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Show S .TS- t. I ETOTTOV THREa THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2!, ART-- Girl Student in Search Of Real Story Becomes Writer Columbia Professor Turns Out Absorbing WJrTc' Based on Terjy Fiind Lectures . , A COMMON I. fl U, .HaveCVP-S7- 'ANGUS pride $1.50. ; New ? , to - K nil DEWEY is Professor of .Phdusophy, Mimentus, at Columbia A Common Failh. wlrffu is his latest Lniversity.; book, based 'UonJLhe serna oMoelures which he delivered at Yale t'nivgTsjiy under tbeierms of Harrington Terry endowment fund, offers a jiiscussKW of the crisis ;n religion today. J mulaJe evcejlorrre of icliara "the 'assimilation Td iftlcrptetation.ofjiiat which has been or shall be hereafter discAvprfd, and ds appliVa'ion !n human welfare, 0s-penally by.'hipMmjr the truths of science and philosophy into .the 1- . i INl'.E deed of 8,1 test and no one who is an eactfEsT'sceker after truth shall lie excluded be.ausp tug jews reernadieal or etriictiie of MieD. A- - an earnest seeker ater truth. Mr. " Dewev will iiualifj m an company. The outstanding living exponent of Pragmatism, his primal y con- -j ecm with any (pteslion thc manner jn which it affects the Jives of -- men. - He is not one to betome unduly excited about' Uieological Vieiona of the glories of a nWcriie. though unseen, Being; nor about Uie beatitudes and bliss or,MiiTli'Jjfe that may come Ifter this one is over. He tends to- ash of every Vbat dan it do for proposal, actual 'mtfn in our world today?'' .It is m these termsVtbat he approaches religion end things religious. plulo-ophic- - 1 or al i!igitus I I I u glou. ReHgion, Mr. Dewey vievys it, to essentially connected with belief Jn a supernatural being and with a system of rituals (theology) for accomodating believers to J - life , In Mr" DOw cv;s opinion, the established religious constrain and atif.e the vitalizing religious attitudes through the weight of what he calls their historic encumbrances." and he advocates (hht religions as such he 'abandoned to the end ot allowing the religious attitudes to develop freely. In developing the positive aspects of his views, Mr. Dewey suggests that the proper objects of faith are the ideal values of living such as justice, beauty and affection He holds that the ideal, when accur-ateperceived, has its roots in natural conditions; and that the recognition of this fact will release for the advancement of good in life a large meisuro of mans energies now wasted m the support of unpiofitablc theological struca tures. ly ' He urges that religious attitudes In which be defines them, be made .the brnf the todav. just mankind of social efforts after the manner as they were the ;o? of communal life under the eanljr religions Be thinks that churches, by abandon-Jn- g their theological pretensions and concentrating their energies on the realisation of Ideal values in the social situation, would be revitalized and would regain the prestige and influence held by thelji of a simple earnest Texas high school boy. Slim, athletic, graceful, he loved to dancs. That Mr. Lowell, the towns only millionaire should want to take Ken to Hollywood with hlrn was He could give the only natural. boy training that Ken could never get at home. Also Mr. Lowell held the mortgage on The Gracey farm and K ns father felt that he was pleasing the town's most powerful citizen by letting Ken go. That Mr. Lowell was the head ot a peculiar cult in Hollywood. Ken was not long in finding out and Ken makea up hla mind to break with the old man. He meets Anita, a down but notout vaudeville hoofer who promises to teach him to dance on the stage and after a few tryouts they wind up In Tla Juana working in one of the Clip joints there. From Tla Juana Ken makes bis way to New York, where hto dancing wins him a place in one of the musical shows. After a season of Broadway he goes on the road wtth th show. He breaks hie kg and is left out of The show business for a year and finds out on hto return that he can no longer dance. Fair weather friends and cheap gin finally lead him from bad to worse and from worse to suicide. This book purports to be an authentic history and can be only recommended to mature readers .who do not dislike thejilsarre lir their reading M. L G. Women f is a practical vitality about it that weeps many outworn thoughts and beliefs out of existence, clearing the ground for presenjr-agjjo- f Perhaps there if more of merit In religions rhn Air. DCwcy WouldAmong the punhave us Santyanna is a good in this connection but there cap be Rule doubt that his fundamental criticisms of religious aie essentially sound, 1. c. that