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Evening star., 1960-05-23

ages since they now are eligible
for Social Security benefits, the
Ministerial Relations Depart
ment report noted that large
numbers of churches are seek
ing their services in various
capacities"
But ministers retiring be-
tween the ages of IS and 70
may not earn more than $1,000
q year without loss of Social
Security benefits. At this rate
q retired pastor desiring to con-
tinue working is employed on
fulltime basis at approximately
$3.50 a day. The statement
asserted that some churches
wanted this high-clasS profess
sional services on a full-time
basis instead of on a part-time
arrangement, which it main
tanned would be more equitable.
Less Work Urged
Observing that most churches
will pay $25 to a minister for
supplying their pulpit on a
Sunday morning, the report
suggested when a retired cler-
gyman is employed and paid
at the rate of $1,000 q year,
only one or two days work a
week should be required of him.
It urged pastors contem-
plating retirement at IS years
Of age to consider carefully
: whether they may not better
serve the church and their own
interests by staying a few more
years in the active ministry.
The 992 ministerial and elder
commissioners open the second
half of their one-week general
assembly today prepared to
discuss and act upon overtures
(resolutions) relating to ma
tional and international issues
as well as church questions.
The assembly, legislative body
Of the 80 million member
United Presbyterian Church,
will end Wednesday.
Need Of Students
Another report warned that
Presbyterians would have to
double the number Of students
attending their eight semin-
aries by 1870 in order to meet
the demand Of the church.
There are now 1924 students
attending these seminaries as
candidates for the bachelor of
divinity degree plus and addi-
tional 228 graduate students.
Princeton Seminary has the
greatest number with 319 un-
dergraduates and 126 graduate
students.
The United Presbyterian
Church has 1889 congregations
and 12,047 pastors. Retirement,
death and clergymen leaving
the ministry for other work
Evening star., 1960-05-23

communism is a smokescreen
thrown up by those bent on
running his revolution.
The Catholic church's first
open attack on Communists in
side Cuba since Mr.. Castro took
over, came in a pastoral letter
from the Most Rev. Enrique
Perez Serrantes. Archbishop of
Santiago. credited with once
savings the prime minister's
life.
The Archbishop gave Mr.
Castro sanctuary in 1853 after
the youthful revolutionist led
an abortive attack on q San
tiago military fortress in a pre-
liminary to his campaign that
eventually drove Dictator Full
gencio BatiSta from power on
New Years Day. 1859.
The Archbishop's letter was
read yesterday in churches
throughout Oriente Province,
the cradle of the Castro revo-
luton. In its only direct refer
ence to the Castro regime, the
letter praised it "for its solicit
tude in favor of the needy and
abandoned social classes"
But the church leader
warned that communism sis
everywhere, although there are
among us some gullible. inno-
cent or extremely prudent
Evening star., 1960-05-23
White House Pickets
Protest Cubu Curbs
By the Associated Press

About two dozen anti Castro
Cubans demonstrated quietly
in front of the White House
yesterday against what they
called the suppression of a free
press and other liberties In
Cuba.
President Eisenhower was st
his country home in Gettys-
burg, Pa, for the week end.
One demonstrators placard
said the group was picketing
"in protest at the closing OF
Diario de Ia Marina" This is
one of Cuba's Oldest news
papers which has sharply criti-
cized the Fidel Castro govern
ment and was seized by pro-
Castro forces recently.
Asked why the White House
was selected for the demon
Stration, a picket said, 1--WE
hope in this way to call atten-
ton to the suppression of free
dom of the press, other liber-
ties and representative govern
ment in Cuba"
Evening star., 1960-05-23
Presbyterian Unit Reps
Retired Ministers Poy
BY CASPAR NAMES
Star stan Writer

CLEVELAND. May 23.-The ethics of some churches in
seeking professional services at meager wage by
employing retired ministers hit in report presented today
at the 172d General Assembly Of the United Presbyterian
Church. o. s. A.
Pointing that many ministers retiring earlier
Evening star., 1960-05-23
Catholics est Castro
In Warning About Reds

