Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1950 — Page 8

T alliz SRE (TIMES BOOK PAGE Highway ‘Teenicide” Made Brutally Real In Easy-to-Read Novel

"HOT ROD." A novel. By Henry Gregor Felsan. New York,

: Dutton, $2. By R. K. SHULL PARENTS, if you have any love for your children or any respect for your fellow men, you'll read “Hot Rod.” And when you're finished you'll make your children read it. When you've completed the book, sit down with your children and count off the number of persons you know

. who have been killed or maimed on the highways. Recall

2ll the wrecks youve Seen BUT 10U REALLY can't THEN DO SOMETHING blame the youngsters, and AuABOUT IT. thor Felsen doesn’t. It's the

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Henry Gregor Felsen has made one of the first complete literary ~fforts to bring the new American crime known as “teenicide” to light. He's aimed his book right at the teeners, exploring

{parents who are at fault. The {average American child is des{tined to drive a- car. How he driveg is all up to his parents. The author points out that Dad really isn’t the best teacher {after all, Dad's clean accident

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their ‘adolescent minds. There| 1. te may be all right, but does

“The Tinkers," an interpretation of gypsy life in Dartmoor by the noted contemporary British

are plenty of thrills to hold the|, really know how to train a reader's attention. It's brutally! iii-happy youngster? Ask the easy to rea |state troopers. . | Your children will be able to| The preachings of the policeidentify all of the characters Inipy3n and the driving instructor the book with their own friends. in thie book may seem a little The “hopped-up™ speed merchant! corny to our high-spirited. youth, The road-hogging wise guy. The put does right ever seem as ex-| kid whose father could get him| citing as wrong? Also, does it| out of any police jam, except the nave the tragic consequences of last one when he took a one-way | wrong? ride in the hearse. And the girls| In this year 1950, the adult] who urged the boys to greater|population doesn’t have a whole speeds. lot to recommend itself, but it| Twisted metal, crushed bodies, would still be nice if everyone and pavements streaked withion the highways could live long gas, ofl and blood are all toojenough to see if the future will realistic in “Hot Rod.” ‘be brighter,

. : . 3 Poignant Story of Missionary Told “WHITE WITCH DOCTOR." A novel. By Louise A. Stinetorf. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, $3. By AGNES OSTROM THE LITERARY GUILD’S August selection is about a woman, authored by a woman. But it is not just a book for women. In her first book-length novel, Louise A. Stinetorf, former Hoosier, poignantly recounts the story of a medical missionary in Central Africa. Suddenly released from family responsibility, the middle-aged heroine, Ellen Burton, studies nursing for three years before would willingly have made her “he. can be sent to the foreign his wife. tield. Then — for more than a| Ellen matches wits with bona quarter century — this amazing fide African witch doctors, with nerson ministers to the physical, her missionary superiors and comental and spiritual needs of workers, with the animal and

t tives ves without Plant menaces of the “Dark Conlie na she lo A tinent.” barriers are

artist, Augustus Edwyn John, is considered one of the finest examples of lithographic art in the collection of graphics at the Herron Art Museum. It was made in 1920 after the artist had lived for

Penetrating Book Turns ‘Water Termed Expansion Key

Famous Author Inside Out

"MARK TWAIN, AS A LITERARY ARTIST." By Gladys Carmen "THE WATER SEEKERS." By Bellamy. University of Oklahoma Press, $5. Remi A. Nadeau. New York, NELSON SMITH Doubleday, $3.

vgn humor .and its reasons; a dis-

B GLADYS CARMEN BELLAMY, in a book designed {for the student, both amateur and professional, has approached one of the most contradictory literary characters {of contemporary times. | Mark Twain has been damned by the intellectuals as la children's writer and by the critics as unformed, and (has never been taken seri-

ously. cussion of -his pessimism as exMrs. Bellamy states that hibited in his travel books; she admires Mark Twain, but|Prief glimpse Into his reminislets her admiration make her|cences; and finally a study of his

THE DEVELOPMENT of our country will be only as great and as far as our water supply, ac-

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cording to Remi A, Nadeau. And he backs this up with one of the most interesting stories on a dull subject to come from a book bindery in recent months, He leads the reader along a suspense-filled trail with the water pioneers who have developed the Southwest in the last 50 years.

Anecdotes and historical side-

admit more of Twain's faults adjustment to his environment, 'than are evidenced by his writ-|and most of all to his owh perings. She is over-critical of her sonality. hero. But her treatment of his| In the first part she probes| life and works is better for this/the man, Mark Twain, and his fault, because she introduces all mind. She introduces, by means) |eriticism which is available. jof cousnentaty on the man by | s 8» his contemporaries, analysis b, HER BOOK is divided into his critics, and by By dhs five parts: the statement of the searching study of his writings

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Story of War Orphan

Harcourt, Brace is bringing out on Aug. 10 a first novel by Francois Boyer, a young Frenchman. Entitled “The Secret Game.” It is, primarily the story of nine-year-old Paulette, a war orphan.