thev title the vital parts of religious exsyp- perience, through their dead and that thev have , er structures more of their power for good ' Vlost by withdrawing from the practical affairs of'men. first acquaintance with frina Skaratlna. I read that three other volumes have preceded "Little a fly-leEra In Old Russia hearing titles that imply that she haa wntteu about the tragjc epoch of Eusstan revoluliou. The present has ait the ealm and perspective of vivid and book, au autobiogiaph tells the ftory of her babyhood, yearning reiniliicenee.' Herein lriua ,'hli,li,v,vl heginnmg wiiti A fanciful account of her puling day and love aie first famUy endnig at a point when the strange stirrings of r - a !v s - t book Mr. Deweys style is too abstract to make pleasant reading for those who ste not oriented in the mental world In which he moves, even when they are tensely concerned with the subjects he Is discussing. To those with an adequate back- wground, however, Mr. Ilawcy has have . great deal to say. The years precision brought hto expression and his and a certain urbanity, with learning and vast experience viewhto make mores cultures and points well worth considering. er , af , . to define the thief interest ot 'Little Eia fn Old ITRus-i- a difficult The record is. for one thing, a true and aincerc account of the unfolding of the child nnnd, revealing a skilh and power of observation Uiat would do fcredil to an exponent of the psychology of behaviorism. Irina wafar from being an average childr she was almost to the point of being neurutiij. Her reactions to stem care of nuises and altCiuiauU were discipline and the n tremendous, superstitions, too, seeped into tier envirotpnenL i? s med up in the words of Oscar Wilde as "Red Hell Mis Roberta scooped the stury from at least three experienced newspapermen who had tried zn vain to gel it. and now makes her debut as a novelist. John Goode will never see the story of his adventurous career in print. He died recently in a cheap room on the of Brook Ijn. just as'the book was going to press. super-sensiti- over-anxio- us She was saved from emoliohai ruin only by the wi-- e teachings and guidance of an understanding tutor. The interplay of forces that confused and clarified her notions of fife and religion is in itself a out-skir- ts worth-whi- study. le . LL the subtlety and sophistlca-of Ethel M. Den's fluent style which takes for granted the readto er's ability to comprehend, --found In this gripping' .psychological character study of a British officers "ordeal by fire. Terhaps it would be better to say of British officers obstinate will er and at times stultified ycfise of honor. Captain John Packeraiey of the British Indian army to the man of Inflexible likes and dislikes,- The one woman whom he happens to like to Claire Chialedon, suiter of Gun-pla- story-writi- - Chisledon, Fackersleyr colonrt; ho to killed by bis tortur-e- d wife In Fackerslejs quarters whither Mrs. Chisledon had fled to w escape his maddened assault. assumes the Captain Packer-skblame for Chlsledpos deatlj on the flimsy grounds of mistaken identity. Claire, out of pity, offers him the protection of her hand In marHe accepts and holds her riage. But reconciling to her pledge. her to the marriage bed to something else again. The winning over of an austere woman to the all consuming emotion of iov e provides interesting subject matter for Miss Dell's pen. There is some fine writing as well as some grjppingly dramatic moments in this book. You can even excuse the author for projecting her own name into the conversation of her character on Mack Corbett. one occasion. j A ; BITPT FINDS THE CLUE, by Augusta Hutell Seaman, published.1 ny Doubleday Doran, 271 pages, 81.75. requisite'of a THE first novel to action. On this basis Robert Crane has one of the finest cowboy thrillers of the reason with the release of his and g tale of cattle rustling Idaho. "Thunder In the West. in y punctuates each paragraph as this cowboy writer, w ho was forced into tbo gpme after the depression, drove him out of ths cattle business, unravels his tale of action, thrills and frsmeups with vivid- reality. Dan Blaney. range rider for Belle Yancey's outfit, finds, evidence w hich leads him to believe that his best friend, Jilli Penny. to rustling cattle from his bosses' herd. Not only hto friendship for Bill, but also the love of bla niece, Mary Wells, and the blind Aunt Mary, makea it impossible for Dan to expose Penny's However, tt crops out that Charley Aroo,' deputy sheriff, to In league witha murderous gaitoL'and to really at the bottom of The rustling. Through clever scheemtng he to a Me to push the