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THE NAMES AND FACES

THE NAMES AND FACES
OF HEROES. Stories by
Reynolds Price. (Athe-
neum; $3.50
Last year. Reynolds Price
aroused more than ordinary
reader interest and won the
William Faulkner Founda-
ton Award by his first novel,
"A Long and Happy Life" He
now teaches English at Duke
University, after having
studied three years at Mer-
ton College, oxford. as q
Rhodes Scholar. This being
so. 1t is fair to expect the
present volume Of stories to
be Of more interest TO the
reader than any miscellane-
Gus collection which has
found favor with a publisher.
And. in fact, the stories In
"The Names and Faces Of
Heroes" have quite q bit TO
recommend them. They are
well-contrived, they proceed
easily and surely 10 their cli-
max. and. what is most cred
liable. they picture a certain
type Of society directly and
convincingly. Nevertheless, I
found them difficult TO read.
although ! am not quite sure
why.
They are written In two
kinds OF dialect. or. II that
is not the exact word. special
English. First, there is the
idiom Of the teller OF the
tales, a person not always
Identified or q part OF the
story. Thus the reader is told
the tale by someone not like
Huck Finn, or Kitten In "The
Hundred Dollar Misunder-
standing" persons you can
visualize. but the author. the
puller Of the strings. Here Is
how he sounds:
". II she was at home
she could go 10 sleep knowing
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This Is q Bourgeois
Gone With the Wind

THE FAR SIDE OF HOME. BY Maggie Davis. Macmillan;
$495)
Here is another story out Of the vast South country
Of swamps. bayous, mountains moonlight seashore pal
mettos and pnelands.
The author of this is former newspaper feature
writer for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Margaret Mitchell Without looking at the Of the
author you might think it written by q man, and
would please Mrs. Davis much since she set out
to write about the side of the Civil War and most
of the book centers around male character Johnny
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in Atlanta witnessing one Of
the most g1uesome honey
moons in literary history. In
fact, you feel more than en-
barrassed at being there.
Battle Scenes
This story Of the middle
class South during the war
grips your attention from the
very beginning, especially
during the battle scenes-the
Battle Of Jonesboro part Of
the Atlanta campaign is
especially interesting.
But Mrs. Davis writes
about romance as if it were
mashed potatoes. You have
very little sympathy for
Anna. It goes like this: "No,
don't do that" she whispered.
do what?" he asked her
baffled. or But you wanted
me to come up here with
you," she said, puzzled. You
begin to wish for Scarlet
O'Hara, or another woman
with some red blood.
This is supposed to be the
other side of Gone With the
Wind" and in a way it is.
But n is more like a cross
between $50 Red the Rose"
and Tobacco Road"
LEE WALSH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30
DinguIings
Hang by
Their Tales
THE COMPRESSOR. BY Jack
son Donahue. (World Pub
fishing Co. "a Q5l

THE COMPRESSOR. BY Jack
son Donahue. CWorld Pub
fishing Co.; $4.950
Brian Martin Sinclair. the
main character in this
strange book, is a heel. He
is also the handsomest, the
strongest, the most male of
men, possibly q psychotic,
and given to filthy language
and spells of vomiting. But
he is irresistible to several
women, one of whom he
either does or does not muir
der by smashing her face
literally out Of recognition.
THE Confessor" does not
succeed as a novel, as a
mystery story, or at its basic
level as the case history Of
a man who is, possibly, a
"confessor." ("Confessors,"
sometimes called "dinga-
lings," are people, familiar to
psychiatrists and the police,
who compulsively confess to
crimes they have not COM
mitted) Mr.. Donahue's story
is built around a revolving
murder, to which five men
confess.
At the end, this reader was
left feeling that she ha d
probably witnessed a miscar-
riage of justice, that the man
who was electrocuted-Sin-
clair-was insane when land
if he murdered the woman,
or that he was just another
"confessor." This Is, of
course, very promising fic-
tional raw material, but the
characters in this book are
over-violently drawn, the
style is obviously copied from
Hemingway's tough-guy short
stories, and the main clue to
the authors own viewpoint,
as to guilty or not guilty, Is
the title, which indicates that
he believes his man was not
guilty.
The Jacket announces that
1.-THE Confessor" has been
sold to United Artists and
is planned as a major re-
lease. Perhaps it will make q
gripping movie-with Burt
Lancaster, say, in the title
role-but the book, as q
literary contribution, adds up
to very little.
ANNE COOKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30

