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Show SECTION THREE' TIIE DESERET NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13r!33t Statesmen Speak Prison Women BT FRANK TYINN THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. -- NTEWFRONT1ET.8 by, Henry A. t Herbert Hoover. Charles Wallace, I. S. Secretary of Ag- Scribner's Sonet New York, 266 ricultur. Hitchcock, Reynal New York., page, prieo 12. page; price 11.75. HP HE time ha come, declare PTf ben the acknowledged leader Secretary Wallace, When- - the of a political party iue a old individualistic, book in the midst of a political competitive of the Juagi must give way campaign it is expected that the - rale to the philosophy of the Beauti-tude- s. volume will be highly partisan. It Amert- i lojaltv to partisan ideals which een no longer "enables a man - Author of F ugitite From Chain Gang Retells Sor dld Tales of P rison Women jT- YKEMLLL .New CON ' BT HELEN SCHCLTHEIS tICT, Told A NaiL.42.V0. 251 ta Vincent Bums, The Macaulay Co pp. UolhVNDs were shocked a few jear hack by the new clipping of a mother ho punished her child by shutting her in clothes, closet. The baby screamed and plead (o be removed but to no avail . . . thj screams soon subsided .. . . the. mother opened the door ho find the lifeless body of her, child, hideous!; mutilated fey a " rattle snake! oxvicl is a similar "Ferna1? that the snake is another form of destruction;' disease, greed, perversion and beatings deposing the lfesof"the Unfortunate women who inhabit our" Jails and prisons over the country. to i - aiory-r-cxee- I HIS story was told to Vincent Bucns. the Am a of Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang." Last year the entire nation' was reading or seeing the movie .version of ik' story which left a wake of indignation. His new book isaierbatimjkud-6tw?--ef-w2i-25- 5a woman convict who unwittingly felt into the bandsrof the law and who lias vivid and indelible memories of the sordid experiences lb name of the- fornate convict Is not disclosed. She stole j, f30 coal from a department store during a period of unemployment.-- ; Soon after she obtained work. and intended tetguielty Send the money" to the store The tangled wires Of The Taw caught her, however, and she was arrested and placed in a filthy jail where she awaited si months for her sentence. She-wsent to prison. e a tad held splendid position SHE the A business world, ye she waa forced to do every type of menial labor during the black day of Incarceration. The labor waa lea irksome than the humiliation to which she waa subjected by men who coveted her iaatwacred posPROCEEDINGS OP THE UTAH session. Because she refused favor SCIENCES. on such a basis, she vra brutally , ARTS AND LETTERS. Volume 11. maltreated and placed in solitary 1ML published in a book of 106 confinement. After two ear of these terrific closely printed page is Just off tbe i press, Hr. Vasco M. Tanner, secre-tar- y experience, tills girl succosfully r. escaped. A sympathetic. detective of the Academy, waa Its Aided her. Later they were nun -. ned and together went west and Th book contains briefs of for- established a bom where she non papers, which werb present- live with her children, unsuspected during the academy meetings ed by her associates. tha XaU of lSlt at tho This book doe not pretend ter Mate Agricultural college, and in bo a 'literary achievement but la the spring of 1024, at the Univermore a dramatic storv written to sity of Utah. Many of the paper arouse national Interest In the unwere illustrated by means of photofortunate women of our nation. graph and chart. Here is a case where the offender While most of tbo papers are could have paid the price of the scientific la character, they offer coat, remained at her position and some interesting information and the case dealt with as a probation some splendid reading for those problem. It would have been leas detrilees who have the inclination to know to the elate, expensive what the expert 'are finding along mental to her morale, various Hue of research. bearing and more normal "In every way. . Dr Albert Regan, U. ft Indian Bhn asked herself, during the Field Herviee. has taken the opawful day behind the walls of tbe portunity afforded him by restraint If she could repay society academy to publish a great many for her wrong or was society trj of tbe and of the myths legend fng to get even with her , . . Hoh and Quileute Indian. These retributive or punitive punishment myth occupy nearly eighty page The last chapter of this book Is of the book, and will be found to an epic and should be read by every , b rery tnterewing io those who . . ft is lax pa yertnA merles are in snv way desirous of knowone of the finest human appeals the ing thought and habit of lbe In behalf of the first offenders that Indiana. has ever been poflnle print. To-- " Tbe subject by the papers In day the vast army of unemployed the book are- - Agronomy and Soils, is mftrehing steadily toward the . . so with Anthropology, Animal Husbandry doers or our prison . and Veterinary Science. Bacterioloappeal from