Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1949 — Page 18
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Prejudice Attacked | In Two New Books |
th By HENRY BUTLER :
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Racial
upidity of
ALIEN LAND A novel. By Willard Savoy. New York, Dutton, $3. “NEW WORLDS EMERGING," By Earl Parker Hanson. New York; Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $3.50. gE 7 .
WILLARD SAVOY'S first novel, “Alien Land,” and Earl Parker Hanson's “New Worlds Emerging” both at-
tack in different ways the criminal stupidity of race preju- Ve
dice. Force in Washington, tells the dramatic story of a half-
Hite Negto who desldes olitabined the sheriff before he shot ve as a wil “|her), aE umiliations and wit! This is grim and concentrated Juring B lynching. : |material. But it’s all true, in the En Bg 8 lyn 4 the Uni-|2ense that such things happen. Mr. Ranson, hea Ot . a hy They're on record. And if Kern _yersity of De aware 8 a A |seems more a symbol than a real department, desc 3 gli tol rson, he certainly is justified in Oe opetull sday, the! D8 decision to leave Negro life 4 and return North as a white man. conflict between prejudice Sod iLater he falls in love with Marire i. n Goran Vogler LL té whom he tela 18 plore, "and who, after momentary shock, times will wither when it is shown |g oreey to marry him. to injure business, Told in a series of flashbacks em. N * trom Kern's post-war success as ‘HE HOPE Mr. Hanson sug-a radio writer, “Allen Land gests, indirect and slow to arrive, makes powerful reading. will not satisfy conscientious) = ~~ . u 8 yi for justice. Our vi-| LIKE OTHER recent fiction on] cious racism breeds not only the|the terrible theme of racism, the dreadful crimes and cruelties re- book “arouses indigriation® dnd corded in Lt. Savoy's novel, butiseems to call for desperate remealso the debasing and frugirat dies. But I think Lt. Savoy sees BE , pose hen more clearly than some other South. Ty ~ |writers have seen ihe essentially 'diseased state of society that proBut 14. Savoy, ike ar. Ha erry duces such Injustice. However ees not in American. Racism brutal and suiininal the jotaces here reflects . tors may be, they are as insane I soci Fasiom elewhese, al as any berserk hatchet-murderer. Duman sooty ar stubbornly] Probably nothing will change the minds of persons who think
Lt. Savoy, who does public-relations work for the Air|
persistent error that descends from remote antiquity. * Lt. Savoy's story may seem a bit sensational. It starts with his hero, Kern Roberts’ father, Charles. Charles, an almostwhite Negro and a brilliant attorney, is
int to Justice Adams, an old-bchool liberal. |;
When Charles and the Justice's daughter fall in love, Charles confesses his mixed racial heritage. True to his liberal principles, Justice Adams consehts > ah daughter's marrying Charles. At this point, the story might have ended if Charles had not suddenly determined to devote his life ‘to the Freedom League. “@ ALT. ¢ AS HEAD OF that militant organization, fighting constant legal battles against discrimination,
Charles insists that his wife and ' mon share with him the privations of living in the Negro section of ; From early child-| history. ‘hood, young Kern hears angry, . n » bitter discussions of ‘injustice when members of the Freedom League gather in his father's
Kern's light skin makes him envied and distrusted by his playmates. And when Kern's mother is attacked and fatally stabbed
by a Negro park caretaker, Kern
as chief witness, is obliged to tes-
tify against the accused.
Newspapers in Washington and nationally treat the murder trial from the racial standpoint, hence the Freedom League undertakes the caretaker's defense. Young «Kern, by his honest testimony, comes to seem a traitor to hisioecyrs to me that chambers of race. Throughout grammar and high school, he is pursued by the
memory of the trial. oe
| XERN'S FATHER, completel
f8|that profit should be a more
they know all about “superior” races—a point Mr. Hanson elaborates. Nothing, perhaps, except improvement: in the “inferior” races’ standards of living which will make them better customers. Mr. Hanson emphasizes the point other writers have made: f you regard people, no matter of what faith or color, as potential _ customers, you automatically treat them better. Maybe it's a disgrace to humanity
powerful motive than passion for justice, but that's the way society operates. . Racism, Mr. Hanson says, actually is hindering the progress of business enterprise. Capitalism needs new areas for expansian, Our whole economic system needs more and more cus-
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One of Olin Dows' drawings for his new book, "Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park," shows FDR out for a brisk canter with the Roosevelt children: Anna, left; Elliott, on his father's lap, and James following, For many years a neighbor of the Roosevelts, Mr. Dows, a Rhinebeck, N.Y. artist, has assembled a pictorial and narrative account of family life at FDR's homestead. (American Artists
Is Friendly
Gorman. New edition, New| York, Rinehart, $3.50,
THE ONLY real biography of James Joyce ever written was published in 1939. The fact that Joyce was then alive confined it within limits, It is not possible yet for anyone to write a biography as frankly revealing as were Joyce's own autobiographical references in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.” But Herbert Gorman's friendly biography “James Joyce” remains essential reading for anyone who is interested or wants to take interest in Joyce's work. It has now been republished with a postscript by Gorman. In “James Joyce” one may read at least an outline of the early life of a man who changed the face of the literature of his time. » » » ONE READS of his early days in Dublin, of his brief first visit to Paris where he almost starved, of his romance ‘with Norah Barnacle, of his struggle for existence!
