The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-18
Liberal Viewpoint
DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

- BY DIR. HARRY ELMER bAhNES
XTTE recently have heard that the alternatives
(which face us today are the New Deal, taS-
clSm and communism.
DR.. Kalien will have one of the three CA
Free Society,"" By Horace M. Kallen, Robert G..
Ballou, SD.
Laying primary stress upon the interests of
the consumer DR.. Kallen outlines a society
which would combine the two desirable ele
mentS of freedom and security. His program
bears a striking resemblance to the guild So
cialism so enthusiastically recommended by
Cole and others a decade back.
If DR.. Kallen is an optimist, Professor Me
buhr tends toward pessimism ("Refections on
the End of an Era" BY Reinhold Niebuhr.
ScribnerS 81. He finds that Christianity and
capitalism have failed to assure social and
economic justice. He fears that the penalty
exacted by the failure of Christianity to bring
about a regime of economic plenty and cultural
superiority will be drift first into fascsm and
then into communism. Of the two, he prefers
the latter, but criticises its atheism and ma
terialiSm. The volume is one of the most
searching contributions written b. Christian
professor in our era
NNE of the most sensible proposals to insure
" recovery and decency is an improvement
of the housing facilities of the country. Mr.
Goldfield gives us a concise summary of what
has been achieved along this line in Europe and
America and adds suggestions as to what might
be done Immediately in this country ('"ToWard
Fuller Living Through Public Housing and Leis-
ure Time Activities" BY Abraham Goldfeld
National Public Housing Conference. Is cents.
The consumer is not unlike the weather IN
the United States today. Everybody is talking
about him and nobody doing much for him.
The whole issue of the consumer in contem-
porary American society is thoroughly discussed
from various points of view in the latest SynpoS-
ium of the American Academy of Political and
al NnYN I'll
by James G. Brainerd. The Annals of the Amer
lean Academy of Political and Social Science
So Perhaps the most important and practical
essay is that by Mr.. F. J. Schlink on What
Government Does and Might Do for the Con-
Sumer"
With the census of 1890 listing nearly eleven
million women gainfully employed, the posi-
ton and status of woman in American industry
society can not be ignored by those who are
working for reconstruction.
Nor will this reconstruction be achieved so
long as the average wage of all women employed
in manufacturing in the United States is under
SIP week or from 20 to q per cent below the
earnings of men in comparable positions.
Any one who wishes to know all the impor-
tant facts about the condition of women in
American industries should turn to Miss Hutch
ms thorough and informing book ("Women Will
Work" By Grace HutchinS. International Pub
fishers. so.
ONE of the most progressive and up-to-da
" American unions is the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers. We have needed thorough
and authoritative account of it's history, methods
and achievement. This is now supplied in Mr.
zaretz' comprehensive and well-documented
book CThe Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America" BY Charles Ebert zaretz. Ancon
Publishing Company. $3.50. If labor unions
prove a powerful factor in reshaping American
industrial society they will have to follow the
general lines of development marked by the
Amalgamated.
Arbitration of industrial disputes is bound
to assume larger proportions as the MIRA pro-
ceeds with it's work Miss Kellor has written a.
clear and comprehensive summary of American
arbitration before and since the passage of the
MIRA Arbitration in New Industrial Society.
BY Frances Kellor. McGraw-Hill. $2)
In any scientific program of social recon-
struction, the social sciences will inevitably play
a leading part. They, only, can provide us with
the background and factual information essen
tial in so complex civilization Professor Beard
gives US an authoritative analysis of the nature
and problems of the more important social SCI
ences C'The Nature of the Social Sciences in
Relation to Detectives of Instruction" BY
Charles A. Beard. Scribner's 1,50).