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Evening star., 1955-06-12
A Major Program Is Outlined
To End Juvenile Delinquency

chologist in every school sys-
tenn.
Q More cooperation between
the churches and all other
social institutions working
against delinquency.
Q Coordination of all COM
munity resources in an over
all program for delinquency
prevention.
Q Improved moral standards
in the community by banning
books clarifying crime and
eliminating community "sore
spots where undesirables
gather.
. WelI-trained juvenile police
officers.
o, More pSychiatric clinics.
. Competent judges and we'll
trained probation officers in
juvenile courts.
. Improved foster home
placement and temporary de-
Jention homes coupled with
increased treatment facilities
in the community.
Q Strengthened train in g
schools with better equipment,
sufficient and trained staffs
and greatly enlarged social
work, psychiatric and psycho-
logical services.
DR.. Fine is we'll aware this
program will cost money. He
points out, however, that COM
pared with the 5000 million
now spent annually through
out the Nation by the police.
courts, detention facilities and
institutions for juveniles, the,
cost of crime in America 10
estimated at sis billion o year.
MIRIAM OTTENBERo.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
Corcorun Alumni

Paintings by alumni of the
Corcoran School Of Art are on
view at the Arts Club through
next Friday. Nearly go works
represent between 80 and 40
artists, some of whom are
showing two or more. The
show is predominantly repre-
Sensational and naturalistic
but it includes some modern
and abstract paintings.
Flower and still life paint
ings are numerous. and in
clude some Of the technically
best done items in the show.
Among them are Dorothy
Catchell's "Gloxinia," Grace
B. Young's Arrangement" in
gray, green and rose: another
by Edna Lee, 1.-THE White
Pitcher" by Josslyn Downer,
Brass and Copper, by Eliza
beth Harrell. and Merry Ellen
Fosters yellow Chair" mod
ern by virtue of its subject.
Kenneth Stubbs is showing
an English village glimpse.
"Bounton-o HILL" grayed
color tone on wet paper giving
a characteristic English atmos-
phere. Naomi Custis' glimpse in
Georgetown, is bright and
sunny, as is also Ethel Pear
sons pleasant house in a gar
den. Merle Foshag's street
scene is one of the most mod
ern in treatment, the figures
simplified impressions. Alfred
Sherman, now president Of the
Corcoran alumni, is showing a
cheerful scene with the Blue
Ridge Mountains in the dis
tance.
Evening star., 1955-06-12

Operation Highjump" in
1867, was at the controls
of a PBM Mariner when it
ran into ''cloud full of rocks"
an uncharted mountain.
OF what value is this germ
free continent in the atomic
age? The authors say that
biologists the world over be-
lieve that some day rich lodes
of uranium ore are likely to
be found there. If and when
that day comes, the compara-
lively leisurely competition
among the world powers in the
Antarctic probably will turn
into a frantic scramble.
L. EDGAR PRINA.
Evening star., 1955-06-12

lay visitors with very little en-
thuSiaSm.
James Suzuki's Desert Sun
set" which won The Evening
Star prize of 500, is a semi
abstract painting in which the
subject is viewed through an
open window with still life in
the foreground. Millicent Tom
kins' Woman" Second prize)
is a complete abstraction in
tones of orange with delicate
linear pattern of black lines.
Mid-winter is successfully
conveyed by Rosalind Farley's
expressionistic black and white
snow-scape January Day"
(third price. Harry Koor-
saro's portrait in dull grayed
colors of Gerald Wartofsky
honorable mention) depicts a
sculptor who is himself repre-
sented in the show.
Other mentions went to Ray
Niche, whose semiabstract
Big Bridge" with sailboats in
the foreground is the best
painting I have seen by him;
to Marjorie Dec for Sam
ovar," abstract still life in rich
color, and to Richard Lahey
for his solid bouquet of
SHASTA Daisies"
Sculpture Prizes
The sculpture prizes are no
less battling, in some ways.
Clare Fontanini's second prize
winning large walnut figure,
simplified but still reminiscent
of medieval wood-Sculpture,
seems to me far the best work
in the sculpture section, greatly
superior to John BrenmaS' top
prize-winning cement head
with its simplified, staring
face. Philip Cocimano's over
life-size self-portrait appears
to be a caricature. Don Tur-
amos slate "Stevedore" (in-
cised on the fiat surface)
Martha Halls rough-hewn fish,
and india Lepson's plaster nude,
which received the mentions,
did not impress me as un-
usual in any respect. Since
only Is works in sculpture
were accepted for the show
(and 1 must say that some OF
the reflections struck me as
better) sculptorS had one
chance in two and a half, of
receiving an award, while the
Evening star., 1955-06-12