HAVANA. May % AP)-Cubas Roman Catholics were told
to fight communism in pastoral letter that to
high church authorities said today issued feeler to
test the reaction of the Castro government.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro has charged that anti
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-20

500 q Bozo THE CLOWN.
Kids Color Cartoons and nonsense
q LEONARD BERNSTEIN SHOW.
Music. / Hour. West Berlin Concert,
with Bernstein conducting the New York
Philharmonic and playing the Beethoven
Major Concerto Taped in West BerIin)
SIS q FOOTBALL scoREBoARD.
$50 q NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
Musical. Color l Hour The revue will
examine mans attempts through the
ages to make better home for himself
Jose Ferrer Rosemary cIooney Dick Van
Dyke and Carol Burnett star choreog-
raphy by Rod Alexander.
@ P0PEYE.
Kids. Captain Tugs stars.
q PICK TEMPLES RANCH.
Kids Cartoons. games.
Evening star., 1960-01-10

If you, too, can't always brush your
teeth after meals, use Gleem with
CLIO. Just one brushing destroys
most decay-causing bacteria and for
most people stops mouth odor all day.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
A Perspective View
Of Our Literature

that man has the inner
capacity to improve his lot.
Poe and Fitzgerald sue
cumbed to their private
demons.
Their Message
In this diversified material
is there a single idea that
has established itself as an
American tradition? DR..
Howard is convinced it is
this:
1t is a belief in the crea-
tive power of the human
spirit to endure and prevail
and to exist in the meanest
and queerest Of individuals.
Furthermore, he believes,
1t Is Of sufficient strength to
survive the impact of
overwhelming materialism,
the establishment of false
hopes and the charms Of
new dogmatism."
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Lusty Novel
Of Panama
Gold Rush
DANGEROUS CLIMATE. By

DANGEROUS CLIMATE. BY
Diana Gaines. Doubleday
& Co., $3.50
The author has hit upon a
time and place in history
with a rich potential for a
lusty historical novel-a po-
tential which she fulfills vigo-
rously.
The time is the beginning
Of California's gold rush;
the scene, Panama. The ca
nal, Of course, has not yet
been dug but gold-hungry
farmers from the Mississippi
delta are willing to brave the
river and land transit from
Atlantic to Pacific through
the mosquito-infested, disease
ridden tropics to take ship
for California.
The hunger for gold is not
confined to the would-be
miners. There's Belle Nc
Glory. a slum urchin from
New York who learns about
faro from a gambling man
and teams with him to take
the suckers in the House of
the Royal Tiger"
MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Evening star., 1960-01-24
In Another Land

For a biography Of an
other politician in another
land, there is Vincent Shee-.
ans NEHRU: THE YEARS
OF WEIR. (R an d o m
House; So. Mr.. Sheean,
one of the most famous Of
foreign correspondents, COM
municates much enthusiasm
for the Indian leader. But
his treatment veers far away
from the man, and presents
an almost official view of In
dia's problems. About the
most he says critically Of
Nehru is that "he is no saint"
which has never been seri-
ously contended. His wordy
study is stately and a bit
stuffy and devoid of those
intimate closeup glimpses Of
history in the making which
made his correspondence so
memorable.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Utopia Was
Early Dream
Of America
FREEDOM AND FEDERAL.