working for common worth
while causes.
Our American Princes"
should be a popular volume
for it combines interesting
lives, told with sympathy and
understanding and an at
tractive style.
-CASPAR NAMES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30

or holds back-these are not
his tactics - but always
eagerly progressing toward
the front, first as a lowly
batman, then promoted to
company orderly, he man
ages skillfully never to get
there. Twice when he is
separated from his company,
his extraordinary success in
failing to be able to return
while keeping himself free
from the slightest faint of
desertion, makes his anabasis
one of the most remarkable
of fiction. In the end he
achieves the feat Of being
taken prisoner of war by his
own army.
Hasek's book ridicules
every aspect Of war, and his
satire has an edge that no
gainsaying will blunt. The
state as rabble-rouser, the
priest as hypocrite, the public
as gull, the soldier brutalized
and the officer bureaucra-
tized-all play their roles in a
story which owes its strength
to the fact that it never de-
wolves into a tract, is never
propaganda. Hasek does not
make the mistake of telling
us to believe what he be-
lieves; he knows it is more
difficult but more effective
to make us laugh at what he
laughs at.
Few books as long as 1.-THE
GOOD Soldier: Schweik"
maintain so high a level Of
humor as that which invests
every episode in the life Of
Schweik with indictments to
laughter. Schweik says many
things that suit him well as
soldier-"Anybody can make
a mistake. and the more he
thinks about a thing, the
more mistakes he's bound to
make" IF a soldier starts
thinking, he'll soon be mis-
taken for a civilian" (This I
quote from memory, being
unable to find it, And per-
haps his most acute observa-
ton: IF all people wanted
to do all the others a good
turn, they'd be walloping
each other in a brace of
shakes" But Schweik's char
acteristic literary skill is his
ability to remember or create
an apt and illustrative anec-
dote. Whenever he looks an
interrogation in the eye and
says beg to report, sir, what
you say is true. :" he al
ways continues with q yarn,
descriptive, elucidatory or in
Structive. I have not counted
these stories, some only a
sentence or two, some a page,
but there must be a hundred
and fifty of them, and Hasek
must have sweat some Won
dering If he could keep up
the quality to the end Of the
book. See what / mean?
mot half I don't, sir"
Schweik is heard answering.
There was an old gentle
man who was a regular Gus
toner at The Flagon, he
used to be on the county
council, or something, but
they'd pensioned him off,
and he said exactly the same
thing. He always said he
was surprised how much
warmer it was in summer
than in winter, and he
couldn't make out why no
body had looked into it."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30
GENERAL

THE NEW NATIONS OF
AFRICA. BY Ben Watten-
berg and Ralph Lee Smith.
Chart; 500 In this hand
somely illustrated book on
the fledgling nations Of
Africa, each country is
treated In a separate chap
ter in which the physical
aspects Of the country, the
makeup of its people, its
past history. its present
problems, and its future
outlook are described.
PSYCHIATRY IN AMERI-
CAN LIFE. Edited by
Charles Rolo. atlantic
Little. Brown; So Its eff
feet on medicine, writing,
religion, art, children, and
morals. This symposium
grew out Of a special sup
plement Of the Atlantic
Monthly Magazine and
there are essays by, among
others, o. Hobart Mowrer,
Alfred KAHN, and DR.. Peter
B. Neubauer.
PARTY OF TWENTY. Edited
and with an introduction
by Clifton Fadiman.
(Simon g. Schuster; $4.50)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30
The Decline of the West

