S. Noisette loves
nature, and never tires of
drawing and painting the
country. mountains and sea.
woods and farms, but always
IN their appealing aspects.
Now, for the Goth year, he is
showing his latest work at the
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, 901
Rhode Island avenue NV.
8 to 10 pm. every evening
through next Thursday.
The show includes Is oil
paintings and nearly so pencil
drawings, careful studies of
trees and landscape. some of
which we're the basis for his
paintings. The best of these,
Evening star., 1954-09-26
TheosophicuI Group

The Theosophical Society in
Washington announces that it
will hold an exhibition of work
by Washington artists in its
rooms at 726 Eleventh street
NV, October 10 to 30. 1t is
open to all artists in the Wash
ington area. Paintings, small
sculptures and ceramics will
be accepted. Work should be
delivered at the showrooms
next Saturday between 1890
and 4 o'clock. Entry blanks
and further information can
be obtained from Mrs. Frances
Argent, 1926 Seventeenth
street NV. Telephone AID.
4-3949.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Arts Club Trio

The Arts Club opened Sep
tember IL exhibitions by three
members, to remain through
next Friday. Barksdale Rogers
paintings are in the reception
rooms. About two-thirds of
her group of 18 are flower
and still-life paintings, color
full and decorative.
Marie Barnhart and Linda
Miller share the walls of the
gallery with about 20 paint
ings. Each shows variety OF
subjects; but each is at her
best, in my opinion, when
painting straight landscape.
Mrs. Barnhart's Vacation in
Maine" is her top work in this
selection
Evening star., 1954-09-26

her problem to a psychiatrist
with whom she works in war;
time Washington and the
psychiatrist tells her what any
reader could have told her
from the beginning. namely,
that it doesn't matter very
much which one she chooses.
"To Wake in the Morning"
is believable, almost to a fault.
It is more than possible to be-
lieve it all happened; the diff
f1culty is to care. Josie is in
disputably a mice girl from a
nice family" But let us face
it. she isn't very interestingM
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1954-09-26

1848 or the Weimar Republic,
have been beaten down by
militarism and nationalism,
but never quite destroyed, he
points out.
Prof. Pinson skins rather
lightly over more familiar data
on wars and diplomacy to
stress social and intellectual
developments since 1900. His
book goes long way toward
explaining why Germany has
so frequently been out otstep
with the rest of Europe.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
18th Anniversary

The Barnett Alden Gallery,
127 Randolph place NV, will
celebrate its 18th anniversary
on October Is, with the open
ing of an exhibition of con-
temporary American paintings,
most of them lent by the
Evening star., 1954-09-26
New Gallery

A new gallery has just
opened in Georgetown at 1910
Wisconsin avenue, under the
direction of Helen O'Brien.
one of the three artists who
ran the Town Gallery, which
closed it's doors this past sum-
mer. The Circulating Gal
lery's inaugural exhibition,
opened with a preview last
Thursday evening, is COM
posed of Autographs and limo
leum block prints by Erasto
Cortes of Ascapotzalco. Mexi-
CO, to remain through October
u. He is director of the
Galeria de Estampa, run by
the Mexican Society of Print
Makers. Senor CorteS is repre-
sented in several permanent
collections, including that OF
the Library of Congress.
The gallery is open Tuesday
through Saturday, from 2 to
6 o'clock, and other times by
appointment.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
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Evening star., 1954-09-26
Olson at Mart

Paintings by Henry Olson
constitute the first autumn
show at the Artists Mart, 1861
Wisconsin avenue. Georgetown,
through next Saturday. DR..
Olson. professor of biological
sciences at Wilson Teachers
College for nearly two decades,
is an author and illustrator of
monographs in Biological Sci
ences magazine. He studied at
several art schools, including
the Corcoran, and colleges, re-
ceiving his M. A. and Phi. D.
from Ohio State University.
He has long been active in
Washington art circles, is a
member of the most important
artists organizations. has re-
ceived a number of awards and
exhibits frequently.
His show at the Mart, COM
posed of II oils and water
colors, is a Retrospective of
about a decade, including "The
Old Monastery at Amalfi,"
painted in Italy during the
mid-'40s. A painter of nature,
waterfronts and cityscapes, DR..
Olson has included impressions
of the Washington area, New
York and Pittsburgh.
Two of his Pittsburgh paint
ings seem to me the best work
in the collection: Street in
Pittsburgh" with it's capture
of a steep descent and a dis
tant rise, and IL and j Steel
Mills" a commonplace subject
POLITICALLY seen. Among New
York views, "The L." fiiltering
sunlight into the shadows be-
meath. is most effective,
Evening star., 1954-09-26

I thought. are Winter Syca-
more" and Cedar Valley"
Mr.. Noisette sketches and
paints only during vacations
and leisure hours. For many
years he has been receptionist
and special messenger for j.
Edgar Hoover at the FBI.
Group Show
Ten Washington artists,
each with a group Of works,
are represented in the current
exhibition at Collectors Cor
ner, 3235 M street, George
town The excellent animal
sculpture by Katherine Hobbs.
and the figures by Mary Cover.
two original partners of the
Artists Mart. are the best
groups in the collection.
Other groups of interest are
the satirical block prints by
Jules Eboli, who has had a
varied career as an artist under
WPA, United States Coast
Guard during the war and,
most recently, with the Far
East Command; studies of a
conductors hands entitled
From the Podium," by Robert
Hill, now at Georgetown Uni
versity studying for an eco
nomics doctorate; portrait
heads Of children by Dorothy
LoomiS. who last spring COM
pleted graduate work in por-
traiture under Col. James
Wharton at the University Of
Maryland, and pen-and-wash
drawings of plants and ami
mails by Yvonne Teller.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
Art News
Noted Chilean
Artist Here
By Florence S. Berrymon

