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AND WHO ARE THE DEVILS DUPEs, SUCKERS,
LEPU7lES?
ANSWER: THE RIP VAN Wrinkles THE MORAL
AND SPIRITUAL CRlPPLEs THE 'sAuLs OF TAR
See SENATORS. Page 3
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Morxism Is Not Real
Aim Of Communism

which are beginning to ex-
perience the dislocations and
Illustrations Of exceedingly
rapid change"
Included also are chapters
on Communist revolutions,
how Communist Parties are
organized, Communist STRAIT
egg and tactics, the influence
of Russia on the development
Of communism, the appeals
of communism to the under
developed countries of Asia,
the relation between commu-
nism and the industrial revo-
luton, communism as to-
talitarianism and communism
as a secular faith. Readers
seeking a good overall anal
ysis Of communism in the
world today viii find this vol
ume both stimulating and en-
Tightening.
THOMAS t. HAMMOND
Evening star., 1962-09-30
THE LANGUAGESO OF
RELIGIOUS RITUAL
TRACED TO ORIGIN

ROME AND THE YER
NACULAR. By Angelus
de M arco. (Newman
Press; $3.50
One Of the questions to
be taken up at the forth
coming Ecumenical Coun-
ell Of the Roman Catholic
Church win be using the
vernacular in the liturgy.
While Pope John xXIu
has made it clear that
Latin is the basic language
Of the church. he has per-
mitted use Of the vernacu-
lar in some areas to a
greater extent than ever
before.
This book undertakes to
trace the growth OF in
digenous languages at wor-
ship so lay people could
better understand the lit
urgy. This is q book by
a specialist for specialists
written so the average lay
man could enjoy as well as
follow the historical devel-
opment of this issue.
-CASPAR NAMES.
Evening star., 1962-09-30

during their summer vaca-
tions to do useful manual
labor in the bush with
their African student
counterparts. In this book
Ruth T. Plimpton tells the
story Of the young men
and women who went in
the summer of 1861 to
build schools and other
community resources.
ESSAYS ON POLITICS AND
CULTURE. BY John Stuart
Mill. Edited and with an
introduction by Gertrude
Himmelfarb. doubleday;
$4.95.) The essays collected
in this volume, most Of
which have long been un-
available and many Of
which have never before
been reprinted in their
original form, include dis
cusSions of some Of the
most crucial problems of
the modern age: Mass cul-
ture and mass society,
democracy, international
aggression, religious faith.
SELLING POETRY, VERSE
AND PROSE: BY Carl
Goeller. Doubleday; $3.750
In this "how-to" guide, Carl
Goeller, editor-in-chief of
Rust Craft Greeting Cards,
gives expert advice to the
free-lance writer on how
to crack the lucrative
greeting-card market, as
well as magazines and
other markets.
THE FALL OF CRETE. BY
Alan Clark. Morrow; So
Mr.. Clark is author of the
newly publish e. d book,
The Donkeys."
SAHARA STORY. By Ed
ward Ward. Morton; $4.50).
An account or the worlds
most famous desert from
prehistoric times to the
present.
THE DEPARTMENT OF
WAR, 17S1-1795. BY Harry
M. Ward. University Of
Pittsburgh; $4.950 In this
history of the first 13
years of the United States
Department Of War, Harry
M. Ward views the depart
ment's growth as a micro
cosm of the development
of a central government.
LEO XIII: The First Modern
Pope. By Katherine Bur-
ton. mckay; $3.50 The
life and times of this
Evening star., 1962-09-30
QuuIity Homespun
Woven in Koreu

THE DIVING GOURD, By
Kim Yong TX. Knopf;
$3.50
Kim Yong TX was born in
Korea and lives there now,
after spending over ten years
Of study in the United States.
His delightful short novel is
the story Of a young Korean
named Bau whose mother,
BoSun, earns a living by div
ing for seafood. Their joint
wealth, following their de-
sertion by husband and ia
ther. includes an elderly COW
whose breeding to the towns
one and only bull becomes a
matter Of vast community
Importance since the result
could-and does-double the
towns bull population. The
story Is a series of naively
bright pictures that combine
humor. minor tragedy, and
love in the rich current Of
daily living. It is told with
great honesty and charm.
R. n.
Evening star., 1962-09-30

complicated beyond expecta-
ton by the conflict that
Immediately develops between
the two men. whose COM
bined mental age seems to be
about fourteen. They operate
strictly on an anything you
can-do-I-can-do-better basis,
with ludicrous results. In due
time, though, they meet the
old elephant and all previous
problems are cut down to
size.
This is a good adventure
yarn. reminiscent Of past
glories in male-interest Sat-
urday Evening Post fiction.
RUTH HUME.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Did He Sturt
Historic Case?
A TRAGEDY on HISTORY