the head of Sing gy;- Botany. Chemistry . EconomSing prison, may we hope that this ics and Sociology; Education; book Jars the average thinker from and Mineralogy. HorticulGeology indifference. book of hi smug ture; Language" and Literature; Meterology: Physics; " Zoology and THE WOMAN HE CHOSE, 'bj J . Entomology. H. Wallis, published by E. P. Those who are Interested In the Hutton Co New York, lit pages, welfare of the state of Ltah and I!. the progress of scientific rwwareh. of of T1 HI3 ia distinctly more than passing Interest as those psychological mysteries there are a number of papers unin which tbe detective finds the der each of the headings listed murderer because he has a fond- here neea for The (all meeting of the Acadis it a blood and thunder emy of Be cnees will be held Noadventure but It is guarvember at Brigham Young unianteed to give you tbe creeps un- versity according to Dr Vasco M less you ate the person who has Tanner. cashed in your grandmother's head ' and calmly gone about your busiBCH CHURLS Ml UTS ness. Will Drake, a young lawyer of The Bach chorus of the McCung of Job tbe fine old family, gets School of Music and Art held its defending a beautiful young-somfirst rehearsal of the season Wedwho has been accused of nuirder- nesday at the home of Mies MarThrough his ing her husband garet Suminerhava, director of the power as an orator and because be group lutcre rehearsals for this falls In love with the woman he whose organization convinces the jury that tbe woman will number between membership twenty and ia guilty. twenty-fou- r ameers. will he schedBut with the winning of the case .- The uled for eveningsMonday, a and his marriage to the woman chorus will present Bach' cana start setdents aeries of happening tata, Mesa. Priceless Treasure. that would startle the sphinx into activity. That much of the stoix i all we'll give you but you can take our word for it that the baffling mysteries and horrors that pop up will ba-- e you looking under eH -i for KTEZ AX By "WflttiPertCOt' t'harles Caldwell Dobie. Jj. amtrange man before you turn gut the light. So If you jump quick New Century company. and listen for noises that aren t Tork. 3j2 pp., 2 io. there The atnext time we see you ' let LLL MONMENT. a thorough you got hold er a welt kuow-ttcopy of thi new mystery M L. ba,e by thwarted. Jove, Gasans . and years of bitter, sore trials produce for CoHq C'anv-royouthful painter a materpiece Not a masterpiece bf beauty, but a perfect reitORKornsM production of a sonl that he has learned to hate so completely that and the poison in his heart is conveyed to th canvas with every dip of hi - FREEMASOriRY brtnb. This portrait of Florrle DoWsett, j courtezan, is a vivid characteriTh New Book zation but no more vivid than tha . character of the painter revealed By by tbe master PRESIDENT Charles Caldwell Dobte. After achieving success with the ANTHONY W. IVINS brush through thi painting. Cam, eron finds that the product which has brought him success is false. Now Ready for Yon that be has misrepresented the girl that he loved through Every Man Will Went and temper He slashes bisJealousy famed To Read It! Portrait Of A courtezan to pieces but the human understanding ..kindled through hi experieucea Price $1.50 remain and lead him to success. 4 Tbe background of the, nooel is . San Francisco in the latter half of -th tragic nineties, a period analoCESERET gous to our own in it business fallivee, poverty and economic conEOOX fusion. Tha author present a picture of a city, peculiar ln its democratic social structure, where Gen- -, tUe and Jew. pnrttan and prostitute, 44 East on So-- Temple conservative and radical meet W the same ground. DoU give yog th exact - as cademyPu blishes Years Proceedings edi-to- non-tlg- -- re 3 an b become - can a political leader. Former President Hooper certainly la in- -. a dominant fiuence- - in hi Tet the party. a . westward to new and They d" - land. must, se of necen-sit- y. learn to live and work Hi together. toward released . . book, I m ultaneously - moro 'liberal with one Ideaa by the by Presi-- d man popularlyFormer - branded a the e n t Herbert ia 'Hoover, ImperaonaU a n analysis or of the worked of the methAccording to the writing. Mr. od taken under hi admipisira- Hoover doe not advocate laimes tion to correct the evils. falre nor the doctrine of the The while volume, generally pretnacy of property over human technical and practical, nevertherights. He believe in social reha an idealistic background less form and recognises that the docthat lend a kind of romance to trine 'of American Liberty ha the entire discourse. It i skillfully been abused. He call for legisla- - . written o as to entertain a well tion to correct these abuses, but s instruct, and no matter what claim the method employed by one may think of the AAA one the New Heal lead to a fundamenwill enjoy reading the book ar.d will understand when Through Just tal loss of ail liberty and the de- BtrnrtUm of Americas tmUrtutiows what Mr'.'WalTace, believes, InHe reviews Constitution. and tbo tends, fears and dreams of. In hi