Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 4 | Traditional Significance of Spy Upheld in 'Our Secret War'

a. a Traditional Significance of f Spy py II Upheld Our Secret W WI r I cail Called d Sympathetic Caricaturist Penrod Turns Sleuth in Diverting V Volume plume L- L PA I E By y PAUL L W. W WHITE NEW YORK Sept 21 UP UP The now now I It can be b told school school of authorship which began to flourish a few years cars after the armistice heretofore has been disappointing in regard t to one of our childhood d ideals the Ideals the IP spy A number of at writers Illusion Illusion- blasters turned out ut books books' in which It Jt was su suggested that the spy was os was was' of ot little use tuse rc th that t of ot the Information he lie le did di obtain half halt wa was tas' untrue and nd the other half I It I Iy y was s all al very disturbing Hut Ul now conies comes Thomas M. M 1 Johnson John John- son soil In Our Secret War Var Bobbs- Bobbs Merrill l and anti the he spy spy Is Is returned to his quite proper proper place plSe e We learn tr from Johnson that th there re realy really earli were such such things a 03 a intelligence co In In In- In that du due t to a prO i n tint tal encounter the American secret service tyas was able to unmask a aGer Ger German alan man master the CIn C C in tact fact contributed largely to the winning of at the war wa Unfortunately Unfortunate however not not enough years ears ars have elapsed asto as yei et etto to permit Johnson to use us actual names in an an oth otherwise apparently a authoritative tive book For For that that rea reason ted red Ion son the authe authenticity may my be e question ques questioned ues tion ton d by the thc skeptical and tie the writers writer's evident eat research minim Johnson excuses s his omissions on on the ground that ther their publication might en endanger c rie 1 our Jr spy system In Iii a fut future re war Which though acceptable Is far front from comforting MISH MISHAPS PS DIVERT RT I after er an absence of 13 y years rs is 15 back f f Booth again agIn has led hi his his' winning j Juvenile venUe into a a se series le of ot diverting mishaps the result Penrod being published by ly Dou Doubleday Doran Wh When n as as a a. bo boy we read tread avidly every Penrod story tIe the master could turn out ut it J at no time seemed that was writing about a a. real red boy Penrod was wa conceived con con- d with ih too adult an Ima imagination lna tion and whenever heard ton we our elders t speak of oC him as hs s so o nat nat- we WG us used i to aerie Itt cl w with th es nl ment en Penrod which de describes ds- ds scribes in inthe the maln he experiences of ot Penrod as a detective under the alias of George B. B fan falls to change that early arly opinion Penrod Pen Pen- rod lod hanie and Sam m Herman and nd Y V Verman ronan are aro amusing yes but an any claim th that t they are arc arc blood and es blood bo boys boy iii Ii Is ridiculous merely happens happen to be o one e of t the few caricaturists curl cari who wino has any rny hY sympathy cr More or or oh less Iu personal persona John young oung Swiss has spent pent th the tho past 1 0 two years sheep sheep- herding on on n. n the Algerian desert ex ex excavating excavating ex- ex Egyptian ruins and writIng writ writ- Ing bra a novel no Nile Gold cold KnItel b by the tie wa way is hl his hi own translator som sometimes writing his books first in English and then translating into his native nat e German or the other ther way way around C Calvin C Coolidge now has ha added book reviewing to his ac ac- ac- ac For the publishers publishers' publish publish- ers ers' he reviewed a blo biography phy of Robert A. A Woods Champion of Democracy James Weldon Johnson negro egO poet essayist and l eUst novelist has bu been awarded a a a fellowship for one yearby year yeu yearby by the Julius Julus n Rosenwald fund Oliver La L Forges Forge's ages Boy a a love JO 0 story of two modern Navajos 15 s th the Literary Guild Guid selection for tor Nov November Vacation Homer Croy Cray whose Coney Island s soon on will wUl appear spent his up on Cape Cod f to study the the cod in its native habitat and to see how raise their young While Rex flex fex Beach claims that in Norther Northern Quebec t the e tout trout are are so 60 big they have to to wear two piece bathing suits I S Sergeant rge nt Samuel Wood fill the most decorated man in tile the A A. A A E E. F. F and md whom Pershing termed Americas Greatest Soldier ha has hal written a a. a book describing his 33 years years' military service iii of ot the Regulars