Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15

BRAND by this act promptly and
automatically becomes both object of homage
and target of attack. On the one hand he
Is lauded by the peace men, who for some
thing like 1000 years now have been striving
to put across a working program of brother
hood. To this small group is added the grow
ing army of economists and industrialistS who
concede the worth, even the necessity, of eco
nomic union. Against these two, loosely
banded to form real identity of purpose,
stands the political dogma of national power,
eternally ambitious for precedence. To this
last group, deeply intrenched, the first one
is visionary, impractical, asleep and dreaming
while those who concede the economic pressure
toward better union revolutionary to
destructive degree. And SO, politically ambi-
tious countries of Europe shocked at the
program of BRAND where they are not merely
amused at the intellectual vagaries of this
prominent and capable Frenchman, who-they
SAYS clearly thinking in terms of safety for
France itself. An odd race-the human race
Always preaching idealtsm, heaven earth,
utopia of one fair brand another Yet
no sooner does any pattern of such fulf1llment
appear than a single man the race rises to
object from a thousand viewpoints of failure
and disaster. Clearly man has several hundred
million years yet to run before his deeds will
be able to catch up with his words.
Meanwhile here is Aristide BRAND advocat-
ing only decent accommodations and adapta-
tons among men for the sake of securing q
civilized mode of life in an increasingly pressed
and crowded world "Oh, q man of peace all
right" you will be told, with the accompanying
shrug that serves to scant phrase out of its
substance leaving only the sound of it. "A fine
man who has all his life stood for peace; even
as . Socialist he could not and did not accept
political nor individual violence" man of
cancellations arrangements wherever conflict
ing forces met during his long official career,
whether these were in social programs, in con-
between in laf1
culties or wherever else any situation in France
came to be of measure for public attention.
1t turns out happily, therefore, that this dec
laration for a United States of Europe is but
the finishing spire tower to the solid struc-
ture of Brands me-not a departure, not an
imposition of alien significance merely
GROWING part of the whole instead
Here in intimate voice and friendly way
Valentine Thomson goes back into her own
memory and over personal observations for the
sake OF setting out the plain substance of this
man OF kindly heart, of simple ways, of hard
common sense, invulnerable to the attacks of
sentimentality and emotionalism; a Socialist
IN theory throughout. Therefore at loose ends
when party Affiliations are in the making A
lazy man? Hardly that. Certainly not that
when solid accomplishment is in the counting
rather than a manner of tremendous activity
with little done to show for it. A shrewd man
Withal. without the impedimenta of political
sagacity, without the Semblance of any
Machiavelian mystery of power. BRAND: Man
OF Peace" is most unpretentiouS book 1t IS
In effect, a run of pictures giving this moment
or that one in Brands career, this or that
characteristic of mood and behavior. The whole
delivers this man, as a man well known and
well liked. Such is the distinct value of the
book at this moment, when AriStide BRAND is
projecting his greatest vision, is advocating a
continental union in place of disunion and its
inherencieS of conflict
HARD MONEY. BY Clarence Burlington KEEL
Land, author of Dynasty" etc. New York:
Harper 81 Bros
SOUND history of vital import on the one
hand sturdy adventure on the other. The
near past of the United States called to ac-
count for its present and the promise of the
future. The present and the immediate future
are overwhelmingly economic, industrial fl
nancial the greatest of these the basic one
Is finance, money. And so Clarence Kelland
goes hunting into the past for the beginnings
OF the money power which dominates our
country, and the world, today. The quest be-
gins with the time of Mr. Jefferson" 1t
moves to the small town of New York already
alive to vague notions of its own important
career Money has already begun to trouble
the capital Inroads have already been made
hpon the theory of hard money as the only
foundation of a secure financial program Little
hanks, loose and unregulated, are a menace to
the hard money theory by way of paper issues
much more paper than could possibly be
S0lidified by coin.
Right here Mr.. Kelland sets in suitable ac-
ton the century-old unSoundneSS that has
troubled politicians and statesmen and plain
people. Right here is sourced the practice of
Investment on the one hand, speculation on the
other. Both basic, both operative today. Such
Is the aspect of history that this author works
out, very fifty. in the village of New York. Up
along the Hudson of those days stretched the
manorial holdings Of the PATRONS Around
Shese lived the peasant farmers dependent
upon the lords Of the feudal estates for tiIage
and acreage. From these Dutch farmers comes
the hero of this tale. A lad young Jan Van
Horn, whose blood from babyhoOd leaped to