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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-08-16
Certify Nominees
In Cumberland

CUMBERLAND, Aug - =
Nominees o. the Democratic
party in Cumberland have been
certified as follows:
Marion f. Blauton for treas
urer:: Fred L. Adams, for
sheriff. William C. Carter for
commemorative Attorney; Mar
Vim S. Jones for supervisor in
Madison district: Thomas P.
Scott for supervisor in Randolph
district
Unopposed and declared noni-
nees Here R. S. Martin for COM
missioner 0. the revenue: and G.
L. Blanton. supervisor of Hamil-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-08-16
Phonetic Reading

The foundation president said
the supplemental phonetic read
ing course provided children in
the | to grade groups has
proved to be most helpful" In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-21

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H. a very busy
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andh eI6
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WASHINGTON RManm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
misunderstanding Sequel
Turns Into q Whodunit

everyone rapes and swings
the Ratchet vicariously.
Dean drinks. and late at
night decides to break into
his girls bedroom. At the
moment Of doing 50 he is
caught by the police to whom
he confesses that although he
didn't commit the murder in
the basement he is guilty Of
doing so. He is booked on q
charge Of first-degree MUIR
der. but soon freed as an
overworked but harmless
newspaper reporter. Who
actually committed the crime
I. naturally, am not going to
divulge.
The book has many good
pages, but 1t Is far inferior
to zone Hundred Dollar Mis-
understanding" Mr.. Cover
tries too hard. struggles too
seriously with meaning and
message. Writers with mes
sages are a dime q dozen:
Mr.. Covers gift. here not
used TO best advantage. Is
the far rarer one Of the abil-
ity TO create people who can
talk the way we wish people
really talked. and then. put
ting these people in q room
together. TO let things happen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

mendous numbers Of fans
both In Russia and without.
It IL the unique aspect Of
Soviet literary world that
the poets have gained the
most power and the most
prestige. This Is due, Mr..
Yevtushenko explains, to
the fact that poets can adapt
quicker to new situations
&c new poem can be writ
ten faster than q new novel")
and to the fact that poems
can be read aloud Ito audi
ences of more than $4,000
whereas q novel must be
printed to have any effect,
and censors, he emphasizes.
still are most concerned with
what is published.
His free-swinging antics,
his dislike of dogmatism in
literature; his fervent anti
semitism, his obvious pref
erence for writer's who do
not have state support. have
put him In the forefront Of
the liberal wing Of Russian
culture. AS such. he was
one Of the first TO be at
tackled when conservatives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Other Books in Brief

Association Of West Vir-
ginla, believes that our
present system is diverging
from a truly free economy
and he points out the perils
which lie ahead II this
trend continues.
ANCIENT BALLADS. Vol
ume III, Child Ballads, 95-
243. additionally sung In
New England. Compiled
and edited by Helen Hart
ness Flanders. University
Of Pennsylvania Press;
$l0) Volume III In q four
volume series, this collec-
ton contains nearly all Of
the traditional ballads Of
America. The texts are
printed and their tunes set
exactly as the singers gave
them in the original form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Puperbucks
CONTRACT BRIDGE SUM

CONTRACT BRIDGE SUM-
MARY. Edited by Albert
H. Morehead. "a Signet
Book; so cents.) A COM
prehensive UP to date
sum airy on contract
bridge. compiled by the
bridge editor Of the New
York Times.
HOW TO WRITE, SPEAK
AND THINK MORE Eff
FECTIVELY. BY Rudolph
Flesch. "a Signet Book: rs
cents.) A book by O ma
tionally known expert that
will help you master the
art OF communication.
tReprint.)
THE DIPLOM A rs, 1919
1889. Volume / The Twen-
ties; Volume II The Thir-
ties. Edited by Gordon A.
Craig and Felix Gilbert.
(Atheneum: Sl.65 each.) A
diplomatic history OF the
period between the two
world wars. (Reprint)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

rose to ascendency last win
ter during an intellectual
breakdown.
The result is that Mr.. Yev-
tuShenko has not been seen
in print for months. Even
though moderation has re-
turned to the intellectual
scene, the young poet has
not yet been heard from
again.
The autobiography itself
was written first for Q
French newspaper land this
fact was resented by Com
munist authorities, q IL Pas
ternak). It is somewhat
flimsy and shows the signs
of being hastily written. But
1t is one Of the best docu-
ments we have on the think
ing Of Russian liberals" and
on the working Of the So
Wet intellectual community.
We learn here something Of
the politics in writer's unions,
and the disturbing effect
politics plays on literature.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
TO BE REVIEWED

