Show 'V A THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE V Fisher’s Tetralogy Now Complete Its Quest of Truth Reaches Finality By JACOB TRAPP NO VILLAIN NEED BE By Vardl Fisher Publishers Doubleday Doran and Co Inc Garden City N Y and the Caxton Printers Caldwell Idaho Is a record of unique in fiction Its protagonist Vridar sets out to know the truth about himself He attains adjustment understanding tolerance In this novel we come again upon the consistent terseness and clean-cu- t workmanship of “In Tragic Life” In “No Villain Need Be" Vardls Fisher rises to new heights as a novelist It Is his best published work The Vridar Hunter tetralogy now stands before us complete The final volume shows what a triumph were the two intermediate volumes “Passions Spin the Plot" and “We Are Betrayed" That the author of this final volume should have been able to enter so completely so convincingly into the emotions and distortions of a previous phase was something beyond the comprehension of the average reader who quarreled and fought with Vridar (and the author) over every agonizing page With what sardonic glee the author must have observed this! As one should expect "No Villain Need Be” is distinguished for its greater objectivity deeper penetration Everything stands more sharply and vividly before us Vrldar's mature observations on Wasatch College in Salt Lake CUty form an interesting contrast to the deeply subjective reactions of an earlier period Baltimore Washington Chicago New York City and Europe — these are more than the scenes of his pilgrimage Persons and places become the stuff of Vrldar’s pilgrimage as he ceases to live wholly within’ himself If no villain need be there Is still need perhaps for heroes Athene’s heroic companionship is not thrust before the reader It is simply there Impressive beyond anything In the book all the more inspiring for the brilliant light that plays upon it In Vridar the adolescent (and his was a long adolescence) there was a passion for reality that was frustrated at every turn by emotions and ideals that betrayed him In Vridar the man this passion for reality through exand a maturer haustive outlook upon the world achieves insights whose expression will fall upon many a reader with the shock and the exhllaratifin of a cold shower At the close of this final volume the author reaches a stage which seems curiously final He has captured his fortress of truth Henceforth he will defend It He preaches a magnificent sermon about our struggling groping Promethean hufhan race This finality I believe Is deceptive Vardis Fisher is still the Protestant “No Villain Need Be" is the Calvinist seeking individual conversions to his own deep and speculative vision bf the austerely beautiful He is still Intensely the idealist driven by that very Idealism ln£o a merciless pleasure in the hard facts of existence He is sCill the relentless analyst under whose surgical revelations we see the pulsating organs of life but miss the unconscious coordinations and insouciance of wholeness and health He is still an inhibited poet He is much more the passionate manipulator than the philosopher And yet how characteristic were his struggles and how Immensely helpful therefore his deep and honest record Its apparent finality is deceptive Vardis Fisher's work as a novelist has but begun Meanwhile the tetralogy stands as an Impressive contribution It should be issued some' time in the future as a single volume It should include most of "In Tragic Life” the best of the two intermediate volumes (for "We Are Betrayed" repeats In part the characteristic gropings of its predecessor) and nearly the whole of "No Villain Need Be” eliminating much of the experiment in verse most of which adds nothing to the book Such a volume though a large one should be a good publishing venture It would find many new readers It would preserve in permanent convenient form a powerful serious and original contribution to American letters News for Youth "World Yolith" is an international newspaper for young people which has just made initial appearance It is designed for those of ages 12 to 20 and gives authentic news of the activities of youth throughout the world as well as other significant current events The newspaper has no classroom atmosphere and sports the arts hobbies will be treated as Well as the constructive news of the day A National Advisory board has Dr Mary E Woolley of Mt Holyoke college at its head Mahonri Young to Offer Local Show Announcement is Tnade by the Art Barn exhibition committee that a long anticipated showing Mahonri of etchings Young’s drawings and water colors will be in place for Sunday exhibition The display will be in the main gallery and will comprise about 25 pieces Later in early Aprih possibly It is expected that Mr Young will be in Salt Lake City and it is hoped that arrangements may be made for a lecture at the Art Barn - Springville to Have Fine Show By MAE HUNTINGTON SPRINGVILLE — This past week ha been an unusually active one at the Springville high school due to the arrival of early shipments of paintings for the exhibit which is to open Wedas nesday April 1 and continue customary throughout the month The work of sorting and selecting will be unusually difficult this year owing to the fact that nearly 100 new artists who had requested invitations and whose qualifications justified their receiving entry blanks are sending canvases to be “passed on” by the committee This unusual response is due at least among eastern artists to articles on the art project published during the past year in the Art Digest Among the 50 canvasep which have already arrived are several from Marguerite Pearson whose "Table Talk” ” ing and The modern school will have a fine representative in the show in Barse artist who Miller a New York-bor- n is now residing in California He