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, 1962-02-27

THE AMERICAN WAY

THE AMERICAN WAY
UNDERNEATH ALL the iustifiable hySteria, cheers and
deep sense of pride which grips the entire United States at
the accomplishment of Colonel John H. Glenn, II, and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration must be noted
two significant factors. First, the extremely great care which
went into even the minutest detail to preserve the life of one
man. Second, the fact that everything was done in the open,
from beginning to end.
EVERY AMERICAN felt a sense of urgency when the
Russians put up their first astronaut, and then another. Because
of a race between the two nations, everything comes under
close scrutiny, and there was a feeling of being second before
the world as Russia put through its spectacular accomplish
mentS.
BUT THE Russian featS were done in absolute secrecy
Nobody outside the immediate personnel knew what was 60
ing to happen until it happened, and only when the news was
released at a time and under circumstances which the govern
ment dictated. With its second astronaut, however, Russia
eased the picture a little, going to the point where it announc
ed that the aStronaut was in orbit. However, because OF the
absolute secrecy which surrounds everything done in that
vast country, no one on the outside can possibly know all the
facts. This was what prompted Senator Henry M. Jackson
to challenge the Russians to disclose all facts since Russia had
spent SO much time pointing out American errors.
THE of the two significant factors is the ex-
treme care to preserve the life and maintain the comfort and
security OF a man. Many tunes the flight was postponed, many
times the entire project went through checks and re-checks,
many times parts were r~edesigned to make sure that every
thing went well. For, based upon the western concept of the
sanctity of human life, a shot into space which d~sregarded
the safety of the aStronaut would be next to meaningless.
REAMS AMI REAMS will continue to be written about
the American feat, Col. Glenn and his accomplishment. Every
free man is proud, gratified and happy, and that includes
us here.
Brodhurstt Printery offers -.
, 1962-02-27
coRREsPo NDENc
To the Editor:

tM H'
| thought Crucians had suffi
cient lessons from the Virgin Is
lands Company to learn to avoi,
the race issue in the future, but
hear that almost the same thing
happened during the hearings TO
the Harvey aluminium Co. as tool
place at the establishment of thu
company, and the Negroes jubi
lantly for it.
AS l was a member of the ole
Colonial Council at that time,
vas foremost in the fight for es.
tablishing the company. I was in.
tructed along the lines that the
company would improve upon
the then existing economy, anc
therefore told, like now, that we
natives would be taught trades,
and be paid according to the Fe-
deral minimum wages. Naturally
/ circulated that news, but it wa;
not entered upon in the contract,
What happened? VICorp never
taught trades and instead of the
company introducing Federal
wages, they protected themselves
against increase of wages and
strikes by introducing via Con-
gress protective measures.
| therefore think that the atti-
tude Of the Chamber of Commerce
is correct; this time we should see
to it that we are not only told that
these. things will be done, but we
should see that they are entered
in the contract before it is ratified.
The more the governor and the
Legislature tries to keep this con-
tract from the eyes of the public,
the more they should be suspect,
ed, since we are quite acquainted
with the nature of the leading
men in the handling thereof.
| cannot see therefore why there
should be this split at this time.
We Negroes should be exceeding
ly glad that the whites are joining
in looking out that we see the con-
tract. They have nothing to lose
as was the case with VICorp.
They gained everything although
they opposed its establishment.
They got some of the most valu-
able estates for a song. All the val
liable machinery and tools that
were sold from the defunct com
pany was sold to them for a song.
As for employment-one was di-
rector of the company for a while.
Nor did any person nor group,
that favored the establishment Of
the company benefit in any way,
not even in business, it was an OBJ
that sold thousands of dol
lars of machinery to the new com
pany, and these were all white.
1t is on the colored mans side
that the fear exists, and we should
be very happy that the whites
join us in looking to have the Sc
curities in black and white. That
nonsense about color trumped up
, 1962-02-27
MARIO LEWIS

