The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-28

+He closing years OF MS lie ana
stipulated that the book could not
be published until after his death
and that no word Of the manu-
> script could be changed.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
TINE other night for the first time
Il I became acquainted with Bur-
ris jenkins as an author, meaning
that 1 read his latest novel, "Tor-
rent" published by The Bobbs Mer-
rill Company and sells for 81.
jenkins is interesting as a man
and as an author because he is the
pastor of a popular community
church in Kansas City. That is not
startling news but they have dances
Sunday nights.
You might get the idea that the
characters in Torrent" are virgins.
Far from that, the chief modern
. characters do and say the most I'M
conventional things.
Here is a novel that hooks up
the early pioneer days of Daniel
Boone and other pioneers with the
moderns' and the oss-backs of
today.
Boone Torrent, just Twenty-Five
graduates from the University OF
Missouri but instead of going home
to the apron strings of his mother
and the tyranny of his father, who
is a United States senator, picks up
a girl companion and the two start
out in an automobile to cover the
trail of Boones ancestor from Vir-
ginia. Kentucky. Missouri and other
states.
OF course. Boone's narrow minded
mother threw duck fit when she
learned shat her darling boy was
gadding about the country with "a
certain kind of woman
But nobody reckoned about Andre
Durham, just a working girl, be-
cause she was moral, decent, intel
ligent and above all, a great person.
4 She knew what "necking" could lead
to with Boone and one of the best
chapters of the book is where Boone
permits his sex urge to become
stronger than his better Judgment.
But Andre was stronger than both
of them.
The discussion of these two
Youngsters regarding modern friend
ship is a classic in frankness and
honesty.
The author has been clever in
hooking up the pioneer days with
today and his character drawings
of the stern and brave men and
women of early America are pnusu-
ally we'll done.
There might be some slight criti-
cism to the great space Jenkins de-
votes to these pioneer interludes, but
I found them delightful because the
author makes the point that so
many fathers of today actually
Gle" about their ancestors, making
them saints when they were only
human.
Boone's indictment of modern uni
versities will cause lot OF bitter
discussion, but as far as I am con-
cerned I am on Boone's side of the
fence.
Parents may get all hot and
bothered as they read this chapter
when Boone lays down the law to
his dad, but there is a lot OF truth
in what the lad says.
Here is a different sort of story
about modern youth. There is no
pussyfooting on part of the author
Bobbs-M Merrill informs me that
, they have four November publlca-
tions which will cheer" the reader.
They are "Lances Down" by Rich
ard Boleslavski and Helen Wood
ward; THE Flying Carpet" by Rich
ard Halliburton: THE Long Knives
Walked" by Mary Louise Mabie, and,
Tristan and Isolde by John Err
skine. Looks good to me.
Those of you who are interested
IN the new books in the Business
Branch Library will be glad to hear
that some important new ones have
been added.
Among them are: World Social
Economic Planning" by the Inter
National industrial Relations Insti-
tute: THE Sales Strategy of John
Il Patterson" by Johnson and
Lynch: After Dinner Speeches and
How To Make Them" by Nesbit;
7 Investing in Wages by Deane, in
which a plan to eliminate unemploy-
ment is launched, and, New Bust
ness English" by Hotchkiss.
Have been asked so many times
bv mothers and fathers for a list of
books for children Of all ages. Par
ents all over the country have asked
that question and it remained for
The Macmillan Company to publish
macmillan Books For Boys and
Girls" which lists about six hundred
different titles.
1t is dedicated to Lewis Car
rolls Alice in honor of her sixty
seventh birthday as a book child"
Isn't that nice? I think So
You will be interested in the chap
ter devoted TO Books about Ameri-
. ca. Past and Present" The books
are lifted under such divisions
as DAYS of Discovery" "ColonistS
and Pioneers Indians" THE Rev.
dictionary Wars" Civil War; and
the like.
You may get copy of this cata-
logue by writing The Macmillan
Company, so Fifth Avenue. New
York City. Or if you want to look
at mine, come to my desk at The
Times and ] viii oblige.