much-loved work. HIS eXhlol-
ton will remain during the
sefnmer, and will probably be
the most popular exhibition
held in Washington in many
months.
The Society of Washington
Artists annual will be gener-
ally reviewed next Sunday.
The prize and mention WIN
ners in painting and sculpture
were announced last Sunday at
the Society's annual dinner in
honor of the juror VINO Sc
lected the exhibition and made
the awards: This year. Max
Weber. The list of prize win
nerS was given in Mondays
Star.
Mr.. Weber has an outstand-
ing place in modern American
art. He has been painting for
more than half a century, was
a pioneer American modernist
who as a student in Paris early
this century, embraced French
expressionism and studied un-
der Matisse. Later he turned
to cubism, and is considered
to be one of the very few
American cubists Of lasting
Importance. He gave up abb
stract painting about 1920, de-
voted himself to repre-
Sensational expressionism, and
reached the peak of this
phase of his work about 1910.
Since then he has returned to
abstract painting. He was also
a futurist experimenter, and
was the first American to make
totally abstract sculptures.
Selection and Awards
Bearing these facts in mind,
the visitor will perhaps be able
to understand a little better,
Mr.. Weber's selection and
awards in the SD annual. An
artist can hardly escape plac-
ing on an exhibition he has
has chosen. Ithe stamp of his
own convictions about art, even
though he may do so without
conscious volition. In his after
dinner talk to the Society
last Sunday, Mr.. Weber said
he chose the exhibition land
presumably made the awardS)
with sincerity and severity"
All of the painting awards and
mentions went to abstract and
expressionist works, which will
doubtless be viewed by many
Evening star., 1955-06-12

your sympathy for them, than
you could find in most of the
angry tracts on the subject.
Sarah Litsey's second novel,
"The Intimate Illusion" ZAP
pleton Century : -Crofts; S3.75),
is the story of a family that
occupies one of those old
country houses on the edge of
a small town in Central Ken
lucky.
The story opens in 1911 and
carries us to the later '40s. It
begins charmingly, with char
acters and atmosphere de-
veloped with deft, subtle
touches. Joseph Revington,
heir to Roselands and about a
fourth generation Revington.
is a forceful, self-centered
man. owner of the department
store in Bloomtown and a
well-meaning and tyrannical
father. His wife dies giving
birth to their third child
Josephine. Joseph, after a
period of indifference, centers
his interest on this girl, leav-
ing the older boy and girl to
make their own lives. Josephine
is so completely dominated by
her father that she passes up
romance and marriage, but
finds love in her own way.
Troublesome Characters
The story develops naturally
until it is halfway over. Then,
unfortunately, it loses itself in
maze of fortuitous cir
cumstances and unpersuasive
motivation. Perhaps Miss
Litsey attempted to explore too
many characters and too many
situations within a novel of
little more than average
length. Such aids for authors
with troublesome characters as
a plane wreck, a fire and a
couple of murders are used to
diminish the cast. The final
chapters fairly wallow in
melodrama.
But Miss LitSey is gifted
enough to do a much better
novel.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
1000, 900 DELINQUENTS. BY



