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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-05-07
NATIONAL
NEWS
SUMMARY
BY
H. v. LANCASTER, JR.
D TROUBLE IN HAITI
D RAILWAY DISPUTE
D KOZSLOV is ILL

PRESIDENT DUVALIER i'm
posed a strict 8 pm. to 5 am.
curfeW and martial law on Haiti
Friday night IN an apparent eff
fort to curb rumblings of discon-
tent against his government and
prevent a threatened revolt May
Is. Duvalier has clamped strict
censorship on his nation, but re-
ports leaking out tell of killings
and r prlS a S. Washington
sources say Duvalier has lnsu-
tuted a reign of terror in Haiti
Last week a five-man committee
from the Organization of Ameri-
can States which is seeking to al
lay feud between Haiti and
the Dominican Republic shifted
its inquiry from Haiu's capital
OF Port all Prince to the D0mini-
can capital Of Santo Domingo
after Haitian officials promised
to respect the rights of foreign
embassies in Haiti.
THE RAILWAY DISPUTE re-
mains unresolVed. Chairman
Samuel l. Rosenmann of a three
m a n Presidential emergency
board pointe d to avert a
threatened rail strike June II
said F. d a y there was no
change in the positions of the
carriers or unions. A Presiden-
tlal advisory committee recon-
mended changes in work rules
which would mean the eventual
lay0ff OF some 5000 men. When
the railroads moved to put these
into effect, five big railroad
brotherhoods thre ten d to
strike.
FROL kOZSLoV. frequently
mentioned as a successor to So
year-old Soviet Premier Khrush-
chcv, is i'll Wen Informed
sources in Moscow say kozSlov
has a thrombosis. or blood cl0t.
The announcement published by
the Cenral Committee OF the
Soviet Communist party did not
say what allied the 55-vear-0ld
party secretary. It IS highly I'M
usual If not unprecedented for
the Soviet Communist party to
announce the Illness OF one of
It's officials. but frequent runlors
of khrushchev' retirement NAV
have had something to do with
IL.
Seer FAIRY OF STATE
RUSk arrived in Belgrade
YHgoslayia, Saturday for a 20
hour visit and expressed hope
for an expansion OF contacts and
exchanges between the u. S.
and Yueoslavia Rusk was on
Continued on page 81
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They Bounce Across the USA
NORTH LAKE. WIS.

VERNON SCHwENKE, like any other father, bounced
his children on his knee. But the 43-year-Old
former weight-lifting champion had purpose
physical fitness. One day ID years ago theatrical
agent dropped in on Vernon's health studio in
Milwaukee and saw him balancing his two-year-old
son Stanley on one hand. On the spot he signed
Vernon and Bunny (Stanley's niCkname) to go on
the road as a show.
Since then the act has grown. Today, besides
Vernon and Bumpy, there are Steven, Is; Jon, 10;
Roger, Is; Susan, Is, and Sandra, 9. Mother
Lucille makes the costumes. Their routine of bal
ancing stunts, towering human pyramids, hips and
somersaults begins with Vernon and Bumpy on
stage. AS the tricks get more complicated, more
children join in. by the time the act is over,"
reports Vernon, II look like the typical father =
completely overrun by kids
The family spends 10 months of the year tour
ing, appearing at state fairs conventions, sports
shows, on TV. They live in a specially designed
trailer and the children study by correspondence with
ex-schoolteacher Nom checking their homework.
Looking ahead to retirement to his North Lake
ranch, Vernon has recently handed the managers
job over to Bunny and renamed the group ''The
Bunny Spectacular" -M.F.L.
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BASICALLY NOT THE SAVE

You start with q bose dress and q jacket and
from there on there's no limit to what fashion
looks you can ochieve through the magic of
the new gold ropes, pins, eorines, pearls, your
own ingenuity. Here's q bit of q guide list.
Top) Two ropes of gold used Chanel fashion
and two sets of eorrines clipped into each other
for drop effect. Below JeweIy bonus in
having two poirs of earrings that match. Your
pearls ore worn to the back and the big pin
helps keep the swoe in place. All our costume
ieweIy is available at Peck g Peck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-25
Attoche Addresses
Philippine Group

