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Evening star., 1961-07-26
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, July 26 (APl.-After
brief early periods of firmness and
weakness, the grain futures market
leveled off on q slightly easier range
today in rather quiet dealings on the
Board of Trade.
Brokers said the selling apparently
was toward cashing profits. They said
II also apparently reflected the trades
appraisal of President Kennedy's ad-
dress to the Nation last night as more
moderate than had been expected.
Wheat was hs-7s cent a bushel lower
shortly before noon. September 81;
corn h-la lower, September l.l5h:
oats is-3s lower, September 71h; rye
IL lower to u higher, September | %:
soybeans " higher to ss lower, Septem-
Der 2.5e.
Chicago Cash Markets
Wheat No. | yellow hard 1.9S%:
| 80; No, 2 yellow l;;l4a4; No. yel-
low .10-11; No. } yellow .05: sample
erade yellow 01 -0212. Oats No.
extra heavy white, 49,: No, . extra
Barley: Mating choice ,30-1.40 nom-
inal; feed S2-92 nominal.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

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Prices rose in moderate trad
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Government bonds declined,
apparently in further response
to the rise in the British bank
rate to 7 per cent from 5 per
cent, tending to attract some
investment money abroad.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
Ship Prices Rise
STOCKHOLM.

STOCKHOLM. - Sweden's S
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mage last year than in 1859
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production was valued at IA
per cent more.
Evening star., 1961-07-26
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sold short.
Evening star., 1961-07-26

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Evening star., 1961-06-04
Smooth Deal Takes
ALot Out of Us

pages of comment is both
rare and satisfying.
Mr.. Meyer is at his best
when he sticks to his CEN
trail thesis, and especially in
the use of his gift for humor.
His accounts of the status
strata in Washington bureau
cracy, for example. and his
imaginary application Of
Madison avenue technique to
the image of the Supreme
Court, are genuinely funny,
without succumbing to the
danger of cuteness. Mr.. Meyer
is at his worst when he devi-
ates from his dominant
theme, as in his extraneous
and lopsided account of the
reconstruction of Capitol Hill
in the image of Texans Ray
burn and johnson.
Fortunately, however, such
excursions are few. For the
essence of this book is a chal-
lenge that men of all politi-
cal beliefs stop for a mo-
ment and ponder the political
sickness of national politics
today. Those who refuse to
do so are those against whom
Mr.. Meyer really is exhorting
the loudeSt.
GEORGE BEVERIDGE.
Evening star., 1961-06-04

imperlouS, dlSdalnful, poeClc,
and humorous. The more the
writer blends into the crowd,
the more we see him an in
dividualist. Yeats in this
new collection comprising his
two previous volumes of es-
says supplemented by all his
hitherto uncollected or un-
published introductions, con-
tinually aStoniShes the reader
and inevitably delights him.
We are prepared for remini-
SCIENCES of DowSon and Lionel
johnson, of how in Paris the
writer urged SINCE to go to
the Aran Islands to learn life,
of how in his youth the poet
found that popular" poetry
never comes from the peo-
pie themselves, but from
Longfellow and Campbell,
and Macaulay and Mrs. He
mans. We are prepared to
read a delightfully."- tart and
iconoclaStic disparegement of
the art of music (but not Of
mothers, to learn what
Yeats knows about magic, to
be touched by a tribute to
his friend Gogarty.
But how can we anticipate
many of his other passions?
Yeats says that a man should
do his reading before forty,
that after that age six books
are enough. His six? He
has forgotten two; the others
are the works of Balzac, the
poetry of William Morris,
Burton's Arabian Nights"
and Shakespeare. That Col
cite or Glide is enraptured
by the crude grandeur, the
panoramic great world of Bal
zac we can understand, but
are startled by Yeats kinship
Sometimes I meet some
body who read Louis Lam
bert in his teens and find that
he and I have put it among
our sacred books, those books
that expound destiny with
such a mysterious authority
that they furnish texts for
piouS meditation" And Nor
ris - yes. the morris-chair.
Evening star., 1961-06-04
THE NEW AMERICA, Poli-

