The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-22
Liberal Viewpoint
BY DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

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n ward and two ahead. it can follow Senator
David A. Reed back into Mellonism Or it may
try fling with FasciSm. Practically, there is
only one way backward, for Mellonism would not
last more than a year or so and would lead
straight to Fascism
We can move ahead either by the road of
the new DEAL with subsequent and necessary ex-
tensions, or we can follow the path cut out of
the capitaliStic morass by Russia. Indeed, if
the new deal is wrecked, Communism will be the
only ultimate relief, since Fascism, American
style, could not last more than a few years at
the most.
MIR. Kirby Page has written a characteristic
ally informing book exposing the weakness of
mdlvldualiSm and recommending a moderate
Socialistic solution of our problems Individual
ism and Socialism. BY Kirby Page. Farrar &
Rinehart Inc. $3.50.
Whether or not we agree with Mr. Pages
estimate of Socialism MS material on individual
ism is the most devastating exposure Of its utter
bankruptcy which has ever been put within less
than a hundred pages. If anybody can read
these and still have any yearning for the good
old days." we can have for him only sheer pity
The constructive sections of Mr.. Pages book
can be warmly recommended to Mr.. Roosevelt
and his advisers when they are considering
necessary Celebrations of the preliminary new
deal.
If wishes to learn the worst that can be
said against the new deal by old-line economists,
he will do we'll to consult the symposium by
Harvard professors (The Economics of the Re-
covery Program. A Candid Discussion of the
New Deal. BY Members of the Department of
Economics of Harvard University. McGraw-
Hill, $3.50.
TINE flavor of the work is we'll illustrated by
l. Professor Chamberlins observation that:
I'VE conclude that there is very little if any,
thing to be said for the consumers purchasing
haxi fI0o
tors"
The fact that these writers can discover some
good in the new deal will give heart to dis
corning readers, but it will also reinforce the
impression that Mr.. Roosevelt has been very
fortunate in choosing such professors as he has
relied upon
Three professors from the University of
Oklahoma offer a sensible and interesting sup
plement to the new deal in the form of any in
dustrial sterilization corporation, through which
the government would lease idle plants and en-
ploy idle men in the production of essential con-
SumerS' goods thus eliminating the usual defects
in reverson to the handicraft and barter sys-
tenn mo More Unemployed BY John Cheadle,
Howard o. Baton, Cortez A. M. Ewing Univer-
sity of Oklahoma Press $3.50.
Those who were frightened out of their boots
by the new deal and possibly socialistic elements
therein will do well to begin at once their
study OF Communism and the Russian expert
ment. An English writer of note Mr. John
Middleton Murry, argues the case of Comnun-
ism with greater responsiveness than any one
else save his countryman, John Starchev (The
Necessity of Communism By John Middleton
Murry. Thomas Settler. $3.50. And he per-
forms the task with far greater brevitv than
Starchey.
THE intelligent introduction to Communism
i must come through preliminary acquaint-
ance with Karl Marx, something hitherto diff
cult except to the persistent and determined
student. In Mr.. Gellert's very useful book the
essentials OF Marks vast work on capital are
olgested into some sixty pages with each major
contention Illustrated by full page Autograph
by Mr. Gellert Carl Marks Capital" in Ltho-
graphs By Hugo Gellert. Ray Long and Rich
ard R. Smith. So.
If Marx supplied the theory for contemporary
Communism Len1n turned the trick in actual
practice Mr.. Fox has written an excellent brief
biography OF Lenin well informed and very fair
(Lenln. Biography by Ralph Fox Barcourt
Brace & Company, So The American reader
VINO desires to famillarize himself with the lead
ing statesman of Russian Communism will find
this book admirably suited to his needs
sherwood Eddy, back from his tenth trip to
Russia, gives us a Enthusiastically vivid and
receptive exposition of Russian conditions at the
beginning OF the present year PRUSSIA Today by
Sherwood Eddy. Farrar and Rinehardt $3.50
-~'S SN~S00 0FO4A oOS1d4
than upon economic details. 1t is a first class
introduction to contemporary Russian society.
Intellectual and cultural conditions in Soviet
Russia are further described in the very useful
anthology of Soviet literature (Soviet Literature
Edited and Translated by George Reavy and
Marc Slonin, Covici Friede. $3.50 Not only
has Russian literature adapted itself to the
realism and tone of contemporary Russia, but it
has come to be far more than ever before vital
element in the life of all Russians. Naturally.
it has to be, in one form or another. compatible
with Communist ideals