Evening star., 1932-05-08

By Howard w. Haggard M u, associate
professor of applied physiology, Yale Uni
versity author of Devils, Drugs and Doc
tors" etc New York Harper & Bros
YEAR on the radio with DR. Haggard
~ is. doubt a keen appetizer to
the maj ajority for whatever more this
Y fortnight man has to offer.
Under good guidance, the back
trail is a fasc mating one from any
considerable present point of departure And
no subject could come closer to more people
than that Of medicine, than the story of that
health quest which now engages public con-
Germ And this is the story that DR.. Haggard
has to tell in THE Lame, the Halt. and the
Blind" 1t is the vital role of medicine in the
history of civilization" that he here SO pic
turesquely portrays. A vigorous protest against
the long neglect of this story sets the writer
on his way. A way that leads back as far as
records rum. when ignorance and disease had
already set up hideous partnership bent to
the destruction of mankind. Concurrently, ter
ror and superstition had united in a system OF
demonology whose rites and ceremonies were
directed upon avoidances ami immunities. Pro-
found research has been given to this study
of medicine as ciyilizing agency. An impress
sive bulk of information has accrued from it.
seleetive power that balances the purely in
structive with the deeply interesting is in evi-
dence throughout this vicissitous journey of
present of scientific investigation into the cause
and prevention of unhealth.
Plague, scourge epidemic are here pictured
In time, place and circumstance With the pic
lures 60 records of reluctance to abandon Gods
wrath as a source of such blight in favor of
the distinctly dull belief in dirt and insanitary
ways as the cause of disaster
But science is on its road and the story be-
gins to look up toward the many miracles of
in he i'm, 0f r,t.h1i
health, through the enlightened habit of the
individual and the regulations of civic bodies.
. The advance in clinic and hospital and in the
rise of preventive measures against disease
mark the climax of this great story of this
fascinating story, set out robustly and so
: >convineingly. One seems not to read much
as to hear it in the tones of this radio speaker
of years acquaintance, telling the most i'm
portant story of man in his fight against sick
ness and its disabilities
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE BY
Jay Franklin author of What the
Country Needs" New York: Covici- -Friede,
Inc.
THE issue of presidential campaign that's
what we are about to receive" And this
book is a survey of the field in respect, first
to candidates for the presidency; next, to
then to political tidbits that are being tossed
to and fro before the hungry people the
electorate.
virile and direct writer who is keen to the
sound of capticn and headline. Hungry
Democrats" "Smug Republicans" Drink and
the Devil" "Bribes for Buddies," "Doles Debt
and Taxes" .Bolshevik Batting" and so on
through alterative lists of political questions
and propaganda. Faced upon the election only
half year away. Leading to these general
topics are three character studies of presden-
tial possibilities, Franklin Roosevelt Alfred
Emmanuel Smith and Herbert Hoover These
studies clearly the outstanding features of
the book. valuable the whole book is for
sound thinking and frank disclosure Straight
p3ychology, personal history, general political
and economic knowledge work into these
studies fer the projection of each of these
presidential candidates according to the
powers and parts of each. Aristocratic New
York well the East Side of that
metropolis and the small-town locale of Iowa
contribute their share-no more no leSs-to
the making of these leaders. Ancestry and
youth each takes hand also. Measurements
expert, of the man to the approaching demand
upon him are forthcoming out of the authors
wide political outlook and vision, out of his
definite partaking in public purposes and
activities. Most of all, so far as readers are
concerned out of his straight and robust
partnership with the language of politics and
1ts supporters. Something Of an adventure to
read this book. The words fall thick and fast
like brickbats often than otherwise
Trying to escape personal harm one gets
walked up, excited and really sets to thinking
about the men and the measures 50 thoroughly
manhandled by Jay Franklin. Let it be said
In open and outright way that this amazing
vgor never loses it self in bias of thought in
haphszsrd conclusions in unwarranted criti-
cisn of adverse stripe. fair man. an
excitingly informing one. Better read What
We Are About to Receive" You will in that
case. know more about what you really do
receive" next November.
THREE LOVES By A. j. Cronin, author of
"HatterS Castle ~ Boston Little Rrouo