Benjamin Franklin Biography Heads
List of Impressive Children's Books
Israel Tightens Controls
on Tourist Businesses
American personalities portrayed
as part of an effort to Introduce
young readers to the history of our
eountry serve well in arousing en-
thusiasm for as well as interest in
the background of -•
this nation.
Random House'
has issued a
splendid volume,
"Meet Benja-
min Franklin in
which the story
of "the man who
tamed lightning"
and who is view-
ed as "America's
first genius" is
excellently t o 1 di.
by Maggi Scarf.
The illustrations
by Harry Beck-
off contribute to-
wards emphasiz-
ing the unusual
character under Franklin
description and the map of the
Thirteen Colonies helps understand
the time when all that is told here
had happened.
Franklin's "Poor Richard's Al-
manack," which told the weather
for the year to come, was "full of
jokes and stories,"emerges among
the interesting creations in the
great pioneer's life.
His experiences in England and
In France, the influence he exerted
in behalf of America, his family
life — all combine to make the
Scarf story most valuable for young
American readers.
JERUSALEM—Israel's ministry
of commerce is cracking down on
questionable practices by business-
es catering to tourists which have
brought many complaints from
foreign . visitors.
The purpose is to bring Israel's
tourist industry, which is enjoying
an unprecedented boom this year,
into line with accepted interna-
tional standards.
The ministry disclosed that it
has instituted proceedings against
more than 400 restaurants, hotels
and shops since the beginning of
this year. They are based on cus-
tomer complaints of poor quality,
high prices, wrong weight and mis-
labeling.
The ministry of tourism mean-
while announced that it was in-
vestigating alleged kickbacks to
government licensed tourist guides
who bring their tour parties to cer-
tain favored shops only.
The practice is common through-
out the Middle East and in many
other parts of the world. But the
ministry disapproves because tour-
ists are not necessarily taken to
establishments where they get the
best value for their money.
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Credit Random House with an-
other valuable historical narrative
for very young readers in the form
of an adventure story that tells
about the Lewis and Clark Expedi-
tion of the early years of the last
century.
In "The Adventures of Lewis and
Clark," Ormonde de Kay, Jr., re-
lates the remarkable true story
how, in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark set out on their
great adventure.
There is so much action in this
story_ that young readers will be
thrilled by it. From beginning to
end, it is filled with adventure, un-
usual experiences, discoveries ga-
lore!
Lewis's life ended tragically in
1809. Clark had a long and happy
life and became governor of the
Missouri Territory.
Among the splendid children's
books just published are several
issued by Knopf.
For the very young there is an
excellent one that accompanies
youngsters in to the sunny side of
spring, creates a dialogue and a
story, makes the youngsters feel
close to nature.
Julie Maas' illustrations help
make this story ever more pleas-
ant.
For teenagers, there is more
Serious action in Knopf's "Ride
the Pale Stallion" by Gus Tavo.
Lorence Bjorklund illustrated it.
There is pathos in this story,
about a boy whose father had lost
a leg in the Civil War, about a
family with its sadnesses, and a
boy who regains courage and faith
and hope and acquires joy when he
owns and rides a horse. A splendid
plot has been woven into this tale.
"Dark Venture," by Au d r e y
White Beyer, illustrations by Leo
and Diane Dillon, also a Knopf
book, is about tribesmen, about a
young African lad who experiences
slavery in Barbados, who meets a
New Englander who brings him
home and leads him to learn the
life of freedom. It is a story espe-
cially timely for the present day
struggle for civil liberties.
"The Long Pony Race" by Rolf
Lengstrand and Pierre L. Rolan is
a large book with many pictures,
describing a horse race in Sweden.
This Knopf book, its action, happy
developments, fusing of friend-
ship, is a true delight for young
readers.
To top them off in beauty, at-
traction, extent of coverage of
experiences to which the very,
very young must be introduced, is
"What Do People Do All Day?"
What a wonderful book to link a
child with every day life — with
everything that happens to him or
all that he can expect to meet.
Doctors, teachers, parents, neigh-
bors and all the things around the
child — his environment the peo-
ple, the activities — these are so
well described and so excellently
illustrated that the Scharry book is
among the best in its field. It is
large in size, long in content —
primarily the illustrative part of
it — and a child will be kept so
busy with it that it will solve many
home problems.
