Evening star., 1934-06-02
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH C. BOWERMAN.

Washington, D. c.: The George
Washington University Press.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
of the George Washington Univer-
sity, says in his foreword that this
volume inaugurates a series to be
published by the Center of Inter-
American Studies Of the University,
in connection with its Summer
seminar conferences on Hispanic-
American affairs. This present
volume consists Of the lectures given
at the conference Of 1892. The ad-
dresses are arranged chronologically.
beginning with an introduction by
DR.. Wilgus, director of the center, on
"Our Intellectual Appreciation Of
Hispanic- American Affairs" Three
addresses follow by DR.. Mary VIII
helmine williams of Goucher College,
on the Hispanic occupation Of the
Western Hemisphere, the political
and economic administration of the
Indies, and the Roman Church in
the Indies. The 19 lectures on the
modern period are by IA lecturers,
who have covered Hispanic- American
politics, economics, education, social
life, religion, literature, as well as
some more specialized subjects, such
as the banana industry and "guano
| diplomacy" Some Of the subjects
of international import discussed are
| the American policy Of continental
| solidarity as contrasted with the
European policy Of equilibrium, the
Monroe Doctrine, Of course, the at
titude of the United States toward
insurgent Spanish colonies and in
tellectual cooperation between the
Americas. Some contributors to the
volume are Samuel G. Inman Of Co.
lumbia University. Clarence F. Jones
of Clark University, E. Gil Borges,
assistant director of the Pan-Ameri-
| can Union; Heloise Brainerd of the
| Pan-American Union, J. Fred Rippy
| Of Duke University, Cecil Knight
Jones and A. Curtis WilguS Of the
George Washington University and
William Ray Manning Of the State
Department.
THE TWO AMERICAS. An Interpre-
tation. BY Stephen Duggan,
Phi. D., IL. D., Lift. D. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The director of the Institute of In
| ternational Education in this we'll
planned volume attempts to interpret
to each other the United States and
the Latin-American countries and to
explain the causes Of some of the mis-
| understandings which often mar in
| teramerican relations. Like most mis-
| understandings, they are due, DR..
Duggan believes, to lack of accurate
knowledge. Different types of civil
ization have developed in the United
States and in Latin America, and
without long residence citizens of one
| America find 1t difficult to appreciate
correctly the culture of the other.
DR.. Duggan examines the geographical
and historical background of both
Americas and the resultant social and
political organizations and customs.
Examples of differences are the
greater parental control. the power of
the Catholic Church, the absence of
well-defined political parties and the
importance Of personalities In politics,
and the emphasis on the secondary
instead OF the elementary school, in
Latin America The questions of the
Monroe Doctrine and the policy Of
| the United States as regards interven-
tion in the Caribbean are admitted as
factors of misunderstanding. Among
his remedies for misunderstanding,
DR.. Duggan suggests the importance
Of personal contact, the need of wider
and deeper cultural relations. through
student and professional exchanges
and through travel. He considers it
unfortunate that the literature Of the
United States is practically unknown
in Latin America and Latin-American
literature is practically unknown in
the United States.
ROMANTIC COPPER. It's Lure and
Lore. BY Ira B. Joralemon. New
York: D. Appleton Century Co.
Prehistoric tribesmen in the Island
Of Cyprus found some heavy red
stones, which proved much better for
axes and spear heads than common
brittle rocks, because they could be
bent when hammered. This Cyprian
metal later became known as copper.
For 80 centuries Cyprus was the most
abundant source Of the metal, and its
mines were worked by Ionians, Greeks.
Romans Then copper was sought
and found elsewhere and Cyprus was
abandoned. Shortly before the World
| War a young mining engineer named
Gunther, waiting in the New York
Public Library to meet theater COM
panion, picked up from an open shelf
a treatise on archaeology and found
in it a reference to the use Of copper
by the Phoenicians. From this acci-
dent-and here is the romance-it
came about that In 1922 the first ore
was shipped from the rediscovered
Cyprus mines and before long the
Cyprus Mines, Inc, was producing
several million pounds Of copper per
month.
This Is not all of the romantic tale
told by Mr.. Joralemon, himself min
ing engineer. There Is the copper Of
Spain, Africa, the Mediterranean,
Chile, Peru, Mexico, Alaska, Canada,
Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana,
Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota. There
are the many big and little copper
companies, which have come and
often gone, each with its tale to tell
the Calumet and Hecla, the Colorado
g. Montana Smelling, the Anaconda,
Amalgamated Copper. Cerro de Pasco,
Miami, Kennecott and innumerable
others. Heated politics, often red
hot, entered into the histories of most
of these companies. The stories OF
individual mines of rich yield and
the ecstasies and melancholias which
they caused are part of this romance.
The American phase Of the story,
which is given the greatest space, will
naturally interest American readers
most, and in this dramatic climaxes
are abundant One of the most tense
is the account of the fierce battle Of
W. A. Clark, Marcus DAILY and F.
| Augustus Heinze over Montana cop
| per and politics The activities of
Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold Of
Belgium in Africa are, however,
equally astonishing. Mr.. Joralemon
concludes with the statement that
the romance of copper is not over,
that 1.-The world again will be dread
ing a copper famine. Engineers and
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