Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1952 — Page 20

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Told About

"A LENGTH OF ROPE. A novel. I dom House, $3. :

By EMERSON PRICE

: among them is Monroe Engel : whose first

this week.

| of terror.

{ morals cannot co-exist;

‘ddiot son, Edgar.

there. his son,

some rational response.

(with Alex.

How this murder affects the remaining characters makes for {@ genuinely compelling story. { While some of the circumstances ‘in the tale have in them certain , Symbolig references, you will not ; need to discover them in order to {feel the terrific impact of the story itself.

More About Eileen : Ruth McKenney makes another addition this week to her 10-year-old theme—the

§ : * A £ 5

{ EILEEN (Harcourt, Brace, $3.50). i

!” Old material has been rear-

ivanged in chronological order,

{with the addition of several new Elleen stories. H. Lawrence Hoffman supplies genuinely humorous line drawings for the volume.

"Post" Humor

sive little books for odd-moment reading-—excellent for the - 15 {minutes before you are overtak‘en by sleep at bedtime. Both are ! ted, both edited by Ashley (Halsey Jr, and both are collections from the Saturday Evening Post. Titles: YOU BE THE GE, and THE PERFECT

Here's a Tale :

: © The work of a great many tal- , ented young writers is currently | appearing, and not the least

Cann LENGTH Tamed, HOVE) direct quotations from the private

This is & tale as weird and|and memorandums of Gen. Elsen-

} gars as anything you will find{ROWer. 1 awesom ns of Edgar . ar Poe. a I irs are author's own evaluation of the strange—even sinister—yet they Man, so that the book as a whole are always beligvable and, quite provides a full portrait of an without knowledge of it them-|American who deserves the re- . selves, they live in an atmosphere

For the most part, the sto { involves only Ry on roy with the general for, five years, | ander Forward, a man who be-|i# now president of Deflance Col- | lleves that rational behavior and| lege, Deflance, Ohio. Sheila Work for Peace : Braun, who has no understandAng of morals whatever; Ratcliff Davis, an Oberlin Colle #Bippin, a gentle man, apd his/nys, is opposed to war.

‘an Idiot

By Monros Engel. New York, Ran-

American. Very few Americans marry for mercenary reasons;”

Portrait of lke A very large portion of MAN FROM ABILENE, by Kevin Mc(Doubleday, $2.50), is in

papers, public addresses, notes

These are filled in with the

gre TORE

ABE—"The husband that has +'git his breakfast downtown is litble +'be late fer supper.”

City Sage's

spect and affection of his coun-

trymen. , The author, who worked closely

As a convinced Quaker, Jerome alumIn his

latest book, PEACE, WAR AND

i. The place is a mental institu-| YOU (Henry Schuman, $3), he Alex and Sheila are attendants Each week Pippin visits spending hours in a pathetic effort to find in him

United States were to spend as much effort in working toward peace as toward preparing for

It is likely that his position, in

Nevertheless, his appeal to hold reason above hysteria is both sound and sensible,

Life Told

‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KIN HUBBARD: Creator of Abe Martin. By Fred C. Kelly. New Hg Farrar, Strauss & Young, 3

By J. HUGH O'DONNELL Fred C, Kelly successfully has {woven a most interesting biotgraphy of Kin Hubbard from

expresses the belief that if the materials furnished by himself,

|Mrs, Josephine Hubbard and

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. . Little, Brown, $4.50. By ROBERT L. PERKIN

Two-thirds of the world’s population lives in “a permanent state

means to end that mass hunger. The facts and the possible solutions to this irrational dilemma, so great as to dwarf our sense of the tragic, are argued anew with brilliance arid some heat by one| of the world's foremost nutritionists, Dr. Jose de Castro of the University of Brazil. Dr. De Castro's THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER {is an answer to the Neo-Malthusian school, beginning) with Willlam Vogt's ROAD TO SURVIVAL, which has been tackling the same problem. Mr. Vogt's advocacy of birth control for teeming, economically impoverished nations, which al-

birth rate,- cost him his job as chief conservationist of the PanAmerican’ Union. Dr. De Castro will prove more popular with those who found Mr. Vogt's ideas distasteful or sinful. It is the eminent Brazilian scientist's contention that the viciousness of an economic imperialism of the haves is the key, rather than the fecundity of the have-nots, Yet while arguing for a more rational, Christian distri-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES |Exploring the Means Of Ending Hunger

THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUNGER. By Dr. Jasus de Castro, Boston, May I indulge a personal fond

[HUNGER is an informétive, pro-

likely to produce.

by Pau World, $7.50.