blame On to the old cattle man. Penny gets deeper into trouble unUl he is finally In danger of hto life as a result of a killing whirh he appears to have committed. The story rise to a high crescendo of tense acUnn with running and plenty of suspense and thnlls until Blaney is able, in clear up the situation by rounding? up the real rustlers and pull his pal out of the legal mire. The story to made more appealing by some very pleasant humor through the likeable old veteran of the range. Bill Penny, and the lgva. Interest xs great. -- . For anyone bo stories at all, this 'Thunder In the West, to a real bullseje. J. )H. hard-ndiu- f Sir Guy, . Appleton-Cen-utnr- s. Har-moo- gun-figh- n mystery story for high T HI8 school girls has ths intriguing setting ot an old southern college town for a background. The story concerns itself w ith a shy. courageous northern girl who finds herself in the rather unfriendly atmosphere of Williamsburg, Va, In 'choosing Celeste Romney, a member of an old Virginia family, for her closest friend, she willingly becomes mixed up in the search for an old diary that will lay the fam- which walks the Tiouseby night. Bitsy, by falling from the top ot an old bookcase unwittingly finds the solution to it all. The story Is filled with alluring characters such as Blackheard, the pirate. android fire eating generals, but it to not of the calibre to geep the reader awake nights thinking of Us horrors, or anxiously waiting for the dawn to finish the story. Ths description to rather well done, but the dialogue to weak, since the writer, with nonchalant -indifference, has the old and the young college girls speaking in the same parlance, also the character delineation to rather feeble. The author shows a woeful lack of knowledge aa to the Inner workings of the college girls mind and of her way of talking For example. one would have to travel far to hear a college girl today say 1 ouro a perto her best friend fect trump Perhaps that was" our mother's way of expressing forceful admiration, but certainly not the modi rn maids. Tht-- book will go over better with junior high school students than with high school girls. It to pleasant , reading and can certainly do ths youngsters no harm If they read it Donna Bear Ion. maid-aunt- s MEW YORK, Sept. 28. (AP) Best teller book lisle of today compared with those of fifteen or said, we are emerging from a period tn which'we sought art. sadly enough, in museums and picture galleries instead of in aur own ruent ot fine art of the Utah Fed- e ration of Womens clubs. An award of 825 will go to the winning poem. Mrs. Weston Vsrnon chairman of the U. F. W. C to tbs donor, A 819 award will ba given tbs next best poem In the opinion ot the judges, tbs donor being Myra L. Sawyer? chairman of ths department of Jins arts of tbo U. FEW. S. Air entries for the contest are to bo mailed to the Rev. Jacob Trapp. 1817 cast Sixth South street. Salt Lake City. Ths Rev. Trapp to ohalr-ma- n ot a commutes ot olimlna- -, tions..: Members of ths committee ate Mrs. Weston Vernon of Logan, Mrs. Maud Beeley Jacob of Provo and Ltobeth Jualtrough Of Bein' Lake. Tito eliminations committee .will select tha mors promising poems and submit them to an eminent authority on poetry for final It is understood that B. B. Nsff. head of ths English department at ths University of Utah and noted critic of poetry, will ho ought as the final judjr. Poems will not be restricted aa to length? meter or verso. Ths dead line for entries to January 89. 838.1 None will bs accepted after that date. Tljers to only ono rule or reguta-tiolPoems are not to bs signed. Writers are asked to enclose a card with their names, so that seleotlon possible may be made without ling shift upward in public taste. the annual conference for women on curfent problems was told today. Clifton Fadltnan, literary critic of The New Yakker." declared that the public "haa Improved, ar becoming shrewder and toss The conference is under auepires of "The New York Hrhald Tri- blsa Selected poems wilt be read at tn April tbe U. F. W. C. oonvshUon M Cedar City. - . . bluff-able- Knut Hamsun, noted novelist, whom latest novel was reviewed In this department recently, was had a wide experience. As a cobbler's assistant, bs ssvsd enough money to finance .the publication of hie first two book. When be was awarded ths Nobel prise for literature tn 1I2L hto works hod appeared In It different languages and In editions covering alxty-fivmillion pages. He has worked as tutor, longshoreman, court messenger, farm, hand, dairyman, street oar conductor, fisherman, lecturer and clergyman. Hie abort story, Tha Conqueror." appears is thq