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Evening star., 1962-09-23

she has Withdrawn her OBJ
jections, and Letters From
the Earth" is published for
the first time.
Twain's convulsive hatred
Of religion and of the God
man has created for himself
had appeared now and then
in his earlier work. But what
had been held in check by
caution or propriety during
his younger days Twain here
exposes with a violence that
is almost morbid. Satan
comes to Earth and reports
to his brother angels Gabriel
and Michael what he finds.
Nothing is good and every
thing is astonishing. The
God Of man is cruel, vindic-
tive, unjust. and capricious.
He creates man only to damn
him. He has devised original
sin, he slaughters the inno-
cent, he Furnishes the just
and rewards the guilty. Muir
der, slaughter and foulneSs
are exposed in his book, both
the Old and New Testament,
as the highest good.
You would not suppose,
writes Satan, that this kind
of a Being gets many COM
pliments. Undeceive yourself;
the world calls him the ALL
Just, the All-Righteous, the
All-Good, the All-Merciful,
the All-Forgiving, the ALL
Truthful. the All-Loving, the
Source Of all Morality. These
sarcasms are uttered daily,
all over the world. But not as
conscious sarcasms. No, they
are meant seriously: they
are uttered without a smile" /"
=
Twain's blasphemy is
heavy-handed; nowhere does
Satan show the wit of Meph-
iStopheles. Also, his disgust
Evening star., 1962-09-23
ForrestoI and the Navy
Is Theme of New Study

FORRESTAL AND THE NAVY. BY Robert G. Albion and
Robert H. Connery. columbia University Press $685.
James v. Forrestal a renowned public servant He
played key roles in getting the Nations military geared
war, helping 1t fight the greatest conflict in history
preparing it for the realities Of the cold
In their book the former New York investment
president who Washington stay authors limit
their study the period beginning August 190 when Mr.
Forrestal appointed to the post
Evening star., 1962-09-23
The Lives of joseph Wood Krutch
MORE LIVES THAN ONE,

MORE LIVES THAN ONE.
By Joseph Wood Krutch.
civilian Sloane ASsoci-
ates; So
At SO, Joseph Wood Krutch
has set down the story of his
life-or lives, as the title in
sists-and it is sure to appeal
to theater-go nature low
ers, scholars, and liberal in
tellectuals. These are the four
audiences to whom Mr..
Krutch has addressed him
self as drama critic of the
Nation from 1924 to 1852, as
the modern Thoreau Of such
books as THE Desert Year
as a scholar-professor, and
as the skeptical iconoclast
who diagnosed "The Modern
Temper" in 1929. AS auto
biographies go, this one is
neither very personal nor in
innate except in its chron-
icling of the authors ideas.
Mr.. Krutch is less interested
in glimpsing himself in
soiled dressing gown and
slippers than in watching
the development Of his own
consciousness.
consciousness" is the
word, rather than intellect"
for Mr.. Krutch's brand Of
observation-disclosures recognizes
more in man than his capac-
ity for rationalism and ra-
tionalization. as it a merely
sentimental delusion, a pa
thetic fallacy,'" he asks, Ito
think that one sees in the
animal a capacity for Joy
which man himself is tend
ing to lose?" He answers
simply, "I do not think it is"
Exercise, recreation, pleasure.
amusement and fun" all are
poor substitutes for Joy;
and 10y, so I at least am con-
. vinced, has its roots in some
thing from which civilization
tends to cut US off"
Evening star., 1962-09-23
Members
PriVute View
OfCongress
MEMBER OF THE HOUSE