Commissioner of Property &
Procurement
Per:
Alphonso RomneY
District Supervisor
26-27-28
Evening star., 1962-01-07
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Children Turn EosiIyto Good Books
Setting the Trashy Ones Aside

after Little Rollo," and BIZ
ography patterned on Alger.
These critics are unaware
that more children are read
ing today than ever before,
they are reading more books,
and generally they are read
ing books of better quality.
No one would question the
sad fact that in books, as
in food, toys, clothing. and
everything else, there is the
shoddy as well as the durable.
Given a choice, children will
gravitate toward better books
like ducks toward water. This
has been proved time and
again. 1t is simply up to
us, as adults, to make avail
able books which arouse the
child's curiosity, and respect
his intelligence, his emotional
needs and his artistic ap-
probation,
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Biographical Stories

Frances Cavanah's story of
JENNY LIND AND HER
LISTENING CAT vanguard;
$2,95) missed our Christmas
list as a result of late pub
lication, and it is likely to
have missed many Christmas
lists for the same reason. But
this book belongs with the
best of 1861.
Childhood legends of ia
nous people are often point
less or inaccurate, as Ruth
Fox Hume pointed out at a
recent Children's Book Guild
luncheon. In the case of Jen-
ny Lind, however, the Incl
dent chosen is authentic and
crucial to her career as the
Cinderella of song. Even more
important, Miss Cavanah has
developed a robust and WIN
ming portrait of little Jenny
and her golden voice.
This approach to biogra-
ply, Selective rather than
comprehensive. has produced
several other excellent recent
books. OUND THE
WORLD WITH DARWIN by
Millicent Selsam (Harpers;
$2.95) describes the voyage of
the Beagle and analyzes the
tar-r e a C h in 6 observations
which young Darwin made of
oStricheS and turtles, arma-
dilloS and fossil remains of
giant land animals. It's a lu-
cid and fascinating account
for younger children.
Another>selective biography
which is unusually well-writ-
ten is THOMAS JEFFER-
SON, HIS MANY TALENTS
by Joanna Johnston CDodd,
Mead. $3.50. This is a vivid
portrait of a gifted American
who was interested in astron-
omy, natural science and in
vention.
The flow of books from
country to country has re-
emphasized the yardstick of
quality which must include
attitudes as we'll as au-
thenticity, style, and suita-
bility. This is not to say that
attitudes do not exist as at
tributes of good literature in
our own idion, but rather
that this quality is more
elusive when books jump ma
tional boundaries.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
A Tour de Force
Of Good PLOTTING
THE IVY TREE. By Ma

THE IVY TREE. BY Mary
Stewart. (Mills-M orrow;
$3.95D
Tourist Mary Grey's medi-
tations as she walks in the
peaceful Northumberland
countryside are rudely inter-
rupted by a dazzling but
surly young man who mis-
takes her for his long-lost
cousin, Annabel. The young
man, Connor Winslow, is
naturally shaken by this re-
semblance, because the pre-
sumably dead Annabel, If
alive, would be the heiresS to
an estate which might other
wise be Connor's. For devious
reasons of his own, he per-
SuadeS the girl to imperson-
ate the lost Annabel, and the
complications that follow are
horrendous.
Very few writer's of ro-
mantle adventures (contem-
porary, for a change) ap-
proach the unpretentious
competence of Mary Stewart
at this sort of thing. Her new
book is a departure from
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Quality in 1861

If the New Year can bring
as much that is challenging
as was offered in 1861, then
we can overlook the worth
less books and concentrate
on those which meet these
specifications: Quality in text
and illustration, elements of
permanent value, and &C
ceptance by children.
In the field of manners,
for instance, there is origi-
nality and humor in WHAT
DO YOU DO, DEAR? by
Sesyle Joslin and Maurice
Sendak Young Scott; $2.75). q.
Is this trash? Certainly not.
Nor would I want to turn
the clock back to the dull,
preachy volumes of yester-
year, as dated as a stuffed
owl
Evening star., 1962-01-07
PAPERBACKS

