Evening star., 1940-09-01
The Literary WodRevews of Current Publications Various Fields

AOA
By James Free.
Programme for Progress
BY John Strachey NeD York: Random, House.
Citizens wondering how this national
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Hs procedure was neither miracle nor secret according to
Mr. srachey Armament expenditures the place private
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worked but government es and restrictions cut private
no f yes Bp s NJ of o
the factories mines and fields of Germany
The the world sener-
penalty simply DEATH 1t is NOW the Te adpnsnb @ h task xa Of he
to build socialist system of production for based the social
ownership of the means Of production"
The authors espoua of socialism story
this new volume he proposes z-pon for progre
dependent upon profit its
These would supply at low cost
Lowering the rate of interest intending borrowers
to all private
Redistribution of income poor by
taxes which are not mainly reckoned the production
by increased surtaxes az Inheritance taxes and the like
ne & as eemera exists out of newly created money
ultimate consumers by pensions allowances explains
Isl merely decision that men and machines should be put to
mass the population will
of national and public
program secure establishment Of genuinely na-
the main stronghold that ananc and esnsy msn interest," s
which IS ss today srangng the life Of the community has fallen
foreign loans abroad and
financial offensive on the part of opposing monoposc
m These suggestions Ss ss are passed without comment by the reviewer
There will be plenty of typewriter salvos fired Mr.
would. be innocent
In this neutral observer spirit to call
attention another interesting idea advanced strace that
aside from and difficulties the size of the national
billion dollars fs ] Gs % @ American Do1 be credit 1 call With the t!
Government as to call the Governments debt the people
Blocks OF two billion dollars five billion dollars
really back but prefer 90 on Being pd
an annual sum Of interest or from new lenders money with which
rowed each than
stand a dosr R ep 6an HGn which
paying taxation and another sesa ses
may sng "n s @ money paid out to them by way Of inter
large national debt only further
,ss ss ss does n not M
The Big Sea
By Langston Hughes. Nep York: Alfred A. Knopt
hi. When IsnsstGn Hughes ugh & the Negro writer small
ambition which considered the American Negro
migrated to Mexico where he amaed considerable
Uncertain life Of the e
Young Langson had tradition culture people
% a oten m % M @ ana ae m & mad been United States
When he M high soo S his M a % oo s h eWa5d oar his ]
liked the % unn m a e to the s d %
his own:
He was mess boy freghters dhWasher
time he wa writing He wrote verse anS @ ot to % @ % @ s @ the
to the New Republic and other magazines published
and though he seldom paid he
prizes wrote novel and established himself.
His autobiography is notable because
nnuences
able let his reader forget that
writer's but he genuinely critical
He distinguishes between the real leaders
OF sympathy white
ona Negroes He casgaes the bourgeois
toward their people and then imitation the
incidentally he particularly hard the Washington To-
ward the white people he likewise
hatred which
from his story He pokes fun at the white
according to individual merit either short book that
OF man. not OF race problem AS for Mr. Hughes other
has seemed to the
to be genuinely stimulating. NC
Private Enterprise and Democracy
BY Charles E. Carpenter. NeW York: Lonondns Green
Mr. Carpenter of Southern Cali
na takes his place beside other
world TO voice the opinion that something of
INEQUALITIES and to the deficiencies govern
mntou that something must not be grossly socialism
He general enterprise should
through limitation corporations that John
Citizen allowed
Among other things
tax Is unfair" that