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Evening star., 1960-08-07
Why Newspaper Lost
Fight for Clean City

causes and raked shady poll
ticians. But with hard times
the banks succeeded in
bringing in a new publisher
whose policies brought dis
may to the old-time staff
members.
The Courier Freeman be-
came the mouthpiece for
conformity. Unions and New
Dealers came under fire.
School teachers were at
tackled and loyal city officials
bullied. Right wing, reac-
tionary politicians were glori-
fed. And as a final blow. the
Courier Freeman was merged
with a cheap competitor.
Connie Tyler fought hard,
som times irreSponSibly,
against the new order, but
in the end was beaten COM
pletely.
Although Mr.. Hough in
sists this is a work Of fiction.
he has pointed out a real
and present danger. All
over the Nation the trend to
conform is strong. the num-
ber Of one-paper towns is
rising, and the voice of the
dissenter'i is apt to be. smoth-
cred.
JOSEPH OKEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
Summer Adventures

Tina wasn't looking for
ward to summer at the sea-
shore with her family. She
was in that rebellious stage,
when family, old friends,
even boys, seemed created es-
pecially to make her life
miserable. Tina was always
in trouble, sometimes silly,
sometimes tragic. in SUM-
MER BY THE SEA by D. C.
Hutchison (Lothrop: $3).
In EVENING STAR by Zoa
Sherburne Morrow; $2.95,
Nancy works at a summer
resort hotel on an island of
the coast Of Washington. It's
a fresh treatment of an old
subject. So is THE GIFT OF
WILDERNESS by Jack Stef-
fan John Day; $3.50, a jun
ior novel about the Grand
Canyon. A boy who is afraid
of heights adds a touch of
grim excitement to the battle
for control of water and for
est resources.
Lucky is the teen-ager who
has a chance to spend a sum-
mer abroad, as Peter Bell
does in JUNKET TO JAPAN
Little, Brown; $3.50" Told
in fiction form by Clarissa
Lorenz. "Junket to Japan"
is based on Peters own letters
and diaries,
Evening star., 1960-08-07

painless course of action by
shooting straight for the
target :"
Mr.. Galbraith regards
President Eisenhower as a
prime victim of the buildup.
Others have been members
of his cabinet, particularly
Charles E. Wilson, the first
Secretary of Defense.
The Army, like business or
entomology. is a specialized
career, Mr.. Galbraith points
out. "The President had
never billed himself as a
man Of wide-ranging intel
lectual curiosity; he had
made a small point Of his
preference for Westerns as
reading matter He had
never done battle over
unions, social security or the
deficit. Parity was not an
issue around SHAEF. New
theleSs it was the President
and not those who gave him
a bogus image who was held
to account.
"On this the buildup was
as ever insistent. He will
be known as a President
who fell far short Of his
promise, and it will be be-
cause the promise was fan
tastic."
The Liberal Hour" is
highly recommended. You
may disagree with 1t all you
like, but you'll enjoy 1t.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
A Touch of Mystery

Mystery stories don't have
to be superficial or trite when
the author includes the three
essentials: Interesting people,
places, and plot.
Marguerite Nelcher writes
about Cape Cod in CATCH
OF THE SEASON Little.
Brown; So. Dorthy Clewes
picks London as locale for
THE MYSTERY OF THE
LOST TOWER TREASURE
CCoward-McCann: So. Ellis
Dillon writes about the close
mouthed folk of Connemara
in THE SINGING CAVE
(Funk & Wagnalls; $685..
There are spooks in two
other sunni mer mysteries.
SECRET OF THE BEACH by
Adair r. Sullivan Longmans;
$2.95) revolves around a
ghost town in Texas and
some very energetic young
sters. The creepy ghosts OF
the West Indies. called jun
bies," haunt a reasure hunt
in THE HURRICANE MYS-
Terry by Mary D. Roberts
CWashburn; $2.75.
Evening star., 1960-08-07

