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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES {. TRACEWELL

Templeton Jones had 100
paper books on his desk.
In the past year, 81 of them
have disappeared.
The sturdy three left:
1.-THE Loyalty Of Free Men,"
by Alan Barth, published by
Paper Books.
Control High Blood Press
ure and Live Longer" by Her
man Pomeranz, MD, pub
lished by Elton Books.
"Thorndike -Barnhart Handy
Pocket Dictionary" Perma-
books.
Each is good of its kind,
especially Mr.. Barth's sturdy
story of the conflict that d.
vided America as it fought the
Communist threat to freedom.
\ \ 4
Perhaps the fact that most
Of the others were detective
stories and novels of one sort
or another had something to
do with their disappearance.
Most readers today feel that
such cheap reprints are not
exactly in the class with hard
bound books, and so do not
hesitate to lift" what they
want.
ITO steal a pin, it is a sin;
To steal a later, is a greater"
So went the old rhyme,
which may apply to the
ubiquitous paperbound books
and their glorified cousins, the
SUPER aperbounds.
The only trouble with the
latter, as many an honest
reader has discovered, is that
they largely represent old
volumes whose original sales,
mostly due to subject matter,
were very small. probably not
over three or four thousand
copies.
Yet 1t is good. such readers
also have found out. to be able
to find some Of them at rea-
sonable prices. from IS cents to
$1.45 and occasionally as much
as 50.
First of the paper volumes
sold for Is cents, 35 cents. and
sometimes SO cents, as these
libraries are still very good, if
you know what you want.
II you are not quite sure,
as many a younger booklover
is not. then these cheap re-
prints allow for investigation
and occasional failure.
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Where is the bookman who
has not, at some time or other,
wanted to look into the great
religious books Of India and
China?
Their classics can now be
found in the paper volumes.
with covers not too garish.
II is interesting to browse,
there is no other word for ii,
over the thoughts Of the past
ages, and try to At them into
modern America.
Mostly the effort will be
wasted. for it has been truly
said. we believe, that East is
East and West is West and
never the twain shall meet.
Magnificent efforts have
been made. in the past 20
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years, to overcome this divi-
sion, but all that any thinking
reader has to do is to read
some of the basic thinking of
the older sections Of the
earth.
While, to some degree, the
thoughts of humanity are
basic, the way they are put UP.
and the key words used, are
so different, so peculiar to the
civilization, that it is practi-
cally impossible for another
culture to use them.
There is a barrier, call it
what you will.
i 49,
Everyman editions, still cloth
bound, ought to be included in
any talk about paper books.
Though hard covered, they
began life back before the
first World War at a nominal
price of IS and later 40 cents
each. and these low prices al
lowed many a young man
making no more than $40 a
week on his first Job to have
some of the worlds greatest
books.
There were different colored
bindings for fiction, poetry
philosophy, plays, essays, and
so on.
Collectors of these small
books, with their sometimes
crowded pages, got to know
what they wanted by color as
well as by author and title.
Cloth bound though they
were, the old Everymans had
the authentic feel OF the !,
modern paper books.
They were small, chummy to
hold, easy to carry In pocket
or handbag.
Let all real booklovers,
whenever they see a modern
paper book, remember Every
man. Il will go by thy side"
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Vice President - presumably
with Adlai Stevenson-and (b)
to be keynote speaker Of the
Democratic National Conyen-
ton. He could not hope for
either If Kefauver were the
party's choice for President.
So the Governor is turning
thumbs down on the Senator.
Whether this is going to help
Clement In the long run re-
mains to be seen, particularly
If he fails to get the vice
presidential nomination. His
term Of office expires In Jan
uary, 1859. He cannot run for
reelection in Tennessee. II he
tried for the Senate, he would
have to run against Senator
Albert Gore-a popular Sem
ator who also has been men,
toned as q potential nominee
for Vice President. Senator
Kefauver could be expected to
throw in with Gore against
Clement. To run against Ke-
fauver for the Senate, Clement
would have to wait-out of
public offlce-for two years,
unless Stevenson or another
Democrat, elected President,
should give him job in Wash
ington.
Counterpart in California
The Tennessee Democratic
situation has almost a coun-
terpart in the California Re-
publican situation. There Gov.
Knight, also ambitious, would
like to stick a knife in Vice
President Nixon, politically
speaking. Before President Eli
senhower announced he would
run, but after the Presidents
heart attack, Gov. Knight an
nounced his determination to
have a Knight delegation go
to the Republican National
Convention, either uninstructed
or pledged to Knight as
a favorite-son candidate. He
made no bones about his OPP
position to Nixon.
After Eisenhower said he
would be a candidate for a
second term, Knight and
Nixon and Senator Knowland,
who also wanted a presidential
nomination. agreed on a three
cornered delegation. Knight
will go along with the renom-
nation of Nixon for Vice
President-though he hates
the idea--if Eisenhower wants
Nixon. He said as much. If by
any chance the President
should be unable and unwilling
to continue as candidate,
Gov. Knight probably will do
his best to sink Nixon. Il
Notwithstanding the efforts
in various quarters to get
Nixon off the Eisenhower tick
ct, the Vice President seems to
be increasing his grip on it.
The big 96-Strong New York
delegation to the COP. Ma
tional Convention has gone on
record in favor of Nixon's re-.
nomination unanimously, with
former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
a delegate at large, giving
Nixon a particular blessing. AT
a recent meeting of the con-
vention committee on arrange
ments in Washington, the sem
timent for Nixon was strong.
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@. How nearly completed is
the Washington Cathedral in
the Nations Capital? w. Mob.
A. After nearly half a CEN
tury Of building, the cathedral
is only half finished. The
foundation stone was laid in
1907 with President Theodore
Roosevelt in attendance. Be-
cause building progresses only
when funds are available, it
is impossible TO foretell when
the cathedral will be COM
pleted. Actually the work could
be done in 10 years If SUM-
cient money in gifts and me-
MORALS we're available.
@. What are the measure
ments Of the biggest sturgeon
ever caught? W.OS.
A. The largest on record is
said TO have been caught in
the Volga River of the Soviet
Union. 1t was 26 feet long
and weighed almost Ia tons.
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Outwittinq the Bear

