Judge — December 1936 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Described as a Novel of Living To- ‘Co.op” tells the dir attendant on the founding fornia Co-Operative Group, on the lines of the Oneida Community—an gether, trials cco- Started in a sewer pipe in a Hooverville just at the nomic unit within a unit crest of Mr. Hoover's downfall, in his usual melodramatic prose Mr. Sinclair thers together a grand collection of afortunates, cranks, nuts and’embarrass- ingly helpless folk and tries to point a way to economic health their martyred and very obscure plans and_ purposes. Frankly we couldn't understand what Mr thru antics Sinclair was driv. ing at but he seemed to fall helplessly between the throne of capitalism and the We think his idea that work and equal reward be the basis of everything just dandy but we think he's crazy if he thinks the co-ops can such a setup under a laissez faire stool of communism. system of economy. If his co-op senti- ments are an example of what he would have done in California had his EPIC been put into office, pity poor Cali- fornia, already straining at the fringe of lunacy. There are the usual powerful dramatic stretches to the book that show pa doctor's ju \ ou ause you have confidence in him. He will never take chances where your welfare is concerned. Even with a little thing like a laxative. « have a definite set of stand ide them in their choi will m od doctor clors which ‘fore they their approval. it ist meet their requirements on the cific points: e ive a laxatiy The doctor says that should be: Depene Thorough... Time- a laxative Mild... ple. ste The doctor says that a laxative should not: Over-act...Form a habit... Cause stomach pains... Nauseate, or upset the digestion. Now, here's a fact that’s significant —Ex-Lax checks on each of these specifications. Not merely on two or three. But on all these points. No wonder so many physicians use 39 Mr. Sinclair might have been greater than Tolstoi were he not so crusady. Amateurishly written, very cliché in the melodrama and specializing in such hunks of hoke leading lady pose in the altogether for the radi as having the cal artist before falling for him, Car ton Beals’ "The Stones Awake,” despite its lumbering clumsiness, is a powerful a novel about Written gainst political background of Mexico, from 1910 tll today, it ntal and spiritual development of a good looking Indian gal, born to peonage, ned to rape, pillage and watch. ing her loved ones murdered. Mr. Beals, knowing more about Mexico than you do about your own country, has a per- bear of Mexico. the shows the m doo fect insight into Mexican politics, Mexi- can life and Mexican character and you so het up about the terrible hosing the peon’s got and are still getting, you forget your own home problems. The book’s weaknesses gets Despite his advancing years, Mr. Sherwood Anderson is still groping groping . groping. For what neither we nor, definitely, Mr. Anderson can say. What he seems to find are like “Kit Brandon” his latest grope. A rather inferior gangster story vainly hiding behind a mask of High Art. The combination makes a beer aad whisky mixture. novels Kit Brandon is a typical Anderson woman. Narrowly escaping a fate worse than death at the hands of her Tennes. see paw, she runs away to the city, gets flung down and has shoes put on her, works in a mill, gets picked up from behind a dime store counter by the lily-livered son of Tom Halsey, the big bootlegger, becomes a daring rum runner decoy driving a car at hundreds of m.p.h., almost gets bumped off by her father-in-law but is saved when her husband shoots the old man during a Federal Raid. Also, there's a mysterious lad named Jim who scoots at high speeds with Kit thru the carly part of the telling and never does get accounted for by Mr. Anderson, not that it mat. ters much one way or the other. The whole thing’s told sideways to a grasshopper; and tho there are moments when Mr. Anderson is his very Ameri- can self of “Winesburg, Ohio,” the book's doomed neither to be respected by Hollywood which might be expected to film it, or the Anderson lovers, who might be expected to like it. lay safe...take the gment about laxatives Ex-Lawx in the won own families. No ler millions of careful: mothers give it to their children with pertect confidence. No wonder that Ex-Lay is used by more people than any other laxative in the world Your first trial of Ex-Lax will be a pleasant: experience. For Ex-Lax is mild and gentle. It és thoroughly eflee- tive. It does not over-act. It does not disturb the digestion. Everyone likes Ex-Lax — particu larly the youngsters. [t tastes just Lik de te. At all drug store in 10e and 25e sizes. Or write for fre sample to Ex-Lax. De J126, Box nes-Plaza Sta., Brooklyn, N.Y. When Nature forgets —remember cious choco! THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE comicbooks.com