psychologists have succeeded
in taking the content out of
public education" The sec
ond reason he gives is that
"the mass distribution of
goods through advertising
works for a systematic de-
basement Of the language"
Mr.. Carson chooses such a
phrase as "the new active
leisure" to illustrate the
point of nonsensical verbiage.
We are wondering what he
thinks of such a word as
"newsman." Vice President
Nixon in his acceptance
speech referred to news
men," These people, who
were doing what they have
always done-that is scrib-
bling down what he said so
they could tell it to a type
writer or a microphone-
used to be called reporters"
Why aren't they reporters
any more? Did the advent of
television require a new word
for an old trade? Perhaps the
word reporter" conjures up
too brilliant a picture of the
old front-page man, card in
hatband, foot in door, curse
on lips.
IN e wSm an" somehow
sounds like a suaver fellow,
one who attends off-the-
record dinners with cabinet
officers. and perhaps polls
people instead Of interview
ing them. Whatever you call
him, though, he's still sup
posed to be telling you some
thing you didn't know before.
Other disgusting phrases
have worked their way into
the language.
Old No More
No one who wishes to cul-
tivate the favor OF the masses
refers to old folks as any,
thing but senior citizens"
Possibly this change in label
helps them better to bear
their burdens in what every
body but Robert Browning
thought was rather a tire
some time Of life. And call
ing old age "the golden
years" may help those who
are in it to forget such prob
lens as illness or thankleSs
children or the approach of
death. If they brood, they
can always think of a cem-
etery sign in Los Angeles
which bypasses the problem
entirely by calling it for
everneSs."
Middle age still gives the
ad writers problems. THE
middle years" still has that
awful word middle" in it.
Perhaps they could call them
senior young people" until
such time as they are recon-
Evening star., 1960-08-07
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Boyhood Sogo Offers
Fine E Entertainment

between are many DOCKS
about talented animals whose
personalities d e m a nd de-
voted attention. There's an
octopus in EMILE by Toni
Ungerer CHarpcrS, $2.50; a
photogenic wild tiger cub in
CHENDRU by Astrid Berg
man Sucksdorff (Harcourt,
$3.25); a lost hound dog in
THE RIGHTFUL OWNER by
Jesse Stuart (Whittlesey,
$3.50: a railroad mans mutt
in THE SOONER HOUND
by Harvey Weiss (Putnams,
$2.75), and a black stallion
in WILD IMP by Beulah
Karney John Day, $3.50.
These are all good animal
stories. these new ones, but
none so absorbing, so salts
flying, as that saga of the
Badlands, THE BLIND COLT
by Glen Rounds. You can get
this now in a new edition
with large. clear type with
a framework Of marginal
drawings (Holiday House;
$3.50. 1t is the same time
less story about 10-year-old
Whitley. his Uncle Torwal,
and the blind colt which
Whitley wanted for his very
own. Could the colt survive a
winter on the range, or would
it be wolf -et?" And If the
wolves didn't finish it off.
could it ever be trained for a
Sunday horse? Glen Rounds
never wrote a better story.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

Sometimes, the best books
arrive without any ballyhoo.
II the children like them,
they pass their recommended
ton along by word Of mouth,
and that's enough. 1t hap
pens most often with fiction.
with stories of other boys
and girls or animals whose
adventures become closely
identified with the readers
own dreams.
GOOD OLD ARCHIBALD,
by Ethelyn M. Parkinson
abingdon; So may we'll be
one of these spontaneous
favorites. The publishers
haven't sent me any coy
little notes about it. I haven't
heard of the author before.
No previous books are listed
on the jacket. But my guess
is that young readers will
soon be quoting good old
Ralph" and good old Archi-
bald"
Through one rollicking in
cident after another, sliding
down the clothes chute. eat
ing pancakes. cleaning the
cellar, Archibald gets the
new boy" treatment. The
sixth-graders never let him
forget that good old Ralph"
is gone but not forgotten.
They live in a small world of
eating, talking. wrestling,
stunts and secrets,
Evening star., 1960-08-07

has become desperately de-
pendent on the improvement
of man. And our economy is
still arranged to supply ma
chimes rather than to i'm
prove men,"
In another stimulating
chapter. Mr.. Galbraith de-
plores the modern technique
Of the buildup. The build
up, he explains, has wrecked
many men in public life by
leading the public to expect
of them qualities which they
didn't even pretend to have.
Say, such a man has had
a respectable private career
and has just assumed public
office. Then comes the
buildup. He is a man trans
formed - indeed he is no
longer a man but a super
man."
The eccentricities of such
a man become the mark of
a unique personality. His
hobbies are the refreshment
of an intense and active
mind"
Victims Of Buildup
His wife becomes a gra-
cious, untiring and 'Selfless
partner. If he has had sew
eral wives, he has been tried
by sadness. If he is a tee
totaler, this marks him as a
stern, disciplined and dedi-
Gated man. If he is given to
betting the bottle, it will be
said that he is not lacking in
warmth and human qualities.
But most remarkable Of
all are his qualifications for
the Job he has assumed.
Where others ponder, he has
solutions. That is because
he has been able to separate
the essentials from the nom
essentials and then find a
Evening star., 1960-08-07
HISTORY AND
BIOGRAPHY