The following books will bS re-
viewed on the editorial poss Of
The Stor This week:
MoNDAY-"Bursss and Mac
lson." by Anthony Purdy and
DouSIoS SuthsrIond. (Doublsdoy.D
WEDNESDAY -- Holmes. Loski
Letters: The Correspondence Of Nh.
Justice Holmes and Harold ]. Loskl
1916 1885," edited by Mark De
Wolfe Howe; abridged BY AISsr
Hiss. tAthsnsum.J
FRlDAY-"Sueesw Story: The
Lie end Times Of S. S. Mcclure"
by Peter Lyon. tSeribnsr's.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
American Skill Goes
Far in Foreign Aid

The Hidden Force" Eum-
marizes an international con-
ference in Puerto Rico last
year on how best to develop
this middle level manpower."
The phrase does not mean
mediocer manpower but the
same kind Of work force early
New England lacked: Carpen-
tiers and machinists, nurses
and teachers, who really make
q country's wheels turn.
Special Training
The San Juan sessions
brought together some sur
prtsing and valuable data
from the 43 participating
countries. West Germany. for
example. now gives annual
on-the-job training to 5000
foreigners from emerging
countries. Sweden has ex-
ported Q whole vocational
school to Pakistan where stu
dents learn trades and labor
relations under factory condi-
tons. On the theory that
long-range, global TV sales
cannot grow without on-the-
spot repairmen. the Neither
lands Philips Lamp Co. uses
It's own two-month cram
course to train local nationals
how to find the blown tubes.
Seeds from the conference
have blown far. An Interna-
tional Peace Corps Secretar-
lat has been created in WASH
ington to spread information
on volunteers for economic
aid. Half a dozen countries
have created their own Peace
Corps. AS cellist Pablo Casals
told the conference. the world
realizes finally that 1t Is man
who is important. not the
mission: that 1t is man who
accounts for growth. not Just
dollars or factories. ;"
TRUMAN TEMPLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
BroziI: A Sympathetic
Interpreters View

BRAZIL ON THE MOVE. BY John Dos Passos. Doubleday
& Co. Inc. $3.50
major complaint of Brazilians is that they lack
sympathetic interpreters in this country Too often they
their young and dynamic giant of country simply dis
missed here the preenouS bad boy Of the hemisphere
Now John Dos Pasos has answered their reproach with
wallop In this short but expery written travelogue the
prolific American novelist and historian makes Brazil come
alive with all the grandeur and spirit Of the old Wild West
The book could really be titled John Dos Passos the
Writing from notes taken during three separate visits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
SORENSEN
ARTICLES AS
A BOOK

DECISION MAKING IN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
BY Theodore c. Soren-
sen. Foreword by Presi-
dent Kennedy. (Colum-
bia University Press:
$500
This discussion Of the
technique Of decision max
ing by the President orig
mated as lectures at Colum-
bia University last April
and May. They were pub
lished in The Star as
a series Of articles shortly
thereafter. Now they ap-
pear in book form with an
introduction by the Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Sorensen's official
title is special counsel to
the President but in
this case the title is an
understatement, as he is
known to be one Of the
Presidents closest advisers
on many questions. In in
dorsing this book, Mr..
Kennedy refers to him as
IAN astute and sensitive
collaboration in the presi-
Dental enterprise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
LincoIn's Views
On the Neqro
In America
MR.. LINCOLN AND THE
NEGROES. BY Justice Will