Add to the wonderful children's
books , issued by Random House: a
book about motion, adventures of
Martians, flight and a view of the
earth from the sky. The little ones
will get the joy the tots desire
from "The Magic-Motion Martian
Book," story by Albert G. Miller.
It was skillfully designed by Paul
Taylor.
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Pantheon Books, a Random
House division, adds to the valu-
able new books for teen-agers a
story with action, a moral, drama
and superb description of farm life
by Elizabeth Coatsworth Titled,
"The Enchanted," illustrated by
Mary Frank, this is "an incredible
story," as it is subtitled.
Life on a farm by a hero seek-
ing respite from city life features
this tale. Well told, adventurous, it
will fill a need for young people
who love good literature.
Viking Press has an excellent
book for the very little ones. Lonzo
Anderson and Drienne Adams pro-
duced the story and illustrations in
a story about rabbits. Entitled
"Two Hundred Rabbits," this tale
will be liked by those reading it
and those it is read to. It's the
type of wholesome reading young-
sters return to frequently.
Then there is the Viking-pub-
lished full-length story for teen-
agers, "The Year of the Jeep" by
Keith Robertson, illustrated by W.
T. Mars. It is a well told narrative
about autos, people, youngsters
with imagination. There is adven-
ture, thrills, facts to be learned.
It is an instructive and entertain-
ing book.
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Charles Angoff's Creative New Novel
Charles Angoff has acquired high
status with his series of novels
which have become accepted as the
most positive writings by a Jewish
author on Jewish
themes.
His hero, David
Polonsky, is rep-
resentative of the
theme pursued in
these excellent
works in which
Jewish exper f-
ences are defined
Angoff by a man dedi-
cated- to Jewish learning, to the
study of Jewish history, to the per-
petuation of Jewish ideals.
It is with such motivations that
Angoff has written his latest in
the Polonsky series — "Memory of
Autumn" which has been published
by Thomas Yoseloff.
Angoff, concerned with the her-
itage of the Jew and its dignity,
makes that his theme in the new
novel in which he has occasion
to deal with the experiences dur-
ing the commencement of the
Hitler crimes and the menace
to the Jewish people and the
world.
As in his previous works, Ang-
off, in this novel, combines the
human elements of a great drama,
mingled with aspects of love, with
the deep interest in Jewish life as
it affected the characters in his
story. Because he deals construc-
tively with the Jewish elements,
his narrative also becomes defini-
tive in this study of Jewish affairs.
There is significant timeliness in
the Angoff story which debunks
anti-Semitism while indicating its
existence in the era under discus-
sion. It indicates the manner in
which life generally affects Jewish
living.
His "Memory of Autumn" is
another distinctive and very crea-
tive work.
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Allenby's Route
Followed by Group
of Israeli Writers
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to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—A group of Israeli
journalists and radio broadcasters
mounted horses near Jaffa Tues-
day and began a long trek that
will take them across the Golan
Heights into Kuneitra, on t h e
Israel-Syrian cease-fire demarca-
tion line. •
They are retracing the route
followed 50 years ago by General
Allenby and his Palestine Expedi-
tionary Force which conquered
Palestine and Syria from the Turks
during the latter stages of World
War I.
The new march is sponsored by
the military history faculty of Tel
Aviv University, the army weekly
Bamahane and the army radio
broadcasting service. Gen. Allen-
by's force ended its march in
Damascus.
Hennessy Cup Winner
Don Arnow of Miami won the
.Hennessy Cup offshore powerboat
race over a 180-mile Pacific Ocean
course in Long Beach, Calif. It
was an easy victory for Arnow
who won $1,500. He had missed
the Bahamas •500 due to illness,
placed third in the Gateway Mara-
thon in Florida and fourth at the
New York Grand Prix. Bill Wish-
nick of New York was fourth in
both the Bahamas 500 and the
Gateway.
Statistics from the U.S. Public
Service reveal 15 per cent of peo-
ple between age 40 and 65 have
some sort of chronic disease, and
the figure rises sharply to 77 per
cent for those who are 65 or
older.
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