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June 21. 1953 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH L4B twe rr cro End LAW Reading and Writing True Comervatlim': Its Gods and Devils The Psychiatrist in Court Downtowa Monday Heartl 12 Natl P.M. I Jook views By GUY A. CARDWELL Clayton Monday Heirit 12:30 to P.M. r' Calhoun, Hawthorne; Newman, Babbitt, Santayana and 20 others.

Frequently the hostile analysis given the thought of liberal antagonists constitutes a useful part of the conservative argument, for though the attack on liberalism is sometimes vague and illogical, it is often sharp and damaging. 4aW 4 jr 'Mi if iWin'ra iii i'-rm FORTY YEARS WITH FITZPATRICK The earliest and most recent of cartoons by D. R. Fitzpatrick, Post-Dispatch editorial cartoonist, reprinted from his new book, "As I Saw It: A Review of Our Times" (Simon and Schuster, 238 $5). The book, which will be published tomorrow, contains a foreword by Joseph Pulitzer, editor and publisher of the Post-Dispatch, and profile biographical sketch and appreciation by Thomas B.

Sherman, Post-Dispatch music critic and book editor. The cartoon on the left, -The Old Wooden Coach," was the first one drawn by Fitzpatrick to be printed in the Post-Dispatch. The date was Sept. 7, 1913, and he Mas then 22 years old. On the right Is "As America Goes So Goes the Free World," published Jan.

4, 1953, the selection which closes the book of 311 cartoons. Aside from the early drawing above and "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today," which won a 1926 Pulitzer prize, the cartoons range from 1935 to 1953. Today's issue of the Post-Dispatch PICTURES section contains a page of 15 representative cartoons reproduced from the book, together with a description of it by Irving Dilliard, editor of the editorial page of the Post-Dispatch. THE PSYCHIATRIST AND THE LAW, by Dr. Winfred Overholier.

(Harcourt, 8race, 147 $3.50.) Reviewed by HARRY S. GLEICK THE author, a distinguished psychiatrist, has assembled In book form a series of four lectures on as many- subjects in the field of forensic psychiatry. Dr. Overholser was selected as the first rectpient of the Isaac Ray Award, established in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Associatipn, to be given annually to the individual selected as "most worthy by reason of his contribution to the improvement of the relations of law and and in connection with the honor the lectures were presented at Harvard University last November. "The Substance of Psychiatry" includes a condensed history and a brief description of the various forms of abnormal behavior.

"Some Differences in Viewpoint" deals to a considerable extent with the attitude of the law toward persons of unsound mind. TO a very great extent the author's criticism of the law's conservatism is well founded; but unfortunately he shows lack of knowledge of the reasons for legal technicalities, and in this lecture In fact, throughout the book he Is over-critical rather than objective in his aooroach. He proves his own statement: "The unbiased man does not exist." Both "The Mental Patient and the Hospital" and "The Psychiatrist as a Witness" contain adequate presentations of the need for reform in medical and legal processes in dealing with the mentally deranged. Unfortunately the author In making his points criticizes judges for "generalizing from a particular," but is guilty of the same error himself. In treating of the role that medical men play as expert witnesses.

Dr. Overholser maintains that it is only in the rarest instances that the opinion HISTORY -ARCHEOLOGY- An Olympian Reminisces 1 DR. WINFRED OVERHOLSER of a medical man testifying as an expert Is for sale a conclusion with which, sad to relate, the average judge or trial lawyer would not agree. It Ls highly likely that only a member of the association in question would agree with the suggestion that expert testimony on the subject of mental abnormality, be received only from members of the American Psychiatric Association. The lectures are better correlated than would appear from their subjects.

To reduce, the subject matter to lecture length, the matter was necessarily condensed, and particularly in the first lecture the discussion was necessarily too brief to be entirely satisfactory. PERFORCE we must compare this publication with "Psychiatry and the Lav," written by Manfred S. Guttmacher, M.D., and Henry Wethofen, and reviewed on this page last Feb. 22. The newer book suffers by comparison with that brilliant work, which Is more complete and better correlated, more objective and stimulating even to a layman: and is certainly more comprehensive in its discussion of recommended solutions to one of the most Important problems facing modern civilization.

