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5 CASTE AND CLASS IN A SOUTHERN TOWN." By John Dollard, © Scond edition. New York, Harper, $5. By HENRY BUTLER ‘TWO. BOOKS due next week deal with sxploive possi: bilities outside and: inside our nation. - : “The first (due Monday) is “Fear; War and Aho Bowlby? _ by Prof. P. M. 8. Blackett of England's Manchester - Uni"versity, distinguished physicist and 1948 Nobel Prize winner. +. The second (due Wednesday) is a new edition of John

_ Dollard's calm but penetrat. ing study of race-relations in a small town of the Deep South, “Caste and "Class in a Southern Town.” 7 Both are. important reading for ¢itizens who wish to avoid the

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only when the invasion of France brought Allied air bases much closer.

J [A . | ATOMIC BOMBS, like bacterial warfare, may kill civilians, but will also irreparably damage property an invading army would want to take intact, besides creating constant hazards for the in-| - vaders.

80 far as the much-discussed theoretical war between the U. 8. and the USSR is concerned, the atomic bomb will do neither side any appreciable good, though it atts ld atenyy OF Myr. Despite many hysterical pronouncements, there still.is no substitute for land action by armies. And Prof. Blackett certainly is correct in assuming the American people would be extremely loath ~and might be politically unable ~to send a huge Army overseas for the third time in a couple of generations. If the adversaries in the next

R,. Why. not _drap. the. double“Bout “Ratios, down to Theta?

side could possibly ES sides would lose. Prof. Blackett suggests the only way to forestall a Jong, indecisive and frightfully costly war is to start bargaining, point by point. That's tedious and it. doesn't ease the conflicting sides, but

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uences complexities of those con-! sequences are far too great for)

” Arnold Rose, one of Dr. Myrdal's assistalso a Harper book.

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ants, in “The Negro In America,» DIE-time racketeer,

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statues i in the British metropolis,

Piccadily” is ‘the tile of this s wathaand-charconl drawing by Richard CR senior student in Herron Art School and a native of London. The bronze figure is one of the best known

"THE FIRES OF SPRING." novel, By James A. Michener, New York, Random House, $3.50.

JAMES A. MICHENER, winner

loathiof a 1047 Pulitzer Prize with his

“Tales of the South Pacific,” now produces a 500-page novel, “The Fires of Spring,” which certainly will attract readers. It's the kind of novel, no doubt

| War are to be the U. 8. and the|partiy autobiographical, nearly all

novelists. write, though not all such manuscript? reach the linother typer. It's an “education” novel —in this instance, the education of Da-

David, an orphan, grows up in a poorhouse near Doylestown, Pa. His closest relative is Aunt Reba, a Pennsylvania Dutch character who is miserly and cruel and gets

“|sothe obscure delight out of whip-

ping David. From the old inmates. of the men’s wing, where David’ lives, the boy os Tg to gather opinions When he's old enough to work, he rebels against Aunt Reba's suggestion that he go to the pants factory “ower by Sellerswille,” and instead gets a job in Paradise Amusement Park, which sounds

like a thin fictional disguise of

Willow Grove, outside Phila delphia. . vv . . » AT PARADISE, David learns how to chisel and short-change customers. He gets acquainted with prostitutes and one future

vid Harper, Mr. Michener's hero. §

But, luckily {for his own future, he becomes good enough in high school]

1947 Pulitzer Prize Winner Writes 500-Page :Novel About the 'Education’ of an Orphan

Writes “education” navel. James A. Michener.

basketball to get status and prestige by honest means. After high school, he is" given an anonymously donated scholarship to Dedham College, which

sounds a bit like Haverford. There he learns still more things ~—about literature, philosophy

tra musician he had me out at the park, music. = He learns about the unsuccessful, mooching type of careerwoman from Mona Meigs, whom he had met out at the park when she sang with Sousa’s band. Mona becomes David's mistress for a brief time, readily discarding him

here and there by some melo-

a8 hie sees;

New York strikes me as the

and, from a Philadelphia orches-|

for a beat-up old actor who stars!

in a touring Chautauqua show David works for in a summer vacation. : All this experience, heightened

dramatic events (suicide of the Philadelphia musician when he finds out Mona has jilted him for David disastrous flery-gory blow-down of a Chautauqua tent in a tornado) is admirably reported. Mr. Michener has. the great gift of writing as: clearly

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RS RT REA HUT THE “education” novel necessarily suffers from .a certain banality. It's been done too often. David Harper's Greenwich Village interlude during the depression when he's trying to establish himself as a writer in

weakest part of the book.

