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SIX. THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS , 1948H A R L E S T O N D A I L Y N A I LPUBLISHED B* _MAO.- ASSOCIATIONALTER E. CLARK. PRESIDENTN, W EST VIRGINIAEvenings & Sunday Morn in g

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'wave of the future' is preferable toother brands; and that he himself isspecially designated to ride that waveand channel its course when it roll?across our land."If this is true, then Mr. Wallace ca n -not bedismissed asa visionary intent _ . _ ..,.,upon revenge. Nor can his Communist ay LouisUrom field

Voice From the CountryRuthless Power IsCommunist' Aim

Food for the Multitude

associates be explained away as an un-happy accident of politics in which aman may vote for whom he pleases.The Communists have found out thecollectivist and vice versa. Togetherthey are intent upon a radical recon-struction of the United States, and theirassociation is not so haphazard as Mr.Wallace would-, have it appear.nterwt.ticntd br Vwith hil name .nrrrrMany rmwhrad."Think for yovrtelf, and tot other*privilege to doto too."

SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1848

Ms.

ATrend, Maybe?0\

Mrs. Kosenkina was"rescued" from theand why she jumpedthird floor of the Russian .are still matters of someGiven the difficulties whichone country in its investigationnationals of another, it is farertain that the whole truth willknown. Th State departmentfor example, that the police--cannot enter the Sovietthere is "reason to be-a crime is being committed."is known already, however, toa sense of fear and alarm.what Mrs.Kosenkina has just

follows closely in the famil-"the Terror." Apparent-

did. not want to return to RusrApparently, too, she was notany choice in the matter. Andmake one,heconsulate seems to have taken

compel her to return to"What is more the whole inci-takes place, not In Moscow oror Prague, but In New Yorkin the United States. It is this,which gives the story its most

Kosenkina may have fled to thearid the Countess Tols-have abducted her. Incase the laws of this country areadequate to do justice, andonly to resortto get all the assistance itthe fact that it did not,easy to conclude that theretruth in the consulate's' caseit had few compunctions overof sheer force tr > accomplishpurpose.Soviet Union and elsewherethe 'Iron Curtain" this mightgranted. The death of Jan(he, too,"jumped" from athe disappearance of the op-the relentless efficiency of thepolice have prepared us for whatwhen the Communists takeThere has been a comfortable il-however, that the tyranny theywas something .that could nothere. Ms. Kosenkina's. terrifiedis a reminder that it can. Againstcon-committees on un-Americanit sounds a note of ominousFor a moment we have seen the

=? =No Accidentcommon conception of Mr.Wallace that he is a politicaladopted by the Communistwithout his full knowledge andMany of the reports from.theconvention conveyed thissuggesting that Mr. Wallace,didn't know what the Com-were doing to him. A.cartoonpage the other day, showing Mr.confidently in the saddle while,Communists disappeared over the

with his horse1, visually expressedpopular opinion.the current Atlantic Monthly Mr.of Mr.in his Department of Agricul-days and once an ardent supporter,this myth a deadly blow. He re-in 1942 Mr. Wallace, speak-before the Congress of American-Friendship, voiced -his loss ofin a "political or bill-of-rights de-There is some question hereMr. Wallace expressed his own

I NK DF LIFES major worries hasbeen what Hollywood would do withthe latest best-seller once it paid$10,000,000 to do as it pleased. In thisconnection there are two promising de-velopments. The publishers of Dr. Kin-seys Sexual Behavior in the HumanMale have turned down Hollywood'sbest offer without leaving the slightesthint that they were waiting for a betterone. Furthermore Lloyd C. Lewis, theauthor of The Robe, has announced thathis next book will appear solely as abook. There will be no serial rights, nocondensation rights, no radio rights, nomovie rights and no book club distribu-tion. In other " words the man whowants to know what Mr. Lewis has tosay will have to go to the bookstoreand buy the book.If this is a trend, It is.in the rightdirection. If it Is fostered and encour-age it should 'deal firmly with 1rwoclasses of people. The first Is made upof those who never read anything be-

The spy ring exposed by the FBI is nogreat news to a great many people who hadexperience In politics, government and pub-lic affairs during the past eight or 10 years.Most of them k n e w that the ring existedan d some knew fa i r ly well, either throughinformation or Intui t ion, how it operated.That there were a number of broken-down"liberal" journalists, fellow-travelers anda c t u a l Communists on the OWI staff was nosurprise to anyone who had anything to dowi t h it. But the infilt ration by Communistsan d their sympathizers of so secret a service'as the OSS with the Important decisions andinformation involved, comes as a shockingrevelation. 'Du r i n g the New Deal admini strat ion InWashington it was difficult or impossible toexpose the operations of ; the Communistring for two reasonsf (1) Because they weremade as hazy or as secret at possible; (2)because they were prote cted by many pow-erful.people in the Roosevelt administration,wh o actually were collaborating uncon-iclously in Communist machinations.