received his art training at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he holds a fellowship Ife founded the Western Art association and is a member of numerous art societies in the east and on the coast Twice he has been the recipient of the Cresson Traveling scholarship of the Pennsylvania academy entitling him to travel in Europe He has been awarded several prizes and medals and his canvas was the second purchase prize in the Rocky Mountain Exhibition of Modern Art Founder of Indian Elaine Goodale Eastman writer of Indian legends poetry and fiction and first supervisor of Indian education has written a comprehensive sympathetic biography of this "best friend the Indians ever had” in order to point out the extent of his success in education of these first Americans for citizenship and “the significance for our own time of the defeat or postponement of his larger aims” The author herself married an Indian the distinguished Sioux Dr Charles A Eastman Placed in charge of a band of cap--' tured Indian warriors Pratt began his unexpected and humanitarian task of Later these civilizing the Indians prisoners upon their release were acas students at Hampton Insticepted tute for Negro youth the alma mater of Booker T Washington and eventually the outcome of this experiment in Indian education was the fouhdlng of Carlisle in Pennsylvania Ironically enough Pratt is remembered as Carlisle’s founder although such a school was in direct opposition to his aspirations for the Redman Pratt desired education for the Indian certainly but not in segregated race schools The many prominent and distinguished graduates of Indian schools are ample substantiation for Pratt’s contention that the attainments in learning of his wards equaled the progress made by foreign-bor- n immigrants and even that of native-bor- n whites General Ely Parker an Iroquois became Commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Grant Henry Roe Cloud of Yale and Auburn Theological Seminary and Dr Carlos Montezuma graduate of Northwestern Medical school and teacher in two medical colleges are but a few of the many distinguished native Americans The facts wlhch Mrs Eastman reveals are certainly sufficiently interesting and dramatic Had the author written with less detail and in more eloquent style the historic value and romantic appeal of the material treated in this biography of a great Idealist would have been more readily apparent to the average reader 273 Atlanta (Advertisement) Ga f e 1 ft 9 I t 0 “Galbraith” a signature one sees frequently on drawings and illustrations in The New Yorker and other leading magazinee Is perhaps not recognized by all Salt Lakers as that belonging to Will Crawford a local boy who went east a number of years ago to fight for his place in the art world That he has gained his own niche seems evident from his recent accomplishments as an illustrator His latest achievement will be seen in the drawings executed with verve and dash that accompany a current Booth Tarklngton story in the Saturday Evening Post For several years Mr Crawford’s ketches have been appearing in Vanity Fair the Cosmopolitan Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines as well as being & regular feature of The New Yorker In addition he has done book jackets and illustrations for the publishers cover designs for the magazines and has been on the staff of doing illustra- er tive work for more than five years He has become established as an artist whose output is of high quality Mr Crawford believes that illustration demands fine art equally with painting-sinc- ere perception and artistic interpretation can be achieved despite inevitable limitations of space and quality of reproduction he says Mr drawford rowi in his forties spent a good bit of his youth in the army being’ With Pershing’s cavalry force in Mexico in 1916 an artilleryman at the beginning of the World war and later a first lieutenant of aviation in France He left Salt Lake City his birthplace in 1926 to make his assault on New York and experienced many changes within the next few years both in his work and in his style His free spontaneous drawings have been compared with the work of the famous Wallace Morgan not to Mr Crawford’s discredit Mr Crawford paid a flying visit to his home city in the summer of 1934 during a western trip on which he was sent by The New Yorker He spent some time in New Mexico sketching Indian types called at Reno Nev to gather material on its peculiar society colony and also was in the Jackson Hole country to get material on the d“dude” ranches for use in his New Yorker sketches The sketch of Mr Crawford appearing above is the work of his friend Jack Sears of Salt Lake City executed a few years ago in New York while the artist was at his work The dashing bits typical of Mr Crawford’s illustrative style are the property of ’ Mr Sears and David W Evans of this city held at Logan in 1929 Besides representation in California’s Important galleries his canvases hang in the Pennsylvania academy in the American Woman Looks at Women By KATHLEEN NORRIS The shadow of the great silver plane moved steadily a darker blot across the checker-boar- d of green fields below us cabbages' rice onions garlic leeks lentils were planted in even patterns over the boundless level spread of the earth Upon them the little bent forms were men worked busily their backs stooped men that in mud-colore- d clothes working on ground io wet so close to the sea levels one felt that only an unusual tide would be needed to sweep the whole picture into the sea water Between the fields wound the canals d canals as n still as glass no ripples on them no currents only the fringing reeds and the silent sunshine and here and there the sail of a small d boat languidly traveling over the water leaving no wake That is China China silent and asleep