Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1948 — Page 8

THE FIRST READER . . . ... .» By Harry Hansen| 'Mr. Clutch’ Tells the Story Of a Plain American Who Made Good at His Job

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By Robert Merrill, $3.50.

A SUCCESS STORY—from overalls to riches, from a frame shack to a country estate—is still the great American story. It’s in the back of the mind of every young man who strikes out on his own. You won't find it often in novels, for most novelists today are interested solely in neurotic and unbalanced people. Maybe that’s why so many

Europeans make mistakes about us. But when you get away from novels, you meet the plain, healthy Americans who keep their bills paid, their kids in school, their communities solvent. The books that describe them are not fiction, but fact. You will meet one of them in “Mr. Clutch,” which is Robert J. Casey's very human yarn about a 60-year-old American businessman who has made good at his job. He is George W. Borg, chairman of the board of the Borg-Warner Co., who bases the start of his success on the development of an automobile clutch that worked. . . . THAT. TOOK place in 1809, when automobiles were drafty, jerky, noisy contrivances. George's father, Carl W. Borg, who had gone to the Middle West as a Swedish immigrant, was running a machine shop in Moline, 11}. George, who had taken a bookkeeping course at Augustana College, had done well with a device for making double trees and wagon tongues automatically, as well as other machines for horsedrawn vehicles, but George had

n “No, Dad,” said George. “The day isn't so “far off when there won't b4 40 Oe Wagons not enough coun ve will ‘we be" then if we're still turning . machines to make Suoden things to 0 hang on

brought in the bacon and that clinched the ; ent. The plant grew with the motor car business. After the first world war George W. Borg went to Chicago, picked out a banker, and arranged to

banker, John Fletcher, to negotiate it. The ensuing conversation became a legend. “You seem to speak for the firm,” said Mr. Fletcher to George. “How much stock do you ewn?” Papa Borg intervened. “Mr. Beck and I, we own the horse and buggy,” he said. “But Géorge, he drives it.” y “Do you mean he has no financial interest in it?” “Only a good salary.” “And you wish a loan of half a million dollars?” he observed, looking at Papa Borg. “You have

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collateral you think sufficient to cover a loan of that size?” “That's right.” “Just what sort of collateral have you?” “Half a million dollars in Liberty bonds,” said Papa Borg. “Would that be all right?” As Bob Casey puts it: “If Mr. Fletcher had been in any other line of business he probably would have fallen off his chair. In the circumstances he took off his glasses, wiped and replaced them and studied the men before him. “I know of no better security,” he said. » - » GEORGE W. BORG’'S subsequent career was built on similar sound lines. As motor cars became big business, manufacturers had to make more than one or two specialized parts, so consolidation became the rule, Tom Warner made transmissions and the Borg clutch fitted it. The Borg plant got the Bros. contract. When his father and his partner wanted to sell, George found a buyer who paid the two a total of $1,200,000. “I got $900,000?” said Old Carl, over the phone. “All right, George, I guess I had better take it. ” George W. Borg became head of the new company, this time with an rest in it. His imagination flourished. He tried out new devices, new fields. Sometimes he backed up. After buying a company that made jacks for freight cars, he learned that to sell a railroad jack “you started out by working your per|sonal charm on the customer,” with costly banquets, hunting dogs, golf clubs and other fancy presents on the salesman’s expense accounts, Mr. Borg got out. “There's a limited amount of energy in the human body,” he said. “Find a fleld where you can get a maximum of dividends for that daily energy.” . » » WHEN THE CRASH of 1929 came he had plenty of assets in his safe deposit box. It was now Borg-Warner. Since pessimism was not in his nature, he built for the future. The ramifications of Borg-Warner and allied con-

SR rine elocks, knitting: mills, carburetors, radar and television equipment. Mr. Borg has some plain oldfashioned ideas. “You'll never be bankrupt when you've got money

“How I Pick Winners,” "by Ken Kling, has a title that ought to lure $2 right out of anybody's pockets. For the book, of course. Once inside the covers we observe that it isn't as easy as all that. After telling all about handicapping, Ken Kling describes his long-shot betting system. Since luck enters into all horse racing, a favorite may make a bad start and a long-shot horse may. caper in. Much other advice is offered, including one to the women: “Lay off your husband's tips.” Women, says he, are sounder players than men. (Greystone Press, $2.) » ” »

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"THE INVISIBLE ISLAND." Viking Press, $3. IT HAS TAKEN a long time for a teacher to grasp the educational problems of Harlem as fit subject for a powerful novel of human frustration and maladjustment, but )vs happened. Irwin Stark is the young teacher of the New York school system who has tackled it from the inside with sensitive feeling, human sympathy and wide knowledge, and made the whole scene come alive in “The Invisible Island.” Stringing his story on the career of a teacher who has his own inner conflict to work out, Mr, Stark does a remarkable job. Perhaps it is .clearer, if I tell what this novel does not do. It does not pit white against black and put all the blame on the whites. There is blame for all, but there is also a portrayal of Negroes who do not understand the psychological needs of their own people. » » »

