Evening star., 1933-08-06

Brownlow and Charles S. Ascher. All pub
lished by American Library Association,
Chicago, in series EXPLORING THE
TINES
-- HESE booklets of the American Library
Association, designed to point the
way to good reading and intelligent
thinking current problems are
prepared by authorities on the diff
ferent subjects Other booklets on
kindred subjects will be published later. Mr..
Gideonse is "one of the younger luminaries of
the University of Chicago associate professor
of economics. His attack on his subject is by
way of series of questions, some Of the last
of which are: Can the capitalist system en-
dure if it is inevitably linked to war? What
notifications will have to be introduced to
curb war and the economic disaster that in
evitably follows it? Can nation win modern
war any more thar it can win an earthquake?"
Paul Douglas is also member Of the Uni
rersity of Chicago faculty, an authority on
wages and unemployment. He finds two
schools of thought about the depression; the
one which believes that it is but a phase Of
recurring cycle and will in time cure itself,
the other which believes that are expert
encing a permanent breakdown Of capitalism
because "capitalistc society inevitably pro-
duces more goods than can be sold at profit"
Mr.. Douglas inclneS to the latter view, unless
governments can arrest the depression by
liberal financing of relief and large expendi-
lures on public works through a controlled
currency.
DR.. Ogburn is professor of sociology at the
University of Chicago and has served on many
important social work committeeS-the Costs
of Medical Care, the White House Conference
ons Child Health and Protection, the White
House Committee on Home Building and Home
Ownership, the Presidents Research Com
mittee on Social Trends. He asks, Are ma
oh; cfn e1a ov,I
cludes that they are little of each. Machines
take jobs away, but they also make jobs. New
machines have'"tgiven us all more Of the good
things of life" but there must be constant
human adjustment to machine progress"
DR.. Kolb is chairman Of the department
of rural sociology at the University of Wis
consin and also member of the Presi-
dents Research Committee on Social Trends.
In his booklet he summarizes the many diff
culties of the farmer and their causes-debts
taxes, tariffs-and tells Of some of the at
tempted remedies and why they have not been
successful.
Louis Brownlow author of Less Government
or More?" was formerly President of the Board
Of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
and is now director of the Public Administra-
ton Clearing House of Chicago. His associate
Charles S. Ascher, is secretary of the clearing
house. They show that those who are loudest
in their demands for less government are the
first to insist the services which govern
ment performs, that is the services in which
they are especially interested. Economy in
government, then, must mean not reduction
in service nor transfer of the cost of service
from public to private budget. To the con-
scientiouS public official it means reduction of
the unit cost; rendering the same better
service for less money. This is a goal for
which groups of public servants who have pro-
fessional pride in their work have striven for
,~r;or - {Lo ol@
of the booklets is concluded with series Of
brief reviews of outstanding books on its sub
Ject For those wishing compact information
and carefully reasoned opinions on these sub
jects, all of the utmost importance today these
booklets. with their accompanying suggestions
for reading can be unqualifiedly recommended.
TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING. BY Maurice
OSullivan. New York: The Viking Press.
ORIGINALLY written in Irish Gaelic and
~ translated by professor of Greek in the
University of Galway and woman who thor
oughly understands her native land and its
people, George Thomson and Moya Llewelyn
Davies, this autobiography Of Dublin police
man now in the Civic Guard in Connemara,
is a unique piece of what may be considered
modern folk literature. It was written for and
dedicated TO the old women of the Great Bias
ket, the sla I'd which lies northwest of the coast
of Kerry, that wooded, hilly county, deeply in
dented by the sea, which We see with delight
from the steamer as it approaches Ireland
and the harbor of Cobb. On this island Maui
rice O'Sullivan was born, where the storms of
the sky and the wild sea beat without ceasing
from end to end of the year and from genera
tion to generation against the wrinkled rocks
which stand above the waves that wash in and
oAt of the coves where the seals make their
homes" His mother died when he was only
a few months old and he was sent to the town
of Dingle to be cared for by "a stranger wo-
man.. When he was about 7 he was taken
back to the Blasket by his father, against the
protests Of the school mistress, who threatened