Gene Fowler hints that his sub-
ject and friend, Jimmy, Walker took life seriously. He remarks ‘endless string of anecdotes, which
‘James Joyce' Gene Fowler Pens Diverting Biography of Jimmy Walker
“JAMES JOYCE" By Herbert "BEAU JAMES: THE LIFE AND|that respect. When his opponent,
Red Mike Hylan, charged him with having underworld acquaintances, he cracked to Babe Ruth: “Please don’t steal any bases today:unless- you wishy40o embarrass both of us.” “Beau James,” like its subject, is a lot of fun. Mr. Fowler has an
TIMES OF~JIMMY WALKER." By Gene Fowler, New York, Viking, $4. By ROBERT W. MINTON AT ONE point in “Beau James”
he tells in the style of a Broadway columnist. His book is full
of the bills Walker introduced as a state senator: “Finding this
a Ne < ce :
envelope among the disordered
heap of Walker papers was like
coming: upon the ‘man's real nature and looking into his
secret heart.”
What was ‘the real nature of
this fabulous little Irish playboy who governed Gotham from 1926 to 1932? What was hidden in his secret heart? not hazard a guess, in fact, he doesn't even list the bills, which surpriséd him so much. One can only conclude that underneath the blarney, the silk hat and piped
Mr. Fowler does
vest, behind the wisecrack and
the disarming smile there was, i
a word, nothing. But if Walker was not deep, he
of people like Arnold Rothstein, Arthur Brisbane and Harry Carey. To paraphrase Walker's remark that Joe Louis has put a rose on Abe Lincoln's tomb, Mr, Fowler has put a carnation on the grave of James J. Walker, a big white one.
Race Prejudice Data 8S. Andhil Fineberg discusses racial and religious prejudice and outlines a method for handling it
all.
in “Punishment Without Crime,” to be issued by Doubleday in the
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"LOLA: A LOVE STORY." Al
Stern. New York, Rinehart, $2.75. LOLA, a spiritual descendant
her place in the parade of hero-| invitation in their eyes and a lilt| Her story is told by Philip Van 3 Doren Stern in “Lola, a Love
conscience. Mistress who cost the| _
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in Trieste, Zurich and Paris, of (Was magnificently shallow and his stories “Dubliners” published,|@n admirable subject. for Mr,
tomers. To get those customers,
of the eye trouble that pursued Fowler, who is not a biographer him for years, of his last happier|in the serious sense, but rather a
The Archbishop, Priests and Catholic People
‘we've got to scrap color lines and|years in Paris. One may find out the whole tradition of subject|alse who stich characters were as peoples, which is as ancient asthe Citizen in “Ulysses,” Father + Dolan in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" and others.
The Doctor's Wife
COLONIALISM, whereby “inferior”. peoples (usually brown, black or yellow) are compelled to produce raw materials at paltry wages, is obsolete. It isn't enough now to sell the natives bolts of calico antl other simple things. "We're reaching the point of industrialization where we ought to sell the same natives radios, ice-
v [from the ports of the berthing ; ships.” .
(| write of rogues like William Fal-| {lon (The Great Mouthpiece) and
brilliant feature writer of the old school in which overstatement’ competes for the reader's attention with the rococo figure of speech. “This man of rainbow charm appeared forever young in a city 300 years old.” “The white gulls wheel, crying out rusty hymns of gratitude to stewards] who dispose of garbage illegally
The Cathedral : ~¢ 1347 N. Meridian 5, 6, 7:30, 9,10, 11
, » » LJ MR. FOWLER, who likes to!
boxes and similar gadgets. We can do it If we use our brains and figure out ways to raise living standards. x There's the promise and also the problem, Mr. Hanson says, It
commerce everywhere might do their members a great service by tackling the problem, Maybe the horrors recorded in| yinovels like Lt. Savoy's never will] redressed this side of the|
«| can feel. Like the electorate which | (twice sent him to City Hall and |
& run, Mr, Fowler forgives him: i “The memory of him {is green.
devoted to the League cause, is|
sensitive boy, ambitious to be- Hanson, come a writer, has a grim sort . Of life. * The climax comes when he goes South to study at a celebrated Negro college. His college career,
like
nomic progress.
ve, what the Nazis did} ¢ distant and unsympathetic; so the 5:0 , Jult v8 what for. 3 Guhnar Myrdal, |F seems to have some hope of |#: greater social sanity through eco-
But Mr.|§
Mary Bard, sister of Bot "The Egg and 1") MacDonald, | has written a candid and divert-
which he lives with his and her husband
sunt Paula
ing account of what it's like to be a physician's wife in “The
Offers Book
Jake, is ended lynched
when Jake is for being “uppity” and ‘Paula is raped and shot by Sheriff Bill Noble (Paula fortunately
. Wears Three Faces," On China oe po
"CHINA CHANGED MY MIND."