it had was not only inap-
plicable to Western culture
but perverted to political ex-
pediency. Mr.. Brown sees the
fullest Towering Of Western
civilization In about 1900 and
attributes its tragic error
and subsequent decline to the
Reformation which divided
Western ChriStendom per-
haps as he says for all time.
1t is impossible to summa-
rize his tightly reasoned ar
guments in this brief space.
His main purpose appears to
sound a warning that our
understanding Of the true ma
ture Of Western civilization
is inadequate to cope with
the potential disaster that we
have set the stage for with
the development of science
and technology. Other and
alien societies-he says-have
learned to copy our ways so
we may be destroyed because
they understand their socie-
ties while we miSinterpret
ours.
Much Research
The research that must
have gone into "The Might
of the West" is obviously
tremendous, and Mr.. Brown
places formidable demands
on his readers, assuming that
they will be conversant with
at least the rudiments of
cultural anthropology, COM
parative religion, the history
Of science and higher mathe-
mates. This makes for diff
ficult reading for, as he OBJ
serves. we have become a So
ciety Of specialists, speaking
m utually incomprehensible
languages and dealin g
in widely differing concepts
of our place in the universe.
This is regrettable, because
the authors erudition and
involved reasoning have a
tendency to place his book
beyond the reach of the most
of us who could benefit from
it the most.
-HIBBARD JAMES.
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TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will be re-
viewed on the editorial pose Of The
Stor this week:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Edueotlon
TOdoy" edited from the Saturday
Reviews Education Supplement BY
Paul WOOdrins and John Seonlcn.
tMe6row-HiIl.)
WEDNESDAY - The Road to
independence" by John Brosmon.
(Putnom's.)
FRIDAY - City on Leove," by
Philip Windsor. (Proe0sr.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30
LETTERS FROM VATICAN

LETTERS FROM VATICAN
CITY. BY Xavier Rhyme.
(Farrar, Straus & Co.;
$3.50
THE PRIEST is NOT HIS
OWN. BY Fulton j. Sheen
(McGraw-Hill; $4.95.)
OUR AMERICAN PRINCES.
By Francis B. Thornton.
Putnam's Sons; $3.50
Three books by Catholic
authors, each important in
its own field, have recently
been published. They probe
deeply into three aspects of
the Roman Catholic Church
and bring new perspectives
to nom Catholic as well as
Catholic readers.
Probably the one of most
contemporary interest is the
volume by the pseudony-
nous Xavier Rhyme, whose
earlier articles in the New
Yorker magazine put into
solid view the Ecumenical
Council called by the late
Pope John XIII.
Letters from Vatican
City" carry on in far greater
detail the authors analysis
of the Second Vatican Coun-
Gil. In view of Pope Johns
death and the uncertainty
what direction the council.
If continued as expected by
the new pontiff, will take,
this book is probably as
complete record of the gath
ering's first session, october
IL to December 8. 1862, the
general public is likely to get
or to want.
Ecumenical Council
The first three chapters,
roughly one-third of the
book, sets the stage for the
councils opening by giving
a brief history of these
gatherings, Pope Johns aims
in calling the Second Vatican
Council, and some sidelights
of prominent participants.
The next five chapters re-
port in some detail the de-
bates on schemas before the
bishops-Liturgy, Sources Of
Revelation, Communications,
Unity, and the Church. Then
the author summarizes, SUI
perficially he emphasizes, the
accomplishments of the meet
ing to date.
Mr.. Rhyme Is obviously on
the side Of those bishops who
seek to bring changes into
the workings of the Roman
Catholic Church. But he is
not unfair. 1t seems to this
reviewer, in presenting a
point of view as he quotes
both sides of the debates at
almost equal length. Since
the death Of the pontiff is
still so recent, a careful read
ing Of the concluding chap
ter, Pope Johns Revolution"
would be of special interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30

