Evening star., 1934-07-08
0T SARAH BOWERMAN
II Musician Tells the Story Of His Eventful
Life-Walter B. Pitkm'S Me70 Book on
':Nezo Careers for Xouth.''' .

publication. Like the works of Smiles, ~Self
Help" Character" Thrift" and Duty" Mr..
Pitkin's books are extremely popular and are
doubtless beneficial to many who turn to him
as to q friendly confesSor of psychoanalySt. 1t
requires considerable confidence, however, to give
advice about careers in these days when careers
can so easily be made or smashed by casual
legislation. The advice in New Careers for
Youth" is for men and women between the
ages OF II and 80. Before II, public opinion
and child labor legislation frown on any ca
reer and, after 80. change in career is
made at ones peril
Mr.. Pitkin has had the assistance Of more
than 500 people in the preparation OF this book,
including leaders in business, industry and the
professions All agree that in this era of the
machine and power the situation for young
people seeking a very necessary place in the
economic scheme of things is quite different
from that of the period when going into
fathers business the natural procedure, or
that of even recent times, when almost any
business or profession seemed likely to offer a
livelihood Mr. Pitkin warns that there are
few big money jobs left" that "the middle
class job. the middle class income and the
middle-class outlook life will prevail in
your day" The always room at the top"
maxim no longer holds good; the top has been
lowered and vastly spread out but Is badly
crowded Specific advice is given about PLAN
ming q career, hunting job educational ana
experience requisites the need for adaptibility,
and the danger Of expecting too much In the
way of financial return. In group OF nearly
1000 university students interviewed by an IN
yestigator at Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity the men expected to earn four times
as much in the field they were choosing as
could actually be earned, and the women three
times as much.
Arriving at definite occupations, Mr.. Pitkin
finds opportunities better for general pracd-
TONERS in medicine than for specialists, better
oil n
narians dentists and nurses; good Tor social
workers: poor for ministers, professional musi-
clans, ordinary journalists, librarians, art
lsts actors small farmers. The radio, motion
pictures and aviation are all overcrowded ana
should be avoided. Engineering is badly
overcrowded profession. Engineers have excel
lent opportunities" This paradox is explained
at length with reference to the different types
OF engineering AS for teaching, high opPor-
tunities lie somewhere ahead in education. But
how far ahead nobody knows. The hopeful
fields" are new housing, air conditioning, Ger
tain types of manufacturing, distribution and
sales industrial art, personnel work, vocational
guidance, applied psychology, new salesman
Ship banking, accountancy, market research
and the civil service. Merger jobs" are dis
cussed in one chapter The last chapter,
Make Your Own job" offers some hope as
balance to the prevailing pessimistic tone OF
the book Mr.. Pitkin seems to view the JOB
question from the standpoint OF the moment
this Spring and Summer Of 1884, with oepres-
sion still acute; he lacks vision to estimate pos
sibilities even a few years ahead, but perhaps
that is a good deal TO require Of any diagnos-
tician today. The book lacks an index, which
would have added TO its value. q
MATADOR. BY Marguerite Steen. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
RANADA Of today, not that of Washing
" ton Irving is the scene Of this novel OF
the bull ring, by an author who always
chooses unusual subjects upon which to exert
her rich and vivid style. stallion" Is the
biography of O prize roam, famous throughout
an English county. Unicorn" and spider
have similarly unique titles and subject mat
ter "Matador" Is the story OF the amDitlons
of the vain Don Jose Diaz Marquez, once the
idol of the bull ring, now retired to his Casa
del Matador and scheming to bring about the
perpetuation of his fame through his son, Pepe,
the Young matador; Miguel. the huncnpacK,
and Juan the poet. Three things were neces-
sary to Don Jose DiaZ Marquee. as air ana
bread and water are necessary to other men,
the Difference of his equals, the respect Of his
superiors and the obsequiousness Of his in
feriors" His own position as an independent
gentleman since his retirement had not been
secured entirely by his earnings in the ring,
large though they were, but chiefly through
marriage with a rich wife several years his
senior. What had brought success to him
should also De gooo 1or Fepe Lne son on WHOM
his ambition centered. Miguel, ''the upaS
tree whose shadow had lain across his hfe,"
was destined for the priesthood: Juan was still
q schoolboy, but not much could be expected
from q dreamer who read tattered volumes
Of poetry while waiting for the trumpet to
blow In the bull ring.
So heiress had been found for Pepe,
Pillar, the lovely granddaughter of Dona Mer-
cedes Borras, one Of the oldest inhabitants
Of Granada. About the characters OF Don
Jose and his three sons and Pillar and her