Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-09-14 | Page 11 | Competent Survey of Changes in America since 1914 Offered

I Comp Competent tent Survey of Changes j jI jI I In America Since 1 1914 9 1 4 Offered Preston William Avoids Common I History Pitfalls ails I.- I. By PAUL PAU L W. W WH WHITE ITS Y NE YORK Sept 13 UP UP-A UP A dispassionate and competent si survey of the crowd crowded d years in the United States since it first felt the faint stirrings from is no now no available In Preston William sons son's on ons s The Tho Great Crusade a an After Atter Macmillan Contemporary history a as et i em- marily presented 1 Is prone prOD I to two twe major failings fallings Haphazard selectivity of ot material and special plead t ld ng on behalf behal of or a a. theory i has avol avoided ed both p pitfalls Ills 1113 material ma ma- erial almost throughout Is ably balanced balanced bal bal- and he furnishes It from a detached point of or view The economic political and social changes hanges in this country since 1914 lUi have piled plied upon one another BO so rapidly that proper perspective 1st Is difficult to maintain Even the most avid Id newspaper reader Is 18 apt to confuse contuse cause with effect action with reaction Tho Great Cr Crusade ade and lad After Arter is for that reason a. a avalu- avalu valuable able thic study of ot the war and the the post post-i war periods As an example of or perhaps aVerage aver avers age shortness age shortness of oC memory Is append ed ell a list of ot persons more moro or less prominent In the year 16 era of at which has written H How w ma many can you ou identify 1 Roger Baldwin 2 A A. A S. S Burleson 3 Edward Clarke 4 4 nn Lj-nn Frazier 5 Geo George ge 6 Ole Hanson f 7 Charles R. R Forbes Forbe 8 F. F L. L Smith 9 G. G S. S Viereck a. a 10 Dr A Alfred Cred Zimmermann In the no doubt well founded b bee lief that Conan Doyle death would spur interest in his hi c celebrated Slier Sher Sherlock Shere lock Holmes to say nothing of ef the ubiquitous Dr Or Watson Doubleday Doubleday- Doran has brought out two volumes c containing all the tho detective stories penned by Sir The necessary necessary thinness of the pap paper r required for the printing of o nine books book in two and arid the th price price price- do do not make mako for any ma mas mast mase t of f the u lishing art Read Read- 1 er ers era may be annoyed t io to find that print from opposite pages occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally Iy shows shows show through and th that t the pages pages page are arC not numbered ecu cons lively ively but ut on n the other hand the the- new new edition affords afford excellent opportunity op opportunity op op- to renew ones one's acquaintance ta tance ce with the th Speckled Band th the tho Copper Bee Beeches and all the tha other ether adventures adventure that revolved around the Baker aker street lodgings lodging As a gusty a a. novel as u the early early- fall Call season has offered is Fulton Oursler's The Tile Great Jasper Co- Co Friede Although not as naughty a as advance publicity had hinted the story atory is is' tot riot Intended primarily for tor Great Aunt Martha Jasper Horn who left a motorman's motorman's motor- motor mans man's job and a scandal behind Mm lm himIn In the south to become a boardwalk boardwalk board board- walk astrologer at Atlantic City CItO is Js that rarest of or beings beings beings-a a mans man's man who is also a a. womans woman's man Weak In n religion and traditional morality he le nevertheless happens to be a a. square and likable able citizen The Great Jasper is one of at Oursler's best best best-andis andIs mended for tor the male who says sas Td Id Id like Ike to read a good 1001 book What's been published lately A A. book we intend to read read just just justa a as as- soon as u as' we have 20 minutes minutes minutes-is it Contract Bridge in 20 Minutes by Harold Thorne Thorn Dutton To one ane who ha has spent pent considerably more than han twenty wenty year years in not mastering auction the title promise promises a major miracle I i More Mor or Less Leu Personal Holworth Hall Hail who in real life Ife Is Harold E. E Porter Porte has written written writ- writ ten en his first novel floyd in era sc several years carli Colossus based Colossus based on professionalism professional professional- Ism sm in amateur athletics Before ho he left lett on a new cruise cruise Alfred Stanford Flag In Ini Inthe i the he Wind wrote his publishers Iam MI I MIm am m taking six pads of ot yellow paper nd and a a. dozen pencils and anI hope they wm will breed In iu the tho salt air John was ted from oranges oranges' raising raising- oranges in Florida and nd and sheep in Georgia before he turned author His The Tho Splendor j of t f the Dawn will appear later In Inc the he c month