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. “AMERICA IS IN THE HEART."

America from Europe 50 years ago and toiled up through

to be a Filipino in California,” writes Carlos Bulosan,|

it is now; then, too, Filipino

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Te £0 li WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1946 _

(A Weekly Wednesday Feature of The Times) THE FIRST READER . . . By Harry Hansen Young Poet Discovers Life - Tough for Filipinos, but Book Has Praise for America

By Carlos Bulosan. New York. Harcourt, Brace. $3. ;

YOU MAY think the penniless immigrants who came to

sweatshops and tenements had a hard time. So they did; but there are Pacific coast experiences that match them. Only as late as the 1930s “it was a crime

Filipino-born poet, and maybe Americans in this terrible account of pre-war life. Carlos Bulosan's chronicle of his childhood experiences on. Luzon of- | fers an ineradicable picture of peas-

immigrants were kicked around by canning eontractors, robbed by Chinese gamblers and

THE INDIANA ‘Books That Influence People’

ADVOCATE OF GREAT BOOKS . . . President Maurice 0. Ross

of Butler university looks through some volumes in his Jordan hall r+mandy to Czechoslovakia, has liter- | Maggie-Owen Wadelton's first at-

office.

’

POLIS TIMES Briton Looks At the 'Man Under Mars'

"GEN, GEORGE S. PATTON]

JR., MAN UNDER MARS." By| years ago as “nostalgic.”

James Wellard. New York,’ Dodd, Mead & Co. $3.00. By DICK BERRY TO MOST Americans, Gen.

Patton typified one of two 'SARAH MANDRAKE'—

things.

ONE: He was a roaring, VW adelton

cussing old show-off who | strove constantly to be the| center of attraction, or, TWO: He was a great general | and soldier, dashing about the! country in his lead tank, pistols) blazing at about everything in sight. Perhaps he was a little of both. w

¥ » | . JAMES WELLARD, who as a war |

correspondent followed Patton's armies across Tunisia and Sicily,| and from ‘the hedgerows of Nor-

Old Feuds and Prejudices |

‘90's when life wasn't so complicated.

notion that savages, especially South Sea islanders, are freer than American city-dwellers. :

|tdwn prejudices, feuds and ignorNovel Full | ances 50-odd years ago, should

of 'Haunts'

|a first only in the respect that it is!

Honeyfogling Time" Reveals

"HONEYFOGLING TIME." A Novel. By Virginia Dale. New York, Harper. $2.50. !

* PEOPLE OFTEN speak of novels dealing with American sife 50 or 60

They probably mean they wish they could be back in the '80's and

The notion that life used to be simpler is as mueh a fallacy as the

It.takes a hard-headed and studiously conscientious novelist to recapture the whole, and not just a part, of the atmosphere of the past. Virginia Dale, in her remarkable | revelation of Midwestern, small-

make readers glad they're here and { now, instead of there and then.

" . . FEARS and taboos, llke the five petticoats and numerous other ob|solete garments Rose Pye daily | donned, surrounded every human Wadelton. Indianapolis. activity, Ignorance, especially medi- . |cal ignorance, allowed only the Bobbs-Mercill. $2.75. | Ronithiost 10 Survive, By DONNA MIKELS | Custom and decorum thwarted

“ " young love. One is reminded, in SARAH MANDRAKE" ranks "S| the troubled somubes of abit

“SARAH MANDRAKE." A Novel. By Maggie-Owen

| Pierre Vine, of Tennyson's outburst

TODAY'S STACKUP— © Indianapolis’

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J . Best-Selling atings Ayres’, Block's, Capitol, Meigs, Meridian, Sears and Stewart's give the following titles current best-selling ratings: : : NONFICTION : “The Egg and 1.” By Betty Mac« Donald. : “Soldier of Democracy.” By Ken‘neth 8. Davis. “Up Front With Mauldin” By Bill Mauldin ; “Starling in the White House.” By Edmund Starling. “Kiss the Blood Off My Hands.” By Gerald Butler. : “History of Western -Philasophy.” By Bertrand Russell. ° “Anatomy of Peace.” "By Emery

Reves. FICTION | “The Blick Rose.” By Thomas Costain, “Written on the Wind.” By Rob ert Wilder, 4

ally taken the great general apart! tempt at fiction. .In every other re-

{in “Locksley Hall":

“Curs'd be the! “The King's General.” By Daphne

| thrust into vicious quarters of coast

towns, Yet today Carlos Bulosan raises his voice in praise of America, calling his book of experiences, “America Is in the Heart.” yn» ; MR. BULOSAN takes the silent statistics of a police blotter sng} makes them dance a mad jig be-| fore our eyes; he records blows)

with lead pipes, knifings and shoot- | ings; he accuses state troopers of |

ant tenacity, patience and hope. Here is the father, trying desper- | ately to feed his family out of the

bit left to him after one-third a Dr. Ross Suggests Plato's

his .crop goes to the church; selling | his last hectare because one son! must finish his schooling, so that] he can teach.

