European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 12, 1958 the stars and stripes Book Banning ignores history Page 7 by John Mosed Lenorth american newspaper Alliance new York a Man through isolation discipline and a kind of anguished Genius writes a Book. It is hailed by critics throughout the world As a work of Art. His own country bans it. The most recent instance of this is the Case of Boris Pasternak russian poet Shakespeare trans Lator and author of doctor Zhivago the novel which has just won the Nobel prize for literature. Be cause of sections which scorn the communist idyll both Book and author have been assailed by party line lackeys at Home and Pasternak has regretfully refused the Nobel award although the Book has never been published inthe soviet Union. But the boys in the Kremlin backroom have apparently not been Reading their history. For the Ages have shown that it is difficult to legislate against books from aristophanes whose classic greek comedies were condemned before the birth of Christ to Edmund Wilson the contemporary american author and critic whose memoirs of Hecate county is banned in the ., but remains a Lively topic in the world of letters praised by Continental authorities. Soviet setback world outcry against the communist ban on Zhivago has been the soviets biggest propaganda setback since their brutal crushing of the hungarian revolt two years ago. The russians apparently for got to Check even their own his tory. For at the turn of the Century when Czar Nicholas ii was head of the russian Church certain works of count Leo Tolstoy were banned with the announcement that Tolstoy himself would not be buried in a cemetery fit Only for Good to which a Berlin newspaper commented that the russians had closed the Gates of heaven to Tol Stoy and we Are Happy because now we Are sure he will live on Earth until the end of the author of War and peace and Anna Karenina seems in the View of Many critics Well on his Way toward doing just that. But russians have always been quixotic in their censorship. Czar Nicholas explosion rocks new Jersey school Trenton . Up an explosion and fire rocked a roman Catholic parochial school Here destroying most of four rooms. Authorities said the explosion apparently was caused by an accumulation of gases in the school s Chimney. It set off the fire several hours after classes had been Dis missed at St. Joachim s school. The fire was brought under control within 45 minutes was injured. No one the school is a two Story Frame Structure in a South Trenton residential area. I for example banned Hans Chris Tian Andersen Uncle Tom s cab in and Nathaniel Hawthorne a the Scarlet letter All of them books read by american school children today. Obscenity ban in no totalitarian states books Are banned most often on grounds of obscenity. Wilson s novel is a Case in Point As Are Tropic of cancer and Tropic of Capricorn both by the american writer Henry Miller. These books cannot be sold legally in the They circulate freely in France and other foreign countries where they Are regarded As great literature. Before we Leer at the French it might be Well to recall that America s current Best Selling novel Lolita was under temporary Banin France some believers in Freedom of the press regard obscenity bans a hypocrisy. Literary obscenity writes Morris l. Ernst a lawyer who fought successfully for admission of James Joyce s Ulysses to the ., is the newest toy of the frightened and obviously varies among cultures depending upon the sexual but it is the ban upon political or philosophical ideas which have traditionally brought the greatest outcry. The Bible itself for in stance has been proscribed at Vari Ous times in the roman Empire England France Spain Switzer land Germany and Russia. So deep can be the fear of ideas generated in books that Book Burn ing is a centuries old custom. The most notorious example of our time of course were the massive burnings touched off in nazi Ger Many starting in 1933. Overall theory on mental ills is suggested new York up a peace maker has entered the scientific Arena where organic its and psycho dynamic costs do Wordy Battle Over the largely unknown causes of mental diseases saying in effect you re both right As far As you go. Get your ideas together and you la both be entirely right. Organic its argue All mental Dis eases have to be caused by disturbances in the chemistry or Structure or both of the Organ of the mind which is the brain. Psycho dynamic costs argue the mind stores conflicts and undigested fears and frustrations and these influence its Workings and collide in such ways As to cause mental diseases. If either could prove their Case there would Beno argument naturally. View Given or. Otto f. Ehrentheil the would be peacemaker offered this argument disturbances in brain chemistry and Structure make insanity pos sible. The stored conflicts and undigested fears and frustrations de Termine the direction and the manifestations of the insanity. He reasoned there could be no Active mental disease such As schizophrenia without both proc esses working. Ehrentheil said thinking listening seeing talk ing feeling Are All biological processes taking place in the and there can be no Bio logical process without changes in body chemistry and in electricity and in Structure of cells and there is a difference to be sure Between an Arm paralysed because of a nerve injury and an Arm Para lazed because the mind of its owner is gripped by hysteria. But the hysteria has brought about the physical disturbances of Structure or chemistry which paralyse therm. Canoe smooches facing Stormy seas in Michigan Bast Lansing Mich. A love is rocking the boat at Michi Gan state University. The student Congress says there s too much smooching on Canoe rides on the bed Cedar River. The Campus newspaper says the Congress should paddle its own Canoe. Morality codes Are not student Congress area the Michigan state news said in an editorial. It accused the Congress of trying to play the role of a victorian sunday school teacher by trying to legislate student morality. At the heart of the matter was a Resolution passed by the con Gress calling on students witnessing undesirable behaviour on Canoe rides to report the offenders to school authorities. Undesirable behaviour was defined As excessive the state news called the Resolution a tattle tale it said the Congress had made itself the laughing Stock of the Campus by assuming its action is going to change doing what comes naturally. Worth watching costume jewelry watches de signed by new York s Martha Brooks May be pinned to Waist or shoulder or be worn around the neck. Up photo weeks bows out of Commerce Post Washington up Sinclair weeks bowed out As Secretary of Commerce with a