Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-21
BOOK REVIEWS.

THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM: 1898
1918. BY Frederick Chamberlin.
author OF Around the World in
Ninety Days" etc. Illustrated.
Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
TOT until the last chapter OF this
highly important study is Mr.
Chamberlin ready to state def
u initely the problem put up to
the United States by the Phil
ppines. The eleven chapters leading up
20 this problematic one go into capable
sn-around examination OF the lsiands
These constitute. in substance. PLAIN
businesslike accounting OF the steward
ship Of the United States In this quarter
for the last fifteen years. Their speciai
point here is to lay rational founda-
ton for the consideration of the problem
itself Incidentally, of course. these pre-
liminary cha piers hold out to the general
reader a broad concrete view of the Phil
lppines as they are today, backed darkly
by what they were at the beginning OF
this new order The first chapter gives
Just so much Of the geography and his
tory OF the islands as is needed to define
broadly the nature and something OF the
proportions OF the task assumed by the
United States. Following is summary
of what has been done since 1S9S. Listed
among the achievements here are the es-
adjustment of an adequate government
the founding of schools with industrial
training and instruction in sanitation at
the top of the courses OF study. gen
eral system OF compulsory sanitation.
good roads, an increase of railroad mile
age and electrical communication, postal
savings banks. At every step OF the sur
vey Mr.. Chamberlin makes a special point
Of appraising the Filipino himself in this
activity. his attitude, his aptitude, and
the general efficiency with which he takes
part in this progression. Finally stated.
The problem-whose urgency grows under
persistent agitation for an immediate So
1ution-is familiar one. What to do
with the Philippines? Three choices
emerge from the problem itself. To with
araw completely. leaving the islands to
Independents" To withdraw in part
pnly, reservins to ourselves certain pow
FRS and duties. To continue TIL some re-
moter day than this the course laid down
by the United States in 1898 Mr.. Cham
berlin's solution looks like the only logic
Of the case. 1t is. however, a provocative
answer. bound to bring protest from
certain kind of sentimentalist, and one
brand of politician, and one order of aca-
1emic-minded man. In the meanwhile,
though. the general reader Is able to
gather from this study a dependable and
ieeply interesting body Of facts concern
FOOD AND FLAVOR. BY Henry T.
Finck. New York: The Century
Company.
An authority on the subject has figured
put that what food one actually needs
may be bought for 10 cents a day. What
IS spent above this sum goes chiefly for
iavor, for what tastes good and sets the
wells OF appetite and digestion flowing.
Mr.. Finck is as yet, the first writer to
give to flavor to palatability, the proper
toned consideration required by its inn
portance. In this Office he stands the
sole PREACHER Of Luther Burbank's Cos
pei of the uses of palatability in food,
Of the arts of producing it. Having stud
led all Europe in respect to its foods, Mr.
Finck grades its different countries &C
cording to the science and art of good
eating. Transferring the standard SO &C
ouired to this side of the water he Is
place. America discouragfngly low in the
list. And this Notwithstanding the fact
that America possesses material of such
abundance and quality and variety as to
set it indisputably at the top. To demon
strate the existence of this material. to
point broadly to its most important uses
and treatment, and to make what MIR.
Finck calls Touchdown argument in
support of both the physiologic and COM
mercial claims of flavor in foods is the
object of this arresting book A plain.
cOn0emndlOry chapter on -denatured
foods sets out the practices of manufac-
turers in their efforts to make bread out
of stones, and meat out of miscellaneous
odds and ends calculated to make mere
Vt this point too, he exposes the fam
boyant. artistry employed in painting up
foods for those who ''eat with their
eyes" 1t is an authoritative, instructive
tails from the standpoint chosen by the
author flavor in food. 1t is I'm no sense
q cook book, rather the foundation of all
dependable cook books. The volume is
very properly dedicated to the two patron
saints Of foods. Luther Burbank and DR..
Wiley.
THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALISM. By
Allan l.. Benson. author Of Social
ism Made Plain. etc. New York:
Il. w. Huebsch.
The conspicuous feature of this discus
sion is it's driving force. Mr. Benson tells
nothing new about socialism What he
does do is to pick out and throw away
every scrap of fat and waste left clinpine
to the subject-old notions, outworn meth
DDS, attitudes suited only to an earlier
day and circumstance. What is left he
gathers into the clean Inuscle-and-bone
of socialism, and offers 1t as the ONLY
safe and sane guide to the economic and
political present. This is undeniably the
outlook OF the advocate, the partisan the
org promises and works valantly TO rea-
son out their fulfillment. No longer as
In the day of Karl Marx, Is revolution
the watchword OF this party. In cannv
fashion socialism has appropriated the
viewpoint OF science, claiming place as
proof, In single point, of the workings of
evolution. Competition is an outworn
stage Of industry. Combinations, trusts
4 you please are but the Inevitable next
step in the evolutionary process. Childish
m ATTEMPT either regulation or ey+ar
mination OF this exponent of an iuvinci-
bic law. Let the people. through their
governments and by the peaceful power
Of votes. take over these gigantic agents
n industry-and socialism is here in eff
feet the rest being but mere matters of
administrative detail. And just here Mr.
Benson grows cloudy. Not SO cloudy as
the majority of socialist expositors be
rome at this crucial point but enough
so to make one wish he had called in
A captain of industry to tell hm-if