A TRAGEDY OF HISTORY.
A Journalists Confidential
Role In the Hiss Chambers
Case. BY Bert and Peter
Andrews. CRobert B. Luce;
$4.759
If it had not been for the
late Bert Andrews, there
might not have been a Hiss
Chambers case. As the per-
ceptive and Pulitzer prize
winning chief Of the New
York Herald Tribune's Wash
ington bureau, Mr.. Andrews
was called in by former Vice
President Nixon, then in the
House, to help evaluate the
evidence presented by Whit
taker Chambers.
From then on Mr.. Andrews
was closely connected with
the development of a shat
tering episode in American
history as no other reporter.
He died in 1858 with this
book unfinished and his son
Peter, with the Hearst news
papers here, has completed it.
While few new facts are
presented, "a Tragedy of His
tory" a title taken from
Whitaker Chambers own
description Of the case, gives
a valuable intimate insight
into the tug-of-war that
went on over the sensational
charges against Hiss. Mr..
Andrews understood the
deeper meaning of the case
and the cleavage it wrought
in America. with a queer
perversity," he wrote, ''it
challenged both the liberal
and conservative main
streams Of American political
thought" Z
Peter Andrews has done q
highly creditable job in COM
pleting and bringing up to
date the account his father
began. In addition in a FORE
word there is a moving por-
trait Of Bert Andrews as the
son remembers him. =
CECIL HOLLAND.
Evening star., 1962-09-30

animation on equality and
inequality in the United
States by New York's Senior
Senator.
ATOMS AND EVIL. BY Rob-
ert Bloch. "a Gold Medal
Book; IS cents.)
A collection Of 13 stories
of science fiction and fantasy
by the author Of Psyche"
NEW FACES ON THE BAR
ROOM FLOOR. BY Virgil
Partch (VIP). ca Crest
Book; IS cents.)
Cartoons. (Reprint.)
ADVOCATES OF MURDER.
By Charles Boswell and
Lewis Thompson. "a Col
lier Book; 95 cents.)
Ten authentic cases Of
lawyers who murdered.
THE RUSSIAN EXPEDI-
TION TO AMERICA. BY
Sven Waxell. "a Collier
Book; 95 cents.)
The perilous voyage that
proved Asia and America
were separate continents,
originally published as "The
American Expedition"
TODAY'S LATIN AMERICA.
By Robert j. Alexander. GA
Doubleday Anchor Orig
inal; 95 cents0 Robert j.
Alexander, professor of
Latin-American history at
Rutgers University, pre-
sents a survey of the many
varied forces at work
Transforming almost every
segment of life in Latin
America.
COUNT RUMFORD, Physi-
cist Extraordinary. By San
born c. Brown. Double
day; 95 cents0 In this
biography, Sanborn c.
Brown, associate professor
of physics at the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Tech
nology, tells the story Of
Rumford's dual personali-
ty and explores his con-
tributions to science and
technology, ranging from
heat theory to the perfec-
ton Of the fireplace and
the drip coffeepot.
CLOUD PHYSICS AND
CLOUD SEEDING. BY
Louis J. Battan. CA Dou-
bleday Anchor Original; 95
cents.) In this book, DR..
Battan tells how the me-
teorologist collects and an
alyzes data to increase his
understanding atmospheric
phenomena.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Four Young Men
In Search of
An Education
THE SHORTEST GLAD