MR.. LINCOLN AND THE
NEGROES. BY Justice VIII
liam o. Douglas. (Athe-
neum: $4.95.)
This is q brief book, with
ia small pages. large type
and lots Of white space. It
is also q thin book-thin in
the sense that It touches only
the high spots Of Mr.. Lin
coins thinking and actions
with respect to the Negroes.
Further, much Of this Is q
more than twice told tale.
Mr.. Justice Douglas does not
ignore views which Mr.. Lin
coin expressed and which
might be thought Of as anti
Negro today; he tells some
thing Of the climate Of coer-
cion In which the Fourteenth
Amendment was adopted; he
directs attention to the not
inconsiderable racial discrim-
ination In other countries, in
many Of which the project
for the day is excoriation Of
the United States. and, fl
nally. he gives the reader the
benefit of some of his own
thinking on the problem Of
discrimination - thinking
which has been rather fully
spelled out In his Supreme
Court opinions. A lengthy APP
pendix contains the texts Of
numerous important docu-
ments, speeches, court rulings.
etc. For many readers this
will be the most useful part
Of the volume.
II. II. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

descriptive powers as Q
novelist come through full
force. His description Of the
titanic wrestling match" be-
tween river and forest In the
backlands Of Amazonia along
the Peruvian entrance to
Brazil typifies the flare Of
romance which runs through
out the narrative.
Politics
The one failing Of the book
and 1t Is a major one-is
when Mr.. Dos Passos deserts
peoples and places for the
quicksand of Brazilian poll
tics. In one long chapter, en-
titled THE Most Dangerous
Man." he attempts to do
justice to the complex politi-
cal scene by eulogizing one
Of the most controversial men
on it-Carlos Lacerda, Gov
ernor Of Guanabara state
where Rio is located.
The rather uncritical pic
ture of Mr.. Lacerda-who is
both anti Communist and
pro-American and politically
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COM
pletely the tide Of Brazilian
nationalisrn which seems to
be running against Mr..
Lacerda. Mr.. Dos Passos tends
to repeat the all too common
mistake Of many North Amer
leans in treating Brazilian
politics as a challenge for
United States leadership
rather than for Brazilian
leadership.
This failure to grasp the
full power Of Brazilian ma
tionalism is paradoxical since
in other parts Of the book
Mr.. Dos Passos beautifully
portrayS both the weaknesses
and strength Of the Brazilian
nation.
GEORGE SHERMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
The Russians
And the u. S.
Underseus
SHADOW OF PERIL.

SHADOW Of PERIL. BY
Aleksandr I. Zhdanov.
doubleday & Co., Inc;
$4.950
This is a novel, hailed as
"the deadly underseas strug-
gle" between the Soviet
Union and the United States.
Posing as q Soviet subma-
rine commander who has de-
fected to the West, the author
takes the reader on two dar-
ing and dangerous cold war
patrols. His account, which
rings with q realism born Of
considerable personal expe.
rience in underSeas warfare,
tells how he:
Spied on the mighty United
States 9Th Fleet and sim
ulated torpedo attacks against
its major units in the Medi-
terranean; cruiSed boldly off
Cape Canaveral and caught
John Glenn in the cross hairs
Of his periscope as the space
man decended in his capsule;
landed saboteurs in the Do
minican Republic and took
shore leave in Castro's Cuba;
was the unseen observer at q
United States Navy fleet re-
view staged for President
Kennedy; rendezvoused with
q Russian fishing trawler
fleet off Newfoundland.
Is this really all fiction?
Soviet submarines-even the
obsolescent diesel powered
types commanded by "Zhdanov"
could have done all these
things. And they may nave.
This is the point the author
makes to an American peo-
pie he correctly judges have
not yet fully awaken to the
Soviet threat at sea and to
the dangers 1t poses to our
lifelines and continental
safety.
Shadow Of Peril Is q pro-
vocative book. It Is likely to
become q controversial one.
with even the Navy officer
corps taking opposite sides.
While the author is an anna
teur at story telling and Is
sometimes melodrAmatic, he
is, to repeat. . thorough pro-
feSsional when 1t comes to
submarines and their uses.
Il. EDGAR PRINA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
THE HIDDEN FORCE. Edited

THE HIDDEN FORCE. Edited
by F. w. Goodwin, r. N.
Goodwin and w. F. Had
dad. (Harper & Row;
$3.50
In the early days Of New
Englan DIS theocracy. the
pious settlers soon discovered
a disturbing fact: Puritanism
was not enough to run a
country's economy properly.
Trained, practical artisans
we're desperately needed too.
The ensuing efforts to lure
craftsmen to our shores
helped create the Yankee
tinkerer. and his talent for
machinery became a part OF
our national character. a
priceless resource surviving TO
this day.
In his foreword to 1.-THE
Hidden Force" Peace Corps
Director Sargent Shriver
relates how this truth was re-
learned in Americas foreign
aid program to help other
young nations after World
War II.
More Than Dollars
above ALL" he notes. we
have learned that money
alone does not bring progress;
that without educated and
trained men and women to
man the factories, run the
businesses. and guide the gov
ernments Of developing ma
tions, large capital investment
only serves to arouse hopes
which cannot be fulfilled"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