BENJAMIN Fine. (World
Publishing Co.; 50
In q period when experts in
every field have their own
theory for curing juvenile
delinquency, this overall sur
vey is all the more valuable
for it's recognition that as
there are a multiplicity Of
causes for juvenile crime, there
also has to be a multiple ap-
proach to the cure.
DR.. Fine, education editor
for the New York Times, lee
turer and author of eight
books on education. went to
the experts to make his study
but he also talked to hundreds
of delinquent children. He
found that there is no de-
linquent boy-only an emo
tionally disturbed child"-and
there is no bad girl-only
an unhappy one"
Areas of Cure
His findings, presented with
considerable reader appeal,
point UP these areas of cure:
. Parent education courses
and more realistic marriage
courses for all high school
students to strengthen the
home.
o Machinery in the schools
to detect children in need of
help while they are still
young, more emphasis on the
important role Of elementary
school teachers. smaller classes,
0 team Of trained psychia-
trist. social worker and psy-
Evening star., 1955-06-12

painters had only one in nine.
These times seem to be the
summit for young people on
the threshold of their careers.
Apparently youthful vision
outweighs mature experience
with art juries. Only 3 of the
13 winners are active and ex-
perienced artists here. the
others include art students and
young artists.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
in Brief

Catholic University is show
ing its eighth annual exhibition
of work by students Of the art
department, in the Salve
Regina building on the cam
pus through June 90. 1t is
open to the public daily except
Sunday. from 8 to 5. The exhi-
bition includes painting. sculp-
ture, ceramics, metal craft,
Evening star., 1955-06-12
READING AND WRITING
Material for Book F Found
In Monastery Here
BY MARY McGRORY

The story behind "The Car
melite," a novel about a 17th
century friar which will be
published on Tuesday, begins
some seven or eight years ago
in a Washington monastery.
The author, Elgin Crosse
close, was working on another
book. When in need of medi-
tation he went to the Monas-
terry of the Discalced Carmel
ties on Lincoln road. Not a
Catholic, he participated to
some extent in the routine Of
the monks. The prior, learn
ing Of his interest in Persia,
brought out a history of a
member Of the order who had
gone to Persia in 1904 and
opened up that country to
Western Christianity.
Stayed in His Mind
Mr.. Groseclose found that
the character of the friar who
led the little band of mission
aries into Persia stayed in his
mind. Father John Thaddeus
was a Spaniard, an unabashed
dreamer who persevered in his
vision Of bringing the gospel
to the Persians despite the
rebuke of his superiors.
Mr.. Groseclose, the author
of several books, is an econ
omist by trade, but one who
feels that human attitudes are
more crucial than mechan-
ical laws in economics. After
several years of laborious COL
lateral research, he decided to
cast his story of Brother John
in fiction rather than chron-
icle form.
1T is very dull unless you
know why" says Mr.. Crosse
close, a tall Oklahoman, who
once taught in a mission
school.
Illuminating Old Letters
The letters of Father John
Thaddeus, which were pre-
served in volume compiled in
the 1905 by an anonymous
Englishman. were very illu-
minating. In one, the friar, re-
plying to criticism from home
about the small number of his
converts, wrote with some as
perity, Il am preaching the
gospel; conversions are the
work of the Holy Spirit"
Actually he was almost from
the first a success in Persia.
The Shah was so impressed
with the sturdy, humble priest
that he sent him as his Am
basSador to Russia. Hospital
lty was then pretty much as it
it now, and the friar was flung
into prison by his hosts. He
survived, however, and re-
turned to found monastery
that lasted for 200 years.
The secret of his success?
Mr.. Groseclose had pondered
it much, and finds a clue in
another Of the friar's letters.
1T Is true" wrote Father
John Thaddeus, that people
from high and low come to see
us almost daily. I am con-
tinually at the court of the
Shah. And we take any and all
occasions to give testimony of
our faith. During a gathering,
preach as many as half a
dozen sermons"
Mr.. Groseclose, presently an
aide at the Commerce Depart
ment. is the author of two
previous novels, "Arat" and
THE Firedrake."
Evening star., 1955-06-12
Africu in Letters

South Africa continues to be
the great new frontier of let
ters. A book by Alan Patton,
whose beautiful novel, Cry
the Beloved Country" broke
through the silence that vir-
tually enveloped the continent
after Olive Schreiner's THE
Story of an African Farm"
(1916). has just come out. It
is "The Land and People of
South Africa" his first nom
fiction.
Another South African au-
thor, Peter Abrahams, whose
poignant "Tell Freedom" was
q moving hymn to his country
and his people, provides the
Evening star., 1955-06-12
u. N. Explained