One of Sir Leonard Woolley's findi, a 4000-year-old headdress from the royal tombs at Ur. Once worn by tha Sumerian Quean tha piece is mounted on a head modeled by Mrs. Woolley from a female skull of tha period. CROSS SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A great highway brought to life with maps, text, and 92 photographs. GEORGE R.

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Kirk's present study will help the liberal, or the conservative, to a better understanding of what conservatism at a high level is like. This is a stanch, sometimes impassioned, defense of conservatism; but not of conservatism of either of the above varieties. It will yield little comfort to the supporter of the N.A.M. or the partisan for the Committee on Un-American Activities. Indeed, on surveying the American scene, Prof.

Kirk describes the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover as "years of vulgarity and presumption." Practical conservatism, he says, has degenerated among us into mere laudation of private enterprise. He has no kind word for the rootless, Irresponsible oligarchies spawned by democracy's industrial capitalism. WHAT, then, is the conservative thought the "true conservatism" here defined, analyzed and traced historically? Conscious conservatism In the modern sense begins with the publication of Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution In France." This conservatism rests on six canons: Belief that a divine intent rules society; affection for the variety and mystery of traditional life; a conviction MEDICINE A 25-Cenf Prescription For Us All YOU AND YOUR HEART, by H. M. Marvin, M.D., T.

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Fihpatrict, Pulitzer Prize winner end editorial cartoonist, since 1913, for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Get your autographed copy at Scruggs $3.00 Original cartoons an display In) tha Men's Srill, Seventh Floor, and In our Olive Street Window. Boola DOVTOVVN, Set frith Floor a (plfr' Vfceeoef) a. 11 DEMOCRACY offers thorny problems to the conservative, both as a concept and as an actuality; the outlook, however, is not thought hopeless.

Both England and America are declared to have persistent conservative traditions, and their liberalism is said to be a very dead duck. The most obnoxious features of our democratic pasts appear to be leveling tendencies and a drift towards centralization, uniformity. Utilitarianism, hedonism and materialism. The true conservative will combat these tendencies. He Is pessimistic about human nature and relies on aristocratic leadership.

He distrusts numerical majorities and abstract logic. He likes agrarian particularism and fears industrial homogeneity. He sees democracy, unchecked, as moving toward a tyranny of mediocrity a wretched, omnicompetent, paternalistic state. To counteract unwholesome drifts he must reaffirm the moral nature of society, defend property rights, preserve local and private liberties and cultivate national humility to respect international diversity. SO outlined, much of the conservative's program is hardly debatable.

Expansionism, economic or cultural Imperialism, regimentation, waste of natural resources, Irreverence these are easy to regret. Who would criticize President Coolidge's pastor for his stand on sin? Or President Eisenhower for his pre-election stand on corruption in government? But a good many of the conservative propositions, like many of the liberal, rest on unproved assumptions or have a disappointing way of sliding off Into something resembling a mystique. In the background, of course, is "history," but his- jour? SmV Mid. VAN DOREN SANTAYANA tory is itself a slippery subject. (Prof.

Kirk is sure that "nature and God work through historical The conservative opposes agrarian reforms in the East, income and inheritance taxes at home. He Is quite skeptical of man's reason and his ability to plan for himself. Leadership belongs to men of "good birth and high principles." And current gods admitted to the conservative's pantheon are Peter Viereck and Allen Tate, Mrs. Isabel Paterson and Albert Jay Nock, Robert Hfltchins, Jacques Barzun and Mark Van Doren. Persuasive though conservatism at a lofty level is, even a luke-warm liberal may refuse complete conversion, finding it difficult to accept these principles and gods In a package deal.

This will prove disappointing to Prof. Kirk, for he grasps his nettle firmly and is severe with equivocators. BUT the liberal will hardly be persuaded that all virtue belongs to the conservatives. He will appreciate this reasoned, systematic approach to a complex set of ideas. He will agree that conservatism may be very different from editorials in the Saturday Evening Post, monthly letters from trust companies and unwary statements by the Secretary of Commerce.

