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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01

500 q MICKEY MOUSE CLUB.
Children. A newsree, narrated by Tommy
Cole, shows a children's circus in
Amsterdam, Holland. tRepeatO
@ PoPEYE, HERCULES, FRIENDS.
Cartoons. Hour. Lee Reynolds as
Captain Tuge.
q BACHELOR FATHER.
Comedy John Forsythe stars (Repeat)
@ THE EARLY SHOW.
Movie. ia Hours "San Francisco
Story" 1853. Joel Mecrea.
$50 q THE RIFLEMAN.
Western. Chuck connors stars. tRepeat)
q ACTION HOUR.
Drama. Hour. Laugh Till DE-"
A teevision personality who has been
campaigning against the activities of
bie-time hoodlum ignores threats made
against his life. Dick Shawn is featured
tRepeat)
Evening star., 1963-12-29
Your Congressman
And What He Means

THE CONGRESSMAN: His Work He Sees II. BY Charles
L. Clapp. (The Brookings Institution; So
This book offers profound analysis bold revelations
the House and occupants it is reportoal than inter-
pretve but the facts cites and the individual statements
and suggestions it presents deal with system and situations
too frequently unknown misunderstood in some
Capitol circles.
While not the first study of its kind based on discussions
with House members this probably is the most penerat
ing and comprehensive thus far began in 1859 project
involving not only research by Mr. Capp then of the Broongs
Evening star., 1963-12-29

magic of good photography
and a good subject.
JUDGE SAM. By Samuel
H. Silbert with Sidney A. Ell
senberg. (Channel; $685.
Samuel H. Silbert's memoirs
as written by Sidney A. Ell
senberg, of so years in the
courtroom as a jurist, are a
diStillation of the humor,
shrewd insights and unflag-
ging drive that brought the
small New Jersey newSboy to
the position of Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas Court in
Ohio's Cuyahoga County.
THE MAKING OF A PUB
Lie RELATIONS MAN. By
John W. Hill. mckay; $4.95.) }
The book tells the colorful
story of public relations in
terms of the personal expert
Evening star., 1963-12-29

his tools, but also in their
technical virtuOSity. We find
the portraits of Matthew
Brady, taken by time-expo-
sure with the subjects heads
rigid in neck-clampS unbe-
ievably lifelike and powerful,
and we find the scenes of
Atget, which we see with eyes
accustomed to all the magic
of modern photography, in
spired with the very breath
and life of a city, arreSting as
few contemporary photo
graphs are. And we become
aware of the invincibility of
the true artist, the godlike
power of the creator, and the
reSpectability but fundamen-
tai unimportance of tools.
The pictures, printed in
Switzerland. are magnificently
reproduced. Otherwise, the
volume is disappointing in
almost every way. In the first
place, why, after he has
pointed out that an essential
characteristic of Atget'S work
is the series rather than the
isolated picture, does Mr..
Trottenberg give us pictures
almost all of which seem to
bear little relationship to one
another? Then, why is none of
the pictures identified by
time, subject, or location? It
certainly would not be diff
cult to identify most of the
streets and buildings, for in
comparison to Washington,
for example, Paris has
changed remarkably little
during the last so or so
years. But not a name of a
street, a shop or a suburb
and in a book the text of
which is taken from Proust!
For to Proust a name was an
almost mystical entity, and he
felt that the very reality of
things and of places was
somehow inherent in the
names they bore.
&&&
Lastly, there is the matter Of
the phrases or sentences from
PrOust which accompany
almost every picture. "The
juxtapOSition of words and
pictures in this volume is, by
deliberate intent, a loose
one," says the editor. But in
addition it Is, with a few
exceptions, pointless-the
haphazard quotations (also
unidentified, and out Of con-
text seldom reflect the mood
of the pictures, and the pic
lures do nothing to enhance
the snippets from the novel.
Though these aspects of the
book which l find disappoint-
ing are several, they are as
nothing to the heart of the
matter, Atget's pictures. "A
Vision of Paris" is a picture
book no one with eyes will not
look at with delight.
Evening star., 1963-12-29

the late Melvin D. Hazen, a
District Commissioner in the
late 1930s, as a "dignified,
slow-paced hack.")
1t is also a history of the
white and the colored of
Washington, a relationship
which deteriorated after the
187Os-although, the author
feels, the intellectual colored
community had established in
Washington the ''undisputed
center Of the American Negro
civilization" Nevertheless,
the two races remained miles
apart. Muddled attempts at
some form of integration, the
race riot of 1919 that lasted
for five days and the organi-
Zation of "civic associations"
to offset the influence of white
citizens associations" are
vividly retold.
There are other struggles. -.
Attempts to talk the rail-
roads into removing grade
crossings and a Gothic stone
station Git rested on the site
of today's National Gallery Of
Art) from the Mall.
In 1884, a citizens relief
committee reported a situa-
tion painfully familier" to
the Washington of the 196OS.
THAT some have been re-
ieved," said the committee,
Evening star., 1963-12-29
Best History of Washington