ISM. BY Felix Morley.
Henry Regnery Co.; So
A Jeffersonian type of de-
mocracy for today! This is
the cry raised in Felix Nor
ley'S latest book, Freedom
and Federalism"
Starting with James Madi-
sons famous quote, "A re-
public may be extended over
a large region (buD a
democracy will be con-
fined to a small spot" he pro-
ceeds to build. on that 18th
century premise, his Ameri-
can Utopia.
Mr.. Morely has excepted
from many sources to prove
his premise that the United
States should be divided into
sections along geographic
and Topographic lines. What
Mr.. Morely seems to miss in
his unusually readable book
is that the system of COM
munication that exists in the
United States today has. for
all practicable purposes,
wiped out the regional diff
ference that existed in the
18th century.
"A. j. SCHMIDT.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Hungarian Hero
Fights on for
Final Freedom :,
YOU ARE ALL ALONE. BY

YOU ARE ALL ALONE. BY
Jozsef Kovago. (Praeger;
So
The spirit to be free that
each man has can be sub
dued but never killed. In some
the spirit is so strong that it
cannot even be subdued.
Jozsef Kovago, a Hungarian
patriot, twice the freely
elected Mayor of Budapest,
is such a man.
His book is an account Of
his uncompromising war to
keep his country free. He
fought the Nazis by joining
the resistance movement, be-
coming one of ats top leaders.
War over. he was elected
the Mayor of Budapest. When
the Commies took over he
was ousted from his post be-
cause he refused to join them.
The account of his 6 years
Imprisonment and torture is
enough to chill any blood. But
they could not break his be-
lief in democracy.
The 1856 revolution brought
freedom for him. He was re-
elected the Mayor of Buda-
pest. Realizing that the rev.
olution was a determined ef-
fort of the people to free
themselves from Russian
domination and Communist
rule, he took a leading part
in it.
His account of the upris-
ing, the stories of sheer cour-
age and eath-defying acts
of heroism and grit that did
not find their way into print,
form some of the most
BREATH taking chapters in
the book.
When the Russian tanks
rolled in Kovago continued
to fight on. At last he knew
that further resistance was
useless. 1t brought the heart
rending cry from him: II am
all alone"
He finally escaped with his
wife and lovely daughter and
brought his case to the
United Nations. Discussion
proved of no avail, but Ko-
vago, armed now with his
pen, fights on for the final
freedom of his country.
This book is a part of his
battle.
-MOHAMMED A. RAUF, Jr.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
What Twoin's Humor
Did to Our Literature

Although Henry James
considered that only primi-
tive persons could be inter-
ested in Mark Twain, Mr..
Lynn feels that James be-
lief "in the supremacy Of the
artist and the glory of art
has a worthy counterpart in
Twain's conception of hu-
NOR"
Serious HumOrist
Mr.. Lynn adds: "Given the
fact that America persisted
in regarding him as a jokes
smith not to be taken seri-
ously. it is no wonder that
the most memorable OF
Twain's fantasies of power
also are prophecies of trag-
edy and defeat. and that the
description of Joan Of Arc
which determined him to be-
come a writer was. so he said.
an account of her last mis-
cradle days in the cage at
Rouen, locked up and for
gotten by the nation she
saved"
Mr.. Lynn wrote the pro-
vocative study, THE Dream
Of Success" in which he de-
termined the effect of the
Horatio Alger myth on five
American authors.
n q
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Poperbock Original
Brings College ToLes

In CAMPUS ON THE
RIVER (CrowelI, an original
paperback; $1.95) William
Van O'Connor offers a dozen
stories, with different char
acters but all written around
q Middle Western university.
Most of the characters are
teachers or graduate in
Structors studying for higher
degrees.
Unseen Dramas
Mr.. O'Connor has a touch
that makes us concerned with
their problems, professional
and domestic, with the
dramas that go on unseen in
clasrooms, often unknown to
other faculty members. He
is an able writer.
1t seems to me that he is
most successful with the
shorter stories. such as "A
Natural Force" a perceptive
sketch Of a professors 10
year-old son; The Adven-
lures of Peter" a profile Of
a foreign graduate student,
shy and bewildered, and espe-
cially "A Thesis Subject" in
which a candidate for a
Ph.D. probes the life of a
long-dead former president
OF the university. The Re-
tirement Of Professor John
Underhill" is, in its different
and briefer way, as poignant
as James Hilton's Good BY,
Mr.. Chips"
Such longer pieces as The
Professors Daughter" a nov
Evening star., 1960-01-24