D E LI CI O U SAW

NUTRITIOUS,'

A few men and women in public office atthat time consciously co-operated with theCommunis t ring, but most of them providedvaluable information through sheer garru-lousness and silliness, a situation which wasJust as dangerousas If they had been seriousCommunis t collaborators.As for the actual Communis ts themselves,there is n o t h i n g new in the story. As onewh o -has had to deal with Communists an dC o m m u n i s t organizations at times for more,than 15 years, I have had many a tusslewi t h Communis t- f ront organizations andwith indiv idual Communists.Ou t of this experience I can truthfully say.that I never have encountered aCommunist,either in Europe or in this country, who didnot fall within one of three categories: (!)cause they ,are sure Hollywood will do Tne psychoneurotic who had suffered someit for them and throw in Clark Gableto help them over the rough places. Thesecond is made up of those who readeverything and attend the movies onlyto see what has been changed, or worse,what ginger has been eliminated. Thedeparture of both classes should leavethe field freer for people who read forthe pleasure ,of reading. /Down and DownB y RobertC.Ruark .- .AT SEAOnly 15,000 men were engagedin our submarine warfare in the last un -pleasantness. Nearly 4,000 were killed. Ofthe survivors, not .many have yet had achance to ride on a boat l ike the Tusk, aconver ted sub which lists me as a passenger.Those old submariners would be a littledazed at the improvements.I daze easily, myself. Cmdr. Guy Gugli-otta, the skipper, just dived this critter, andwe ran along f i rs t on batteries,.then on the sians, who directed the whole affair, are not

serious psychological Injury, usually in child-hood, which deformed the remainder of hislife; (2) the absolute crook with a psycho-pathic hunger fo r power; (3 ) tlie dizzy,moon-eyed emotional type which could not'tell' black from wh i t e and was constantlytaken In by ideological balderdash.Recently, I came across a 'quotation fromIsaiah which f i ts the cases of all three andIndicates with accuracy the fate oi: moit ofthem. It Is: "Woe-unto him who sails evilgood and good evil."Things nearly always catch up wi th Com-munis ts , even in Europe, and, with the .ex-ception of a tiny handful of. men, even inSoviet Russia.

The investigation in Washington andmuch of the testimony'of Mss Btntley hasthe great and unmistakable ring of truthwhether the story concerns the "cold" Coni'-munists or merely those silly people who,

A ColumnOf Verse0Lord, Have Mercy

6 Lord, have mercy on my soul. . . For all thesins I bear ...Andkeap me every hour in ... Yourkind- and loving care . . . Forgiveme for my foolishness . . . Andevery idle thought . . . And et melearn again to love . . . The lessons1 was taught . . . Give me Yourm _ grace and courage when ...Temp-Intox icated by power, or drunk wi.th liquor tatlon faces me ... Inspire me an d

The Week-End

or "liberalism," talked too much.,It- should not be forgotten that the Rus- ahow me how ...To live unsel-fishly .i . I want to be obedient...Andyet I am *p weak ... I dosnorkel, a ne w-fangled breathing apparatus-which allows you to use your dlesefolunderwater. If I were making any general state-ments about submarines, it Is that I don'tthink I could, learn to run one In a week.Or 10 years, for that matte r.' It is the most complicated ilmpllcity Iever law. When the klaxon startsHo bleatlike an anguished goat, the officer of thedeck yells "Dve! Dve!" through the loudspeaker s ystem.' The engines are killed. Thehatches slam shut. The ship switches overto battery propuls ion.

The chief of the watch opens the main ..ballast t a n k vents. Th e lookouts spring down To the Editor of the; Daily Mall:

yet civilized by our standards. The opera- not sacrifice enough ': . .To reachtions of the Cheka have not been different the goal I seek . . . O Lord, havef rom the operations of the Okhrana of- theCzarsave that perhaps they have beenthe more cruel and ruthless of the two.Nor should I t be forgotten that money inot the main purpose of the Communis tsbut power, a ruthless power over the- livesand liberties of their fellow men.

mercy on my soul . . . Andhelpme expiate . ..Each wron gfu l deedthat I have done . . . Before It istoo late. By James 3. Metcalfe.

