The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

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BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
TTAVE just finished the strangest
Il Il story of the World war that
ever read. 1t is "Bodyguard I'm
SEEM" by Vincenzo D'Aquila, ma
tive born Italian but raised in New
York, who volunteered in the Ital-
ian army near the beginning of the
war.
This book is different because it
is not a novel as published by Rich
ard r. Smith, Inc, New York, but
"a true autobiography
The author served in the high
Alps He felt that his bodyguard
was God, and he escaped from &C
tual killing service because he shot
his weapons up in the air.
He became a conscientious objec-
tor after voluntarily taking the oath
to kill the enemy. He realized that
war was deathly bunk and his body
guard kept him out of the slaugh-
ter.
He made up his mind to get out
of the trenches by Christmas. He
did by taking sickness, then worked
up a terrible fever by drinking three
tins of infected evaporated milk
and then by terrible physical ex-
perience developed cerebral typhus.
During his fight to stay on earth
even with its madness" D'Aquila
went through the strange spiritual
experience of his soul soaring up
ward, then to return to his wrecked
shell of his body.
1t was for a purpose-He then
became a prophet and by his own
brief commands worked healing
miracles" in the hospital wards.
Many thought him nuts. But
read this book. One of the strangest
and the greatest of the war books
And it sure gives the Italian high
army command many black eyes.
II
You can get the real Darrow and
the way and why he fought many
unpopular causes and won in new
book called Clarence Darrow," by
Charles Lale Harrison, and pub
lished by Jonathan Cape and Har-
rison Smith. You see the real man
because he is made to repeat again
many speeches that he made in the
Debs case, the Meyer case, The
United Mine Workers, Leopold-Loeb
the Scopes case and many others.
You will get closer to his humanity
and common sense than ever be-
fore.
A new type of a book review wins
IN today. Meaning that Mariana
I. Schludecker, 1888 Union street
reviews Walden by Henry D
Thoreau.
Am glad that somebody is read
ing books not just fresh off the
press and writing good reviews on
them.
Her winning review is as follows
walden. as described is a story Of life
mean that they should not PLAY HE. OF
STUDY it merely. but earnestly LIVE
4iT The D author writes Of an experiment il
leaving the METROPOLIS and all possessions
to soiourn in self-made nut on Waaiiuel
Pond in Massachusetts,. He Is phIiotf0 30,
nher in a sense. dealing plainly with tnt
facts and expenditures OF ms, moue "
lions between expostulations entrance one
as an interlude between acts Oh claSSi'
PiS The reader thrills to the style of Thor,
cans living. His manner of roughlng J
is realistic vet tantaSticai. Hl frie not neI
are q luscious banquet fit to serve q king
His solitary fishing trips ana L ,a up,
through the woods are tac-simlle 10 al ou'
''s AS soon as Miss Schludecker get
in touch with this department
will let her choose one book eithe
from some old master or modern
writer.
William Gibbs McAdoo's Crowd
cd Years" just issued by Hough
ton Mifflin Company, is the auto
biography of man who rose iron
the poverty of a Georgia farm t.
the seat of the mighty. He was, a
one time. secretary of the treasury
director general of railroads ant
chairman of the federal reserv
board the federal farm board, tn
War Finance Corporation and tn
international high commission
holding. probably, more positions o
OFFICIAL responsibility than have eve
been held at one time by any othe
man in our history. Among tn
other public men who figure il
Crowded Years" are Hoover
Harding. Wilson. Champ CLARK
Bryan. Lansing and House, with a
of whom McAdoo came in clos
contact during the busy years i
Washington.
The Merrill radio dram
that was to have been heard owe
station w. F. B. NJ. last Sunda
will be heard Nov. %, at $50 p. n
These dramas are based on the lat
est Bobbs- Merrill publications.
One of the popular novels to b
heard soon will be Jenny Fowler
written by Mrs. Margaret Way
mouth Jackson of STOP Pleasar
Run boulevard, this city
The station is very anxious I
have the listeners send in to thei
the names of any Bobbs-Merri
publication that they would like I
have dramatized.