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a at AHUIHjIi GAM and Brevity "Benjamin Franklin's Shocking Dii-covory," an illustration from "It All Started With Columbus." that it was repeated by popular request." President Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing scheme is also put in proper perspective: D. R. packed the Supreme Court in a large box and was about to ship it off when cries were heard inside. He had forgotten to leave air holes." Finally, we learn how H. S.

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It particularly upset the Republicans and the poll-takers. Truman was an accomplished pianist, but there is a difference of opinion as to what else he accomplished." The second volume has, as we said, a different approach. The chief difference is that it is expurgated and abridged, and it is quite a bit more likely. Also, it deals with the history of England. THE "blurb" describes It perfectly: "A jet-propelled journey through 2000 years of English history in some 300 pages." The pilot provides the reader with a complete bird's-eye view of the past, so that one knows the major occurrences during any period from the Roman conquest onwards, in five minutes or less.

Fortunately, Prof. Low is a scientist, not historian, so he knows that cabbages are just as important as kings, and often far more interesting. A scien-' tlst wants to know how people lived at any given time, how they dressed, when they first cleaned their teeth or used H20 to get rid of B.O., how they dealt with their stomach ailments nr got out of the ruts of their appallingly bad roads. These are not the facts that are usually included in history books. They were certainly not found In the old-fashioned kind of textbook that was still inflicted on English schoolboys when I was at school, of which that near-classic of English historiography "10G6 And All That" happily reissued in a "Coronation Edition" is a perfect parody.

Prof. Low is to be congratulated. That oath which we did NOT take goes out of the window. There Is no longer any excuse for it. nuggets of miscellaneous lore.

Gladys Bertha, alias Bronwyn, has written more than 30 novels, plus numerous non-fictional works. She ought to rest on her laurels, because the present volume sounds like the unending monologues of some elderly ladies you encounter, who have nothing to say, but who cannot stop talking because they are too nervous to endure a halcyon silence. WILL WHARTON. PARAVOX TRANSONIC HEARING AID Offers yea better keorlaf and cots your battery eoit let alvo yoe the facts about traailitors end bet they reduce your eperatlnoj cost to a lew lew. Try It before Yea bey It Came le, eaene ar write.

Eirxteti: i Yean Serrlne, lexis ouvi it. id CM. 418 ran N3 RUSSELL KIRK THE CONSERVATIVE MIND: FROM BURKE TO SANTA-YANA, by Ruiiell Kirk. (Rag-ntry, 458 pgs $4.50. that civilized society requires orders and classes; the persuasion that property and freedom are inseparably connected; faith in prescription as opposed to abstract rights, and recognition that change and reform are not identical.

It is on the history and influence of these canons, expanded and refined, that Prof. Kirk writes. Touchstones of British and American conservatism through HUTCHINS BARZUN the 163 years treated are: Burke, the Adamses (John, John Quincy, Henry and Brooks), Randolph of Roanoke, Today's Reviewers GUY A. CAROWEIL, heed ol the Well ington University department of Enghth. HARRY S.

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Louii Haart Allocation. 6E0R6E E. MYIONAS, hoed of tha Washington Univariity department of art and archeology. WILL WHARTON, St. louii poat and critic.

A. MERVYN DAVIES. 101 BR0E6 and ARTHUR IERTELSON, members of tha Poit-Diipatch itaff. Dodgers' Daffv Past DODGER DAZE AND KNIGHTS, by Tommy Holmai. (David McKay, 27S THIS Tommy Holmes Is not the former outfielder and manager, a 1 Brooklyn-born, but a native of Flatbush who, as broadcaster Red Barber says In the Areword, "has been writing about, living with and at times dying with the Dodgers since his paper, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, handed him his first baseball assignment in 1924." Holmes, therefore, is eminently qualified to do an Informal history and there's nothing stiff or stuffy about his approachof the fabulous Nation-.

al League ball club that represents Brooklyn, U.S.A. The colorful characters and the of the Dodgers' daffy past are there along with the Brooklyn stars of the immediate past and present, the high spots and the low spots the comic and the tragic. Tommy Holmes, the didn't have to be a ballplayer to make a hit. BOB BROEG. Jeff Davis in Retreat THE PROUD RETREAT, by Clifford Dowday.