The Point ofViewWhat Will Be Done?f rom the conning tower and take position atthe wheels of the bow and stern divingplanes. Last man down, the COD clampsshut the conning tower hatch.

Th e OODoff icer of the decktakes the.m a i n diving station. He reports: "Pressurein the boatgreen board." That means she'swatertight, yo u 'don't have to stuff an ychinks with rags, and that the Christmasthree, a light board, shows all green, attest-ing that all hull openings are closed. The

All my life I have been a follower of oldIsaac Walton and have through the yearsenjoyed many a happy day in the streamsof this state, especially the Elk and Coalrivers. I have watched the fishing etpoorer and poorer through these years Ihave lived In West Virginia Chow nearly50). Twenty years ago, or even less maybe,It was no trick at all to go over on Coalriver any m o r n i n g and catch a nice stringof fine bass by noon. Today, in any ofthese nearby streams, If after fishing allconning officerskipper or execmans the day you come homewith two or three, you .. _ .. .t . __J BVA4*1AA41lvperiscope, orders the depth desired, andyou're in business. To come up, you reverseth e order.It takes about 80 highly trained men torun this show, in a vessel which costs be-tween 10 and 15 million clams. Compressedinto her lean hull is nearly the sum of aman's scientific knowledge, apart f romnuclear fission. There Is radar in her peri-scope. A fire control officer twiddles somedials on the torpedo data computer, and theskipper kn ows , almost, whether the captainof the'target craf t ha s a mole on his lefth i p . Once his basic data is computed, hedoesn ' t even have to raise the periscopeagain to fire his fish.Here is a craf t that will stay down indefi-nitely, and which can run submerged at aspeed to equal that of a fast surface vessel.Here is, maybe, the d i f feren ce in the nextwar. We know what we've gbt-rand we alsok n o w that t he Russians have a better t han. equal crack at it'.Our f r ien d s to the east have always beena submar ine nation. It'sabout all they hadin their navy, as a''matter of fact. Whenwe split up the German sub fleet, we sankall but a couple and so did the British.There ha s been no announcement f rom th eRussians that they did likewise.

They received, in the divvy, several of thenewest G e r m a n subs the ones with thesnorkel breather and the high speed glm-

are i ndeed lucky.S o m e say that the reason for this con-d i t ion is good roads and too many fisher-men. This may have a bear ing on condi-t ions as they now exist, but I personallyknow of other condi t ions that I think havea far greater bear ing. Some few years backI went over on Little Coal river fishingand- saw dead fish f loating down the riverin quantities and - lying In piles along thebanks. There 'were more than I had anyIdea existed In the river, but they weredead. I afterward was In form ed that theki ll ing was caused by water put Into ther iver by mines at the head waters.Just a day or two ago I was over on Lit-t l e . Coal at McCorkle in company with anold fishing companion. We had taken acanoe over and planned to fish downstream .from McCorkle. I saw a young manstanding near where we stopped and askedhow fishing was thereabouts. Hs replywas that It had been good unti l about twoweeks previously when mine water hadbeen put in somewhere above and that alot of dead fish had been floating downthe river and accumulating in piles at placesalong the bank of the river.I called the conservation commissioneran d talked to one of the officials. He con-f i rm ed the report that I had as to the m i n ewater and stated that he had taken thematter up with the water commiss ioner ,andasked help In the matter. He stated, how-ever, that" the conservation commission- wa s

. t -ij u miujia. iii^j *w * . ~ -or simply reported one neia oy , ,,, (5Who made them; some of the plantThere is no question over the jor the future models, and a deal of thethat he went on to say:"Russia, technical facilities for new construction,some of the abuses of exces- What they've done with them we donpolitical democracy, has 'placedemphasis on economic democ-This, too, Mr. Wallace admitted,of some excesses, and he con-that "Somewhere there is a prac-balance between economic and po--democracy."n this Mr. Jackson, with furtherconstructs a convincing case.