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deference to color. : . t his Following t./broken by “mama’s” code of serv-|0f Twain; an analysis o moralism, pessimism, determin-| ES cteps of a a Te er. ice. Even when her body is lism, and patheticism. -|backbone of commerce, water Story of Loyalty Dr. Mary, a character study in|Tacked with the pangs of disease, Gl L bh * = = holds precedence over coal and Oath Battle T d she serves. There is some of S LeTrrers | SHE SHOWS how his moral- other vital materials. And many Jath battle lIrace

“erself, Ellen becomes a leader 2nd teacher among her own retinue of primitive jungle friends, sven Pygmies, whose intellect

life at its rankest level, some at!

{writing which is best painted in|g

{ism produced the vicious reform! times in the last 50 years, this

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educated, civilized whites ever "YOUR SON AND MINE" By

his humor, In opposition to his| moralism, she points up his de-! |terminism, his belief that there

upply of water has been worth ¢rnia refusing to renew the corfighting for, as Mr. Nadeau so|tracts of 157 members of the fac-| vividly illustrates in his book. |ulty who had failed to sign' a

will surprise the readers. undermine the simple faith of

» » » . SHE MAKES fast friends of this “White Witch Doctor.” Aganza, an ugly old native whom, Customs of Africa's children she trains as an efficient assist- have understanding and meaning “at in her outstation hospitals; through the pen of one who has of Jacques and Achmed, her been a missionary and who faithful servants; of crippled Job knows life as it is lived in the and of L’loni, white trader who'Belgian Congo. 1

Aramais Hovsepian, New Yorkilis no hope for man, because man Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2.50. |is base by nature, and can never By DICK CAMPBELL overcome his base environments. THE LETTERS from his These things resulted in his consoldier son gave Aramais Hov-|ficts, and reduced his writings sepian the nucleus of his book | 10 the third fault, pessimism. “Your Son and Mine.” He added . We see in spurts the man, Mark

lexcerpts from his own mail, from "Twain, as a literary artist, con-

In conclusion, he points out that at our present rate of in-| crease in population and with our| present consumption of water, it won't be too many years until the water seekers will be fighting] all over the country for a supply. —R.K.S.

special loyalty oath is the latest move in a long battle for acad-| emic freedom being carried on in| the coast institution. The full story of the fight of] the faculty against the discriminatory oath is told in a book, “The Year of the Oath,” written by George R. Stewart and other

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“DEMOCRACY IN POLITICS AND ECONOMICS." By Charles P. magazines. Taft. New York, Farrar, Straus, $2. By MAXWELL RIDDLE >

CHARLES P. TAFT, who is brother of a senator, has written facy in Politics and Economics.” This is not dull and pondero times exciting book which asks surprising suggestions on every lectures given by Mr. Taft at Rice| institute in April, 1948, Mr. Taft believes there i= need, ‘a define our democracy, and he ‘oes this very well, after having ‘raced it back to its sources. A| primary source is the Puritan Revolution of 1641-1949, or that| mart of Protestantism represented by the Congregational, Methodist, | Baptist and Quaker churches. | As Mr. Taft defines it, true!

democracy is the consent to bel ruled by the majority, even if by your opponents, and with the

x Book Based on Taft Lectures | nis wife's and pertinent comment | yjnually striving to write per-

{fectly of beautiful happenings, The boy's letters, which trace as all literary artists do; and| him from basic training through Seeing no beautiful happenings on by no means the over-shadowed seven months of infantry com-| which he is sufficiently versed a wife few book called “Democ- bat, document the change from to write he tries to make do with : {petulant youth to tough, alert| what he has at hand. us. Instead, It is a fresh, some- manhood And the reader is per-| ,,.. Rallamy leads on ' ; | e e on a disturbing questions and makes mitted to share the emotions of | gelightful EE the mind of

page. The book is based on/father and mother as they wait Mark Twain, The book, because and pray for their son.

The three Hovsepians may be composition, 18 a rare find.

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of its ease of style and logic of| Glass” which Dodd, Mead will

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Cultural Poverty

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A CHILD is used to mirror for us the rather terrifying break-up 3 of our culture in “The Burning Glass” by John Franklin Bardin, & The outstanding character is a crippled genius of 12 named {loger. Roger looks at the rich, educated, and cultured people about

him with startling clarity. His reaction is to caricature them in| i | |

obscene drawings.

Bardin says of Roger that he to believe in free love, and Who | jaw “quit religion when he read the! wi. : {jewelry store to be published by

* en Commandments and learned : jat, to be Godly, it was neceswry to ‘honor thy father and thy iother.”” He adds that the only *4ing Roger had in common with {I other boys his age was that » was misunderstood by his _arents, } . » . - BARDIN’S book is the story of

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