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REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS World of Future Is Forecast by Philip Gibbs—Finding the Fruit of Formal Schooling—Fiction of Romance and Mystery. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW: What 1s Going to Happen. to the World? By Philip Gibbs, auther of “Out of | the Ruins,” etc. New York: Double- day, Doran & Co. HAT is coming to pass “day! r tomorrow” depends so | gely upon what Is going | on today that Philip Gibbs censiders it only the part of fair wisdom to gather up the present | in its larger aspects and to make use of this as the only dependable promise for the next period in human progress. And so in this book Mr. Gibbs defines, broadly, the greatest of the activities and influences that are so potently co- operating in the creating of a new world. One by one does he summon the stupendous achievements of sclence epplied to human advance in every de- | partment of human enterprise and ex- istence. Nothing new, to be sure, about | an accounting of this sort. Nothing | new except that this keen observer and competent judge simptifies his observa- | tions and his corresponding estimates | © of each subject | that he brings up for examination and | study. It is out of such consideration, £ simple and clear, that the average | reader is helped to throw away all the | cluttering details in which most sub- jects are more or less hidden. He helped to a clean and straight vision of the marvels of the world today. He sees that the chemist and the physicist, the man of science generally, is devot- ing to human affairs a wealth of dis- covery and application that are abso- lutely creating a new world. Here is the dawn of the “Air Age,” when mar- vels are day by day becoming mere matters of course. The outstanding of the revelations of science as these bedr | Setting provide a large upon our present existence are set down here in short concise statements which serve to gather in its best economy THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 23, 1928—PART 2. | the smell of the air, the trail along can- yon and through the sage, the wild creatunes of the desert, the amazing sunsets and gorgeous nights. The pic- ture is large here and real an. beauti- ful. As if it were the spirit of the place brooding above it, tangible and impres- sive. The other stamp of this tale of the West, the second one that gives it individuality, is that it presents vividly a ceep and lasting friendship between two men. A friendship that separation and misunderstanding could not im- pair. It is the search of Ben Ide for Nevada that moves the adventure from peint Lo point of its course. There is | a love issue between this outcast shoot- ing man and Ide's sister, but that is of the usual pattern, nothing to compare with the affection of these men for each cther. Just the usual love of man and maid. Old stuff with few surprises left to it. The pioneer life, the great country, he men and the grandest horse you ever met—these are the true ele- ments of another Zane Grey tale of the West. e VANITY UNDER THE SUN. By Dale| Collins, author of “The Sentimental- | ists,” etc. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. FROM Japan down to Saigon, across | to Hengkong. then to an obscure sland of the Pacific lying to the souih |and east of the Asiatic mainland—such is the course taken by Dale Collins' new novel. It would take some such course, and should: for its author is first and foremost a traveler whose prime delight is to soak up into his growing stock of memories more and more of the far places of the earth. You may be pleas- antly sure, then, that background and rt of the sub- stance of the matter hand. They do. Supporting the pattern of human experience set down here as the story much that we already know as a mass itself is an opulent groundwork made of unrelated facts. But the purpose of |Up of the face of this Oriental reglon, this book is not to collect facts. tain'v not to tai the average man. with thes: instruments which seience is discover- | ing and fachioning for the average | earthquake. man’s use. And right here is where the | point of the study becomes apparent. There is clear danger in the situation Cer- | of the native element in its appearance, Its great purpose is, rather, | Occupation, custom; of the overlay of the outlook and powers of man, | increasing foreign contacts—all in a amazing | blend of great beauty. The story opens with the catastrophe of the Yokohama Here the chief person in this story was -caught—an American business man from Detroit, U. S. A. Before more attention to this unfortu- of the present and near future. For |nate man, let me urge you to read about means of man’s destruction are being produced unless man himself makes |set it down. something like a corresponding advance in his own growth and development to- ward great and greater human powers, As matter of fact, man is more or less static in the midst of so much that is powerfully dynamic and progressive. This is the point of the.study by Mr. Gibbs, this and certain sugzestions, or opinions, or theories by way of which our human nature may bestir itself for the inevitable conflict that must even- tually take place between man and the forces that he has