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Louis Bromfield. New York, Oxford University |. BUT ELEPHANTS." By Virginia Pearson. New York, © LOUIS BROMFIELD, the Ohio farmer who often takes}

" duces his American readers to one of the first champions bucolic life.

» “His guest speaker is Publius Maro, frgil who, over 2000 years

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york ope i ity men ity Controversies,” the book has He has no 10 pity no envy for been prepared for publication this tich J i year by Joseph 8. Galland, profeslg on the bough, the crops sor of Romance languages at "that the fleld is glad to bear Northwestern university. Are his for the gathering; he spares TT A Ty * ot » glance for the fron . |29¢ Mystery Novels Rigor of law, the municipal racket,| - Two mystery novels just added to «+the public records. | Popular Library's 25-cent reprint Other men dare the sea with their|series are “I'll Sing at Your Fuoars blindly, or dash neral,” by Hugh Pentecost, and “The On the sword to insinuate them-|Yellow Violet,” by Frances Crane. i CROSSWORD PUZZLE Answer to Previous Pustle IWIAIL ITER] JLIY INCH) Conductor RELEASE] AEAEAN a AIL PHEIGTALIOIPISERDI | [E ; / ny A 2 E13 ld | AL 3 Rots by RIRIAOE = = ED 1 musi- exposure HELE WALTER I “i uctor, 4 Female horse TEU herp Been ton: Spirst man [GIO] LYN EAN sMcomonny $symvel or (BS TERBETRER i \/| = 41 | OUN| | EP of = 10 Revokes I home IGENTHE [CELL ARS 13 Rode Irish 8 Withered old ETHER STABLE] -M capital woman 27 Spinning toy ‘ketch Perched 9 Male sheep 28 Dutch city 42 Soon i 11 Blemish 29 Born 43 Sell 18 Noah’, 12 Not fresh 32 Consume 44 Apud (ab.) : BE RS dest 15 Exclamation = 33 Sag 45 Secular 2 19 8 17 Put on 35 Tardier 46 Marshes ‘a ition © 20 Cooking vessel 36 Sainte (ab.) 47 Exist * 22 Behold! 24 Compass point 40 Make a 52 Thus + 93 Req 250bscure mistake 54 Symbol for a 26 Health resort 41 Levantine niton W ® le [1 3 Te it EE sda hed y

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and ements “of the poor delights satis- In Just for jewelled cups, for eolntry existence scarlet linen to sleep on . . .

But still the farmer furrows the land with his curving plow

keeps his native country His little grandsons and herds of cattle and trusty bullocks. Unresting the year teems with orchard fruit, or young of cattle, or sheaves of corn. Says Mr. Lewis: “It may happen that the recent war, together with the spread of electrical power, will result in a decentralization of industry and the establishment of a new rural-urban civilisation working through smaller social unity. “The factory in the fields need not remain a dream of poets and planners, it has more to commend it than the window bex in the slums.”

" “ » * THEY HAD EVERYTHING but elephants in Columbia, says Virginia Pearson, doctor's wife, whose experience while keeping house in an oil camp in the jungle make lively reading in Everything But Ele-

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son. This was in wartime. She had| a friendly interest in natives and| foreigners and found the Columbians the most polite persons in the world. They were, however, inclined to keep the native help underfoot, and remonstrated that Americans “spoil the servants” by kindness. Mrs. Pearson was impressed by the kindness and efficiency of a number of nuns on their way to live in a leper colony. Her reminiscences are not romanticized, but neither are the difiin all the book must be a competent guide to life | in a jungle town. I observe that the! Pearsons did not renew their tenure after the two years they had coritracted for.

New Book Gives Sources

‘The land is his annual labor, it

*ltry necessarily omits a great deal.

{must take account of forces work-

"delay the realization of that prom-

"INSIDE" AGAIN—John Gunther, whose latest ’ Inside * book is a survey of these United States. "

‘Inside U.S. A." Is Eagle's-Eye View of Nation's People

“INSIDE U. S$. A." By John Gunther. New York, Harper, $5. By HENRY BUTLER WHAT IS the inside dope on the U. 8. A.? John Gunther attempts to answer that prodigious question in the more than 900 pages of “Inside U. 8. A" . Honest and unpretentious as his writing shows him to be, Mr. Gunther would be the first to admit that his self-assigned project is t60 vast even for many lifetimes.

But it's worth a try, and among | ace re . ‘ postponement of sensible, contemporary writers in his field, decent acti in this most serious

Mr. Gunther is probably as well of our human problems resembles qualified as anybody to do a sur- delay in I vey of the 48 states. Not that Mr. Gunther is preachy. The eagle’s-eye view of this coun- He reports more than he editorial izes. But the inescapable conclusiQn is that America is still immature in many important ways. That immaturity could prove disastrous. “Inside U. S. A” will provoke plenty of criticism. It will be as“INSIDE U. S. A" is exhilarat- Salled 2 a ing, like a plane Tide on a clear | apter is I think, one of the less day. It shows you people. = shows | tistactory. Hostile readers have you natural resources. } Shows already observed that Mr. Gunther you what the people have tone with {spent too little time in Indiana to the resources, which is the im- get thoroughly acquainted with the portant matter of history, past and political and economic scene. current. :

_ It shows you the great promise ry

A SENSE, the Indiana chapter of the future;-which. is. what makes | tN 4 SENOn Cl Oe us Americans buoyant in spirit. 4 Ge

That may be a defect. It can also be a virtue since any attempt to appraise the American spirit

ing nationally, not just locally.