parting plea for old fashioned balanced budgets and a sober warning about Russia s Trade offensive. The 65-year-old weeks who has headed the Commerce department since january 1953 As part of the original Eisenhower team officially ended his work at the close of business monday. He and mrs. Weeks leave for a Florida vacation and then return to private life i Boston. His successor former atomic Energy commission chairman Lewis l. Strauss is slated to takeover the Secretary ship. Mailed to smithsonian Hope Diamond i goes on display Washington a a mailman Lias delivered the legendary hop Diamond to the smithsonian institution. The fabulous Stone a Gem of Midnight Blue emerged from an Ordinary looking Brown parcel stamped fragile and tied with string. It will be displayed in the Hall of gems and minerals As the gift of a new York Gem merchant Harry Winston. He acquired the Diamond Astone of Beauty and ill Fortune with other jewels for an estimated $1.5 million from the estate of Evalyn Walsh Mclean nine year Sago. The smithsonian will get the Gem free. In presentation ceremonies mrs. Winston said her husband hoped the Diamond would become the nucleus of a National jewel collection. Accepting it or. Leonard car Michael Secretary of the smithsonian said he hoped other great gems might be Given to the institution. I do thank you most sincerely Carmichael said. Winston himself was not at the ceremonies. With his wife was their son Donald 17. Like 50-cent piece the Diamond As Large As a 50 cent piece weighs 44i carats. It is the main piece in a specially built Case inside the big steel Safe behind several panes of Glass at the smithsonian. A guard nearby warned persons who were peering that too heavy a lean against the Glass would set off special alarms. Among those at the ceremony was postmaster general Arthur e. Summerfield. He said he was glad the Mails had a part in getting the Gem to Washington from Newyork. James g. Todd 33, in regulation Blue uniform was the somewhat nervous postman who took the parcel out of the leather Pouch on his shoulder to give to the officials. Todd admitted he was a Little jumpy after he was told this morn ing to deliver the package. He Rode from the Post office in a Black Sedan with some other men he did know he said. By registered mail the Diamond came by registered mail that Cost $152.75. Summerfield said it was done by regular registered mail among the guests at the Cere Mony was miss Nannie Chase of Washington d.c., social Secretary of mrs. Mclean for the seven years before the famous Washington Host Ess died in 1947. Mrs. Mclean be came the owner of the Hope Dia mond in 1911 for a reported$154,000. Machines pick More Cotton Chicago up More Cotton is being machine picked than Ever be fore the National Cotton Council reports. Last year the Council re ported More than 32 per cent of the nation s crop was harvested by mechanical fingers. Adman urges Cabinet Post to sell America Washington a a Lead ing advertising executive has suggested the appointment of a new Cabinet member to sell americano the world. Charles ii. Brower president of Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn also asked for More preach ing of patriotism at Home. There is a question that has been going around unanswered for years Brower said and the answer is really quite simple. The question is Why can t we who Are greatest advertisers and salesmen in history sell democracy Why Are we so Good at Selling soap and refrigerators and so poor at Selling democracy the answer is we have no advertising manager no sales Mana Ger no director of Public Brower said it is silly to say that the russians arc smarter than we Are at winning friends and influencing nations. They Only out organize us. Their propaganda is unsubtle and . But itis massive concerted and Brower said in an address to the National sales conference of the Treasury department s Sav ing Bonds division that the presi Dent alone cannot do the Job of speaking for America that needs Tobe done today. He suggested that the president appoint a new Cabinet member to head a department whose Job it would be to speak for America. He said its purpose would not be thought control of any kind it would simply try to see that America put its Best foot Forward on Overy occasion. I realize that such a department has been used powerfully for evil in the hands of our enemies Brower said and that some might fear its use in our country. But we must also realize that without it we will remain an Amateur nation in a world of Tough Brower said As b o s t i can count there Are now 84 Legal sources of information in the fed eral government. Thus if Ameri Ca does speak for itself he said it is no with a Clear Clarion Call but with the confused and quarrel some voice of a Frog Pond. All too often one denies the other and each Speaks for a particular counterfeiter has designs on legality by Jerry Klein North american newspaper Alliance new York unlike old soldiers old counterfeiters do not fade away they simply try to sell their skill to the same governments they Verpent a Busy life defrauding. Take the recent Case of a master italian counterfeiter named Attilio Pollastri. At various times in his Active career making fake cur Rency the Bank of Italy has had to withdraw three Complete series of banknotes because his replicas were so much like the genuine article that nobody could Tell the differ ence. He was a master at engraving inks and paper. Nevertheless pol Lastri spent several years behind bars before he was reprieved for Good conduct. Today he lives quietly with his daughter and grand children and has perhaps re formed. For Pollastri now is offering to show the Bank of Italy How it can make currency which would be absolutely in re turn for the assistance of this fascinating forger the officials would be expected to pay Pollastri a modest and says the italian consulate the Bank of Italy which has never been Able to Avail itself of an expert of the Ca Liber of Pollastri is toying with impossible As such an arrange ment might seem to us other nations have come to terms with counterfeiter apparently with the View that if you can t lick pm let pm join for instance it is commonly believed that the Bank of England has on its staff two or three former crack counterfeiters who keep an Eagle Eye cocked for anyone manufacturing his own Pound notes in the basement. And More than once Banks police departments and Post offices have called in known under world experts to help them out of difficulties. A few years ago the British actually did pay off a French counterfeiter to Stop flooding the Market not with spurious Bank notes but with fake postage Stamps. The Market was so upset by hundreds of this counterfeiter s products that he was retired on pension