The struggling-writer “theme, like the uneertain-lover theme, needs editorial pruning in this instance. David finally marries Marcia Paxson, the Quaker PR he had especially liked when he was a boy. t it takes 495 pages to reach that conclusion of the novel, and meanwhile Mr. Michener has given his readers another strenuous work-out in the gymnasium of fictional

ce. Some of the calisthenics seem to me unnecessary. David out the book has the attitudes you'd expect him to have, with the result that he seems often priggish and wooden. “The. Fires of Spring” is excellently vivid reporting. It needs’ trimming and compression to make it first-rate fiction.—H. B.

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“PROSPECTS FOR SNCJOT: IN JAPAN." By T, A. Bisson, New: York, Macillen, $2.75.

trouble when the Allied occupa-| tion ends. ; The warning is given by T. A. Bisson in “Prospects for Democ-|

A book a8 good as Prof. Dal-| {lard’s should be carefully read by everyone who has a social con-

{other of a recently growing numiber by observers claiming that {Japanese officialdom has sabo-

racy in Japan.” ‘The book is an-| i

adequate discussion here. Many of science. . By a melancholy para-|

Prof. ‘Blackett's statements may dox of the race-relations prob-| be hotly debated. But no one can/lem--our greatest national scan-| deny. the clarity and in idal and the one for which we've!

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of his book, which is an attempt drawn deserved blame even from | ‘practieat aspectsithe Russians; “not-to- mention the

‘to-examine the of atomic energy. Since his title includes the word “fear,” it's important to repeat some of his conclusions in that matter. He gives good reasons for

stating that atomic hombs are]

- By no means decisive, any more than 1.3 million tons of ‘bombs Joppa On Germany were decisive. German industrial production actually rose during some of the heaviest bombing, and declined

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

flate Joe Goebbels—readers with" fa social consciencesprobably know the Dollard book already. ° If there's any lesson from both the Blackett and Dollard books; it's that we better quick get over our supermanic notions of atomic power, our manic-depres-give behavior in race and other domestic problems and start be-

such a word.

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ing “humanie,” if there could be"

taged Gen, Douglas MacArthur's reforms, Mr. Bisson traces the American’

{oscupation up’ to and including §

{the “new trend” outlined in the April,

per and others, The “Draper re-| port” called for an economic

restore’ Japanese industry and ease the occupation burden by U. 8. taxpayers, - . . “APPLICATION of the Draper, program,” Mr. Bisson concludes, ‘+ . appeared destined to] strengthen the old business group) and restore it to good standing.

{in.view of this group's record:in

relation to Japan's post-war. economy, there was good reason to

- {question whether it would utilize

forthcoming American aid to’ best advantage. “Other “Far

-{ Eastern mations --were - also - con-|

cerned and were asking whether the old Japanese leaders could |safely be entrusted with the handling of an intensive drive de|signed to--restore Japan-to- the position of the “workshop of the |Far Bast.”

| Mr. Bisson contends that in the {political field, too, the occupation {has made considerable, but not enough, progress toward uproot{ing the feudal system that led [to Japanese aggression. | “The closer down to the grass roots of Japan ond. gets,” he said, “the more absolute becomes the old guard's control. Under these conditions, even the present degrea of liberal influence which exists in the diet and the cabi-|, net, may prove unable to main-

. {tain itself against the intensified

pressure it will face when the occupation leaves Japan.”