released. In the face of this new day, just what is cur stand- ing? “Babes in Tovland” comes near to describing us. In the less playful |again. that earthquake as Dale Collins has Your own fears and hor- rors rise out of that reading. The out- standing fact, insofar as the American is concerned, is that he escaped from the disaster fairly whole in body. Mem- ory, however, gone completely. This misfortune opens a way for the story itself. From this come the subsequent proceeding marriage with the girl down to the south, association with the odd characters, misfits in any formal plan of life, that were gathered there. All the time through a most interest- ing maze of cirenmstances one knows himself to be moving toward the day when this American man remembers As rich in human stuff as it is speech of Dr. Joseph Collins we are, as | in the colors and circumstances of its dult infantilism.” We are no more than tremendously entertained—press- ing buttons, switching in or out, crying | ends. for more wheels and faster ones to spin under us, stepning on the gas con- stantly, manipulating steering gear in |of course, right there. cool nonchalance, racing after movies, clamoring for a flight in the air— surely we the commonalty are in the peried of plavtis juveniles erying for childish things. while a stupendous world is in the making to turn upon us, sooner or later, to know why we have not grown to its measure by deliberately puting away childish things. No greater catastrophe could be conceived by poet or madman than that of a world turning in complete destruction upon the humans that inhabit it. No, noth- ing so dire as this does Mr. Gibbs sketch in for our warning. does he present the indubitable fact that it is time for the human to begin upon himself for the improvement of humanity, for its safety as well. Any finite pattern or practiral sugrestion? ves. Jesus Christ. Sympathy. un- de-standing, peace and the pursuits of Ppeace. A surpassing start. * ok ok ¥ MIRROR OF YOUTH: An Anthology of Youth and Out-of-Doors. By Marian King. New York: Long- mans, Green & Co. YOUTH comes singing. Its early tunes are, like those of tie birds, Do more than natural sounds of sheer Joy and happy laughter. But soon words creep into the little homemade Melodies. These words are the ancient lore of childhood garnered throughout the years. Now here is true song, tunc end words sailing away together. But in a few years there comes a pause, 8 silence, as if the caroling children had come upon an arid one, upon a songless region, destitute of lovely rhyme and dancing cadence. That is just what has happened. Plenty of songs in the world. to be sure. no end of fine poetry to £tir their hearts. But it is hidden away in books, or scattered and out o. hand. “Mirror of Youth” is clearly a first aid in such dilemma. Here is a book of poetry that is addressed entirely to youth. Better yet, it is designed definitely for the use of the young folks of this immediate and splendid present It is meant for the army of aired and sunned and bathed and exercised young- sters who so bless these fine and up- standing days. Here is poetry from Shakespeare to Sandburg. Claimants for place here need to prove but two points—that their poetry is of the qual- ity and that is fronted sjuarely upon youth. The book itself, as such, gives evidence of the author's wide readiny and a worth-while acquaintance with poetry. Here, besides, is a clear intelli~ gence, a breadth and certainty of judg- ment that surmount mere schooling The fruit of formal schooling, it might be called. Here, too, is sympathy. reaching now for the heart and soul of youth and again for the pure essence | and content of the poems in hand | Such understanding is, I take it, the | only sympathy worth havinz. In con- ception and projection this is maturc work. Yet, the author, or editor, 15 a young woman, young as her read Seeming to feel much as they do you see, capable maturity is not alw: 2 matter of years, rather a measuic de}flh and breadth of one’s mode , o s and 30 one’s daily living. Rightly, a strain supporis this book of All in all, you can hardly do you girl and boy, than to look selves in this “Mirror of Youth.” { * x % % “NEVADA™: A Romance of the West Zane Grey, author of “The Rain- bow Rail,” etc. New York: Harper!| & Bros. Il I__IIS name was Jim Lacy, not “Ne-{ % , much body had, and has, & right to change his name. So until about the end of the wild adventure: Nevada was his name. The story goes back to the time when out in the plains ntry cattle stealing was one of the recognized occupations. Upon it rests | guch of the absorption of the matter n hand. The romance is according to the formula of wild West tales. Ba men snd good, and all more or le: desperate men, provide excitement that rises minute by minute and day by day, reducing food and sleep to a minimum, while thieves are being pursued and snurder is a commonplace of almost every hcur. However, there is a differ- ence here—two, as a matter of fact The novel picks up the Arizona country, 80 to speak, delivering it over in its reality and its beauty to the deeply appreciative reader. Mind you, this is an effect which is an inherent part of Zane Grey's life in that locality, the A to urally the woman blossomed through | CATHERINE - PARIS. 