, Here's a Book About Five Books f BOOKS AND PRINTING. Ame for intruding my poor ¢but

Hedsury for Typophiles. Edited/my own) effort at. a patrician A. Bennett, Cleveland, taste.

itiful book I've seen in years, - beautiful for itself and beautiful] ig for books as things of physi-ifor its diversity, BOOKS AND ical beauty as well as things of PRINTING: A Treasury for Ty/ideas? Fing editions, I am aware, pophiles, edited by Paul A. Ben-| vocative and significant Pook. If jare something of an anachron-|nett (World, $7.50) is not only| of hunger,” and yet the world/YOU have read Vogt or Fairfield ism; they do not have, as we mod-/a joy to the senses but also a contributors, including Bruce possesses the resources and the Osborn, you should read this by|erns say, an “impact” on that all-\banquet of - information about rogers, Frederic W. Goudy, Osall means. It is easily one of the important “mass mind.” Yet I'what the best books are, physi-'car Qgg, Aldous Huxley, Edwin most important books 1952 is|contemplate the idea with sad-cally speaking. All in all, a total Grabhorn, W. A. Dwiggins and ‘ness, and I hope you will forgive revelry for the bibliophile.

printer.

. SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952

> x or Collectors : Twenty-oné different type faces are used, yet such is the design. ing and composition that it never The occasion is the most beau-|\ o.omes a hodge-podge and 1s far from type catalog. The contents are a delightful*miscellany ranging from the story of the alpha{pet to Benjamin Franklin as a The individual come from more than a score of

| Lancelot Hogben.

. of

most uniformly have the highest||

bution system for the world's

others. | The different stages of Kin's

any eventuality, we would then successful career are depicted by ports, show that a diet high in ! While Sheila is having an af- any ev eT yo g ‘fair with "Alex it occurs to her that if she marries Pippin she these uneasy times, will be de~may find financial security— bated with some heat. i: continuing her affair, of course, This is the circumt stance which leads Alex to mur-

Mr, Kelly and interspersed with the whimsical sayings and drawings of Abe Martin. To cite an example or’ two, shortly after Kin was married | Abe sald: ‘Th’ husband that has t' git his breakfast downtown is

Here are a couple of inexpen-|

to poe LAND A

RETURNS — Shirley Barker, Literary Guild novelist, returns try in her new book, A ND A PEOPLE, just. published by Crown ($2.75).

| lable t' be late fer supper.” Then {after his baby arrived, the Brown | County character quipped: “Th’ trouble 'bout a baby in th’ house {is havin’ t' read downtown.” | Several chapters are devoted to {the early days when Kin met with {many frustrated enterprises. Short Furrows, a feature that appeared in the Indianapolis News is found scattered through the book. One cannot help noticing the evolution of the Abe Martin +4character. Some of the early sketches of Abe, little resembled the Abe of. later years,©The Abe Martin sayings, which Mr. Kelly has selected for his book are as poignant and humorous as they were when written. Having worked on the staff with Kin a number of years I might add that I found Kin Hubbard as fabulous as Abe Martin.

Indiana's best loved garden {column, Dishing the Dirt, appears daily in The Times. -

food supply, he also introduces a [new scientific factor. | | Expefiments on rats, he re-

{protein—milk. meat, eggs—leads, to a lower birth rate. The United | States and England, even with] austerity, eats lots of protein, relatively, and have lower birth rates, The people of China and| India are short on milk and eggs, and the birth rate is enormous. Therefore, provide more proteins world-wide and birth rates will come into balance with a na-| tion's food resources. { “I'm certainly not qualified to pass on the soundness of the rat experiments; although I'd like to hear more about them, but what confuses me is how these findings take us off the moral hook. If the artificial control of birth is the: immorality, is a chemical means less reprehensible than mechanical means or artificial timing? The issue is a basic one, of course, but whether or not you can share Dr. De Castro's approach, THE GEOGRAPHY OF |

| For Youngsters Dorothy = Canfield Fisher is]

writing a book for young readers on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It has been tenta-| tively titled A FAIR WORLD| FOR ALL, and will be published

{by Whittlesey House.

{ LCH (A. 8. Barnes, $1 each). ; first contains short, funny iftems about court matters; the ‘second, a series of excellent comebacks in ticklish situations.

Russell's Selections Another book that can be read fn short takes, but whose con-| tents will linger in the mind a long time, is Bertand ' Russell's DICTIONARY OF MIND, MAT-| TER AND MORALS (PhilosophLibrary, $5). These are short plections — rarely exceeding a paragra each — culled from more than 100 books of the 1950! ‘Nobel ze winner, Here's one| taken at random. “AMERICA AND MATERIAL-ISM-—-A great deal of nonsense called ‘materialism’ and what its detractors call ‘bathroom civill-| gation’. I do hot think Americans are, in any degree, more “mate-| rlalistic’ in the popular sense of | that word, than people of other nations, “We think they worship the ‘almighty dollar’ becauss they succeed In getting it. But a needy! aristocrat or a French peasant | will do things for the sake of) money that shock every decent!

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