Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23

ofing and here steps in a brief restatement OF
the Monroe Doctrine from this new and modern
point of view. The study reaches up TO the
present moment Of the London Conference, with
reports in which the note of warning is unniS-
taxable and this is accompanied by the sorrow
full reflection that President Hoover and Prime
Minister Macdonald are too honestly optimistic
themselves to realize the intricacies OF the
diplomatic web that is at this moment being
spun in the interest of national selhShneSS, Of
national greed coupled with complete mastery
of Machiavelian methods Of achievement.
This is compact body of admirably co-ordi-
mated fact upon a current matter Of Importance.
In that respect the book is worth deep atten.
ton. Reading one creates his own impressions
and spirit toward the matter. That Vernon
Gibbs is clearly distrustful of Europe need not,
in ITSELF make the reader share his lack of con-
fdence. The assembled facts constitute the high
value of the study.
THE BATTLE FOR YOUTH BY Boris Soko-
loff New York: Covici, Friede, publishers.
FORMERLY professor of experimental biology
at Petrograd and again at Prague, DIR.
Sokolo6 came to New York as guest of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Again, he worked at the institute of cancer
research of Columbia University Biologist
of international reputation, his work with such
conclusions, or such opinions, as derive from
it are of the highest Importance. It would seem
that, for the reader of even above-average
quality, this man of science could have not so
much to say. Yet in this study he does ap-
proach a theme of such absorbing and gen.
eral interest that a clear sharpening OF even
the common mans mental acumen is bound to
be exercised upon this study. great scientist
takes up from the standpoint OF biological re-
search that obSesSing fact of old age. What
Is it? What are its contributing causes? What
can be done about it? The answer from this
scientist is that old age senility il disease
OF definite source, to be met in a definite way
as other diseases are. Not durable, certainly
by Immortality, but durable in the sense that
the human being may live in sustained high
quality of living, instead of walking around
practically dead. as he now does, for quarter OF
his allotment of time. The conclusion is based
speaking very roughly on an appreciation of the
cellular structure of the body, upon fair con-
ception of the nature of these cells, upon the
fact of their functioning in communicates
human society functionS--under particular
leadership. And then upon vision Of the
ordination of these communities into general
unity of reciprocal accommodations to one
another. Much like the social whole, with dis
orders and disasters following upon revolt in
any community on the part Of any clique
of cells. Pressures. communications, infections,
disease and degeneration become the sequence
of such revolt. Death is not the punishment.
Death Is bound to come That other death,
senile incompetence Of action and attitude and
incompetent Savorings of life-this Is the effect
of cellular bolshevism within the body.
And what Is the point OF all this IN 80 tar