Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1948 — Page 8
THE FIRST READER—By Harry Hansen
$10,000 Prize Novel Fidelity { Home Lite of Hindus
“SON OF THE MOON.” A novel. By Joseph George Hitrec. New
Portrays With
York, Harper, $3.
"A HOG ON ICE: AND OTHER CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS." By Dr. | Charles Earle Funk. lllustrated by Tom Funk. New York, Harper, $3.
MOST OF THE news tha
tional. Massacres on the border, riots in the towns, bejeweled maharajas with fantastic courts; millions engaged in religious rites at the sacred rivers.
t comes out of India is sensa-
In all this the orderly Hindu family, engaged in provid-| ing a home for its sons and daughters like families every-|
where else, gets left out. It isn’t news. So- maybe it's news that
Joseph George Hitrec wins the
Harper $10,000 novel prize with a story of Hindu life, “Son of the Moon.” Readers . who have missed Christine Weston's stories and still cherish memories of child brides from reading Katherine Mayo's “Mother India” may be surprised at the orderly manner in which a young Hindu, who admires European ways, is enabled, on his return: from England, to recognize that his homeland, too, has something to give him. »
fered such deep hurt by his con-| tact with the English, ~ The position of women in India, | always something of a mystery to western minds, is- made clear in this story; their love is an influential thing in the family. Tara, Vijay's sister, becomes al radical; Chandra shows Vijay that girls, too, have minds. Mr.’ Hitrec’s novel is a friendly book, giving us a feeling of kinship with the Hindu family he has de-/ scribed so ynderstandingly. 8 On » HOW many times have you ac-| cused a man of pulling wires, heard an actor's swan song. peat] around the bush, given the Bronx | cheer, found something to beat]
. = MR. HITREC'S HERO is Vijay the Dutch and seen an an gry man! Ramsingh, 24-year-old member of |, 04 jj.0 5 bull in a china shop?
a Rajput caste—equals of the ‘Brahmans, without being Brah-
There's a kitfull of phrases to| toss into your spédech. Half the]
man. He was the first to achieve 1. oo vse them don't know|
ia solo flight from India to England, nautics as well as English life, and making his first “white” female conquest.
Returned home, he was restless whole book about them:
thereafter studying aero- Charles Earle Funk, the diction-|
where they come from. But
ary-maker, has amused himself | jotting down the origins of fa-| miliar - phrases, and here's a “A Hog|
and full of plans for flying and ion Ice and Other Curious Expres-
lecturing, and spreading westernigions” illustrated by Tom Funk.
ideas, but the calm, reasonable
attitude of his father, a govern-|yind—there's ment employee; the admonitions mijjar Sayings” on my shelf, but
of his ailing mother; the practical
advice of his rich uncle, a news- mation for people who live the
paper owner, made him think.
The end was compromise—VijaY | where they got that way of exthe | pressing it.
conceded something, and family gave in, too The birth of a useful citizen of the new India is treated sympathetically by Mr. Hitrec. ' The author, born in Croatia, visited India at the age of 20 on vacation and stayed there until 1946, work-
Ing. Jor, English: firms and writ-iposed to date from William Jen-
He has
x "a . VIJAY came back to India patronizing the religious rites of his .fathers—they were superstitions to him. His mother was quite willing: to let him find his own but
‘took baths at home, the
way, suggested that he would panies were first advertising gas not be hurt by conforming. He|stoves with the phrase cook with 80 why|gas, and that it ought to be on
This isn’t the first book of its “A Thousand Fa-
it’s the latest and full of infor-
life of Riley and don’t know
A lot of these expressions are very old, others are new. We are coining them every day. To be taken for a ride is only about 25 years old, since it was first used in the gang wars of the 1920s. To get on the bandwagon is sup-
nings Bryan's campaign, althov Mr. Funk does not say. who ul It first, ln, teem te kde He Mists “to cook with ae meaning up to date, and. doesn’t know why it should imply ultramodernity, since electric stoves are more modern than gas. Let us inform Mr. Funk that it] came into use when the gas com-
its way out soon.
hel
ings now on display in Indiana University's Fine Arts bu
on “his painting methods at 4 p. m. next Tuesday.
KNIGHT AND SQUIRE—"Don Quixote and Sancho," Acuna, outstanding Colombian painter, is one of an exhibit of Mr. Acuna’s paint-
in the United States on a Guggenheim fellowship, Mr. Acuna will visit IU to lecture
New Tract Is Socially
Non dhid:
"IDEAS HAVE. CONSE. ;
QUENCES." By Richard M.I2 Weaver. Chicago, Lieiversty of Chicago Press, $2.75.