A practical handbook on the
United Nations which will be
valuable to the student or gen.
eral reader is "The United
Nations: How 1t Works." by
David Cushman Coyle New
American Library, a Signet
Key Book: IS cents). There is
an introduction by Ahmed S.
Bokhari.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
Robert Penn Warren

Another from Warren: Rob-
ert Penn Warren's newest
novel, Band Of Angels" the
story of a Southern girl named
Amantha Starr who lived in
the time before Ae War Be-
tween the States, will be pub
lished on August %. 1t is the
Literary Guild selection for
September.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
Workshop Faculty

Workshop Center of the Arts,
1900 New Hampshire avenue,
is presenting through June 18,
an exhibition of new paintings,
sculpture, prints, ceramics and
jewelry by members of its
faculty, and also groups OF
student work.
Representational and alb
stract expressionism dominate
the painting section, with work
by Jack Berkman and Fuller
Griffith in the first category,
and many by Kenneth holland,
Jacob Kainen and Morris Louis
in the second. Messrs. Louis
and holland appear to have an
epic indifference to possible
resting places (such as private
homes) for their paintings,
which seem to have achieved
new records for size.
I liked best in the show
Jack Perlmutter's Anchor
age" Q semibstraction Of a
city on the waters edge, a
theme he has been exploring
recently. The ceramics and
crafts include such laudable
work as Helen O'Brien's sew
eral lamp bases and Gordon
Lawson's handsome ebony and
silver salad set, and bowl with
cream crackle inner surface,
also his unusual free-form
brass bowl.
OF the student groups 1t
seems to me Marguerite Bur
CESS pupils give the best ac-
count of themselves. Morris
Louis and Kenneth Noland's
pupils have produced a large
number Of abstract express
Sionist work. It seems incred-
ible to some of US that any
one would need instruction to
Am4va% &hia vv,ar
Evening star., 1955-06-12

drawing and design. A feature
Of the show is a series Of
ceramic tiles by Helen Shrider,
depicting the life Of st. Francis,
for an outdoor shrine.
John c. Rogers Is having .
one-man exhibition at the
Alexandria Library through
June rs. The show includes
paintings, drawings and prints.
and can be seen Monday
through Friday from 8 to 8.
Saturday 8 to /.
Evening star., 1955-06-12
Violent Thriller

RING AROUND ROSA. BY
William Campbell Gault. (E.
P. Dutton & Co.; $2.750
An ex-football star turned
sleuth gets his first case: Find
a pug's missing girl friend.
Through murder and mayhem,
he keeps right on looking.
Finds her. too, in a well-ex-
ecuted thriller by an author
who can handle violence with
out spilling gore on every page.
M. o.
Evening star., 1955-06-12


Xuma's story is quietly
told. more effective because its
problems are understated. its
injustices related without in
dignation. There is in this
unembellished novel some
thing of the lyrical simplicity
that made Alan Paton's Cry
the Beloved Country" a classic
of its kind.
Xuma is a powerfully built
lad, handsome, as are so many
people from the north coun-
try, and a city is as strange to
him as the jungle would be
to city folk. He knows nothing
of the implacable code of
Johannesburg. that black and
colored part white people
are to stay in certain dis
tricts and must carry passes
even to move about the streets.
New Friends
Arriving without money, he
is befriended by a capable ma
tive woman named Leah, who
sells beer-illicit to the people
whose country this once was
and she is helped by several
others, all friendly to the
stranger. Soon after he goes
to work in the gold mines,
Xuma, because of his strength
and poise, is made a foreman,
and a white man called Paddy,
a supervisor, becomes his firm
friend.
There are two pretty girls
who live with Leah-EliZa and
Maisy. Xuma falls in love with
Eliza, and she returns his love.
but unfortunately she is beset
by envy for the white people
and the things they can af-
ord, like houses with plumbing
and electric lights, cars and
sumptuouS clubs and restau-
rants. Maisy is willing to take
him on his own terms, and it
is only when he loses Eliza to
what she covets that he comes
to appreciate Maisy.
Love and Laughter
Love is a direct thing in
Malay Camp. native section.
There is not much formality
about 1t, and marriage is a
sacrament or ceremony for
white people to worry over, but
love with these black people
is none the less deep. They
are simple people, and few of
them can read and write, but
they are as ready with kind
ness, with generosity to those
needing it, as they are to fight
at an affront. They like fun,
and laughter comes to them
more naturally than resent
ment and hate.
Xuma learns a great deal
in a short time. He learns
that his people must enjoy
themselves with drinks and
games Of chance secretly, since
the police are ready to hunt
them down on little or no pre-
text He finds out when he
refuses to order his men to an
unsafe point underground.
where collapsed wall has
been inadequately bolstered
up, that it is illegal to disobey
the bosses and you can be
arrested for that, too.
Mr. Abraham's characters
Xuma, the girls, Ma Plank, the
old drunkard called Daddy
whom everyone loves-are
sharply depicted.
There is more in his unpre-
tentious novel to explain the
plight of natives in the cities
of South Africa, and to enlist
Evening star., 1955-06-12

