The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-15
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Inc drawing OF une duIlOI Is Dy
Dorothea G. Parrot.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN
COMETIMES serious reading
~ which sounds little "nutty" is
pretty appetizing these warm sum-
meer days.
Taste in reading changes a good
deal like the seasons but many times
in summer I find myself turning to
even more serious reading than 1 do
In winter.
That can not explain because
many times when I am tired in
winter turn to the lightest detec-
tive novel and the other day when
1t was so warm 1 was reading a
heavy biography.
A strange book is wild Talents"
by Charles Fort and published by
Claude, Kendall and sells for SO.
Fort says that AL around are
wild talents, and it occurs to no.
body to cultivate them except as
expressions of personal feelings, or
as freaks for which to charge adj
mission"
The author maintains, II con-
ceive Of powers and the uses of hui
man powers that will some day
transcend the stunts of music halls
and seanceS and side-shows, as pub
lie utilities have passed beyond the
toy stages of their origins"
Sounds rotten, far-fetched, but
Fort who has given his book the
subtitle of The Magical Powers
in Man." has proven one thing to
my way of thinking.
And my idea of the book differs
from many others who have read
the book. BY considering events all
over the world, he has hit upon
what call the oneness of things"
For example he traces the fact
that many people in various parts
OF the world fell dead about the
same time and in the same way.
In real life I have noticed that
as proven by the front pages of
the dailies Once when brick
fell from high building in Chi
cago, killing a man, the next morn
ing three other such deaths over
the world were recorded.
You will be interested in Chap
ter 8, in which he records the un-
accountable wounding of many
people and that those guilty of as
sault were never found, but re-
main mysterious.
If you like mystery, then read
the chapter which opens with the
statement, Good morning" said
the dog He disappeared in thin,
greenish vapor.
And the author writes that 81
have this record, upon newspaper
authority"
Here is a different book It may
make you feel mentally dizzy, but
1t is daisy mental tonic.
Have just received from the Gen.
fury Company, copy of THE Min
lister and the Teacher" by Walter
Scott Athearn, president of Butler
university of indianapolis. 1t was
published last Tuesday.
This book is said to be "a stimu-
lating Interpretation of the current
III OAlAAOb CQuCdllOIl DN
one of the recognized authorities in
the field
DR.. Athearn maintains that ere
ligious educators must be producers
and not borrowers from popular
educators"
E. P. Dutton & Co., informs me
that they just published in 81 paper
cover form This Democratic Roose-
velt,' by Leland M. Ross and Allen
M Grobin. It was published in
standard form earlier in the year.
Il will give you two bushels of
corn or wheat, six bushels of oats
or six pounds of bacon for Sir Ar
thur Salter's Recovery" writes a
Terre Haute Und) lawyer to the
Century Company, which is reply
ing that 1t may be necessary to ac-
cept the offer unless the financial
and political leaders of America
read Recovery" and adopt some of
; the major policies outlined by Sir
Arthur.
WILL the starving author or
w literary critic who filched that
sucking pig, yclept Blue Boy"
from the exhibition stand at the
party given to Phil Stong on the
, publication day of state Fair"
please get troubled conscience
and forward $3.50 10 the Century
Company. The butchers bill has
been paid by the publishers after
the complete failure of two of their
best detective story writer's to run
down the culprit.
What are the fiction leaders in
New York City? Brentanos re-
ports: Benefits Received" by Alice
Grant BOSNIAN; Pigeon Irish" by
Frances Stuart; "Ballerina," by
Lady Eleanor Smith published by
Bobas-MerrilD; Letter From an
Unknown Woman" by Stefan
zweig; "A Modern Hero" by Louis
Bromfield, and THE Quick and the
Dead" by Claire Spencer.
1t is claimed by Putnams Sons
that they have published lust the
thing in the way of books for the
beach. hammock. shady porch" It
is The Radiant Years" by Elizabeth
Carfrae. And I agree. 1t is the
romance of youth in London.
y y
Claude c. Bowers has written a
new history. "Beveridge and the
Progressive Era" 1t will be pub
lished in September by Houghton
MifIlin Company.