sure. and more critical. Their
contribution to the arts and
sciences. unions and radical
politics is indisputable. Their
success in business has only
been dimmed by their failure
to crack the big corporations.
They provide psychiatry
with doctors and patients,
although as a group he says
they are more neurotic than
psychotic. Now. having
achieved so much, Mr.. Glazer
says they are often motivated
by "timidity or fright" fight
anti Semitism when 1t has
disappeared : and withdraw
into their "gilded ghettoS."
The Italians, Mr.. Glazer
finds, have transferred "Ital-
ian village culture" almost
intact from the old country.
They are tolerant because
concern for odd or immoral
behavior is limited to ones
own family" have put up
many statues and have in
dulged in other handsome
gestures, but have been In
capable Of creating institu-
tions that work steadily for
common ends"
And the Irish
In politics, they have
tended to underline the tie
up with the criminal world.
They never shared the Jewish
passion for education and
now seem to be turning into
middle class American
Catholics"
The Irish, Mr.. Moynihan
reports ruefully. have lost
New York City. They once
ran It's government due to
their genius for bureaucracy
and patience. THE incredible
capacity Of the rural Irish
man to remain celibate
awaiting their turn to inherit
the farm was matched by
generations Of assistant cor
poration counsels awaiting
that opening on the city court
bench"
Mr.. Moynihan Is stern
with his own. They did not
know what to do with power.
They spent too much time
being Irish. They drank too
much, were belligerent, de.
fensive. exclusive and mega
tive. Their Catholic school
system, built at great sacri-
flee, maintained at more. has
failed to establish high In
tellectual standards and has
isolated them until recently
when internal criticism began.
That isolation, Mr.. Moynihan
says, Is over. The Irish, he
suggests, having lost New
York, may be sadder and
wiser, today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

to Brazil-in l94S, 1858 and
1862 - the author attacks
Brazil from every geographic
angle.
And most refreshing Of all
Is his concentration on the
hinterland Of Brazil, that vast
developing frontier beyond
the cleaning coastal cities Of
Rio de Janeiro and Sac Paulo
which few tourists ever pene-
trate. Mr.. Dos Passos takes
the reader to new agricultural
colonies, frontier towns, min
ing installations, and to the
new capital of BraSilia on
three separate occasions.
In the first chapter the
author, who himself is Of
Portuguese descent and can
converse with BrazilianS in
their own language, brings the
reader UP to the present with
a thumbnail sketch Of Bra
lillian history. The chapter
appropriately called Melting
Pot Of the AInericas"-de-
scribes that quality Of COM
promise and tolerance built
on racial intermingling which
is the unique Brazilian con-
tribution to the Western
Hemisphere.
MOnstrOusIy Beautiful
Mr.. Dos Passos makes no
secret Of his fascination with
the people who have emerged
from this background.
When people ask me why
I keep wanting to 60 to
Brazil" he writes, part Of
the answer is that It's be-
cause the country Is 50 vast
and so raw and sometimes
so monstrously beautiful;
but it's mostly because I find
it easy to get along with the
people"
When turning to new and
strange physical surround
ings. Mr.. Dos Passes full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22

