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It will probably produce some of the results envisioned by the author. A co-author of The Ugly American, Mr. Lederer, himself alarmed at our public apathy, seeks to alarm a host of readers. During the past five years, our federal government has dispensed aid and relief in Laos, Formosa, Thailand and Korea. The author asks: “What accurate information was pos- WM. J. LEDERER sessed by the director, and re sponsible official, in, say Laos? Did he know how much of ‘goods for relief’ got into the hands of ward-heelers and went on to the black market?” Obviously, the author thinks that little accurate informa tion was at hand; that repre sentatives of U. S. Relief did little to correct abuses. Is the author objective? Are things as bad as he concludes? The reader must remember that the five years, ending in 1960, are under discussion. Mr. Lederer writes, must write, as a newspaper reporter with the responsibility of a by-line. There has not been adequate opportunity to do proper re search. We have a columnist expressing his opinion. In the latter half of the vol ume, the author becomes prac tical. He has suggestions: a) Tightening of control and evaluation of the sources of information in Formosa and Korea; b) On the spot authority to do something about it, whe ther it be honest mistake, stealing or grafting that is ob served; c) That each reader do some thing about the careless, the do-nothing, personnel, viz., the beaureaucrat here and abroad. The author addresses him self to the reader because the reader is generally a voter. The occasion of a snafu, re ported in the press, is the time to write a note to the Con gressman. In the same way, a letter to editorial writers will have its effect. Like the Su preme Court, the purveyors of information to the public pay attention to letter writers. Writers are subscribers. The book will be heard from —by congressmen and beaure- crats. NOT TO THE SWIFT, by Tristram Coffin, Norton, 1961, 379 pp., $4.50. Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester This books’s jacket describes it as “a novel of the presiden cy.” It is, in fact, the descrip tion of how an inept childish military man with a charming smile is catapulted into the presidency by a handful of only slightly less shallow men who mean to use him for their own special aims. The king makers’ end being gained, the balance of the book describes the impeding collapse of the nation and the incompetent’s gradual realization of the tra gic farce of his being where he is. The largest question the STORYBOOK SHELF By MICHELE CARAHER AIDS FOR PARENTS Someone ought to say more than one kind word for the many organizations which pro mote good books for children. Are their names familiar to you? Probably not, but the work of the Children’s Book Council, the Child Study Asso ciation of America, the Ameri can Library Association, the National Book Committee, Inc. and others is of immense value to anyone who buys a book for a youngster. With today’s flood of juvenile offerings, it helps to have these agencies check on quality, needle publishers to do a little better, and set up standards. This behind-the-scene work alone deserves the book buy er’s thanks. As extra added at tractions, these organizations put out many helpful pamph lets on why and how children Cross Roads Appliance Center SALES 'Shop Where Parking Is Easy' SERVICE Television — Sewing Machines — Appliances TONY ALIFFI — DICK TRAVAGLINE. Assistant Manager VICTORY DRIVE & SKYWAY RD. PHONE ADams 6-8241 read, what they like to read, and how to guide their reading interests. Science Research As sociates (57 W. Grand Ave., Chicago 10) offers a valuable booklet on Helping Children Discover Books, by Doris Gates. It sells for 60c. The oth er agencies mentioned above also publish material on chil dren’s reading. Ask in the lib rary or bookstore for their ad dresses. What brought all this to mind was a new book receiv ed the other day. Read to Me Again is a collection of “read aloud” stories for the three to five year old, compiled by the Child Study Association of America. The selections are excellent: little poems, simple stories about frogs, ducks, par ents and everyday happenings. Very young children will rel ish the satisfying complete ness of each story, the matter of fact tone which leaves them room to imagine all sorts of things, the rhyming words and repetion. This book, at $2.50, will save innumerable quar ters for drug-store story books; It provides a fund of bedtime stories which beginning read ers will enjoy reading later. Read to Me Again is just one of the storybooks compiled by the Child Study Association, all published by Thomas Y. Crowell (New York). CHILDREN'S BOOKS RECEIVED St. Lawrence Seaway, by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett, $3.95). Ages 12-16. A good book for the child with an engineer ing bent. The Unicorn Who Wanted To Be Seen, by Lotte K. Hahn (Frederick Warne; $2.75). Ages 4-10. A nicely illustrated but not well told story. A First Book of Poems for Little Catholics, selected by George Nicholson (Guild Press, 25c). Ages 3-5. To You, Girls, by Kate Stan ley (Daughters of St. Paul, $3.00). Ages 