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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-26
Three Student Pastors
To Speak At Cullen

CULLEN, Jan. 25-There was
a good attendance at Cullen Bap.
fist Church on Sunday morning
The Junior Choir led and direct.
ed BY Mrs. J. r. Ferguson and
Mrs. Brenda Elder adds a 1Oi
to the Sunday School. The ch0ii
Is made up Of ages three ia
siy and they really sing out.
II we older ones would sing
with the spirit these little ones
do it would be wonderful.
There will be a student preach
er three consecutive Sundays from
Wake Forest to conduct ser
vices at the church. This is on a
trial basis until one is chosen
Come out and welcome those
young men and get q spiritual
lift yourself from these services
Visitors are always welcome.
P. A. Layne is a pahert in
Veterans Hospital. Richmond
Friends of Paul are horing he
will soon feel better and come
home. Paul is one Of Cullen Bap'
fist Church deacons and q
most faithful member of the
church. We miss him.
Mrs. Howard Carson and sons
MIS-. Earl Lamberth. Mrs. Paul
enc Dunavant. and Mrs. Bernice
Gunther. Of Keysville. were
among the recent visitors of theil
mother. Mrs. Frank Metcalf.
J. W. St. John father Of ]. H
St. John. is quite sick. He has
been in i'll health for some time
Game In Next Year
The hurting season is ovel
and from reports there are quite
a few turkeys and birds LEFT
over in next season.
Mrs. Edna Conner and son
Jesse. Of Richmond. were weel
end visitors of Mrs. Lucy Garb
er.
The Rev. Shockley, of Hope
well, and family will move into
the parsonage at Spring Creel
Baptist on Tuesday. We are hop
ing he will be happy here and en-
joy his work with these two
churches. Bethpeor and Spring
Creek. welcome to our co1nun
ity.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Ferguson
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Ferguson in Farmville on Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bobby Tugglt
and infant son, Dwayne, O
Lynchburg. Mrs. James Elder
and Mrs. Thomas Green, O
Amelia. Mrs. T. G. Elder ane
Mrs. Brenda Elder were Sunday
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Harper in
the Fort Hill section of Lynch.
burg. Mrs. Parson. Mrs. st. John
and Mrs. Lena Parson called on
him Tuesday afternoon.
MIR. and Mrs. Courtney Parson
and children visited her moth
er. Mrs. Dave Fitz. at Red Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Layne and
baby and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Ferguson and children Wayne
and Darlene. Of Fal1nville, were
recent visitors Of their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Layne.
Task Prolonged
Several in this vicinity still
have tobacco to sell. This cold
freely weather has prolonged
the task.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Jessup
and her mother. Mrs. Hamlet,
visited her brother and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hamlet
in Brookleal on Sunday.
Mrs. Florence Dickerson isn't
feeling well lately. MISS Mary
Shorter, of Cullen. and Gus
Brice. of Florida, were among
those calling in the S. A. Harris
home on Sunday.
Miss Mary Shorter is spending
some time in the home Of her
cousin, Miss Rosa williams, near
Aspen.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-01-26

CUMBERLAND. Jan. 25-Ori-
gin and purpose Of the MY
Fund viii be the topic for dis
cussi0n in the fourth Sunday
evening meeting Of the Cumber-
land Youth Fellowship. A sht
entitled 1.-The Methodist Youth
Fund in Argentina viii be pre-
sented with Betty Carol Keller.
Becky Peters. Jean Metzger.
Billy Horst and Lewis Crones.
Jr.. participating. Carol Harlan
and Becky French will conduct
the discussion. The meeting will
be held at Z pm, in the Payne
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Evening star., 1962-08-26

with a japanese labor leader,
named Akira Iwai, a neutral
ist and a Marxist. At one
point, Bobby burst out: You
are talking about the United
States a hundred years ago.
Do you think we have stood
still? And do you think the
labor movement is run by
capitalist imperialistS? q.
This is a different country
now. This is not the kind of
society that Marx was talk
ing about a hundred years
ago."
Obviously the Kennedy trip
was a new frontier in diplo-
macy. He and his wife Ethel
attended a minimum Of dip
lomatic dinners - Bobby
thinks they are a waste of
time. They went to ice-skat-
ing rinks and wrestling
schools vigorously arguing
the American way Of life on
all occasions.
Because young Mr.. Ken
nedy is not only the At
torney General but the
brother and confidante of the
President, his conclusions
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Other Books of the Week in Brief