Col. Jose M. Pinto. the
Philippine Military Attache,
addressed the American
Overseas Association last
night at its first fall meeting,
held in the Philippine EN-
basSy.
The AOA, an organization
Of former Red Cross workers
with overseas service, select
ed the Embassy for its first
meeting in recognition of the
fact that a Jesuit priest, not
ed for his work in the Philip
pines, Father Jaime Neri,
was the first recipient Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-25
New Workers Plan
Bon-Bon Dance

The New York State Soc
iety has planned a Halloween
Bon Bon Dance party for
this Sunday from 4 to 8 pm.
in the B Burgundy Room Of
the Sheraton Park Hotel.
Masks are optional but a
special prize will be awarded
for the most original and
outstanding mask.
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Contemporary Novel
.154 Years Old

Trial." "Wozzeck" or "Moby
Dick" for example. But
Elective Affinities" is a very
great novel, ia his own opin-
ion one of its authors most
successful works, and it may
be that in its present appear
ance in a new and excellent
translation by Elizabeth May
er and Louise Began it will
bring delight to the unsuspect-
ing.
Its name, a scientific term
born shortly before Goethe
wrote his novel in 1909, de-
notes the stable or unstable
relationships Of four people
a married couple in their
middle years and the cata-
lysts of the reaction, an old
friend of the husband and the
young niece Of the wife. With
trepidation yet with a sort of
modern curiosity in scientific
inquiry, husband and wife
invite the two to come live
with them. Goethe's couple is
not swept away in romantic
emotion, both have been
married before, both are
experienced in the world.
With almost the sedate preci-
sion Of partners in a minuet,
both of them find their affini-
ty to one Of the newcomers,
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Gift Books for Christmas

Marilyn Monroe and also some
of Liz Taylor in all her splen-
dor on the Cleopatra set. The
photos cover a wide range of
subjects and scenes, and
there are over 200 of them,
many in color.
THE ART OF INFERIOR
DECORATING. BY Eddie
Frederics and David Pascal.
(Chilton; 1885, Eddie Fred
cries, an interior designer,
provides ideas for David Pas
calls cartoons in this spool of
the interior decorating bust
ness.
LIVING WITH ANTIQUES.
Edited by Alice Winchester.
(Dutton; $15.) This beautiful
ly illustrated book takes you
on a tour Of 40 outstanding
private homes around the
country. Along with the $50
black and white photographs
and 16 full color pages is a
text that explains the story
of the homes in which the
pictures were taken.
THE SILVER DONS. By
Richard F. Pourade. (Union-
Tribune; $500 California,
between 1880 and 1865, when
the Spanish Dons were taking
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land away from the Fransis-
can missionaries and we're
losing it to the American pi-
oneers, is the subject Of this
historical book. The American
conquest, the Indian wars,
the cattle drives and the Gold
Rush are described.
IN THE BEGINNINGS. BY
H. R. Hays. putnam; $1O.) A
study Of primitive religions.
The book explores the beliefs
of primitive cultures from the
prehistoric to the contempt
rary. 1t demonstrates how gods
and goddesseS are generally
made in mans image. There
are GA pages of illustrations,
some Of which are pictures
taken by the author during
his travels. 1t is a fairly thick
book and r equires heavy
reading.
WALTER CHANDOHA'S
ROCK OF KITTENS AND
CATS. BY Walter Chandoha.
(Citadel; $500 Contains 24O
Of the best pictures Of cats
taken by animal photographer
Walter Chandoha In the past
IL years. The chapters are ar
ranged to show the different
stages in a cats life from
birth to tranquility in old age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-15
Facing Further Flight From Reality

