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Homer news., 1955-05-26
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Evening star., 1955-03-13

Grace Kimlock, disagreed,
and he deliberately shut them
away from him for their de-
fection.
But to Miss Sarton it was
not any one thing, or any one
failure. It was simply because
from childhood Edward Cavan
had been "the witness, always,
the one who is aware and can
do nothing"
In Miss Sarton's compass
sionate study Of a passionate
intellectual who tried to take
part in the common life, it is
easy to see the outlines of the
real-life tragedy of F. o. Mat
thiessen, the critic and Har-
ward professor, who suffered
the fate of Edward Cavan.
Faithful Are the Wounds"
is not a complete success. Miss
Sarton needs to have explained
more about Cavan's benighted
politics. But 1t is an honest
book and one that Is illuminat-
ing about academic attitudes
and rigid liberalism" And it
is admirably written, from first
to last. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
American Courts and Tribunals
Reviewed by Robert K. Welsh

balances designed or developed
for the system.
In nontechnical but exact
language he relates the his
tory, reports existing situa-
tions, shows the significance,
cites the shortcomings and
notes the interrelation of all
parts of the pattern Of pro-
cedure and performance Of
this country's system Of JUS
tice. The book, of course,
requires attentive reading.
But long after the first read
ing it will continue to pay off
in valuable information, back
ground and suggestions.
It can count on a welcome
in law offices. law schools.
court chambers and congress
sional committee rooms. It
should prove helpful to law
yers and judges in other lands.
It should meet a ready recep-
tion by Americans who would
better know their country and
help to keep strong the prac-
tice of equal justice under
law.
Evening star., 1955-03-13

Spring IS a-coming In. but
not 'Iysistrata." The Post
once Department says no, at
least to an English edition
illustrated by Australian artist
Norman Lindsay and trans
lated by his son Jack. A
Beverly Hills bookseller tried
to import it. but Postmaster
General Summerfield's men
snatched it from the mails.
Anti-censorship forces think
they have here a kind Of Lade-
jinksy case of books, with one
Government agency saying
"okay" and another saying
"uh-uh." The Customs De-
partment once turned thumbs
down on this edition, but in
1880 thought better of it. -Four
or five public libraries keep
such copies in their rare books
collections. Other editions,
Evening star., 1955-03-13
THE AMERICAN LEGAL
SYSTEM. BY Lewis Mayors.
(Harper: $500

THE AMERICAN LEGAL
SYSTEM. BY Lewis Mayors.
CHarper; $500
Until Prof. Mayors produced
this vast volume many an at
torney, not to mention most
laymen. might have been ex-
cused for only a general knowl-
edge of the organization and
operation of all American legal
institutions.
In almost 900 pages he, has
packed perhaps the first really
comprehensive and exception
ally clear explanation Of Fed
eral, State. county and city
courts as well as the far-fiung
tribunals Of an administrative.
military and voluntary arbitral
nature.
Checks and Balances
He describes the main kinds.
currents and conduct Of litiga-
ton and the equally important
fields of investigation, prose-
cution and enforcement. He
discusses, too, the strength and
weaknesses Of the checks and
Evening star., 1955-03-13

TRANSFORMATION: THE
STORY OF MODERN
PUERTO RICO. BY Earl
Parker Hanson. (Simon &
Schuster; So
The Transformation Of Puerto
Rico from an undeveloped,
poverty-stricken colony to a
self-governing commonwealth
with a rapidly developing in
dustrial plant, a doubled per
capita income, new schools,
roads and hospitals is some
thing of a political miracle.
The man behind the miracle.
Gov. Luis Munoz Marin, is a
remarkable politician who has
directed a social and economic
revolution by strictly demo-
cratic methods.
Mr.. Hanson, engineer and
explorer turned geography pro-
fessor, is an old friend Of
MunoZ Marin who knows much
of the Puerto Rican story at
Evening star., 1955-03-13
The Dissenter in q Free Society
FAITHFUL ARE THE
WOUNDS. BY May Sarton.