among them two complete
books: The Great Mathe-
maticians, by H. w. Turn
bull, a short history of
mathematics, and The Ma
ture Of Mathematics, a
classic survey by Philip E.
B. Jourdain. ($2.95.)
THE WORLD OF LAWS
AND THE WORLD OF
CHANCE. A collection of
classic pieces on the appli-
cations Of mathematics to
the infinite varieties of the
universe. ($2.75O
THE MATHEMATI
WAY OF THINKING. 1t
covers such categories as
Statistics, Group Theory
and The Mathematics of
Infinity. ($2.450
MACHINES, MUSIC AND
PUZZLES. It deals with
some Of the most unusual
applications and uses of
mathematics and makes
available to every curious
reader q new world of
mathematical fancy and
imagination. ($2.250
Evening star., 1962-08-26
All the Types Are Here
In q Novel of Washington

bill occurs midway in the
book, and Mr.. Hubert is
rather hard put to maintain
interest in the Senator's sub
sequent campaign for re-
election in Missouri. The
Senator Is never a real fig
ure. We are given the text
Of his speeches; we are told
that he is q decent man.
But his motives, his foibles
never come through. 1t is
difficult to care what hap
pens to him. All the requisite
Washington types are here:
The lobbyist. the greedy la
Dor leader, the Communist
tainted assistant. All that is
lacking is a central charac-
ter to hold them altogether
and make the reader feel he
is learning something about
a politician as well as the
mechanics of politics.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
A Good Critic Appears
Grave and Graceful

tions. Miss de Beauvoir's
exhaustive rantings on the
subject Of the subsection of
women, Miss Hardwick ex-
amines with a realism that no
previous writer has brought
to the subject.
She does not say 1t is fair,
she simply says that it is a
fact that men are stronger
than women, can endure
more, write better books and
have composed more music.
"Simone de Beauvoir's use
Of allow Is inaccurate; she
stresses permission where so
often it is really capacity
that is involved" she writes,
summarizing the whole diff
ficulty.
She is equally rewarding on
the subject of another for
midable woman, Mary Nc
Carthy, who she says with a
detached candor few women
can seldom command when
discussing their sisters, "iS
a very odd woman" and a
spiritual descendant of Mar
garet Fuller, non-conformist,
opinionated, wilful.
with Mary Mccarthy"
Miss Hardwick says, "the pur-
ity of style and the liniment
of her wit, her gay summon
ing Of the funny facts of ev-
cry day life, soften the scan
dial of the action or the cour-
age of the opinion.
There is in many Of these
essays an element of stern
ness rare in today's literary
critics. Many of our essay
lists are arch, or obscure
about their opinions. AL
though southern born she
speaks her mind without
apology or softening whimsy.
In an essay on America and
Dylan Thomas" she fatty re-
fers to the "thinness and ia
tigue Of our literary life" On
David Risseman, she remarks
of sociological writer's, 1T is
the extreme fragility Of the
insights that leads to the de-
basement of the language"
Miss Hardwick's greatest
strength as a critic that she
can stand up to great repu-
tations like Graham Greene
and Ernest Hemingway. In
Evening star., 1962-08-26
A VTFW m MY OWN !

A VIEW OF MY OWN. BY
Elizabeth Hardwick. CFar-
rar. (Straus & Cudahy;
$4.50O
1t is perhaps the measure
of Elizabeth Hardwick'S ca
pacity as a critic that she
is able, in one of these ad-
mirable essays, to cut Simone
de Beauvoir down to size.
Mile. de Beauvoir is the
exiStentialist high-priestess,
is something of a bully so
encyclopedia Of detail, so
determined an advocate, so
prolix a writer that many
readers are apt either to give
in to what she says or clap
her heavy books shut.
Miss Hardwick, calm, Judi
cious and sensible as she is,
reduces Miss de Beauvoir's
tome on women, THE Second
Sex" to manageable proper
Evening star., 1962-08-26
Butuun March of Death
In q Thorough Account