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pump-priming program aimed to Fouy

Edith Siemel, left, with hor Yenbond oy threo children § in the

interior of Paraguay, inspects a just "shot.

hunted the big cats. (Doubleday,

Mrs. Siemel fells in "Jungle Wife" riage to a professional tiger hunter and of how she reared three children in the heart of the Mate Grosso while her husband, Sasha,

handsome jaguar Mr. Siemel has. the story of her-mar-

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‘New Novel Blasts Black Marketeering

'THEY NEVER HAD ITS GOOD™ “A “navel. “By Joseph “Giles. New York, Harper, $2.75. AN UNHEROIC GI comes in for treatment by Joseph Gies in

1“They Never Had It So Good.” This was the fellow who turned fons by medical and lay authori- persuasive qualities.

every opportunity to his own ad-| vantage — wangled supplies and| juggled currency on the black market, Shielded by. his equally avaricious officers, who used him too, Pvt. Harvey Bull managed to have the best in food, drink and living quarters.

» ” w OCCASIONALLY his plans were upset and Pvt. Bull. found|q,s himself in the front lines, but he lost no time perjuring and blackmailing his way back to the safety of the rear areas. There he “soldiered” with the ease of a picketpocket and the conscience of a Barbary pirate. He's a pretty repulsive char[acter and Mr. Gies has done him {up brown,

Dean Is Co-Author Of Religious Book

| EVANSVILLE, Feb. 12--Publi-

|eation of “Understanding Chris. tianity,” a book by Dr, Edgar M. |McKown, dean of Evansville Col(lege, and the Rev. Carl J,.ScherProtastant

{zer, chaplain of the | nounced today by "the "Ronald

| Press of New York. The book d

{Hilda -Holland-Book

'Due In March “Why Are You Single?”, Hilda Holland's symposium on bachelorhood and spinsterhood, will be blished Mar. 18 by Farrar, Straus. .

Brain Theory

.|achieved in the machines by the writes,

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Book Presents

"CYBERNETICS." By Dr. Norbert Wiener. New York, Wiley, $3./7%

IN all probability future histor): fans will regard the publication’ or Dr. ‘Norbert Wiener's “Cybers|* netics” as the most important scientific event of 1948, Dr. Wiener has done for the hu man brain what Einstein did for| the universe. Dr. Wiener's work: is about as complicated as relaHit indi promis to hecome as famous. ‘Df. Wiener has long been known to the world of science as a mathematical genius. His theory grew out of studies which he has carried on ovér several decades in collaboration with physiologists, psychologists, mathematicians and electrical engineers, and out of -work which he; did for the Army and Navy during World War II. He coined the name “cybernetics” from a Greek word meaning ‘the steersman of a ship.”

John Dickson Carr, author of many - mysteries, has. written a. New bidgraphy, “The Life of Sir ||4 Arthur Conan Doyle," which;

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LITTLE HERMAN — Comedy mystery starring Bill Quinn. . . .

CLLWISH 8 p.m... —— BASKETBALL GAME — Cris: = pus Attucks’ plays at Tech. . .

WXLW (FM) 8 p. m. LOMBARDO LAND, U. 8. A.— Musical variety program featuring Guy Lombardo and his orchestra. . . . WIBC 8:30 p. m.

Wild, Adventure High lig hts Novel

MINE." A novel. By Hammond Innes. New York,

Harper's will publish Feb. 7. THE SUB-TITLE of his book,

Short Stories “Control and Communication in| the Animal and the Machine,” sRefute Excuse

a clue to Dr. Wiener's theory. | For he believes that the human 19 STORIES." By Graham Greene. bain functions lke. the eweh New: York, Viking, $2.75. electronic A He points out that IT IS difficult to believe that these electronic calculating ma- Graham Greene did not have his| chines exniuit any ShaiFycter. tongue in his cheek when, in an cs c ormerly A thought to be properties only © of | Author's note, re wate an apol-; ths animal brain, for example, 08Y for his “19 Stories memory, association and choice. | ‘fhese characteristics are defects of these stories . . .” he “The short story is an ex-| form

{choice of certain kinds of electric acting circuits and Dr. Wiener believes trat the same kind of electric circuit exists in human brains. gn serious reader, even though he skips the

a novelist's career.”

the book with profit. R.W.M. |Greene, who from

Book Tells About Black

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the first page.

