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New Novel, "The Bi r
{ew Novel, "The Big Secret,
Leaves Washington Wondering
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent,
WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—CapitaI society has a
new indoor, air-conditioned sport these days. It
is trying to find similarities between real live
celebrities-about-town and the fictional characters
in Merle Colby’s new novel of Washington life,
“The Big Secret.”
The author has been around Washington for 15
years or so. He has worked for OWI, WMC,
OWMR, WPA and other alphabetical agencies.
One of his last jobs, before he quit to write this
novel, was as assistant to the assistant to the
President, Dr. John R. Steelman. This is mention
ed to show that Author Colby knows his way
around.
“The Big Secret’s’” plot is of course preposter
ous. Up to a week ago it could be considered both
improbable and impossible, It concerns a young
scientist hero, Dan Upstead, from a small-town
college in Maine., He comes to Washington for a
scientific meeting and to use a mechanical brain
in the fictional counterpart to the Bureau of
Standards.
On the side he tries to see the President to pro
test against a proposed executive order which
would ‘give bureaucrats and the military brass
ccmpiete control and censorship over scientific
research. Of course Upstead never gets to see the
President. But the young hero does get all in
"\(olve'd in a Washington web of political intrigue.
And that makes the story.
FICTION TURNS OUT TO BE MILD
A week ago, all this might be laughed off asca
fictional situation. But today, with all the hulla
baloo. over granting a scholarship to the young
Austrian-born Communist fron: University ol
North Carolina, Colby’s “Big Secret” seems tame
stuff by comparison. Most of Colby’s time in gov
ernment service has been as a public relations
man. If he had dreamed up the real-life schol
arship scandal as a publicity stunt to promote the
sale of his novel, it couldn’t have fit better.
Through the pages of Colby’s novel stagger a
cast of characters only slightly exaggerating, bur
lesquing and satirizing their real life counterparts.
Though, as it says in the movies, “Any resemb
lance to any real person, place or event is purely
coincidental.” ’
The book character of Senator Sontag G. Skim
merhaoff, for instance, is a vastly overstutfed shirt
version of someone in the position of last year’s
Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of the House Un-
American Activities Comvmittee. As fictional
chairman of an imaginary Senate Temporary
Committee on Subversive Associations and Dis
loyal ‘Thoughts, or SCAT, Skimmerhoff stages a
public investigation of hero Upstead. It is only
slightly more fantastic than some of the real
things.
The novel’s General Vinton G. Conoy is being
compared to a combination of Major-General Les
lie M. Groves, former head of the atomic bomb
project, and the late ‘General George “Blood and
Guts” Patton.
Waldo Preen, a fictional White House confiden
tial assistant, is in the position of the real life
Clark Cliiford or Doc Steelman.
The book’s imaginary secretary for Home Aft
fairs, Stephen Fentree, is a caricature of all the
power-grasping cabinet officers that ever came to
Washington, wrapped into one. Fentree’s assistant,
a character named Alan Clair, recalls any number
of ambitious young braintrusters like Rex Tug
well or Tommy Corcoran,
LOBBYIST HAS HIS COUNTERPART
Frank Lowdermore, the fictional lobbyist in the
Colby novel, holds a position similar to that now
held by Purcell L. Smith of the National Associa
tion of Electric Companies, Washington’s highest
paid lobbyist. Only Lowdermore in the book does
any number of dumb things no self-respecting
lobbyist would ever get caught at.
For instance, Lowdermore ‘“sics” the Skimmer
hoff SCAT committee on Upstead as a subversive
character, leading to his investigation. Lowder
more also controls the conimittee’s chief investi
gator, named Matthew Valentine, who takes the
place of a real life Robert E. Stripling.
"In the end the hero defeats the plot of General
Conoy, Secretary Fentree, Waldo Preen and Alan
_Clair to throttle scientific research. There are 2
couple of love affairs thrown in, but they’re just
like the love affeirs in Seattle, Sag Diego -or the
m@:’ oet i wfimw
Development Of Africa
President Truman has started something in his
No. 4 proposition to aid the countries of all the
world that is rapidly assun;ling large proportions.
