Evening star., 1933-12-03


g. Co.
ECONOMIC nationalsm has been growing in
l. popularity of late in proportion interna-
tional cooperation for any purpose what
ever, whether disarmament, trade relations or
currency stabiliZation, seems to become more
difficult, practically impossible. Samuel Crow
ther is only one of many of its advocates. 1t
is doubtful if today, with the world shrunk
TO such small proportions through swift COM
munication by water and air, the United States
can return to the ideal of George Washington
of seit-containment, but Mr.. Crowther believes
that new policy Of certain degree of isola-
tion adapted to modern conditions, is quite
possible and desirable. He says that by "dint
OF nearly two decades of insstent meddling into
the affairs of other nations" the United States
has today no friends and many bitter enemies
among those nations. But fortunately We need
friends: fortunately We need fear no enc
mics" This sentence is his text. He expounds
it by showing that have the greatest pur
chasing power in the world, well as the
greatest producing power. We can and ought
to depend on our own resources. Inc COM
modties which do not produce naturally,
such as rubber. we still need not import, for
we can produce them synthetically. We do
not need international trade agreements. but
national planning In carrying out his program
of economic nationasm, Mr. Crowther would
compel all international financial dealings TO
pass through and be recorded by the Federal
Reserve Banks provide prohibtive instead OF
competitive tariffs on articles produced in this
country with absolute embargo when necessary;
keep out cheap labor by rigid immigration laws
an6 a national minimum wage law. Mr. Crow
ther is journalist and author of experience
and has had Henry Ford a collaboration IN
three of his books, Moving Forward" MY
Life and Work" and To-day and Tomorrow"
With Harvey S. F1restone he wrote Men and
Rubber
SAMUEL PEPYS. The Man in the Making.
By Arthur Bryant. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
CAMUEL PEPYS of the seventeenth century
) was vain, greedy, hcentious' pecuiator.
or CRATER" before the term was nVenteu.
man thoroughly devoted to hlmseil aha nS
own interests Yet he is appreciated warmly
and judged 1eniently today by all who know
contemporary, Milton, has been relegated to
the society of the classics by many for whom
PepyS still lives. Perhaps this is because per-
sonality is more enduring than abstract virtue
Pepys was appallingly honest In his complete
journal of about 1900 600 words, he told
things about himself which would have been
better concealed and which his earlier editors
suppressed. The complete Diary has never
vet been published. 1t was bequeathed by him
to his nephew, who in turn bequeathed 1t 70
Magdalen College Cambridge, where it is
source, with many other sources to assist 1t,
Arthur Bryant has constructed what is both
an authentic and a brilliant biography He
has in addition drawn a Hogarthian picture
of official and plebian London of PepyS time.
Samuel Pepys came of fenland family,
whose members had for centuries grazed and
ploughed the land north of Cambridge. The
father of Samuel. John Pepys, went to London
and became tailor, married washmaid and
became the father of IL children. The fifth,
Samuel was one Of the few to survive child
hood He secured enough preliminary educa-
ton to be admitted siZar at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge. While there he had the first at
tack of the family ailment which was to tor
ment him all his life and which is continually
mentioned in the Diary 1.-The stone" At
% he married 15-year-old French girl,
whom he loved violently at the time but
whom he was destined to deceive innumerable
times later Nevertheless the couple were rea-
sonab1y happy at intervals and remained genu-
inely fond of each other until Elizabeth died
when Pepys was SO, and left him shaken ana
alone" The lifelong vocation OF Pepys was the
public service, where he held various positions
under the navy Office. His devotion to his
King (Charles III and country was second
only to his devotion to his own advancement
in property and position. contract which
went through his hands rarely failed to leave
behind it something in the way of gold or
silver or elegant commodities. Each year he
checked up the increase in his money and be-
longings and proudly entered the result in the
Diary" He was climber and gloated over
any attentions from the Duke of York and
others in high places. Mr.. Bryant plans an
other volume about the interesting Pepys.
This one takes him only to his 37th year; the
second will show him as the savior of the
navy.
THE NIGHT CLUB ERA. BY Stanley Walker.
New York Frederick A. Stokes Co.
THE city editor Of the New York Herald
! Tribune has written a sensational book; his
material is sensational and it has lost nothing
in the handling. From records, he has treated
the orgies Of drukenness and lawlessness In
Manhattan which marked the reform era