on an autumn morning under a quiet sun Over these fields of grain and roots flung down in a great spattering like scattered corn are the Chinese villages Sometimes small slant-eye- d children with shaved heads and grimy little fingers look up at the plane and chatter about it sometimes an old man tilts his wisp of white beard into the air and blinks at the floating mystery above his Jiead But for the most part old China does not look up at modern America The Jive of these impoverished jnillions of men and women are spent close to the mud and the fields and the muddy-canaland the muddy raised narrow footpaths between the fields They know nothing else they are not reaching out for the new Chinese villages— hundreds and hundreds of them — spread out on the wide flats are all exactly alike They are alike In dirt poverty noise crowding smells colors and design Architecturally agricultural China has just one pattern that of the hollow square Even in the great cities of Shanghai and Pekin the same square pattern predominates four bare thick walls set in a square perhaps the size of a city block in America perhaps a little smaller are all the outside world sees from the street A wooden door thick and double roofed with tiles and set In columns surmounted with little lions is the only entrance to the square If that door hangs open and it rarely does all one sees from the outside is another wall set a few feet inside thereare other walls still beyond that In other words one sees nothing But from the air this privacy is Invaded From the air one looks down at hundreds thousands of villages com Bentley collection Boston" Fine Arts Gallery San Diego and collections at Phoenix Anz and Montpelier Vt He has also done some noteworthy murals and fresco wall decorations in San Francisco and Los Angeles The canvas he is snowing at Springville “The Haywagon” is modernistic In treatment and highly interesting as While the to technique and theme heavily loaded haywagon with its four sleek sturdy is the central theme scarcely less in interest are the sharply defined boats on the bay in the near distance This is a painting that will attract strongly work-hors- wide-mouth- Trial package FREE COLLUM MEDICINE COMPANY 4 n r Sketches characteristic Crawford’s style and the artist himself of Will upper right 4 Print-Makers- coffee-colore- s And Short Breathing relieved when caused by unnatural collection of water in abdomen feet and legs and when pressure above ankles leaves a East in zation grass-roofe- SWELLING REDUCED Illustrator Sought By K JOHNSTONE PRATT: THE RED MAN’S MOSES PubBy Elaine Goodale Eastman lishers The University of Oklahoma Press Norman Okla Although this eleventh volume in a series dealing with the future of the "forgotten Red Man" in North America is the life story of Richard Henry Pratt the book Is also a biography of a cause and a history of the white man’s great injustice to the native American To the Civil war veteran Richard Henry Pratt founder of Carlisle school for Indians and termed “the Red Man’s Moses" may be attributed the crusade leading the Indian out of the desert of reservation bondage Into the promised land of citizenship and opportunity for assimilation into white civili- pale-brow- k- NEWS OF ART WORLD AND UTAH ARTISTS His Just Tribute slow-movi- pf last year was so well received An outstanding group of etchings by John Taylor Arms will add variety and quality to the show Mr Arms belongs to a score or ' more ’’prominent artists’ and etchers’ clubs of America and is represented in practically every important gallery in this country as well as in the British Museum Paris Nationals and the Musee de Rouen He illustrated with 56 etchings aquatints and drawings the volumes “Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy" and "Churches of France" by Dorothy Noyes Arms and is the author of a “Handbook of Print-Ma- Becomes School Receives mud-color- Sept MARCH 22 1938 Art and Literature COMMENT ON THE BOOKS OF TODAY gent SUNDAY MORNING TO MEN POETS With the appearance of Contempo- rary American Women Poets an anthology of 1311 living writers brought out by Henry Harrison the desircbil-it- y of a companion volume Contemporary American Men Poets seemed obvious ditor Thomas Del Vecchio will ba posed of a few or of many of these square units the walls and roofs like so much of the Chinese country each wall supporting the roof that slants inward and sets about every compound a square of narrow rooms In the open space in the center is mud of course buckets and a well tools and ropes baskets and chopping block seats of one sort or another a crude grill upon which pots are always smoking The life of the family goes on here in a continual babies cats pigeons pigs goatsuproar rats swarm over the dirty flags and splash in the dirty pools sleep or gnaw at a sack of grain or rice add their contributions of disorder to the general squalor Here old women sit in the sun working on dark rags chopping at strange foods quieting a restless baby or mending a broken basket From time to time the men of the family may get on one of the little river boats and travel to some town with rice in bags of lentils or onions to sell But the women stay at home Many of them spend their entire lives in the square of the dwelling place perhaps visiting some similar compound now and then or loitering in qne of the narrow lanes to watch a dog fight or to gossip with another woman But this is their world composed of 30 or 40 persons whose obscure histories of birth and struggle and death are all they know It Is impossible for an American to imagine what the rural Chinese woman thinks when she thinks of the world outside this narrow radius I am continually asked what Chinese women think of Japan of Russia of communism of war Think? What can they think these wives and mothers who live 30 — 40—50 miles