IL seems Slngularly naive
today to read a piece by Will
liam Phillips and Philip
Rahv, founders of the Parti-
san Review, stating: 1.-THE
profile of the Bolshevik is
emerging in America, heroic
class battles are developing,
new human types and rela-
tons are budding in and
around the Communist Party;
obviously, therefore, revolu-
tionary fiction cannot be pro-
duced by applying abstract
Communist theology to old
familiar surroundings. The
assimilation of new material
requires direct participation
instead of external observa-
ton; and the critics task Is
to point out the dangers in
herent in the spectators at
titude."
But Mr.. Phillips and Mr..
Rahv, after the Moscow trials
of 1886, moved away from
Stain into what they called
"a kind of independent and
critical Marxism." They both
kept moving, and Mr.. Rahv
emerged as an admirer Of
Henry James.
Disenchantment
Many other writers who es-
poused the radical cause be-
came disenchanted, a m ong
the most prominent Of them
John Dos Passos. A poignant
portion Of his Adventures Of
a Young Man" tells of an
American who had broken
with the party but went to
Spain anyway Ito fight the
Fascists." He found not only
that Communists we're in
complete control Of the Loyal
list cause but that they
wanted to hquidate anyone
who wasn't a Stalinist.
The editor of this anthol-
ogy, Mr.. Filler, who is profess
sor Of American civilization
at Antioch College, is quite
fair In presenting various
shades Of opinion. For exam
pie, he reprints a scorching
blast by H. l.. Mencken,
1.-THE New Deal Mentality"
Not the least interesting
part Of the book is Mr.. Fill
ler's introduction. He ex-
plains why he included GER
tain writer's and why he left
out others who produced In
the sos, like Thomas Wolfe,
whom he regards as "'20s in
spirit and interests and Moth
ing but '20s."
The TouchstOne
"Naturalism." Mr.. Filler
observes, twas the literary
method Of the sos and was
identified with them. Yet the
touchstone Of the sos writ
ing was not naturalism, but
concern for the meaning OF
American life In the throes
OF the depression"
The essays, stories and
poems presented. largely po-
lemics for one cause or an
other. are mostly quite inter-
esting, and yet there's a Curl
GUS sense Of remoteness about
these excerpts. as II they
reached far back In history
instead Of only three decades
ago.
CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-30

LETTERS FRUM VATICAN
CITY. BY Xavier Rhyme.
(Farrar, Straus & Co.;
$3.50
THE PRIEST is NOT HIS
OWN. BY Fulton j. Sheen
(McGraw-Hill; $4.95.)
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so Schweik gets through
the war by telling the truth.
returning evil for evil. being
pleasant on all occasions but
never servile, always appear
ing simple II not an idiot, and
ever being on the lookout TO
stay alive. He never deserts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-02-19
Two-WheeI Town
BY Ken Bold
BY Leonard Storr

The City Council Of Home
stead, Fla. recently termed the
town THE City Of Bicycles" be-
cause of COMMUNICATIVE In
trest in cycling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Disovow Birch Society,
Democrats Ask COP.

pass q civil rights law this year
including provisions on public
accommodations, Job training
and employment, Withholding
Of Federal funds from pro-
grams, activities or services
within a State operated on a
racially discriminatory basis;
ending discriminatory practices
in voting, and eliminating ra-
cial segregation in the schools.
The Vests Democrats also
opposed right-to-work laws,
saying Republicans and the
far right groups ;. have al
ready succeeded In putting So
called right-to-work laws on
the statute books of several
Western States"
A resolution proposed from
the floor by Representative
Montoya, Democrat Of New
Mexico. and passed by the dele
gates supported President Ken
nedy in opposing the recogni-
ton Of Red China; opposed
trade with Red China. East
Germany and Cuba, and vowed
ito fight any and all external
threats to our democratic way
of life"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

Support Rights Bill
In another resolution, the
conference urged Congress to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Rockefeller Says Kennedy
Reneged on West Virginia

action In naming Q committee
headed by former Senator vii.
liam Knowland to help the Ari-
IONA Senator decide whether Il
enter the California presiden-
tial primary. Mr.. Knowlant
said that, If both Senator
Goldwater and Gov. Rockefel-
Ter entered the primary, Sena-
tor Goldwater would win BY
100000 votes.
Gov. Rockefeller replied, "a
Of when ! decide whether to bt
a candidate, I'll decide on the
primaries" He has said he'll
announce, perhaps in Novem.
Der, whether he plans to seel
the @. o. P. nomination.
Only once did he have a gooC
word for the Kennedy admin
istration. Asked his assessment
of the Peace Corps, Gov. Rock.
efeller said, 1.-THE Peace Corps
has been the outstandin
achievement Of the Kennedy
administration. It is q symbo
abroad Of the heart and con.
science Of America"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Norway Recalls
Socialist Premier