WASHINGTON: Capital City,
1s7S-l950. By Constance Nc
Laughlin Green. princeton
University Press; $500
While lacking a subway
system and a number of other
things, Washington at least
has a hiStory-a scholarly,
two-volume work and certainly
the best job ever done on the
Capital.
The author, Mrs. Constance
Mclaughlin Green, a charm
ing, slight, amusing historian,
won the Pulitzer Prize last
spring for the first volume,
washington, village and
Capital, 1900 to 1873"
Now she takes US up to 1850
and, unfortunately, stops.
Maybe she'd had enough.
While finishing up the project,
she told a visitor to her work.
shOp-a small frame house
behind the Supreme Court
that Volume II would be
much rougher going than
Volume l."
But this was what she
faced: Washington, without a
crisis and in periods of ma
tiOnal prosperity, has been a
pretty dull place. The histo-
rian must dutifully research
and record elements Of that
dullneSs. LoSs-of-reader is a
fear they cannot afford.
AS Mrs. Green puts it in her
foreword:
9" the historian quickly
discovers that alongside a
pride-inSpring capital, a place
captivating to residents and
visitors, stands a city ridden
by Illustration and impotence"
Some chow, Mrs. Green
manages to salvage some
thing entertaining and Of
interest in these periods
often with her wit which is sly
and frequently demolishing.
1t is an interpretive" his
tory, rather than purely
objective, and Mrs. Green's
prejudices frequently pop up
in a sentence and in such a
way as to needle both the
dead and the living who have
established positions Of prom
inence in the life of the city.
CAT one point, she describes
Evening star., 1963-12-29
GENERAL

MARY BAKER EDDY. BY
Norman Beasley. (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce; $5.95.) A
biography of the founder Of
Christian Science by the
author of two previous books:
1.-The Cross and the Crown,
The History of Christian
Science" and "The Continuing
Spirit, the Story of Christian
Science Since 1910"
WILLIE. A book Of photo
graphs by Ken Heyman with
words by Michael Mason.
(Ridge Press: Atheneum;
$500 This tells the story of
that most adventurous of per-
Sons-a 4-year-old boy as he
discovers the city. 1t has the
Evening star., 1963-12-29
TheMeunino
OF Munich
Made Clear
MUNICH: PROLOGUE TO
TRAGEDY By ]. W.
Wheeler-Bennett. (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce. S7q5


Wheeler-Bennett. (Duell,
Sloan & Pearce; $7.95.)
Revised dictionaries show
that Munich has become in
our language not only a great
city in Bavaria but "any
diShonorable appeasement."
Sir John Wheeler Bennett, a
leading British biographer
and historian of contemporary
events, first published this
widely acclaimed book in
1948. 1t now is reissued, with
a new preface by the author.
The historian points out that
much new material has be-
come available since the first
edition was published. This
included the record Of the
Nuremberg trials, documents
released by the British For
eign Office and the German
Foreign Ministry and "a host
of memoirs" He has gone
over a vast number of these
papers.
The interesting point is that
he found nothing to alter the
conclusions he reached in 1948
and so he has not revised his
book. He held and still holds:
LET us say of the Munich
agreement" (by which Brit
ain, France and Italy ceded
the Sudetenland, a portion of
CzechoSlovakia, to Germany,
September 20, 1881 "that it
was ineScapable; that, faced
with the lack Of prepared
ness in Britain'S armaments
and defenseS, with the lack Of
unity at home and in the Com
monwealth, with the collapse
Of French morale and with
the uncertainty Of Russia's
capacity to fight, Mr.. Cham
berlain (the British Prime
MiniSter) had no alternative
to do other than he did; let us
pay tribute to his persistence
in carrying out a policy
which he honestly believed to
be right"
But Sir John added: "Let us
accept and admit all these
things, but in so doing let us
not omit the shame and humil-
iation which were ours-let
us not forget that in order to
save our own skinS-that be-
cause we were too weak to
protect ourSelves-we we're
forced to sacrifice a small
power to slavery"
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1963-12-29

