The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
Literary Review of Latest Publications
NJ a. D. JACOBSON.

ny A., d. JACOBSON.
WE AND OUR CHILDREN. by DR.. Woods Hutch
insou author Of Instinct and HEALTH" &c.
Doubleday. Pase Co. Garden City. ~ Y.
This world, says the author. whose
works. on. medical topics are considered
to be Of standard value. Is q nursery.
After we have done our own growing our
chief excuse, according to the doctor.
for further existence is to make the
babies grow There was but one room
In the primitive house-the nursery-and
at present the most urgent demand of
thoughtful lovers OF their kind Is that
they should be made places to grow
children In.
The, more thoroughly. says the author.
we consider our children. The more deep
ly we will benefit ourselves. The race
has smade US what We are. The child Is
the embodiment OF the race. The debt
that We owe to the race we owe to him.
The most sacred obligation that any
community owes Is to its children. II
the growth of our cities will be interfered
with by insistence upon Fairgrounds and
breathing spaces and well-lighted and
ventilated houses and homes, then II
must be interfered with.
All else. all material interests are but
dust of balance when compared with the
child. For. adds the doctor, 1t was the
child and his or her care that has start
ed us upward from savagery and has
kept US from falling back into II ever
since Only in educating and training
and improving its children can the race
educate and train itself. Run your poll
tics and your government In the inter-
ests of your children and within three
generations the world will become
Utopia.
The supreme test OF a civilization, ac-
cording to DIR. Hutchinson. is the sort OF
men and women II breeds. and the time
to influence men and women for better
or for worse is in childhood. We must
spend more than money on our chiUren;
we must spend ourselves and our time.
Fathers are too apt to echo the Hindoo
proverb: God could not be everywhere.
so He made mothers" We consider
having done our duty when we have pro-
vided a place and means for our wives
to take care OF our children. We actual
ly regard II as a waste Of time to take
few hours from our business pursuits
and devote II to the personal care OF our
children. We even consider it unmanly
and undignified TO play nursemaid 20 our
own children in public.
A son. concludes the author. has
just as much right to and need OF his
fathers companionship. help. and infiu-
ence as his mothers. The book is OF
great value and still greater interest 10
parents who should read and try TO COM
prehend it,
SOCIALISM As IT IS. by W. z. waIlins N.
Mscmion Company. New York City.
According to the author of this criti-
cising work, the present day definitions
Of Socialism are many. He quotes some
of them. notably that which appeared.
typical editorial. in the Independent. and
which says. Socialism is a political
party. an economic creed. religious
and a stage OF history"
The author divides his work in three
parts: State Socialism and After"
THE Politics Of Socialism" and Social
discusses THE Capitalist Reform Pro-
gramme." in which the salient point Is
that State Socialism and State capital
ism are very much the same, and that
Henry George and Mr.. Churchill have
said and done nothing in contradiction
to their State capitalistic or State So
cialist viewpoint
In the New Capitalism Mr.. Walling
declares that organized business inter-
ests welcome the extension of govern
ment into the business field" and that
as to the smaller map consolidation and
Industrial panics have taught him his
lesson and he is at last beginning to
organize and TO demand his share of
profits at the only point where he has
chance to get it-i e.. the new State
Socialism. In state Socialism and
Labor We note as the main point the
idea ttat for a time at least the worker
must he the governments man." while
the capitalist Is not. but that this, in
itself is stride for the former. In
The First Step Toward Socialism" Mr.
walling upholds State Socialism" to be
indispensable as a basis for Socialism.
a means ito raise the proletartat to the
position OF ruling class"
In The Politics of Socialism We have
an interesting discussion of "Reformism
in France. Italy. Belgium. Great Britain
and the United States. in which il ap-
pears that the movement in this country
is more akin to that Of the Continent
than to that of Great Britain. though II
does not seem of as great International
importance-the English and the German
being of equal significance. In the dis
cussion of the English situation there is
much interest in the views of Bernard
Shaw and the vacillating Fabians, and
also in that Of II. G. Wells. who says:
You must get absolutely clear in your
mind that Socialism means a complete
change a break with history. with much
that Is picturesque; whole classes will
vanish. The world will be vastly differ
ent. with different sorts Of people. All
the different trades and industries will
be changed. the medical profession will
be carried on under different conditions.
engineering, science, the theatrical trade,
the clerical trade, schools. hotels. almost
every trade. will have to undergo COM
plete internal change.
In the chapter on Socialism and the
Labor Unions the author contrasts the
attitude Of Oebs with that OF Mitchell