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The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-03-04

Nj and Mrs. John Hudson. Jr..
honored t.leir little daughter.
Patricia, vlth a dinner. on sun
day, Feb. 20 celebrating h=r sec
onc birthday Those present for
the occasion were her grand =
parents. Mr. and Mrs Clyde Gil
liam 81 near Pampln. Mr.. and
Mrs john Hudson. and Mr. and
Mrs. Godron Gillian and baby
81 RlcARlond.
ALr and Mrs. Dutch" Koch
and children. Of Norfolk. spent
The week end With her parents
Mr and Mrs NJ B DrskllI. MI
ana Mrs Cecil watson and chill
drem- 0. Portsmouth also stop
red over on Tuesday evening and
spent the night sIta her parents.
en- route TO Florida Oh yacaton
Master David Bowh4. little
7oa Of Nj and Ms Ronald Bow
les attended A birthday party for
The little son of M and Mrs. B!l-
ly Barry Of Darlington Heights
IN Sunday Fec "a celebrating
his third birthday
Frann KIpps. of Farmv!lle
Spcat Monday Of last week. with
M and Mrs. Egeaette Hughes
Miss Virginia Rite os Rich
mond spent the week end OF
February Is with her parents
Mr and Mrs. Notion Rice.
FILLS Mylum of Richmond.
spent the week end with his
other, Mrs Kate Mylum
Visits In Richmond
Nr and Mrs Charlie Skinner.
il. spent Sunday ii Richmond
with Nj and MIS- holland Skin
aer and daughter
Mr and MRS Carol Allen, cf
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-03-04

He Is reported as recovering nice
/ IL.
/ Mrs. Nelson Xix returned h0re
j from Lynchburg on "Wednesday
Of last week and IS recuperating
/ al her home here.
North Carolina Guests
NJ ad Mrs Eooert Shields. 0f
Scotland Neck. Y. c.. were week
end guests Of Mr.. and Mrs c 4
Garden. and attended services at
Prospect Methodist Church sun
day morning. Other guests III this
so1le last week acre Mr.. and
Mrs I C. Glenn, of Farmv.lle
Mr. and Mrs. Games johnson
and daughter. CaFplyn Lou. mot
oeed 70 Byooknea. Saturday az
ternoon TO attend the funeral 0.
John Thomas Baker VINO vas the
son Of Tom and Lizzie Holt Baker
formerly Of Prince Edward coun-
~
Mr. and Mrs Harry Tanner. 81
Lyncaoues spent Sunday after
noon WITH her sister. Mrs. } H
Young
John Carson mas been a patient
At SoatAs.de Hospital for seyera!
days a.
Mr. and MIS-. Charles Mallet.
Of Lynchbuga were guests Of Mr.
and Mss Jack Jones Saturday
and Sunday
Dinner guests Of Rev. and Mrs.
J c Weaver on Thursday were
d and MIS-. Conrad Blackwell.
Of Fa.mplIle. and Dr. and Mrs.
A G Jefferson Of Lynchbuyg
Mrs J z GIann visited her
daughter Mrs Donald Jones. d.
South Boston last week
Back to Hot Springs
Mrs Jess MlIstoe has returned
70 her home at Hot Springs after +.
visiting hcr parents for several
days Mrs Fletcher Osborne. Of .
RidgeWay. is with them this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ] p Cafazza and
children Of Wakefield, spent the .
week end with her parents. MI
and Ms Il F. Paulette
visitors IN THE Fayraf home fol
The week end were Nh and Mrs.
Q p FaTar Jr and children Of
Greensboro, n c.
Mrs I'd Ponton Of Roanoke
visited her sister MIS- 9, a. Allen
last week
Week end guests or Rev and
Mrs J c Weaver were MT and
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-03-04
Amelia Forester
Reminds Residents
OF 4 II. NJ. Fire Law

Amelia county lost 81 acres to
fires last year mostly thorugh
the carelesSnesS OF residents.
Careless persons vho burn
brush or touch of any type OF
open ally fire before 4 ,. m. be
tween now and May Is. face
fine of as much as 500. Virginia
open air fire law IS now in effect
Chief Forest Warden. J A
Lawrence Of Amelia. reminded
residents this week that. We are
noW entering The Spring fire sea
son and during this period every
one should be extremely careful
With hrc at all times.
Lawrence cautioned all persons
70 observe the before 4 p. m. ban
and have plenty OF FoolS and
water on hand when fires arr
started He suggested not burn
inc brush on windy days.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-03-04