FAITHF ARE THE
WOUNDS. BY May Sarton.
(Rinehart g. Co.: $3o
At last, a real writer has
come to grips with the painful
problem of our times: The place
of the dissenter in a free So
ciety. May Sarton, who is new
to topical fiction, writes with
none of the stridency or shrill
certainties of others who have
attempted to depict the liberal
betrayed and turning against
the wrong people.
To Miss Sarton, it is essen
TALLY a human problem, rather
than a political one. Edward
Cavan, a Harvard professor Of
literature, was a teacher OF
fervor and integrity, a rigid
socialist. who paradoxically
hoped for a communion OF
saints on earth. He was a
liberal who believed that the
slightest difference to the dam
ger of the times was basest
cowardice. A difficult, bristly
man, Miss Sarton makes clear,
if a suffering and lonely one.
Her onlv claim for him, in q
political way, was that he had
a right to be wrong.
Faithful Are the Wounds"
has the elements, if not the
fullness and depth of a major
novel. It opens with Isabel
Ferrier a contented, coddled
matron having news Of her
brothers. suicide. Edward Ca
van had flung himself under
an elevated train, despairing
apparently of bein 6 under
stood and yet f1ercely unwilling
to accept the fact that the
intellectual is not wanted in
American political life.
He had passionately be-
lieved that communism and
socialism could work together.
The debacle in Czechoslovakia,
the subversion of the Wallace
campaign did not shake his
faith. His Harvard friends.
except for the fiery spinster.
Evening star., 1955-03-13

(Scribner's), is author-artist of
several new editions of old
folk tales. Her illustrations
for Cinderella" are in four
colors, with blue and pink pre-
dominating. Many critics; as
well as children. like best her
retelling of a Central European
folk tale. stone Soup" with
its gay red and brown pictures.
Other Winners
Runnersup for the New
berry Medal were "The Courage
of Sarah Noble" by Alice Dali
gleish (Scribner's), and Ban
ner in the Sky" by James
Ramsey Ullman (Lippincott).
These books. like the award
winner. reflect the emphasis
on character and inner cour-
age in modern books for chill
dren.
Runnersup for the Calde-
colt Medal were "The Book of
Nursery and Mother Goose
Rhymes" illustrated by Mar
guerite de Angel doubleday;
"The Wheel on the Chimney"
illustrated by Thor Gergely
tLippincott), and 9TH e
Thanksgiving Story" illus
trated by Helen Sewell (Scrib-
ner's). It Is significant that
two Of the outstanding picture
books emphasize the return
to popularity Of the old folk
tales and nursery classics.
During the years since the
Newbery and Caldecott Medals
were first awarded the en-
phasis on quality of writing
and illustration has helped
to encourage better books for
children. The Caldecott and
Newbery Medals will be for
mally presented to the winners
at q special banquet on July
5 in Philadelphia during the
annual meetings Of the Ameri-
can Library Association.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Coveted Prize Awards Announced
For Outstanding ChiIdren's Books
By Borboro NoIen

In 1854 more than 1000
children's books were pub
lished to meet the varied read
ing tastes Of American chill
dren. Last week two Of these
books were singled out for
special honors by the Ameri-
can Library Association, with
the announcement of the
winners of the Newbery and
Caldecott Medals.
The announcement of the
winners was made in the Office
of Frederic Melcher. editor Of
Publishers Weekly, who estab-
lished the Newbery Medal In
1922 to help the infant indus
try of children's book editors,
authors and librarians. In
1888. when illustrated books
for children became more i'm
portant. Mr.. Melcher estab-
lished the Caldecott Medal for
the artist whose work WIS
judged the most distinguished.
The winners are selected each
year by a special committee
of the Children's Library AS
sociation, this year headed by
Jane Darran of the Youngs-
town Public Library.
The Newbery Winner
"The Wheel on the School,"
by Meindert De Jong tHar-
pers), is the Newberry Medal
winner for 1854. It is MIR. De
Jong's fifth book for children,
all of which are marked by a
sensitive understanding of
children's thoughts and feel
ings and a distinguished liter
ary style. Two Of his earlier
books, Hurry Home Candy"
and "Shadrach," were run
nersup for the Newbery award
in 1858.
The Coldecott Aword
Marcia Brown, winner of
the Caldecott Medal for her
y new edition Of "CinAsrslla"
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Who. Wrote 1t?
HOMER'S. DAUGHTER.

HOMERS LAUGHTER. BY
Robert Graves. doubleday
g. Co.; $3.95)
Robert Graves, the idol
smashing British historical
novelist, is here propounding
the theory that the Odyssey"
was written by a woman. He
has found the very one, he
believes, in Princess Nausicaa.
a headstrong girl of the 9th
century Western Sicily.
With her father away and
her suitors eating their heads
off in the palace courtyard,
Nausicaa took matters into
her own hands.
Classical scholars may not
go along with Mr.. Graves
ingenious presentation of his
theory. But they will have to
agree that in this sly, dry,
matter-of-fact account he has
created a heroine who was at
least as crafty and as able
to cope as the hero of the
Odyssey. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Artists and Exhibitions
The Corcoron GoIIery's 24th Bienniol

