Show Title Proves Best Feature Peature of Book on US Corruption Uncle Sham by ly Gauba Aspires Aspires' s' s to be be Spicy Expose By Dy TED LONG LONG Lai Lal i Gauba Gauba of ot Lahore India who iho Is Js' a graduate of at Cambridge Cam Can bridge university and th tho director of ot n numerous m l ous joint s stock companies In his native land has ha Written a book Undo Uncle Sham which purports purports purports pur pur- ports to bo be the tho strange tale talo tlc of ot a civilization run run amok Mr Mn Gauba's Gaubas Gnu Gau bas ba's book closely parallels one written written written writ writ- ten not so long ago by Katherine Mayo Mno and lacks lack only the laUer's latter's cocksureness and willingness to point what's whal's wrong wih with the world Un Uncle le Sham may be bo a subtle book book book-a a parody of ot Mother India If I it I la Is Mr Gauba a a. a very clever cleve cever man If I It Is not not and a and it may be only an nn attack atack ma made e absurd by lack of f knowledge and poor assemblage assemblage assem assem- blage of material Mr Mr r Gauba Is Js an ass To Too decide whether ho Is clever r or foolish Is is' a difficult problem the indication Is Is however that hat he was wa wa serious when he wrote oto his book USUAL ATTACK America America or or better beter Americanism has ha has been frequently attacked by E European writers Air Mr Gaubas Gauba's Gaubas Gauba's attack at at attack tack does docs not differ from those of his pred predecessors He adopts the thesis that the United States Is Js material minded and sets out to provo It J. J laying moro more emphasis upon upon th the sex side of ot materialism however how ever Cl than most writers writers' do His book is sex sex ridden Morals In the thO United States are ae aeIn i In a shocking condition If Mr G Gauba Gauba Gau Gau- ba Is to bo be believed which Is hi another another an an- an another other way vay of ot saying if t his hl a authorIties authorities author author- thor thor- lUes aro are to bo be believed for tor he does doe not appear to h have vo done any personal per er research Tho The schools schools' are corrupt the marriage bed profaned and New York and other othe big cities ct s are filled with wih bachelor apartments apartments the terror of ot virginity All Al of ot which Is Interesting From pleasures Mr Gaub Gauba turns to pleasures pleasure's price am and quotes quote statistics upon disease which aro are startling but not not very ver well wel substantiated sub sub- But Dut sex Irregularities are aro ao not particularly American phenomena and Mr Gauba co only about half haJ his book to them discussing In the remainder such topics as s the K K IC K K R. the negro problem ard and the evangelical religions QUOTATIONS PLENTIFUL Nothing Mr Gauba lla has to say is particularly new American readers reades have heard all 31 of ot its Js again aan and again from native nativo and foreign critics but it i may maybe be interesting to the natives of ot India Neither is his book well wel organized it is rath rather tiresome me reading consisting as a as it i does of ot numerous quotations poorly introduced The the book stands upon tho the degree of seriousness with which Mr Gauba Guba rote wrote it i if It h he imagined he was wa writing a a. a brilliant analysis analysIs' o of American life Je he may maybe maybo maybo bo be howled down or ignored as tho the mood strikes If I he was p parodying Mother M India he po has ha done a good job The Tho writing of ot his hIs' book Is loose his hs authorities have a phoney ring they consist principally of of Bernarr M Macfadden Judge L Lindsey y and the tho Physical Culture magazine and his conclusions show faulty logic logic all all allan an n e exact act parallel of ot Miss Mayas Maya's methods in her work Clever or or stupid however ho Uncle Sham has but a a s small ual chance of ot success In the United States unless some stupid official manages to have h it I banned It I is i not the kind of reading Americans enjoy for fori it I does not combine Is its with the salt of ot p prestige or the pep pepper I per pel of wit The Times Publishing company Lahore India |