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Symposium Gives A Re-Appraisal of ‘The Hoosier Poet’

"POET OF THE PEOPLE: AN EVALUATION OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY." By Jeannette Covert Nolan, Hdtace Gregory and

James T. Farrell. Bloomington,

Indiana University Press, $2.

By HENRY BUTLER

THERE ARE two kinds of stories about James Whit-

comb Riley.

In Bible-scholar parlance,

canon or in the apocrypha.

found their way into print. The apocrypha contains the

more homely anecdotes which, which young readers tolerate only

whether accurate or not, have

tion. Riley is a legend and a symbol. Like other historic figures who have come to mean a great deal to posterity, he must be handled carefully by critics. Otherwise, many persons will be offended. 2

“POET OF THE PEOPLE,” the second publication of the new Indiana University Press, is an attempt to re-appraise Riley, as man and poet, in terms of current interests and tastes. It's composed

as a final observance at that conference of the Riley centennial. Jeannette Covert Nolan,

“Hoosier Poet,” a young people's biography of Riley 1942); Horace Gregory, poet and

they belong either in t

| with children must have known

that pathos is a quality in art

under protest.”

{lugubrious sentimentality poetry|reciting children once were obliged

{to assume for purposes of home entertainment. That's not saying companies are worth millions so they can get Hibben said.

we're any better ‘off with TV and comic books, but we're quick to forget past fads. 5 = 5

that Riley actually wrote about children for adults, and not for child readers.

only dredges from the above-

imentioned apocrypha the story of en's clubs to go to the hearings with me. In- Riley's drinking prowess but also all make excuses. dianapolis novelist and author of blames the Hoosier bard for bow- attending a PSC hearing on one of the rate

ing before convention. “It was

ties of domestic felicity

he which, incidentally,

She recalls the Hibben's complete approval. been deemed unworthy of publica- Procession of pathetic children— 4p0lis Water Co., which Mrs, Hibben feels recently ;sickly, crippled, dying—in Riley's hegan seeking rate increases “on general prinpoems, and thereby hints at the ciples, because everybody else was doing it and

Hoosier Profile

By Carl Henn

hearings.

Mrs. Evadne Hayward Hibben, 2933 N. Meri{dian St., has attended nearly every utility hearing

jat hand.

Why this Interest in things civic? Hibben does it “because I like it.” having private means, she has the time to spend

Mrs.

at it. oe oo oo HER INTEREST in public ma fined to the utilities, She attends

council

one we've had.”

Mrs. Hibben's opinions on utilities, politicians The canon comprises official biographical material, and other public servants sometimes border on -

eulogies and other laudatory sentiments that so far have!

the unfavorable.

some excuse, but the service is |fares."” . Indiana Bell Telephone does

the going looked good.”

OD “ALL THE UTILITIES try to

higher rates,” Mrs. need the money. They're just i making slaves of us.”

Mrs. Hibben, unlike most women interested in AND MRS. NOLAN concludes affairs of city and state, refuses to join women's

clubs. She approves of their ai their accomplishments.

“The clubs don't get anything done,” she says “They make rules to tie their own hands. . When of three lectures delivered at the Mr. Gregory, severest critic of you suggest some real action, they only talk IU Writers’ Conference in 1949, Riley in this little volume, not:

ut it.

“I've tried to get officers of some of the wom-

| petitions made by Indianapolis

(Messner, a fear of disturbing the proprie- Mr. Steckler, the Public Counsellor then, talked (soto us afterward. That was good, but the women

critic, and James T. Farrell, novel- ardently cherished by our Vic- never came back again.”

ist (Studs Lonigan, et al), are torian ancestors) that marred his

the contributors. = t » MRS. NOLAN probably is on safest ground in her choice of subject: “Riley as a Children’s Poet.” She speaks of her own introduction to Riley in her Southern Indiana childhood when it was’customary for children to learn poems for recitation. (I might add here that the adult-inspired fashion for children doing Riley recitations certainly must have been nation-wide. It seems to have had something to do with an allergy 1 early acquired for “The Raggedy Man.”) In one shrewd passage, Mrs. Nolan comments, “Even a bachelor poet who had meager contact

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portraits of the lives around him, that sapped the vitality inherent in the comedy so faithfully expressed in many of his lines. And that is why so much of what he wrote remains incomplete and so

often immature,” Mr. Gregory writes. Mr. Farrell, least successful

(and possibly least happy with his assignment) of the three essayists, endeavors to hitch Riley to the long-since overworked theme of the American frontier. Riley, he says, was both inspired and frighfened by the frontier theme, and hence sought an inner “security” through comforting sentimentality in his verse. He speaks of Riley's rendering love “into a cozy cliche,” and quotes the rather gooey concluding stanzas of “An Old Sweetheart of Mine.” { s = = I THINK it's unfortunate that this little book should have gone into print without some additions. There should have been a chapter on the Riley legend. Indeed, the Riley legend is the most important subject of all. Mrs. Nolan, in her chapter of the book, ohserves that Riley may be said to have invented the “typical Hoosier,” complete, she adds, with “a dubious dialect as yet unidentified by any philologist.” She might have followed that ingenious suggestion with the further one that Hoosiers in turn have created Riley in their own image. The prestige and significance of Riley are such that a paraphrase of Voltaire’s epigram .8 appropriate: If there were no Riley, it would be necessary to invent one. A careful study of the Riley legend would reveal a great deal about Indiana in the 75 years or so since Riley's poems first started to appear in print.

