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Show rv ' w w , v t . f r. I " .THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1938. t i Analysis Declares Critics Are 111 Advised j c Defcnth Neic Deal o , Prates Pan gee Yet the critic call the p J Seri (. j , land-use- New pirations.' " it-- But, do end what. Hoover didn't. .di.entf to begin . srbat , BocteroH did do, as described by the reporter recently assigned to cover Gov- - - .. -- -- .J&g chMpUrL' nfrttwfV BflosrveM'.s thinking .due fly In terms of objectives, rather than of creed. Immutable principles and other forma of systemiuzed or revealed knowledge, is the explanation of the chief executive's behavior in solving the depression Itt What They Do Carleton Be Is i spending th summer In Connecticut. Hetns Liepmann in Russia, Helen Jacob playing tennis, Herbert Childs ranching. . . . Ruth Feiner, author of the beet sellers Cat Across the Path and Fire in May. ha left London and settled in Bad IscM, Austria. Faced Problems beThe necessity for action, cause surveys had shown that by 1970, the entire corporate wealth would be h the hands of 200 corporation. confronted the New Deal at its Inception. Thera were enormous influences, pressure ideas and doctrine with which Mr. Rooaevelt had to adjust There were the deflationists, those who believed in restoring international capitalism, the old fashioned progressives, organized labor and others. It was a confusion of these which made Roosevelt manage-- . ment of Congress poor, eHr. Roosevelt had been in the ' t ,W "At Rest to Midstream. problem. i( ft shei-terbe- lt, p 1 Utahn Writes New Book Simmons, former Balt Ralph Lake resident, has written a new book entitled. Boulder Dam and the Great Southwest. Mr. Simmons will be remembered for his valuable collection of data and histories of personalities of vinous states, his native State of particularly B. - Critic Makes Selection Of 'Years Best 7Z Books fane love and mysticism. He recommended Heed o' by Jem Stuart- aa amazingly original stories," Slgred Undaet's new book, "Gunners Daughter, was described as Bcanadhuivian primitive life, told - with literary art;" and Somerset Maughan's Cosmopolitans" aa A marvelous exhibition of skill.' 3 Ukse Hare , Phelps said be liked the modern Roberts Rinehart mad lure Mary out of The Doctor" and considered Honor - Morrow's Let th H characterized Gone With the King Beware, as the best thus W ind. a lengthy story of ihe Civil fsr-o- f her novel of history. War, as a dramatis portrayal of Of The Exile by Peart. Buck.' th American ''feudal system. It be remarked, wHli a 'facetious refM Mias Mitchell s first novel erence to one of the late Clarence Bsrond on his list of 11 novels With Father Was Days books, - Lift was "The Last Puritan, by Georg . Terrible. term be which th Santayana, Robert Nathan's The Enchantillumination of a splendid and spaed Voyage was termed an en. cious kind. " chanting novel. and J. R PriestPoem Recognised ley's They Walk In the City was held up a a better nerd of love .The American Language was commended as original research , in a big tows. books was Sense. It the of lob Heeding poetry were Burning City tor Stephen by A. P. Herbert- What a .Word. Benet end No Further Range by Thirty-thre- e other- volumes were Robert Frost Listing a juwsiie fencluded under general literature, book for the tint time. Phelps said, with 11 hooks of poems, 19 thrilof Joseph Havdvn, the Merry Litlers. hnd on 'Juvenile book also" tle Peasant by Opal Wheeler and ' ' mentioned. Sybti Deucher; , , v y Of afl the books t have-seePhelps said he found a mental' lure hi Sparken broke by Charle for boys and girl from to 15, this Is .the best." Morgan, calling tt sacred and pro-- : POIXTE AUX BARQUES, Mich, A (AP) William Lyon Sept. Phelps, th widely known critic, picked Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind as the outstanding novel of the last year, with H. L. Menckeo's Th American , Language topping hip list of general literature. Phelps, profneor emeritus of English literature, at Yale, selected 77 books for favorable comment in hie annual lecture at this ro-- - " " etary point of View has proved profitable to the nation, he presents an analysis to show that the public debt is more apparent than real. He goes bite the cauve and status of unemployment with th view of showing that the phecondinomenon is a permanent tion that will always require government attention. He discusses the reason and consequences of devaluation and defends th governmental action in saving th banks, farms and homes. He defends .the to farm program as necessary meet the emergency and gives assurance that it will change aa condition make, this possibte. Tax Program Defended Th tax program, with the exception of the law of 1936 is defended. and planned economy of held vital to th continuance the nation. a is held Rooeeveit President up a real defender of the American freedom and dire results predicted if . anything