sier against Nixon consists
OF tricky debating tech
niques.
Near Hollywood
Mr.. Alsop says that the
most important single SEN
tence that can be written
about the dead-certain Re-
publican nominee is this:
Richard Milhouse Nixon, q
Black Irishman from a poor
but pious Quaker family, was
brought up in a small town
near Hollywood, Calf"
He goes on to say that Mr..
Nixon is no ordinary Irish
American, but subsequently
he uses the word Irish" 10
different times to make his
case. Maybe so. But Mr..
Nixon has never displayed
the ease with people nor the
sense of humor that has
traditionally been the dis
tinguishing, and even saving
grace, of the Irish in politics.
He's No Monster
In summation, he thinks
that Mr.. Nixon, brought up
by Quaker parents, to be
good in everything" would
make a good President.
". to suppose that Nixon
wants to be President out Of
a cynical love Of power and
for no other reason is to
suppose that Nixon is some
sort of a monster, which he
. is not"
Perhaps the most damag-
ing view Mr.. Alsop gives Mr..
Nixon's erstwhile rival, Gov.
Rockefeller, is of a friend
who complained that Rookie
feller, a stranger to adver-
sity, has a kind of terrible
optimism that all problems
can be solved. Evidently he.
met one he couldn't cope
with - that of getting the
nomination from Mr.. Nixon.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

examination of the ideolog-
ical struggle now occurring
in India.
THE LIGHT AMID THE
DARKNESS. BY Isaac Un-
terman, (Twayne. $4.) Me-
dieval Jewish philosophy.
BAHAMA ISLANDS. BY j.
Linton Rigg. Wan No
strand, $780, A guide for
yachtSmen and visitors.
PRINTMAKING. BY Gabor
Peterdi. acmillan,
$l2.50D
MATHEMATICS IN EVERY
DAY THINGS. BY William
c. Vergara. tHarper, $685.
NOVELISTS ON THE NOV
Ell. BY Miriam Allott Co
lumbia. $4.75.
ANCIENT MEXICO. BY Fred
erick Peterson. (Putnam's,
$7.95) Earliest history.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
1st Novel Introduces New
Author of Great Promise
PILLAR OF SALT. BY sey-

PILLAR OF SALT. BY Sey-
mour Epstein. (Scribners;
$3.95.)
This first novel, a story OF
o marriage and its gradual
disintegration, is remarkable
for several attributes unusual
In recent novels.
1t exposes character more
deeply and more deity than
do any Of the great, sprawl
ing novels which dominate
the best-sellers lists these
days. 1t hardly need be
pointed out that a mere pill
ing up of words about char
acters often leaves them less
clear than would brief de-
scriptions which catch dis
tinctive attributes and stop
there.
Rare and Subtle Touches
y When Arnold Bennett sub
mitted his first novel to a
publisher, a reader said in
his report that this writer
draws character with a Sc
ries of rare and subtle
touches"
Pillar of Salt" also is
noteworthy because of its
atmoSphere-what might be
called its flavor of the scenes
and problems its characters
struggle through.
The writing is crisp and
avoids cliches without Strain
ing to. The author tells his
story and then quits, which
few writer's seem able to 90
any more. There is a sub
tlety in Mr.. Epstein's concep-
ton of his people that is
encountered all too rarely.
The story is about two
Jewish families in New York,
linked by a marriage
Sid Roth's family lives IN
the Bronx. His brother is
a successful manufacturer of
toys. Sid's wife of four years.
Gaby, has only her mother
surviving, and the mother,
Frieda, a German refugee,
lives a strange sort of life IN
the Village and is regarded
as a Screwball. Gaby's late
father was a musician, who
often strayed from the hearth
for fresh romances. Gaby's
people lived for music and
the other arts. Now the
mother provides custodial
care for several aged, senile
women.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
New York's
Underground
Is Probed

