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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
New Golden Book

While his first book only
in America" scars at the top
of the best-seller list, Harry
Golden hastens into print
with a second offering which
should be equally pleasing
to the customers. FOR &c
PLAIN (World; $4), shows
the honey Jewish philoso-
pher with the crisp style, the
good heart and the easy
humor is in the same vein.
For &c Plain" celebrates
the joys of everyday living.
Mr.. Golden is living proof
that they are not hard to
come by. He is a Manhattan
born Jew who lives in the
South and edits a newspaper
called The Carolina Israel
ite." He sees injustice all
around him, but he does not
rage and he does not despair.
He pokeS diligently to the
roots of the trouble; he sug-
gests sensible solut ionS. He is
particularly penetrating on
the segregation crisis. His
own race has known little
but crisis: he neither bristles
nor cringes. He is at home in
the world.
Mr.. Golden ranges all over
the lot in subject matter. He
writes of the origins of
slavery and his love for
Claudette Colbert and Joan
Crawford and Italian operas.
He writes of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw and his boyhood on the
East Side and why Mussolini
attacked on Easter. He is
always readable and enter
tanning and gently instruc-
tive,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26

MAJOR LITERARY DISCOVERY- this marble relief the Greek
damat Menander shown holding the players mask of
lover while the masks OF the sweetheart and the angry aer rest on
the
script recently private collection This
the first complete by Menander to be
He regarded generally to Aophanes the finest
drama of the ancient world The literary hrdcover
magazine HORIZON $3s5 publishes THE Curmudgeon in trans
laon by Gilbert Hghe Anthem of Latin at Columbia and
chairman Horizons advisory board The Illustration above rGm
published Cuudgeon play written leaves of
believed to be the work professional scribe in the td
century D. Menander lived about 342291 B. &C. B. j.
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ton in Chicago on the eighth
ballot in 1888.
What gives BENJAMIN
HARRISON: HOOSIER
STATES MAN university
Publishers; So its particular
charm for readers the year
before a presidential election
is its steady proof that men
and politicians do not change
much in their disavowals of
ambition or self-worth.
Here for instance is our
23d President four years be-
fore his nomination, when
the word began to get about
that he might be the man:
THE presidential fever has
blighted the lives OF so many
of our public men that I have
determined not to expose
myself to that contagion."
Unhappy in Office
Like many a public man
before and since his time,
Harrison constantly bewailed
his plight as a public servant.
Writing to his favorite cousin
Mag from the Capitol, he
said, II am born to be a
drudge. / think, and don't
look for any rest until the
Democrats beat me for the
Senate next fall-if they do
I shall shed no tears. for life
here is not to me enjoyable"
Yet when the call came,
Harrison, who had been a
brave Civil War general and
a brilliant lawyer, put his
distaste for life along the Po-
tomac to one side. Once
James G. Blaine, the "plumed
knight" from Maine had been
removed from the scene, Har-
riston gladly accepted the
nomination and when he
won over Grover Cleveland.
set out with a high heart to
return to Washington.
1t is at this point that
Father Sievers' biography
leaves him. One more volume
in the study which was COM
missioned by the Arthur Jor-
dan Foundation, restorers of
the Harrison Memorial Home,
is in preparation. Father Sic
verS is head of the history
department at Bellarmine
College, Plattsburgh, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Runt Cow Legend
Is Enchanting Story

LUDMILA, by Paul Calico
Doubleday; So is a charming
legend of Liechtenstein.
The author, in his versa
tile literary career, has writ
ten similar stories, notably
The Small Miracle" and
"ThomaSina." He has a way
with such themes.
Ludmila, whose carved like
ness looks out from a niche
cut in solid rock above rush.
ing mountain waters, is the
patron saint of dairymen and
herdsmen. Clad in a milk
maids dress, she holds in one
hand a harvesting sickle, in
the other a milk jug.
This happened in the late
summer of 1923, according to
the best information handed
down through generations of
dairy farmers. There were
many fine robust cows in the
herds of that day, and one
of them would win the an
nual prize for the most milk
with the richest butter con-
tent and be honored at the
yearly migration of the herds
down the mountains for Jne
winter. The best COW would
wear garlands and a symbolic
milk stool bound to her horns
and the whole community
would turn out to pay her
tribute as the other COWS fol-
lowed her in a procession.
Useless Cow
Now Farmer Johann YES
pelt had a single COW, a runt,
who had proved of little use.
She couldn't give much milk
and the other herdSmen got
to calling her the Weakling.
Johann decided there was no
use taking the Weakling up
the mountain for the final
day before the judging. She
was almost too frail to make
the trip to the high pastur-
age.
But that day his small
daughter, Ludmila (named
for st. Ludmila) stayed with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Provocative