12-16. Slick-style romance stories for teen age girls. “What did you break?" . From Sem Beams, Seminary Life in Cartoons, by Ed Sul livan, St. Paul Publications, 1961, 61 pp., 50c. book is able to arouse is whe ther or not the material is suitable to the novel form. Ob viously, the description of such a situation could more com pactly and effectively be done in a documentary report. On the other hand, if one cannot afford to call a spade a spade but still must get the need for name-calling off one’s chest, the roman a clef is the obvi ous answer. The fact remains that as a novel Not To The Swift is tediously overblown and lacks the display of deep ly probed relationships be tween persons which is the vital function of any worth while novel. Mr. Coffin’s book is not a totally uninteresting work, but the reader increas ingly has a sense of waste, of a good subject uneconomicaliy spent on an unsuitable form. THE DIPLOMACY OF EC ONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, by Eugene R. Black, Harvard University Press, 1960, 74 pp., $3.00. Reviewed by Joseph Power This brochure was originally a series of lectures directed to the juniors and seniors and the graduate students of Eco nomics of Harvard College. The author is a banker and economist who must loan funds coming from the United States Government to nations like the various Congo peoples; to somewhat more advanced na tions in Latin America. How will these nations re pay the loan? Certainly, the answer is not in raw materials and natural resources. There are not enough. Rather, the answer must be sought in what the people will produce. The answer is work. But, for example, the men of the Congo have never work ed. Nobody has taught them to work. As yet, the average Con golese has no incentive to work. Wages are almost value less . . . until there is a desir able food, or garment, or lux ury that can be bought. This reviewer can barely re member a man named Booker T. Washington. Washington devoted his life to teaching his fellow Negroes of the U.S.A. to work; to be independent; to have goals to aim at. He was laying the foundation upon which culture is now being built by a third generation. The author reports his ef forts to get thru the official dom of a colonial nation to the ordinary people. He has to of fer the simple methods and tools and machines upon which to make things and get work done. When farmers and artisans are taught to use a wheeled wagon instead of a sled; to employ a metal bitted plow in stead of a wooden affair; those people will produce far more for themselves and for export than did their parents. “A colonial people must be taught to work.” These are the words of Archbishop Denis Hurley, a native of the African subcontinent. That same statement con- Richardson Realty Company 5418 Waters Avenue Phone EL. 5-1045 Savannah, Georgia CLARK'S DRUG STORE Phone ELgin 5-2720 1209 MONTGOMERY CROSSROADS LITTLE MISS MILKMAID MILKMAID DAIRY 5530 White Bluff Road Phone EL. 5-7254 Savannah, Georgia THE BULLETIN, October 14, 1961—FAGl 7 Slovakia Basil Ordination: But iealli Claims 40 Priests (NCWC News Service) VIENNA — Forty Catholic priests died in Slovakia in the first eight months of this year and only 11 new ones have been ordained for the v/hole region, it was reported here. Information reaching here states the goal of the commun ist government of Czechoslo vakia is so to restrict the train ing of new priests that the Church will simply die out. The report said that the 11 new priests were ordained by Bishop Ambroz Lazik, Apos tolic Administrator of Trnava. According to the Annuario Pontificio, worldwide statisti cal yearbook of the Church, 18 new priests were ordained in 1960 for Trnava alone. Slovakia now has a popula tion of about 3.5 million. It traditionally has been over whelmingly Catholic. Ecclesi astically, the region is divided into eight Sees — six dioceses and two jurisdictions known as apostolic administrators. But the Church has been so impeded under the Reds that there is only one residential bishop left. He is Bishop Jan Vojtassak of Spis, who was arrested by tains the nub of the problem of Mr. Eugene R. Black, the pres ident of the World Bank. Until they can work, there is no way or hope for the repayment of development loans from the U. S. A. Thus the problem of the of ficial, the landowner, the poli tician in colonial Africa and America. the communists in the summer of 1950 and sentenced to a 24- year prison term the following January. Now 83 years old, he is still under arrest. Slovakia’s Byzantine Rite Diocese of Presov, which had 321,000 Catholics, was liquidat ed by a government measure in 1950 and transformed into an Orthodox diocese formed at the instignation of the com munists. Its Catholic Ordinary, Bishop Pavol Gojdic, was sen tenced to life imprisonment and died in July of 1960. The Annuario Pontificio now lists the diocese as having 305,645 Catholics, but no bishop. One other Slovak diocese is listed as vacant, and the oth er three are listed as being governed by apostolic admin istrators. One of the three bishops charged with the ad ministration of a diocese also heads an apostolic administra tion. 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