who were not worthy Of
relief, In one sense, is proba-
bic. AbStractly considered, a
man or woman who will not
work ought to starve or
freeze, but it viii not do to
enforce this abstract PROPOSE
ton. :"
According to investigating
suffragettes, there was, in
1913, a red light district which
stretched from the White
House to the edge of Capitol
Hill, on Pennsylvania avenue.
1t was replaced by the
Federal Triangle.
When the late District Com
missioner Louis BrownloW
asked Congress for a deficiency
appropriation to enable the
city to collect its garbage, he
was told by the chairman Of a
House subcommittee: There
is not one bit Of use coming
up here and asking US in time
Of war to start off the District
on a lot of socialistic expert
mentation."
Bonus marchers and Ku
Klux Klansmen (25,OOO gath
cred under the Washington
Monument in 1925) fill Mrs.
Green's pages. You come
across the beginnings Of the
Board Of Trade, the Phillips
Gallery, the Community Chest.
the National Symphony, the
J. Russell Young School Of
Expression.
The author winds up on an
optimistic note, discussing the
future of the dual city"-one
of slums and crumbling
schools, the other a beautiful
capital Of monuments and
museums, green parks and
tree-ined avenues.
Americans" she writes,
"who spent more than a brief
time in the city rarely failed
to experience an emotional
response compounded of pride,
pleasure, diSmay, anger, and
an intense interest in her
future. Therein lay the hope
for the years ahead"
Since 1850, the city has
successfully integrated and
started to rebuild and contin-
ued to make history-Some
good, some bad, some dull.
JOHN McKELWAY.
Evening star., 1963-12-29
YOU AND YOUR HANI

YOU AND YOUR HAND
WRITING. BY Muriel Stat
ford. dell Publishing Co.;
so cents.)
Now that this neat ittlc,
deadly little book has swum
into my ken, the very thought
of Muriel Stafford paralyzes
me with Self-consciousness
whenever l take pen or pencil
in hand. If l weren't tapping
out these words on my old
Underwood, they would never
get written.
One consolation is that this
craven reaction puts me in
distinguished company. Miss
Stafford's extraordinary skill
has, in the past, similarly
abashed, among others, Boris
Karloff, Thornton Wilder,
Perry Como, Adlai Stevenson,
Jimmy Durante, Richard Bur-
ton, and Liz.
81 hope you can read this,
but l doubt it," quavered
Karloff in the sample of his
writing which Miss Stafford
analyzed in her syndicated
newspaper column and then re-
produced in her book. Wilder:
"Here l am, exposed and
helpless-temper justice with
mercy" Como, although flat
terry will get him nowhere:
"The way you do this stuff is
keen" Stevenson, grateful for
small favors in an earlier
analysis: "I'm glad you think
I'm conscientious" Durante,
frantically attempting to con-
ceal his anxiety under loquac-
ity and a folksy Precipitation:
81 can stand looking at the
looking glass, but can the
looking glass stand looking
at me? l loves va" Richard
Burton, apprehenSive but keep
ing a stiff upper lip: 81 shall
be absolutely fascinated" Liz,
self-abasingly: 81 can never
think of anything clever to
write"
Graphology doth make cow
ards of us all. Nevertheless
and Notwithstanding, l was
hooked from the start, be-
cause, when l picked up the
book, | was electrified by the
publishers back-cover come
on:
"HAVE YOU EVER WON
DERED: Am l a great lover?
Am l dynamic? What do other
people think of me?"
Well, of course I've won
dered! Who hasn't? And here
was a book by Americas
No. l graphologist," brimming
with juicy tidbits deduced from
the handwriting Of juicy people
"a book which furthermore
promised its readers that, with
its help, they can "learn how
Evening star., 1963-12-29

The message is clear enough.
but it is signed by IN. F.
Jones'" Of this means that
Noel Coward is really N. F.
Jones, and has been all these
years-well, that is what it
means, so thereD
If you are painting to hear
what Miss Stafford discovered
about Karloff, ct al, here it is.
Of Karloff, she wrote only
Distortion of 1.-THE letterl Il
can indicate distortion Of the
Sef-image. Boris Karloff,
star of so many horror movies,
writes an Il that appears to
have two heads" Clever, no?
But whose cleverness-MiSS
Stafford'S or Karloff's?
Now check this signature Of
JAYNE Mansfield:
Evening star., 1963-12-29
EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page fea-
ture, "a Book for Today"
this week:
MONDAY: 'Mendelssohn,
A New Image Of the Com
poser and His Age" by
Eric Werner. (Free Press. }
TUESDAY: German
History, 1933-1945," by
Hermann Mau and Helmut
KrauSnick. (Ungar.)
WEDNESDAY: Politics
and Literature.
THURSDAY: "Adven-
lures in Public Service, +"
edited by Della and Ferdi-
nand Kuhn. (Vanguard.)
FRIDAY: "Coin's Finan-
cial School," by William
Hope Harvey; edited with
an introduction by Richard
Hofstadter. (Harvard.)
Evening star., 1963-12-29
THE COLUMBI.