other, the Japanese vastly
over-estimated the numerical
and physical strength Of the
American Filipino force.
Therefore, when they started
them walking from Bataan to
Camp ODonnell on Luzon,
they doubtless considered the
march no more than an in
convenience.
Mr.. Falk apparently feels
that the individual cases
where japanese soldiers shot,
bayoneted, beheaded or
buried prisoners alive were
impromptu and impulsive. In
any event, there is no evi-
dence that Homma ordered
these things.
Where Americans Died
Still, nearly $50 Americans
died in that march and be-
tween 5000 and 10000 Fill
pinoS did, too. Within the
next six or seven weeks,
1000 Americans were dead
and 10 times as many Fill
pinos died as q fruit Of the
death march.
The authors conclusion is
that Homma did not know.
Whether he should have
known is another matter. He
was busy with the assault on
Corregidor. but he had told
his officers to get the pris-
oners out of Bataan and, one
way or another, they did,
and expeditiously.
1t might be well to point
out, as Mr.. Falk does, that
the Japanese officer or non-
com administered physical
punishment ostenSibly to en-
force discipline. A sudden
whim or a bad mood might
easily cause q Japanese SOL
dier Of rank to strike a sub
ordinate without reason at all
and the likelihood Of their
being overly gentle with pris-
oners did not exist at the time
Of Bataan. There was a
standard joke in the Emper-
or'S Army that the officer hit
the sergeant, the sergeant
hit the corporal. the corporal
hit the various privates and
they. with no one below them
to hit, went down to q stable
and kicked the horse.
At Bataan, the Japanese
soldiers. acting according to
their conditioned reflexes,
often went one step beyond.
JERRY OTEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1962-08-26

will be read with unusual
interest in Washington.
What Mr.. Kennedy wants
to do is to export some of our
most eloquent advocates. He
mentions Senators Church,
Mccarthy, Humphrey. Doug
las and Cooper as the kind
Of men he thinks could pro-
ductively tour the UNIVERSE
ties and labor halls of the
world, and counter the Com
munist propaganda which
currently goes unchallenged.
I'VE returned home with
many thoughts and impress
sions," writes the Attorney
General, but one conviction
stood out above all others:
There Is q tremendous reSer-
voir Of good will towards the
United States which will dis
appear If the potential is not
properly realized"
Just Friends and Brave
Enemies" is an honest and
lively account Of a strenuous
and purpoSeful trip which
makes other goodwill excur-
sions seem extremely pallid
by comparison.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
NOON ON THE THIRD

NOON ON THE THIRD
DAY. BY James Hubert.
(Holt, Rinehart & Win
ston; $4.95J
This is another novel about
Washington. AS is often the
case in such fiction it pro-
vides more information than
entertainment.
Mr.. Hubert is an author in
search of a character, really.
He starts out promising an
absorbing study Of the great
conflicting preSSures brought
on a Senator faced by a re-
strictive labor bill. The labor
boys are sure Of his vote. Sen
ator Burnett has a liberal
record. But the businessmen
are hopeful that he has heard
the voice Of the people raised
in indignation against labor
racketeering.
But the vote on the labor
Evening star., 1962-08-26
BEFORE MY TIME.

- ~ ~ ~ - AVA 4 4NA Ds n
Memoir by Niccolo Tucci.
(Simon g. Schuster; $7.500
Niccolo Tucci's panoramic
book Of more than 600 pages
is neither purely a family
history nor yet quite a novel.
1t is too fantastic and even
farcical to be the one. too
amorphouS and inconclusive
to be the other. Mr.. Tucci,
of Italian and Russian de-
scent. has lived in the United
States for many years and
writes in English. He is we'll
known for his short stories
in the New Yorker; this, his
first long book, will be fol-
lowed, he tells US, by others
dealing with the same family.
The book pivots upon a
widowed Russian matriarch,
wealthy beyond belief, pc
culiar in her opinions, eccen-
trio in her actions. The
grandmother of the author,
who was born after she died
and for whom, therefore, she
is only a tradition, she has
six children, or rather IL,
for each is both to a certain
extent a white lamb and a
black sheep. When we first
see Mamachen. around the
turn Of the century, her fam
lily his dispersed except for
a daughter Mary. whom she
is educating by a protracted
grand tor of Europe.
= + y
Travel for Mamachen Is
no ordinary vagabondage.
She moves with an entire
retinue of cook, butler, maids
and erstwhile governeSSes.
Before her arrival at q new
hotel an entire floor is made
over and outfitted with her
own furnishings and objets
dart. Since her eating habits
are governed largely by her
emotions and by the part she
is playing at any given mo-
ment Of her life, and since
the chef Is an individual no
less involuted than she, Mary
at one point arrives at the
anguished belief that the chef
is trying to poison the old
lady. She appeals to her
wealthy brother in Moscow,
but as in this extraordinary
family everyone Is quite self
centered except when the
sham Of courtesy sometimes
slips into actuality, the
brother coldly turns her fears
into self-distrust. Mary mar
ries a nonentity by whom she
has q child, and eight years
later falls in love with an
INDECENT Italian doctor. After
a double divorce, the couple
Evening star., 1962-08-26