Mss Marie Allen returned home
sunday after being With her niece
MIS- Lewis Durham. Of Greens
boro. a week
J II Allen attended "a meeting
Of the Session OF College Church
40 Hampden Sydney. Sunday
evening
Due 10 SO much rain. farmers
are unable 70 burn plant beds for
tobacco. water supply has been
rcipei great deal this past
weeks. however.
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PROBLEMS THAT
FOLLOW AIDING
OTHER NATIONS

CULTURAL PATTERNS
AND CLINICAL
CHANGE. Edited by Mar
garet Mead. (Mentor
Book: s50c.)L
This survey was designed
to aid the many persons
who carry the culture and
technology Of the "de-
veloped" countries to the
people Of the "undeveloped"
countries. It explains the
why's of the cultural patterns
in the less streamlined So
cieties and shows what the
impact can be when the
Western goth Century is
suddenly offered as a better
way of life.
Margaret Mead. a famed
anthropologist, has found
that primitive people can
absorb with profit an amaz-
ing amount Of modern cul-
ture in q short period Of
time. But there are many
tricks to the do-gooder
trade which must be used
to soften the impact Of sud-
den change.
This is a pocket-sized
book; and In the great ira
dition Of pocket books. 1t
carries on its cover an un-
derprivileged lady with an
overdeveloped bust.--R. F.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
Adventures Of 500 Who
Wrote of Union Army

by the State Department. then
by the War Department, some
times by both, and once, for q
brief interval, by the Treasury
Department. In the beginning
Washington newspapers were
not censored, but stories cor
respondents in Washington
tried to send to out-of town
papers were. The Tribune
asked In evaporation: when
will the censor treat all
journals alike? Yesterday :. :.
we suppressed news. only to
find the dispatch conspicuous
ly printed in The Washington
Star. :"
In the field, at one time or
another. the Bohemians reused
the wrath of just about every
officer with a star on his shoul-
der. Grant was the only one
of the generals who had no
difficulties with the press. He
always had one question: Is the
story true? If a reporter an
swered yes, Grant said, Let Il
CO."
White House Entree
The press relations with the
President were much more in
formal then-the Bohemian
Brigade knew Lincoln as re-
porters have seldom known a
President. He saw some Of
them every day, and after
Office hours reporters often
walked into the White House
and up to the private secre-
taries' room, adjoining Lin.
coins without being stopped.
When a reporter for the WASH
ington Chronicle called on Lin
coin late one evening, the
President had just received
news of the Vicksburg cam
paign. Here are two dis
patches" said Lincoln. Don't
stop to read them. but I'll copy
the short one while you copy
the long one" Thereupon the
President and the reporter sat
down to transcribe them in
time for the morning paper.
Much of the Civil War cor
respondence. was hackneyed.
hastily conceived, turgidly
written, and deficient in clarity
and perception, Starr says.
But for the first time in his
tory an entire nation knew
what 1t was about. knew its
leaders, knew what happened
yesterday and what might be
happening today. The idea
that people should look to the
press for news Of public affairs
attained q shape and meaning
in the Civil War that it had.
never had before. The report
ers did their part by estab-
fishing q right to report
that was recognized, however
grudgingly, as vital to the
democratic process.
MARY PAINTER.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
Story of Last BuffuIoes
Is Woven Into Novel
THE LAST HUNT. By Milton

THE LAST HUNT. BY Milton
Lott.s (Houghton Miffiin;
$3.50
In the l880s on, the prairies
silence took the place of the
laundering of hoofs. Where
once there were millions of
buffaloes, now there were none.
The story Of two of the hunt
ers who brought about the ex-
termination Of the great man.
NAL is ably told in this first
novel, winner of a Houghton
Mifflin literary fellowship.
It was a lot of animal to kill
for a little piece of leather,
muses. Woodfoot. an amicable
skinner who worked for the
hunters. But this thought did
not deter men like his bosses,
Sandy Mackenzie and Charlie
ellison. until it was too late.
Each often killed more than q
hundred buffaloes a day.
Slaughtering these 1000
pound buffaloes to sell their
hides was simply a vocation.
But, as the days passed and
the herds grew smaller, Sandy
began to feel a great sense Of
loss. He realized that the
massacring of the millions Of
buffaloes meant the remaining
Indians would starve.
However, to his partner
Charlie, a trigger-happy gull
Evening star., 1955-07-24