Elmer Davis, in his book,
"But We Were Born Free" re-
lates an appalling incident. An
investigator for a Government
agency came to interview him
about a job applicant who had
given Mr.. Davis name in ref
erence. Thinking to give the
applicant a boost. Mr.. Davis
remarked about her intelli-
gence. The investigator was
disturbed rather than inn
pressed and replied that intel
ligent people are easily swayed
to communism. If this is true.
there obviously is something
wrong with democracy.
I think that. in theory, this
is the most workable system
of government in the world
today. but I cannot say that
it is the best conceivable. That
would be as much as to say
that the imagination of the
founding fathers was every
thing. Certainly they did not
think that. No honest person
can deny there is much to be
desired.
AS for communism, the eagle
misses a telling blow against
the bear by not confronting
him on an intellectual plane.
The public should be enlight-
ened in the fact that Karl
Marx was not an idealistic
Robin Hood. His interpreta-
ton of communism was only
a philosophy with him. He
foresaw the workers revolt as
the memorable direction in
which the universe was NOV
ing; the elimination of nat
ural motions.
To be sure. it is a false
philosophy doomed at least in
this millennium if only because
of human frailty. But who
knows it except the intel
lectuals?
The world, or any corner of
it, must first produce ideal in
dividuals before it can pro-
duce the ideal state. All philos-
ophies and politics to date have
worked and are working in re-
verse of this procedure. That
is why there still is only a
world of chaos.
I do not say that the ideal
society is possible, but / do
not think the ideal state is
possible without it. Leaders
will never honor the simple
masses whom they easily can
victimize, and who have no
conception or appreciation Of
the ideal.
The inquiSition before pol
iticians in a row produces two
negative effects upon the ideal
intention: 1t rouses the naive
rabble. 1t drives the sympa-
thetic underground where they
cannot be reached and rea-
Soned with.
Communism is like religion
in one way. Suppress it and it
mushrooms. Expose it to a
superior intellectual examina-
ton and it dies a natural
death.
Essayist.
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Downs Hatch Act