Waugh Gives
You are about to reach an important milestone in your preparation program, Now, --what is to be your next move? In arriving at a decision; you will be-interested in exploring the opportunities offered by the various fields of activity. Prominent among these is the FIELD OF BUSINESS. This is the
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. By David Morris. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, $2.50.
| A REFRESHINGLY new editorial look at China is being offered to American book buyers in “China Changed My Mind.” It is a description of war-time China as it looked to a Friend's Ambulance Service driver who did not | meet any of China's
A Curt Reply
Evelyn Waugh recently foun
who makes no pretense of know-/you a baker?” |ing the answer to China's {]] troubles.
{jl an English conscientious objector. replied, “Candlestick maker!” His experiences in China caused {Ji him to change his views and enlist {} for military duty. > i}|. His truck-driver's view con. {§i vinced Morris that Chiang Kai|shek’s government was, indeed, a | dictatorship: employing secret { police, imprisonment without trial and spies. “But it was ‘a very {Chinese form of dictatorship,
just published by Lippincott ($3).
himself in the sort of comic situa-/of his six years as Mayor on va-
The author, David Morris, was came sardonic. “No,” he finally
} |John Barrymore (Good Night, w * |Sweet Prince) writes of Walker] © Saint John wiih Jue indulgence of a son and | 125 S. Capitol w the sentimentality twhich| 6, 7:30, 9, 10, 11
only a hardbitten newspaperman |
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Saint Christopher = 5301 W. Iéth St.
would have a third time had he!
And the smile that goes with the 6, 8:30, 10 utterance of that name makes PA iyou smile and makes you feel! warm and fine: and forgiving all Saint Ann day long. | 2850 Holt Ave, There is much to forgive Walk- | 5, 8. 10:30 er for, both as a private and a ye "| public citizen. Responsibility rest- | + ed on his shoulders like a gossa-| i oh . imer shawl. He was two hours] Saint Philip Neri late to his own wedding because 550 N. Rural
he insisted ‘on finding his best] jman, who happened to be a fire buff and was unable to restrain himself from following a fire en-
5:15,6,7,8,9, 10, 11
gine that morning. Saint Rita ® = = 1816 N. Arsenal HE SELDOM read his mail and | . 9.10 never answered it. He only read| : |15 books in his life and of news- *
{papers merely glanced at the big- Saint Patrick : d ger headlines. He spent 300 days aint Patric
950 Prospect :
tion he would rather write about|cation. He jumped hotel bills, got 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 than be part of. At a Boston hotelicaught in a police raid of a gam- . where he was staying, some pling joint and escaped by posing = * bakers were holding a convention, as a waiter. . ia very jolly convention. Every! He preferred to live in hotels Saint Joseph leaders oritime he got in the elevator, some rather than home. But he finally’ 623 E. North [isi the Communist areas, and drunken baker would say: “Are cattied on one woman, the young 6 8 10:30 jand pretty show girl, Betty CompAfter several days he grew tired and pre y sows Ti Co np w {of being polite and suddenly be- heart, She was openly his mis- Saint Mary tress and no dmount of pressure 317 N. New Jersey . ever persuaded him to cover up 3 6, 7:30. 9, 11 “se {this fact. This was, you will re- oy ! Folklore of Dixie call, ‘the roaring Twenties and A B. A. Botkin, editor of “A Walker was a symbol of tha! Treasury of American Folklore” era's amorality. Immaculate Heart and “A Treasury of New England iE = of Ma Folklore,” published by Crown,| ONE OF the most valuable as- || 57th and o | is at work on “A Treasury of sets before the crash was a fund an nira Southern Folklore,” to be pub-{of wisecracks and Walker was 6:30, 8, 9:30, 1} lished by Crown later this year. the richest man in New York in Lk % :
{quite unlike the ruthless, soul{destroying machine of Nazi Germany. Its very inefficiency ren|dered it bearable and made its |orders liable to. generous and |varied fhterpretations in towns which wer# ‘many days’ journey from Chungking.”
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The Feast of the Resurrection, Easter Sunday, is
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Christ's
Commemorating
orious Resurrection from death, this
truth is the cornerstone of Christian Faith. “Now
if Christ is preached as risen from the dead how ; do some among you say that there is no resurrec-
tion of the dead? . . . If Christ has not risen, vain then is our preaching, vain too is your faith.”
(I Cor. 15:12-14)
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the first Catholic priests to do like-wise: Me.” (Luke 22:20)
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