» » ”

World War ll | |As They Saw It}

["YANK: THE G. I. STORY OF| |

the terrace of Hitler's house at

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THE WAR." By Yank's edi-| | tors. New York, Duell, Sloan &}: Pearce, $5. . : "TWO. GI'S, one a private, first clasé, and the other a member: of a medic division, were sitting on

Berchtesgaden. relaxing. “When I

was at Salerno,” said the. private, “I never figured I'd wind up the war in Hitler's home.” “Can't think of a better place to wind up a war at,” said the medic. “I can,” said the private. “My home town.” w » 8 THIS typical banter comes from one of the fresh and vibrant ace counts of GI life in “Yank: The GI Story of the War,” prepared by the|* staff of the army weekly. These 81 accounts and many photographs, chosen by Debs Myers, Jonathan Kilbourn and Richard Harrity, grip your interest the moment you open the book. For no matter how much you have read about the war, the human factor—the close-ups of the American lads who fought, suffered and carried on—remains perennially interesting. wer Thanks to Yanks and the correspondents who lived with the tyoops, the individual soldier, the citizen carrying arms, never is sub-

JUDGING WRITERS" C Miss Mary J. Lytle, Mrs. Fern

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Sd Nea ONTEST—Members of the India

napolis Writers’ club

contest board examining manuscripts are (left to right): C. W. Swiger, Mrs. Bette Dick,

Auble and Neil Williams. Deadline for the club's Cen-

tennial short story contest has been extended until July | because of the large number of manuscripts submitted by local writers. Contest information is obtainable from the Indianapolis Writers' club, 1821 Ruckle st., Indianapolis 2. :

THIS BOOK is a model of compression. It gives more authentic atmosphere and more action in a little over 300 pages than whole sets of war volumes. It reports the high spots. of the war in human terpAs. Saipan, the Battle of the Bulge, the taking of the Ludendorfl bridge at Remagen on the Rhine (“Cross the Rhine with dry feet, courtesy of 9th armored division” read the sign); Iwo

"A SECOND LOOK." By Edward

represented. Good soils are self-sustaining, he » » = HERE ARE the GI's finding out how cruel the enemy could be in the concentration camps; here are went out of business because of Mr.| talks with Japs and the surrender Faulkner's first book, it is unlikely on board the U. S. S. Missouri; here that the well-osganized fertilizer is an account of how and where! folks will starve on account of this Ernie Pyle died. inew volume. But both books may The editors haven't missed much, | have some effect on U. S. farming and they had much to choose from, methods. They are readable enough for Yank had high standards of to hsve a following even among efficiency for its staff. This is a city folks. book to have and to hold, if you ys = were one of the 12,000,000. — H. H. THE FIRST chupter of “A Sec-

{ond Look” is devoted to criticisms ‘Lanny Budd’

and testimonials of “Plowman's Folly,” of which 340,000 copies were sold. Then Farmer-Author Faulkner plows into the business of his latest plan for a quiet revolution in, the handling of land. { He takes literally the advice of] that 13th Century sage. Roger] New York, Viking, $3.50. Bacon: “The one rules nature who

NO ONE except that writer for follows its rules.” i

"PRESIDENTIAL MISSION." A novel. By Upton Sinclair,

ways a dapger in any state of But it also shows the forces that people not seeing beyond the state

line. are national, and somehow we've got to gfow up and learn to handle them nationally.

ise. And if there's any one lesson to be learned from Mr. Gunther’s book, it is that our habitual narrowness, shortsightedness and local bias, if not soon corrected, may eventually disinherit our children. America is a rich country. Mr. Gunther describes its richness in appreciative, concrete terms. He makes Washington forests, Minnesota iron ore séem almost edible. . ” » AGAIN and again he strikes the note of pity that so much of our] wollth WEE WARY efore people apt to make some of us long for cent lesson here in Indiana, with Jess tak, Tope atin. + tind. of] the problem of The Shades forest took sl : s 2 : br oe al area. Too often, as Mr. Gunther | ’ ya : : t conservation | Somewhat the same sensation of repeatedly points out, {seeing and learning a lot that I

has been too little and too late. : [got years ago from Lincoln StefWe Americans need planning, but fens’ “Autobiography.” It y in-

work, Mr. Gunther's book reminds us. Private vs. public ownership,

vs. co-operatives—the familiar controversies are probably a healthy sign. Americans know they're alive when theyre kicking. long-range view (exhaustion of re-! sources, the high cost of slums) is

On Shakespeare Dispute Students of the Shakespeare au-| thorship controversy soon will have

“| access to what is reported to be the

most comprehensive bibliography ever compiled on the subject.