The Hatch Act is one piece
of legislation that should be
repealed. 1t is un-American
and undemocratic to restrict
one segment of our popula-
ton in this fashion. Suppress
sion Of public opinion was
never intended by the found
erS Of our country. 1t is the
fundamental right Of every
citizen, whether he be a Gov
eminent employee or not. to
express his opinion on politics
and to take part in a politi-
cal campaign if he so desires.
Any law or legislation that en-
croaches upon this right is
pernicious in its application
and effect.
The old argument that the
law is designed to prevent
people in Government posi-
tons from misusing their posi-
tons for political ends, is Spe-
cious and without force or
standing. A person who mis-
uses his position for political
ends can be dealt with in an
appropriate manner by other
means. Besides, innocent peo-
pie should not be penalized by
application of the Hatch Act
which hits innocent and guilty
alike.
This act to prohibit political
activity is akin to the situa-
ton in the District of CO.
lurnbia, whereby a citizen is
deprived Of the right to vote
or have a voice in his govern
ment. Both are unfair in their
application and, in my opinion,
unconstitutional.
n r HauohauoVnf
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schools must lead to inter-
racial social relations and
even to miscegenation. 1 at
tended an integrated public
high school in a Northern
State and remember clearly
that at dances and other So
cial functions there was abso-
lutely no interracial mixing.
Opinions seem to be in
abundance, but we all need
something more than our
emotional inclinations to work
with If we are to solve our
problem in democracy.
Ann HI. Wilson
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essential. Congress ought to grant what
ever authority is needed to institute the
plan in the Federal establishment.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used u
letters carry Uriters' correct
names and addresses. All
letters are subject to conden-
SGtion.
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Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

A reader can get an answer By mail
Evening Star Information Bureau
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perity and called it Republic
can. He said. they are the
ones who believe that pros
perity trickles downtown an
all-powerful government which
spreads it around by gifts and
privileges"
In addressing the evening
political study group of the
District League of Republican
Women the Senator said that
the Republicans believed that
national prosperity is the total
of the prosperity of separate
individuals. and that pros
perity thus produced will al
ways be greater than the
"trickle down" kind because it
grows out of individual initia-
tive and brings greater salts
faction.
He also added that the Dem
ocratS were still smarting I'M
der their rejection in 1852
and will make a desperate eff
fort to persuade and entice
the people back to the pattern
of subsection and control that
brought them power and privi-
lege.
Mrs. Roy E. James, director
of the group, presided over the
gathering in the fourth floor
dining room of the YWCA.
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Death OF Her Daughter
CHANGED Mrs. Luce's Life

degrees. That night she slept
in a pup tent and the next day
toured the front lines. Most
impressive to her were the
Christmas services being held
in the fields behind the front
with thousands of soldiers
kneeling reverently in the
snow.
Clare got home in time to
spend New Years Day with
Harry in Connecticut. Then
she went on to Washington
for the opening of Congress.
At her first news conference
she made a plea that we send
more food to the Italians,
"(they are) dying by the thou
sands from cold and hunger"
she said, and we have failed
miserably to keep our pre-
election promise to supply
them with 300 grams of food
a day." She also announced
her intention to reintroduce
her bill to draft 4Fs into a
work corps, which Democrat
James Byrnes, director of war
mobilization had suddenly an
nounced was a good idea
On January 10, 1945, Clare
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on the Western front. Know
ing this, Clare volunteered to
write a series of articles for
the combined American press.
Alexander was not disap-
pointed. Clare'S dispatches.
which alternated between the
human story and brilliant
evaluations of military STRAIT
egg, were played up by news
papers all over America. The
Italian fighting began to
emerge from the penumbra of
silence cast by the more dra-
matte events in Germany.
By the logic of her door
die nature Clare could spare
herself nothing. So when
Patton's Sd Army captured the
Nazi charnel house of Buch-
enwald, Clare was early on the
scene. When she came into
the dreadful camp, the wagons
with shriveled bodies stacked
like firewood were still stand
ing before the crematorium.
Inside. skeletonized prisoners
too weak to move were lying
on mattresses on the floor, or
in their shelflike tiers of
hunks. A prisoner-guide took
her to the basement where in a
white-walled room thousands
of men had been hanged from
iron hooks. She saw the fur
naces. still half choked with
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made her report to the House
on her Italian trip. In a long
speech, informed by first hand
knowledge and passionate con-
viction, she traced the hard
history of the forgotten 5th
Army; told their needs as ex-
pressed by hundreds of GIs
with whom she talked. and
made a heartfelt plea for a
system of fiXed-tour duty for
infantrymen.
To Buchenwald
Clare was in Washington
just two months before she
was Unexpectedly called over
seas again. During that time
she came out for universal
military training, backed the
work or Jail" act to mobilize
manpower. and combatted the
Yalta pact on Poland as vio-
lating the Atlantic Charter.
On March 5, at the special
invitation of her old friend
from Burma, Field Marshal
Sir Harold Alexander, now
commanding allied forces in
the Mediterranean theater,
she flew again to Italy.
Alexander had invited Clare
to get some good publicity for
his beloved 9th Army and
to tell the story of British
American cooperation, which
was far closer in Italy than
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Donor Dinner Dance
AT Country Club