The President wants to give to all the backward
nations the help of the United States by sharing
with them the new information this country se-
cures in the way of scientific research and to help
forward all movements to advancing the interests
of the undeveloped nations. It is a worthy move
ment, but one of unusual size and doubtful accom
plishment.
Of all the continents Africa is probably the
least developed. There are very f{ew parts of
Africa that enjoy much of any kind of develop
ment. Yet it is a continent rich in natural re-
sources and presents an inviting field for many
lines of development.. For the most part it has
been governed as colonial possessions, In certain
restricted portions it has advanced, but for the
most part its population is still in a savage state.
It will require a vast amount of money for de
veloment and while that is being undertaken it
will require huge amounts of money to bring
about the needed development. The money would
have to come from private investors to the largest
extent. Before any progress could be nvade in such
a vast undertaking, it would require at least one
hundred million dollars of American government
money to get it started on its way. The chances
are that it will be many years before the United
States would be willing to put up this money.
It is a beautiful dream and the desire to help is
commendable, but not likely to secure any favor-}
able action on the part of the United States as a
government. |
Obstacle To Peace In Europe
There are many. obstacles to the restoration of
peace and prosperity in Europe, the chief of which
is economics.
A long step could be taken now if the question
of currency could be settled smoothly and with
out undue friction.
The foreign ministers of the four big powers are|
now in session trying to work out a unified gov
ernment for Germany and the first and controll
ing question that is up for settlement is that of a
national currency. The Soviets have their basic|
unit of value, the Eastern mark; the British.l
French and Americans have their Western mark.
The Western mark is worth four times as much a?
the Eastern mark. The Allies wish the Western
mark established as the unit of value in all Ger
many. The Soviets demand that the Eastern mark
be given that status. And thus at the very begin
ning of the discussion of questions in the sessions
of the Big Four this economic obstacle to agree
ment bobs up.
The Germans in the British, French and Ameri
can zones naturally are opposed to the use of the
Russian mark. The Germans in those three zones
have already set up a separate government. The
Russians oppose this and insist that there should
be only one government for all Germany. The
three nations can authorize the new government
for Western Germvany. But here at once rises the
power of Russia to impose its veto. The Soviets
have already used the veto thirty times.
The effort on the part of the four big powers to
reach an agreement is a praiseworthy one, although
some feel that Russia will use the veto and thus
will render null and void all proposed plans for
the formation of a free and independent Germany.
However, some observers say there is a feeling
progress will be made.
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Scrapping Over Jerusalem
For centuries nauons have been engaged in @
lively scrap over the government of Jerusalem.
And the possession and government of that ancient
city still remains a lively issue.
First the Jews, then the Christians, then the
Arabs, then the Caristians, now temporarily the
United Nations and still . unsettled as to a final
decision. . 9
Israel is now a member of the United Nations.
All around Jerusalem is under the rule of Israel.
Many of the sacred shrines of Jewry are in Jeru
salem. The Christian world is unwilling te turn
that city over to the Arabs, though a majority ot
its people are Arabs.
The proposition has been made to place Jeru
salem under, international control. This proposi
tion ha smany advocates, likewise many oppon
ents. The Palestine question has raised a number
of governmental issues that remain to be settled.
At the present time it is udner semi-Arabic con
trol. It gives promise of furnishing an issue that
will cause much trouble in the future.
Jazz has its moments of _value to the classical
nusician, but they are isolated. They are entirely
different from one another, but they compliment
each other and require the same amount of skill.
Jazz calls upon the imagination and classical
music upon absolute accuracy. — Walter Hendl
assistant conductor, New_ York Philharmonic Sym
phony Orchestra, _, . 5 .
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HOW DO YOU STUFF A CHIPMUNK?
NEW YORK—(AP)—“How old
is God’s grandmother?”
This is one of 50,000 questions
put last year to the American
child’s Number One answer lady—
Ellen V. McLoughlin. i
Miss McLoughlin is editor-in
chief of the Book of Knowledge, a
reference library for children that
sold 5,000,000 twenty-volume sets
since 1910.