that governmental collectivism isthroughout the world, includ-this country and the Western hemi-; that the Soviet brgnd oi this

m l ck s They also received some of the Jerry powerless to do anything about the pollu-Ulins. iii^J *w * . _ ... , '*! _ *u* ..** lA*l>.l*tiiian d offspring. Surely, this'indicates progress. 'It Is a question which is thegreater accomplishment, the Illu-sion produced by the hosts, or thefacades presented by the guests. Iwish/to give them both full marks,a week-end is an inexorable

to believe in its permanence andt a k e to looking upon one anotherwith a molster and more avid eye,while thoughts of the evident joysof marriage begin to sing throughtheir noggins. Resistances are lessset and adamant"Yes" is moreeasily spoken than "No," and so therace marches on.They are not aware, and It isjust as well they should not be,that 12 hours before their arrival,that is to say Friday morning,M o m m a and Poppa were engagingIn a Pier Sixer,with Father raisingthe roof with hit. bellows andM o t h e r rattling the crystals of thechandelier with her lamentations.Junior was on a rampage and hadto be beaten within an inch of hislife wi t h a -baseball bat, and Sisterhad the screaming hysterics. Theservants had given notice; thebutcher had sent the wrong meat;the ice cream had not arrived atFUy O Y*CA~11U iO11* *iCJ-kV tU* 111C J1CV*CGllA JCU ilUc *4i*Tl* wvdate made usually far In advance all; the plumber emerged moroselyand which walteth -not upon thehumors or conditi on of the partiesInvolved. Of a sudden It is upon us,and I say It Is greatly to man'scredit that as of that moment he isable to sweep all.of his mental andemotional rubbish under the bedand turn the keys on all the closets'containing skeletons.

The week-end is really a verywon d erfu l thing and of ten helps toperpetuate the necessary legendt h a t marriage is the proper estate.for man. Th e con d i t ion of matri-mony has I ts best foot forwardf rom Friday through Sunday.' U n-wed guests, young folks, spend tw odays and nights in an atmosphereof connubial compromise arid well-being, where host and hostess vieIn the appelation of endearments,where their of f s prin g appear ins p o t l e s s pin afores and f reshlystarched aprons and dimities, littlefaces sparkling, hair brushed, o arich lustre an d bound with gay andfetching ribbons.The young and single dwellingteinporarlly in this paradise come country.

f rom the cellar with the messagethat what was needed was a wholenew heating u n i t and circulatorysystem, temporary repairs no longeravai ling.And yet so won d erfu l is man thatnone of these disasters is apparentto the guests, married or unmar-ried, during the. magical period ofthe week-end. The arriving couple,which right up to the moment ofdisembarking from their horselesscar r iage has been carrying on af ive-d ay Donneybrook with the Id-eality of Reno being f requentlymentioned, Is shamed Into a sem-blance of the lovey-doveylng oftheir earlier days by the evidenceof to m u ch affection an d harmonyon the part of their hosts; the hosts,seeing the people entwined in warmembraces , are constrained to dolikewise, the warm, damp sound ofkisses fills the air, and as I say, theyoung and unmarried are mightilyencouraged.Had man, and*ls greatest mani-festation, the week -end in the

Timely TopAbout Book

"Road'to Survival/' byVogt, introduction by BerBaruch (Sloane).To utter grave warnprophecy doom, to view wigenerally means little hopractically no listeners orBut here is, I trust, an eWith a paradox on almopage, with a turn of phrhelps to lighten even tawful prediction with a kdrawing momentous cof rom a lenky ^aucet, amotor, the -water undermore bridge, Shelley's skyeven the moisture whichon a glass of beer, Vogtsum and substance that thworld is eating itself out and home..Hs field is the whole wless, and. everywherefrightening examples of tof irreplaceable resourcestopsoil, forests. While heLatin America, China, Inrope and Russia separawarning is perhaps mostIng as it applies to thisHe^charges that our fwere "one of the most degroups of human beingsraped the earth." Withfmoldboard plow and shotstarted out to get rich qwe Rave been living on ouever since, he claims . . are loss," according to onof the book, and we haaged'land on the basis ofeconomic law in every geregard of the physical ancal laws to which it Is subWe .are plunderers, freA third of our topsoil'has our water table Is way dfisheries are. taking too biou r tlmbermen cut too rstock raisers overgrazeVogt suggests researcht lon and a land programthor, chief of the conservtion of the Fan>AmericaIs fortunately going tohearing denied to many

ifor the Book-of-the-MoHas selected this book. Ivogt, too."The Mdnight GarNovel About Baudelaire,"White (Harper).Charles Baudelaire,another one of those imgeniuses who had but onh i m , and of course a g"The Flowers of Evil," ishere In his Importantyears , f rom his 21st birthOn that day he came .Infortu n e- inherit ed from' MAlready he wanted to wbeen incapacitated bycaught in a nocturnal, -had suffered f ;his;,oving fondness for his moquarreled with his stepfaAu pick, future ambassadstantinople and senator.No t long afterward heon e acknowledged loveone acknowledged rivamother; Jeanne Duval,actress, a mulatto, beauardent.The Aupicks were notor unkind. They just colieve . . . and what famcould?" . . . that the see

they had nourished waflower of poets, thatman who misbehavednably; -who resorted to and opium, who refused ewlthln_rhis income, wagenius. To. them he waably, abominably dissipaOut of the vile depthhe sank he got his poemwhich are Incorporated iof the book, as in thepicture oii Jeanne In anfidelity, and some ofpresented as asides, as inphrase of one of Beaudememorable sonnets* "Toby."