MOZART'S LIBRETTOS.
Translated by Robert Pack
and Marjorie LelaSh.
(World Publishing Co.;
$l.75D This Meridian
paperback is the most use
full available on Mozart's
operas. The librettos are
given in the original and
translated versions on fac
ing pages. The operas are:
The Abduction, the Mar
riage of Figaro, Don Clio
vanni, Cosi Fan Tutte and
the Magic Flute.
OPERA THEMES AND
PLOTS. BY Rudolph Fell
ner. (Simor and Schuster;
$1.75D This book of opera
stories has the advantage
tfor musicians) of includ-
ing on pages facing the
plot descriptions, short ex-
tracts from the scores
themselves. The operas are
the most popular in the
repertory, Verdi, Puccini,
Wagner, etc.
NEW DIRECTIONS II. Ed
tied by j. Laughlin. (New
Directions; $l.95.J Another
in the anthology of con-
temporary literature.
A SEASON IN HE'LL AND
THE DRUNKEN BOAT. Bv
Arthur Rimbaud. New Di-
rectionS; $3.50 Bilingual
edition with translations
by Louise Varese.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Book Quotes
Diplomats
u. N. Views
THE UNITED STATES AND
THE limited NATIONS

THE UNITED STATES AND
THE UNITED NATIONS.
Edited by Francis o. Will
cox and H. Field Havile-
land, jr. (Hopkins; $4.50)
Mr.. Wilcox, Assistant Sec
retary of State for Inter-
national Organization Affairs
in the Eisenhower admin
istration, and Harlan Cleve-
land, his successor under the
Democrats, have both con-
tributed to this valuable little
volume and the compatibility
of their views is striking.
Other distinguished schol-
ars and statesmen with eX-
perience in U. N. affairs have
also prepared essays. Some of
their thoughts: On expand
ing the Security Council
"Can we agree to invite one
or two representatives, to be
chosen by the African-Asian
caucus, to all Security Coun-
Gil debates as a regular prac-
tice regardless whether or
not their interests are specifi-
cally involved?" (Joseph E.
Johnson, president, Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace.) 1--WE cannot value
the United Nations, in gen.
eral terms, as a pro-Western
agency, and expect the Soviet
Union to value 1t at our oc-
casional convenience, as an
impartial agency Of the in
ternational community.
We should discard our pre-
occupation with the problem
of enabling the U. N. to act
against Soviet opposition, in
favor of a preoccupation with
the problem of convincing the
Soviet Union that it is both
possible and desirable for the
organization to serve the in
terests of both major blocs.
-" Qnis L. Claude, jr., pro-
fessor Of political science,
University of Michigan.)
"The time has come when
we should move in the di-
rection of professionalizing
our delegation Ito the Gen.
eral Assembly,. . Certainly
it is unfair for our Govern
ment to expect newcomers
to diplomacy to compete on
even terms with deputy for
eign ministers from Moscow
and Soviet Ambassadors to
London, Paris and Rome.
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
This Should Not
Keep You Guessing
KIRKLAND REYELS. Ry vie

KIRKLAND REVELS. BY Vic
toria Holt. doubleday;
$4.50O
Any book in which the
heroine says lin the fourth
paragraph, Looking back I
realize now that I was a ready
victim for the fate which was
awaiting me-" is naturally
suspect. All such suspicious
are fully born out in this
coach-and-four romance by
the author of last years sue
ceSsful Mistress of Mellyn."
The story has vaguely remi-
niscent overtones of "The
Woman in White" but there
the resemblance ends alb
ruptly. The heroine is a
blank; the plot fails to jell
on practically every count: as
for the villain of the piece
any reader who hasn't spotted
him by the end Of Chapter
Two should be drummed off
the subscription list of the
Ladies' Home Journal imme-
diately. RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
An Exquisite Fox:
The Human Kind
SYLVIA. BY Vercors. &C. P.
Putnam's: $4.)