Mrs. Nannie Fort | Services Are Set

Services for Mrs. Nannie J. Fort, who died yesterday in her home, 4416 E. Washington St. will be at 1:30 p. m. Monday in the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. Burial will be in Crown Hill. She was 80. #

Mrs. in vain, just as she f

Sometimes, laboring

PUBLIC UTILITY companies can count on seeing one familiar face at the Indianapolis

jand court case for the last six years. A short, motherly woman of middle age, Mrs. { Hibben enters the room, takes an inconspicuous {seat and listens intently to some of the most boring testimony ever offered. S8he doesn’t leave until the case is adjourned for the day, and she |often finds an opportunity to buttonhole one of {the participants to give her views on the matter

meetings and ‘practically lived at the >, /Sthtehouse” during the 1951 General Assembly, she classified as “the worst

“Our transit fares are outrageous,” she says. “If we had decent transportation,

Nor does Indian-

Once, I talked 14 women into

Hibben feels that she

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Dies at Mitchell

Formér Coroner in Lawrence County

Times State Service MITCHELL, Apr. 14 — Dr. George Lee Gibbons, prominent Mitchell physician and former Lawrence County coroner, died yesterday In his home. He was 82.

| A native of Orangeville, Ind., {Dr. Gibons came to Mitchell in 1909 after being graduated from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis. He was graduated also from Southern Indiana Normal College in ‘Mitchell.

He opened his medical office in Huron in 1903, and practiced in Lawrence County from 1909 except while serving as a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps during World War I. Dr. Gibbons was a member of the First Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge, American Legion and Modern Woodmen Lodge. Survivors include his wife; a son, Harris A., Washington, Ind.; and a brother, William Riley Gibbons, Orleans.

Clarence Harris

Services for Clarence Harris, Inidanapolis mail carrier and Army veteran of World War II, will be at 1 p. m. Thursday Jn Jacobs Brothers West Side Chapel. Burial will be in New Crown. He was 40. Mr. Harris, who died Thursday night in Generg! Hospital. had lived at 2159 N. Illinois St. A native of Trenton, Ky., he moved to Indianapolis 27 years ago and had been employed by the Indian-

apolis Postoffice the last three years. He was a member of the Elks Lodge.

Survivors include three sisters, Misses Marie and Hattie Harris, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Georgia Morris, Elkton, Ky., and a halfbrother, Marshall Mimms, Indianapolis.

A native of Lewis County, Ken- Mrs. James Turner

tucky, Mrs. Fort had lived in Indianapolis 61 years and was a member of the Third Christian Church. Survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Nora Fluharty and Mrs. Lucy Kimbler, Indianapolis, and Mrs. three brothers, John, George and Sam

Cooper, all of Portsmouth, O., and a nephew, Fred Whiteside, Indian- Turner had lived in Indianapolis

apolis. :

RICHMOND, Ind., April 14 (UP)—Wayne County Coroner H.

D.. Hill today returned a verdict! Helen Maria of suicide in the death of Robert and Mrs. Blackamore, 44-year-old Kokomo: Japan, painter, who leaped to his death| Johns, at the county jail, while serving pm -—

Services for Mrs. Rosemary Turner, who died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital after a brief illness, will be at 11 a. m. Monday

in J. C. Wilson Chapel of the Chimes. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Lebanon. She was 25. A native of Lebanon. Mrs.

She was a RCA-Victor

the last five years. former employee of Division. Survivors include her husband, James, 822 N. New Jersey St.; a son, James Jr.; two sisters, Mrs. McCoy, Lebanon, Betty Jean Goode, and her father, George Lebanon.

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ner, retired shipping clerk who died yesterday in St. Francis Hos(pital, will be at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow in Cecil R. Hurt Shefield Chapel. Burial will be in Patterson Cemetery at Farmer, O. Mr. Winebrenner, who was 76, had lived recently with his daughter, Mrs. Opal Barlow, R. R. 8, Box 619, Indianapolis. He was a member of Red Men's Lodge. Born in Darke County, Ohio, Mr. Winebrenner lived in Indianapolis 61 years. He formerly lived at 1305 E. Wade St. He retired 15 years ago as shipping clerk for the former Martin-Perry Corp., where he had worked 25 years. Other survivors include a brother, Oscar, Beech Grove; two sisters, Mrs. Cassie Rhodes, South Bend. and Mrs. Rosa Holcomb, Mishawaka. and a granddaughter.

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| Penney refused to alter the announced plans for! his new department store on Monument Circle. Mrs. Hibben led a movement to see a hotel | erected atop the structure, or, at least, a change, in the architectural plans. nothing; the store was built as announced. still offends Mrs. Hibben.

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