White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-02-29
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A new novel by Emerson Hough, au
thor of "The Covered Wagon" and
North of &c." appears in the book
shops this week. 1t is entitled moth
er of Gold" and Appleton is the pub
Usher. To those who have read "The
Covered Wagon" and North Of &c.
the name of Emerson Hough repre-
sents something unique in present-day
fiction-the voice Of the pioneers
speaking through the lips of born
story-teller. Four men meet at the
Mexican border and undertake the
quest of the greatest of all gold mines,
the so-called Mother of Gold, richest
vein in the world, which legend says
is hidden somewhere in Mexico. The
little band of hardy souls embark up
on the adventure, little foreseing the
dangers and hazards, the terrific hard
ships, the shrinking of their number
before they can even glimpse the mar
velous cliff of gold, of which the
whole world tells. Into the story is
woven the romance of Barry Allison,
the hero, and the girl back home,
Mary Westlake.
What Makes Live Community?
Discussions about art and even dis
putes about art are very necessary in
live and fully developed communities
and in fact the term "live" may not
be applied to communities where they
do not occur. And Give" artists, pro-
foundry in earnest over their work,
never worry over these discussions
it is only the sluggish and the political
who fear the public and try to hush
it up.-Henry Mcbride in The Dial.
Mankind at the. Crossroads. By Ed
ward M. East. Scribners. ($3.50)
II the complete story were written
Of mans search for an adequate food
supply it would be the history of all
great migrations of peoples, of many
terrible wars, desperate voyages, SEN
sational discoveries and curious in
ventions. Eras that we set apart as
distinct civilizations" usually grew
up around a food supply that was
more than enough for the people d.
rectly concerned, and very often came
to an end under the onslaught of
hungry barbarians who had learned
about the full larders and were de-
termined to sack them. Mr.. East's
book stands upon its authors belief
that the modern worlds supply of
food is diminishing rapidly in COM
parison with the number of people to
be fed, and he thinks something dras-
tic must be done about it if we care
to escape a, general calamity. His OBJ
vious and stated alternatives are to
increase the annual production Of
food or to check the number of hui
man beings born into the world every
year. The old fashioned demand for
less extravaganza Chat is, less con-
sumption) is not heard much any
more, and the disparity between sup
ply and demand as pictured by Mr..
East is so great that economy" offers
no genuine remedy. Mankind at the
Crossroads" presents only the choice
between more systematic and in
tensive agriculture on the one hand
and educated limitation of birth on
the other. The author warns, more
over, against the present-day marked
limitation Of children among educat-
ed classes side by side with the nat
ural maximum Of children among the
masses. The tendency to regard de-
reduction Of births as essen
tial to any solution of the worlds food
problem may be due in part to the
fact that interdependence among all
peoples has become so nearly world
wide in the matter of food that moth
ing short of an International program
OF conservation and exploitation will
enable the human race to multiply
without check and still consume as 1t
does at present