The Washington times., 1922-05-21
James oliver CurWO0d
Wins Popularity Test
Vote Gives Him Big
Lead Over Zane
Grey and Peter
Kyne.
wy LILLIAN r. HOOKER,
" editor Of THE Erie Rail.
w road Magazine" which

has announced the result Of
a "tavorite author contest" In
y which the magazines readers have
been voting for the past month.
James Oliver Curwood, author of
The Flaming Forest" THE Val
ley of Silent Men" Gods Coun.
try" "The Trail to Happiness"
etc, proved an easy winner, COM
ing out with more than double
the number of votes cast for Zane
Grey, his closest rival. Mr.. Grey.
whose books include "The Mys-
terious Rider" ITO the Last Man."
etc, led Peter B. Kyne, author Of
THE Pride Of Palomar," Kindred
of the Dust" etc, by a small
margin for second place and Mr..
Kyne has the largest number Of
third choice votes.
Harold Bell Wright ran fourth
and Gene Stratton-Porter a strong
fifth.
IN its dealings with Mexico the
outside world has taken into
consideration every element of the
Mexican character save one--the
Mexican mind. 1t has remained
for Wallace Thompson, in "The
Mexican Mind" Qittle. Brown &
co., to clarity the mutual under
standing OF the Latin and Saxon
peoples OF the North American
continent by a frank comparison
Of their mental processes and a
particularly searching aud illum.
mating analysis Of the Mexican
mentality. Along with his analy-
sis there is a running commentary
on the curious and quaint customs
Of Mexican life. Their racial traits
are illustrated by anecdotes and in
cidents. their habits and customs
so often disconcerting and an
noying TO the traveller or to the
person seeking to establish busi-
ness relations because not under
stood or appreciated-are explained
and traced back, and shown to be
based on fixed national habits OF
thought.
In Mr.. Thompson's opinion there
Is but one solution OF the difficult
ties which exist in Mexico-the
education OF the Mexican masses.
While he is unsparing In his crit.
icism of certain traits which he has
discovered, he gives full credit to
those admirable qualities he finds
In this interesting but undeveloped
people, and provides many peril.
nent suggestions as to the funda-
mental bases on which a Mexican
education must rest II It is to sue
coed. With such a wealth of m.
formation as Mr.. Thompson has
supplied. the solution of many OF
the problems that at present SO
vex Americans should be made
much easier. and possibly some of
the present difficulties may be en-
tirely eliminated. The author is a
journalist. intimately acquainted
with Mexican life. and he is also a
psychologist.
TT is the instructive desire Of all
normal parents to make the
most OF their children. to train
them rightly. to develop their
possibilities for good, and to
check and control their possi-
bilities for evil.
According to Miriam Finn
Scotland she has specialized in
children's development for years,
as playground director. as found
er Of the unique "Children's
Garden" in New York, as a men,
Der Of various institutions con.
cerned with child welfare-the
foundation for this training
should be laid in the home dur.
ing the first six years of the
child's life. She believes that It
is the parents treatment of the
commonplace details that does
the most to build the structure
Of human existence.
Thus, in Meeting Your Child's
Problems" Oittle, Brown & Coz.
she presents the picture of a
normal home, and takes up in
detail the correct handling of the
various little incidents and prob.
lens that arise in connection
with every normal child, the far
reaching results of many small
faults, the overlooked causes of
much that is classified broadly
as naughuness, the value OF
example, the wisdom OF sympathy
and careful judgment.
Parents will find this an illumi.
mating book in their handling OF
their children, and those who are
already familiar with the authors
previous volume, How To Know
Your Child" will discover in II
much that supplements the in.
formation contained in that book.