respectively. I like Mr.. Fisch-
er's " Beach and Boat" seen
across a long stretch OF gray
sand. -r
In addition to a few Of the
aforementioned paintings. !
liked particularly eleven others
In the oath biennial: Isabel
Bishops dreamlike girls Out
to Lunch" distinguished by
exceptionally beautiful COLOR.
Richard John Bove's hand
some "Quiet Jewel" an abb
straction in grays. with simple
angular shapes, Oriental in
feeling; Cecil Casebier's Boy
Drawing" graphic in execu-
ton, convincing in its charac-
terization; Cleve Gray's poetic.
linear little mauve and golden
landscape, October; Jonah
Kinigstein's "St. Ignazio," with
its blazing golden altar; An-
tonic Martino's Winter" COW
ering a city's street with snow;
Anthony Vaiksnoras' mono-
chromatic nostalgia English
garden: Charles Wadsworth's
"Flourishing Ivy" Paul Zim-
m erm ans good mod dern
Square" and two other mod
ern works, Industrial Land
scape," by John Bernhardt, and
Keith Martins Interior with
Seated Nudes"
The oath biennial will be on
view here for eight weeks.
After it closes May g, 1t will
be displayed in its entirety at
the Boston Museum Of Fine
Arts through June and July.
Then a selection from 1t will
be circulated nationally by
the American Federation Of
Arts. No matter what its COM
position in any given year, the
Corcoran's biennial is one OF
the most important of the re-
curing national exhibitions Of
contemporary painting. and
should be a source Of pride to
Washington.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Classic Poperbocks

These are new paperback
editions of classics, all pub
lished by r a nd o. m House
Modern Library, 95 cents
EACH: "7 Famous Greek
Plays" by Aeschylus, Sopho-
cles, Euripides and Aristoph-
anes; "Tom JONES'" by Henry
Fielding; PlatO's "Repub-
blic" translation by b.
Jowett; "Gulliver's Travels"
by Jonathan Swift; "Vanity
Fair" by William Makepeace
Thackeray; "Great Modern
Short Stories: Heart Of
Darkness" Joseph Conrad;
"The Apple Tree" John Gals
worthy; "The Prussian OFF,
cer," ID. HI. Lawrence; "Miss
Brill" Katherine Mansfield;
"The Letter." w. Somerset
Vaughan; "The Shows of
Kilimanjaro," Ernest Heming-
way; "Paul's Case" Villa
Gather; "I'm q Fool" Sher-
wood Anderson; Haircut" !"
Ring Lardner; "Turnabout," "
william Faulkner; "The Old
Demon" Pearl 8. Buck; "The
Red Pony" John Steinbeck.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Boswell or johnson?

For a long time 1t was a
question: Who did more for
whom. James Boswell or Sam
uel johnson? MFR. Boswell's
biography of johnson was al
ways considered q MASTER
piece. but a great deal Of
credit was given to Mr.. john
SOM for being such a splendid
subject.
Since the publication of Mr..
Boswell's journals. however,
the little Scot has been shown
up dazzlingly as q parsonage
in his own right. Another in
stallment of these memoirs
which provide the. reader the
surprising pleasure of being
able to admire the prose while
judging the author. is prom
ised for this spring. The new
volume will show Mr.. Boswell
at large among the Italians.
surely a heady combination.
The Pre-BosweII Years
Meanwhile, two new vol
umes, one for each, are prom
ised during the coming month.
James L. Clifford's young
Sam Johnson" describes the
pre-Boswell years. Moray Nc
Laren's is about both the gen.
tlemen on their frolicsome
journey to the Hebrides. En-
titled "The Highland Jaunt,"
it is really to a considerable
extent a defense of Mr.. Nc
Laren's countryman, Mr.. Bos-
well.
Here is a sample passage:
When a man turns hlmself
inside out before the reading
public it is perhaps asking too
much Of human nature to ex-
pect that public not to dwell
upon precisely those things
that they would be the least
likely to reveal in themselves.
It is only natural then that
as each succeeding batch of
Boswell's private papers come
out his reputation as a forni-
Gator, drunkard, a toady and
something of an ass in social
matters, should grow and in
crease. He was all of these
things; and SO, as we shall
learn upon the Day of Judg-
ment, have been. are and will
be many others, both those
better known and those more
obscure than James Boswell"
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Home TuIent

An exhibit of creative arts
by members of the Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation goes
on display Friday evening, $3.50
pm, in the social hall Of the
congregations new temple at
Macomb street and Massachu-
sets avenue NV. It will con-
tinue on display through FRI
day, March 18. The exhibit
includes examples of members
work in oils, water color, pastel
and other graphic arts, as well
as sculpture, ceramics and
handicrafts of numerous types.
Some of the entries. have pre-
viously been shown in exhibi-
tions at art galleries in the
Washington area.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
BELMONT F
Able Pierre

