NEXT TIME IS FOR LIFE...

ANOTHER

Dell Publishing Co.--1953

Paul Warren

NOTHER "inside story" of crimes and penitentiaries which will have its own special impact in bringing to public attention the medieval, not to say barbaric, attitudes involved with our present penal systems. The book recounts some of the actual experiences of a man twice-committed to the penitentiary for theft. The homosexual theme recurs frequently, and there is much to suggest that Paul Warren's predilections towards theft came about. as a result of repressed homosexual tendencies stemming from early youth.

Homosexuality, however uth.

is far from being the main subject of this narrative. Of principal interest is the apparent effort of modern penologists to institute a new and more humane approach to the problems of anti-social behavior on the part of those individuals now called "criminals," and of the opposition to their efforts on the part of the "eye-for-an-eye" school, who use our laws and our penal institutions to wreak a vicarious and sadistic vengeance upon those whose lives develop in anti-social patterns. Unfortunately this theme is not dwelt upon at any length, yet it is boldly suggested in one part of the story, and strikes the single optimistic note in a book which is otherwise filled with the most depressing and morbid circumstances.

The book closes, perhaps by necessity, in a disappointing and indeterminate way. One is left wondering whether the writer, just released from prison a second time and barely in his twenties, will reach a solution to his sexual maladjustment, whether he will commit suicide, or whether he will return to his thievery and find himself in prison again, where "next time is for life."

SECRET IN A BOTTLE

By Flint Holland

The Cause and Cure of Alcoholism

Your most open-minded attention is invited to this little book . . . written for the layman in story form, but of first importance to professionals.

The Alcoholic who reads the book should do so in privacy. Alcoholism is one of the three escape mechanisms whose power springs from unconscious sex resistance.

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