Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-30
THE ESSAY FOOD FOR THE LITERARY ELECT
EXPERTS DISCUSS
CURRENT UNREST
Industrialism, Bolshepism and
Other Contemporary ''Isns''
That Are apparent

Ray Stannard Baker, who was once
one of the muckrakers, and who is
widely known as a publicist and Jour-
nalist, has brought the benefit of his
trained journalistic experience In pres
entation and skilled capacity for obser-
vation and analysis to an important
consideration Of the disturbingly evident
conditions Of contemporary industrial. /.
ism. His views are found in a book
which he calls "The New Industrial
Unrest: Its Reason and Remedy The
book IS, therefore, not merely condem.
natory or damnatory, but suggestive
and constructive. 1t also is predicated
on the fact that the present circum-
stances in the industrial world are not
the same as the older labor question.
though they stem from it. The wage
question is still acute, but the Indus
trial question includes much more than
that in the new dispensation. 1t Is So
cial, intellectual and sociological, as
well as economic; and IL Is tinged with
the political implications of great
mass movement. Mr.. Baker Is keen
and resourceful investigator and knows
the labor situation very. widely and
deeply. His book Is rich in material
concerning the recent physical develop
ments of 1t and in analyses Of the fun
damental and inciting causes Of the new
Industrial philosophy. He discusses
sympathetically the shop council system
Of settling labor disputes, method that
had the cachet of official authority in
the conclusions of the industrial COM
mission appointed by President Wilson.
He has written thoughtful and stimu-
lating book.
Scientific method is applied to the
modern problems of industry and COM
merce in Human and Industrial Eff
iency." by Henry Chellew, Ph. D., d.
Sc. DR.. Chellew is a member of the
Academical Society. Paris, and gold
medalist Of it, and lecturer in the
school of economics of applied psychol.
| ogy, and discusses matters of trade and
industry In its illumination: 1t Is writ
ten with his freshness of viewpoint, his
clarity of statement and his sense of
practicability. He dedicates the book to
his comrades in arms of the United
| States army" that Is. members of the
officers corps for whom he gave series
of lectures on personnel and efficiency
during the war. "
"The Case for Capitalism" is pre-
sented by Hartley Withers, an inter-
national authority on finance. His thesis
Is that capitalism does not rob anybody.
and IA corollsry Is that the increased
production OF goods and service on which
material progress depends cannot be ef-
fected under any scheme Of socialism
that has yet been devised or advocated.
He is a definite proponent of the theory
that individual enterprise, initiative and
freedom are the life blood of advancing
civilization. He recognizes the sincerity
and earnestness of many reformers who
propose new plans of naturalization as
remedies for current unrest and the evils
that are apparent in the modem economic
system.
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNREST. BY Ray
Stannard Baker. New York: Doubleday.
HUMAN AND INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY.
| BY Henry Chellew New York: q. p.
THE CASE FOR CAPITALISM. BY Hartley
| withers. New York. f. p. Dutton Co.