bold conservative or reactionary pronouncements than it is to refute them. Mr, Weaver may know that, and I'm pretty certain Mr. Pegler does. Indeed, it would take another book almost the size of Mr. Weaver's 187-page essay to deal
ments. Mr. Weaver's proposition, admittedly Platonic, that “there is no knowledge at the level of sensation,” gets into the complicated field of epistemology, {which is a mink-lined word
The only real knowledge, Mr
and so on, in the abstract. Now being a ,Platonist. But when Platonism becomes an intellectual Jeep towing carts groaning under heavily loaded phrases like “the delusion that man is by nature good,” then there's cause for quéstion. I'm not going to argue’ with Mr. Weaver about the goodness or badness of human natyre. Mr. Weaver teaches at the University of Chicago, and we may assume
canvas by Luis Alberto
ilding in Bloomington. Now
Mrs. Cook's New Book Avoids
"STORM AGAINST THE WALL." A novel. By Fannie Cook. New York, Doubleday, $3 . Fe . {By HENRY BUTLER “amarLy ¥ Two YEARS ago, Fannie Cook wor the first George n Carver Awad. for her novel, “Mrs, Palmer's Honey." That novel, dealing : “with Negro-white relationships in St.
Louis, was a valuable contribution to literature on the subject.
In “Storm Against the Wall,” Mrs. Cook has written a novel 2]
much broader and more profound. The new book carries a St. Louis Jewish family through two generations, from 1904 to 1946. It thus has a panoramic effect
maid, Mamie Lee. orvell,
on suspicion of bootlegging. Al o though Orvell is completely ins
to the BOTY.
‘came clear to Vijay that she detested Hindu life he was revolted, His father proposed that he mara and Vijay objectéd: “Has this discussed behind my back?” His rai replied dryly: “It was. ‘Parents still have that’ right.” % Their choice of Chandra, daugh‘ter of a feminist leader, made him ‘retort: “She paints her nails. You ‘wouldn't want me to marry a girl who only talks of female suf-
Chandra was 17 when they met and it is true that her remarks seem more adult than her age. Yet it was Chandra that he was to respect, and later love, for she gave him stronger spiritual support than he had from the women who had merely cared for| ‘his body. Bin» YET THERE is little of the| spiritual and the intangible in ‘this story, thus differing from E.| book, "A Hog on Ice.” is a Forster's famous novel, A| collection of familiar phrases ASSAGE TO INDIA. Mr, Hitrec| and their origins. ; . Dot Jencribing the groping, rtm Hindu soul but the external activities of an enterprising soi D2 Anthology Due man who finds his vocation. The, “The Best of Clarence Day.” brief reference to the Elephanta | a new anthology of writings by caves recalls the Forster book, the creator of “Life With Father,” but Vijay has nothing in common will be published Apr. 20 by Al-| with the sensitive Hindu who suf-ifred A. Knopf.
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“swith rap in order to appease angry Negro whi Proje. rural legislators who hold the gentile. The scope of her nar-|university’s purse-strings. °° ° rative permits her to represent = =» =» prejudice as complex and inter-| AND SO MARC, in his fruitactive, not just melodramatically less efforts to get Orvell freed one-sided. And so she avolds the| s,m orpitrary confinement withhazards of momentarily sensational novels like “Gentleman's out trial, is initiated into the Agreement” and “Kingsblood {mechanism of injustice. It's his Royal.” first dramatic experience with ' “Storm Against the Wall” is|the ways of our society, but it one of the very best treatments |isn’t his last. Later, Orvell is reof prejudice in contemporary fic-|{leased from state prison when tion, if only because it orientates| Mamie Lee saves enough money rather than isolates prejudice./to buy his fre¢dom from a St. Mrs. Cook shows how the ugly|{Louis Negro politician. facts of discrimination and in-| World War I interrupts Marc's justice fit into a social pattern.|legal career. When he comes She thus comes closer than other home, he goes into merchandising novelists have done to explaining with his successful uncles. As a
» Ao 80, Meg Cook | pocent, somebody has to take the
why these evils persist from man of active social conscience, generation to generation. Marc serves on welfare commit- * 8 = tees and. tries to make his contri-
YOUNG MARC KLEINMAN, bution to solving community
| sour before World War I.
ambitious--to become a lawyer, problems. {goes to the University of Mis-| But he finds, as everyone else He|who has tried has found, that encounters discrimination when|ideals are still way ahead of | fraternity men, at first interested |practices.. People—a few people in him as prospective brother,|-—will grant the justice of demofind out he's Jewish. cratic doctrine, but there's alHe also meets Orvell Sultan, ways a strong impulse to post'son of the Kleinmans’ Negro pone immediate action. “Let's
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In Profound Treatment of Prejudice
employed as houseboy in a frater- : whicn lends dignity and balance nity house, is railroaded to jail .
him as somebody who knows what he’ is talking about. I'll merely suggest timidly that there are divergent views on human nature. I'll go still farther, running the risk of having a quotation slammed in my face, and say that Mr. Weaver's phrase has little, if any, non-Weaverian meanrw
Sensationalism
” ” » MR. WEAVER further says: “Equality is a disorganizing con-' cept in so far as human. relation- Ve. ships mean order.” He's in favor of what he terms ‘distinction and hierarchy.” In GI language _. |the highest and best things are -|off limits to us enlisted men. : : Well, you can take this kind § ; . |of thing, just as you can take de Irving Babbitt’s “Rousseau and ticism.” In its way, ical and brilliant, like bbitt. But it's equally limited, cold and prematurely senile, I wish I had space to discuss adequately Mr. Weaver's diagnosis of jazz and swing, which he includes. among symptoms of our social decay. He doesn’t seem to have been much of a hepcat. More's the pity, since more frivolity at the right time might have given his thinking some leaven-
CHRONICLER — Fannie
Cook, whose new novel, "Storm Against the Wall," is a richly informative: chronicle of a Jew= ing of humor.