The Montgomery County
Chaper of Hadassah will cele-
brate its first Donor affair with
a dinner dance at the Norbeck
Country Club, Sunday. The
dance marks the end of the
chapters yearly Embarrassing
campaign for the support of
Hadassah health installations.
hospital and medical school in
Israel.
Chairman for the Donor is
Mrs. Nathan Abramsen, as
sisted by cochairmen Mrs.
Stanley Baruch, Mrs. Seymour
Friedman, Mrs. Walter Selig-
man. Mrs. Stanley Love and
Mrs. Maurice Apstein.
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Could be the most angelic veal
from the most angelic, contented
OF calves-just a thick filet Of
sweet meat laced with mush-
rooms, wine, sweet butter. Pre-
coded by UtchySSotse: preceded
by a man-size Martini while YOU
eye your neighbors up from Mid
dleburg. It's true Everybody
who is anybody's here All dis
putting in comraderie the velvety
points of the strawberry sherbert.
It's homemade. 1880 till mid
night. Tariff easy. 1904 Thirtieth
st. N.W.t&
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Continued From Page b-(
had an unblemished record of
left-wingism. Things did not
really get hot until Clare made
a broadcast address in Pitts
burgh, warning labor that the
Communists were trying to
take over American labor I'M
ions. She pointed out that
Sidney Hillman of the CLIO was
collaborating closely with Earl
Browder. who was admittedly
Americas No. Communist.
And, finally, she accurately de-
scribed Communist methods of
government as similar to those
of the NaziS.
At this insult to our Russian
allies. everybody howled blue
murder. The New Dealers
SWarmed into Connecticut to
purge her. The Vice President
made no less than % speeches
in her district. President
Roosevelt ordered his cam
paign special stopped in
Bridgeport, and stood for five
minutes talking to a great
crowd, with his arm around
Maggie Connors.
1t looked bad election night
IN Greenwich. Clare and
Harry listened to the returns
on the radio at home. They
were not good hearing. Bridge
ports voting machines gave
Maggie Connors a humping
lead. At II o'clock, Clare tele-
phoned Al Morano. I've lost,
haven't II" she asked.
you're going to win," said
Al.
Then Harry took the phone.
you can tell me the truth,
Al" he said. Glare can't
catch up now, can she?"
She'll win," said AL.
AS the country ballots were
counted, Clare crept up. BY
2 O'Clock it was neck and neck,
by 3 she had won-by 1000
votes.
Front Line Inspection
Glare had hardly gotten
back to Washington when the
Pentagon called her. Members
of the House Military Affairs
Committee were going to the
various fronts to see condi-
tons for themselves. The
Army was particularly anx-
ious that Mrs. Luce go.
The Congressional Commit
mittee's Army transport plane
with bucket seats took off on
November 20 for London,
which was under constant
bombardment by buzz bombs
and the terrible new W.
rockets.
In France Clare met Gen.
Eisenhower at his headquar-
tiers in Versailles and with the
committee visited Gen. Pat
tons Bird Army in the frozen
mud of the Saar Valley.
While the other committee
men were being briefed on the
military situation, Clare felt
1t her duty to visit the for
ward hospitals, where the
wounded men lay limp or
twisting with pain.
On the day before Christmas
Clare went up to the front
lines between Florence and
Bologna. The jeep she rode in
slid and bucked over the icy
mountain roads while the
wind whipped the dry, sting
ing snow in her face, and the
temperature dropped to Is
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On Embassy Row
Last Evening