politan, dry, ironic, humor-
GUS, it has nothing Of chau-
vinism in it; its Belgrade
might be the Prague of KAT
ka, the Paris of Proust, the
London of Butler, or the Pc
quod Of Melville. Its author
is described by the publishers
as "a writer of considerable
talent" restraint so astound-
ing for a jacket blurb that
ones interest is aroused be-
fore the first page is cut.
An enormous blue whale is
killed in the Adriatic, in a
part Of the world where ce-
taceans are virtually un-
known. The huge corpse is
put on public exhibition in
various cities in Yugoslavia.
1t creates a universal sensa-
ton among all classes of So
ciety and on every intellec-
tual level. Whale" is on every
tongue; so great is the power
of the dead mammal that its
very name becomes confused
in the popular ear with
wall" "weal," i" "walrus," and
even Prince Of Wales"-the
last a felicity Of the trans
lation probably lost in the
original. Newspapers publi-
else the whale Big Mac,
teachers teach him, preach
ers preach him, politicians
espouse him, children flock
to him. the elderly venerate
him, poets glorify him, and
the whole populace in every
walk Of life gives itself up
to the worship Of him, whole
heartedly and uncritically.
Only q 40-year-old office
worker, Despic, among all his
fellows does not love the
whale. At first he does not
hate him, either, but his con-
tempt for the indiscriminate
adulation Of everyone else,
his disgust with mob hysteria,
his resentment that he him.
self Is expected to idolize the
whale. after q time coalesce
his vague animosities into a
fixation that it is his duty to
be q steadfast enemy Of Big
Mac.
BY the time the whale ar
rives in Belgrade, Despic has
fortified himself with an en-
cyclopaedic knowledge Of
whales, but this superior
knowledge Is not proof
against the importunate bab-
bling Of his landlady, the
communal solidarity Of his
fellow office workers, who
Evening star., 1962-08-26

know that interest In the
whale is a propriety ex-
pected Of them, or the intel
ligent remonstrance Of his
superior that open defiance
Of the whale Is pointless and,
though perhaps heroic, child
ish. The intransigeance Of
his individualisn makes an
outcaSt of Despic, and his
inner conflict makes him al
most desperate. For he must
confess to himself a curiosity
about the whale, q sense Of
necessity to go and see Big
Mac in spite of the ridicule
his visit, If discovered, will
elicit from his sister, his mis-
treSs, his colleagues, and his
landlady. He visits the
whale in disguise and in
shame.
With the advent Of hot
summer the whale begins to
stink-at first with the sane
titled sweetness Of Dostoev-
sky's Father Zossima, and
then, in the later stages of
putrefaction, in dead earn
est. The big fish becomes a
civic catastrophe, all Bel
grade is enveloped In the
nauseous smell of death. But
Despic, having borne the ami
mostly Of his fellows when he
alone distruSted and rejected
the whale, now, with equal
illogic and worldly truth, Is
turned upon with scorn as
though in some mysterious
way responsible for the evil.
Right or wrong the individual
cannot be tolerated.
Later, when Big Mac is
only q memory and Despic
and the world apparently are
reconciled, the landlady
comes to Despic's room.
Won't you come to the
movies to see One Day of
Life?'" she asks. Its the
saddest film in the world.
All Belgrade Is weeping"
The blood rushes to Despic's
head, and he sees the flukes
and blow-hole of another Big
Mac. 81 will not" he shouts
angrily, pitifully, and hu-
manly. II will not 60 to
see IT."
Since Erih Kos Is presently
an important official in the
Yugoslav Ministry Of Cul-
ture and Education, 1t ap-
pears that contempt of the
masses Is not always for
hidden, even by a peoples
government.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
A History
OF NAACP
By Hughes
FOR FREEDOM: The