In the Catholic Worker
Kate White, writing from
France, gives fervent testi-
mony of the work of Able
Pierre, the priest who has lit
orally begged for homes for
homeless Frenchmen. Miss
White says that his humble
and daring project of Emmaus
is working. The companions
of Emmaus are TOO men; 200
pick rags; 500 are building
homes for the poor of France.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
He Calls X q Hoax

In "The Atom Spy Hoax"
action Books; S3.75), William
A. Reuben, q journalist who
formerly was publicity director
for American Civil Liberties
Union and has contributed to
left-wing and liberal magazines,
contends there has never been
any plausible evidence that
anyone stole atomic secrets
from this country or England
and gave them to Russia.
There has been no showing. he
argues, that there were any
secrets to steal. He maintains
that Russia was able to develop
an atomic and probably a
hydrogen bomb by using prin-
ciples of physics known to
scientists all over the world.
He tries to show that the so
called Canadian spy ring never
was corroborated by any an
nounced evidence. He objects
to the conviction of Klaus Fuchs
in England on his confession
alone and the similar case Of
Harry Gold in the United
States and the consequent
convictions of the Rosenbergs
and Morton Sobell. If there
were no traitorous scientists,
how does Mr.. Reuben explain
Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian
scientist who became a British
subject, worked on atomic re-
search in England, disappeared
and now turns up in Russia at
work on atomic energy for the
Soviet government? This book
is good propaganda for COM
munism and Russia If
anybody is naive enough to
believe It.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
A Miracle in the Antilles

first hand. He writes warmly
and sympathetically Of an ex-
pertinent In democracy which
offers q model for q really ef-
fective program for helping
other undeveloped areas help
themselves.
BELMONT FAIRIES.
Evening star., 1955-03-13

CA4uct WlAlHB udHAs WIZ Ale
"To Eat a Peach" dial
Press; S3), his first novel with
a Southern setting since END
as a Man." a first novel that
described life at a Southern
military school.
Mr.. Bourjaily's novel is the
more brilliant. the more ar
resting of the two books.
In "The Hound Of Earth"
the author explains gradually
a character about whom we
know the basic facts in the
first few pages. 1st 1t. Allerd
Pennington, a young scien-
tist, had been assigned during
the war to q substation Of the
Manhattan Project. He and
the other scientists at this
way point did not know what
they were working toward;
theirs was a role Of research
in pure science, helping to
solve certain theoretical prob
lemss When, in August, 1945,
the atomic bomb was set off
at Hiroshima and they real
lied they'd had a part. II a
minor one, in its development,
Pennington couldn't take 1t.
The implications of this de-
struction overwhelmed him,
and he disappeared, leaving
his wife and two children.
Sought for Years
The FBI led the search for
him. It was not known whether
he was q spy, disloyal; simply
o criminal out to sell whatever
he knew, or q mental case. The
Government was determined
to find out, but the search
went on for years until it was
learned, one Christmas week,
that he was working, as AL
Barker in the toy section of
a. San Francisco department
store
While there is no mystery
or suspense in the situation
underlying the story-we know
in the first chapter that the
young scientist has been q fugi-
tive for years and has finally
been captured - we do not
learn, except in a general way,
why he fled. what his life has
been since or what he is like.
An extraordinary interest in AL
is developed as we watch him
at work as a stock clerk and
turn back, from time to time,
to his adventures in flight. We
meet a variety Of other char
acters In the store and watch
the effect which this mysteri-
Gus fellow worker has on them.
He checks personal questions
with jocose answers. and he
reveals, now and then, culture
and understanding which battle
them. Even more remarkable.
to them, is his good will, his
readiness to help any one out
of a difficulty.
Mr.. Bourjaily has managed
with ingenuity o panoramic
narrative which, though COM
paratively brief, looks through
the eyes of q number Of char
acters. including the FBI agent
in charge Of the Pennington
case. The writing is vivid,
making its points swiftly, with
out extraneous detail. Mr..
Bourjaily is q novelist to watch.
closely in the future.
Lusty Humor
It is hard to understand why
some critics have taken Calder
Willingham seriously. His first
novel, which made his reputa-
tion, was an account Of o mill
tary school in which all the
vulgarities, which are ines
capable among large segments
of boys, were stressed and the
perversions, which occasionally
appear, were pointed up. The
books which followed, to some
extent conversation pieces,
without much story, tended to
emphasize the more sordid
side of sex.
But Mr.. Willingham's new
novel deserves acclaim for. If
for no other reason, It's lusty
humor. The scene Is a boys
summer camp in the Blue
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Reoding and Writing
Federol Agencies Discord Makes
Lodejinsky Case Of Bunned Book
By Mary MeGrory

