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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Suburbs Seen Swinging
City Areas to 6. O. P.

A dramatic shift" from Dem
ocratic to Republican dominance
in the powerful metropolitan
areas of the North is seen by a
Chicago political science expert.
Edward C. Banfield of the
University of Chicago. predicted
lat a session of the American
Political Science Association yes
Iterday that the metropolitan
areas will swing ever more firmly
into G. o. P. columns during
the next few decades.
He reached his conclusion on
assumptions that the suburbs,
with their tremendous growth,
would remain largely Republican
and swing the balance. even
though central cities become
more strongly Democratic.
Mr.. Banfield said this "po-
Ilitical arithmetic" is a factor that
will hamper efforts to establish
new levels of the area-wide gov
Iernment to deal with the devel-
Iopment problems Of metropolitan
IareaS.
His assumptions as to both the
political complexion of the areas
and their area-wide planning
were disputed in a panel dis
cussion in the Mayfiower Hotel
on The Changing Political En-.
lvironment of City Planning"
The Chicagoan noted that
most big cities of the North arr
additionally Democratic, while
their suburbs are strongly Re.
publican. While the cities them.
selves are becoming more Demo.
cratic, he said people leaving
them for the suburbs include "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
BrownIow Recalls Wilson
Eager Beaver Campaigns

He described the President al
an eager beaver" type of cam.
paigner-oIle, he said, who
dreamed up the attacks to be
made on him, then got ready
with his defense before anything
had been said.
Once, Mr.. Brownlow said, he
described George Washington as
a great EngliShman" and Lin
coin as the first American"
And to WOO the support of a
New Jersey political boss, Gov
Wilson once threw a party in a
honky-tonk re staurant and
talked the boss into doing the
cakewalk-as well as going along
with the governors decision.
He told of Wilson relating
stories in dialect at late hours in
the White House.
And Mr.. Browniow closed with
this story:
A reunion of Confederate vet
Grams was being held in Wash.
ington on the day when the Ma
ton began CONSUMPTION fol
World War I.
Two old Confederates, friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

Democratic bosses of New Jersey.
seeking a respectable front for
their campaign, went to Presi-
dent Wilson of Princeton. They
offered him their support for the
nomination for Governor. 1t was
accepted. and his election fol-
lowed. But the bosses found that
their front" was so far ahead
of them as to be no facade for
them at all. Instead they had a
vigorous administrator with a
progressive program he skillfuily
put into effect.
The Governor of New Jersey
became the Democratic nominee
against the stand-pat William
Howard Taft and the left
careening Theodore Roosevelt.
The practice in his fathers
empty church gave facility to
his speaking, his writing gave
substance to it. Many of his
speeches in the presidency were
magnificent. There are men
today who. after three decades
or more. can pause and almost
hear again passages as he spoke
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

A gentleman of n, one who
said he lust knew the man, =
talked yesterday to political sci-
entistS about woodrow Wilson.
The former District Commits
sioner under the World War :
Presidents administration, DR..
Louis acknowledgement, city
manager and professor of polit-
ical science -chatted easily about
Wilson at a luncheon yesterday.
He spoke to members of the
American Political Science As
ISOLATION. in session here this
week.
Il was never privy to his great
decisions" the gentle Mr.. Brown
low said. Il just knew the
man."
He told of standing at the
Willard Hotel once and talking
with the then Democratic candi-
date for President, who looked
across Pennsylvania avenue and
asked the identification of the
present District Building. Pres
ident Wilson was later to place
Mr.. Brownlow there as a Com
missioner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
u. S. Road Outlay
OF So Billion
I'M SO Forecast
BY the associated Press