Holmes use of cocaine, in DR..
Arthur Conan Doyle's long
series Of stories about the
great detective, are few. The
following are the most signifi-
cant:
At the opening of "The Sign
of Four" DR.. Watson, remon-
Strating with Holmes over his
use of cocaine, said: "But
consider! Count the cost
Your brain may be aroused
and excited, but it is a patho-
logical and morbid process.
You know, too, what a black
reaction comes upon you.
Why should you, for a mere
passing pleasure, risk the loss
of those great powers with
which you have been en-
dowed?"
What Remains
After Holmes brilliant
solving of the Sign of Four"
problem, DR.. Watson asked:
"Pray what remains for
you?" Holmes replied: "For
me, there still remains the
cocaine bottle"
At the opening of "A Scan
dial in Bohemia" DR.. Watson
wrote: HE was at work
again. He had risen out of his
Exaggerated dreams and was
hot upon the scent of some
new problem"
In other words, Mr.. Taylor,
the purpose for which "the
immortal Sherlock Holmes"
used cocaine was not-repeat
not-that of helping him
solve his spine-chilling mys-
teries." Your twisting of
"fictional facts" if l may so
term them, to fit a preconcep-
tion-a dangerous preconcep-
tion-is, in my opinion, i'm
moral and inexcusable.
In fact, Mr.. Taylor, I find
spine-chilling several of the
viewpoints and conclusions
you express about narcotics
up to page IS in this book
which you have written out Of
your vast knowledge of the
subject.
l say "up to page 65," Mr..
Taylor, because, when l
reached that page, I came to
a full stop, and (if you will
permit me a slight para
phrase from-appropriately, 1
think -Dante's "Inferno")-
in your book, l read no more
that day.
CHARLES COOKE.
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A PICTORIAL HISTORY
OF THE GREAT LAKES. By
Harlan Hatcher and Erich
A. Walter. Grown; $10.) Pro-
vides a full scale view of the
Great Lakes region. The 500
illustrations are made up of
prints, engravings, docu-
ments, old maps and photo
graphs. It shows the heart of
America then and now.
THE SATURDAY BOOK.
Edited by John H a dfield.
macmillan; $7.95.) A fully
illustrated collection of arti-
cles for leisure reading, this
book, with its pastel colored
bordered pages, gives the
unexpected caller something
to leaf through waiting. The
photography is dramatic and
the reproductions Of paintings
are realistic.
u. 8. CAMERA. A nnua ]
1868. Edited by Tom Maloney.
(Duell, Sloan & Pearce; 500
This superb collection Of
photographs is the 18th volume
in this now annual series of
some Of the worlds finest
photography taken within each
year. Included are some of
the last posed pictures of
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and Goethe with gentle and
quizzical irony works out their
deStinies. The novel is roman
tic but not realiStic-the peo-
pie themselves are no more
lifelke than charcoal sketches
or chessmen, they do not
speak in their own voices but
in the tones of their creator.
The genius Of Goethe does not
want to distract us with
his puppets, his examples, but
rather to set before us his
universals. AS a sketch by
Please or a game Of chess
can be greater than a person
or a worldly conflict, so
Goethe sets before every
writer on the subject Of mar
riage every basic considera-
ton. They have since been
elaborated, embellished, dis
figured topologically and joined
to produce expected and I'M
expected r results. But like
wheels, they have not been
fundamentally altered.
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ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

ELECTIVE AFFINTTTES
(Die Wahlverwandtschaft-
EN-. A novel by Wolfgang
Goethe. Translated from
the German by Elizabeth
Mayer and Louise Began.
(Henry Regnery Co.; $3.50
It is a sad but understand
able fact that In America
today of the 14O volumes Of
writing that Goethe left only
Faust" and the lyric poetry
make their influence felt to
any great extent on our cul-
ture. We are more susceptible
to other great but far inferior
classic German writer's such
as Buechner and Kleist, for
their sense of sin, doubt and
torture speaks to US more
inteligibly than does Goethe
who won through every Spir-
itual, intellectual and physi-
cal hardship to become the
greatest of OlympianS whose
humanity is genuine but unap-
preciated or unvalued in our
times. His best novel, "Elec-
tive Affinities" is, l think,
known by name, but scarcely
otherwise. A writer seldom
mentions 1t for the purpose of
evoking a certain reaction in
his readers, as he does "The
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Don Juan Story
One of the Best
By DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic

THE THEATRE OF DON JUAN. Edited and with Com
menary by Oscar MandeL university Of Nebraska Press
SOD
When, time before 1880 Trso de Molina, considered
today to be of the four best playwrghts Of Spains
Golden Age wrote The Jester Of Seville and the Stone
Guest" he did not consider worthy of inclusion in the five
volumes of his plays he published but let be included
anonymously in volume of plays by Lope de Vega and
others 1t that his opinion Of his work was that Of
Cervantes Of Don Quxote"-that poboiler. Each
man was wrong in different way, for if the novel is uni
versaY recognized as one of the three four greatest in the
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discusses opium, morphine,
and heroin-all of which are
derived from the Opium Pop
py, or Papaver somniferum.
He entities this chapter "The
Abyss Of Divine Enjoyment, I"
butt think you'll be relieved
to hear-he takes q harder
line here.
He describes the end-result
of opium addiction by letting
Thomas De Quincy describe
Thomas De Quincey-"writh-
ing, throbbing, palpitating,
and shattered"-in an excerpt
from the classic Confessions
of an English Opium Eater. "
He lists others who found out
the true price Of these costa
sies":: Poe, Coleridge, Nous
sorgsky, Swinburne, Dante
Gabriel RosSetti. And he
points out that "The average
heroin addict spends between
$40 and $50 a day for the
drug"
Fair enough and a fair
warning.
But now we come to the
head-on collision l mentioned
earlier.
Coca Leaves and Cocaine
Mr.. Taylor's third chapter
entitled, unsurprisingly, ''The
Divine Plant of the Incas"-is
all about coca leaves and
cocaine" - the "only source"
of which is the plant Eryth-
rOxylOn coca.
First we must pass over, as
lightly as we can, a fascinat-
ing Taylor sequitur-namely
that coca leaves, which are
chewed by over Is million
people today" are mo more
habit-forming than drinking
coffee or SIN oking a
cigarette"
On arriving at his discus
sion of cocaine, we find that
he carefully distinguishes
cocaine from what he calls
"the real opiates" because,
"w lille habit-forming, this
alkaloid may not be an addic-
tive drug at ALL" On the same
page-page 65-he then,
amazingly, uses the term
THE cocaine addict" and
continues on his collision
course with this reviewer:
&c. Cocaine is an excitant
"a stimulant almost immedi-
ately acting on the higher
levels of the brain. The user
is filled with a sense of in
creased mental and physical
power. So dominating is this
exhilaration that the immortal
Sherlock Holmes used it to
help solve his spine-chilling
mysteries"
CRASH!!!
The references to Sherlock
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EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page fea-
ture, "a Book for Today"
this week:
MONDAY: "The Vital
Balance: The Life Process
in Mental Health and III
ness" by Karl Menninger
with Martin Mayman and
Paul Pruyser. (Viking)
TUESDAY: "The Sgnet
Classic Shakespeare" Cen
eral Editor: Sylvan Barnet.
New American Library.)
WEDNESDAY: Hannah
Arendt in Hamburg.
THURSDAY: 'The Great
Histories" General Editor:
Hugh r. Trevor-Roper.
washington Square.)
FRIDAY: "Golda Meier:
Woman with a Cause" by
Marie Syrkin. (Putnam's)
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Diego Rivera;
A Mexican Legend