in many instances larger than
life. The results Ito me, at
least) are breath-taking. There
are also many paintings Of
today's descendants of these
Columbian Andean peo-
Piles, in contemporary cos
tunes, engaged in representa-
tive activities, playing musical
instruments or watching their
flocks. the latter group includ-
ing several winsome portraits
Of Peruvian Indian tots with
their pets.
Pre-Inca Workers
OF all these splendid paint
ings, the most impressive one,
to me is that of pre-Inca
workers or serfs. toiling up
the mountainside with one of
the enormous stones used in
building a temple. Seventeen
figures or heads can be count
ed. every one ana individual
portrait, the group revealing
varying degrees of fatigue. suf-
fering. resignation. One sees
here not only the Andean
temple builders, but also the
ancient Egyptians in their kill
ing work Of building the pyra-
mids and the modern slaves
of Russia toiling for that ma
tion's heavy industry" In
his postwar years Mr.. Kre-
kovic saw countless refugees
Che has painted a large group
of Displaced Persons"), the
weary, hunted and enslaved,
a f1rst-hand acquaintance
which enables him to give the
Indian tone-haulers such con-
viction.
Mr.. Krekovic's masterful
technique is we'll adapted to
his monumental subjects
which he has painted with
verve and force as well as
beauty. The colors. dominated
by maroon and brown. are
highlighted with the gleam Of
gold and silver.
Many OF the avantgarde. Of
course, do not consider Mr..
Krekovic an artist, but an ar
theological illustrator or an
tiquarian. Undoubtedly he has
idealized much of his subject
after. The archeologist
learns to construct a dinosaur
from a few bones. And we can
hardly escape gueSs-work in
Evening star., 1955-07-24
BOHEMIAN BRIGADE.

BOHEMIAN BRIGADE. BY
Louis M. Starr. (Knopf; So
Bohemian Brigade" is what
the newspapermen who COW
cred the Civil War called
themselves. Five hundred men
reported the war for the North
(Mr. STAIRS excellent book
does not cover the men who
reported for the South; of
these, perhaps 200 were full
time reporters.
Much of the first news
President Lincoln and Secre-
tary of War Stanton received
about battles came from cor
respondents. The first CO.
herent' account Of Antietam
was a press dispatch which a
Baltimore telegrapher, realiz-
ing that Washington was
waiting for news, sent to the
War Department in Washing
ton instead of to the New York
Tribune. During the battle Of
Gettysburg the President got
news Of the campaign from
press dispatches before official
word could reach him.
During the Battle of the
Wilderness, when it seemed in
Washington as If Gems. Grant,
and Meade and 125.000 men
had simply vanished from the
face of the earth, Henry z.
Wing. a new correspondent for
the Tribune. slipped past
Mosby's guerrillas disguised as
a Confederate. From Union
Mills. Va, he telegraphed
Washington: Left Grant at
4 o'clock this morning." and
asked permission to send a
message to the New York
Tribune over the military tele-
graph.
Secretary Of War Stanton
intercepted the message, and
wired back bluntly: Where
did you leave Grant?" Back
came the cub reporter: Let
him send 100 words to the
Tribune, and he would tell all.
Stanton demanded an answer;
Wing replied that his story
belonged to his paper, and
Stanton messaged the post
commander to arrest Wing.
Lincoln Bargains
A few minutes later the elec-
trio chatter began again at
Union Mills. The operator
turned around: 'Mr. Lincoln
wants to know If you will tell
him where Grant is." Wing
restated his proposition, which
the President accepted at once.
Thus came the first word Of
Wilderness, official or unofficial.
Censorship during the Civil
War was somewhat capricious:
It was administered for q time
Evening star., 1955-07-24
MORALS OF THE REGENCY
Memoirs Describe Love
Affairs of Great Men
THE GAME OF HEARTS:

THE GAME OF HEARTS:
HARRIETTE WILSON'S
MEMOIRS. Edited. with an
introduction, by Lesley
Blanch. (Simon & Schus-
ter; $5.)
Although these memoirs by
a reigning courtesan Of Re-
gency London were published
originally more than a hun
dred years ago, it is not hard
to understand why they have
not appeared before in this
country. For they are neither
literary. pornographic nor
very accurate.
That they are fair reading
now is a tribute I'd Miss
Blanch's comments and edit
ing. She sets the scene with
a wise and witty introduction
and she has had the happy
idea Of interspersing the mem
oirs with appropriate COM
ments and refutations from
an equally partisan source.
the memoirs Of one Julia
JohnStone, arch rival Of Har-
riette Wilson as London's No.
l public lady. Lovers of a
good cat flight will be en-
trafaced.
AS Miss Blanch points out,
there was a quite definite $50
ciety" in which courtesans
moved. They were kept women
(they placed themselves "un-
der the protection Of" their
lovers for whatever length of
time was involved) but they
were not prostitutes for hire
to anyone. They chose their
patrons. They were expected
to provide all the shades of
rcompanionship without the
oppressive limitations and i'm
plications of marriage" They
displayed their charms from
their boxes at the opera. They
rode in style in Hyde Park.
Into this society Harriette
Wilson fitted perfectly. No
great beautyN she had charm
and animation. She was soon
the rage Of London's demi-
monde. Just to be seen with
her enhanced a young blades
Evening star., 1955-07-24

