Evening star., 1932-08-07

- STRUSTFUL OF the new, aifalu Vi
the untried in politics eertainl5,
there is an instructive recou from
The Coming of New Party from
all its kith and kin. Yet, all along
the line at points in our Govern
ment the two original parties have been SO
modified IN both purpose and program as ID
constitute new instrument OF political pIac-
tice 1t could not be otherwise polltlcal
field greatly expanded, becoming ever more
complicated and involPed, must OF necessity
acquire tools of activity corresponding to such
growth A1sptafi-n is as much law OF poll
ties as 1t is of religion economies OF the human
organism Itself AS a rule these changes come
by modification OF the old, disearding this, re-
tanning that in come changed relation to the
whole. Na.ure is a good manager Man mas
learned from 1t not to throw away but. in-tead,
by a turn here, an accommodation there, 10
achieve eds .aii9n; Hf ncy u5efulneSS sn1 pro-
longed existence New labels, new hines oil
activity have in measure obscured the fact
that at bottom. the two parties have advanced
upon the basic clc ms of idealiSm on the one
hand, realism on the ether. No matter what
the name is or Was h2re is the Utopi2n, an
here the materi9li-t In fun 1amental action the
two parties today have yielded much to each
other. Free trade and State rights have bowed
in agreement with protective tariff and federal
direction But i'd alists on both sides OF the
q brand-new one to American thought and
prediction.
Things are going wrong. hopelessly wrong,
this author and his group maintain. The indi-
vidual Is dangerously paramount And yet any
SAVIOR of State control goes back to the very
sources of our Government. q thing to rouse
suspicion, distrust, resistance. But, under the
bounty of earth, the industrial benefits of
science and the aeamen Of individual man,
wealth has increased and concentrated dan
geroasly with the few. Capitalism has outrun
the growth of man from savage to civilized
state and by way of such inequality of ad-
vance the multitude is imperiled by the rapacity
of the few What to do TO deliver the working
man. on the farms, in the shops? How to
tinker the old parties of direction and control
into fairness of ouslook. into equity of action?
It cannot be done, says this author And he
shows or tries to show why the Old Order is
a broken down concern fit only for the junk
pile of other outgrown political beliefs and
experimens. His claim is that the Govern
naent and that alone can further the interests
of all alike the worker, the producer and the
consumer Passing from this general over
looking and its sequence of theory the author
moves to a discussion of the tactics necessary
to produce the new day. Much of this dis
cusSion goes into ,monstration OF his claim
that no remedy lies within either of the old
parties in any combination of their best
features. No, boring from within" will not
do according to this political economist, but
new party, socialistie in pattern and purpose,
with no tinge of Communism upon it, must
sapplant the ingrained individualsm Of the
past and present. Vigorous in statement, clear
in vision. objective in treatment. the study
is headed upon discussion dissent and OBJ
staele
OF it, John Dewey in foreWofd says. ~If
knew any way to make this book compulsory
all Nit l1N for an
men and women whose political minds are not
closed to facts and ideas would gladly do SO.
And my desire for this end is not aetuated
just by the hope that they would be converted
thereby to the idea of a new party. No matter
what their conclusion, those who read the
book will be more intelligent, more alert and
energetic citiz MS of whatever parties they
choose to join "
THROUGH The HAWSE-HOLE: The True
Story of Nantucket Whaling Captain. BY
Florence Benn-tt Anderson. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
EAFARERS once, all OF as. Else we should
- not have been 'free-bern American citi-
zens." This fact accounts, no doubt, for even
the inanders' thrill over Atlantic sea stories of
whale hunting and other adventures around the
world by way of THE Horn" to the Orient for
two years or thee or four. And here is an init
mate sea yarn, drawn straight by its author from
a whaling grandfather, with no more than two
greats" between him and her. A sea tale ram
sacked from every possible corner OF storage,
the garret where o.d files hid letters, household
tales handed on, sort of family saga kept fresh
by many AMI frequent re-tellings. The story of
Seth Pinkhsm. bcn on Nantucket. 1876. A
Yankee lad who, early, too early, shipped aboard
a whaler and stuck to the job year after year,
till, finally, Seth Pinkham, captain of the
Dauphin Sters forward to meet the eager reader
of this exciting business of whale fishing. A
great deal beside the enterprise itself gets into
the story. Here the interesting fact that this
deep-sea giant used to make a playground of
the Nantucket coast just pigmy man does
today. Then, growing suspicious of the safety
of this romping place of the season. the whale
inxiied f,llrSuf and adventure hY crafty avoid