official capacity aa head of the the accomplishments of the nation under the present system and congovernment agriculture activities. tends that its change would so curBeginning with a brief of tta condition which in survey tail Individual Initiative that progthe the pioneer spirit ress would cease. The doctrine of be tribute to the rtalwsrts of Py olden limiting production and discouragtta day and then point out ing foreign trade by manipulating that because of th exhaustion of the currency is especially conof the public domain suitable for demned. and farming th rise of grazing, Stilt the former executive admits industrialism and the sudden that the chief cause of the depreschange of the U. S. from a debtor sion was the- - faulty monetary systo a creditor nation, tne o.d rules tem and the misapplication of their of life are no are still more frontiers to nation's credit- - He favors emer- conquer, h contends, but these measures for a are i the realm of mind and not ency meeting and denlea any quarrel with usof land. However, call for g public moneys to relieve suf-t- o sacrifices equally athey and m Ho doee Tor a complete change painful not, however, apering in our economic and political outlook. He prove of the methods used in the then proceeds to outline the new distribution. rules a hich these change- - caii for Coming under the special conand explain how the adjustment demnation of the the act merely seeks to put them into regimenting of industry by the" operation. NR and the Untiling of crop by As to government Interference the AAA. He fears curtailment of m business, he contends the greatproduction might destroy Amerip er danger comes from business ca's age of plenty. After which, he In government and he Insists, talks about distribution of scores the efforts of special priviwealth, labors rights and other lege to gain control of legislative such ideals would be meaningless, and administrative function He because there would be no ade-- ' attacks, the current fear brand-nt- g qua to wealth to distribute. them aa personal devHs,""and Alternative methods of economic f into history to show that ail control, such as socialism, comprogress baa been beset by ainii-lmunism, fascism and naxiism are misgivings which are fanned analysed and their effects in other I into flames by those who profit or hold special advantage under nations condemned. In these crit- Me the system that is icism there is an evident, effort, to "be fair," but when he speaks of analyzea the effect of propaganda and warns of being misled by communism extinguishing popular newspaper stories, rumors government wherever It baa taen and fictitious charges. --tried and when we remember that A special section it is operative only in Russia and goes into the tariff showing its effects in the recall the freedom of the Russians world and attacking tne changing under the czar, we do wish he had moot-Ha-w h ley act as among tiid been a little more careful Lack of most pernicious of recent legislacareful research and thinking, in tive restrictions. Free trade must fact, ia a prevailing fault of the enflow between nations he contends, tire volume, but then are any of and until the people hare come to a thinking very accurately Just accept this there must be subv nowl stituted the orderly control of , The volume win. of course, be agriculture or the farmers will wholely condemned by the super He perish. raps the reluctance of left wingers, and welcomed as a Americans to make a choice, but great argument by those who lean contend there - no The in the tit tier direction. It will be monetary system as it affects the read with interest by everybody be'armeri is studied and the cost of cause it is written by production-i- n former agriculture and inWere the author just president. dustry explained in light of a shifting measure of values. The uneven decline in price- - during a break into print by the menu of his writing the reviewer is afraid fe depression with its burden upon farms and labor is investigated and would not get very far. However, the cause of booms, because Mr, Hoover is who he la, deflations and millionaires analyze and because there ia a national Detailed tne of battle of history campaign on. no one should mis the farmer since the ensue of 1924 reading the book, both for the reato son it exploits many unfavorable regain their place in .is order of things with a special study of popular notions regarding the attin the plan aiD fls tude of the former president and substitutes i furnished. The final offers a good criticism of the trend in of the Agricul-tur- e passage victory in which the nation whether for Act and the men responsible good or bad is most certainly la for It portrayed in a manner It is to be regretted that moving almost like thrilling fiction, and the author did not pay more attentbe mad since the AAA progress tion to an alternative plan for the operation, osugiien IMbenefit of those whom' hia argu- - - wentlnto tense t offered of the unpopular menfs may convince that the New processing tax and reports mad Deal, a be claims, a fundamental to show