standing. A favored few (not
too few, at that achieved the
pinnacle Of being her pro
tectors. These she chose, ap-
parently, for two reasons
position and looks. The first
standard brought to her bou-
doir such notables as the Duke
of Wellington and Lord Byron.
For appearance she chose Lord
Ponsonby (of the mad Lamb
clam and the Marquis of
Worcester. There were many
others along the way.
A Little BIackmail
While the protectorships
lasted Harriette had no prob
lens, but after her popularity
waned she was faced with a
real problem. A girl has to live.
so to turn a dishonest dollar.
she embarked upon her mem
oirs with blackmail clearly in
mind. She wrote to her for
mer patrons informing them
that they could buy their way
out for 200 pounds. It is hard
to understand why any of them
did so. for in that era keeping
a mistress apparently was no
more reprehensible socially
than keeping a well-stocked
cellar. But some did and the
memoirs are, of course, poorer
for their timidity.
But as a matter of fact, the
memoirs are not particularly
interesting In themselves. They
do add up to a picture chow
ever distorted they can't be all
fabrication) Of an era of dis,
solute life, and they do give us
an insight into the character
of a woman whose name is
closely linked to many great
ones in the regency. But not
a very clear insight; at that.
Harriette, who wrote in a mas
sive understatement IT have
but a confused idea of what
virtue really is." had her
principles tshe was shocked at
the idea Of being a precurer)
but she doesn't emerge as
particularly intelligent or even
interesting.
EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1955-07-24

man. the buffaloes were simply
decoys. Hunting and killing
caused a pleasure worth any
price. Naturally these different
attitudes led to conflict.
The authors realistic, tough
style Is at its best in descrip-
tions of the Northwest scenery,
the thrill Of hunting. or the in
cidents Of camp life.
A false note is struck only
when to keep up the action he
introduces one scene Of vio-
lence after another.
LEE LORICK PRINA.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
|CALLGIRL RACKET
THEME OF NOVEL
WHICH HITS HARD
10 PARK AVENUE. BY Har-
old Robbins. (Knopf; $3.5O.)

70 PARK AVENUE. BY Har,
old Robbins. (Knopf; $3.50
This is a javelin of a novel,
hard, lean, fast and direct.
It tells of Maria and Mike,
slum born. who take op-
posite paths out Of poverty
prostitution and night law
school. They love each
other. or, at least, their sex
ual attraction is too strong
to cope with.
Their paths cross irrevoca-
bly, when Mike, now an as
sistant D. A., has to prosecute
Maria on charges Of running
a call girl racket. From this
juncture, Mr.. Robbins takes
us over the climactic points
In their lives In a series Of
naShbackS.
Maria and the way she be-
came q prostitute are Mr..
Robbins concern. The basic
sensuousness. the rape by
the stepfather, affairs, OBJ
scene exhibitions. a 7-year
hitch as a racketeer's al
most-wife, her relations with
the syndicate, a daughter
fathered by Mike one
week end--the tale is sordid.
well wrought and memoir
able. There is hardly an
asexual passage or q wasted
word in it.
Not for children or the
squeamish, "79 Park Avenue
rushes to its series Of sur
prises at the end almost cer-
tainly In the same sitting you
started it---even II It takes
you till 5 am, a. II did me.
FRANK SARTWELL
Evening star., 1955-07-24
whom this reviewer showed the
book.
New England Group