The same thought is every
where reflected, although CT
course with a much higher
gloss, in THE MAXIMS OF
LA ROCHEFEUCAULD, a
new translation with an in
PRODUCTION by Louis Kronen-
berger (Random House;
$3.50. In any age Of ma
chine processed blindness.
the sour Dukes icy aphorisms
have the stimulating clink Of
ice-cubes.
Hypocrisy is the homage
that vice pays to virtue"
And, Gratitude is like bust
ness credit; it keeps trade
brisk and we pay up. not be-
cause it is the honorable
thing to do but because it
makes it easier to borrow
again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Another Tale
OfSouth Seas
THE CORAL TOWER. BY

AM SoASEAA NJ " law ~
William S. Stone. (Thomas
Bouregy & Co.; $685.
The mythical island Of
Ravaroa in French Oceania
is peopled by a population of
amiable Polynesian shell
divers, completely under the
domineering thumb of two
villainous types when Mis-
sionary Rob West and his
wife arrive.
Sailing into the lagoon
with a drunken sea captain,
the Vests are pretty quickly
told off by the BLACKBOARD
factor and his cohort. a
human toad who enforceS
things with a slingshot.
However, the Vests win
through with sweetness and
light and some assists from
"a Papeete prostitute and an
English recluse at the height
of whatever they call a
hurricane in the Dangerous
Archipelago.
Mr.. Stone has lived for 20
years in Tahiti and his book
is full of fascinating trivia
about the brown islanders.
But The Coral Tower" is
short on plot and long on
people. The chief villain
does nothing worse than
make the natives work on
Sunday and beat his woman.
The chief hero does moth
ing much except botch his
efforts at deep diving and
fix a window in a light
house.
1t appears that Mr.. Stone
wasted his writing talent on
a plot unworthy of his
efforts. j. OIL, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
THE RISE OF THE MERI-

THE RISE OF THE MERI-
TOCRACY. by Michael
Young (Random House;
$3.50.
Imagine the intelligence
test and the aptitude measure
as the all-powerful means of
determining how much edu-
cation children can absorb.
Imagine a new elite class of
the best-educated that con-
trolls society completely.
Conjure up such a system,
and you'll have the basis of
Michael Young'S brilliant sat-
ire on the future of England.
The author, a leading Eng
lish sociologist, has projected
affairs into the middle of the
21st century. He has written
his satire. not as a novel, like
George Orwell'S 1894" but
as a sociological treatise,
deadpan, with accompanying
reports and sometimes charts.
The formula for this 2lst CEN
fury utopia is the equation
Il E. M. This means intel
ligence plus effort equals
merit.
All Had Chance
1t was not a matter of TAX
ing children from only the
So-called upper classes, the
wealthy and the titled. 1t
was recognized by the ex-
perts that a high intelligence
quotient could come from
anywhere. In fact, scholars
generally agreed that bril-
liant parents we're apt to
have children of somewhat
lesser endowments. On the
other hand, a laborer or
artisan who hadn't been
through grammar school and
had shown no flashes of a
higher intelligence might be
father of a genius.
To-day" Mr.. Young's
protagonist muses.. in the
year 2034, I'VE frankly recog-
nize that democracy can be
no more than aspiration. and
have rule not so much by the
people as by the cleverest
people; not an aristocracy of
birth, not a plutocracy of
wealth. but a true meritoc-
racy of talent"
Nobody without a high
I. @. got anywhere in this
utopian land.
When the new system was
put into effect, some man.
aging directors of enterprises
became what was then called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Dresser Letters

LETTERS TO LOUISE,
Theodore Dreiser's letters to
Louise Campbell. edited and
with commentary by Louise
Campbell university of
Pennsylvania Press; $500 is
one of those minor portraits
of the artist in Shirtsleeves
which make enjoyable brows-
ing.
With his lifelong editor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
THE DEVIL AT FOUR o.