that the opposition does not come from the challenge to human liberty. producers. the. us to 71 characters and maintained therthdividuality of each; In the second these were a they became Wfh ,increasetIo 13t aud io -- reader will not loose track of them. You will be able to follow the story as ji,jumps from one character to another, fast a- - lightning and T X the first volume the author introduced - smooth as silk. Aomains focuses the attrition of the reader on just two classes ofPamian people in this volume. In The Proud he has dealt almost exclusively with theanstocracy. In Tbe Meek with the proletariat. In the first we follow the life of Madame diTThampcenais as sha plunger deeper and deepef into her' liaison wilhTier husband's friend. It ia an ironical yet paUtelio lave affair, as grotesque as itTs tepder. This sequence shows Romams insight into the mind of a woman in love, a woman committing adultery and of a man planning a seduction. to this story there ASrunscounter the breathless to! of dangerous and daring commercial intrigue. with the picture of French politics that is brought to a climax by the May day celebration of the Workers. The Meek takes us Into th of the lower class Parisian lifeg We follow the etory of a little French boy whose father suddenly loses his Job, W see bis sudden .maturity and hi under, standing of the family problem loves and sorrows. We see a priest In his most intimate iotrospecUon and his attempts to guide his flock to safety and peace. W travel about among the workers and listen to them discussing their plans making political decisions and pass-- tion. 4mr Judgment on thr The author handles his many characters with a touch that Is deft but not shallow. That b should, havo chosen there two seta of contrasting characters Is very naturaL It seems as you read it that ho could bawe taken almost any set of characters from those in th book and bupt an equally enthralling story. true to the author's this story really is. He seta odt to give u a "picture of contemporary life and each page adds to the conviction that he 1 doing hla-jIn a thoroughly competent and highly satisfactory way. And yet you are never aware of this aa you read It. The wealth of story material pour out of tbo page so fast that you don't realize its abundance and quality until you get all through. Then there settle down over you a feeling of peaceYou know ful satisfaction that - you have been soaking up the work of man who has something great to give and who gives it generously bat with that charming restraint H3W pmg ARCTIC TRADER. The Account,. Twenty Year Mlth the Hudson Bay company, by Philip H. Cdod-el- i; G, P. Putnam a Bona, New Tork. 326 pp - jbf-te- ds .REVIEW EF ib sub-arct- ic -- and atmosphere of tta fascinating coast city in one of it most glam- Orons period. At the same time bo produces two magnificent characterizations that will long Ung la tho reader s memory. " J.H, BALT OP THE SEA RED SAUNDERS, The Chronicle of a Genial Outcast, by Sinbad ; J. P. 32 56, pp. 252. - tt; celtt is A urprmnsly straightforward adventure volume of a biographical nature dealing with a character who if not wholly authentic, to so vividly portrayed In these action-fille- d page a to bo at once incredible true to lire. Judging from tho reliable refer- cnees the author gives in pro- logue, the story i th whole truth, aa ouch prove one more that and truth cob indeed be stranger than fiction. A mans tack wa broken on tho slate bed of a blllizud table, and out of tho grievous upheaval that followed, emerged Red Baunder. and many of tta happenings that later befell this kindly N giant of an Englishman were narrated to the chronicler by Baunder himself during a sojourn of 1 1 week upon a remote Island in the Indian Ocean following complete Red Baunder truly mist have been and might Mill be a household name among tho south sea islands. A graduate of Eton and Oxford, tho story of hi life I a biography, sympathetically and faithfully written. Not one detail for or against tha big Englishman seems to be spared, enhancing the v verisimilitude.. Red gets hurt along with the rest of hi erew. not being spared because he to tb central figure; when Tod Carter, tho firnt man " with whom Red ship a co-- rlner if you like the less glamorous but authentic narration of and tifo in the northern fastnesses argumf Hudson bay. Tta story ia exceptionally well written, considering that Its author makes no pretentions to literary style alter narly thirty years as a Hudson Bay man. spent in isolated trading posts, far from the social amenities and 'advantages of civilization, amongst wtgwam of free. Dog-Rand OJPwya A th author points out. "those to whom this vast territory ia unknown, may be inclined' doubt some of the unusnql feature related in this narrative, but it to just another enae of truth being stranger than fiction." Profuse Illustration and footnote references -iff support of incidents of doubtful credibility bear the author out- - Re- - . Piet with some amusing anecdote, th story contain many throwback to tho romantic past of th Hudson Bay company, which