The Government estimated to-
day the Nation will spend a rec
ord $8.2 billion for all highway
purposes in 1856. More than $50
billion of this will go for con-
Struction of roads and streets.
The Bureau of Public Roads
said the total does not include
initial costs of the big. new Fed
eral-State highway construction
program. This calls for building
Al, 100 miles of interstate roads
plus local routes within States
and urban areas at cost of
more than $50 billion in the
next Is to 16 years.
A spokesman said SLIPS. O00,-
900 of Federal money has been
allocated for the new highway
program in the current 1857
fiscal year which began July /.
But spending of this money plus
some matching State funds will
not really begin until after jan
uary /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

of the then Commissioner. Joined
him in making the rounds of the
registration booths, watching
the young men line UP for serv-
ice. President Wilson had heard
previously Of Mr.. Brownlow's
friends and invited them around
to the White House.
1t was late afternoon when
they arrived-the Commissioner
and the two old rebels in uni-
forrn-after watching the boys
sign up all over town.
When we saw the President, !"
Mr.. Brownlow said. "the two old
men were in tears SO was
/ so was Mr.. Wilson,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
Wilson's Letters Tell
Of His EorIy Ambitions

a chair of political science. with
leisure and incentive to study,
and with summer vacations for
travel and observation. ;"
Presidency Beyond Dreams
While apparently he gave no
thought to the presidency, the
possibility of a political career
was not ruled out in Wilson's
young days. Ray Stannard Baker
in his biography of Wilson tells
of him as a Princeton student
ending a discussion with the jest
ing remark, "When I meet you in
the Senate I'll argue that out
with you."
Years later he told Mrs. Edith
Boiling Wilson he had never
imagined himself as President
Secretary of the Navy, Senator
from Virginia or Governor Of
Virginia, yes. but never President.
During the summer vacation
of 1881 from law school at the
University of Virginia Wilson
was at Fort Lewis. Va, a resort
west of his birthplace. Staunton.
The books he had with him in
Icluded Webster's speeches and
the speeches of John Bright, the
English tariff reformer. J.
With an aunt he was studying
an authority on pronunciation
They drilled themselves in say
ing "squalor, somber, isolate
etc." In his letter to Bridges he
marked the "a" of squalor and
the "o'' of somber with an over
| line as a pronunciation guide.
Addressed Empty Benches
| Ill health forced his with
drawal from law school. He re.
turned to the home of his Pres
Ibyterian minister father at Will
mington. From there he wrote
Bridges of making extemporane-
ouS addresses ito the empty
benches of my fathers church
to get a mastery of easy anc
correct and elegant expression
lin preparation for the future
His topics were mostly politica
I"and can sometimes almost see
the benches smile at some of my
Opinions and my deliverance.
IOf his ambitions he wrote:
II intend to make as much
of an orator out of myself a,
Iindefatigable labor can brine
out of the materials at hand
!. My end is a commanding in.
Ifluence in the councils (anc
Icounsels) of my country anc
means to be employed are writ
ling and speaking"
j 1t should be remembered thai
lin those days a public speaker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07
BY FRANCIS r. DOUGLAS

DJ MANIAC OOOAAA0
Observers of American politics
agree that the way not to be
elected President is to pursue
the Office over-eagerly. Woodrow
Wilson was not guilty of that
fault.
Henry Clay painted for the
presidency. but never achieved
it. He complained that his sup
porters nominated him only
when there was no chance of his
election. Thomas E. Dewey is
cited as an example of one who
strove too early and too hard.
Wilson early admitted an am
bition to win a place in the
Nations councils. AS a young
man he sought to prepare him
self for a role of influence. But
the presidency was not within
the scope of his ambitions.
His early aspirations and his
preparations are mentioned fire.
quently in letters now in the
Library of Congress which he
wrote to Robert Bridges. his
classmate at Princeton and his
lifelong friend. They were pre-
sented the Library by DR.. Karl
A. Meyer of Chicago.
Studied Politics. Government
Young Wilson studied politics
and government. He delivered
speeches before the empty pews
in his fathers church in Will
mington. N. c., trying to perfect
himself as public speaker.
The brief period in Atlanta
where he practiced lava pro-
fesslon which probably woulc
have led him into politics-was
long enough to show him thai
he and the law were incompati-
BILE. II throw away law report:
for histories. and my mind run;
after the solution of politica
rather than legal problems" HI
wrote Bridges.
Had he remained in Atlanta
practicing law he probably woulc
have been in politics but never
in the White House. He gave
up that career with not {
thought of the presidency. Elk
planning his ambitions tt
Bridges. he wrote:
Il want to make myself al
outside force in politics. No mar
can safely enter political lift
nowadays who has not an indie,
pendent fortune, or at least al
independent means of support
This I have not. Therefore thu
most I can hope to become il
a speaker and writer of tn,
highest authority on politica
subjects. This I may become il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

disproportionate number Of Re-
puhlicans."
Probably a good number of
city Democrats who move to
"dormitory suburbs" he said,
"also become Republicans as
soon as they have learned what
is expected of them in their new
surroundings"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-07

