Evening star., 1933-08-06

shark when Maurice and two other boys we're
out on the Great Sound in curragh; we'd
ding, wake at which old Kate Liam made
"a nice corpse" and much fishing with the
other boys and even with the men.
The chief means Of livelihood on the Great
Basket the only one of the islands Of the group
which Is inhabited is fishing, for lobster in
Summer and mackerel in Winter, and of that
rocky, stormy coast dangerous way Of living
it is. When Maurice longer went to school
his father suggested that he do lobster sea-
son" with him, and so the boy became a fisher
man, according to island tradition But the
fishing became less and less profitable, all the
young people were leaving for America, and
Maurice longed to go, too. Il looked west at
the edge of the sky where America should be
lying and I slipped back on the paths of
thought. 1t seemed to me now that the New
Island (America) was before me with its fine
streets and great high houses, some of them so
tall that they scratched the sky; gold and sill
yer out on the bitches and nothing to do but to
gather it, But a stranger had come to the
island. for pleasure and to study Gaelic His
name was George Thomson. He persuaded the
handsome young Irishman, longing for Amer
lea, to remain in Ireland and enter the Civic
Guard, the police force of the Irish Free State
When he returned to the island for his first
holidays, after two years OF service he found
things changed-"green grass growing on the
paths for lack Of walking; five or six houses
shut up and the people gone out to the main
land; fields which had once had fine stone walls
around them left to ruin; the big red patches
the Sandhils made by the feet Of the boys
and girls dancing-there was not trace of
them now" but my father and grandfather
sitting on either side Of the f-e my grand
father smoking his old pipe" The story Of the
young policeman. now only about 80, ends with
this sentence. He and his translators have pro-
duced for English readers book of prose
poetry, rich in national consciousness, sentiment
and gay humor. It is the choice of both the
English Book Society and the Book -of-the-
Month Club.
HITLERS REICH The First Phase. BY Ham
ilton Fish Armstrong. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
\ Ar. ARMSTRONG, editor of Foreign Affairs,
wi has visited Germany every year since the
war. He went to Berlin Immediately after the
establishment of the Hitler dictatorship, inter-
viewed Hitler and other Nazi leaders, and then
went on to Nad strongholds in Austria and
DanIg. Later in Rome, he did some checking
and rechecking of Hitlerism versus Fascism.
This small book gives his findings. One of the
first things which impressed him in Naz Ger
many was the disappearance Of almost every
German prominent in either the government
or the business of the republic. 1t is not suf
ficient for survival that German is Nazi;
he must have been a Nad before the revou-
jected"; the Reichswehr ION which Gen. Won
Schleicher counted and which as recently as
last December could and would have supported
him in determined move to establish authority
in the name of the Pickering republic, now
stands glumly aside'' The Socialist trade
unions are also politically dead. German
Professionalism and Catholicism have both been
obliged to bend to the gale"
According to Mr.. Armstrong; investigations,
Nazi rule has, in comparatively brief period,
become almost complete, drawing under its
domination art, literature, music, the drama,
and sport, as well religion, education indus
try and politics. One chapter is given to the
disabilities imposed on the Jews and the loss to
the German nation through the exile of some
of the most distinguished Of German citizens
belonging to that race. Nazi foreign policy is
militaristic and it is prophesied that
the move toward armament will be in the air,
though there well as on land Germany is
bound by the treaty of Versailles. The Nazi
outposts of Austria and Danzig and their sig
nifcance in the system and the question Of the
Polish Corridor are discussed in separate chap
tiers. Possible sources of weakness in the Nazi
regime are found in the too rapid growth of
the party, the possibility of divisions in Nazi
leadership, the shrinking of German markets
since Naz accession to power, the failure of
unemployment to decrease, and the possibility
that Germany may be forced into another in
fation. These are hurdles ahead of the Nazi
government. Yet Mr.. Armstrong predicts that
the National Socialism of Hitler will last in
Germany as the Communist and Fascist dicta-
torships have lasted in Russia and Italy.
ECONOMY IN EDUCATION. By William John
Cooper. Stanford University California:
Stanford University Press.
DR. COOPER, former United States commits
- sioner of education, now professor of educa-
tion in the George Washington University con-
tributes this booklet to the School Economy
Series, of which DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, former
Secretary Of the Interior is general editor His
hypothesis Is that education is a basic oblga-
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