ALSO IT is not a novel of misSegenation, in ‘which white marries black, or vice versa. No, this story gets much closer to actual New York than that, Moreover, it gives a real picture of that extraordinary radical fervor of the 1930s that swept so many young men and women of college age into causes and crusades. Here they are, eagerly attending mass meetings, cheering tub- , organizing to helpithe Scottsborg.. prisoners and . the Abraham Lincoln brigade-—the New Yorkers, now closer to middle age, who were agitating everywhere until the extermination of the old bolshevists and the Stalin-Hitler pact made them remember they were Americans first, Mr. Stark, it should be added, is a novelist and not a propagandist. His hero is a bourgeois liberal, on the sidelines. The comrades are not going to love him for that. Remember those hectic days of the 1930s. Days of terrific activity for young fellows and girls who had caught the radical gleam and were agitating all over the place. There was Norma: “She must have been on at least a dozen different committees aiding Ethiopia, China, the marble workers of Vermont, the Scottsboro boys, the: unemployed, giving parties for the Daily Worker, the New Masses, Health and Hygiene, the International Labor Defense and numerous other organizations "which constantly claimed her time and enrgy. “Sometimes they would meet at one of those affairs where the party comrades would pay their quarters or 50-cent pieces, drink cocktails and nibble at 15-cent delicatessen sandwiches, listen to the speakers who would harangue them for about an hour, and buy the literature which was spread colorfully on a big table near the door. : “Then they'd walk home with some of her friends, go in for coffee at the cafeteria on Sheridan

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Square and reach home well past midnight. Over the week ends they'd attend concerts at Washington Irving, see revolutionary dances given by the Workers Laboratory theater, go to a Russian film'at the Cameo or walk in on another cocktail party where they would listen to violent discussions centeririg about Odets, Roosevelt, the Liberty League, silicosis, Charlie Chaplin, the united front of the dialectics of Shakespeare. ...” “He became an adept listener after one experience, when, having put in a demurrer, he found himself surrounded by a half a dozen furious comrades intent on tearing him to shreds.” Remember? # ” - IRWIN STARK’S story deals with the conscience of Matthew Stratton, who suffered from “the guilt of safety.” He was 4F in the war, and teaching in a soft berth in Long Island when his old friend Howard was killed abroad. So he determined to seek the toughest job in the school system, in a Harlem school, among boys who carried knives, cultivated resentments, cheated and swore. The school’s assistant principal, Philip Johnson, was a Negro; he wondered how Matthew, a white man, would hold out. Matthew saw quickly that the boys were cowed by fear and filled with: anger. .One ‘of the school’s methods was to call on a brutal Negro policeman to slap down disorderly boys. This man, Mallory, would intrude in the classroom, order the boys to reach for the ceiling and frisk them for knives. Matthew, who treated the boys as human beings, got along better by himself.

- » #" THE STORY OF “The Invisible Island” tells how the boy Matthew grew up and became a teacher. His love experience is a bit dubious, for Matthew solaces himself with his profane love, while telling his sacred love to, keep the light burning for him: His profane love, Norma, is a radical enthusiast; she berates Matthew for his middle-of-the-road sympathies and states the case of her side very well. Yet, commenting on the interminable political arguments of the comrades, she says: “I like people who can shut up now and then, who can be just a bit bourgeois.” One quality of the story is its picture of a side of New York life rarely described without distortion. It is true that Matthew is more of a spectator of his friends’ radical activities than a participant, and is only a positive character in his school work. But Mr. Stark has learned how to construct an engrossing tale, how to keep many characters moving, and to present a veritable segment of New York life, “The Invisible Island” is not sensational writing, but it is sound and suggests that, despite defeats, America will solve its human problems. H. H.

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SUMMER is the superlative time “to visit the little towns of New England, with their white spires ‘rising above a huddle of green maples, the trim, clapboard houses symmetrically placed beside the smooth, grass-grown common, the two-story inns. Pray that the gas station is near, but unobtrusive. To make this pilgrimage pay dividends ‘in appreciation, one must be familiar with more than a road map. A good introduction, such as “Village Greens of New England,” by Louise Andrews Kent, ' illustrated ‘with camera shots by Arthur Griffin, sharpens the appetite. . Mrs. Kent — she wrote “Mrs. Appleyard’s Year” and other fine books—says the total impression meade by a New England village is stronger than its component parts. It has character and individuality. It is not ‘too far removed from its past. Its tall elms were planted by men who lived in times when Amenica ‘was closer to New England than it it is today. . . ~ MRS. KENT relies on what she observes and knows. She can find happy anecdotes to spice her story. She tells a tale related by a friend of her grandmother's, who visited the Alcotts in Orchard House in|__ " Concord. Mrs. Alcott was busy in the kitchen, but Bronson Alcott was his own sweet self, with time enough to sit on the doorstep and chat with his visitor, smiling kindly as his wife “passed them on her way to the woodpile and continuing to bend an approving glance upon her as she came back with her apron full of small sticks and stopped to pick up some chips she had dropped. “Then he turned the same beautiful smile on the visitor and observed: ‘How beautiful is labor!” The visitor carried in the next load of wood.” The maples still lord it over New England, but everywhere the great elms show the effect of the blight. standing, but some are touched with decay, and others are stark

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