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
Story Of Lost Frogmon
7 ellis Of Secret Heroism

knew and respected the Eng
lishmen who hunted them.
When Italy dropped out Of
the war the diminutive Crabb
and his handful Joined forces
with the Italian frogmen to
clear Venice Of German mines.
In fact. they were getting
ready to exert their combined
energies against the japanese
when peace came.
Crabb was a man seemingly
without fear. He could never
swim three lengths Of pool
but he was never daunted
either in defusing mines, div
ing for Armada galleons at
the Island Of Null or search
ing for submarine survivors
in the Thames estuary. He
was a man seemingly suited
only for war and danger; he
was truly out Of water in
peacetime.
The world still does not
know how Crabb died in Ports
mouth harbor on April 30,
1856. although the British
Admiralty and the crew OF the
Russian cruiser Ordzhonikidze
might be privy TO the secret.
He may have donned the cloak
and dagger: he may have been
working for British intelligence
when he made that last dive.
But he never came back.
JERRY oLEARY, JR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
Arts Club Members

The summer show by painter
members Of the Arts Club (20l7
Street, although composed
OF work not more than 3 years
old. and not previously exhib-
tied at the club, looks much
the same as earlier shows, due
undoubtedly to the fact that
the majority of exhibitors re-
main a constant factor. The
addition Of new exhibitors Just
about balances the disappear
ance of long-familiar talents.
This summers show was Sc
lected by the clubs painting
committee plus one non-mem-
Der juror, Vaughan jackson.
Garnet Jex' large Cape
Breton Landscape" won the
popular vote of visitors on the
opening day. 1t is easy to see
why: the beauty of the scene,
the fresh color, and competent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
Capsule Biographies
so GREAT MODERN LIVE

% GREAT MODERN LIVES,
by Henry and Dana Lee
T h oma S Hanover House;
$685., is an attempt. on the
whole quite successful, at
capsule biographies.
This father and son writing
team certainly have selected
highly diversified group.
They start with Columbus.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michel
angelo. Luther. st. Ignatius
Of Loyola, Cellini, Bacon and
Shakespeare. The writer's in
clude Goethe and Tolstoy. the
composers Beethoven. Wagner
and Verdi. the scientists New
ton, Mendel. Pasteur, Freud.
Curie, Marconi, Darwin, Edi-
son and Einstein. Cezanne is
selected as a modern painter.
The statesmen include Jeffer-
son, Lincoln, Wilson, Churchill.
Franklin d. Roosevelt and
Eisenhower. Recent figures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
ROGMAN: COMMANDER

~ ~ ~ ava nav ~OANAANAfhANOAsMG
GRADES STORY. A biog-
raphy. BY Marshall Pugh.
Charles Scribners Sons;
$500
Notwithstanding the global
tragedy, World War II was
marked by many fascinating
little asides. Billed as a biog-
raphy, this book actually is
the story Of the very personal
war between a handful OF
British frogmen and their
Italian counterparts.
It was a faceless war for
most Of the millions under
arms, but the swimmers Of the
British Underwater Working
Party and the Italian 10th
Light Flotilla knew one an
other by name, rank and
serial number. Their war was
a flashback to the days Of
knight errantry or the courtly
combat Of the Lafayette Esca-
drille VS.. the Flying Circus Of
Baron Won Richtofen in World
War /.
visintini. the heroic Italian
officer killed in Gibraltar har-
Dor while trying to attach a
limpet mine TO the bottom OF
a British wsrship, got flowers
and a formal burial at sea
from Crabb and his men. The
Italians, operating out Of
partly-neutral Spain, in turn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
English Homes