» » ” “WE WILL sell the land” he| says -simply, while the mother | By HENRY BUTLER,

stands by trembling: “you can go| back to school; do not worry at all.” For, Mr. Bulosan says, “my father up his views on reading. Like Chancellor Robert M.

Hutchins of Chicago university,

Republic’ as First on List

{ Second in a series of Times Book Page interviews on reading.

Times Book Reporter

IF YOU want great influences, read great books, That's how President Maurice O. Ross of Butler university sums pletives are printed in the book, |

and analyzed him, plece by piece.| spect, the novel He has pulled no punches -in| follows the patcriticizing Patton's faults, nor has| tern of the time-

he spared praise where merited.

that Patton was quite fluent in his use of profanity and coarse talk, and the fact that women might be present bothered him not in the least. Most of his favorite ex-

punctuated by a lot of dots and| dashes.

ss » x it was| honored theme of PIERRE, being of French descent, 8 {was somehow suspect. Rose's

an old family It has become a well known facts anse complete

!social” wants that sth against the | strength ‘of youth.”

mother accused him of trying to “honeyfogle” (i.e. betray with artful talk) her daughter. Rose's mother went even farther. In a private lecture tQ Rose, Mrs. | Pye dug into the mud of Victorian | notions about sex: “There's things about being a bride . , . terrible

with “haunts.” If you can battle through the maze of genealogy that keeps popping up to send the reader scurry-

Du Maurier, “Arch of Triumph” By Erich Maria Remarque, : “Forever Amber.” By Kathleen Winsor. “The River Ro Parkinson Keyes. “David the King.” Schmitt.

"Visual Aids

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By Gladys

- Mrs. Wadelton

ing back several things. . . . Théy just got to be

'In the Church’

searching motor cars carrying Fili- | pelieved in the pinos because the latter were always man ”. Yet x pal Sone supposed to be transporting white | ized, exploited all his life. He must | prostitutes; he pictures Los An-ihave given that faith to his son! geles police shooting a Filipino in!Carlos, to make it possible for him | cold blood without provocation |to survive his experiences in AmerIn the degrading aspects of ex-!ica. ploitation races are all mixed up; Through the bitter 1930s Carlos! even Filipinos who go into boot-|kept grasping at the i of | legging and hijacking become asian American education; reading ruthless as the rest. All moral re-{anq studying, until, in the Los An. | straints were off in the company |geles public library, he worked with! young Carlos kept. his beloved hooks. | a Carlos’ first meeting with avestern | “I ALMOST died within myself,” ruthlessness did not corhe at the] in these surroundings, where man hands of Americans. A tough Fili- | was indistinguishable from beast.” | pino sold him down the river. Nothing written by Carey Mc-! He and other “Pinoys” broke, | Williams has the bite of these per- were “sold Yor $5 each to work in| sonal experiences for Mr. McWil-|the fish canneries in Alaska, by a

liams is a social student, whereas Visayan from the island of Leyte |

Mr. Bulosan went through this hell to an Ilocano from the province of [close watch on them. Some of the first great works that shaped my!

personally. {La Union.” At the end of his serv-| These memoirs can show us why ices Carlos was paid $13. young men like the Filipinos turn | 7% radical. ; | « CARLOS SHOULD have been a| Carlos didn't find the young Com-ireporter; he was always where! munist organization effective; it | crime-was in the making. | was too often opportunistic and | At Yakima, where the Filipinos! even “anti-Filipinos” were in its|picked fruit, white farmers rushed |

ranks. But the brown lads wanted |them with guns, and as Carlos $10,000 novel prize, is something desperately to be iran organization fled through the orchards he saw | them asimen falling and the house on fire. fused personality. In a box car filled with hoboes| John is a Jew of 35 when his sis- : he saw one girl assaulted by several ter, Deborah, gets him to visit a i Yor Tevrestiohal Yeading, Yeats

that would recognize human beings. ” - = THEY HAD specific questions to|men. ask. “Why can't we buy or lease] In Stockton, Cal, he entered a real estate? Why can't we marry Chinese gambling house to. drink

white women? Why can’t we prac-|tea—it was always available to vis- inie, 13, and Allen, 8—are going to... problems today, was Tolstoi's

tice law? Why are we denied the|itors—and “a Chinese came out of right of becoming naturalized cit-|a back room with a gun and shot fzens? Why can't we stop the|a Filipino who was standing by the police from handling us like crim-|table . .. he turned toward the Chifinals?” nese a stupid look of surprise.” Maybe there is news for the rest| In a Los Angeles poolroom where of us protected, sheltered, white | Pilipinos gather, “two police detec-

- {tives darted into the place and shot

ia little Pilipino in the back. The ROEBUCK AND CO

| boy fell on his knees, face up, and | expired. .