THE WORLD BENEATH
THE CITY by Robert Dalev
Hippincott; 1885, takes YOU
under New York City where.
says the author, you might
find:
Q Is million miles of tele-
phone wire. enough to cir
Gle this planet 600 times.
o 8.700 subway trains a day
running along 726 miles Of
track.
o 300 million pounds Of pure
copper in electric cables.
o Smelly Kelly, whose all
sensitive nose has made
him the subway's top gas
leak detector.
Q Teddy May, for 81 years
the king of the sewers"
who travelled and mapped
In his mind during his ca
reer every foot of New
York's $50 miles of sewers.
Q Full grown alligators
dropped in sewers by peo-
pie who found that unex-
pected gift from Florida
growing too big for the
bathtub.
Mr.. Daley's entertaining
narrative slips beneath the
surface with the log pipes
buried in 1899 by Aaron
Burr's Manhattan Co. "a We
hicle. says the author. for
Burr's presidential aspira-
tions: now the Chase-Man-
haitian Bank and tells how
all the tunnels, conduits,
cables and pipes got there
and how they have been used
and abused over the years.
ROBERT L. PELL.
Evening star., 1960-01-24

ecutive and gets him fired.
Sid succeeds to the drunk's
job. without too many pangs
Of conscience.
And yet. despite these
things. you'll feel, I think,
an amount of sympathy for
all the characters-mixed up
Sid, his equally confused
wife, her odd mother. Sid's
hearty-eating. money-loving
parents. They are their va
rious ways because they can't
help it.
Seymour Epstein previously
appeared with a collection OF
short stories. pillar of Salt"
proves him a novelist of
more than promise, of solid
achievement.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Fighting Ships
THE YANKEE BRIG

THE YANKEE BRIG. BY
Carter A. Vaughan. CDou-
bleday; $685.
Colonial belligerence far in
advance of the Revolution is
told in this light but enter
tanning story. Capt. Isaiah
HaZlitt. 20, Of Massachusetts
Bay Colony, fights as a pri-
vateer against the French,
later finds himself suffering
severely at the hands of the
British His own ship lost,
he is impressed and whipped,
finally deserts. In the end a
proud commodore is forced TO
exchange Colonial seamen for
British officers or be blown
out Of Boston harbor" by
guns Of a local fleet. Hazlitt
finally realizes he loves the
daughter Of the parson and
not the daughter of the Brit
ish merchant.-H. A. LYON.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
BY REX COLLIER
Star Stah Writer

AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHT
ING SHIPS. BY Naval His
tory Division, Navy Depart
ment. Government Print
ing Office, Superintendent
Of Documents: So
Here at last is an official
compendium of ships of the
United States Navy-includ-
ing the historic frigates and
other craft that helped this
Nation to win its war for
independence. Under the
able direction of Rear Ad-
miral E. M. Miller, USN. re-
tired, head of the Navy De-
partment's history division.
a staff of researchers and
writer's has produced the first
Of a series of dictionaries" of
war vessels comparable to
Britain's authoritative refer
Evening star., 1960-01-24
MARIAN VISITORS
FIND OUR WORLD
HAS GONE CRAZY
is THERE INTELLIGENT

is THERE INTELLIGENT
LIFE ON EARTH? by
Alan Dunn (Simon g.
Schuster; $500
Alan Dunn, the New
Yorker cartoonist and sa-
tirist. has written and
drawn his funniest land at
the same time his most
provocative) book in us
There Intelligent Life on
Earth?"
The question is posed in a
report written by three
congressman from Mars
after a visit to the planet
which they observe is "di-
vided into two great re-
gionS; one, to judge its
name from the most prev
alent signs. is called Coca
Cola and the other Vodka"
After a thorough survey Of
the ways and mores of
EarthlingS, they come to
the conclusion that There
is life but not intelli-
gence on earth" The re-
suits of a final refueling
stop. when one OF the Mar
tians tries an American
libation called "20-to-one-
and-no-lemon- peel" upset
their calculations some
what
This STORY in words and
pictureS"-there are Dunn's
telling drawings on every
page-is a hilarious but
also serious satire Of Amer
ican society. It is the kind
Of book one reads from
aloud constantly, to any
one who will listen.
MARY PAINTER.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
Poperbock Books
Just Released
THE ART OF THINKIN