lie DEVIL Al EOOh "
CLOCK, by Max Cato
Morrow; $3.50.
A prize-fighter priest, three
good-at-heart convicts, and
some booty observers on a
volcanic island in the Pacific
are the main characters IN
this sagging novel of emo
tionS.
The novel revolves around
these questions: Will the good
priest reform the convictS?
Will the priest and the con-
victS rescue a childrens leper
colony before the island
blows up?
The authors characterize
tons are not consistent. He
has an angry French nurse of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Ruin of Red Man
Is VividIy Told

a great waste by the pale
faces who changed all that.
The plot is good and thick.
the dialogue is authentic and
rapidly moving but the read
er is more likely to be fas-
cinated by the wealth of lore
about Indian life than any
thing else. And he may end
up feeling, as the reviewer
did, that it is a great pity
the Indians couldn't have
been left alone.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
BY EARL III. VOSS
Star STAFF Writer

PROTRACTED CONFLICT.
BY Robert StrauSz-Hupe,
William R. Kintner, James
E. Dougherty and Alvin j.
Cottrell. (Harper: $685.
For those who have never
been able to make sense out
of day to day shifts in Soviet
foreign policy-like Winston
Churchill who found it "a
riddle wrapped in a mystery
inside an enigma"-thiS book
may be a key.
The authors have succeed
ed in reconstructing a logical
frame within which it is pos
sible to evolve a rationale for
Soviet policy.
Its central theme: The So
Wet leadership is winning
World War III-which is al
ready under way-by a tech
nique so slick the West does
not even know it is being
beaten. The technique is the
graduated challenge" or the
''protracted conflict"
According to the authors
"The strategy of protracted
conflict poStpones the decisive
battle and celebrates it's chal-
lengeS to a calculus of risks
until the balance of power
has shifted overwhelmingly
to the side of the revolution
airy forces"
West Is Slow
GradualnesS in expanding
the totalitarian challenge,
the authors say, encourages
temporizing on the part of
the democracieS. The latter
are slow to assess the threat
properly. especially if it is
disguised under the cloak of
what many WesternerS deem,
consciously or not, a 'legiti-
mate cause such as national
ISM There will be a growing
cleavage among democratic
elites over the issue. Dem
ocratic policy makers will
make halfhearted ad hoe
etforts-'too little and too
late'-to deal with the
threat"
Examples from recent his
tory are used to bear out
these theories. They should
make fascinating reading for
observers and participants in
recent American policy
making.
The Communists use prox-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
Books Ahead

Forthcoming: THE War
Lover" by John Hersey, au-
thor of The Wall" 1t is the
Book of the Month Club Sc
lection for october. Poor No
More" by syndicated column
mist Robert Ruark, the story
of a poor boy from Truro,
N. c., who goes onward and
upward to the cover of Time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
READING AND WRITING
Life of Harrison
Made Interesting
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

Benjamin Harrison not the most madly exciting per-
onay history but the second volume of his biography
by Father Harry Seves makes fascinating reading
Harrison of the few Senator's to make 1t to the
White House. Actually Harrison twotermer, had been
defeated for the Senate when he the Republican nomna
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
GENERAL

THE EQUITABLE LIFE AS
SURANCE SOCIETY OF
THE U. S., 1859-1959. BY
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R. Carlyle Buley. apple
ton Century Crofts; So
The history of the growth
of the largest American
non = industrial insurance
company.
ESSAYS ON JEWISH LIFE
AND THOUGHT. Edited by
Joseph L. Blau and others.
columbia University;
$7.50)
A CALENDAR FOR THE
MODERN AGE. BY Eliza
beth AcheliS. Nelson: So
An argument for a uni
versally synchronized time
and calendar system.
HAPPY LANDINGS IN EU-
ROPE. BY N. Sharp. VAN
tage; $3.50 A travel guide.
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR
BALLET DANCING. By.
Beale and Peggy Fletcher.
Barnes; $685. An illus
trated handbook on the
simplest barre to the intri-
cate foot work of the
adagio and allegro.
MY FIGHT FOR SANITY.
By Judith Kruger. Chill
ton; $4.95D A personal &C
count of what it is like to
be mentally i'll and finally
cured.
THE NOVELS OF JAMES
GOULD COZZENS. BY
Frederick Bracher. (Har-
court, Brace; $5.75O A
study of the life and works
of the author of by Love
Possessed "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
PAPERBACKS