Entitled °““Digesta : Anti-Shake- | speareana: An Historical and Analytical Bibliography of the

Shakespeare Authorship and Ident-|

Te Si BEY Sings, ¢identally stimulate interest in vaGunther quotes a satirical piece by cation touring this summer. Few

books have done so good a panorama.

the New York Times’ James Reston | in which a farmer argues with a reporter on price controls. » » » JHE FARMER says, “What we want is price control on what we buy and no price control on what we sell” That, in a nutshell, is the American economic paradox.

| The same kind of conflict shows lup in other problems, such as the

| |

hotly-debated Missouri Valley AuEvery kind of argument, pro and con, gets aired in timewasting dispute. Meanwhile, Mr. {Gunther points out, the Missouri! | river annually takes millions of tons lof precious soil downstream. | How much labor trouble is real lgrievance? How much of it is| | squabbling over words, attitude, alleged rights? Mr. Gunther cites | examples of industries with liberal

| thority.

Our most pressing problems |

Everywhere in the United States | the same kind of forces are at|

agriculture vs. industry, monopolies |

But the |

‘boys, G. A. Henty, ever is gied| Mr: Faulkner feels that for our| such a johnny-on-the-spot hero 20th Century economy, the best] {as Upton Sinclair has evolved for|"Y of getting back to nature and |his Lanny Budd series of novels. following its rules is to blow up the | |Lanny, you may recall, became a| ‘bank theory” of land management. | i In" the latest|BY that he doesn’t mean bankers,

presidential] agent. i book esidenti Missi L but the idea that crops take so Prasidenyal on, Y| much nutriment out of the soil, and|

Donover's G66. Tor ne poses us athe must be replaced by artificial ; A * “fertilizers, such as lime, phosphates, | Fascist agefit, gets in cahdots with nitrates and the lke | Hitler and Goering, tries to locate ys» go : | rman scientific secrets, swaps] QUITE the contrary, cropping banter with President Roosevelt and | helps the land, Mr. Faulkner aon-| records the growls of Winston tends, provided the natural organic Churchill, materials are properly re-incorpor-| ated by discing instead of plowing. | Then nature will always remain bountiful, according to his book.

. » ~ ONE of Lanny's fantastic . exploits is to bribe the British guard of Rudolf Hess with money, and take a note from Hess to Hitler, to assure the latter of Hess’ loyalty. Wonder how the British will enjoy that one, Incidentally the White House dinner with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that got Louis Adamic into hot water in Britain (Mr, Churchill collected handsome damages) is here told in detail and Mr. Sinclair explains that he asked Mr. Adamic “to write notes of the affair and permit Lanny Budd to be present.” Wait till Winnie hears about this, [loosen it, it isn't real soil. ® = = FOUR: If in handling it you THE LANNY BUDD series of can be sure whether its mineral | stories is a sort of make-believe in (particles are sand, silt, or clay, it which the reader can identify him- | isn't real seil. | self with historic events. By becoming Lanny Budd, the reader imagines himself in close @ssociation with men whom he sees only in newsreels or reads about in|

newspa . Thi Japon 8 must scoouny in fertilizer and rest assured that this

part for the popularity of the books. for the events are all ia- good soil, properly nurtured, will be | self-sustaining. t

miliar. This is the eighth story a I in the series. The first sold 177,394 SUE wl ny His is =, copies; the next four were lower he believes ag is it ea og 1 al

although the third, “Dragon’s : tet Teeth,” won a Pulitzer prize. The Whether you agree or. disagree with

what he calls “real soil.” He relates how he himself developed this from his own clay.”

soil”: ONE: fortably over it barefoot, even though you never went barefoot in your life, it isn’t real soil. TWO: If you can't pick it up in handfuls without effort it isn't real” soil. | THREE: If you have to dig to!

os » » IF YOUR farm passes these sts and you are ready to follow the Faulkner formula, you can abandon | your ‘moldboard plow, save the; money you might have snent for {

labor policies, others with the oldfashioned arrogant way of dealing, with employees. Even the liberal | industries get “struck” sometimes,

as in a national wave of strikes, ' he points out, but by and forge! BR'ER RABBIT—One of the

their record of peace and produc-| tion is fam better. i » 5 » x ~ LIKE Sinclair Lewis in “Kingsblood Royal” Mr. Gunther assails| thé". “day-after-tomorrow” complex we Americans show in our treatment “of the race problem. The

drawings by Al Dempster and Bill ‘Justice for "Walt Disney's Uncle Remus Stories,” just published in Simon & Schuster's "Giant Golden Book" series for children ($1.50). The illustrations are adapted from Disney's

"Song of the South’ and other / "Uncle Remus films.

sold 736.191. In Britain the sales| o>, latest hook if you love the land

have been around 50,000. Mr. 8inclair, now 68, is at the height of {his writing efficiency and I'll bet he enjoys every minute of it.—H. H.

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