Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-14
How We Advertised America" BY
George Creel Illustrated. New York
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George Creel Illustrated, New York
City Harper Il Brothers.
In this volume MIR Creel has presented
very interesting history Of the work
done hv that most abused and misrepre-
sented agency Of the war administration
AZ Washington. the Committee on Public
information Never did working body
begin operations under more discouraging
conditions. II was distrusted in some
official circles, and SO grossly misrepre-
sented and cruelty ridiculed by many
newspaper writers. that it entered upon
its work with the serious handicap Of
almost an entire lack of public confidence.
But regardless Of these conditions the
committee pursued It's work, and soon
was producing results that should have
put It's severe critics TO shame, although
few Of them have had the grace TO admit
they were wrong The committee did
much in the way of disseminating reliable,
officially supported information of what
the administration was doing. Many of
its hostile newspaper critics soon began
to depend upon its publication-the
Official Bulletin-for important news.
The committee also extended its work
abroad and in every country of Europe,
even including Germany and Austria
Hungary, it sent the Gospel of Ameri-
canlsm. To its numerous publications,
spread broadcast but with intelligent dIrec-
ton, millions of people in Europe came
10 an understanding of the altruistic
mission and purpose of the United States
in entering upon the great war Its printed
information was translated into many
languages 50 that all peoples could read
undcrstandingly And with this work
supplemented by moving pictures that
spoke loudly and truly, much of Europe
was enlightened as it would not other
wise have been and was pleased at its
enlightenment.
The working forces of this influential
agency comprised $4,000 members and
10000 Four-minute Men Most of this
army worked faithfully without the
slightest remuneration, and those who
received pay were not munihcently re-
warded by any means. The expenditures,
therefore, were ridiculously small by COM
parison with the splendid results 'Om
ideals" says MIR Creel, have been
strengthened by their. widespread dis
semination throughout the world. And
this widespread dissemination was the
work of the Committee on Public In
formation, which Mr. Creel tells about sc
infmoringly and dentertainlngly in this book.
Received of the publishers.
Psychology for Teachers" BY DAME
Wolford LaRue, Ph. d, author OF
"Fhe Science and the Art of Teaching
Illustrated. New York City: American
Book Co.
The object of this book is to apply
psychology to the teaching of psychology
as it has been applied to the teaching ol
every other subject, and Professor La
Rue has made complete and valuable con.
tribution TO this end Students in norma
schools or colleges, or teachers at work il
classrooms will find in the pages of this
text not only an Interpretation of the
fundamentals of teaching practices, bat
also many helpful suggestions for the
solution of the actual difficulties encoun
tered in their profession.
Very plain but comprehensive are the
two main subjects considered In this
book: "A Simple, General View of Mind
and Behavior" and "A More Detailed
Study of Mind and Behavior" But they
are considered completely and intelh-
gently, as any interested student will
readily ascertain.
Received Of the publishers.
"Leerie." BY Ruth Sawyer. Illustrated
by Clinton Balmer New York City:
Harper d Brothers.
'Leerie Miss Sheila O Leary, by law
and church-was Irish as her name i'm
plies, but most delightfully."- so. Never was
there a more attractive picture of real
womanhood presented ON the printed
page than is given to those who may be
fortunate enough to read 'Ieerie.
"Leerie was nurse at . sanitarium, and
woman under cloud also, as she
had done things that looked very wrong
and brought upon her the sentence of
banishment for long period. But there
was no guilt in her conduct, not even an
intimation of wrorg doing, as was shown
when the facts came to light. She had only