THE NEW AMERICA. Poll
tics and Society in the Age
of the Smooth Deal. BY.
Karl E. Meyer. (Basic
Books, Inc; $4.500
1t is Mr.. Meyers purpose
to examine the state to which
we have been brought in past
decades by political change,
and particularly by the
legacy of the Eisenhower
years. In doing so, as he says
in a brief "beforeword," his
aim is not to be fair" But
he does promise to be can
did," and to apply "a little
sandpaper to our political
icons, liberal and conserva-
tive"
How well he succeeds in
this depends inevitably upon
the philosophical and politi-
cal persuasion of the reader
himself. For Mr.. Meyer is an
unabashed liberal. Conserva-
tfsm, in virtually any aspect,
frankly does not suit him.
And when he abrades liberal
ism. he does so with light
and loving care, with an air
of sorrowfully regretting its
past failings, and of prayer
fully nourishing it's future.
That having been clearly
understood, however, any
reader should be free to turn
with relish to Mr.. Meyers
basic Gneme-that the era OF
the smooth DEAL has taken
a dangerous amount Of the
gumption, the vitality, the
innovation in thought and
action. out of our political
life. Maturity of a sort has
been accompanied by "in-
slant inertia; in an obses-
Sive concern with the me
chanics of government" we
have lost much sense of it's
purpose; the dissent and in
dependence Of the past has
given way to conformity, and
worse. to downright compla-
cency about conformity.
These, of course, are not
new thoughts. But seldom
have they been expressed with
the pungency, the clar-
ity and the wit of this book.
Mr.. Meyer is an editorial
writer for the Washington
Post. He also is a researcher
par excellence, and the skill
with which he has woven a
truly amazing amount of fac
tual information into 1856
Evening star., 1961-06-04

early socialism, the pre-Raph-
aelites, but an English lyric
and epic poet comparable to
Shelley or Blake or Milton?
But Yeats sees Morris a gen.
ius - "the one perfectly
happy and fortunate poet of
modern times. Indeed all
he writes seems to me like
the make-belieye of a child
who is remaking the world,
not always in the same way,
but always after its own
heart; and so, unlike all other
modern writer's, he makes his
poetry out of unending pic
lures of a happiness that is
often what a child might
imagine. and always a happi-
ness that sets mind and body
at ease" What felicitous en-
thusiaSm! 1t is the best kind
of critical writing, for it
breeds desire. In my own
case, my pleasure in the
Yeats book was doubled by
the reopening o. Morris, dusty
and forgotten.
Yeats may have been a
crowd and a lonely man and
moonStruck, but he was a
writer. For example: "One
opens a friends book with
dread, every trick of style has
its associations. we wonder
perpetually-such hatred is in
friendship-how a man we
have buckled to our heart can
have so little sense. Admira-
ton can but feed hatred, and
if we have known the man
for five-and-forty years and
met him once a week for
the last ten, and must write
about his book-and what
else can be so Interestingly
it may seem best to touch
upon some one aspect and
ignore the rest. Yet, in writ
ing about A. ELS Song and
its Fountains 1 cannot do
so; I must face all my as
sociations, merely stating at
the outset that my hatred
has won the right to call
itself friendship"
Evening star., 1961-06-04

himself. is drawn into the
lives Of the Carmodys, the
children whose lives have
been warped or wrecked by
Charlie.
The most sympathetic of
these-and in fact, the finest
character in the books-is
Charles priest son, who is
engaged in a soul struggle of
his own. He loves God but
not His creatures. He is con-
Stantly ducking the plants
Of his parishioners: II am a
priest, not a wastebasket," he
laments.
The mystery Of Charles
sudden attachment to Father
Kennedy is at long length
explained. Not, however, be-
fore, Mr.. O'Connor h a s
faithfully chronicled the am
biguities and irrelevancieS Of
family gatherings. He re-
cords all with a sympathetic
and humorous eye. His only
real failure is with his one
woman character. Helen
Carmody, Charles rebellious
daughter. The Edge of
Sadness" has passages Of
poignancy and of comedy,
which the reader may re-
member more vividly than it's
sad central character and
its rather slight story.
Evening star., 1961-06-04