THE ART OF THINKING.
BY Ernest Dimnet. (Faw-
cett; 50c.D
An informal discussion on
how to be an educated
thinker.
THAT JANE FROM MAINE.
BY Marvin H. Albert.
tFaw cett Publications;
25cD A young pretty widow
battles a million dollar
railroad. Currently pro-
duced in Hollywood star
ring Doris Day.
A SHORT HISTORY OF
nee. Doubleday;
95c) A symposium Of the
writings Of all major SCI
entists beginning with
Democritus.
Evening star., 1960-01-24
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic

You can see, two families
could not be more unlike.
The Roths believe in COM
mercial success. Sid's brother
has been after him to go into
the toy business. offers the
youth much more money
than he is getting as a pro-
moter for classical records.
But Sid knows Gaby prefers
HIM to stay where he is at
less money. because his work
is closer to one of the arts
and he would be, she feels,
dominated by the Roths once
he went to work for his
brother.
Wife or Mother
Sid is torn between his
wife and her mother, whom
he can't help liking, despite
her strange life, and his own
family. Gaby resents her
mothers constant sugges-
tions, thinks she hates her
mother. And in time Gaby
concluded that she no longer
loves Sid.
None of the characters is
entirely sympathetic. and
perhaps this adds to the
realism of the story. You be-
gin to doubt that Gaby could
get along with any man. Sid
is far from admirable. He
can't make up his mind
about anything. and in his
hate for the alcoholic who is
over him at his office. Sid
turns the man in to the ex-
Evening star., 1960-01-24

of Stewart and Joseph Alsop,
writes equally well about both
Nixon and Rockefeller. But
you can read about the with
drawn Governor with a GER
tain detachment, while, if
you are an open-minded
voter. you will feel the need
to weigh every word of the
alternating Nixon chapters.
Likes 'Em Both
Mr.. Alsop at the outset
says he likes both men. Per-
haps with a professionals
esteem for professionals, he
likes Vice President Nixon
the consummate politician,
a shade better, although he
gives due consideration to the
feelings of those who do not
like Mr.. Nixon for many rea-
sons or for no reason at all.
He himself, he says, that
he finds the controversial
Vice President IAN interest
ing and hkable human being"
The Nixon Faults
Still he gives ample docu-
mentation for those who can
abide the new" Nixon no
better than the old. He
quotes the Democratic poll
) tician who complained of Mr..
Nixon's "holier than thou"
attitude. He traces from boy
hood Mr.. NiXon's "unerring
instinct for political SYM
bolism and his instinct to
turn seeming misfortune to
advantage"
He shows the model boy,
family priggish" college stu
dent, who played football so
hard he was "offside in Just
about every play"
Boy Debater
Mr.. Alsop believes that
Vice President Nixon's "com-
pulsion to use specious and
sleazy debating tricks" until
1854 can be largely explained
by the fact that he won his
earliest recognition as a
champion boy debater.
He quotes the famous snide
aside of 1854. when Candi-
date Nixon said, And. Incl
dentally, in mentioning Sec
retary Dulles. isn't it wonder
full finally to have a Secretary
Of State who isn't taken in
by the Communists" He
recalls Nixon saying in an
other campaign that when
Stevenson declared that the
American economy has been
shrinking. while the Soviet
economy has been growing
fast, Stevenson was guilty
without being aware he was
doing so, of spreading pro-
Communist propaganda"
This, Mr.. Alsop points out,
simultaneously suggests that
the speaker is being fair
minded and that his victim
is too stupid to know what
he is doing" He concludes
that SO per cent of the dos