EACH AFTER HIS OWN
KIND. BY Paul James
Louthian. Vantage; $2.750
Presents the other side of
the integration movement.
TURNING WORLD. By Bet
ty Thompson. Friendship;
$2.95D Largely a record of
the authors experiences
and impressions while
working in Geneva and
New York on the staff of
the World Council of
Churches.
SAFE IN BONDAGE. BY
Robert w. Spike. Friend
ship; $2.750 Answers ques-
tions regarding the future
role of the home missions.
LAND. WOOD AND WATER.
BY Senator Robert S. Kerr.
(Fleet; $4.95D Full and ac-
curate picture of conServa-
ton and its many ramifi-
cations.
SIXTY YEARS IN CON-
GRESS AND TWENTY
EIGHT OUT. BY j. H.
Moseley. vantage; $685.
Negro leaders who have
served in Congress, two
Senators and 26 members
of the House.
WALK AND BE HAPPY. BY
Benjamin Kauth. John
Day; So A specialists
guide to healthy feet.
MASKS OF MOSCOW. BY
John M. Radzinski. CRe-
gent House; $4.50D A his
tory of Russian behavior
patterns.
THE SOCIOLOGY OF CO.
LONIAL VIRGINIA. BY
Morris Talpalar. CPhilo-
sophical; So A study of
Evening star., 1960-08-07
Champions

The brother and sister
who both want to be tennis
champions wrangle cheer
fully through the lively pages
of CHAMPIONS DON'T
CRY by Nan Gilbert (Har-
pers; $2.95). Tennis fans
will get their fill Of sports
tips and tournament plays.
Others will find conflict of
personalities as absorbing as
the battle for the champion
ship.
For the grasshopper base
ball fans, LONG STRETCH
AT FIRST BASE by Matt
Christopher Little, Brown;
$2.75) will get them into the
swing of the game. For more
advanced readers and players.
C. Paul Jackson offers a blend
of craftsmanship and games
manship in BUD BAKER, T.
QUARTERBACK Hastings
House: $2.95). If WORLD
SERIES ROOKIE (Hastings
House: $2.75) he emphasizes
the effects on ball players of
sports reporting and big
league politics.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
HeroineOwns
Press Empire
THE SUN IS MY SHADOW.
BY Robert Wilder. g. p.
Putnam's Son; $3.50

IHE SUN 1S M L SnADOW'
BY Robert Wilder. g. P.
Putnam's Son; $3.50
Carol Hillyard Is a career
newspaperwoman of violent
passion. She inherits a string
of newspapers and runs them
protitably whereas they were
owned by her father solely
for the purpose Of tax loss
deductions. She marries a
Virginian Of tradition on the
bounce from an improbable
romance with a New York
city editor but will have
nothing to do with the re-
sponsibilities Of motherhood
and home life. although she
is disgustingly rich.
There isn't much plot
about this and the moral
may be that a daughter can
be like her father. But there
Is much evidence to convince
a reader that women can be
predatory and selfish to a de-
gree not appreciated before.
Incidentally, one Of the
mythical newspapers Carol
acquired was published here.
Her home was in a small
town in nearby Virginia.
HENRY A. LYON.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
LAMENT FOR A CITY. BY
Henry Beetle Hough. (Athe-
neum Publishers; $4.75O

LAMENT FOh a ClII. BY
Henry Beetle Hough. (Athe-
neum Publishers; $4.750
When distress laid siege to
a New England city. capitu-
lation followed quickly be-
cause there was no arsenal Of
fortitude to fend it of. The
last stronghold Of resistance
was a spunky, independent
newspaper. and it was
whipped into line and stripped
Of any notions of combat.
Thus in Lament for a
City" Henry Beetle Hough
describes the decline Of Hin
ton. an imaginary New Eng
land industrial center. Mr..
Hough is a native of Massa-
chusetts and the editor Of a
weekly paper at Martha'S
Vineyard.
The story of the Courier
Freeman is told by Connie
Tyler, who Joined the paper
just out of Harvard and
stayed to become its manag-
ing editor. Tyler married a
Hinton girl and learned to
recognize the hidden forces
that shaped the towns life.
The paper resisted pres
sures to tamper with the
news, fought for unpopular
Evening star., 1960-08-07
Other Books of the Week in Brief