rails, in the Palace and else
where, but Mr.. Wolfe feels
that it was the Mexican revo-
luton Of 1910, which at Rive
ra's death had never been
fully realized, that influenced
him more than the Russian
revolution Of 1917. Controver-
sy swirled around his life and
art like merchandising
wind, and he thrived on it. He
started to do some murals for
the Kremlin, but Stains art
censors objected: The Mexi-
cans designs deviated from
acceptable ideas. Rivera
threw down his brushes and
left Russia in a huff. The
Soviet press attacked him, on
the characteristic ground that
he was a poor artist. Rivera
retaliated by satirizing Stain
in subsequent murals. Later
he was expelled from even the
Mexican Communist Party,
though he got back in shortly
before his death.
His most celebrated quarrel
was with the Rockefeller
family, who had retained him
to paint murals in the new
Radio City skyscraper in 1888.
The family negotiator, the
present Governor Of New York
and candidate for the Republi-
can presidential nomination,
had admired Rivera's work,
but when the Mexican mural
list painted Lenin leading
American labor, Nelson Rookie
teller tactfully suggested that
Lenin be replaced or else
depicted elsewhere in the
immense scene. Rivera re-
fused. He was paid in full, but
the whole mural was torn up.
The artist ran into equal
turbulence In Mexico when,
on a wall Of the new Hotel
Reforma, he showed a gener-
al with the head of a hog
robbing miss Mexico" and
when he lettered on a mural
in the Del Prado Hotel, mo
God exists"
Rivera had four wives, two
legitimate d aughters and
another by a mistress in
Paris. His casual love affairs
have never been tabulated.
He was hardly an attractive
man, physically, but he must
have had tremendous person
atty.
Mr.. Wolfe has written fasci-
natingly Of a life he aptly
calls fabulous" The book is
illustrated with many photo
graphs Of murals and individ-
ual paintings. The author
formerly was chief Of the
theological advisory staff Of
the State Department and the
Voice Of America and has
lectured at many universities.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
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"The wreckage of attempts to
accomplish this is strewn
along the beach Of history
from the Cro-Magnons to
Christ and down to yesterday
afternoon"
From the Plant World
practically all the things
which cater to this instinct"
he writes, "come from the
plant world. For centuries,
therefore, savages and sa-
wants have eagerly explored
the properties Of hundreds Of
juices, flowers, seeds, banks,
leaves, and roots"
Some of the narcotics" he
discusses are, I'm sure, UNI
known to you. Others may
surprise you. Here is his
complete list: marijuana,
opium, morphine, heroin,
coo aine e, ololiuqui, peyote,
pituri, fly agaric, caapi, kava,
betel, alcohol, tobacco, coffee,
chocolate, and tea. Of you
feel that the last three are not
narcotics, don't write an
indignant letter to me. Write
an indignant letter to Mr..
Taylor. It's his ist!)
His first chapter is entitled
"The Pleasant Assassin"
That, it turns out, is the I'M
pleasant nickname he gives to
marijuana. Marijuana. he ex-
plains, is derived from Indian
Hemp, or Cannabis saliva, the
source Of the loaded cigarettes
popularity known as REFERS,
muggers, goof butts, etc. 1t
is also the source of hashish.
I was disturbed by this
chapter because Mr.. TAYLOR
struck me as being what l
can only call soft on Gamma
bis sativa."
He writes: "For centuries
the plant has been used
by countless millions. They
find it a very pleasant aSsas-
sin indeed, for it kills care,
gloom, and apprehension.
They think of 1t as the
least harmful flight from
reality" Then he quotes, ap-
provingly, a 1914 study by the
New York Academy OF Med1-
cine which concluded that
Smoking marijuana does not
lead directly to mental or
physical deterioration" and
that set is more of a nuisance
than a menace. He tops off
by mentioning some endear-
ing names given to Indian
Hemp products in various
countries: "The Liberator
of SIM; ''The Delight Giver";;
"The Soother of Grief"
Well, what are we waiting
for? Anybody want a REFER?
Spot Of hashish?
Mr.. Taylor's second chapter
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NARCOTICS: Natures Dan
gerOus Gifts. BY Norman
Taylor. (DeIl Publishing
Co.; $1.65.)
This erudite and disturbing
book is described by its pub
fishers as "a revised edition
Of Norman Taylor's widely
discusse Flight From
Reality"
l missed the earlier book,
so / came to this revised
edition blank-brained - cold
turkey, as the saying goes.
Probably this intensified my
two main reactions: alarm
over Mr.. Taylor's views on
the use Of marijuana; and a
head-on collision with him
when l came to his material
on cocaine. Of this, more
anon.
Mr.. Taylor, a botanist, lets
his reader know right away
where he stands on narcotics:
"In spite Of occasional
danger, men have always
sought some flight from reai-
ty. Next to the instinct for
survival, this has dominated
more people than any religion
[andl costs more than any
food. This book neither
condones nor condemns any
of the people who use these
products. ;" The author then
wildly describes what he
feels the peoples Of the world
are seeking when they book,
or try to book, their flights
from reality: it Is ''to make
life not only reasonably tol-
cradle but frankly pleasant, "
ito assuage the disenchant-
ments Of reality" ''to gain, if
possible, a bit Of heaven on
EARTH" He also notes that
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Fable Well
Suited for
The Season


JOANNA AND ULYSSES. BY
May Sarton. (W. W. Norton;
1851
This is a little fable, ap-
propriate to the season, In
that 1t deals delicately with
the rebirth Of the human
spirit.
May Sarton, a fine writer
Of infinite sensibility, tells Of
Joanna, a loY-spirited 30
year-old spinster, who discov-
ers herself and her artists
gifts through her ministra-
tons to a sick donkey.
Joanna, haunted by memo
ries Of her martyred mother,
an underground worker in
Athens, and bound to her
morbid, sickly father, escapes
from her routine to a remote
Greek island called Santorini.
The first thing she sees is
Ulysses, almost dead on his
feet, being beaten to death.
She buys him and acquires a
new burden.
But Ulysses, problem that
he is, leads her into a new
world, Of animal comfort, of
distraction, of coping with a
sex solvable problem. The
pellucid air and blazing sun
shine Of Santorini restore her,
too, and release her painters
gift.
Miss Sarton does not bella
Dor the moral Of her little
tale. She tells 1t simply, clear
ly, and warmly, In the style,
one presumes, Of Joanna's
painting.
MARY McGRORY.