should arrest th progress of readjustment. pledges are reviewed and a check made of those which appeared to hare been broken with that offered the defense changed conditions unforeseen by Roosevelt made a switch in policy necessary to avoid a real menace to th nation. Thera Is an interesting chapter devoted to the securities exchange law with a description of business conversion to a thing they 'at first feared and condemned. fm.Tht Bookanttr fag$. ' -- a ' - - t Booklet Written In Rogers IIonor WILL ROGERS, Stoke non-fictio-n Moa-Piett- Around the World in Eleven Years, by Richard Patience and John Abbe, Stokes; Return to ligkm, by H. C. Link. MacMillan; Live Alone and Like It. by Map Jorie Hill Bobbs Merrill; Greea by Donald Culross Peatue. Simon A 'Schuster; Wake Up and Live, by Dorothea Brande. Simon A Schuster; Listen For a Lonesoma Drum, tor Carl Carmer, Farrar A Rinehart. WIT AND ' WIS- Jack Lait, Frederick DOM, by New Company. 124 pages; pries L A. York, A little remembrance book of the humorist who never offended is ' herewith offered' by his most intimate friend, fellow traveler, post and guest for 25 years, and Mr. Lait has captured tbs spirit of his - hero and given Just what admirers want to remember the laugh provoker. by. Tbs volume has little reading from the pm of its tutor. a brief character sketch add biography, aotno tbneiy explanations and then, episode, stories, and Joke created by Roger himself. The volume contains thirty-tw-o e lllustratiohs full page taken from the life of Rogers, a Joke on every page and little personal touches which all will recall and enjoy. Th book gives in this simple way mote of the life of Rogers than any long biography could, and only a friend such as Lait could have produced it. Letters written by - Roger, reproduced in fao simile by cuts add to th enjoyment, Frank Winn. half-ton- Has Hard Time, But Now Is Well Heins Liepmann escaped from a Nazi concentration camp and eluded his pursursra by swimming In Hamburg Harbor for two and a half hours before he was picked up by a foreign ship. But be was so badly beaten In the camp that for months tie hovered between life and death. His kidneys were so badly affected that a few months ago the doctors gave him only a year to hve. But he had another operation in England recently; he has recovered well, and is so encouraged with his condition that he plena to come to America this winter to lecture. Face. Bcoemng A Others SkUL and Reading For Methods. Crowell Recovery Unlimited. Besault President Trujillo. Dublin A Lotka Length of Life. Elliot l Women After Forty.- - . De t Lgl-Crta- aw Heart Amztc. . g - jssssst" ' FrommSli Chtovb Property and Its Management. Hall Moths Round th Flame. Hubbard A Baring Eastern Industrialization and Its Effect on the West Hutchins No Friendly Votes. and Other LyrPope Threnody ' ics. Record How to Abolish Poverty Rlehtmeyer A Foust Busmen Mathematics. Wilaon Elements of Modern Politic. -- FICTION Freeman Penrose Mystery. Greenwood Miracle in th Drawing Room. Gold. Grubstake Hendryx Lambert They Who Have. March Shadow in the House. Reynolds T rouble at Clays. Ripley Crowded House. Von Hutten Gentlemen's Agreement . Only manuscripts that have not been published before, and of book length (40,000 words nr of picture-booover).-o- r possibilities. are acceptable. Authors may submit as many manuscripts as they .wish. They must be in typewritten form, accompanied by th necessary return postage, or, whenever powvble, aent by prepaid express, aa tins insures the sender a receipt. There are no limitations imposed upon the type or locale of the stone submitted. If illustrations are available, they may be sent with th manuscript: however, th Ford Foundation and the publish, era reserve the right to select those illustrations which in their opinion serve best Illustrate the story, or to substitute others of thetr own selection. Authors should alwavs keep a ropy of all material aent. as th Ford Foundation is not responsible for manuscripts lost in transit or through accident, but will us every precaution for their safety. k Jealousy it the driving force which forces Dick Townsend to assume an alias and foraaks hi football, in this new, novel which will soon be off the press. Dick's chummy relationship with his football coach, arouses his father to a Jealous anger which results in the father ordering Dick to quit football to work in a bank. The boy buys an automobile, assumes the name of Dick Smith, and starts on a Journey across country with th aim of entering a New York university. Along the way ha meets Betty, who accepts his offer of riding wlh him. Kidnapers, beodHs. policemen, all furnish obstacles fee bun to conquer.. At New York, he is forced to sign up for 2at . f&f&J 2c : because he tiooaDypiay doesnt want any publicity for fesr his father will find out where he Is. Th story is climaxed w ith his being arrested a few momenta prior to the big Rose Bowl game on charges of being a lookout