Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 4 | Fascinating Variety of Life Glimpsed in Book of Travel

F Fascinating Variety of Life Glimpsed s in Book of Traves Travel Trave 1 4 b f i i J j t 1 a r 11 l lI I f i 5 I j m 1 p Ai I I I I It t sM 2 O fI J i I Z SM f Q l a I J f tiOu q i I 1 l 1 n b Doubleday Page Co Loaf Loafing ing Through the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Brings Hours of Delightful Wandering Wandering Wander Wander- ing With Author By J. J HOWARD In these days of tabloids and pictorials pictorials pic plc- that author who sets himself himself himself him him- self the task of writing a travel book must muse necessarily confine his description n to people rather than han things or places or come into competition com competition com com- om- om petition with those publications and nd agencies whose business it is to disseminate disseminate disseminate dis dis- dis- dis visual entertainment In Inthis Inthis Inthis this competition the author is very ery apt to come come come- off fr second best r for the mo most t casual gl glance nce at a good picture picture pic pie ture will te tell l more of actual appearances appearances appear appear- ances anees than pages of literary tion Tn rn fn his his his' recent recent- book j Loafing Through the Pacific Seth K Humphrey has kept this premise ever In mind The result Is a thoroughly thor thor- delightful tale of days and nights spent among people o oX of life as it Is lived in all sorts of out-of- out way the-way places amidst the oldest and the newest of exl existing ting I Mr Humphrey describes his book as a a tale taIe of browsing around among peoples and his aim not nol so much to improve each shining hour as to let the shining hours Improve Improve improve Im Im- im- im prove prove me DELIGHTFUL WANDERINGS Str Striking up an with Mr l Humphrey at Los Angeles the port erf departure you may loaf rather leisurely to the Hawaiian I isla islands ds then In s succession to American and British Samoa the native kingdom of Tonga the only native kingdom remaining In all the South Seas the Fiji islands New Zealand Australia the Philippines China Korea and finally Japan Tapan You Tou will have haNe for companion one mightily interested In what vat is going g on beneath the surface as well as asIn asin asin in the more commonplace general activities of the peoples peoples' whose homelands you visit You Tou will learn learna a great deal of the problems and perplexities involved in the question n of Philippine independence as w well wil wilas ll as some Interesting sidelights on the I approaching crisis involved in th the tremendous increase or of Japanese population in the islands I entertained entertained enter enter- But you will be so pleasantly In the learning that you will wish for more classes with the same teacher CHINA DISCUSSED Especially pertinent because of military this country's present activities in that country countr ii is theauthor's theauthor's the theauthor's authors author's expose of conditions in China The reader will undoubtedly view the situation with a more sympathetic and comprehensive attitude attitude at attitude at- at after he has become acquainted acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac with the the many stresses and exploitations to which the Chinaman must submit The keenness keenness keen keen- ness of th the struggle for a bare existence ex existence existence ex- ex ex- ex can be traced very directly foreign interference and to tion Just how near total submergence submergence and obliteration the lower class ence Chinese constantly remains Air Mr fr Humphrey vividly ly points out in Sn his description of social conditions Ina ina In Ina where burdens are carried land Because a human labor is cheaper because than that axle grease for wheeled h vehicles cles cbs FASCINATING BOOK f the Loafing TI Through rough neither do does s it ft yet not drag does excitement It stir one to undue fulfills Its mission by providing providing- a thoroughly hours of Sew few companionship ip wi with h a delightful traveler who knows how seasoned through his eyes all ott see make to variety of life to be the fascinating wanderer iri in the Pa- Pa foUnd bY the Co Page DoubledaY Garden City N N- X- X I. I