Two new titles have been
added this spring to M. Sa-
sek's picture books Of Euro
pean cities: THIS is MUM
ICH and THIS is EDIN-
BURGH Macmillan, So
each). Art. science. fun, food,
are all touched upon with
humor and enthusiasm, and
dashingly illustrated with
bold, colorful illustrations.
These large flat books ap-
peal both to the novice and
the well-seasoned traveller.
High schools add them to
their libraries. Small chill
dren can pour over the anus
ing details. Parents going
abroad may well consider
one of M. Sasek's interpreta-
tionS of Rome. Paris, Lon
don or Edinburgh as impor-
tant as the right shoes for
tramping the cobblestone
StretS.
Evening star., 1961-06-04


Just as familiar. But they are
seen from a new perspective.
People who are a scream on
the podium at closer view
seem less amusing. Mr..
O'Connor has a weakness for
these types, these comic, pic
turesque, anarchistic men Of
blazing egocentricity who live
in worlds Of their own. His
principal character, Charlie
Carmody is one of these. He
is of the kind known among
the Irish as "cute," a word
connoting not attractiveness
but a preternatural shrewd-
ness, an eternal vigilance
for ones own interest.
Mr.. O'Connor's story is the
elegaic one of a middle-aged
priest, who has successfully
conquered alcohol but whose
instinct for survival keeps
him aloof from his poor par
ishioners, a poloygot group Of
Italians.
The burden Of the story is
Charles battling courtship
of the has-been priest. He
invites Father Kennedy to
his birthday party, a side
splitting sequence in which
the guests, all madly eccen-
trio, converse in VIII a t
Charles son describes as
exclusively in detours."
Father Kennedy, in spite of
Evening star., 1961-06-04
Its History Is Stranger
Than the Story 1t Tells

years and learned the Ian
guage. Returning to London,
she met a young Polish revo-
lutionist who had seen Sib-
ria as an exile. He gave up
politics for the rare book
business, and in 1915 the
couple settled in New York,
where Mrs. Voynch died at
the age of 96. She had writ
ten a number of other novels;
none so far has become fam
Gus.
THE Gadfly" is a thriller,
but a three -dimensional one.
Its adventures, intrigues and
loves involve not paSteboard
characters but real people.
especially in the last third of
of the book, where we can
almost see Mrs. Voynich gain
experience and craftsman
ship page by page. Arthur, a
19-year-old EngliShman liv-
ing in Pisa, is a quiet and
devout boy deeply attached
to his preceptor. Canon Mon
tanelli, and in love with
Gemma. He and Gemma are
members of Young Italy"
an undercover revolutionary
party - an historical one,
formed by Mazzini in the
1830s. Arthur's attachment to
the Church is broken when
his confeSsor reveals infor-
nation about the clande-
Stine plotters, and when, al
most at the same time, he
finds out that Montanelli is
not only his spiritual but his
real father. Gemma Spurns
him as a traitor, and Arthur
flees to South America.
Thirteen years later he
turns up again, crippled, his
face multilated. broken in
body, embittered in spirit. He
shutters, and thus becomes
perhaps the only indubitable
romantic hero in fiction to
suffer this affliction. His dis
figurement is so transform
ing that his identity is not
suspected by Montanelli;
Gemma herself has only a
momentary suspicion who he
is. He is now a brilliant and
savage satiriSt, a gadfly, bit
ing the flanks of the revo-
lutionists and fomenting hat
red of the Church and the
government.
There is little point in
further synopsis of Arthur's
adventures; the most inter-
esting aspect of the last part
of the novel is the relation
ship with his father, Mon
tanelli, now become a Cardi-
nal. Each still loves the other.
When Montanelli finally rec
ognizes Arthur, the Gadfly
is a terrorist in the Cardi-
nails power. Arthur refuses
Montanelli's offer to help
him escape unless the Card
inal will renounce Christ
ianity and come with him.
The Cardinal sacrifices his
son to avoid further blood
shed, and after the execution,
goes insane, identifying HIM
self with God, and smash
ing the Host on the floor of
the Cathedral.
Mrs. Voynich's sympathies
may have been with Arthur
Mazzini, but she was too
much an artist to make the
Cardinal only a puppet-foil.
The antagonism and over
Whelming love of the final
scenes, melodramatic and
sensational. are maSterfully
created. Miss Fremantle calls
THE Godfly," a profoundly
religion book" 1t may be;
certainly it is a grandiose one.
Evening star., 1961-06-04
Marjorie Holmes
Teen-Age Novel
Has Local Settinq
FOLLOW YOUR DREAM.
BY Marjorie Holmes. (The
Westminster Press; $2.950


