Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04


clackety-clacE Of pushing trains. The heady
whiIl of motor-riding through the country.
fash OF g:ecn-trees or gowing grains. A
trill of sound. Some bi d telling it TO a mate,
his own or anotherS.
Yet wouldn't miss this mess II were vou
Better keep alongside Here is the who
for some time now has been chasing himself
around under the impression that he fee
ing from a distaste-ul world. Just going after
one OF his other selves inst .ad From city to
country. F-on company to solitude. Then,
largely b. chance, he came upon ore Of the
factory towns recently sprung up in the
South. machine town. And he began to
grow curious about machines, about their
usurpatlon OF ran power, about the effect upon
himself OF such complete abrogGtion of
his own life principle. And he would 60 into
the factories at night, many nights. He
watched these marveis o. efficiency, these prod
ioies of speed and accuracy. Lines of men
placed at the right level before the machines
with nothing to Go save to press button of
release or stoppage, to turn a delicate lever
for some momentous stage of automatic pro0Ic-
tor. What is going to happen to man in the
course Of this mechanical advance? Going to
settle to the thinking capacity of the machine
itself. A few artists dreamers, inventors TO
produce bigger and better meohanisms The rest
sinking to lower levels CT mental action and
spiritual outlook. Who, then, will do the great
things of the world? And here is where the
tentative perhaps women" steps to the fore in
coming: whereas men are going. That is, they
are going in the sense OF long service in mans
world. Women are fresh to the out-of-doors of
existence. They are eager for it, They are by
degrees fitting themselves for it. And SO Sher-
wood Anderson, in his own Andersonan way,
suggests that in some far future, just as in q
remote past a matriarchy will Supplant man
rule. for awhile at least. Perhaps until the man,
through cons of recuperaton, will again be able
to take charge Of a miracle producing world
tfrf10 MnxkR AHNnk nfa~ eaaIlx,
as this very remarkable man projects the vision.
LIVES OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY; A
Book Of Comparative Biography. Edited by
Rowena K Keyes, Pho. Illustrated by
Theodore Van Deusen. New York: D. Apple
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THE BIG BONANZA. The story of the Com
stock Lode. By G. B. Glasscock. Illustrated.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
THE Silver Cities" of the West are deeply
stirred just now, so the papers tell us
every day, over the withdrawal of the gold
standard in more than part of the world.
Old dreams of the silver flood come again.
Recollections of the earlier days when huge
fortunes were made from the white metal re-
vive and point upon future Of fair approach
to that glamorous past. To be sure, only the
best mines remain but methods of production
have. no doubt, advanced enough to counterfeit,
in some slight measure such loss At any rate,
hope is running high and the daily press Is re-
viewing the history of that period when silver
in the West lured thousands to the upbuiding