Francis Guess. (Harper,
$685. Traces the history
of South Carolina, its peo-
pie, traditions and culture.
THE SOUTHERNER AS
AMERICAN. Edited by
Charles Grier Sellers, jr.
(Univ. Of North Carolina,
So Nine Southerners,
both Negro and white, try
to answer the question,
What does it mean to be
a Southerncr."
CONSTANTINOPLE: IN THE
AGE OF JUSTINIAN. BY
Glanville Downey. UNIV.
of Oklahoma. $2.75D One
of the Centers of C:vi,iza
ton Series.
THE HYPHENATED FAM
lily. BY Hermann Hage-
dorm. Macmillan; $4.50D
The true story of a Ger
man-American family who
tried to live in two coun-
tries at once.
A BUNCH OF OLD LET
TERS. Written mostly to
Jawaharlal Nehru and
some written by him.
CTaplinger; So The first
edition to be published in
America.
THE SECRET OF BEING
EBODY. BY Fred
Manchee. Nelson; $685.
The secret of making peo-
pie like you and want you
socially and in your busi-
ness.
SPINDRIFT: A HOUSE
BY THE SEA. BY John R.
Rowlands. Morton; $685.
What the author sees.
hears, thinks and feels in
his everyday life on the
New England coast.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
Religious
Life in u. S.
HISTORY OF RELIGION IN

HISTORY OF RELIGION IN
THE UNITED STATES.
BY Clifton E. Olmstead.
prentice Hall; $7.50.D
Religion has been from the
beginning a major element in
shaping the contour of our
Nations history. From Colo
NAL days to the present the
spiritual convictions Of peo-
pie have exerted tremendous
influence upon the course Of
government.
This fact has been gener-
ally recognized, but too often
historians tracing the course
Of religious bodies in our
country's development do so
in a vacuum. They tend to
concentrate almost exclu-
sively upon intra-c h ur h
growth and contentious and
separations. and to bypass
the interplay of church and
government.
In this comprehensive and
scholarly work DR.. Olmstead,
professor in the department
of religion. George Washing
ton University, has given
each its proper perspective.
Without neglecting the rise
and growth and sometimes
fall of various religious bodies,
the author relates their his
tories to that of the United
States. He has the gift few
possess Of being willing to
admit occasions when the
motivating factor was other
than that generally attrib-
uted to religion. For exam
pie, he points out the basic
purpose of English expansion
in the New World was eco
nomic. and it is highly doubt
full that the Crown would
ever have granted approval
to dissenting religious groups
such as the Pilgrims and
Puritans to settle in America
had they not offered promise
of producing the raw mate
rials essential to England"
DR.. Olmstead begins his
study with an enlightening
and stimulating chapter on
the European heritage of our
religious groups. From there
he takes the story through
colonial days. into the Revo-
lutionary War period. up
through the Civil War era
whose scars upon many de-
nominations have not yet
been wholly eradicated, and
into the present.
The impact of opening Of
the frontiers, social reform,
slavery. missionary enter
prise. higher education. ma
tional ideals and interna-
tional relationships upon re-
ligion, and particularly or
ganized religion, is carefully
traced and explained.
This is a volume for both
the scholar and the ordinary
reader. The former will find
within its pages, in brief yet
sufficient mpass. those
major items serving as guide
posts for clear understand
ing of why Americas religion
has taken the course 1t has.
The latter will enjoy the
scory-like manner in which
the information is presented,
far removed from the stodgy
way too many histories Of
religion are written.
Further, this is a book
readers will want to keep in
the forefront of their librar-
les, to take down occasionally
and peruse when the urge for
a period of pleasure and
learning arises.
-CASPAR NAME!
Evening star., 1960-08-07
A Lavender Gout

Pringle wanted a goat for
her 9th birthday, and she
managed to get one in a most
unorthodox manner. But
then, Pringle was unorthodox
and so was the goat. In
PRINGLE AND THE Law
ENDER GOAT by Maude
Crowley (Walck; $2.75, the
whole town of Marblehead
soon learns that this COM
bination is sometimes funny,
often exasperating, and al
ways irresistible.
Evening star., 1960-08-07

ciled to being called senior
citizens"
At the other end Of the
scale, a wonderful change
has been wrought by the use
of a different word. When
we were passing through
those years between IL and
20, everybody called it, with
a sigh. adolescence" which
sounds like an af1iction and
often was. The only hope
held out was that we would
grow out of it.
Now. however, children of
that age are called teen
ayers" and they are petted
and courted and have their
own language and their own
magazines and they consti-
tute one of the biggest pres
Sure-groupS in this country
outside Of the American
Legion.
And speaking of new words,
we got a dandy new one this
week from the founder and
president of Institute Of Mo-
tivational Research, DR.. Err
nest Dichter. DR.. Dichter is
the author of a book called
THE Strategy of Desire"
and its keynote is the "whol-
iStic" approach. "Wholistic"
means the assessing OF a
candidates total impression
on the prospective voter. In
somewhat primitive political
circles the ward leader might
say it was a matter of how
the candidate parts his hair.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
READING AND WRITING
English Is Debosed
By Madison Avenue
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Stan Writer

