Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1937 — Page 13
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MONDAY, NOV. 29, 1937 Escapes ‘Croppers’ Poverty
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This is a frontispiece picture in the new book, “I Was a ShareCropper,” drawn by the author, Harry Harrison Kroll.
Author Avoids Sociological Study of American Problem
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Share-cropping not as a sociological problem bui as the wav of life of a family which produced a writer, is the subject of Harrv Harrison Kroll's new book, “I Was a Share-Cropper,” published by Bobbs-Merrill & Co. Tt is a study of one escape from the poverty and philosophy of | share-cropper life. Tt is a studv also of many failures. but even those | failures are presented without bit-*>— , -
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terness or blame for circumstance or system. It is for the most part the familiar story of all those who, seeking economic security or more, stake what they possess and lose | because of poor markets or stifling competition or personal inadequacies The relationship share-cropper and the is only touched upon. Meanwhile cornmeal baked with water, dried cowpeas and a bit of sowbelly are average fare for this family. Within the draughty two-room sharecropper’s shack the rare presence | of plenty means no more than a | good harvest, some chickens and | vegetables canned for the winter | and a few dollars in cash, {
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Harry as a child lies ill of a sore throat. His family has no shelter from the West Tennessee winter but the county fair grandstand. He
CITY GRAVEL PLANT APPROVED BY WPA
One Indianapolis project was | among six new and two continued state WPA projects costing $76.899. approved at Washington, the Indiana Works Progress Administration here announced today, | The sum of $13.742 was allotted for operating a gravel screening and | washing plant to provide gravel for | use on Indianapolis streets and | alleys, Other new projects approved | were: Improve streets and alleys throughout Noblesville, $27.996; im- | prove township owned school build- | ings and playgrounds throughout Shelby County, $15.182, and improve | ornamental fountain in Rose Hill | Cemetery, Bloomington, $3226. Continuation projects approved were: Complete construction of the Jackson Township consolidated school near Bluffton, Wells County, | $9911, and complete park improvements in Fast Chicago, $6842, | | |
BARNHART TO SPEAK BEFORE HOTEL MEN
Hugh S. Barnhart, State Alcoholic | Beverages Division director, is to be a principal speaker at the three-day convention of the Indiana Hotel As- | sociation opening Thursday in the Claypool Hotel. Sessions are to be held in the | Lincoln, Antlers and Claypool Ho- | tels. Mr. Barnhart's address is to follow a business session Friday. Speakers Saturday are to include | Donald F. Stiver, State Safety Di- | rector; Ray C. Smith, State Unemployment Compensation Department; G. M. Podd, Chicago; Rob- | ert P. Love, Nashville, Tenn.. and F. Harold VanOrman of Evansville. |
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Times Special LAFAYETTE, Nov. 20—W. H.| Harrison, American Institute of! Electrical Engineering national pres- | ident, will discuss recent Institute | changes at a 6:30 p. m. dinner-meet- | ing in the Purdue University Union | Building | Following the dinner-meeting | Claude M. Hathaway, General Elec- | tric Co., will address the student branch of the A. I. E. E, in the Eiectrical Engineering Building. Mr. Hathaway will discuss “Me- | chanical Measurements by Elec- | tricity,” {iliustrating his talk with film slides.
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eats wormy meal donated by char-ity-minded women and sees a baby sister die, probably of diphtheria, unattended by a doctor The relationships
ties of emotion, temperament and common experiences. These relationships are presented sensitively, Darius, the father, is a little man of the soil, sweet-souled, longing for book knowledge he never got. and restless alwavs to move on where “they say fried pigeons fly into vour mouth.” Maw Big and Practical
Maw, is portrayed as the practical, big, energetic, emotional and superstitious woman working like a beast of burden (o help clear fields. Brother Soddy, old at 10. is shown
, as protector, fierce and proud who | nevertheless escapes to become an
architectural draftsman until the depression founders him.
Harry's self-education. teaching
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seript market is reviewed. In the ending he visits his sister and widowed mother and knows that he and they have grown inevidably apart.
The final scene, as Harry leaves |
their cabin, effectively sums up his attitude toward himself. Inquiring of a stranger about a familiar gravevard in the neighborhood, he is told that the new highway upon which
he is traveling has been built over |
the forgotten share-croppers’ graves. —By E. C.
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stressed are | those of a family, closely bound by |
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