autocratically governed a vast territory and wa for year a law unto . itself. M. C. C. x You may be sure that if you have not followed these volumes 4a have missed the best writing In the lest decade. But don t wait. Go to the library and reserve your copies now. Even better. get your bookman to order them for .you so that yo ran hat the satisfaction of owning them yourself. Need we. say morebewhom, he say- -, are rapidly neTHE CASE AGAINST MRS AMES, under the coming cessity of operating their codes, by Arthur Somers Roche, Dodd, acreage restrictions and allotMead and company. New Tork; to ments. Plans for tho future 16 pages; price 12. avoid tbe recurrence of booms and depressions are outlined and every one PRACTICALLY the volume close with a proAmes is innomore world beautiful a of phesy cent except tbe attorney who about to force itself upon man- tar and a certain newspaper named Kernochan. The former, an in the appendix xfe presented old sweetheart is expected to wed table and grata showing tho histhe charming defendant, but refustory of agricultural economics durten the es because his argument, whil years. kyat ing convincing Hi Jury and tbe public, bav failed to clear the woman name in his own mind. Tha . other doubler ira hard boiled new chaser who to to indignant that the suicide theory should he irwatluned and first male is killed while doing by the public and tbe court, that ho rescue-wor- k with Red In tb hurrifinds himself out of a Joh. Thlbv cane of 1686. Tod to buried with bowing to the wiles of pretty womperfunctory dispatch; the incurring en completely disgusts Kerny of Sooty Bidders enmity ia entirely - The worn a. hurt because th matter of foett Red e ingenuity and one man she has ever really loved, resourcefulness characterize hia vtollid to she "hints murder stoop every act aa Bklpper ef the Black her husband .resolves to get tb Pearl without stretching In the least the readers sympathy. Red's . real facts of tbe case. KaaShe is imr-a doting menaely wealthy and encounters several hand- old uncle willing to do anything ' are told with straight-forwqy- d simshe asks. search a man (or They plicity. to solve the mystery. Kernochan It to with keen re fttl over tha has a for reputation running down impending low of a rent friend, then, that the leader comes io bis" "elusive stone. They agree he to Just the one. They find him to a told last escapade, drunken condition, persuade him to with a Thomas Hard tan appreciatake the case, with the provisio that tion for tha Irony of fate which if h vldicatea hi conviction that sends Red by impulse on on tost sbo killed her hasband, ha will bo adventure before returning to hi his him cost native England. It permitted to publish the story, and to any event will receive fifty life, and th reader tho satisfaction of a happy ending, which pergrand" tofor the true solution. Such the beginning of another ' haps to tha only tangible line of demarcation between fact and fiction. delightsome story of detection by MACK CORBETT. tho famous Mr Roche, and a it develop the reader's interest leap CONCERT PLANNED with each page. Baritng with no Tbo Bel Canto Ladles .chorus, clue Whatever, thing begin to apunder Abe direction of Mm. Avon A gangster cornea pear following Price, win present th Into tho scene, threaten the young - Conceit program in the Ninth ward man wtttr dtre result unless h chapel in Ogden. Sunday evening: leaves town. Tha aid sweetheart Tb Stranger nf QtlUu .....Treharaa of th newspaper man warn him," Boka a the Nlrht Jkla Cboma plead that h go away, aad tha Keastot Charity charm of tta delightsome Hr. C horns, with Bertha Ames begin to have their effect, much to the disgust of hard boiled ton This Eras c Kerny. He never will fall for. - - IN-gRI- ob pro-duc- McX&ry-Uauge- r JfeeT , ar -- -- Yet-ymr- ar past-produ- RECENT RELEASES COMJY - iln-elu- out-de'e- i- V OOWASa tliird tolume of the story, "Men of Good W ill, makes Os THIS Jules Remains aas introlust thirteen months-afte-r duced to tbe American public. To say that it is eagerly awaited understatement. It is rabidly awaited by a multitude of discriis an eL Ibis con- -, minating reader that, has Jhnlled to, the quiet mastery work. temporary I In ease you have not made a note of it, the first volume contains ' tbe two books. Sixth of October and Quintettes Crime. -- The- seccontains books three and- four," ond volume, Passions Pilgrims, - Childhoods Loves, and Eros In, Pans The present vohinte.jrivei us the two books, The Proud and The Meek. economic problem by rushing ai L "THE PROUD AJ.D THE MEEK? by Jules Romams, pubtirbedjiy Alfred . A. Knopf, New Tork, 551 pages, 12.50. their solve - .treaties ia.net -rabid or unfair, da fact it reveal a turning pt T New Installment of Ep id Men of Good Wilt l Worthy of Predecessors , lit HUSK f g, - hip-wre- pa at-en- -- TH Skaters Cunlu ... ' .V Dmt Wtiao . Choms Hit SmMub. (Soprano Iamto or rrodoa CLtmUbc Spri&tf . DM BMs Bootaattt it Inevitable conclusion. Yo cannot. however, guess It until tbs tart chapter. It is a piece or fiction bubbling over with pur entertainment Frank 'Winn. J |