Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
SOME FINE READING


ing real service to those of its
readers who are interested in the
great social and economic movements
of the day by calling their atten-
tion to articles on these subjects in the
October magazines. They are together
a mine of information and entertain
ment worth many times the small cost
of the periodicals. If you want to know
what it is that is causing all the up
heaval in politics, why there is insur-
gency, why it costs more to live, why
there is unrest among the people, it is
all made clear in the symposium these
October issues make up.
Exceptionally interesting is the
American Magazine. Ida M. Tarbell
has been studying the tariff with the
thoroughness and the motives that she
studied Standard Oil. She begins her
series of articles on 1.-THE Mysteries and
Cruelties of the Tariff" with a study
of Schedule K-the wool schedule that
President Taft himself calls "indefen-
sible"-with the relation of its wrongs
to the health and comfort of the labor
ing people of the United States.
What a Few Men Did in Pittsburg,"
by Albert Jay Mock, is an inspiriting
description of what good citizenship
can accomplish against seemingly over
whelming odds, and the always excel
lent editorial department "In the In
terpreter's House gives reasons for
the present activities in politics of the
plunderers of the people in discussing
THE New Fight for Freedom"
In Everybody's, Lincoln steffens' at:
An Exposition of the Sovereign Politi-
cal Power of Organized Business"
promises to be one of the really great
magazine series Of the year. In the
October number his text is wall Street
on Wall Street" lie leaves it to rep
resentative figures in the street to
affirm and prove the virtual omnipo-
tence of Mr.. Morgan, and variously to
testify their own utter subordination
to the leader.
Hampton's is to the FORE as usual,
with articles of permanent value upon
vital issues of the time. Judson C.
Welliver presents worthy study in
THE Collapse of the Taft Administra>
tion" that discloses all that lies back or
a famous smile.
Rheta Childe Dorr, the brilliant wom-
an writer on social questions, gives an
impressive picture of what is being
done in city schools to make child life
healthier and saner, which she calls
ne
And Of especial moment when rail-
road rates are under rigid investigation
is THE Paying Of the Bill" the sum-
mary of Charles Edward Russells re-
markable investigation of the history
Of the transcontinental railroads, which
shows the intolerable and growing evils
of our transportation system, the in
creased cost of living demonstrably
produced by the overissue of railroad
securities and the menace in the rapid
increase of these overissues, and the
corruption that these influences always
work in political affairs.
The October Pearson's is a number
of exceptional excellence. "Beveridge:
The Man and the ISSUE" is two articles
in one by David Graham Phillips and
Arthur w. Little. They tell strikingIy
the story Of one patriots fight against
the money and the power of the ma
chimes" of the two great political par
ties, and what his defeat or victory
will mean to every right-minded Amer
lean citizen.
Robert Wickliffe Woolley writes on
How Washington Wastes Your
Money" a story Of specific instances
of the scandalous waste Of public