How's That...By Frank ColbyLITERARY CURIOSITIESFROM A WORDMANS NOTESThe name John perhaps is themost widespread of all masculine

given names. The literal mean-ing of this ancient name is "Godis - gracious." These are some ofthe different forms: Latin, Jo-hannes; 'French, Jean; Italian,Giovanni ; Spanish, Juan; Portu-guese, Joao; German and Dutch,Johann; Ge rm an Dutch andSwedish, Hans; Danish, Polish andDu t ch , Jan;Russian, Ivan; R u-m a n i a n , Ion; Swedish, Johan;Greek, loannis; Hungarian, Janos.Read the words in the followinglist and see If you can tell whichof them have been taken f rom th eor iginal Latin without th e changeof even a single' letter: acumen,album, alumnus, apex, apparat us,area, arena, axis, basis, cenus,chaos, character, circus, cosmos,crisis, data, deficit, epi tome, for-m u l a , fu n gu s , horizon, hypothesis ,in d ex, interest, i tem, max imum,m ed iu m , memento, memorandum,m i n i m u m , minus, momentum,oasis, odium, paralysis, parenthe-sis, prospectus, quota , radius,recipe, regime, sanatorium, squal-or, status, stigma, stimulus, tediue,te rminus , u l t i m a t u m , verbatim,You speak better Latin than yo urealize, for every word in the listi s Latin as spelled by the ancientRomans themselves .In a recent issue of a widelyread m a g a z i n e it was stated thatthere are but two words in Eng-

lish in which tile vowels a, e, 1,o, u appear in the correct order:abstemious and facetious. At Iknow of three others, abtentlous,arterlous and bacteriout, it isprobable that there are severalmore.S o m e curious origins: In theMiddle English, the word 6ratmeant "a cloak of rough cloth."Explode Is from 'the Latin ex-plodere, meaning "to make a loudnoise by clapping the hands so asto drive an actor off the stage."The word gopher1 is a degeneratedform of the French gaufre, mean-in g "waffle; honeycomb." Mottohad its or igin in the Latin wordmuttum, to grunt or mutter."The word speed is the modernform of the Anglo - Saxon sped,meaning "success." This explainsthe word Godspeed which meantor iginally , "May God grant youa successful journey." Swindle1 isa corruption of the Germanschwindeln, meaning "dizziness;giddiness." The word whiskey orig-inally was the Irish usquebaugh,meaning "water of life." L bel isf rom the Latin Ubellus, "a littlebook written on the inner bark of atree." Foyer is a French word thatm e a n s literally "a fireplace." Dan-ger not long ago m e a n t "power;a u t h o r i t y ; jurisdiction." Shake-speare uses it In that sense in theM e r c h a n t - o f Venice , iv , I : "Youstand within his danger, d o y o unot?" (You are in his power, areyou aottJL

Among the books reweek at the Kanawha rary are the following:Fiction "This VeryErsklne Caldwell; "Ththe Forest," Cecil Foresfor the Living," Mary"Woman with a SwordNobel and "Big FreezePartridge;.Non-f ict ion"Folk SVlncennes," Cecilia Bethew Arnold," Sir Edmbers; "Pablo PicassEluard; "PhotographyFeatherstonhaugh; "ThHounds," Gordon Grandportert and 34 of TheWard Greene; "Thesion," Stanley HymAcross the Sky," Flore"Portraits in Prose,"donald; "Arcraft BasiNorthrop Aeronautica"Listening with the TTheo'dor R e i k ; "WonSea," Paul Robert; "You See Remember MRogers; "Radiant Heaard Shoemaker; "ThParty Book," Alexandeselaer; "The PhilosopJean Wahl, and "TGhetto," Robert Weav

BEST SELLEFictionNaked and TheMailer."The Loved One," W"Melissa," Caldwell..- "Pilgrim's Inn," Gou" T h e Golden Hawk,"General"The Gathering Stori l l .\"How To Stop WorHegie."Peace of Mnd," L"Sexual Behavior inMale," Klnsey."Malabar farm," E