MEMBER OF THE HOUSE:
Letters of q Congressman.
By Glenn Miller. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $29
When Glen Miller, q Cali
fornia Democrat. came to
Congress in 1859, a few of
his friends asked him to send
back informal letters about
life in the Capitol. He did
so. and the result is this
unpretentious volume which
surely must rank among the
best Of the portraits Of Con-
gress.
Designed chiefly as q sup
plement to academic texts for
college political science
courses, Member Of the
House" should delight any
one who has watched with
puzzlement the workings of
the legislative branch.
These are no ordinary news
letters, aimed at building the
reputation of the Congress-
man and flattering the pref
udices of his constituents.
Mr.. Miller was flabbergasted
by much of what he found in
Washington, and he set his
reactions down in the heat
Of the moment, between tele-
phone buyers and quorum
bells, as he puts 1t.
The book is q mural Of
deftly observed congressional
scenes - the contrasting
moods in the Democratic
cloakroom, the delicate di-
plomacy of q committee
"markup" session, the tactics
Of floor debate.
The Congressman has a
novelist's touch when it
comes to sketching the back
grounds and characterizing
the actors in the legislative
drama. The omission Of prop
er names will not be much
Of an obstacle to any reader
even skNhtly familiar with
the Capitol scene.
More important, he has a
steady curiosity about what
makes Congress move, the
sources of influence and
their use. In delineating the
impact of personality on leg
islation he is at his best.
1t is a remarkable book,
and a stimulating one.
DAVID 8. BRODER.
Evening star., 1962-09-23

Mr.. ForrestaPs last 20
months, including his tour as
Secretary Of Defense.
In 1t perhaps the details
will be told of the critical
relationship between Mr..
Forrestal and Stuart Sy-
mington, the first Secretary
Of the Air Force.
Mr.. Forrestal was said to
have been reluctant" to hire
Mr.. Symington now a Senator,
and, despite strong provo
cation" have later refrained
from trying to fire" him.
In the books preface, the
authors hint that they might
write q Forrestal sequel and
say:
THAT is q different story,
and would be a less pleasant
one to write, involving as 1t
does the forces and persons
who fought and finally over
whelmed him"
Il. EDGAR PRINA.
Evening star., 1962-09-23

known as the Mbulu Of
Mbuele and also as Terrible
Terry" has come to the q. N.
to demand immediate free
dom for his grotoland back
ward country. Much made Of
by the liberals, he takes it
upon himself to escort a
Negro child to a South Caro-
lima school, and is pelted with
eggs and epithets. He wears
his spattered robes to the
U. N. and screams for
freedom.
The President plays into
the ignoble savage's hand by
refusing to entertain him at
the White House and refer
ring to his kind as every
little character" q designa-
ton even Harry Truman,
whom Mr.. Drury's Presi-
dent resembles, might have
stopped short Of.
The rest Of the book Is
taken up with Americas at
tempts to right the situation
and the Soviet's attempts to
exploit it. An abject apology
in the form Of a resolution
is drawn up in the Congress
to forestall U. N. condemna-
ton of the United States.
Our old friend Seab Cooley
tries to stop the crow-eating,
but in vain.
Face Saving
The novel shuttles busily
and sometimes dizzingly be-
tween the East River and
Capitol Hill, with men trying
to save their face, honor,
presidential hopes, homes,
reason and Panamanian ma
tionalism in the resulting
cataclysm.
Mr.. Drury writes with
fluency and lively apprecia-
ton Of every human and
theological situation. But he
has been somewhat carried
away by his indignation at
the way the U. N. and the
world are going. Only the
Washington scenes have some
humor. A reader may feel
oppressed by the disapproval
which saturates the book, as
well as its baleful message.
Evening star., 1962-09-23