occasion for a publishing ex-
pertinent. Knopf has brought
out his first novel. Mine Boy"
in paperback form at the low
price of SIPS. The publishers
want a wider public for this
relatively unknown talent.
Reversing the usual order,
mine Boy" will 60 into hard
covers if it makes the grade
in paperback. The book is re-
viewed on this page.
More African echoes: AlySe
Simpson, whose Red Dust of
Kenya" was the rueful journal
of a Swiss girl transplanted to
the African bush. will have
another book coming in Sep
tember. This one, II Threw a
Rose Into the Sea-" will de-
scribe her pre-African exist
ence.
Pulitzer PriZeland revisited:
William S. White, New York
Times correspondent who re-
Gently won the Pulitzer Prize
in biography for "The Taft
Story" will chronicle more
Senators in a forthcoming
book about his beat, the Sen
ate, for which he has just
signed a contract.
Harper Prize
Judges for the $4,000 Har-
per Prize Novel Contest for
1856 have just been an
nounced. They are Hamilton
Basso, author of 1.-THE View
From Pompey's Head; Or
vile Prescott, daily book critic
of The New York Times, and
Jessamyn West, author Of
''The Witch Diggers."
Deadline for entries, which
should be sent to Harper 81
Bros, 40 East Thirty-third
street, New York, 16, is June /.
1856,
Evening star., 1955-06-12
ARTISTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Two important Shows
Open Here This Week
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN

Two important art exhibitions will next week: The
Society of Washington Artists SD annual next Wednesday
pm the foyer of the Natural History Building
National Museum and Thursday evening at $780, the Norman
Rockwell show invitation at the Corcoran Gal
lery where guests will Mr. Rockwell well his
Evening star., 1955-06-12
STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE
TrioIs of a Native Boy
In an African Town
By CARTER BROOKE JONES

One Of the appealing stories to out Of the
literary blooming South Africa mine Boy" by Peter
Abrahams Knopf; S1.25I.
Abrahams, who Tell Freedom" describes in
Mine Boy the adventures young native from the country
who JOHANNESBURG to in the mines.
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Raiines

Revival began Sunday night at
Browns Presbyterian Church and
VII continue through Friday
October IA The service, conduct
20 by the Rev jesse Hutchinson,
begins nightly at 30 p m
Mr. and Mrs Marvin Simpson,
ST. Mfr and Mrs Marvin Stump
son. Jr and family and Annie.
attended the Sanderson family
reunion at the home Of George
Ganderson Sunday
Mi and Mrs Nike Taperino
entertained as Sunday dinner
guests Nj and Mrs Charles
Scott. of Cumberland and daugh-
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Latest statistics for 1854 show
That last year there We're 70 coal
mining companies WITH annual
production u one million tons or
more and that these companies
accounted fer nearly 80 per cent
ot THE 392 600 00l tons mined last
year
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Cumberland Events
Cumberland Events
Keeping House." Topic of Home
Demonstration Club Meeting Monday

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feallts and modern equipmef4t
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Miss Margaret lnRle 0f To-
oaccoNllie was dinner guest on
Sunday OF Mr. and Mrs II. q
Atkinson who celebrated the
twenty fourth birthday ainlvcr-
sgry Of then son. IL q Atkinson.
Jf - IRR
MS Frank Matthews. OF Char