ish family in St. Louis, ER artainly 15.40 a. bad not be too much in a hurry” is/way, as Mr. Weaver painstakingly the attitude. reminds us. But it will take a ® = = book far more profound, far more HIS MARRIAGE to a gentile|illuminated by the insight of exgirl, at, first successful, ultimate~|perience and wisdom than Mr. ly runs into temporary difficulty. Weaver's, to make me want to And through the years he finds|wear the white ribbon of neohimself increasingly involved in|Platonism. —H. B.. family problems and conflicts. Less sensitive members of the Kleinman clan worship = success Volume of Essays and social position. Of German On Sale Mar. 22
descent, they are contemptuous s of Russian-descended Jews. One Ho Enis Woslrs ory Lene of the more tragic characters in|, 10.004 by Harcourt, Brace Mar. the book is Izzy Randowsky, 1at-|55 " nger the title, “The Moment er Ira Randall, whose life is a
and Other Essays.” series of agonizing compromises with conscience. Brought up in Harcourt, Brace also will bring
out on the same day a one-volume cen mammal Lo sveadon sea Sten of “The Common Reader dition gr 4 and Ihe Second Common Read- : er.” These two collections of Mrs. Mrs. Cook's novel would make, , I think, a magnificent movie if Woolf's essays previously have
"Words to Live By' Contains Thoughts of Rich and Poor
"WORDS TO LIVE BY." Edited by William Nichols. New York, Simon & Schuster, $2.75. By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor JOT DOWN THE NAMES of your favorites among the world’s great in various fields of endeavor and then check the list against the contributors. to “Words to Live By.” You are sure to find that sev{eral of your selections duplicate {the persons quoted in this new Ibook edited by William Nichols land published by Simon & Schuster. Mr. Nichols, also the editor of This Week magazine, gives a thumbnail summary of his book in its sub-title: “A little treasury of inspiration and wisdom selected and interpreted by 8&4 eminent men and women.” s » » HE WROTE LETTERS to many persons in all parts of the world and asked them to quote for him some lines they had {found very sustaining along with | comments on the passages. {responded with the contents of] this book. Their offerings are as different as the men and women themselves. Because Dr.
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VITAL WORDS—William 1. Nichols, who has collected a series of inspirational writings "Words to Live By."
{the pith of the world's problem.|
where and be safe ourselves. Harry Emerson
citizens of the/Sreat nation out, with
by countless the world in the large, his section |der. is offered here as representative. However, clergymen are in the economic Security in one aemi
being taken from many profes-|ravage the other. sions. Says Dr. Fosdick first
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Jn these words—and they are!
{Even in public health we cannot|
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for war, when the flood breaks
Fosdick long has been admired|loose no isolation” can keep any atomic
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Phases of Child Life
Traced in Book Dorothy Canfield Fisher will do a foreword for “American Children Through Their Books,. 17001835.” by Monica Kiefer, which|M®8T. Fulton J. Sheen, University of Pennsylvania Press will publish next month. According to the publisher, the ‘forthcoming book “traces the de- | velopment . of various phases of child life—religion, manners and morals, education, health and recreation—through an analysis of children’s books of that time.”
Rudi Blesh Signs Biography Contract
Rudi Blesh has signed a contract with Alfred A. Knopf for a full-length biography of the famous- Negro blues-singer, Bessie Smith. The work is being done in col{laboration with Kenneth Lloyd { Bright, an authority on American {folk music. Mr. Blesh is the
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Civic Circumference
11 A. M Sonar
Dr. E. Burdette Backus Presents the Seventh of a Series of Addresses on
History of Jazz,” published in
1946.
Book Hits Capital
“Plunder,” a new novel by
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“Home to the Hermitage,” by Alfred Leland Crabb, a new novel about Andrew Jackson, will be published Monday by Bobbs-
A new book by the Rt. Rev. “Communism and the Coascience of the West,” is announced for -publica-
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Hoosier Wins Playwright. Prize
CHICAGO, Na 13—Joseph A Hayes, Indianapolis - born play wright, has been awarded first prize of $500 in the 1947 Charles H. Sergel Play Contest adminis. tered by the University of Chi
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“Leaf and Bough,” centers in the struggle of a boy and girl to over icome.the shallowness of life around them. Set on the banks of the Wabash, the play deals
two people seeking freedom and meaning in their lives. Mr. Hayes, subject of a story on .The Indianapolis Times book page last Dec. 26, has written extensively for amateur theater productions. His prize-winner, “Leaf and Bough,” was produced last month by Theater ’48, the Margo Jones experimental thes ter in Dallas, Tex.
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