current toeue of I e' Bs-fft- tr. ' ' - i w kfQ bune New Books ." "A charge that "the awful, dumb passivity of people in front of the screen to the "spiritual danger of motion pictures waa made bethe conference by Walter fore Prichard Eaton, associate professor ot playwriting In Yale Uni, versity. I am little concerned with the pother about the morale ot the movies. he said. 8o far as they are bad for children, tbe solution to ridiculously simple keep tbe children at home, or Put on special programs for them." He said that motion pictures are "a kind of esthetic drug," because "they do not furnish n creative outlet to ns as a people, but only a chance for passive acceptance. Eaton praised "ths hundreds of young people" who work tn summer theater, beenuse "they are not content to while tbe photograph of La Garbo droop her Bas." Will Irwin, author and editor, toll) tha conference that literature, "In the United States and elsewhere. to swinging back toward less dsring patterns. A change In the public's attitude toward art ws noted by waiter IK Eaagnet Industrial deelgnsr, who Th WlFiu btoki wiil be added te the FuMte Library. Header NOkUXAUOCS Beectiee aadRevoteUoa. Britt toe Decade of Rtvtftoa. Arts ronoely fUchird fcteoJe, '' Lend oi Vmr Dieteoce. Orai frodwil Arvtle Trader. KJrkUnd 3ir! Who BecShii AftftU. Meoie She Strive To Harvton Xtw B.Mo Erldeece From Itii-- i mi PodOtoky Hodtowo Morchoo "Oa. Bariy, Uyi Anaeag tbe Cheyenne a 4 Arapahoe Indiana. Tbo Correct Tfetag, Pt ran Ft wml Guidance in CoUogo maid 8ieaoday ('nwr. Stra wt BchooL. Themoieiee Weiao A Btarinea. W titjpi For a New World. in Snyder Kpopiaa Ten Reshaping Atrieottnro. PicTios 4 aiifcr Out W.Bt th Taper. on the Boieni Fomn. HLkttey Win ofPterion.' Morrew Ltareln One a WHdernwe Trail of Fa Maacfcn. locking Lectio CNutdea and Now JDaai. VacbeU Nether Aoptgwfcitg. Croft petd Rmer 4 ' r OCT OF CHIOS" Ilya Ehrenbourg. translated by Alexander Bsksy. Henry Holt A Co.. New York. 8!. 50. 88J pp. By HELEN UCHULTHE1S literature U similar te or olfea. . .you a taete. To somo jke to Acquire reader, this book will tail to in trrept because of the weary oar rative Myle nhlch ia choppy and of lacking in actual continuity (bought Rut for those who enjoy t hi tpe of wprl Henry Holt he off Fred an exceptionally good too. born in Kiev, 1991. In hio early high school doo he became noted ior hi? radical political uewe, which latr cautoi hss arrest. Ho left Kusia. rpturmnr during tho Reo)uitun but haa now ogtablikh tho d himwelf jn Par. Hvkno heart of the people about whom he write people whyhae oolv ed into mere raprodue heat to ing and working at create a culture that has taken England mav generations to acquire Kuksifttis reapond to Iifd id a mechanical way they Uck qoul Pain, work, hate, love and routine ...that is the whir of the motor. "Out of Chaos" la the story of thg love of two men f6r a girt IB the city of Kiirntth. Siberia, they are creating a uteeKgiant . .nearby i Tomak, the center of old culture. Kolka, a worker at the plant id of new Russia, while Volodia, a student at Tomsk la the pjrit of old Ruasia; both men love Irina, a teacher of children. Volodia is haughty and dog maud; ho:read too much and ar gue too deftly. He lived In thou of liveg and each one aeemed extraordinary and fascinating. be cauoe he liken to study and read. Koike basa creative mind he longs to create a giant himeeif, He draw a dealgn jf a machine which he t sent to gaina- attention school to learn .more. In order to become a great engineer. Taf glad cry of This story achievement Russia U happy because she ia creating' news men ,who look for Utopia in their land whether by .the five-yeplan Gy . , by .othey .methods f fr At Library 4fcr tative picture of an aspect of prerevolutionary Russia. Not the political or social life but the do- mestic life. Irina was the daughter of A Russian general, whose family dwelt on a large estate, with no end oLservants. attendants and glamorous equippages. There are occasional glimpses of the peasantry. when thev come to pay homage. to drink the healtjyof the master, or to aqipae hto children wtth their and antics. There ia also a flash of the great city' of Hu Petersburg, whither the , family would go for brief sojourns in the winter. But In the mstn. you are regaled with the email or the momentous happening Jn the life ot a child that to infinitely disciplined. pampered and shielded. The book to largely a record of trivtatitJea the whimsies of a child, the games she plays, the little quarrels with - htr lmot her. Tice- - father's deafhess and his booming rolce, her mother's vigilant ee. her nurse's stupid worries, a broken