1 whole, suffering under the malady of | setting, the matter moves strongly and picturesquely toward that moment of awakening. It comes—and the story The man is as shocked and re- gretful as men always are, caught up in their errancies, but the story ends, A strong and competent_invention of sound founda- tion and fine structure about it. The tlxtllez Read your Bible for the truth of it b L T DIANA AT THE BATH, By Elizabeth Hall Yates. Philadelphia: The Penn | Publishing Co. OTHING classic about this tale save the title, whose slant is clearly in the direction of ancient Greece or Rome. On the contrary, this is an Rather | affair so modern. so current even, that it might have slipped into the open this very morning. Nothing but an old woman taking out a new lease on life. That statement is flippant and clearly unfair. Diana is not an old woman. True, “she has a married daughter, which is no evidence at all. The main point is that Diana is, for the first time in years, free. Yes, Charles died, died out of his nagging habits and burden of small proprieties be imposed hourly upon Diana. Nat- such freedom. Mary, the daughter, had married a Frenchman, so in no time at all Diana set out for Paris, only to find in this girl a second edition of her husband and the prospect of a renewed supervision, Diana fled to the baths, in a charming corner of France. It is upon such foundation that this bright comedy is built. Pretty, sym- pathetic, lovable, sensible, Diana proved to be better than all the doctors for the ailing men of that institution. One of them—well, it is he who helps the gay matter along toward a climax wherein are whispered words that sound much like—"'py ever after.” Bright story, sustained throughout by the spirit of gayety and more than commonly good entertainment. i O THE SIX PROUD WALKERS. By X author of “The Boston: Little, ete. NTERNATIONAL intrigue founds this tale of mystery. Those foster- ing and promoting it are the half dozen high-steppers who give name to the adventure. Rome, with its labyrinth of catacombs, contributes manfully to the mystification of the action as a whole. Two young men, on the other side, that is on the side of opening up the secret doings of the “walkers.” seem woefully inadequate to cope with so much of villainy. But, as is the case with all mystery stories, these two are quite supermen when it comes to cour- age and intuition and the following of trails so faint as to be quite imper- ceptible to ordinary eyes. The dangers that crowd into this book are truly le- glon—capture, imprisonment, druggings, beatings, murder, then all over again, save of course only murder. They do that but cnce in each case. Well, after a hullabaloo of excitement that keeps nne on the edge of his chair out of sheer fright, and an orgy of pursuit under the insnired leadership of these two young men, every single one of the “proud walkers” is either caught and brought to justice, or kills himself in face of that inescapable immediacy. Good work, 1 call that. story goes along just for a few minutes of easement here and there when the other excitement gets too thick. Pretty good, Mr. Beeding—but you've done better and can again. l BOOKS RECEIVED SECOND CHOICE. By Elizabeth gleé:nder. New York: J. H. Sears MONEY OF HER OWN. By Margaret Culkin Banning, author of “The Women of the Family,” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. By Princess Marthe Bibesco. Translated by Mal- colm Cowley. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. JOHN READ, AMERICAN. By Edwin C. Washburn. New York: The Grafton Press. PHOINIX. By Alan Sims. Little, Brown & Co. WAR DRUMS. By Herbert Ravencl Sass. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. DIANA OF THE NORTH COUNTRY. By Miriam Monger. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Yes, a love | Boston: | J. J. Connington. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. THE BEST BOOKS OF OUR TIME, 1901-1925. Written and compiled by Asa Don Dickinson, librarian of the University of Pennsylvania, author of “One Thousand Best Books,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. RED IVORY. By Walton Hall Smith, author of “Shadow River.” Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. FLYING THE ARCTIC. By Capt. George H. Wilkins. Illustrated. New York: The Knickerbocker Press. JAMESTOWN AND HER NEIGHBORS ON VIRGINIA'S HISTORIC PE- NINSULA. By J. E. Davis. Rich- mond: Garrett & Massie, Inc. BITTER HERITAGE. By Margaret Pedler. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. PHILLIDA; or, The Reluctant Adven- turer. By H. S. Reid. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED LOVE. By Guido Da Verona, author of S we walked along the 60 who gave us an apolo- getic little nod. Even this glimpse was enough to make me was mystery to contra- feature. * ¥ * X His eyes were alert, but they had a hurt and baffled look; firm step was a bit too firm contrast with his drooping shoulders; the neatly brushed i d to be trying proudly to pretend that it had nothing to do with the dandruff on the coat collar. * ¥ kX% As soon as he was out of hearing | asked the owner of the place about him. * X ¥ X “Don’t you remember him?" he said. “No, you wouldn't. He came before your time. But you must have heard of H—, of the H & B Co. His advertis in all the magaz “Life Begins Tomorrow.” Translated | from the Italian by May M. Sweet. | Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co. | HERBERT BOOTH: A Biography. By, Ford C. Ottman. New York: Double- { day, Doran & Co., Inc. | THE DEVIL'S JEST. By Elizabeth | Carfrae, author of “Barbed Wire,” etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. ROGUE'S MARCH. By Margaret Turn- bull, author of “Madam Judas,” etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 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With Malice To- ward None. Young, F. B. The Key of Life, . g Chile l;lans Move To Reclaim Valley ! Determination of the Chilean gov- | ernment to clean up the uninhabitable Camarones Valley is seen in the an- nouncement of Dr. Thomas Aravena, public health director, that he has called upon the American Department of Commerce to lend him assistance. | . Plagued for years by malaria mosqui- toes, the hrfe valley is inhabited only by a few solitary mounted police, who patrol this last frontier oasis in the northern Chilean desert. It is said to be one of the most fertile regions in the country. Dr. Aravena plans to “dust” the valley by airplane and has requested the | Department of Commerce to put him in | touch with American companies that will undertake the project. The val- ley, which is 70. miles long and more than a mile wide, will be used as a { ranch for cavalry horses of northern | troops. The recent resumption of Chilean- i Peruvian diplomatic relations has quiet- ed rumors that the valley will be de- veloped as a concentration ground for the army. It is the last strip of vege- tation in northern Chile capable of sup- Yook of the desert as he saw it every day, MYSTERY AT LYNDEN SANDS. By porting a considerable force of troops. | go. He made a fortune. Six weeks ago he came in here to make a loan, and | put him on the pay roll. Not much of a job, but it's a living, and | couldn’t turn him awa After all, he was a giant in his time.” S “What happened to him?" | asked. o “The old story. Retired and tried -to reform the world. Had a lot of grand ideas, and they busted him." * X % X As we continued our trip through the plant it occurred to . = BY WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT. Success has crowned the fight of the Department of Justice for a free mar- ket in quinine in the United States. Importers and dealers have signed a de- cree to cease from attempts to control prices and restrain: competition in this country, although they are at liberty to do as they please elsewhere unless some other government objects. This victory in quinine, plus the vic- tory obtained in the rubber market, means a saving of many millions of dol- lars for American consumers and recalls the long struggle the Department of Commerce has made for reasonable trade conditions in those commodities bought abroad by the United States in large quantities. Besides quinine and rubber other commodities that are or have been sub- ject to foreign control of a _monopolis- tic nature are camphor, coffee, odine, nitrates, potash, sisal, sugar, mercury and Egyptian long staple cotton. The cotton is used especially in making automobile tires. Called before a com- mittee of Congress early in 1926, Sec- retary of Commerce Hoover outlined this situation and also mentioned silk and from 20 to 30 other commodities susceptible of foreign control. Large Quantities Seized. Last March agents of the Department of Justice seized in New Yark City more than five tons of quinine, besides a large store of cinchona bark from which quinine is made, and instituted an anti-trust suit against certain im- porters, dealers and others, some of them foreigners. Price-fixing at un- reasonable levels and monopolizing were charged. The consent decree just en- tered marks a complete triumph for the Government in behalf of the American coniumer of quinine without going to trial. “When we witness prices suddenly raised far ebove what even the spokes- men of the controls have announced as ‘fair,’” Secretary Hoover told the con- gressional committee, “by an additional amount which, at present prices (of rubber), if continued, would, for the in- crease above fair alone, cost our con- sumers annually from $500,000,000 to $800,000,00, depending upon the price assumed, then we may well conclude that either these controls possess that inherent quality of all monopolies— never to be content with reasonable prices—or that speculators have seized direction of them and driven prices to_unreasonable levels.” While then talking primarily about rubber, which late in 1925 had reached the extraordinary price of $1.21 a pound in the spot market, Secretary Hoover also discussed the quinine and other controls of raw products extensively used in American industry and homes. Since then the rubber control has broken down so that rubber for several months has been selling at 18 or 19 cents a pound. The United States buys almost a billion pounds of rubber annually, mainly for automobile tires, and American car owners now are tpll’(lfllh‘ll by the cheaper and better res. Fconomy Campaign Effective. To break down the rubber control Secretary Hoover advocated, and there was put into effect, an economy cam- paign, a greater use of reclaimed rub- ber and the development of new