for tha kidnapers he was entangled with at the first-o- f the story. This story is typical of the Hor-H- o Alger type. Too mav of th situations seem forced and unnati uraL The author has made his hero too perfect and his father too hateful. . He has not shaded his charsets with a little bit of both. Regardless, of theses criticisms the story hay a fast tempo, and tha reader interest is Intensified by the excellent choice of words that makes for Interesting action. Ida Johnson. Jr bed-bun- CONRAD IN BRAILLE Doubledav, Doran has recently given the Braille Institute of America. lnc permission to transcribe into Braille Within the Tide by Joseph Conrad. New Tarzan Book Filled With Adventure, Mystery animal Man sets out for a solution. As usual in the later Tarzan run stories the two narratives parallel in alternating chapters lor some tima, each full at Its own ad- - -venture. The- European party, forced to battle with Tuiturs muddy reveals , th characteristics of its members. Thera follows a series of intrigues, and uarrela, misunderstandings Jtnally a murder with the suhee-qtietdistrust of all for alL There Is ... ala a romance which grows rapid ly and finally the entrance at tha dreed Kavuru on the scene. While this is going on Tarzan also ia having his troubles; Tribes to Whom he is a stranger ntisundew - stand him. Hs is captured tad mia- .taken far Ka vara, barely escapes . - with his life. He runt upon on at th mysterious tribe, stalk him.' renews a girl end arts out to 'find the Recoded land. His little man. the meantime stumbles bey pet ' onto the wreck at th plane; finds note left by Jan and th twe ' narrative unite for a thrilling fin-- . tab and an explanation of th vanAbout the same time, .Tartan, ishing women and the formula for the Ape ' Man, I called upon by -eternal youth. ,, bis tnb to rocu young girl The story it full of supernatural Captured by the mysterious Kavu ' m. The disappearance of - many - mysticism ax well as the usual ant-mat study which bar made these young girls, apparently into the air. has caused greet consternation , novels famous. It is a book that n stive and something . ioera of Tarssa and bis friends . among th has sunply got to be dona i$o the .will welcome. TARZAX'S QUEST, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, illustrated by J. Alien SC John, Edgar Rich Burroughs. Inc, California. 318 pag-- . es; price 82. BY FRANK WINN In the darkest part of Africa a witch doctor is reported to have discovered a marvelous formula which keeps humans young and Princess Sbsrov, rather aged, wb was Kitty Kraus of America before her million pur, chased th title. Is determined to find that doctor. So she tells Lady Greysiok and Invited tha latter to accompany her bn th perilous trip. Tbs whs of Terns in enure is willing to do this, the party is arranged. It includes the prtn- - f and hef affrnflnat IHM a maid, vgjet, Jan and the pilot of th airpalne. a Cbieagd ((waster known a Brown. TMa.s might have gone a little better, bad sot th plane crashed in the item at the dark continent and left tha little party to Ms ewa rasourm poses; H Browder What u Communism. Buchan Two Ordeals of Democracy. Clark Perspective. Cnppen Successful Direct-Mai- l . - ROSE BOWL, by William Metncke; Robert Speller. New Torte 25T PPK. The follow ins hooka will be added to the Public library Tuesday, September A 1936. MISCELLANEOUS Bor Atomic Physics. Bridgman Heads, Features -- established The Foundation by Mrs. Ford because of her deep interest in children. She believe that do other single influence out weighs books in their contribution to a ehikfa development. . . To this end she established the Foundation as a means for the encouragement of originality ami imagination in childrens litertaure in the United Stairs. Mrs. Ford has tong been a patron of the arts and the friend and intimate of many among the form, mast Jeedera of her time in literature, art and social reform. Rules of the contest follow; Th prise winning .manuscript, and any others published by th Ford Found! ion. will be subject to the usual royalties but become the property of the Font Foundation, The Ford Foundation also reserves the right to submit any material selected far publication for moUoa picture, radio or syndication pur- Alger Type Hero Found In Netc Rook New Library Books (PoeiasJ. Yhe week's ' best SeR8rs in ficare listed as tion and follows by Brents no: Fictioa Gone With the Wind, by Margar, Drums et Mitchell. MacMillan: Along the Mohawk, by Walter D. tor B. In J. the Priest Walk City, ley. Harper, The Big Money, by John Dos Passes, Harcouri. Brace; Little, Brown; They lees in Gsxa, by Abtous Huxley. Th Need We Have, by Harper, A. Hamilton Gibb. Little. Brown. u " ' -- h ' 4 - . , - t i n r: y dno n . -- - for-ev- er - - In Eta creep-by-cree- p t' little d Baal totalitarian and Sweden liberal." the author show. Another interesting observation Mr. Findley makes Is this: "Non of the important totalitarian stales now in existence is the result of that or process toward Communism, which Mr. Homer fear so much when he visa the American scene. Each of them Communist Russia. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany came into power in Use ahsenc of governments which were able to meet prevailing needs, demands, or as- J.( ministration Is one of Its major so eompUahmenta. It was an indisKENNEDY pensable accomplishment. Lirtdter-w-rite- a, adding The Rocweveft adBusincM Leader ministration has not boasted about It a much as it should, louden (Sl-lAd Lindley men lion that nothing Wrong is lovelier Wo behold now than the ministration affection of the financial centers for the SBC I'M FOR ROOSEVELT, by Joseph Ferai Flu Expialaei ' Rooeeveit' F. Kennedy, Reynal and Hitch-cocparticular interest in farming has been a comprehensive Inc, New York. J29 pages; land-us- e was flue sad program pries to the emergency of 193 lindley believe. While Roosevelt BY FRANK WINN and Rexford Tugwell were enthusiastic to push a long range program Critics of the New Deal and op- and this resulted in the board soil of Roosevelt are divided conservation program Inaugurated man who served as first since the demise of the AAA. of the Federal Securities The revitalisation and expannd Stork Exchange commission sion of the conservation movement into four class ex; Those who is the fundamental achievement of the Old peal and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lindley Knitted under the nearness with writes, summarizing the work done which they faced nun in 193-1-; the along this line as the emergency Ultra radicals who want a lot of conservation work of the CCC; sou conservation service, purchases of things done in a short time and forest land; establishment of wild art therefore Impatient with th life refuges, control of peso, slow presidents evolutionary work by FERA, CWA methods; those who blindly conWPA and other bureaus; the demn spending of public money provisions of the lumber in an effort to overcome the decode of NR A; the PWA and the pression; and those who have a Taylor Grazing Act; land purchase hysterical fear that the constitu; and Indian conservation tion will be transgressed. Df the of policy; stimulation planting first two, Mr. Kennedy say. They grasses; TV A and rural electrifies-are actuated by selfish or blind tiOQa motive and are not subject to reaDetails Gives son or Each of these phase are explainargument." For the others ha presents an answer. ed In detail by the writer. , The antithesis of the conservaTh volume is one of careful tion administration was the KRA, analyses of the administration's polUndley maintains, in describing it icies and achievement, with a as th greatest error of the Rooso-eadministration. Not only failit is, of course, monly attacked, ing to accomplish its purpose, it the voire of one who admire the evoked a wide rang of unfavorare president, but its arguments able publie reaction. logically and clearly set forth and With the progress of the New know the to author what appears DesL has come the evidence that he Is taking about. there is need for some kind system Gives One Bid of social security. This has evolved from the aerie of measures on reTh book is recommended as a lief and security which developed well worked out version of one in the Rooeeveit administration. side of the controversy into which Undoubtedly the most startling and the nation is now entering, revelation in the hook is that th should find a ready welcome by national debt ha actually been I a alL lewder The writer among made lighter since 1932. This is business and financial interests contained in a lurid chapter to and when appointed to the SeW here the Money Comes From. - By we means the least curities board, succeeded in gaininteresting , ing th confidence of Wail Street '.rHaptem 4n th. .bonk, are , tboog discus 'lb which deal with the posaibtlily of , lie fa weil tpJwhTied the United States Keeping out of economic phases of OK nation.' .JMMJ1. n iUi't' lel--t- er -- y, Two prize $2,000 and $1,000 ar offered by the Julia Ford foundation for original child stories showing imagination and originality. Manuscripts must be submitted to the foundation care of Helen Hoke, 737 H. W. Heilman Building, Los Angeled before midnight of December 3L Final decision on awards will be made by the committee on or About March 15, 1937. End-wort- h In all Encyclopedia of a general hatur bographies constitute, as a rule, th bigger half, and an of the Church of Encyclopedia Jesus Christ of Latter-dtSaints Is no exception to that rule, - An of the Encyclopedic History Church is now running "daily through the columns of the Deseret News," while three large volumes of biographical material have already been published in the U IX K Biographical Enrvlopedia. namely, VoL I (In 1901). tol 2 (in 1914) and VoL 3 (la 1920). Since 1920 many changes have taken place among the general and local officers of tbs Church, and pies new