SYLVIA. BY Vercors. &C. P.
Putnam's: $4)
The famous chronicler Of
the French underground,
Vercours, has here created a
lively fable, a twist on the
David Garnett story Lady
Into Fox" His theme is fox
into lady.
The narrator is a very
proper Englishman, a hater
Of blood sports, before whose
very eyes a fox run to earth
is transformed into an ex-
quisite human-type vixen,
whom he takes into his home
and into his heart. The diff
culties Of life with Sylvia. the
name he gives his beautiful,
redolent boarder, are drolly
described. Being a thought
full man, the narrator is un-
certain as to whether to train
her as a clever animal or to
make her into a human being
through love. Predictably,
he decides on the latter
course, having been per-
suaded to it by a doctor
whose own daughter is slip
ping into animalism through
drug addiction.
The stages of Sylva's trans
formation through laughter,
tears, consciousness of her
existence, and awareness of
death are pictured with Gallo
irony and clarity. 1t must be
said that Vercours comes
down in the end on the side
of heredity as against en-
vironment.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1962-01-07

MANY T. ii = ii III { II dIlQ
Frenchmen, far from think
ing this a prepoSterous pro-
gram, agreed with it, and
considered Germany a bull
wark against BoLshevism and
the Red peril. Maybe Hit
ler'Sl ambitions were gen.
uinely limited to the East;
maybe conquest there would
have been only preliminary
to conquest in Western Eu-
rope or on a world scale. No
one can tell. Only events
could have given the answer;
and by a strange twist Of cir
cumstanceS they never did.
Against all expectations, Hit
Ter found himself at war
with the Western powers be-
fore he had conquered the
East. Nevertheless, Eastern
expansion was the primary
purpose Of his policy, if not
the only one"
All European diplomacy
was based on military power,
but if during the thlrties the
countries who had armed
might did not seriously con-
slider it's eventual use, Hitler,
who in fact had none what
ever, from the first was ready
to fight if the necessity arose,
and time and again intimi-
dated England and France,
not through bluff. but by
the energy of his actions and
his contempt for the inepti-
tudeS of usual diplomatic
negotiation. When he came
to power, Germany had vir-
tually no army or navy. Hitler
made his successful threat
against Austria with a motor
lied force 10 per cent of the
vehicles of which broke down
in their unopposed journey
from the border to Vienna;
that he had no intention of
war with Poland Professor
Taylor thinks is proved by
the fact that he knew he had
no military resources for a
European war in 1939-the
cold war gave him time to
arm. But he miscalculated by
perhaps only "a hours. He
wanted Danzig, the English
were by no means opposed to
his having Danzig. the most
reasonable of all Germany's
demands, and it was only
Poland's refusal to negotiate
"a refusal that dumbfound-
ed her protector England no
less than her enemy Ger
many-that touched off a
a war the immediate stakes
of which were of little con-
Germ to either side.
Professor Taylor's book has
the fault of dryness. Ger
many" France" the Rapal-
10 treaty" are typical of the
dramatis perSonae of a story
that seems true but seldom
alive. Professor Tayior's un-
interest in people is shown
in exaggerated form in this
remark, not amplified by so
much as a word: Baldwin.
>. :, when finally driven to
concede the empty post of
Minister for the Co-ordina-
ton of Defense, chose not
Churchill or even Austen
Chamberlain, but Sir Thomas
InSkip - an appointment
rightly described as the most
extraordinary since Caligula
made his horse a consul" The
readers legitimate curiosity
about Sir Thomas deserves, I
think, some qualification.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Good, Bland Reading
For Holiday Futique
LADY OF MALLOW. Bv Dor