sources of supply. The Firestone plan- tation in Africa and the Ford project in Brazil in a few years will exert a decided influence on the world rubber market, besides other American rubber enterprises in the Far East, including the Philippines. ‘There was no narrow, selfish drive on foreign producers in the program. On this point Secretary Hoover made it plain_in the following paragraph that the United States wanted foreign pro- ducers to earn a fair return. If was the unreasonably high price of rubber, etc., that sthrred the Department of Commerce to action. ‘Our dominant desire has been to get along with our neighbors without en- gaging in the slightest friction, and we would bear a great deal to avoid in- volving our Government in commerclal | bickerings. Deeply sensible of the ne- | cessity for good will as the foundation | of all world commerce, the Department of Commerce has been extremely loath to raise these questions and has done so only because it felt the weight of responsibility which we as a Govern- ment must have to our citizens on the one hand and to the future of whole- | some world relations on the other.” Huge Sums for Imports. An idea of the money involved in some of the leading commodities im- ported entirely, or in large part, by the United States is afforded in the latest Department of Commerce statis- tice for the fiscal year ended last June | 30. We paid $376,000,000 for raw silk, $306.000,000 for crude rubber, $298,- 000,000 for coffee and $234,000,000 for sugar. These four commodities took $1,204, ,000 out of the United States, principally to Japan for silk, British Malaya and Dutch East Indies for rub- ber, Brazil for coffee and Cuba for Reform BY BRUCE BARTON. me that my friend the owner is i reforming the werld. He thinks he playing the bus the product he manufactures makes a tremendous the homes that buy it. manufactures it so efficiently that he has been able to reduce the price four times in the past When you add the total result of all such factories, and con- trast the home of today with the home of a generation ago, you must admit that the world is being very decidedly reformed. And by the men who stay in business, not by the men who pull out. * K ok % The old idea was that there were two kinds of effort in t world—work and good works That is true only in part. To be many benevolent enter- by year it is making a fairer, more healthful and more com- fortable world. And those who quit it to embrace reform are in most instances casting aside the most powerful tool of reform. * % e good,” said one of the ull. More- “As for doing Thoreau, “that i professions that a over, | have tried it fairly, and am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.” * ok ok K But how much geod Thoreau did just by being Thoreau! (Copyright. 1928.) FOREIGN PRICE CONTROL HIT BY QUININE ANTLETRUST DECREE Agreement, Following Victory in Rubber Market, Another Step Toward Free Trade Condi- tions in United States. sugar. Other countries furnished some of the commodities but the bulk came from those cited. The Dutch East Indies are the lead- ing source of quinine. As the United States is the largest market for quinine, the threat to bar foreign traders from this market unless they ceased from practices considered by the Department of Justice as indefensible at law, evi- dently had the effect of indueing pro- ducers, importers and dealers to agree to the American terms. What is hoped here now is that the double experience of the rubber and quinine industries will convince other foreign controls that their best policy in the long run is to be content with fair profits and prices so as to_ avoid reprisals and legal action by the United States to protect its citizens. The ef- forts abroad to stabilize the prices of sugar and coffee are not resented unless the American consumer is being “squeezed.” The same attitude prevafls toward the silk, sisal, potash, nitrates and other foreign markets. American Markets Free. The Constitution bars the United States from imposing restrictions in the way of export taxes on American prod- ucts sold to the world at large, such as cotton, tobaceo, etc. The United States is the largest producer of these and some other commodities and the world buys them here in an absolutely free market, so far as governmental action is concerned. The British government is abandoning the effort to control rubber, but the idea persists in various nations and may be revived anywhere. With rubber selling around 19 cents a pound it is under what was consid- ered a fair price in 1925 when the peak quotation of $1.21 was reached. At that time 36 cents a pound was declared reasonable. The Dutch did not join the British in trying to control the price and greatly increased their production to take advantage of the British. This, with American plans to develop new sources, was a cause for the break in the market. The United States this year probably will import about 400,000 tons of rubber, which would be a record for this coun- try. We use 70 per cent of the world supply. In August the United States set a new high record for monthly con- sumption of rubber with a total of 42,- 925 tons. .Manufacturers of tires are putting more new rubber into their products, and the reclaimed rubber market has shown a cortesfl?ndmg