BY Marjorie Holmes. (The
Westminster Press; $2.95.0
Star ColumniSt Marjorie
Holmes took time out in be-
tween her writings of family
life entitled "Of Love and
Laughter" to turn out her
third teen-age novel.
Inspired by a teen-age girl
who goes to the University of
Maryland and to whom the
book is dedicated, the Wash
ington author has set her
story in the Nations Capt.
tai. Readers will feel right
at home as Tracey Temple,
the teen-age heroine who
wants to be a grown-up vet
erinarian, walks through
Georgetown, goes to Unon
Station. and even helps set
a lions tail at the Zoo.
In the book Tracey is en-
rolled at Western High
School and keeps hamsters in
the refrigerator, dogs and
cats everywhere, and a couple
of black snakes named Eloise
and Ambrose who escape
down the bathtub drain.
Teen ayers interested in
animals and young men can
learn quite a bit about life
with both as Tracey spends
her summer assisting the
animal kingdom in a pet hos
pital. Tracey finds them all
very romantic as we'll may
readers between the ages CT
IL and Is the publishers
recommended rea ding age
for Follow Your Dream"
Fiji GORSKA.
Evening star., 1961-06-04
Urls Builds New Book
On Warsaw Horrors

against the armed might Of
the IS and the Wehrmacht
or the flight of the few who
survived through the evil
smelling sewers of the Polish
capital.
Andrei Androfski, a DASH
ing officer and a militant
leader of the Jewish under
ground, emerges as an un-
forgettable Characterization
and he dominates the book
more than any individual de-
picted.
Germans and Jews
Yet the main impression
is not Of the individuals but
of the Germans and Jews
en- toto, acting according to
their personal and collective
motives. The Germans had
set out to wipe the Jews off
the face of the earth and in
deed eliminated half a mil
lion in Warsaw alone. The
Jewish dilemma was solved
for them by the so-called
final solution" of the Nazi
death camps.
They decided, after CEN
turies Of wandering and sub
mission to harsh laws, that
it was better for them to die
defending their heritage than
to march off to the trains
for Auschwitz like so many
sheep.
That, basically, is the story
and it is the story of an
emerging nation that has not
taken a backward step since.
Mia 18 Is a proud story Of
the rebirth Of a Jewish dream
of centuries and is particu-
larly timely now with Adolf
Eichmann on trial in Jeru-
salem. Mr.. Urls book re-
minds those who have for
gotten, and tells those who
never knew, some of the rea-
sons why Eichmann sits in
a courtroom today.
Six million Jews were an
initiated in the Europe of
1939-1945 without ever seeing
a court or judge.
JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1961-06-04
THE GADFLY. By Ethel L