P. Frank. New York, Knopf, $4.land resentment of a T-year-cld

lof Indiana’ University's

which I have pever | property practiced I present these tales merely as the by-products of

But the 18 short stories and one; {outline for a novel which never Wathmatical ead! Was written are all ' authentic “Brighton Rock” to “The Heart of the Mathas been able to write a tight, hard story which builds up, atmosphere and suspense from

“THE Basement Room” with "MR. JUSTICE BLACK: THE MAN|which the book opens is perhaps AND HIS OPINIONS." By John|the best, the story of the terror

IN Mr. Justice Black: The Man boy when he is involved as an in{and His Opinions, John P. Frank voluntary witness in a homicide law committed by his best friend, the

Harper, $2.50. A smuggling gang's attempt to blow a hole in the bottom of the sea off the Cornwall coast, thus opening up a passage into an underwater shaft of an abandoned tin mine, provides the background of “The Killer Mine,” by Ham{mond Innes.” The smuggling plan was hatched by Captain Manack, a devil-may-{care adventurer who preferred {the excitement of smuggling to |the legal fortune that a rich new lode. in the tin mine would bring

“I am only too Sonscious of the! him.

The efforts of Manack’'s mad father to thwart the smuggling plan and reclaim the mine reach a climax of terror and suspense deep underground.

7$1 Dictionary Random House has just announced that the next project of its dictionary department will be a small, concise Dollar Dictionary, The text will be based on “The American Dictionary,” which has sold over 200,000 copies to date.

Inviting

length portrait of the - court's; senior justice. Half of the book is given over to Mr. Black's personal history,

[faculty presents the first full-|

Your

family butler. This one alone refutes the ne|cessity for any apology. But every ' story in the book could be a {model-for most -profesisonal short

half to his major opinions during Story Writers.

the first 10 years on the “court.| In this way, Mr. Frank develops his theory that to fully ‘under-

|is’the outline for the novel.

look at the man.

The symposium contains opin-

ities on reasons that keep men

land women from marrying. Con{tributors include: Marynia Farn/ham, Arthur Garfield Hays, Louls |X. Dublin, Clifford Adams, Theo-| |dor Reik and Abraham Stone. According to the publisher, “the idea for the book came out of the tremendous response to Editor [Hilda Holland's preliminary disns of the subject on the air — n magazines.”

Writes on Decadence

The eminent British philosoPhas C. E. M. Joad has written | a new book entitled “Decadence,” {to be published by the Philosophical Library Feb. 25. It is described as “a provocative discussion of ‘weak-spinéd’ society.”

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leted. i Hitherto little-known details of eee : You am a Shading gi Mr. Black's early days in Ala-| at Crt wi or more at any one 0 bama, as country youth.. prose. Book on Nazi Crimes Fletcher Trust Company’ s3city cuting attorney and police judge Henry Schuman, Inc. has postfn Birmingham, - and ambitious|poned to Feb. .21 the publication) wide offices, young politician are related. Hisidate of “Doctors of Infamy: The days in the Senate, as zealous in-|Story - of the Nazi Medical No Minimem Bolance vestigator and ardent New Dealer, Crimes.” The book is described is Required are recalled. : as a shocking record of Nau wa medical sadism ax revealed n Tg iis co A CHAPTER each is given to Nuernberg trials. oranges have complete Mr. Black's on with the ——— downtown! banking service at Klan in the 1920s, and to the r x our Downtown Office. background. of Justice Robert H, # Jackson's sensational attack on Burge! i You can make’ deposits at any his colledgue from Nuernberg, ; office.” Germany, in 1948. (Bohemian) BEER * Mr. Frank- emphasizes Justice x P » #| You can arrange to cash checks | Black's personal drive and strong ¥ Tesen 3 at selected offices. . | sw ted WAITE HOYT i 0 jnles that Mr. Black If the leader X 2 You receive monthly statements, of any “bloc” of justices. ¥ (Former N. Y. Yankee Star) x checks. The book is entertaining read- & em bv * canceled ing. As a former law clerk to the ¥ SPORTSCAST * : Justice, the author had opportu-/3 Every Sater %| Low cost—the exact charge, if {nity for close-range observation, Livery Saturday » any, is determined by the ac- | which adds authority to the book. 5:15 P. M. : tivity of the account in relati | As the late Charles A, Beard ook & x IBC » ity o in relation (In an introduction, the book " Ww » to its size. worthy of thoughtful examination ddd AAA AAA AAR . | Trae Sis en Bank-by-Mail envelopes for your convenience.

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