ATLAS SHRUGGED. BY Avn
Rand. (Signet; ESQ., BY
the author of The Foun-
tainhead."
BOEING 7O7. BY Martin
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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS.
BY Mahatma Gandhi. Co.
lumbia University; $4.75D
Selections from the works
of the great Indian leader,
compiled by UNESCO.
FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM.
BY Hermann R. Muelder.
columbia University;
$500 A history of anti
slavery activities of Knox
College, Galesburg, Ill.
ROAD TO REVOLUTION. BY
Avraham YarmolinSky.
Macmillan; $685. An &C
count of political unrest
against the throne in 10Th
century Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-26
FICTION
OH SIR, YOU'VE SHO

OH SIR, YOU'VE SHOT
HER! BY Benjamin Jacob
sen. putnam; $500
RIVER RIPPLES. BY Mabel
Steele Wright. Vantage;
$2.50D The life of dudes
on a ranch in Colorado.
SWEETER THAN FICTION.
BY Rosa Duncan. Vantage;
$500 A young Christian
woman married to an athe-
list leaves him to save her
own faith.
THESE AMERICANS IN
MOCCASINS. BY Bonnie
Hunter. Vantage; $500
Short stories about the
American Indians.
WORSE AND MORE OF 1T.
BY Nancy Ely Henshaw.
Vantage. $1,000 Ancient
pagan rites aunt an
English manor house.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18

leave. DR.. Davis has served the
College for % years with Is Of
these as its Chief Administrator.
The Board of Trustees assured
the continuity Of the college pro-
gram through the appointment of
Earl E. Evans as Acting President
for the period of President Davis
leave. Mr.. Evans has served in
various administrative capacities
at the college for 18 years. He
began as Cashier under the late
John Brown Watson and in addi-
ton served as Director Of the Vet
Grams Program, Registrar and Ad-
ministrative Dean, the position he
now holds. He is a graduate of
AM&N College and received his
Masters degre in Education Ad-
ministration at the University of
Arkansas.
Mr.. Evans will have advice and
assistance from the members of the
Executive Committee of the Ad-
ministrative Council which inclu-
des J. A. Ramos, Business Mana
ger, John Howard, Director Of
Public Relations and DR.. ]. B.
Jones, Coordination of Student Life
and Director of Personnel and
Guidance.
A committee of the Board of
Trustees was Amounted to study
the future needs and program of
the College and devise means for
implementation of their findings.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18

the South
"The South has not changed it's
attitude, but it's behavior Ger
tainly is different. This is not
ignoring the violence that has
occurred in Clinton, Tennessee;
Clay, Kentucky and Mansfield,
Texas, either" DR.. Nabrit said.
During the course of his speech
the prominent law school dean de-
flated four other Southern argu-
ments which, he said, are being
beamed as propaganda at the
North through all channels Of
communication.
He called untrue the argument
that the South is making great
efforts to afford the Negro sepa-
rate but equal opportunities.
Where school systems are bet
ter, it is the result of law suits,
he declared.
Every step forward has been
fought to the bitter end by the
white South"
Such resistance, he said, pro-
vides no justification for leaving
the South free to segregate the
Negro, on the premise that it
has shown interest and good faith
in its widespread comforting Of
public benefits upon the Negro.
Negro Progresses Despite
Barriers
at is ironical that SOuther-
ners would use every device Of
discrimination, intimidation and
Acknowledgement possible to hold
the Negro down, and then when
in spite of these efforts, he makes
some progress, they stick out their
chests and say, look what we
did"
The third argument attack by
DR.. Nabrit says that segregation
is reasonable in the light of the
ignorance, poverty and disease of
Negroes who constitute such
large proportion of the South's
population.
DR.. Nabrit said the South, hav-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18

will not be published until after
the Queens visit, he said.
The Prime Minister has already
replaced the QussnS likeness with
his own on stamps and coins and
has moved into Christian3borg
Castle, formerly the residence Of
the Governors General.
He aspires to leadership in the
pan-Afriean movement and il un-
derstood to feel that his secon-
dairy constitutional position, which
gives other African leaders such
as President William v. 8. Tub
man Of Liberia and President
Sekou Toure of Guinea precedence
over him should be changed.
Mr.. Baako said reasons for
change to q republic are that
the people Of Ghana had their
own traditions and wanted q head
Of state I'VE can sse and touch
and talk to all the time,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18
Delta Sigma