A recent issue of Publishers Weekly quoted Michigan
Law Review article written by New York lawyer named
Ralph M. Carson, in which Mr. Carson complained that
the essential tool of the legal profession in this country
the English languages breaking down.
He gives two The first is that "he educational
Evening star., 1960-08-07

the social institutions and
cultural values of Colonial
Virginia.
AMERICA IN THE TWEEN
TIETH CENTURY. BY
Frank Freidel. (Knopf:
So In expectation
of Americas contemporary
history.
THE MIND IN HEALING. BY
Rolf Alexander. Dutton;
So A practical guide to
full mental and physical
health.
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS
OF THOMAS ERNEST
HULME. BY Alum R. Jones.
Deacon; $4.500 Biography
of the man who before his
death in World War 1
talked and wrote his way to
a leading place among Lon
don's intellectual avant-
garde.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
English Civil War
THE KINGS WAR. BY
c. v. Wedgwood. Mac
milan; $7.50)

C. v. Wedgwood. Mac
milan; $7.50O
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
is one of England's top his
torians and a specialist in
the lore of the 18th century.
This work is a sequel to her
1855 volume, also published
by Macmillan, The Kings
Peace" Together they give
a clear picture of Charles I
and the Great Rebellion.
This was the great struggle
between the Cavaliers and
the Roundheads who, al
most defeated, rose to vic
tory under Cromwell.
H. A. L.
Evening star., 1960-08-07
What Is q Bozo?

The summer roundup of
animal stories is more varied
than usual: From TOO
MANY BOZOS by Lillian
Moore Golden Press; 81,
an imaginative "read-it-your-
self" picture book, to SMOKE
RINGS by Dorothy Lyons, the
step-by-step training of a
horse for the Olympics (Har-
court, $3.25).
For all ages and tastes in
Evening star., 1960-08-07
ECONOMIST REFLECTS
Man Still Dominates
In Age Of Machines
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic r.

THE LIBERAL HOUR, by John Kenneth Gabraith Hough-
ton Mifnin: $35O)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

ToFN r Young is the County Jail Supervisor who pro-
vdes security food shelter and laundry services for
prisoners The County Jail also provides for sick IN
mates through the services of oncan physician.
Young Is also responsible for receiving and discharg
ing prisoners and carrying out court orders.
The 55yearold Young joined the county services in
1850 after serving with Pennsylvania Central Alines and
the Army.
Montgomery County's jail praised highly for its
very fine and efficient administration in the 1859 Re
port of the Inspection Of the County Jas Of Maryland
by the Board of Correction
The Report states 'the only recommendation that
be made at this time regarding the Montgomery County
Jail Is that its very fine efficient administration be
continued and that the county authorities proceed with
their plans for Jail site away from the busy section
of the city preferably farm site the finges of the
town which would not be too distant from the courts and
attorneys and where certain amount of farm labor might
be carried The employment of prisoners should be
tinued"
The Board Of Correction also took the step of
adding note to its recommendation: THE inspector
wishes to take this occasion again to compliment the Mont
gomery County Authorities for the efforts they have
In maintaining their jail personnel and administration
high level"
Montgomery County Detention Building
built in 1859 in semrural the County Seat
replacing the facility the top floor of the County Court
House.
Young married to the former Ann Marie Plowman IL
the father of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-08-25

Take the collective ages of
four of WMAL's most popular
entertainers and you get more
than a century of progress
even though none of them will
admit to being over 81.
And, best of all, all four are
Montgomery County residents.
They are Frank Harden, Jerry
Strong, Jimma Strong and Jack
son Weaver. Harden and Weav-
err open up WMAL radio each
morning at 6 o'clock and Jerry
and Jinma Strong take over
at IL am.
In addition to the notable at
tribute of being county resi-
dents, all four deserve q pat on
the back for making the com.
muting hours more pleasant
for thousands of area motorists
and making the homemakers
daily chores more palatable.
Harden lives in Bethesda, and
is a well known voice land
face) in area radio and TV. Be-
sides the marathon task of being
wake-up man four hours each
morning, his voice is heard
nightly from coast-to-coast over
the ABC network Edward p.
Morgan newscast at 7 pm.
No trace Of his native South
ern drawl remains for this
Macon, Ca, gentleman, who has
hung his hat in the Washington
area since 1947 when he Joined
the staff at WMAL. With him
in his Woodacres home are his
wife, LaVerne, and children
Bobby, Is. Daffney, IL, and JEFF
frey, 6.
He and Weaver teamed up a
number of years ago for a sue