The first one-man show in
the United States Of work by
a Chilean artist OF British
American descent. Clarence
Mundy, is on view at the Pan
American Union to remain
through October 6. It opened
September II with a reception
given by the Ambassador Rep
resentative of Chile on the
Council Of the Organization
of American States and Sonora
de Sepulveda.
Sound traditional paintings
alternate with humorous satir-
ical drawings in a collection
OF about 80 works, which
should prove to be one of the
most popular exhibitions at the
Union in some months. De-
spite his youth, the artist has
had experience both as an in
structor in the school of fine
arts Of the University of Chile
in Santiago, from which he
had graduated, and as a car
tooniSt for the magazine
Politica y Espiritu.
Among the portraits are q
good one Of the artist himself,
and a searching one of an ell
derly man (illustrated); figure
paintings, facile still life and
flower studies, and animals.
There are humorous and satiri-
cal subjects in both oils and
drawings. My favorites are
the oil. Gala Occasion" the
title belied by the glum people
in the official box; and the
wash drawing, Summer in
New York." a scene familiar to
every one acquainted with
tenement dwellers.
Sotire Without Cruelty
Reuben Gordon of the
Chilean Embassy said of the
artist: 'Mundy's work shows
his deep interest in his fellow
creatures, their relation to each
other, and the effect of their
environment. His satire is
without cruelty, he laughs with
his subjects, in his work there
is sympathy and humanity"
An illustrated catolog to
be had at the Union, gives
biographical data and crit
ical commentary on Mundy.
Evening star., 1954-09-26
The Appeals of Communism
Reviewed by Richard FykIund

BY Gabriel A. Almond princeton University Press; s6J
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
JEWISH WOMEN AWARD TEN
SCHOLARSHIPS IN
GRADUATE SOCIAL WORK

Ten scholarships totalling over
$4,000 have been awarded to out
standing graduate students in
fields of social work by the Ma
tional Council of Jewish Women.
The awards are made annually
from the Hannah G. Solomon
scholarship fund, which was es-
tabhshed in 1929 in honor of the
founder of the Council.
The ten students were chosen
on the basis of exceptional scho-
lastic ability and potentialities as
leaders in community welfare
work.
Until this year six or seven an
nual scholarships were. granted.
This year, as a result of special
grant by an employer of former
student, it was possible to enlarge
the number to ten.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-10-01
ISRAEL EXPORT TO
TURKEY REACHES TEN
MILLION DOLLARS

JERUSALEM, QSD = 1sraels
exports to Turkey have reached
almost ten million dollars during
the first seven months Of 1854.
This is a notable increase in the
export of Israel goods 10 Turkey.
It has been estimated that Israel
exports to Turkey during 1854
will total twenty million dollars.
There are one hundred and
thirty Israel firms exhibiting their
products at the Izmir Internation-
al Fair which opened recently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
Around the Bridge Table

lie Al1ASTlCdIl Au1ltIdC6
Bridge Leagues Summer Ma
tionals, greatest Of all bridge
tournaments, ended ofiicially
early Thursday at the May
flower Hotel with the worlds
championship team Of Clifford
Bishop lDetroit). Milton @.
Ellenby tChieagol William
Rosen (Chicago). Lew Mathe
CLOS Angeles), and John
Moran (Arcadia. Calif.) sue
cessfully defending the United
States team title they won in
st. Louis last summer.
In January this expert ag-
gregation will again represent
the United States In an inter-
national match against Euro
peaIl champions to be selected
In Switzerland next month.
The United States champs
survived four Knockout ses-
sionS from an original field of
10 crack teams, then competed
in seven round robin sessions,
all Of which they won, averag-
ing five hours OF continuous
play in each session.
More than / 900 Washington
area fans sWelled the ranks of
bridge enthusiasts from every
State and several Canadian
provinces during the nine-day
classic.
Most Successful Tourney
Beginning with the opening
session, the Mid-Atlantic pair
contest. on Saturday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-15
Camera Angles
Photography Was Hard Work in sos

forest and it was enough to
discourage anyone: but long
exposures and slow develop
ment did it. Exposures Of
from five to six minutes with
the 6-inch lens gave us per-
feet negatives. We also began
to think that our long expo
sures with dry plates in the
spring were not. after all. so
much out of the way, and very
likely had been too short, since
six minutes were required with
a bath and collodion working
remarkably quick. for ordinary
open views.
"A short distance up the
creek there is a third fall. not
so high as the other, but quite
peculiar, and in q dark corner,
where the sun never pene-
trates. We came to the con-
clusion that no wet plate
would remain wet long enough
to give us sufficient exposure,
and that it should be intrusted
to the dry. process. This would
have necessitated the loss of
several days. and it was pro-
posed that we should wait
until the railroad in conten1-
plation, connecting the Bel
vedere Railroad with that OF
the valley, should be made,
so that a dry plate might be
exposed and left there. when
we would return to the city,
attend to other occupations
and go back after one week
or a fortnight"
4 + + y
Such were the lengths to
which an amateur of the early
days had to resort to make
what we now consider a rou-
tine job that could be accom-
plished in a minute or so.