LADY OF MALLOW. BY Dor
othy Eden. Coward Nc
Cam; $3.50
Consumed romance cum =
mystery seems to be definitely
the thing this year and here
is a pleasant If not exactly
gripping entry into the field.
The principal ingredient Of
these items, a sprightly and
headstrong heroine, is abun-
dainty supplied in the person
of Sara h Mildmay. The
equally essential dark, men,
acing male is also present,
acting sufficiently dark and
menacing. This is good, bland
reading for ladies who are
exhausted by the holidays.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
THE CLASSIC THEATRE,

The CLASSIC THEATRE,
VOL. Nv. Edited by Eric
Bentley. Doubleday Paper
back; $1.45.l
The noted drama authority,
Eric Bentley, presents the
fourth and final volume in
his series, The Classic The
atre. The first three volumes
contained Italian. German
and Spanish classics, respec-
lively. This one gives us SIX
French masterpieces. most of
them in new translations.
The first play is The Cid,
a tragedy about the love of a
Spanish hero. 1t was written
in 1886 by Pierre Corneille.
Like ShakeSpeare'S Romeo
and Juliet, its dramatic power
arises out of conflict between
allegiance to feudal customs
and the characters own per-
sonal loves and desires.
James Schevill translated
this new English version and
managed to capture a stately
atmosphere with his rhymed
couplet verse.
Richard Wilbur translated
the second play, The NIisan-
thrOpe, a 17th century COM
edy of manners by the French
master Moliere. The plays
central figure, Alceste, be-
comes appalled, with the
flowery manners of the time
and pledges never to tell a
social lie.
Mr.. Wilbur kept the play
in rhymed verse and man
aged to preserve the melody
and lightness of Moliere'S
social criticisms. This ver-
sion opened Off Broadway in
1856 and ran for IA per-
formanceS.
The third play is Racine's
1877 classic Phaedra. It is
based on an ancient Greek
myth about a queen of Athens
who falls uncontrollably in
love with her stepson.
This poetic tragedy is beau
tifully translated by Robert
Lowell. Mr.. Lowell'S rhymed
couplets are much like the
herioc poetry of Dryden and
Pope-but more natural. He
achieves this naturalness by
using run-on couplets and
looSening the rhythm with
occasional extra syllables and
shifted accents.
Phaedra contains some of
the most moving monologues
in dramatic literature.
The next two plays are
LeSage's Turcaret and Mari
vaux's The False Confessions.
Both are comedies from the
early 18th Century and are
important milestones in the
development of French Com
edy.
These were translated by
w. w. Merwin whose English
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Fine Play TRANSACTIONS
In Poperbock Classic

versions show a refined and
elegant prose style.
The last play FigarO's Mar
riage by BeaumarchaiS has
never really been translated
into English until now. The
only published versions in
English are translations of the
Da Ponte libretto to the Mo-
zart opera (Which is quite al
tered or a translation by
Thomas Holcroft made from
notes taken at a performance.
Jacques Barzun created
this new English version from
the original. He translated it
rather freely and occasionally
made changes to clarity the
authors. intentions. He says
THE present translation, in
short, is for the reader, the
actor, the director not a
version for research scholars
4 + 4
Following the plays Mr..
Bentley supplies a few pages
of notes" containing bits of
historical information and
short discussions by some of
the translatorS and other au-
thoritieS.
Summed up, this inexpen-
sive paperback is an excel
lent collection of plays which
compares favorably with any
anthology of classic French
drama in English at any
price.
WARREN BASS.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
The Blood and Nerves
Of q Good Novelist