THE COLUMBIA ENCYCLO-
PEDIA: Third E ditiOn.
William Bridgewater and
Seymour Kurtz, editors.
columbia University Press;
$49.5O.)
81 mean, answered DR.. Slop,
he would have been denied
the benefits of the last sacra-
m e ntS. Pray, how many
have you in all, said my uncle
Toby,-fOr l always forget?-
Seven, answered DR.. Slop.-
H u m p h!-said my uncle
Toby;-tho' not accented as a
note Of acquieScence, but as
an interjection Of that particu-
lar species Of surprize, when a
man, in looking into a drawer,
finds more of a thing than he
expected"
A person feels especially
warmly toward an encyclo-
pedia or any work of ref
erence when on looking into it
he finds more of a thing than
he expected-whatever his
ejaculation, it isn't "Humph!"
The great encyclopedia not
only answers the question, it
supplies that bit Of sup
Elementary and unexpected
knowledge at a time when the
curious mind is most ready to
receive it. After having lived
with the new third edition of
the Columbia Encyclopedia
for six weeks, using it on
every possible occasion, l find
it a volume of many virtues
sober, unbiased, accurate, so
painfully up-to-date that its
aging from the very moment
of publication is sadly con-
spicuous, but l seldom find in
its drawers more of a thing
than l expect. There are no
entries for "buttermilk" or
"camel's-hair," for example,
and so little about Felicia
HemanS, a writer whom
today at least two of our local
schools have turned to for the
initiation of children into the
beauties Of poetry, that you
wonder if perhaps the 18th
edition of the Britannica did
not simply dream up the
gaudy and colorful tale it has
to tell about her.
1t is of course unfair to
expect the one-volume, 2,388-
page Columbia to compete in
coverage with the Britannica,
a whole library in itself. Still,
Evening star., 1963-12-29
CoIumbio's Revision
Of Encyclopedia

some of the wholesale inclu-
SiOnS have stolen space from
far more worthwhile
entries. Every incorporated
community in the United
States with a population of l.
900 or more has its own indi-
vidual entry-should not the
Postal Guide be a sufficient
repository of this
information? Contemporary
popular figures in American
politics, S, sports, and the
amusement world are given
extraordinarily exte sive
coverage, but interest in them
will in most cases be compar-
atively ephemeral, they have
shouldered out a like number
of individuals of former
times, and-what is most to
the pOint-they are generally
covered in specialized ref
erence works revised at fire.
quent intervals. Furthermore,
who would think to look in an
encyclopedia to learn about
Sargent Shriver or Roger
MariS?
On the other hand, the
articles are clearly written,
the arrangement of subjects
with each entry is logical and
easy to follow, the Typography
is so good that the very small
type is quite easy to read,
and the big volume is soundly
bound and comfortable to
handle. Perhaps it is too
much to expect that a general
encyclopedia be both small
and entertaining.
ID. 7.
Evening star., 1963-12-29

and specialists the Senate
cannot match and it asserts
that only in the House has the
term legislator any true
meaning. -.
Leadership in the House is
diffuse e d; divided between
elected leaders, members who
have risen to power by means
Of seniority and a few in
dividuals who are influential
because Of their personality
and expertiSe. 80.
while legislation presuma-
bly, is the primary reason for
being in Congress, constit-
uents pre-empt a major
portion of a members time"
Many members felt that too
much time and energy has to
be spent on comparatively
minor matters, inconsiderate
demands, unfair attacks, and
errand-boy activities. At the
same time some are suspected
Of using that excuse because
they do not like to legislate or
study intricate problems.
Personal Problems
Probably every Congress
man tries to weigh the advan-
tages of public service, pres
tige, sense of duty and oppor-
tunity to learn against long
hours, insecurity of tenure,
interference with family life,
diSilluSionment and frustra-
tion, financial burden and other
demonstrated disadvantages.
The conferences with Con-
gressmen and the summaries
in this book tend to the affirm
ative side in answering the
question: Is it worth while?
Almost any examination Of
Congress readily makes clear
that reforms are necessary
and possible. Not the least
valuable feature of this book
is that it makes even clearer
that reform moves have scant
chance of getting anywhere
unless they develop from
deeper knowledge and under
standing than many critics Of
Congress display.
An optimistic note at the
end might encourage Con-
gressmen inclined to despond-
ency on occasion. 1t likewise
might contribute to a more
effective Congress. Most
members of the House and
Senate might well associate
themselves with the statement
of a colleague who thus ex-
pressed the supreme Satisfac-
tion of his job:
Occasionally, perhaps Just
once or twice a session, you
sit there and are able to think
Of yourself as one tiny parti-
Gle in the whole stream Of
history. The hard work falls
away and the tension is re-
laxed and you have a sense Of
purpose that l don't think you
will find in any other profes-
sion."
ROBERT K. WALSH.
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Life Story of Poe