» » ” | “WHY WAS he shot?’ I asked a man near me. ‘They often shoot Pinoys like that,’ he said. ‘Without | provocation. Sometimes when they have been drinking and want to (have fun, they come to our district and kick or beat the first Filipino they meet.’”

the American citizens. Some of the Filipinos were tough and their associations were sordid and degrading.

Indiana’s Most Popular The number of fights, with knives land guns, among them, are many,

BOOK leven Carlos’ brothers go berserk.

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-| why, asks John, does any

{he also got away from somé pretty

Ross has a high regard for the “100 best books,” starting with our | literary legacy from ancient Athens.

" “If 1 were t6 list the books that [of the soldier-slapping incident in

, 4 | Sicily for which Patton became Of pleasant reading. have influenced my thinking. I'd| y * The story centers around Man- | hateful and vindictive society they

certainly place Plato's ‘Republic’ first,” Dr. Ross says. “Then I'd add Aristotle's: ‘Poli-

'WASTELAND'— Prize Novel i More's ‘Utopia’ and Bacon's . ‘New antis.’ Not Inspired “ANOTHER book Ive found stimBut Honest

ulating, and one which we've just recently discussed in our course on R y | Breat books here at Butler, is Ma3 Sinclair. {chiavelli's “The Prince.’ ; $2.50. “As an. economist, I've always | been primarily interested in books THERE ARE many kinds of frus- on economics. Adam Smith's tration, and novelists keep pretty ‘Wealth of Nations’ was one of the

A novel. NewYork, |{arper.

best-read novels in the world have economic thinking.” frustration in heaps: “Wuthering| Like other scholars and teachers, Heights,” for instance, if you want|pr. Ross has to spend a good deal something old, and “Cass Timber- of time keeping up with recent relane,” if you want something new. |search in his subject. The bookThe frustration of John Brown, in Jo Sinclair's novel, “Wasteland,” which has just won the Harper

full of learned periodicals, each issue representing varied investigation in | highly specialized economic fields. |wholly inside his troubled and con- | ao.

|psychiatrist and discuss his troubles. 88% | John thinks his life is a waste, greatest of them, land the lives of his nephews—Ber-|that might well apply to some o

{be wasted, too, and his sister Debby |, . {seems to have gone to pieces, for | War and Peace. {she walks with a mannish stride | {and consorts with Negroes,

education -and ability I {that? | letters to his son.”

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tiently over the course of re-edu-|Triumph.” cation—of clearing up these mis-

conceptions. John is ashamed of his simple|ter and disillusioned. It's not

Friday nights, when the I repeats the # ancient question,|ities of war, just as ‘War and Peace

“Wherefore is this night distin-|does,” Dr. Ross concludes.

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| thought himself weak and why the | old Jewish ritual should make him | proud, rather than ashamed, of beling a Jew. The temptation to picture John as a helpless victim of social browbeating because of his race must have been present, But when the author looked his problem in the eye she saw other influences reach{ing back into the lives of his forebears, shaping his own attitude,

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their lives been ruined by the

» . ¥ ” PEOPLE still suffer from gossip

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“I DON'T get the time I used to

I read a lot of novels. The arid it's a book loved his men as “American civil- ¢ |1ans in uniform,” Patton loved them |,

“A book that I've read again and and again and again is La Rochefougirl of her| cauld’s ‘Maxims.’ It's ‘packed with ave to do wisdom, like Chesterfield’s famous achieve this goal, Gen. Patton died

| Dr. Ross is currently reading SO THE doctor takes John pa-|Erich Maria Remarque's “Arch of

“Like Remarque’s books after the last war, ‘Arch of Triumph’ is bitat all father and of the homely ritual on! pleesant reading, but it should give old man | people a better notion of the real-

Press in its 1046 spring catalog announces in print of a war-

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| He also points out the love which | | Patton showed for physically | wounded soldiers. | And how in his dash across Eu|rope he was stopped not only by {lack of fuel for his tanks, but “for | political reasons.” And the way he broke the back ef the Ardennes offensive and pushed von Rund|stedt's army back across the Ger{man border. . . » PATTON'S hatred for Nazi ideals {is characterized by his remark to | the captured SS general, Anton | Dunckern, whom Patton told to |his face, “You are the lowest form lof animal life I have met.” . Patton was a man who lived for |war. He wrote poems about it, | made speeches about it, in fact {planned his whole life around it. He even had an imaginary “God of Battle” whom he apotheosized and to whom he prayed, “To slay, God make us wise.” It is said that while Bradley

through a strange will ‘of céntric distant relative, Sarah Man. drake. : i ” » . FROM the time the heir and his| family take up residence in Man-| drake house, fulfilling a provision of the will, strange and supernatural doings fill the pages of thé book. And, from that point on, the) events keep moving at a fast enough pace to keep the reader wondering what will happen next.| What does happen and the ulti-|

explained by the author—to hint would be cheating.