With each set the buyer gets a
book of 100 coupons. Each coupon
entitles him to send in a question
to the book firm' answer service.
“If everyone asked his full quo
ta of 100 questions we’d have been
bankrupt long ago,” laughed Miss
McLoughlin.
As it is she requires a staff of
35 research assistants to inform
readers on how to install a farm
sewage system or the best way to
stuff a chipmunk. ;
The questions come from five
continents. A surprising number
ame from grownups who have to
give talks on current affairs and
lack the energy to go to a public
library and dig out the information
themselves.
“We won’t do the homework for
any child or college student,” said
Miss McLoughlin.
“But once they grow up they
can be as lazy as they like. We'll
help any adult in any field except
medicine or law—which require:a
license.” 5 ;
One uneasy young men, engaged
to be married, wrote in to ask if
he really ioved the girl he was
pledged to lead to the-altar, &
“We told him that, statistically,
nearly 100 per cent of young men
about to marry felt the same
way,” said Miss McLioughlin. “And
we assured him it was just a ¢ase
of cold feet that normally should
disappear after the ceremony.” =
Worried Woman :
More puzzling was the query of
a worried woman frightened hy
where science is leading the
world.
“When gravity lets loose, where
do you go?’ she wrote, Back
went the glad news to her that so
far gravity has kept a firm grip on
everything. Except maybe prices.
Miss McLoughlin, who receives
an honorary degree from Lincoln
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(111.) College this week for her
Iwork in child education, thipks
| children often ask more sensible
questions than grownups.
Her favorite is the child who
wanted to know: “Why is honey
| clean, when beés trample all over
;it with theii feet?”
“A natural question like that
Ibolsters your faith in children’s
| intelligence,” she said. “But what
| adult would think to ask it?”
| Miss McLoughlin, a pleasant,
red-haired woman of middle age,
has an almost perfect “Q. & A/
batting average. Of perhaps
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'her service in the last 20 years,
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“It came from a visiting South
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know how he could color his zir
cons to make them more valuable.
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this was a secret trade process in
the gem industry—something the
man himself had known to be true
all along. He stamped out of the
office, very annoyed, when we re
fused to try to spy out the secret
for him.”
Miss MecLoughlin had as little
| patience with him as she did with
[ a wealthy bootlegger’s widow who
wanted to know how she could
crash her hometown society, now
that prohibition—and her husband
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One of the oddest requests to
reach the desk came from a man
who inquired as to the best way
to wash dollar bills.
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Wed.-Thurs. - Fri. - Sat, — “En
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Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes,
Parley Granger. Mickey & the
Seal. News.
GEORGIA—
Tues.-Wed. — “The Fighting
69th,” starring James Cagney,
George Brent, Pat O’Brien. Beauty
and the Blade. Treachery Rides
the Trail. Indian Serenade.
Thurs. - Fri. -— “Whispering
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Fred Hauer
‘ 120 Atkins Ave.
Lancaster, Pa.
Surplus funds, invested in
dividend-paying coniumon stocks,
. produce a second income
for this Lancaster family.
The Hauers are one of twenty-three families living
in a single block on Atkins Avenue, Lancaster, Pa.
Of these twenty-three families, thirteen have put
their surplus funds to work in dividend-paying com
mon stocks . ..and are experiencing the practical
satisfactions of investment. -
These families enjoy a second income—extra dollars
in dividend checks.
They are also building an estate — an income
producing estate, made up of shares in companies
whose products and services are household -terms.
Opportunities for productive investment of sur
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information about them is yours for the asking. The
prudent investor bases his judgment on these facts,
for he knows that there is an element of risk in
ownership of any form of property.
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Screen Snapshot. News.
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Dana Andrews. Game Birds. Scare
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starring Jack Randal. Hokus Po
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Jane Dowell, John Carradine. Lo,
the Poor Buffal.
Fri. - Sat. — “Carson Rides
}Again,” starring Sunset Carson.
Ay Tank Ay Go. Bruce Gentry—
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