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: The
Story of the NAACP. BY
Langston Hughes. Morton;
S4.50D
When LangSton Hughes
was a boy, the height of his
ambition was to have some
thing published in The
Crisis" the magazine Of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie.
Now, years after achieving
that ambition, and after his
poems, plays and stories have
earned him a high place in
American letters, Mr.. Hughes
has written the history of the
NAACP. 1t is a story that
needs to be told, and Mr..
Hughes tells it with his usual
grace, power, and even humor.
Mr.. Hughes calls the list
on the organizations roll of
honor and salutes the lead
ers Of the past: w. E. B. Du
Bois. James Weldon Johnson,
Walter White, Joel Spingarn,
Mary White Ovington, and
others. He describes their
achievements in building an
organization which, as Mr..
Hughes writes, has changed
the legal and social history
of the United States. ="
Today, the NAACP still is
effecting IN onumen mt a /
changes"
By its nature, Mr.. Hughes
story is partisan-so much so
that no differences Of opin-
ion or clashes OF strong per-
sonalities mar the smooth,
united front in the NAACP's
march toward equality. This
is unfortunate. For despite
its great achievements of the
past, the NAACP leadership
today is under increasing at
tack from Negroes. The
charge is made that the
NAACP has failed to keep
pace with the militant mood
of the present. None of thi;
appears in Mr.. Hughes
book. Such an ommission al
most has the effect of stamp
ing Mr.. Hughes book as
campaign tract, or officia
history. This would not b.
an entirely fair judgment
for Mr.. Hughes has made
another valuable contribu.
ton toward understanding Of
the race problem" CAS- he
characteristically notes, 1T
has often been called the
Negro problem. But this
perhaps is q misnomer, for
if Negroes are a problem to
white Americans. whites are
even more Of a problem to
Negroes"
Some day a definite his
tory of the NAACP will be
written. Until then Lang
ston Hughes fills the gap
nicely.
HAYNES JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
BATAAN: The March O

BATAAN: The March Of
Death. BY Stanley L. Falk.
CW. w. Norton & Co.;
$3.50
When the Army Of Gen.
Masaharu Homma overran
Lu7on and spilled into the
Bataan peninsula in the
spring Of 1912, the Japanese
had soon extracted an un-
conditional surrender from
the 7S,100 starving and weak
ened American ad Filipino
troops they had trapped.
Mr.. Falk, an Arlington
resident and q historian in
the Army's Office Of the
Chief Of Military History,
writes that this was one time
the cavalry did not come rid
ing over the hill to the res
cue. Thus it was that the
hungry and diseaSe-ravaged
Americans in many cases lost
their will to live and the Or
deal that followed the sur
render was fatal to thou
sands Of them.
A Dim Memory Now
Bataan Is a dim memory
now, except to those who sur
vived. But this thorough
book brings back sharply the
events that happened there.
The Japanese plan was to get
the prisoners out Of the pen
insula as quickly as possible
so they could get on with the
attack on Corregidor which
still guarded the entrance to
Manila Bay. Their motive
was not based on pure char
ity to spare the prisoners
from Corregidor'S counter
battery fire. There were
more than $4,000 prisoners
cluttering up Bataan, so to
speak, and Homma wanted
them out Of his way.
What happened Is history,
but it Is questionable 20 years
later whether the Japanese
high command ordered atroc-
tiles. Although Homma was
hanged because Of the out
come, 1t appears from Mr..
Falk's account that things
got out Of control in the Jap
aneSe Army-aS has hap
pened In our own.
For one thing. the Japan
ese are q literal people and
their soldiers, when ordered
to remove the Americans
quickly, did so. For an
Evening star., 1962-08-26

Miss Hardwick, who is the
wife of the poet Robert
Lowell, appreciation is meas
ured. She is a serious critic,
and she manages often to be
grave and graceful at the
same time.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
BOOKS IN REVIEW
A Modern AIIegory
From YuqosIovio
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE STRANGE STORY OF THE GREAT WHALE ALSO
KNOWN AS BIG MAC. A novel by Erih Kos, trans
lated from the SerboCroat by Lovett F. Edwards. ar
court, Brace & World $350)
This fine novel from Yugoslavia to have
been inspired by IoneScos Rhnoceros but the notion
diSpeed by the line the title page saying first
published in its original SerboCroat in 1885, several years
before the French play 1t is remarkably different from the
typical recent book from behind the curtain.
Evening star., 1962-08-26
THE STORY OF A COUN-

THE STORY OF A COUN-
TRY TOWN. BY Edgar
watson Howe. Edited
by Sylvia E. Bowm m
CTwayne; $4.75) In the in
PRODUCTION to this volume,
Sylvia E. Bowman, associ-
ate professor of English at
Indiana University and ed
itor of Twayne's United
States Classics Series, of
which this is a part, covers
the critical reception Of the
novel, places it against the
background of Howe's other
works, and indicates for
the first time the factors
of Howe's life and charac-
ter which made this one
of his most successful nov
els and also a unique con-
tribution to American lit
erature.