DOLL 4clleb III d4lu bOIlC. OLA
polemics, wild scenes and
overweight exchanges is
just a little bit more than the
traffic, or the reader, can
bear.
Khrushchev and his shoe
pounding brought an inc
radicable grotesquerie to the
glass house on the East River.
But even by those standards,
the action in Mr.. Drury's
novel is extreme and calls
for the ultimate in the will
ing suspension of disbelief
that Is required Of every
fiction reader. The events he
describes would shatter the
glass house, and Just about
do.
Amateur Diplomats
Take the central character.
He is a sane, temperate Negro
Congressman from California
and q member Of the United
States delegation to the U. N.
named Cullee Hamilton. For
his efforts to act as an am
bassador between the races,
he is called a white mans
lspdog" by his shrewish wife,
is spat at, cuckolded and
beaten. In q less passive
moment, he picks up the
Soviet Ambassador by the
lapels and bangles him
menacingly over the East
River. Another amateur dip
lomat. Senator Fry. the leader
of the United States delega-
ton, takes the rostrum and
tells the frothing nationalistS
before him that he is dying
of leukemia and beseeches
them to love one another.
The time of "a Shade Of
Difference" like that of "Ad-
wise and Consent" is some
decades hence. Nothing has
changed for the better. al
though the United States
does have men on the moon;
the new African nations have
virtually taken over the
U. NJ; Soviet-American re-
lations are worse, and de-
segregation is still proceeding
with "sll deliberate speed"
The Crucial Incident
1t is this last fact which
precipitates the crucial in
cident Of the novel. A
staggering bushman who is
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There, of course, is the
answer to Mr.. Krutch'S mi
grafton rrom east to west,
from the crowded city to the
open desert. Health, to which
most such moves are trace
able, played a lesser part
than a long-growing dissatis-
faction with the shortening
Of mans stature in urban
life, and a conviction that
today's dramatistS fire.
quently headed toward "ex-
istentialist unreason and de-
spair" have nothing to say
to him. But If Mr.. Krutch's
autobiography differs in kind
from Rousseau's "Confes-
sions," so does his return to
nature differ from Rous-
seau'S. Readers Of 1.-THE
Measure of Man" and "Hu-
man Nature and the Human
Condition" will recall the
cautious honesty with which
Mr.. Krutch has moved In the
direction Of what we must
call mysticism.
Human personality lacks
the continuity Of human con-
sciousness. We remember our
past, we hold it all in con-
sciousness, even though we
are no longer the sort of
person who would think or
act as we once did. Reading
Mr.. Krutch's autobiography,
we cannot fail to be struck
by the difference between the
author Of the ultra-sophisti-
Gated essay on the decline of
grace in suicide published
in "The Smart Set" in 1920
and the author Of "The
Twelve Seasons: Mr.. Krutch
recognizes the difference as
he follows himself up the
years from Knoxville, smil-
ing at the boy he was, ex-
planning his own tone Of SUI
periority in the early days,
and following out the threads
Evening star., 1962-09-23
Arsenic in the Sugar, !,
An Eerie Aftermath

edged contributions and dis
appears.
1t was Merricat, and not
Constance, who six years be-
fore had poisoned her fam
lily. She wanted only Con-
stance, who. she knew, drank
her tea unsweetened.
Shirley jackson has Gre
ated a good theme of mental
illness and infatuation, but
she handles it poorly. The
narrative Is tedious, and in
stead Of developing fear, or
recognition. or involvement
in the reader, leaves him
with only a sensation of dis
taste and unconcern.
Evening star., 1962-09-23

carson ana nave mobtl1zed
experts" against her who
contend that her book 'is
science fiction, to be read in
the same way that the TV
program Twilight Zone is to
be watched"
Impressive Arguments
1t is not the purpose Of q
book review to take up cud-
gels for one side or the other
in q situation where costly
oxen stand in danger Of being
gored But this reviewer, at
least, found himself impressed
by Miss Carson's arguments
despite a Dow Chemical ex-
ecutive's contention that I'VE
are long past the point where
such q presentation can have
constructive effects"
Miss Carson shows In de-
tail land. one assumes, with
due regard for TRUTH how
monkey wrencheS have been
thrown repeatedly into the
delicate gearing Of the envi-
ronment. The wholesale SOW
ing of broad-spectrum insec-
ticides, she demonstrates, has
all too often resulted In q
wholesale harvest Of death to
beneficial" creatures-and
the evolution of q new,
stronger strain Of poison
resistant harmful" ones.
Innocent Victims
Not only have bees died as
innocent victims Of mans war
against pests, but so have
birds and fish and wild and
domestic mammals-and oc-
caSionally humans. Miss Car
son shows. The unlooked-for
side effects are in q way
reminiscent Of the thalido-
mide tragedy.
If Miss Carson, in writing,
her book, had merely been
indulging in a diatribe against
Evening star., 1962-09-23