Under the sponsorship of the
Dean of the Diplomatic Corps
and Nine. Munthe de Morgen-
stierne, Artist Bjorn Egeli held
a showing of his paintings yes
terday from 5 to 7 pm. in the
Cosmos Club.
Mr.. Egeli is at present doing
a portrait of the Ambassador
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eXpressWay to Frederick. The
rides gorgeous, but even more
the platters of crispy chicken,
served country-style Cor the ham.
or sirloins). AND the country
curd, apple butter, creamy cole
slaw, piccalilli and such like and
crunchy corn fritters. feathery
corn mullins. No Barencide feast
this at PETER PAN INN. Just
a bountyl! Even then Dick and
Ethel Baumgardner beg you to
enjoy more OF the country ice
cream so you'll be shamelessly
gratified. No spirits. Dinners
only from l-8. Sundays 1871. RI.
240 to Urbana ttt
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TWO JnOuSdnQ
fried chicken
devotees will
h a We h e
S a m e idea)
but early in
the week to
historic Pc
T E r p A N
IN N, jus t
a b 0 u t IS
minutes away
via the scenic
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Chef carves away great slabs Of
mountaineering prime ribs. And
with the degree of doneness just
as you fancy. That tabled roast
beef of old England was never
like this-juicy, texture fine, fat
delicately marbled. Never like this
anywhere the giant-size baked
Idaho, garnished with chives,
sour cream; never like this THE
WOODNER dewy salad bowl. And
the dessert? The gourmet cheese
tray - Camembert, Liederkrdntz,
RoQuefort. Gruyere-with toasted
crackers. Cocktails. Dinners only
Clio. Sunday brunch 12:30-3.
Care-free parking. 1886 Six
teenth st. NV.
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companion) of the herbiest,
meatiest Italian sauce this side
OF Milane. OF course, this Lucul-
Ian feasting would only be at
PILLS Gust above the Georgia
Ave. entrance of Walter Reed.
And Horace-quoting Phil him.
self presideS over these macaroni
destinies. If you think you'll
overreach with the rich noodle
why not the chicken cdccidtore
Mdddlend? Ecco (Behold) this
chick! Ecco sauce! Ecco, signore,
coco at 1903 Georgia Ave. NV!
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PIEHRE 5 CASUAL elegance, 50
popular for decades with the
towns cave-dwellers? All deli
ciously grilled, then circled on the
hot platter with golden. new po-
tatoes, and the blush of carved
carrots cooked in consomne,
then glazed to a glisten). And
there's well of tangy BearnaiSe
sauce along with PURGE of fresh
peas to grace it all Luncheon.
dinner cocktails. Cherry prir
fire. Dinner parking gratis at
1925 goth St. NV. PIERRE'S. 1929
Que St. N.W.t
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F r A Noes,
Georgetown'S
newest for
t h e epicure.
And what is
this essence
/ n v G a |
F r a n C e,
which has the
p a t r o n s
drooling po-
litely t h e y
love IL 500
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perctd tell,
mezeani, cat
a I Iii? Or
yearn for aiti,
NJ ar gherita.
lettuce. Spte-
dini2 All land
many more)
c 90 k e d al
dente, t h n
served with
a buond COM
pdqnG good
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Republican
Is
Speaker

The Democrats were accused
last night by Senator Bennett,
Republican of Utah, of using
an old trick of the Communists
that of ascribing to your
foes the very device you use.
The Senator said that he
was always amused when the
Democrats spoke about the
''trickle down" theory of pros
charred bones. All this she
wrote and broadcast to Amer
lea.
Then she flew home. In
Miami someone handed her a
newspaper that said Hitler had
killed himself, and she said,
"Golly! Then it's true It's
the end of a nightmare"
Tomorrow - Clare Boothe Luce
joins Cotholie faith; denounces
Senator Bllbo on segregation; retired
from Congress in Jonuory, l947.
tFrom the book Ambassador Extraor
binary. Copyright l955-la56 b
Alden Hatch Reprinted by permissio
q Henry Holt g. Co, Inc. New Yorl
n. "
Distributed by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicatel.
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And Gabbp commends.

And Gabby commends.
YENC HING PLACE. 1924
Conn Ave. NV.
O'DONNEtL'S. 1901 Wisconsin
DUTCH MILL FARM. Rt. so 4
mi. W. Of Bay Bridge.
Copyright tais.
= Closed sun. -, Mon, Il;Zy RI.
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MONDAY Heller skelter, hurry
scurry mot weekends when about
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they were too
vittle : mind
ed. But st.
G c r M q / II.
bless his cul-
mary heart,
is at RES
ia U r A N T
P / E r r E.
Ever had the
broiled sweet
b + e a d S st.
German in