probably less frank. circulate
freely. in the most respectable
libraries.
Very timely In view Of all
this is Anne Lyon Haight's
Banned Books" q compila-
ton of volumes provoking ON
cial frowns. r. r. Bowker will
bring it out March 81.
Book -Bonnine History
Book-banning is an old story,
from Homer to Hemingway.
In A. D. IS, Caligula tried to
ban "The Odyssey; in 1855,
Queen Mary banned the Bible
in English: in 1885, "Huckle-
berry Finn" was banished from
the shelves Of public libraries.
Book banning in Boston used
to be as much a feature Of the
local scene as the swanboats.
It's subsided q good deal, but
in the 40s "Strange Fruit" and
Forever Amber" were swept
OF the shelves.
Evening star., 1955-03-13
Books in Review
New Works by Young Postwar
NoveIists Are Given Study

Two writers who have attained certain prominence
confused postwar literary publish novels
Bourjaiy editor of the magazine Discovery and
author previous novel, "The End of My L brings out
"The Hound OF Earth" (Scribners; $3.50.
Calder Wilngham who has published five books presents
Evening star., 1955-03-13

Ridge. There are some char
acters whose every move Is
uneonsciously funny, such as
the well-meaning, pious old
fraud who owns and runs the
camp; his athletic director. an
enormous man who winter
times directs athletics at a
junior college in South
Georgia; the lay evangelist
who exhorts the boys on one
occasion; several others.
In this book the vulgarities
are, at least. incidental, and
some are healthily natural
and not without considerable
humor. There is a smoldering
love affair between the 21-
year-old youth who has joined
the faculty" and the pretty
girl who teaches the boys to
ride. Without disclosing what
happens and spelling the story
for you, it may be said that
the author, in a final episode.
demolisheS romance with a
sledgehammer and gloats over
its scattered fragments. Just
the same. he has told an
amusing story.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-23

ism that was voiced on previous
occasions when attempts were
made TO revise and edit the Jew
ish liturgy.
The whole movement toward
liberalism or progressive inter-
pretations of Judaism, involving
changes of ritual or liturgy, was
accompanied by many intense
controversies, but in none OF the
proposed reforms was it ever
sought to replace the original
name of any book, or to appro-
pirate. it for purposes apart from
the original design.
In any event. the experience Of
the Reconstructionist Foundation
and other innovators should serve
as a lesson to the World Jewish
Congress which now proposes to
publish a book called HAGGA-
DAEI" in honor of the Jewish
martyrs and victims of the Nazi
onslaught on the Jewish people
To be sure. the book has the SOL
emn and reverent purpose of me-
morializing the millions of our
people who fell as sacrifices to
inhuman hatred and brutality
Just the same. "Haggadah" is an
exclusive and protected. if moi
copyrighted. title. and belongs
only to one particular book. The
right of the Haggadah TO retain its
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-23

Of course, in a technical sense
the copyrights on all of the great
treasures of Jewish literature,
from the Bible to the Talmud, and
from the Talmud to the classic
works of the medieval Jewish
philosophers have long ago run
out; but in a moral sense all great
works of Jewish teachings and
learning, poetry and folklore, etc.,
are still the inalienable possession
of the Jewish people. In that con-
ception they are not to be tam
pered with, copied, revised, imi-
tated, or parodied in a loose and
careless way.
In ls4l Professor Mordecai M.
Kaplan and associate scholars Of
the Reconstructionist Foundation
published revised or modernized
edition of the Fiaggadah. and that
departure aroused considerable
resentment. not unlike the critic
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-09-23
West Palm Beach, Florida
Message for the
New Year
Continued from PAGE asl

CONTINUED from Page 36l
when it is passed and he is gone.
No accent on reason and intellect,
however brilliant, can render hui
man beings secure against the
countless viciSsitudes Of daily life
and against the inevitable reality
of certain death. It has always
been and so shall it continue, that
man will turn at long last in
search of God and spiritual faith.
We have no gift Of prophecy
with which TO predict the future.
But we do have the tools Of work
and endeavor with which to plan
and build and create whatever
lies within our dreams of heart.
May we, conscious of our own
strength and power, labor to-
gether in the year that lies ahead
to bring reality and fruition to
our dreams. May we remain
steadfast in our religious faith
and conviction and stand open
armed, ever ready to welcome
others into our midst. And may
we so labor as to bring increased
honor and glory unto ourselves,
unto the household Of Israel and
unto all mankind.
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