possible.
ave do not like income taa
laws, but we obey them-or labor
laws, or others-but our behavior
is controlled by them.
"If we can get racial habits OF
attitudes changed, we are elated
If we cannot, we really are not
too concerned for we are pri'
marily interested in behavior and
we know that behavior can be
changed overnight.
Cites Proof
"Proof of that is that Negroes
and whites now ride and eat to-
gether on trains all over the
South. Negroes are in colleges
and universities with whites in
Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana. Ok
lahoma, Kentucky, North Carol
ina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware
and West Virginia.
Negroes are serving on city
councils in Tennessee, Louisiana
North Carolina and Maryland.
"Negroes are working for
Northern corporations in integral
ed jobs in Tennessee, Kentucky and
Georgia; and Negroes are vot-
ing all over the South in pri-
maries.
Negroes are attending inte-
grated public schools in Delaware
Maryland, District of Columbia,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Arkansas. Texas, Oklahoma,
Missouri and on all Army posts in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18

ing denied the Negro equal edu-
cational opportunity" does not
say it can set up classes for re-
tarded pupils, separate children
on the basis of l. @. or other
tests or take other steps to i'm
prove the backward Negro Child
rem.
at merely says we have hurt
the Negro educationally, let US
continue to do this"
Northern Problems Being
Resolved
Replying to the Southern argu-
ment that the presence of seq
regation and racial tensions in
the North and West shows that the
South is right in segregating the
Negro, DR.. Nabrit said:
"All the difficulties in those
Northern areas can be and are
being resolved by law, political
action, education, interracial
groups and a sense of justice,
order and common decency.~ The
solution is not the Southern one
of brutality, coercion, blacklist
ing, or death"
He told the Deltas that the
burden of American Negroes is
to see that democracy succeeds.
Deltas Urged To Stimulate
The members of the public ser
vice Sorority were urged to stimu-
late Negro youth with facts of
Negro history because "man is
moved by great deeds done by
his brothers"
Deltas were urged also to mo-
tivate youth to seek wider hori-
IONS because gin the world of
tomorrow race will no longer be
a barrier"
Stating that in an integrated
world only the fittest will sur
vive, DR.. Nabrit said the Negro
should be alerted to the Changes
taking place in our economy and
the requirements which our child
rem will face on tomorrow"
With the average factory mach
inc costing an estimated $25, 900
only skilled, trained, careful ano
responsible workers will be hireo
to run them, he said, because the
cost is too great to risk bungling
He added that in 1865, it is esti.
mated that less than 10 percent OF
all the work in the United States
will be unskilled. This compared
with 35 percent in 1910, indicating
that youth will have to be we'll
trained and reliable.
Conference Has Project
Workshops
During their four-day Confer
ence, members of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority's Eastern Region
grouped into five workshops tt
learn how to carry out the Delta
program.
The program consists largely
of Delta's five public service pro-
jects - disseminating information
on mental health problems; vol
unteering for community services
explaining job opportunities to
ninth-grade teachers, guidance
counselors and parents; encourag
ing children to read more widely
in library project called "Ride
the Winged Horse; and cement
ing good relations abroad by pro-
viding tangible aids under its
international project.
Conflict and Tension Discussed
Themed "The Challenge Of
Changing Patterns Of Living" thu
Conference was held at the Wes1
Charlotte Senior High School.
Among the topics discussed wa:
one entitled Conflict and Ten
sion - Inevitable in Group Situa
tions?"
On the second day of the Con
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-04-18

Parliament sufficient to amend
any Of its provisions. Consequent
ly, the monarchy could be ended
by . simple vote Of the ruling
Convention Peoples party, which
hold seventy mine Of the 1O4 seats.
The pre-eminent position Of
Prime Minister Kwame Nkru-
NAH is the reason for the predic-
ton by observers here that the
functions Of head Of state and head
Of government will be concentrate
ed in one mans hands. They also
believe Mr.. Nkrumah will fill the
new post.
Queen Elizabeth has been head
of state in Ghana since indepen-
dence, and the Crown is represent
ed here by the Governor General,
the Earl of Listowel. He has the
same constitutional relationship
to the government as the Queen
has to the British Government.
The establishment Of a republic
would put an end to his office.
The Queen is scheduled to visit
Ghana from Nov. IL to %, and
the trip will be in effect q fare
we'll to this realm beyond the
seas" The visit is a major rea-
son for the postponement Of the
formal decision to set up q repu-
bic, and no official announcement
is expected until after the Queens
departure.
Mr.. Baako said constitutional
changes the republic will neces-
state were already under study,
but he declined to disclose what
form they were taking. They