officers will bs taken cars of in VoL 4 of the Encyclopedia; new being published assistant Jenson, by Andrew Cburrh Historian. A circular and other literature, including a letter from the First Presidency - have, during the last few days been mailed to Stake President, with the reqeust that these officers will make this publication known in alt tbs wards and organizations of the Church, so that everyone who Is interested may fn their own interest and la the Interest of Church history, bars access to this work, Tha list of biographies of the four volume of Gtographical Encyclopedia win Include (1) The . general authorities and other general officers in the Church. (2) Prominent workers in Relief Societies, Sunday Schools. T. M. M. AsLAY.W.K L A. Primary sociations, Religion Classes, Church th of Seminaries, etc, (3) Martyrs Church, (4) Missionaries who have died In the field, (3) Members of Etons Camp. Mormon Battalion, etc, (6) Utah pioneers, (7) Presidents of Mission. (8) Presidents of Stakes and their counselors, (9) Bishop of wards and their and counselors, and (10) men women who have distinguished themselves In missionary fields, or elsewhere, even If not numbered among presiding officers These four volumes together, with the Encyclopedic History of the Church published in the Deseret News will constitute an Encyclopedia covering the first hundred years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, and as the edition of Volume 4 is limited to 2,000 copies. Sod copies of the same are needed for reference is every branch of tha Church both at home and abroad. In the stake the and missions throughout in world, the presiding officer all these organizations are advised to send in their orders at once for Volume I, which will contain, about 800 pages of closely printed matter, illustrated with numerous portraits. The subscription price is $8.00 per volume bound. Elder Jenson navi that this will undoubtedly he the last book he wiH ever publish, owing to his advanced years, and while he cannot possibly expect to rereive any financial benefit from the sale of the books, he will appreciate that his many friends In Church aetiw and ties will show their appreciation of hi life's work h y subscribing tor the returns. -- Propaganda! I can bear readers, particularly Republican readers, saying of "Half Way With Roosevflt, Ernest K. Xindleys comprehensive review of the shall ws say first half of the Roosevelt administration. Still, a Washington correspondent, whose boss is a Republican New York publisher, admits that the President's charm is Just a little wearing on the reporters asaoclated with him daily, and'who through constant association baa recognized and been annoyed' With the President's faults, convinces me in hk treatise that Franklin Delano Roosevelt baa been one of the most capable chief exeat- - lives tbs United States has seen, To begin, Mr. Lindley compere White Hum one year when the basic ork of recbntracting th j. New Deal measures wok those in credit system hd beep completed, imhmd to cope with similar cre notnie situations in other counUndley shows In hu chapter oil Wall Street and Assets, in which tries. . A lucid explanation makes me urea taken . - s certain Mr. Hoover and same of -- ha points out-th-forth New- Deaf in th financial the Liberty Leaguer look a trifle silly by their holding up of Great The reorganization jot the credit Britain and Sweden aa democra: structure under the Roosevelt ad-- , cies of economic liherslisra which - Three TliousandDolIars Offered For Child Stories Encyclopedia To Issue Soon HALF WAY WITH ROOSEVELT, by Ernest K. Lindtey. Th Viking Press; 426 pages; $2.75. . ' , BY GLADYS HOBBS America would do well to lotlow." Oared t Try ; . While Mr. Hoover and meat of our leading hankers and industrialists were waiting for us to use natural forces to bring recovery, the British and the Swedes had set about to produce recovery. Exception departure bom gold, which might be called accidental,, their methods were pragmatic, and unimpeded by fears of experiment." XJodley writes. Greet Britain has a highly managed economy containing far mom elements of socialism than Our own, be continues, continuing by pointing out a few of the economic principle hi , Sweden which Mr. Hoover and the twee. Uonarie look upon as economic liberalism and contrast with the totalitarian of Mr. objective A few of the principle , Roosevelt .mentioned ate: Powerful consumers movement; equally powerful agricultural cooperative: government export tuba id lee for certain cost agricultural produru, low bousing program; targe area of state socialism; semi eortellem In the operation of mine; trade-uniomovement protecting collective bargaining; old age pension svs- s lent, reserve public-workprogram; loWdariff system; objective to manage' its currency and the manufacture, sale and export of munition eontroled and the codification sf the Swedish law. 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