THE GADFLY. BY Ethel L.
Voynich. Introduction by
Harrison Salisbury. CPyr-
amid, paperback, so cents.)
Ethel Voynich's "The Cad
fly" is a melodrama that
makes tame old wives tales
of the most lurid adventures
of Sabatini, Scott, or Dumas,
yet the history of the book
and its author is more melo-
dramatic than the plot.
Written by a 33-year-old
Irish woman, it was pub
liShed in England and the
United States in 1897, and a
few months later in Russia.
It's success in the English
speaking countries was i'm
mediate but not lasting, al
though it has always had
its notable admirers. George
Bernard Shaw dramatized it,
Bertrand Russell calls it zone
of the most exciting novels I
have read in the English Ian
guage," and Rebecca West is
a fan. In Russia, however,
the popularity of the book
has been continuous and
fantastic. Ten editions were
printed and sold during the
CzariSt regime, and it has
gone into "a since the revo-
luton. 1t has sold 2.5 million
copies in the 10 languages of
the Soviet Union, and is read
in Poland, Hungary, Bulga-
ria, CZechoslovakia, Yugosla-
via, East Germany and Outer
Mongolia. Soviet critics have
ranked Mrs. Voynich with
Dickens, Twain and Dresser,
the book has been required
reading in high school for
more than 40 years, two mov-
les Zone with music by Shos-
takovitch) and three operas
have been made of it, and as
a play it has not been out of
repertoire since it appeared
on the stage in 1920.
The story is laid not in
Russia but in Italy, and Mrs.
Voynich, who died last De-
cembel in New York, was the
wife not of a Russian but a
Pole. The author was the
daughter of George Boole,
one of the greatest mathe-
maticians of the nineteenth
century. According to Anne
Fremantle ito whom I am
indebted for the facts of Mrs.
Voynich's life, taken from an
interview recently published
in CommonweaD, Herbert
Spencer declared he made
"the greatest advance in logic
since Aristotle" and Russell
said "Boole discovered pure
mathematics, Ethel Bodies
mother, Mary Everest, was
also a writer. Her brother,
Ethels uncle, was the cx-
plorer who discovered and
gave his name to Mt. Ever
est.
Ethel's youthful interest
was music. She studied three
years at the Berlin Hoch-
Schule der Musk, where she
attended lectures of the great
Bach scholar, Philip Spitta.
Her idol, however, was the
Italian patriot, Mazzini, the
Italian counterpart of Lord
Byron. Last year she told
Miss Fremantle that Arthur,
the hero of THE Gadfly," was
suggested by Mazzini. while
Montanelli, the other princi-
pal character of the book, was
modelled after the Able Lam
menais.
In 1887 Ethel visited Rus
sia, where she stayed for two
Evening star., 1961-06-04
Mia Is. BY Leon Urls.
doubleday & Co.; $4.95D

MILA IL. BY Le0E Urls.
doubleday & Co.; $4.95D
The author of Battle Cry"
and Exodus" in researching
the latter successful novel
and motion picture, collected
some threads of the horrors
inflicted on the Jewish popu-
lation of Warsaw by the Nazi
occupation forces.
The story of the doomed
men, women and children
who rose to battle the Ger
mans in the Warsaw Ghetto,
with headquarters in a bunk
er at 18 Mia street, is the
subject of this fascinating
novel.
The uprising itself was not
easily launched since many
Jewish leaders were sharply
divided on how to react to
the Nazis. Indeed many thou
sands Of the half million War
saw Jews were exterminated
before militant spirits we're
able to rally the leaders to
the point Of physically resist
ing the Germans.
In Self-Defense
But it happened on Febru-
airy /, 1943, when the Joint
Jewish Forces of the walled
in Ghetto took their home
made bombs and captured
weapons in hand and began
to fight. It was the first time
in nearly 1000 years that a
Jewish army controlled Jew
iSh land and was a certain
forerunner to the events re-
lated in Exodus" about the
founding of ISreal as we know
it today.
1t is difficult to say wheth-
er Mr.. Urls has done bet
ter in depicting the tragic
lives and deaths of War
saws Jews or whether his
greatest skill has been de-
voted to painting the charac-
ters of the hundreds of indi-
viduals peopling this novel.
The reader will find it not
easy to forget the descrip-
ton Of the fantastic resist
ance displayed by the Jews
Evening star., 1961-06-04
There Are No 'Hurrohs'
In New O'Connor Book
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

Little Brown; So
Those who seize upon Edwin O'Connors novel in
the glad hope of being swept away of roicking
laughter in the Last Hrrah will be disappointed This
novel another Of tea entirely While the setting the
Boston dentfed and the characters drawn
from the breed rsh Cathocs) the mood not
of cynical hllarity but Of gentle melancholy
Several of characters lust as funny and