Seven Younger New Eng.
land Painters" inaugurated the
season last September at the
Institute of Contemporary
Arts. Boston, with an exhibi.
ton Of more than 10 paint.
ings. Two-thirds of that show
now fills gthe print rooms at
the Phillips Gallery, to re-
main through August q. The
catalogue of this lively show
is a reprint from the insti-
tute's bulletin. giving . gen.
eral review of these artists
works.
The show, it says, ''tends to
contradict the accepted notion
that nonobjective painting Is
the mode among contemporary
painters. Ihope this tendency
will spread to more younger
Washington area artists" The
past season here yielded q
superabundance Of abstract
expressionist and other non
objective shows which left
some of us with q feeling Of
monumental boredom.
Individual Styles
Most of these young New
Englanders paint everyday
subjects in a manner intelligi-
BILE to the layman. yet they are
by no means naturalistic. SO
far as one can judge from two
to-five-works groups, each Of
these artists has developed an
individual style.
My favorite Of the seven Is
David Berger. whose light
hearted paintings abound in
golden girls and some of the
wackiest animals unknown to
naturalists: A tiger. a pair Of
blue-eyed cats. and q high
swinging "Carousel" composed
OF an agonized menagerie.
These are painted in a mixture
Of oil and wax, with luminous
color schemes dominated by
turquoise and gold.
Fannie Hillsmith's New Eng
land interiors are Semicubis-
tic, but their essence is intact.
Best of them is Midnight" q
handsome Victorian room in
which everything Is blue or
black save a tiny vermilion
footstool. Her Lamp Light"
is another charmer.
Albert Alcalay, one of the
two abstract painters In the
group, shows Boston and
Chicago cityscapes executed in
a clean and assured technique. /,
Best of his group is his rich,
colorful "Tenements" III q
composition ,of vertical and
swinging lines. The other abb
stractionist, Walter Kamys,
shows several paintings with
patterns Of crisp black lines
and color against single color
backgrounds: these have less
variety than any of the group.
Ruth Cobb is the poet" Of
the group, with several deli
cate water colors fortified with
pen lines. Bernard Chaet is
concerned with color. to Judge
from his two works on view,
the better being his "Still Lite
With Violin.
Alfred Duca. inventor Of the
revolutionary new artistic
medium, Polymer tempera, is
represented with paintings Of
figures closely interviewer with
their tapestrylike backgrounds
of rich colors in close tonal
harmony.
Evening star., 1955-07-24
ART NEWs
ART NEWS
Croutiun Has
Vivid Story Of
Ancient Peru
By FLORENCE S. BERGMAN


If Columbus had never left
Spain, or If his ship had sunk
in midocean. it would have
been a blessing, said q noted
archeologist : historian some
years ago. For the Spanish.
French. English and countless
others who followed him to
the Western Hemisphere
crushed the ancient indigenous
civilizations here, which, had
they developed without inter-
ruption, might have reached
fabulous heights.
A stirring glimpse of early
civilizations in Peru's pre-
history, is offered in Kristian
Krekovic's magnificent series
of paintings entitled Fabulous
Peru, Past and Present." which
opened last Tuesday In the
foyer of the Natural History
Building. Constitution avenue
at Tenth street NV, to re-
main through August %. The
exhibition Is sponsored by the
Ambassador of Peru. Senior
Don Fernando Berckmeyer.
From 1000 years ago to 1882
when the Spanish reached
Peru, the Indians of the Nazca,
Paracas, Chimu ana Inca cul-
lures had reached remarkable
heights. They were expert
weavers In a land without
sheep (they used the wool of
llamas and other native rumi-
nant animals); they were skill
full workers Of gold and pre-
cious jewels: potters without
knowledge Of glaZes; engineers.
although they had not in
vented the wheel; superb stone
masons and builders minus
cement (they cut the stones
for near-perfect fitting to-
gether); they had an advanced
form of government, including
an annual census and a form
Of old-age pensions.
European Background
The handsome bronze peo-
pie who accomplished all this.
are coniured up in go large
(some S-by-1o-foot) paintings
which fill the foyer. Kristian
Krekovic started painting them
only five years ago when he
first went to Peru. Born in
Croatia t1901) he went to
Paris to attend the Ecole des
Beaux Arts and remained un-
til 1889. During those years.
he visited museums through
out Europe. studying and
painting world cultures. The
fruits of his work to that date
were destroyed by the Nazis.
Intrigued by Paracas tex
tiles and other examples Of
the mysterious culture of Pc
rus ancient races, he stepped
himself in the arts, history
and archaeology of that cpun-
try.
The vitality of these paint
ings is probably due In part,
to the fact that Krekovic< has
not merely imagined the
priests, rulers, warriors, serfs
: and others who come to life
in them. He sought the pur-
est Indian types among Peru's
living tribes, dressed them in
historic textiles, sumptuous
headdresses and ornaments Of
gold and turquoise from pri-
vate museums In that country.
and painted them from life,