THE SHORTEST GLAD
DEST YEARS. BY Scott
Sullivan. (Simon & Schu-
ster; $3.50
The dreaming spires that
inspired Compton MacKen-
zie's Sinister Street" and F.
Scott Fitzgerald's This Side
Of Paradise" are conspicu-
ously absent from this COL
lege novel. The setting is,
presumably, Yale and Mr..
Sullivan Chimself q graduate
Of Yale) has given it. not one,
but four heroes. Each Of four
roommates tells, in the first
person, the story Of one year
Of the college four.
Considered separately, the
young men are unalike. There
is Harry, Jewish and from
the Bronx. with a passion
for analysis. Kevin, a nut
for Haydn quartets, is trying
to suppress that in being a
well rounded college man.
Martin, typical of the campus
big-man. is perhaps the best
drawn of the quartet. Anson,
son of a noted family, stays
busy paying attention to all
the things that don't matter.
He ends up in the Army in q
Brooks Brothers uniform and
was very happy to have found
"a little man in william
street who does the best
khakhi ties and underwear"
This device involving four
first-person stories robs Mr..
Sullivan Of the chance to give
what is a really ambitious
account of modern university
life any real point Of view.
The result is four different
stories-from different men.
There are, in unexpected
but welcome places, stretches
Of really good writing. In
retrospect there are many
such places more tina
enough to compensate for
for the loss Of unity in the
four-heroes device. It Is, al
together, a very interesting
and stimulating novel;. 7.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
Sugu of q DountIess
Trio, Fine Folklore
LET'S GO FOR BROKE. By

LET'S GO FOR BROKE. BY
Mary Lasswell. (Houghton,
Mifflin; $500
This is a new entry in the
saga Of the Mesdames Tink-
ham, Feeley, and Rasmussen,
a dauntless trio who have
already starred in four pre-
vious books. The ladies live in
an ark, from which they
operate a parking lot. When
city living pals they move
to q rundown Victorian
manse in the country. Com
phcations compound them
selves but naturally the
ladies triumph over every
thing including the electric
Evening star., 1962-09-30
First Novel
Reveals Fine
Authorship
THE SERPENT SLEEPING.

BY Edward weismiller.
&C. P. Putnam's Sons;
S4.959
1t is an event and a pleas
ure these days to read the
work of a writer who has
taken the trouble, shall we
say, to acquire an education
in artistic literature.
AS a beginning, Edward
Weismiller took his first
eight years of schooling in
a one-room country school in
Wisconsin. He subsequently
studied at Swarthmore Col
lege, went to Oxford as a
Rhodes Scholar, and returned
here to be a graduate fellow
in English literature at Har-
ward. He later received a doc
torate degree in English from
Oxford.
His poems and short sto-
ries have been widely pub
hshed in national magazines
here. This novel is his first.
Set in war-torn France in
1914, its story is an inter-
play of the shades of guilt
and innocence in espionage
and counter-espionage.
Mr.. Weismiller's charac-
ters are not revealed to the
reader by indulgent descrip-
tions, but reveal themselves
faithfully and gradually
within the course of events.
Pathos and humor do not
depend upon a talented turn
of phrase but develop quite
naturally from character and
situation. Sex is all the more
powerful because it stems
from the personality of a girl
whom the soldiers did not
find good-looking. The story
unfolds swiftly and gently,
perhaps a tribute to Mr..
WeiSmiller's poetic discipline.
Mr.. Weismiller also gives
a credible account of a
young Americans quite typi-
cal and stubborn misread-
ing Of the world"
MARY FAITH WILSON.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
'Moby Dick EIephont
In q Tale of Revenge
LAST ELEPHANT. By Gerald Haney. OWOrld;

GTIIGANs LAST ELEPHANT. By Gerald Hanley. CWordi
$685. ~
GiIgan tough hardbitten professional hunter who
operates mostly Illegally in Africa Muller wealthy
American who hires the crotchety Ggan to organize
elephant hunt for him Deep in the jungle wasteland lives
mighty bull elephant who before had killed the hunters
only friend. while the supposedly fearless Ggan fled IN
terror The elephant has gradually assumed full Moby Dick
status in the mind Of the aging He decides to
settle the with his old The safa however %
Evening star., 1962-09-30

