Evening star., 1938-01-09

This chronicle describing with historic
detail the whole corrupt manipulation
before and during the operation of the
Russian naval squadrons is no specific
| peaen to any one, yet the deeds Of
! both admiral and men stand out glo-
riously by simple revelation of fact
| At the centurys turn the founda-
ton OF Russian government was be-
| coming more rotten by day as self-pro-
noting bigots and pandering title
| holders eased or bullied their ways
| into vital state positions. but it took
| the war to bring out the entire vicious
set-up in its darkest prospectus. From
the beginning of hostilities all factors
to demoralize the fighting gray mar
tyrs' of army and navy grew more
acute steadily and rapidly. No food
! supplies. no clothing, poor ammuni-
tion and. perhaps foremost, need for
skilled generalship in the right places
these are few constituents of the mire
which dragged at the heels of soldiery
fighting for something that it believed
| blindly in.
Admiral Rozhestvensky and his I'd
Pacific Squadron had TO sail around
| half the world, then engage highly
competent Japanese fleet in addition
to all these hopeless drawbacks and to
say nothing of ill-conditioned fighting
ships and thousands of insufficiently
trained personnel There were few
naval circles that expected to see the
fleet safely negotiate the trip from
the Baltic Sea. around Cape Horn to
the war scene-but despite hundreds of
, overwhelming obstacles the voyage was
accomplished.
The voyage itself was a dishearten-
ing battle with elements and, though
thousands of miles away still the de-
caying home government. Then to
face the highly superior forces of Ad-
miral Togo in actual warfare-rarely
have men made greater display of
tenacity and courage. even through
terrific enemy fire in which the Rus
sian ships were literally smashed from
under their crews.
1t is a story not to be missed-one
Of courage and valor.-J. S.
A MORAL HISTORY OF WOMAN.
Sarah Parker White. Garden City,
N. Y: Doubleday, Doran.
| \ MORAL HISTORY OF WOMAN
- is very erudite book. The re-
viewer learned more history from it,
both ancient and modern, than she
did in eight grades of grammar school,
| four of high school and an equal num-
ber in college. But she does not know
yet Just what the lady was driving at.
| It would seem that she had a point
in mind; she was very evidently trying
to prove something, but just what
completely escapes this reader.
The theme of the book is that
monogamy, polygamy, prostitution
and all other kinds of sex customs
and habits are the result of economic
conditions Monogamy was the re-
suit of the annual migrations which
antedated Christ by some thousands
of years. But these facts seem self
evident to the thinking person, and
the person who doesn't think isn't
going to read that type of book any
how. So why write book about it?
DR.. White seems to think she has
discovered or defined an entirely new
genus Of woman, one that has evolved
only in the last 80 to so years, one
that she calls . proportionate woman.
AS best I can gather, this woman is
q worker, has a sense of social (not
society values, and takes her sex life
as she wishes, as men have since the
beginning of time. Perhaps DR.. White
should have done little research in
literature as well as in medicine,
anthropoIogy and social science. She
would have found many examples of
her "proportionate woman" among
England's literati as well as among
the writer's and other creative work.
ers in other countries long before the
middle Of the 10Th century.-R. r. T.