which I quote to show the
sensitivity of Mr.. Prices
style:
g. I think I have held
up my end pretty we'll and I
am wondering if it isn't time
you took up your share of
the load or else told me to
lay mine down and get on
home to Mama. So I am
asking you what do you want
me to do? All I am asking
you to do is say. What have
I ever refused you but that
one thing you asked me to
do the last time you were
here-When I was nearly wild
with thinking about poor
Mildred and the way I ran
out on her funeral to hunt
you doWn-and what right
did you have to ask for that
when you never moved your
mouth one time to say I love
you or make the smallest
promise?
Wesley replies: Dear Rosa,
you are getting out of my
depth now. :" But Rosa
has her own depths. She un-
derstandS people, except her
self and Wesley. Her mother,
bereft of a drunken husband,
her sister-in-laW, whose baby
has died. the 8O-year-old
man who owns the pecan
plantation that is the center
of their lives, all are seen
sympathetically and unsenti-
mentally through her eyes.
Milo, her brother, tells her
coarsely that to get Wesley
she must first sleep with him,
and she takes his advice.
After the disillusionment of
both boy and girl. the BROTH
er's worldly wisdom proves, in
the books ironic conclusion,
to be true. Love at last comes
with paternity.
While the manner Of the
writing is adroIt, the matter
is too slight for even a
short novel. Mr.. Price has
the blood and nerves of
a good novelist; in his next
book. let him develop a skele-
ton.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Other Books of the Week in Brief

An up-to-date survey of
group banking in the
United States, against
banking conditions in the
10Th century America.
LIVE TO BE 15O. BY JUS
tine C. Glass. (Taplinger;
$4.95D A scientific guide
to a long youth and a long
life.
STARTING FROM SAN
FRANCISCO. BY Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. New Direc-
tions; $2.95J New poems.
FICTION
THE CENTURIONS. BY Jean
Larteguy. Dutton; $4.95O
Awarded the Prix Eve De-
lacroix for 1860, this is the
best-selling French novel
about their paratroops in
Indo-China and Algeria.
so BRIEF A JOURNEY. BY
Margaret Echard. Double
day; $3.95D A compassion
ate story of honest people
who make honest mistakes
and have real courage in
moments of despair.
GREEN PAVILIONS. BY
Helen E. Muse. Carlton;
$1,000 A novel Of the
French and Indian War.
PROLOGUE TO ANALOG.
Edited by John w. Camp
bell. doubleday; $685.
Science fiction.
ALL THE TRAPS OF
EARTH AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Clifford D.
Simak. doubleday; $685.
More science fiction.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
BY BARBARA NOLEN
Contributing Writer

A certain loud minority of
critics have recently been
proclaiming that children's
books are trash. These peo-
pie also support such trite
mi nceptions as that
Johnny can't read or that
everything was better in the
old days. They would like to
turn the clock back to his
tory written by Fenimore
Cooper and Henty, manners
Evening star., 1962-01-07
GENERAL

Five new titles in the Mod
ern Library series, priced at
$1.95 each, represent as var
led a cross-section of classical
and modern reading as could
be assembled:
BUTTERFIELD 8. BY John
O'Hara. The 1885 novel
which made a name for
one of our most popular
novelists.
THE PHILO SOPHY OF
JOHN STUART MILL,
edited and with an intro
duction by Marshall Cohen.
A comprehensive selection.
SOPHOCLES: Ajax, the
Woman of Trachis, Electra
and Philoctetes. Another
in the library's series which
will see all the great Greek
tragedies published. Edited
by David Creme and Rich
mond baltimore.
SELECTED SHORT STO-
RIES. BY Irwin Shaw. The
surprising item in the Mod
ern Library'S new list.
However, who would for
get "The Girls in Their
Summer DresSes?"
THE NAKED AND THE
DEAD. By Norman Mailer.
One of the best World War
II novels but one which
seemed better in 1948 than
it does today.
BANK HOLDING CON-
PANIES. BY Gerold C.
Fischer. columbia; $5.500
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Work of Artists

Among the artists, Bar
bara Cooney and Adrienne
Adams have been steadily
turning out quality books and
proving that books by the
same artists need not look
alike. For THE DAY WE
SAW THE SUN COME UP
(Scribner's; $2.95), Miss
Adams used misty color to
interpret the light and
shadows of that magic mo-
ment when night turns to
day. Yet she has used crisp
detail and sharper use of
color in an entirely different
style or Andersen's THUM-
BELINA, (Scribner'S; $3.50.