the unavoidable, silent
Spring" would merit scant
attention. But she shows that
there are other ways to fight
mans battle against his eco
logical competitors than the
wholesale approach Of DDT,
endrin. dieldrin and their
like. The Pathological exter-
mination Of the screw-worm
fly in Florida is an example
Of what can be done. Various
more or less successful milky
disease campaigns against
the Japanese beetle are an
other indication. There are
more ways to kill a bug than
with q sawed-off shotgun,
Miss Carson contends.
An Angry Author
In contrast to the serene
woman who wrote earlier
books about the sea and the
shore, this Rachel Carson is
an angry author. But her
anger does not work to the
detriment Of her prose style,
nor does 1t appear to warp
her judgments. Miss Carson
has done her homework on
this subject, as evidenced by
a detailed and valuable source
list at the end of the book.
The obligation to endure, "
Miss Carson quotes Rostand
as saying, gives US the right
to know" That right, she
says, has been abridged by
self-seekers in commerce, by
empire-builders in Govern
ment, and by general accept
ance Of a father -knows-best"
attitude by the public. Per-
haps her book will result in
an exercise of this right to
know" about geological tam
pering. because assuredly it
seems to be something we
have "the obligation to en-
dure."
WILLIAM HINES.
Evening star., 1962-09-23
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED
IN THE CASTLE. A novel
by Shirley jackson. (Vik-
ing Press; $3.50
This is an eerie tale Of
guilt and escapism, hatred
and insanity. Eighteen
year-old Merricat lives with
her beloved sister and her
uncle in the seclusion Of an
old ancestral house. The rest
of the family has been MUIR
dered with arsenic in the
sugar, a crime for which sis
ter Constance has been tried
and of which she has been
acquitted. The townSfolk
mistrust and revile the with
drawn and mysterious family
which has immured itself
against the world. Merricat
masters her own life by
burying charms effective
against people she hates or
fears, and Constance is per-
haps on the verge Of re-
entering the world. Then a
second uncle appears.
Merricat is unable to toll
crate the intrusion Of a per-
son so insensitive to the
beauties of the trio's unreal
and artificial life. She asks
him to leave, and when he
refuses, sets fire to his room.
Fireme en- extinguish the
flames, but the townspeople
take the opportunity of es-
pressing their resentment by
wrecking the house and
smashing the furniture.
Thereafter, the two girls be-
come complete recluses,
boarding up the windows and
boiling the doors. They are
fed by a contrite populace
that leaves its unacknowl-
Evening star., 1962-09-23
THE POISON AROUND US
RocheI Carson Sounds
A Dire Warning

SILENT SPRING. By Rachel Carson HOughtOn. Miffln So
1T is dstressful thing" beekeeper observed
walk into yard in May and not hear q bee buzz"
The month Of May without bees buzzng birds
this the apocapc warning sounded by Miss Carson against
the ndScriminae Of bug and weed killers Already well
pubczed through advance excepting Yorker maga-
zine and through prepubcaton notice by President
Kennedy the book certain to be the center Of controversy
in the months ahead.
Manufacturing chemists have taken against
Evening star., 1962-09-23

COLONIAL VESSELS. BY
William A. Baker. Barre;
$7.50D Mr.. Baker, who de-
signed the Mayflower II,
studies designs of some
18th century sailing ships.
THE UNITED STATES AND
THE UNITED NATIONS.
Edited by Francis o. Will
cox and H. Field Haviland,
jr. (Johns Hopkins Press;
$4.50) Here are eight pa
pers presented by experts
at a high-level conference
at the State Department in
May, 1861.
WHAT THE RCH
TEACHES. BY Monsigner
j. D. Conway. CHarper;
$4.95O The heart Of the
Catholic faith in the pop
ular question-and-an
Evening star., 1962-09-23
A Russian
Satellite
BY Choice
NOMADS AND COMIS-