VI CotAAktluKliSKu from M ARK
and Engels through Lenin and
Stain to Khrushchev. And
he shows what the power
drives Of the Communist
leaders have done and are
doing to the world.
A Massive Offense
He is at once a scholar
in examining the philosophic
concepts involved in commu-
nism. lawyer-like In showing
the basic faIlacies Of the
MARKHAM theories and their
subsequent distortions and a
professional investigator in
exposing the RELENTLESS quest
for information by Commu-
mist spies in the United
States" which he describes
as "the most massive often
sive Of its type ever conduct
ed by one nation against an
other in the history Of inter-
national relations"
The book win also be
printed as q textbook for use
in the schools, but outside
the schoolroOms it will be
immensely useful where
young people get together for
bull sessions. For Mr.. Hoover
provides the ammunition for
the counter attack when
well-trained young Commu-
nists trot out their theories.
Can't Be Trusted
The headlines Of today are
put into historic perspective
by q man in q unique posi-
ton to observe Communist
tactics, He shows, for in
stance. that the pattern of
broken agreements and trea-
ties by the Communists was
set as early as World War I
when Lenin signed the treaty
Of Brest-Litovsk as a 'tac-
tical measure"
It is essential to realize,
Mr.. Hoover emphasizes, that
the world wide Communist
movement now constitutes
Evening star., 1962-09-30
GENERAL

THE CHEROKEE FROM
TIER: Conflict and Sur
vival, 174O-62. BY David H.
Corkran. University of
Oklahoma Press; $50 Lat
est addition to ''The Civili-
zation Of the American In
dian Series"
THE CAMELLIA BOOK. By
John ThreIkeld, Cvan Nos
trand; $7.75.) A complete,
illustrated guide to camel
liza culture.
METTERNICHS DIPLOMA
CT AT ITS ZENITH, 1920
1923. BY Paul w. Schroe-
der. university Of Texas;
So A survey and analysis
. Of the Austrian chancel-
lor's diplomacy during the
period when he was the
pre-eminent figure in Eu-
ropean politics.
THE HUMAN FACTOR IN
CHANGING AFRICA. BY
Melville j. Herskovits.
(Knopf; $6.95.) A distin-
guished anthropolog
probes behind the contem-
porary scene to show the
evolution Of African cul-
lures from prehistoric
times, the influence of At
rica on the West as well as
Of the West on Africa,
change and resistance to
change, and the vital as
poets Of the new Africa.
THE AMERICAN PART
NER s HIP: Intergovern-
mental Cooperation in the
Nineteenth Century United
States. BY Daniel ]. Elazar.
University of Chicago;
$6.50.) Daniel J. Elazar,
assistant professor at the
Institute Of Government
Affairs, University Of Illi-
nois. challenges the theory
that, until this century,
the American Government
system was one Of dual
federalism.
NAVAJO WITCHCRAFT. BY
Clyde Kluckhohn. (Bea-
con; $4.95) An analysis of
Navajo witchcraft beliefs
ard practices.
OPERATION CROSSROADS
AFRICA. BY Ruth T.
Plimpton. Viking; $685.
Operation Crossroads Af-
rica is a private, voluntary
organization which takes
American and Canadian
undergraduates to Africa
Evening star., 1962-09-30

the greatest imperiaIist force
Of all time. International
communism, he explains, has
been able to advance its inn
perialistic designs by exploit
ing areas characterized BY
low levels of economic and
social development or by a
lack of political freedom or
both. He calls the roll of
the nations where by force
of arms or by wanton acts
of violence against the civil
ian population-never by free
elections - communism has
taken over.
Buying Time
Mr.. Hoover makes short
shrift of Khrushchev's poll
icy of peaceful co-existence. /"
On the basis Of history and
present realities, he shows
this policy is merely a tacti-
cal maneuver of the Com
munists to hull the free world
into a false sense Of security.
1T is q means of buying
time through which they can
consolidate past gains while
probing for soft spots in the
nom Communist world which
present opportunities for fu-
ture expansion"
In Mr.. Hoover's view, the
strongest weapon in the
struggle against communism
is mans innate desire for
freedom" He shows what it
means to live in freedom in
one of the most valuable sec
tions of the book. This is a
digest of differences" where
the freedoms we take for
granted are listed beside the
same elements of daily life
under the Communists.
With the United States
now the number one target
Of world communism, Mr..
Hoover's "A Study of Com
munism" should be must
reading for all Americans.
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1962-09-30
To Be Reviewed