OSLO, Norway, Sept. 81
(AP)-Former Norwegian
Premier Einar Gerhardsen, q
Socialist, has accpeted the call
Of King olav v to try forming
a new government. The 23-
day-old Conservative govern
ment Of Jonn Lying fell Friday
night.
Mr.. GerhardSen's socialits
had led the government from
1945 until q month ago when
Mr.. Lyng's Conservatives ousted
him in a no-confidence vote
involving a Northern Norway
mine disaster.
Mr.. Lyng's government fell
by virtue Of a 1915 parliament
defeat Of its domestic program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 81
(AP) w estern Democrats
asked Republicans today to
join them in denouncing the
John Birch Society and what
they called the radical right
movement.
In a resolution, they also
warned "our fellow citizens
about the infiltration tactics
of the John Birch Society and
other radical right groups"
A resolution, adopted by the
Western Democratic Confer
ence after three days OF
speeches attacking the far
right, urged "our loyal Repub-
lican opposition to denounce
the John Birch Society and
radical right movement, to
expel those, Republican or
carnations which have come
under John Birch Society
domination, and to insist that
all candidates for office on
the Republican ticket cam
paign free Of association with
the John Birch Society or
other radical right groups"
GOldwater Discounted
The conference ended with
a final word from Senator
Humphrey, Democratic of Min
nesota, on the possible presi-
Dental candidacy of Senator
Goldwater, Republican of Ari-
IONA.
Senator Humphrey volun-
teered torun against Senator
Goldwater in 1864.
I'll free President Kennedy
from the job because this is
a job for the second team, not
the first team" said the Min
nesota Democrat, who was de-
feated for the Democratic nom
nation In 1860.
The Western Democrats we're
told by several speakers, start
ing with the keynote address
on Thursday by Senator
Church, Democrat Of Idaho,
that Senator Goldwater would
be the man to campaign against
in 1864.
Support Rights Bill
In another resolution, the
conference urged Congress to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

We're still Depressed With
JFK."
From the airport, Gov. Rock
efeller went to an amusement
park to speak briefly to about
5000 members Of the Chesa-
peake 81 Ohio Railway Veter-
ans Employees Association,
where he was introduced by
Gao President Walter Tuohy.
"The present administration
In Washington" he told the
railroaders, has not faced I'D
to the seriousness Of the prob
lens facing the transportation
industry"
New Department Urged
He again called for establish
ment Of q Federal department
of transportation to cope with
problems of the entire industry.
There was perfunctory APP
plause when he finished speak
ing.
At q news conference, Gov.
Rockefeller was asked to COM
ment on Senator Goldwater's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Republicans See Dangers
In Kennedy Tax Cut Plan

the President and his advisors,
while pushing this theory,
would not publicly debate the
merits Of the theory.
The Republican spokesman
warned that ian unearned" tax
cut could do serious harm.
I'VE all want q tax cut" he
said. I'VE badly need it. But we
must earn it. The process Of
expenditure control is not just
cutting out wasteful programs
as the President said. That Is
really the e easiest part. The
tough part is when you get into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
star staff Writer

1
Republicans set the sta g.
yesterday for a vigorous show
down and probably close vote
on a tax bill in the House this
week by accusing President
Kennedy Of advancing q new
and untried fiscal theory"
In a Nationwide radio-tele-
vision address last night in re-
ply to Mr.. Kennedy's speech
last Wednesday, Representative
Curtis Of Missouri said the ad-
ministration's policy Of deficit
financing was deliberate an d
dangerous.
Mr. Curtis, ranking Republic
can on the Joint Economic
Committee Of Congress and 9
member Of the tax-writinC
Ways and Means Committee
was the second G. o. P. spokes-
man to share in equal time or
the air to take issue with Mr.
Kennedy's appeal for support
of the proposed $11-billion cut
in persons al and corporation
taxes.
|
Like Representative Byrne:
of Wisconsin, top Republican
on the Ways and Means Com
mittee, who addressed a Ma.
tion-wide audience Friday
might. Mr.. Curtis predicted thai
Congress would pass the bill
only If amended by q clear-cut
Specific requirement for reduc'
tons In Government spending
Want Control Over Spending
At the close Of two days o.
general debate beginning Tues
day, House Republicans will tr!
to add to the bill q ban on Ia,
re duction unless Fe dera
spending is held to $97 billion
in the current fiscal year ant
to 500 billion the following
year.
Mr.. Curtis, however, an
nounced last night that. ever
If the Republican sponsored
amendment Is adopted by tn
House this week, he will vot,
against the measure.
He warned that, even witt
such a safeguard, the proposes
tax reduction over the next twl
C allen dar years would still
create too large a deficit and 81
create hazards that would over
balance any stimulative effect
Of the tax cut"
The Missourian defined tn
Presidents position as advocat
ing a novel fiscal and econom
ic theory of planned deficit fl
nancing to deliberately owe r