NOMADS AND COMIS-
SARS. BY Owen baltimore.
(Oxford; $5.750
DR.. baltimore believes that
Outer Mongolia, which he
revisited before writing this
book, chose to be a satellite
Of the Soviet Union rather
than vice versa. It was a
case Of preferring Russians
to Chinese, he has found.
Much Of his book is devoted
to showing how logical this
is, from the Mongol stand
point.
The author, making the
most Of his knowledge Of the
language and history Of
Outer Mongolia, tells an en-
crossing story Of his discov-
cries of the modernization
of this nation Of nomads. 1t
is q curious case study. he
believes, of the almost COM
pletely voluntary communi-
Zation of q state with no
proletariat and no peasantry,
but a religious hierarchy
that was bleeding the econ
omy white.
Now that Outer Mongolia
is prospering and the lamas
are fading away, he believes
that Western administrators
of foreign aid should take a
close look at how the Mon
gols are being brought rap
idly into the goth century.
He spends little time on the
brutal left deviationist"
purges in which Mongol
Communist leaders put to
death or imprisoned til
heads of households in
1930-31.
He is keenly interested, on
the other hand, in the re-
actions Of q Mongol leader
who had been thrown in Jail
in q period of security hys-
teria." The Mongol told
him: What happens is that
things get out of the contro,
even of the secret services
themselves, and everybody Ii
infected. Then you have moi
only perjurers and informerS
who are trying to make a
good thing out Of it for
themselves, and not only
people who are trying to
even up old scores or grudges.
or to get the best Of q rival,
but people who are afraid
that their own record Is not
invulnerable, that they may
have done or said something
indiscreet, or known some
body who is now under a
cloud; so they start accusing
others as a way Of trying to
make themselves look loyal
and jealous. I'll tell you
what; I'm not afraid Of any
body, capitalist or Commu-
mist, If he's an honest man
and not afraid. What I'm
afraid Of is people who are
afraid"
After which DR.. baltimore
comments: 81 told him that.
having been through the Nc
Carthy period in my own
Evening star., 1962-09-23
Allen Drury GroppIes
With U.N. and Rocism
BY MARY MeGRORY
Star staff Writer

A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE. By Allen Drury. Double
day. $685.
In his resoundingy successful, PuitzeTPrize winning
first novel, Advise and Consent" Allen Drury showed his
willingness to take big institutions and big questions
Now in sequel called "a Shade of Difference" he is
graphing with the United Nations and the problem
There much about both problems that reader
feel downright ungrate to complain The trouble is that
there is too much "A Shade Of Difference" is excessive in
both length and tone Six hundred Of passionate
Evening star., 1962-09-23

country, I thought I knew
what he meant"
The author. then a State
Department adviser on Far
East policy, was one of the
principal targets of the late
Senator Joseph Mccarthy of
Wisconsin in his campaign
of the early 1950s to alert
the nation to possible Com
munist influence in govern
ment.
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star., 1962-09-23
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pose Of
The Stor this week:
MoNoAr-"Ths Forgotten PeO-
ple," by Seymour Fre4Sia. tSerib-
neFs.)
WEDNESDAY THE Old Post
Rood" by Stewart n. Holbrook.
tMeGruw- -HiII.)
FRlDAY-"chonsins Pottens Of
Prejudice" by Alfred J. Marrow.
tchiIton.)
Evening star., 1962-09-23
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Mark Twoin's Religion
As Told by Soton
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

LETTERS FROM THE EARTH By Mark Twain Edited by
Bernard Devote. Harper & Row; $3.50
When Mark Twain died I9lO he left large body Of
unpublished writings much Of which since appeared
der the editorial supervision Of his daughter Clara the
late Albert B. Paine In 1885, Bernard Devote prepared
Letters From the Earth for publication but the project
dropped when Clara Clemens decided that the atrbe
presented distorted view of her fathers ideas and
tudes" Today realizing that bigger than Bowder
Evening star., 1962-09-23
Teaching?