EDGAR ALLAN POE. By
Irwin Porges. (ChiIton;
$3.50 Irwin Porges, who
writes this biography of Ed
gar Allan Poe, says in the
preface: ''The artist who has
a greater capacity to imagine
also has a greater capacity to
suffer" He calls the idea that
Poe was a confirmed alco-
holic and a drug addict-a
''half-mad genius to write as
he did"-an "old miscon-
ception." He proves that Poe
was a "man who possessed
a faculty for hard work and
for sustained periods of clear
thinking and reasoning"
Evening star., 1963-12-29

the page facing Jayne, she
tells us that Alfred Adler, the
great Viennese psychologist,
visiting this country in 1887.
told her that he was greatly
interested" in graphology and
was doing ian extensive study
Of the significance Of idiots" |"
what would he have made Of
"i-heartS"?)
Confidential whisper to Miss
Stafford: On page 20, ]. Edgar
Hoover, in a SuspiciouSly ordi-
nary-sounding note to you-"I
am interested in the science"
doesn't dot the 81" in
Science" but carefully dots
the en-" This caper, which I
have dubbed the "n-dot," is
obviously part Of a code mes
sage, and l have placed the
whole thing in my doSsier on
j. Edgar Hoover.
Now to pure heartbreak. e.
The book promised (remem-
ber?) to tell me how to ana
lyze my own handwriting.
l penned my signature and
decided, after studying it,
that it was a bit of all right.
Quite good, in fact. Indeed
gung no, first chop, wizard,
a pippin, a lulu! I gloated. 4.
Look at those big capital
letters" l told myself, "mas-
terfully contrasting with the
others! Look at the carefully
separated letters, in defiance
of handwriting custom-no-
body is going to tell that guy
what to do! Look how it all
Slants to the right-sign of a
warm heart, I've always
heard! Why, my signature
revealing my inmoSt soul
leans twice as far to the right
as the rest Of my writing!
Let's face it-what a mani"
Then, though corroboration
seemed hardly necessary, l
checked back through "You
and Your Handwriting"
Now help me face the
bitter truth.
when almost all letters
are unconnected, the writer is
diScurSive, restless, egocen-
trio" (page AZ. when a sig
nature is more right-Slanted
than the body of the writing,
a certain hypocrisy is
evident" (page 81. "Exag-
gerated capitals lead one to
expect an expansive personal
ity, but, when combined with
underSized small letters, they
are a mask. The expansion is
all on the surface" (page
112).
And so farewell (for this
week. from your Debated re-
viewer
Evening star., 1963-12-29
Court Contempt,
Busic Freedom
Under New Study
THE CONTEMPT POWER.
By Ronald L. Goldfarb.
(Colum bia University
Press. 81 5(l

THE CONTEMPT POWER.
By Ronald L. Goldfarb.
(Columb bia University
Press; $500
Mr.. Goldfarb, a Justice De-
partment lawyer presenting
his Yale dOctoral thesis in
book form, sees serious diff
Guilty in equating contempt
proceedings of courts and
Congress with basic freedoms.
''In a broader, more gen.
eral view," he writes, "it is a
power assumed by govern
mental bodies to coerce COOP
Grafton, and punish criticism
or interference, even of a
casually indirect nature. !"
''It takes some Straining of
reasoning to include the con-
tempt power within the best
characteristics of Anglo-Amer-
ican, freedom-conscious law"
he says, emphasizing its often
summary nature.
Mr.. Goddard proposes crea-
ton of a new offenSe provid-
ing criminal penalties-and
procedural safeguards-fo o r
activity that substantially"
ObStructS legitimate govern
mental operations.
'The right to trial by jury,
pardon, due process, counsel,
impartial judge, to name only
the more obvious cOnstitu-
tional provisions, would
(avoid) possible abuse of gov
ernmental power" he sug-
gestS.
Fortunately for Mr.. Gold
farb, the criminal contempt
case against Mississippi Gov.
Ross Barnett now before the
Supreme Court-and the
touchy question Of whether he
should have a jury trial-arose
after this book was written.
DANA BULLEN.