Show S SOMETHING ET I EQ FOR US TO SHOOT AT I A Book Review The volume Is Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Hop Indian written by the Indian Don C. C Tala- Tala ves a of Oraibi Arizona edited by Leo W. W Simmons and published by Yale University Press copyrighted 1942 This book is the most obscene vulgar indecent book book it has been I our pain to read in many years It Itis Ita is a pornographic record none other of a moral leper a moron largely boasting if one is charitable charitable char char- table in judgment if it not that I charitable then a record he should I Ibe be ashamed of ot a recital of those moral orgies those licentious incidents incidents Incidents inci Inci- dents one hides not tells in print hides hides in shame having outgrown them but he now fifty revels in their filth HIth The book is a first-class first photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph of a sewer no detail is o- o Were this paper to quote passages from that book verbatim we would be Justly barred from the U. U S. S mails The Police Gazette recently clamped down on was a sheet of immaculate cleanliness in i comparison But this book as a scientific treatise a case number number number num num- ber sponsored with sesquipedalian ian verbosities Latin phrases orless or orless orless less offensive wordings re-wordings of the the i original script thus rendered erudite erudite eru- eru j eru-j dite heaven save us the the book by that means gets b by enters the malls mails and leaves its trail of fifth over the land An autobiography Is always revealing revealing revealing re re- re- re it reveals the man who wrote It this one does indeed If the book is a true cross section of Hopi Navaho and our schools for forthe forthe forthe the the education of the Indians it shatters every ideal of Indian girl virtue Indian woman morality if boasting it is 1 the product of a moron whose sense of decency has atrophied lost in a white mans man's school or thrown over the mesa edge in the refuse heap he doesn't even spare his own wife from the smirch by our standards of his vile pen Shame on him Grant that any of us weren't pam lambi bies' bies in our youth youth- grant that we had escapades is that license to I write about them now Some of II us may be trying to live down a I rec reckless less youth silent on It fearful of being judged by its own record j of ot unseemly but not he He glories glor- glor glor 1 glories ies les In each gives de details talIs has an alarm alarm alarm a- a larm clock and at one period in his life lite has only the one regret regret- that nature went back on him him him- I that one word the libertine fears lears as the plague plague- impotence Enough The rest of he book Hopi daily dally life hunts beliefs religion ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies duties that 3 that Is handled I far better by Fewkes Hodge Bodge Coolidge Coolidge Coolidge Cool- Cool idge Nelson scores of ot others without without without with with- out a personally conducted tour through a sewer I have read I the book but cannot recommend it It But read what another another another an an- other says For on the blurb jacket jack jack- et that space for lor flattering lies there appears I have read It In full tull and find it by all ll odds the best thing of or Its kind known to me I consider it a very fine book from the scientific point of view and also also al also al- al so from that of ot human Interest Yeah Yeah But did he read It to hit his daughter his wife quote from it at the Literary Club Nix 0 o Bosh I 1 never did believe a blurb and n now Im I'm confirmed in that deter deter- |