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|for what they came to be—fighting men in battle units.

. ¥ ~ HE LIVED but for one ultimate goal... glorious death on the field of battle. And though he did not

fighting—fighting a blood clot in his lung which, together with the paralysis sustained in an auto crash, brought to an end one of the most colorful and dramatic careers in the legend of modern soldiery. Mr. Wellard, a native Briton, has devoted sufficient time to research to blast many of the Patton myths and clarify others, but his research was apparently not enough. to eliminate the technical errors which appear in the book. A man who spent six years in America shbuld know that such mistakes would not go unnoticed However, the book offers a wealth of informative and interesting stories about Gen. Patton. It is a fine study of the great man.

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. in a way. It's a spine-tingling, hair-réising, haunted tale that makes you go through the house and put oh all the lights, and feel a cold

It's a mystery . .

Johnston, former president of the

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deals with methods of incorporating visual education into churchwork programs. ; Mr. Rogers is executive secretary of the Religious Film association, and Mr. Vieth is Horace Bushnell professor of Christian Nurture at Yale university.

But a lot more knowledge of important things is available, and it's easier to escape from an intolerable family or environment, “Honeyfogling Time” is in no respect sensational; it's a quietly, carefully and sensitively written novel, What I like about it is that it rings true. —H. B.

Writer Criticizes |

ONE OF the most arresting re- | cent magazine articles is Lewis | Mumford’s “Gentlemen: You Are! Mad!” in the Saturday Review of | Literature for March 2. Mr. Mumford, author of such works as “Technics and Civilization,” “The Culture of Cities” and “Men Must Act,” speaks in his article of the insanity of atomicbomb experiments. " With great bitterness, he refers to the “monkey-like” curiosity that

“It Happened in 1945," a pictorial Patino who wrote 8 single check record of last year edited by Clark for 194 million dollars to pay for Kinnaird, is announced by Duell, Sloan & Pearce for publication next|of the most hideous and bloody

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United States Chamber of Com- | prompts forthcoming atomic-bomb Mr. | The publishers quote Mr. Johnston | Mumford insists that the only way as saying: “Since the labor union | to stop the ticking of the infernal]

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every citizen understand its struc-|and throw away all plans of it. ture and function. “The Truth About Unions,’ admittedly a prounion book, should be read by everyone—management or labor— who seeks to understand unionism.” “The Truth About Unions” was published Feb. 18 by Reynal & Hitchcock's Pamphlet Press,

Patino Biography On McBride List

McBride's April list includes “Like Moonlight on Snow,” by John | Hewlett, a biography of Simon | Patino, Bolivian tin magnate. The publishers describe the book as “a striking full-length portrait of an extraordinary man who has been compared in his sensational deals and machinations to Kruger, Zaharoff and Rotschild.” They add the comment: “It was

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wars in South America’s history.”

Remember that “vio-

and I've heard . . . well, well, I mustn't gossip. But I warn you, you just can't tell about women. She's done something I never would believe. Sit down and’ let ne tell you . . . but first, go buy yoursed a “Do Not © Disturb” sign. You're going to need it." That Maggie has written . a book that you can't put down. It's a paradox. It's incredible.

high

carries you {irresistibly along, luring you from chapter to chapter with a promise - and a hint in evrey one of further mystery, of credible eeriness.

family?

breath on the back of Give it to some one dis- Here is a tale of the your neck. cerning to whom. you wish: and : to surprise. But not till But that's not the para- you're read it yourself. (I dox, It's the style!" Gra- needn't have said that. You clous, charming, just a wouldn't) It's SARAH touch formal, the finished MANDRAKE, by our own style that goes with a slow, Maggie-Owen Wadelton: narrative, yet this one 2.98, :

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A prominent Indianapolis author writes a spine-tingling ghost story in modern dress

sy MAGGIE-OWEN WADELTON

Mandrake House stood, silent and neglected, above the banks of the Hudson — its sturdy brick walls two centuries old.

Who was the mysterious stranger, calling herself Sarah Mandrake, who finally appeared and restored the estate?

Why did she suddenly vanish, leavin house to a young British relative and his

What were the old and ugly evils that domi nated the atmosphere of Mandrake House

The lost and grectest book by the is | beloved Boswell of the Americon soldier.

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