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(DuMon, 116 $2.25.) Reviewed by A. MERVYN DAVIES THESE books may be described as different approaches to the problem of presenting history to those "who, having perused a volume of history in school, swore they would never read another." It is always unwise to take an oath like that except when It concerns algebra, of course and Messrs. Low, Sellar, Yeat-man and Armour have done their best to make all who have committed such a youthful indiscretion regret It, and indeed forget it, completely. The first Is described as "an unexpurgated, unabridged and unlikely history of the United States from Christopher Columbus to the present." It might also be called uninhibited, unlicensed and unexcelled. It opens with the promising statement that "Ferdinand and Isabella refused to believe the world is round even when Columbus showed them an egg." Shortly thereafter we come to this admirable description of the explorer Pansy de Lion (named together with Bilbo and Cabbage de Vaca): "A thirsty old man who Was looking for a drinking fountain.

He never found it, but he founded Florida, to which a great many thirsty old men have gone ever since." As a textbook Dr. Armour's monograph is particularly well designed to prepare students to LOW ARMOUR answer such searching questions as: To what extent would the course of American history have been altered if America had never been discovered? HAVE you ever thought how much of a Pilgrim was wasted when an Indian kept only his scalp? Was King George resentful because he was always third? Look into the mirror. Examine the whites of YOUR eyes. What.if the Redcoats at Bunker Hill had been suffering from pink-eye? Coming down to more recent times we learn that the first great battle of the Civil War was fought in a cow pasture and was known as Bull Run. "The battle was such a success Names Make One Muse A NAME TO CONJURE WITH, by G.

B. Stern. (Macmillan, 223 $3.75.) LATELY G. B. Stern is burgeoning with volumes of what are Intended to be sprightly essays mingling reminiscence vyith comment on a variety of subjects.

The present book concerns names. Miss Stern takes a name for example, her own, Gladys Bertha and uses it as a springboard into whatever musings the name may evoke, as for example, mention that as a young woman Miss Stern substituted "Gladys Bronwyn" because Bronwyn Is Welsh and sounds more romantic than Bertha, which nobody can deny. Nobody, It also is safe to say, will be thrown into ecstasy by these grounded flights of fancy or even lured Into tepid absorption with culling the scattered SPADEWORK IN ARCHEOLOGY, by Sir Leonard Woolley. (Philosophical Library, 124 $4.75.) Reviewed Iy GEORCE E. MYLONAS IN every field of endeavor we find those whose devoted work has blazed the trail of research and discovery and has transformed them into ideals to inspire and emulate.

In archeology these individuals are known as the "Olympians." In the years to come the younger scholars who served under them will cherish the experience and above all the hours spent at the close of the day around a fireplace when a master expounded his theories and often found himself in a reminiscing mood. In those enchanted hours the archeological saga is created and passed on from one to the other generation of scholars. Sir Leonard Woolley belongs to the "Order of the Olympians" and we find him in a reminiscing mood in the book he has given us. In the simple and direct language of the truly great he tells us of his career, of his achievement; the thrills and disappointments, the joys and disheartening experiences of a life devoted to archeological research. His first excavations at Cor-bridge in Northumberland, his work in Egypt and in Italy, his discoveries in Carchemish, his amazing finds at Ur of the Chaldees, Al Ubald, Atehana, Al Mina are discussed and illustrated without the embellishments and glamour which are so often employed in the telling of archeological discoveries.

The story is a personal one and includes many delightful anecdotes of places and people. THE reader will relive experiences that have become legends and will get an intimate. Inside storyt of the life, mentality and aspirations of the excavator. Archeologlsts, already familiar with the work of Sir Leonard, will find in the story many useful suggestions. Both the layman and the scholar will regret the book's brevity, but, as the author has stated, the volume is not meant to be an autobiography but an effort "to show' how very much alive the science of archeology is." That end has been admirably accomplished.

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