even from the nearest poor Chinese city with no road between? These women who can neither read nor write who don’t know that there was a Washington who never heard of the great war or saw a piece of soap? We think we have learned something of poverty and privation in America since 1929 For thousands of American women life has been narrowed in these years thousands are still feeling the pinch of them But these women still have had basie’eom-fort- s and privileges of which the Chinese' women cannot even dream as yet I am not saying that a consideration cl the Oriental woman’s situation makes our home difficulties any less perhaps there is no moral to be pointed in this particular matter at all but I am still— weeks after I first realized it —in a state of amazement at the difference in the two situations Imagine a thousand villages in which no woman had ever seen a movie or a motor car a phonograph or a gas stove a letter or a glass window No bathrooms no telephones no magazine or newspaper no schools no shops no street car no gum no ice cream no dances no music except from some ragged old fellow’s fiddle or pipe no mud-color- wo-w- an mud-wall- ed silk stockings or lipsticks and not a beauty parlor nor a jar of cold cream In the length and breadth of a thousand miles! We can’t even picture it Life for them consists of two iron necessities food and covering The food is pork tea cereals onions garlic— garlic is a warming thing and the breath of your waiter and your rickshaw man always reek of it These fundamental articles are cooked up in endless ways fried into greasy cakes stewed into soupy messes chopped fine with odorous herbs Wherever there are a dozen Chinese together a black pot of something mysterious and for- -' midable is steaming away busily on the black river barges in the com-- " pounds cups of unseasoned tea are always in view children chewpn strips of pigskin or rinds of strange cheeses with children’s usual sublime serenity The Chinese woman drags herself out of a black lair somewhere every few hours and fans a smoking fire under black iron pots perhaps in a gritty hot summer wind perhaps in the slow slant of the autumn rain Presently a mountain of rice is ready and small jars of seasoning mixtures are brought forth to season the meal The second need clothing is solved with great simplicity by a nation that never throws away one inch of cloth If it is only the size of a pocket handkerchief it' represents warmth and warmth in winter is life itself I have seen Chinese garments so patched that it was quite impossible to tell what the original coat was dull greens and browns are neatly stitched on dull grays and blacks the coat is thickly wadded and interlined with silk cotton wool indifferently combined The effect is bulky and dirty but the warmth is there When a Chinese comes in to a warm place he does not unbundle No there is warmth in his clothes and he proposes to add to that warmth the further warmth of the room and the fire It is considered sheer folly to take off a coat to "lo66 heat" as they call'it If a Chinese woman of the poorer classes— and that means all but a negligible proportion of the entire population of the most populous country in the world— finds a small piece of cloth she does not have' to find a worn garment upon which to use it No she takes the best garment in the house and sews a good square of brown upon its dark blue sleeve The sleeve doesn’t need the patch yet and if she can find enough patches it never will Her children— those ivory babies with the shaved heads— are little walkgarments are worn ing crazy-quilfor years and years In China All the clothing is so dark that it hardly shows the dirt with which it Is often crusted and saturated All the pockets are storehouses for food any food If a workman has had all the food he can eat he will wrap the rest of the rice in a rag and shove it into a pocket The result is that he may presently have a between-meal- s lunch but the genera) effect Is not good for the clothes good-natur- ts of China For the rest there are the problems of roof and bedding and childbirth in dark lairs of pain and dirt and Ignorance and the care of children and sickness — so much of it and so much of it avoidable — and helpless age and death The green rice fields are dotted with little round mounds that are graves the patient handworked plow goes about them reverently they must never be disturbed When death comes the village priest decrees just where the gods wish the body to lie and although it may be and often is in the very center of the best field there it goes and from the air one sees the green dimple of raised earth that marks the spot Blindness crippled limbs disfigurements are everywhere One feels sobered and thoughtful after seven hours of flying low over rural China One feels a new respect for "western civilization defective as is oilr application of it faulty as are our laws afcd the administrators of those laws! One thanks God for the men and women who have fought the long fight through the long years for health for literacy for cleanliness for equality One goes at night with a newly grateful heart to the clean order of a simple meal the whiteness of a quiet bed the reading n leather-covere- d lamp the volume that is Shakespeare Ifeie appreciates the dignity of the everyday comfort that differentiates our lives from those other 0 k i i 4 r well-wor- taken-for-grant- lives Copyright 1936 the Bell Syndicate Inc l I don’t worry about constipation any more for I’ve found the easy way to get relief — the T for three way I chew imputes before going to bed and the next morning I am myself again There with are no unpleasant either And best of laxative all this delicious chewing-guis ideal for every member of the family 15c and 25c at your druggist’s FEEN-A-MIN- FEEN-A-MIN- after-effec- FEEN-A-MIN- ts T m |