so YOU'RE GOING TO BE
A TEACHER? BY Robert
L. Filbin and Stefan Vogel.
(Barron's Educational Sc
ries; $3.50 Complete de.
tails on the rewards and
hazards Of teaching, daily
schedule, classroom man.
agement. plan books, mod
ern educational materials,
parent-teacher-staff-c o m
munity relations, and dis
cipline.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1962-03-29
TO THE EDITOR

supply and a clay soil insult
ed to proper drainage. Again
the citizens organized. This
time to demand safeguards
against irresponsible Subdivi-
ding of large parcels of land.
Zoning became a by word
and finally a law. Zoning is
good in the sense that it can
prevent the worst kind of
growth. If, however, it had
been possible to have a plan
it could have assured most
useful placing of commercial
and business enterprise in 9
way to enhance the original
beauty of our portion of the
county. In stead of this kind Of
assurance, we are haunted
by the Specter of the diSor-
ganized and haphazard ex-
panSion Of commerce in some
near by communities each
time a new gas station is err
ected or a new shopping CEN
ter is promised.
With the struggles of each
local entity to meet rising
costs of a rapidly increasing
population we find little hope
Of tax relief. Separately we
lack essential requirements
to entice industry, namely,
water and transportation. AS
I understand the newly Great
ed land use plan water can
be made available by dam
ming the Cuyahoga's head
waters near an existing rail
road facility.
According to a recent Lea
que of Women Voters Study
on the subject of conserva-
ton I learned that not only
has the city of Akron already
taken good portion of this
water supply, but can con-
tinue under special federal
legislation to acquire land in
Geauga county for this pur.
pose.
Against Sucn action there is
no recourse, but there is legal
authority for a county to plan.
Before We give over these
"BerkShires of Ohio" to in
dividual or municipal exploit
alton let us as citizens work
with our commissioners and
planners to preserve the nat
ural beauty of Geauga county
at the same time as we move
forward to conserve and util-
ize wisely it's natural resour.
ceS for ourselves.
Sincerely
Irene M. BaniSter (MrS.
Robert II.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1962-03-29

faTllldCCl lTuCklllS ZSlf,
Chardon Rubber. No. 2 2142
TEAM HIGH SINGLE GAME
Farinacci Trucking 807;
Chardon Rubber No. B 1853.
INDIVIDUAL HIGH SERIES
Thelma Bruce 531; Ruth
Burnett 527.
INDIVIDUAL HIGH SINGLE
GAME - Thelma Bruce -203;
Ruth Burnett =. 203.
OTHER HIGH SINGLE GA
MES Q59 and over) - Ruth
Hummel 1911; Carolyn Hart
man 1888; Dottie Dunlap -184;
Alice Medina 1871; Carol
Jacobs III; Carolyn Schaf-
rik 1859; Barbara zell 167;
Dottie ZosZak 1866; Barbara
Jandt 1854; Helen Nadack =
1854; Helen Nadack = 1863; Ell
eanor Warner 159.
Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1962-03-29

studied three years at Musk
ingum College taking special
subjects of his own choice. In
his calling as a minister he
was located first at Martins
Ferry, Ohio. From there he
went to Barnesville for about
a year and next he labored
for t h e years with the
Church of Christ at Ninth ST.,
and Florida Ave, in Akron.
He then went to help build the
congregation of the Church of
Our Lord in Rittman, Ohio,
ten months. After this mission
was accomplished he then
went b ack to BarneSville
where he has been now for
almost two years.
You will find worship after
the New Testament pattern,
simple and sincere. And you
will find that you have the
very greatest welcome to all
the services, too. We plead
for UNITY of ALL Delivers
on the basis of the BIBLE A.
LONE. We invite you to come
to this meeting at 1913 Maple
Ave. and bring your Bibles
and investigate the worship.
practice, and f a t h, in the
light o fBible teachings.