Park, where the inhabitants
resemble Englishmen neither
more nor less than Americans
do. Their speech is corrupt,
compacted Of English and
Spanish, their outlook san
guine. their economy SO pros
porous that everybody has a
new automobile but very
little road to drive 1t on.
Mr.. Reid now goes north
to the Pyrenees, to Euzkadi,
the country of the BaSques,
the oldest race In Europe,
with a history that dissolves
into the myths of centuries
ago. Momentarily, in the
1930s, Euzkadi was again an
autonomous country, and 1t
still maintains diplomatic
consulates in exile, but today,
part French and part Span
ish, it has to give 1t unity
only the solidarity Of a COM
mon, and to outsiders in
tractible. language and q
sense Of race and destiny
that would make the Jews
in exile seem cosmopolitan.
Hatred Of and contempt for
Franco Is nowhere else so
strong as among the Basuues
who, knowing they will out
live him. think serio-
comically Of yet another re-
birth Of their country.
Equal to that in people
and places Is Mr.. Reds in
terest in words-not 90 much
words as the bones Of SEN
fences, but words as q con-
glomeration Of letters. Cas-
ually he introduces the reader
to unusual, delightful and
serviceable ones like mum
chance" "reaSty" and "clish-
maclaver" and more point
eddy goes on to show that the
formal essay in the manner
Of Charles Lamb is not dead
by composing marvellous ex-
amples about the letters z
and @. (He Is wrong in two
particulars-zest isn't lemon
peel, but the skin Of lemon
peel, and If mind your P's
and Q'S Is q printers ad-
monition, everyone who has
set type by hand knows it
should be mind your p's
and Q's.~
From his earliest days Mr..
Reid has read words back
wards. He munched SEM
WORDS. drove his dad half
mad calling him rental"
and meditated that he was
live. But the moment he
discovered palindromes his
life was fulfilled and fate
could not touch him. He
paid homage to Thurber for
his "A man, q plan, q canal
Panama" but was q bit
contemptuous Of DOG as a
devil deified, deified lived as
a god" The reader is
mystified by Mr.. Reds dis
like Of this palindrome, be-
cause to the amateur it
seems pretty good, but he
discovers that for Mr.. Reid
it is short to the point Of
inconsequentiality. One day
he woke up with the word
"gnat" plying backward and
forward in his mind and he
felt that his moment had
arrived. He was right, for
sitting down at his desk with
a proper sense Of destiny"
he was inspired with what
must be the greatest Of all
palindromes:
at. Eliot, top bard, notes
putrid tang emanating, is
sad. I'd assign 1t q name:
'Gnat dirt upset on drab
pot toilet
1t may not, as he wistfully
observes, contain "the final
truth Of things" but 1t is
good early Eliot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Was the Melting Pot
An American Myth?
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

BEYOND THE MELTING POT. BY Nathan Glazer and Daniel
Patrick Moynhan. OMIT and Harvard Press; $3.50
is the contention Of the authors Of this excellent
provocative study of the immigrant Of New York City
that the melting pofavorite theory of other social scen
tsts-never happened.
Brave both. they say that immigrant groups while
they have changed s display marked national characters
tics which make them dstngushabe from other Americans
and in many ways, more interesting
Nathan Glazer teacher of and writer sociology and
Daniel Patrick Moynhan Assistant Secretary Of Labor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
BOOKS IN REVIEW
Serious TroveI Book
With Comic Code
BY DAY THORPE
star Book Critic

PASSWORDS PLACES, POEMS, PRESCRIPTIONS BY
Alastair Reid. (Atlsntic. Little Brown; So
This book which has It's modest place in the publishers
code-index Verdian should be greeted not in
fortssmo at least with apprecative cry Of "Bs!"
For AaSta Reid Scot and throughout this latest book
Of his whether he making distinction between foreigner
tourist and expatae drawing picture Of contemporary
Spain, writing about the in the library who
spent his time pencng in O creating the worlds most
breath taking pandrome he is always establishing the
likely thesis that Is not absolutely to be born in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-22
Black Magic
Bubbles in
Evil Brew
MY FRIEND MADAME

MY n Il N ID M A ID A M u
FORA. By Jane Duncan.
(St. Martins Press; $4.50)
This sprightly and often
amusing story is the eighth
in o series Of adventures
Of the irrepressible Janet
Reachfar and her somewhat
repressed husband. Twice"
his real name is Alexander
Alexander. In this episode
the AlexanderS encounter
the bizzare Madame Fora, an
astrologer who dwells with
hordes Of black and striped
cats, wears witch-like black
robes and intones cryptic
prophecies.
The AlexanderS' farm in
the Scottish highlands pro-
vides an entertaining back
ground for an endless pro-
ceSSion Of assorted crackpots
including o miSanthropic
nonegenarian, q monoma-
niacal art collector, and the
worldly yet mystical Lady
Monica (who previously APP
peared as MY Friend Mon
lea" in this same series).
The author brews this
cauldron Of zany characters
and incidents with q light
touch. In the end, quite ex-
pectedly, the troublesome
Madame Fora proves to be a
beneficent oracle. Two of
her customers win Q horo-
scope football contest, and a
young man Is reunited with
his family through her de-
viouS assistance.