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pose of The
Stur this week:
MoNDAY-"The Long Reoeh."
by Peter French. lives Woshburn.l
WEDNESDAY-"A Work Of
Gionts." by Wesley S. GriswoId.
tMcGrow- HILL
FRlDAY-"MOther and Son." by
lsoko and lehiro Hotono, tronsloted
by Margaret ShenfieId. tHoushtOn
MiffIin.l
Evening star., 1962-09-30

company. There is a pleas
antly fey quality to this
modern folktale. 1t has, in
addition. the good fortune to
be illustrated by George
Price. -R. ii. =
Evening star., 1962-09-30

of the West" and the in
fluence Of this philosopher
of history upon history.
(Reprint.)
THE OCEAN RIVER. BY
Henry Chaplin and F.. G.
Walton Smith. ($1.65.) For
the first time the COM
plete scientific and his
torical story Of the Gulf
Stream is told for the gen.
eral reader. CReprint.)
THE CUSTOM OF THE
COUNTRY. BY Edith
Wharton. ($1.95.) A novel
Of New York society when
the age Of innocence was
coming to an end. Gre
print.) Z
A FAREWELL TO ARMS.
By Ernest Hemingway.
($1.65.) Novel. (Reprint.)
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE.
BY F. Scott Fitzgerald.
($1.45O Novel. (Reprint0
EXISTENFIALISM AS
PHILOSOPHY. BY Fer
nando Molina. "a Spec
trum Book; $3.50 Pierc-
ing to the core one of the
most conspicuous and rel
evant of postwar philoso-
phies, this box illuminates
such concepts and con-
Germs as the individual,
freedom, death, absurdity,
and existence.
TRUTH, MYTH AND SYM
Boil. Edited by Thomas ].
j. Altizer, William A.
Beardslee, and j. Harvey
Young. CA Spectrum Book;
$1.95.)
This book probes the ques-
ton of what the ideas Of
truth" myth" and sym
boil" mean to the philoso-
pliers, sociologist, historians,
theologians, archaeologist, re-
search scientists, and literary
critics and offers the reader
the opinions and answers Of
IL scholars from these fields.
REVOLUTION 1875. BY John
Hyde Preston. Cwashing-
ton Square Press; so
centS.)
A short history of the
American Revolution.
SOUTHERN FRIED. BY VIII
liam Price Fox. "a Gold
Medal Book; 40 cents.)
Short stories and tall tales
with drawings by Jack
Davis.
DISCRIMINATION u. S. A.
By Jacob Javits (Washing-
ton Square Press; so cents.
A revised and updated ex-
Evening star., 1962-09-30
u. S. Marines
In the War
With japan
STRONG MEN ARMED. BY

STRONG MEN ARMED. By
Robert Leckie. (Random
House; $3.50
In writing this masterful
history Of the United States
Marines war against japan,
Robert Leckie had two ad-
vantages not always avail
able to men who attempt to
chronicle warfare: he is q
first-rate writer, and he was
there.
He set himself no easy task
in spanning the many Pa
cific battles of the corps of
Leathernecks, nor has he
been the first to attempt it.
But by adapting q narrative
style and setting himself
certain ironclad rules, Mr..
Leckie has produced what I
consider to be the best ac-
count of the Marines war yet
written - and ! have read
them all.
For one thing, Mr.. Leckie
writes that he avoided those
inflated "I-was-there" ac-
counts which proliferated in
the press during the war.
No Long Hair
Stories which suggest that
the hair on the chest of the
typical Marine grew to q
ferocious 12-inch length have
no part in this book, nor
Shave I trusted those ac-
counts which overestimate a
single mans actions" the au-
thor explains.
A machine gunner in the
1st Marine Division, Mr..
Leckie nevertheless does not
hesitate here to receive GER
tain official accounts of Ma
rine operations with a cooked
eyebrow. He writes that such
useless" landings as that at
Talasea. New Britain and the
late Gen. william M. Ruper-
tus' reluctance to use Army
troops at Peleliu have been
described for what they
were.
However, he has avoided
taking sides in any contro-
versy such as the famous
quarrel over Marine Gen.
Howlin' Mad Smiths dis
missal of Army Gen. Ralph
Smith.
The Record
The book is replete with
human touches and in
dividual references to men
from four star general to
rear-rank private, including
the names and feats of every
man living or dead who won
the Medal of Honor in the
Marines war.
All in all, this Is a CO.
hesive, well-researched book,
readable as few histories are.
Mr.. Leckie presents the
whole sweeping story of a
brutal conflict from Guadal-
canal to the last shot on
Okinawa. The japanese SOL
dier had vowed to fight to
the death and. in all but
three of the Marines incred-
ible succession of victories,
the defending force was an
initiated. Twenty years after
the Marines set out on the
bloody path. this history Is
most timely and SOLDERING to
those who may be starting to
forget how it was.
JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.