THE ENGLISH HOME. by
Doreen Yarwood (Scribner's:
sl0) is an immensely informa-
tive, lavishly produced volume
tracing a thousand years Of
history in the design and fur
nishing Of English homes. The
illustrations. from photographs
and sketches. are profuse and
as explanatory as the scholarly
though easily read text. BY the
7th century. as Mrs. Yarwood
points out, the various migrant
people who had come to Eng
land after the Romans left had
become the Anglo-Saxon race.
II is with these people that
she begins her study Of the
English home. bringing II along
through the centuries to mod
ern times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
'HuIf-ReuIity'

Fantasies in Watercolor" by
5 Washington area artists at
the Playhouse Art Gallery, 727
Fifteenth Street, throug h
September z, are imaginative
rather than grotesque, closer to
Redon than to Hieronymus
Bosch. AS the gallery directors
express it, this show interpretS
1.-The half felt, half seen, in
tensely personal, in a Subjec-
tive, creative way. It's half
reality is more closely related
to known things than is most
of the more aggressive abstract
expreSsionist" work so ubi-
quitous today. AS a matter Of
fact. some of these fantasies"
are poetic in conception rather
than fantastic.
Helen Beccard Niles, best
known of the 5, as she is a fire.
quent participation in group ex-
hibitions, and has also had
solo shows lone last season.
is represented with a single
painting, "Hamadryad." The
wood nymph peering through
the branches of the tree she in
habits, should be acceptable to
anyone who has had an intel
lectual acquaintance with these
creatures.
Andrew Bucci. a native of
VickSburg, Miss, where he be-
gan his art studies. is new
conner to Washington, an ana
lyst with the Weather Bureau.
He had a tour of duty in the
Air Force Weather Service, but
managed to continue his art
studies, with two years at the
Art Institute of Chicago. His
three distractions have fresh
color and sparkle, particularly
his Landscape" with its au-
tumnal color scheme. His work
is based on observations of
nature.
"Of the Sea" seemed to me
the best of Ruth Galloons
group. 1t did not strike me as
fantastic, however. but the sort
of glimpse one might get from
a submerged glass observation
tank, or as a skin diver. Paint
ings by Miss Galloon and John
Chapman Lewis, president of
the Society of Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12

Artists, were included in the
New Talent Show at Roko Gall
lery. New York City, in June.
Polly Parker and Hike Kap-
Ian show the largest groups at
the Playhouse, 7 paintings
each. Miss Parker's colorful
Roses" and linear "Hyacinth"
and "Asphodel' while not boz
tanical illustrations, delicately
convey the forms and feeling
of these flowers.
Mrs. Kaplan has seen a few
ghosts. which she presents in
UNDERSTANDABLE vague images.
In some of her other paintings,
her color is hot and muddy,
and her images more ambigu-
Gus than the other artists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12

for her father. which was at
the core of her character, kept
her in constant flight, a prob
lem to her husband. as well as
her biographers.
The Beldens, having survived
their trial by fire, are ready
now to plunge into another
lively chapter of American
history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND

ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND
THE FOX. BY James Mac
Gregor Burns. (Harcourt,
Brace; $3.50
Chief Justice Holmes said Of
him: "A second class intellect.
but a first-class tempera-
ment." Someone who watched
him at the beginning Of his
career as Under-Secretary of
the Navy said: He was a
great trial and error guy, but
he did have some good ideas.
AS President, he was to some
That Man in the White
House.; to others a dazzling,
high-hearted leader.
To hts first political biog-
rapher." James MacGregor
Burns. Franklin D. Roosevelt
was above all "a man who
knew who he was; born to
ease and plenty, an only child
who knew only love and GER
tainties. He grew up. quite ma
turally. to become a superb
politician. who was willing to
use Machiavellian means to
foster simple moral ends. HE
would Tin short) use the tricks
OF the fox to serve the pur-
poses Of the lion"
Magic or Black Magic?
A professor of political
science at Williams College.
who was in Washington during
the period Of the excitements
and the antiquities Of the
New Deal" Mr.. Burns has
brought a scholars mind and
researchers thoroughness TO
this densely documented.
slightly repetitive study of the
man who won four terms in
the White House through
what some called magic and
others called black magic.
The quality. as reflected in
his mastery and Vaccinations,
is surprisingly susceptible 10
analysis. Mr.. Burns solid ac-
count is not light reading by
any means. but it commands
both attention and respect.
In the course OF almost 500
closely written and scrupu-
lously objective pages CMr.
Burns keeps both the thread
and his head very WE'LL he
overturns several persistent
legends. The first is that
Roosevelt's attack OF polio
transformed him from a So
cially secure young snob into
a friend of the underprivileged.
The work had been done, long
before. Mr.. Burns contends.
by Woodrow Wilson. by Uncle
Theodore. by wife Eleanor. In
the face Of cluckings from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12

widely in detail, describe amor
Gus impasSeS.
One. The Fall" touches on
love only subtly and indirectly.
An adolescent boy. recovering
from an illness, is taken by
his mother to an enormous
tumbling-down old villa by
the sea. He is alone most of
the time while she plays cards.
There is an eerie atmosphere
in this story, which may re-
mind you of Poe.
Most of these unusual stories
were translated by Bernard
Wall. One was translated by
Baptista Gilliat Smith, another
by Frances Frenaye. Philip
Rahv contributes an introduce
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
FouIkner's New Role

AS part of its now overt at
tempts to WOO the egghead
segment of the population, a
group it has rather conspicu-
ously snubbed hitherto, the
White House has called. in
Novelist William Faulkner to
try to help improve relations
with authors of other countries.
Perhaps In this case charity
might begin at home. Rela-
lions between writers and the
Government have not been too
happy in late years. For in
stance, look at Emily Davie,
author of Profile of America. >"
who had her book chosen by a
Government agency, and then
un-chosen by a House COM
mittee.
Or take the case of John
Cogley who wrote a history of
Establishing" under the aus
pieces of the Ford Foundation.
He got hauled up before the
House Un-American Activities
Committee and was asked in
every way a resourceful coun-
sci could think of why he
didn't write the book differ
emily. Mr.. Cooley. a thorough
ly unnerved witness, said that
he had written the book his
own way, an immemorial right
of authors.
Mr.. Cogley'S old magazine,
The Commonweal, came to his
defense in an editorial.
The American Book Pub
fishers Council Censorship Bull
letin had this to say. obviously
to abuse (their) great power
by regularly using it to call
authors to account or to har-
raSS them when their writings
are believed by a congressional
committee to be mistaken or
perniciouS would tend to create
a reluctance. or indeed an I'M
willingness, to express or pub
liSh views likely to provoke
congressional retaliation, even
though any deliberate intent
to censor might be absent"
White House might get to
work on that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12
Annual Area Dates

Washington area artists can
plan now for their entries in
the important 18th Annual
Area Exhibition at the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, Herman
Warner Williams, lr.. director.
has announced that it will
open December 2, to remain
through January 20. 1857. All
work must be submitted by
hand. to the Gallery. on Octo-
Der IL and 10.
Eligible are original works
produced within the last two
years by artists at least 16
years of age, now residing
within a so mile radius of
Washington. Awards of equal
distinction will be made within
all classes of the exhibition.
These are painting, watercolor,
sculpture, print, drawing, GER
amics. silver. textile and
stained glass. Artists may SUBJ
NIT an unlimited number of
entries in all classes. Entry
fees are soc per ceramic or
print, 81 for all other classes
except a So fee for stained
glass.
Jurors will be: for painting
and watercolor. Xavier Con-
zalez; sculpture. Perry B. Colt.
assistant chief curator OF the
National Gallery of Art;
ceramic, textile. silver and
stained glass, Alexander Clam
pietro, assistant professor of
art at the Catholic University;
print and drawing. Prentiss
Taylor.
Further information can be
had by writing to 18th An
nual Area Exhibition" The
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Washington 6, D. C.