knee when she falls from a swing, the cavorting of a tamed bear, tha distant bowling of a wolf in th dead of night These and a thousand other inconsequential experiences and happenings. Yet Skaria-tin-a has a skill of reporting that mskes it all come vividly to Ilfs . nd Infuses It with meaning. The author's style Is forthright and simple. There to never the least suggestion of labor. A vivid memory makes her sure of her material and a graceful ease In writing carries her along. There Is no weariness In going through her pages. There is onJv enjoyment. RUSSIAN NNOUNCEMENT of a. prize poetry context, open to all poet a In the state, commencing at, once, WV T"j book will perhaps be moat T HE prized, however, as an authori- Decided Shift in Tastes o. ( THUNDER IN THE WEST, by Robert Crane; D y Co : New York, 295 pp.: 82. ve. flu-na- Best Seller Lists Show -- W" mv ni.-talu-ia THEUIJ ROBERT A Clubs Jug-in- g. U Dr. Frederick Slock IS The writer 'tells her story m thud person, speaking of herself always as Little Era. Ere being sotuc member of the familys whimsical comiption of Inna. This nanative devite serves an excellent purpose, for the author can portrav the distant' past as if it were 'a thing apart from hereoif as if she w ei e speaking of tome one she had once known but who is nuw no more. There is full and yet the vo seems never to obtrude. ano complete Thai, indeed, is one of the chain.) of shanalma: elie tcli her OWB story with an admi.ahie abje tivene5s If there is a persistent note of running throughout Hie book, it (. never halhos, never sentimentalism. t Eth- Noted Writer Leads Varied Existence by v Sons, he.dcnart g vsostlon, Erie DeLamar-t,, has been conducting the Chi-cage Symphony with fine results conductors include Kan Guest WeKrueger. Carl Brichen. Henry ber, Wllllem Von Hoogsrtatem, Jerzy Bojanowsk! of theFrank St. Grand Opera company. Leger of the Houston. Texsa. Symfti phony, and Sir Hamilton Harty.ym Hepry Wood will eonduct.the eon- phony next winter M a guest U le eald. 5 Putnam's Offer Prize For Pest Poems . old . One may- - or may not agree wl(h the principles of the pragmatic approach. particularly when applied to aesthetics and religion, but there Slritm; Bobbt-Merrl- RECENT RELEASES IN, BRIEF REVIEW opus. Ken Gracey was - 'BY COUJd .wlARBEN" IN OLD TiLeSIA, by Irina published ll Compn'y,'New York. pp. 302r Price 250, E11A discernible. ee-nlng- That the author is a title kinder In his terminology than mosTot his readers will bs can easlly be surmised by the title he glvee to this Such attitudes, we arc Fold, to living. They Involve experiences having the force of bringing about a better, deeper and enduring adjustment in - author slatted out to get of following the humdrum of class assignments. "There is a theory among youog .writers today." said Miee Robert?, "that the vpghiTfor realism ris waning I do not ualjeve this la true, I believe the pujblicla inore Inter-ested than ever in real life stores. Esneflally is this true in America, where people want to know 'how illegal her half lives'. Braving the dangers of the New s York Bowery, ape spent many interviewing Wicked John Goode, whose notorious crimihsi career began in the days of Jesse James and ended with bis reformation in a Bowery mission. The story is the total of bia rich successes and his woefut sufferings Jn a half dozen prisons, a Ufa sum- - el M. Dell; G. T 82; pp. 842. The religious, on the other hand, has to dowllh human attitudes in the living githation. "It denotes attitudes that may' be taken toward every object and every proposed end or ideal. T- The J . KTEW YORK. Sept. 29. Follow the Cays of the criminal bs- te (ine an adventure In realism -- .Ml. . .til. TVw.),n Rftn1't-Vv'- "i dent at Columbia Crrtrerzity. the challenge of an Instrue- tor In Journalism to go out and 'jot real story." The ofcjy one In the class THE ELECTRIC TORCH, By that Being. Uuder Old ilegime , in al difference, he in usin the opening chap. ter, between Wlgion and the reli- - . - -- -- - WHILE - LITTLE A -- T,form 1 Bravrs Bowery To Discover Realism j tic story instead Mi-- . peojile w ould Dewey' religious in !he term, pci hap- - some explanation is needed for his. i connection. If so, d may be found in file fund's fl whn hread The Ipeluie- - shall he subject to no liiaiiv am seme d appearance iji ,'l. bind Skarintina ff'rites Convincingly of arly Life x- - wrfTFrv tiTtkkivTKe dSfcTTEVydu: X J arid pui limit i cliiion.1 i Yd -- i. Old Russia THIS ' frti Journalism Ijeads Columbian To Authorship , - J J in Class CANNON 8- - John Dewey;, Yale Uni vets il.y Press, ' I) r LITE! & - , ; j 1931. thmbol - irt tbo ar Jd- -- . i . - |