Evening star., 1933-11-05

Y struggling to bring our country
out of the deprc sion. Mrs.
Roosevelt quotes in her forew I'd fcom story
of Dorothy Garfield about Civil War woman
who, when she heard that her husband had
been killed at Gettysburg. went "hoein'
beans" The depression is war: women
must go en- "hoein' beans" and they must also
do a great many other things. They must
spread reduced family income over larger
surface, must learn budg9ting. o. both money
and time; must do work which they have not
previously been accustomed to d. must be
custodians of the family health and directors
Of the family recreation. These are some of
the things which have for long ccme under
the classification of "womens work
In the chapter Women and Jobs" Mrs.
Roosevelt shows herself liberal thinker. She
does net believe that woman's home and
career are Incompatible Her duty to her
home does not of necessity preclude her having
another occupation. woman. just like a
man, may have great gift for S me particular
thing" Also, it is pointed out that many
women who work outside the home are sup
porting or m5re other persons and that
married women who continue with their gain
full work usually do so from some kind of
necessity These things are often forgotten by
those who attempt to crowd women from the
economic field Womens part in civic and
national life is -uch large subject that Mrs
Roosevelt might well write an.ther book on
that alone She here directs attention es-
pecially toward certain phases of their par
ticipation in public life. what they may do to
improve working conditi ms for both men and
women. and what they may do to lessen the
probability Of and promote peace. The
chapter Women and the N r. A gives
gestions for practical cooperation such as
buying from firms which are playing fairly,
limiting lnStallment buying. Iplralnlng from
boarding, public speaking for the N r. A.
clearly and simply written, very practical, is
book for Everywtman perhaps the men
too might profit from it.
MESA LAND. The History and Romance OF
the American Southwest. BY Anna Wilmarth
Ickes- With Illustrations. ston Hough-
ton Miffln Co.
4 ARS. ICKES, wife of the Secretary of the
lVl Interior has fallen under the enchant-
rnent Of the Southwest and transmits 1t to her
readers as far as such intangible thing as
enchantment may be shared. She warns that
old, conventional standards of both natural and
artistic beauty may not be applied to either
the desert or the native art. One who sees
only barren stretch of endless plain. with
no green for homesick Eastern eyes, dirty
natives" and crude art. and demands
standardized comforts, would do better to
remain in the "effete" East. though Mrs.
such traveller cling to the highroad and the
comfortable Harvey Houses" For one willing
to accept measure of personal discomfort
and to be artStically open-minded, the desert
country offers rich store of history, art and
archaeology. Mrs. Ickes is interested in all
three. One closely packed chapter is given to
the history of the Southwest and another to
the history of the Navajo. Most Ct the book
is devoted to descriptions of the chief Indian
tribes-the Navajos, zunis Hopis, Pueblos, and
KivaS-their tribal characteristics, past his
tory, present manner of life, rights under our
Government, and what the future holds for
them Different Indian dances described
with great vividness and many of the taboos
humorously compared with our own Gus
toms. In no sense a guide book, yet Mesa
Land" might well accompany any traveller to
the Southwest who looks for more than hotels
and bare facts. 1t is written in clear informal
narrative style and is Illustrated with many
photographs.
THE CONQUEST OF CONTINENT: or the
Expansion OF Races in America BY Madison
Grant. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
DUCKLE, in the early nineteenth century, when
y he wrote his History Of Civilization" saw
climate as the prevailing factor in determining
types of civilization. Madison Grant, president
of the New York Geological Society. believes
that on the racial character of the inhabitants
of country depend the character and great
ness of the country In his introduction to
1.-The Conquest Of Continent" Henry Fair
field Osborn says Il think it explodes the
bubble of the opponents of racial values that
they are merely myths" Mr. Grants theme IS
that the country which became the United
States was settled by men and women of Nor
die origin and that their physical, intellectual
and moral traits put their imprint on the early
life of the country. Though the Nordic stock
was later diluted by races with other qualities
end values, the country is still 70 per cent
Nordic, and that 10 per cent says Mr.. Grant,
should take up "the White Mans Burden" and
preserve its own solidarity. In his previous
book, 'The Passing of the Great Race" he
discussed the same subject but less conclusiYelY