slump. The use of new rubber heels for shoes and in countless other ways 1s Increasing. Experts in the Depart- ment of Commerce predict a growing market for rubber in such ways as for floors. U. S. Rubber Bill Cut. ‘While using as much or more rubber this year than ever before the cost to American consumers is just about hall what it was in 1926, when we spent $603,000,000 for rubber, as compared with $306,000,000 in the last fiscal year. The difference represents the drog m grlces of crude. Much rubber, perhaps 5,000 tons, is being held in the Far East until November 1, when the Brit- ish restrictions will be removed. It requires from six weeks to two months for cargoes to reach this coun- try, and both the Ford and Firestons plantations will have a real advantage over the Far East in the item of time. Ford probably can get rubber to the United States in two weeks, against six weeks from the Far East. This saving of four weeks wili be important, as can be realized in considering a cargo of rubber worth, say $1,000,000. The in- terest on that sum for one month at 6 per cent would be $5,000. But other savings in shipments from Brazil or Africa will be effected be- cause of freight charges. Ships from the Far East must pay to get through the Suez or Panama Canals, in addition to usual shipping cos Since most rubber factories are near our Atlantic scaboard the rubber usually is landed at New York, Boston or other poris nearest to Ohio and other rubber manu- facturing centers. However it will be from four to seven years before the Ford project can be producing in any quan- tity. Firestone has a year or more start on Ford. Philippine Legislature is now considering new laws to facllitate American rubber enterprises there. —— The Fish’s Headstone. ‘The purpose of the white stone-like objects found in the interior of the fish's head has not been very definitely determined, but most of the small boys who catch fish think these stones are lucky pleces and seek them for the mere purpose of pocket pieces. It is generally agreed that these stones are in some way connected with the fish's auditory faculties, but according to an- other theory they belong to the fish's static sense,” a term referring to the complex process by means of which fishes ahe enabled to maintain equilib- rium in water. The stones are almost entirely mineral compositions, being sol- uble in weak acetic acid. They show annular or periodic rings of growth, somewhat analogous to the annular rings of trees, and are frequently used to determine the age of fishes. SCIENCE AND THE SOUL Famous Scientists in Glasgow Express Belief in Soul, and Have BY FRANCIS BOAK CARTER. HERE has long been a popular bellef that physiclans are all | atheists and that scientists in | general are but little better, | and that as a class they may be regarded as having no souls. So | when Prof. W. H. Bragg announced in his recent inaugural address to the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science at Glasgow not only that he had one, but that everybody else possessed that desirable equipment, the fundamentalist rejoiced at the news of another brand snatched from the burning fire and felt that finally science mdd religion were going to be recon- ciled. But such rejoicing is premature. For, as has almost inevitably occurred in the past, some other equally eminent scientist will probably announce in 2 few weeks that there is no such thing as a soul; that neither the microscope nor the telescope reveals any such or- gan. and that the brain secrctes emo- tions and ideas just as the stomach se- cretes gastric juice. Evidently there is 1some sort of warfare between religion and science. Why was it reported that the emi- | nent English anthropologist, Prof. Ar- thur Keith, denied a soul to man? As a matter of fact, he did no such thing. He stuck strictly to the scientific point of view that science is concerned with things which can be observed by the five senses, aided, if necessary, by in- struments and experimental apparatus. No Such Conflict. If the realization of this fact were only general there would be no loose talk about the conflict between science and religion, for there is no such thing. Science is investigating the infinite soul of things, trying to see the laws which lie behind what goes on in the world, trying to simplify the enormous accu- [ mulation of observations which have been made, and string these pearls of thought on a thread which for the mo- ment 1s called a law. But this law is not absolute. That it represents the whole truth no scientist believes. For the moment only it may be con- sidered as best representing all the truth that we know at present. The question of faith or of belief cannot enter into science. The only thing the scientific man can have faith in is his own integrity or that of brother scien- tists. He cannot range the whole uni- verse of fact himself; therefore he must accept the observations of others, and in this he expresses his only faith. But the moment some one brings along a better explanation for the facts and shows that the current law does not cover all the observations, the true scientist cheerfully changes his mind and accepts the new law as representing the facts to date. But there is a higher part of the brain which does not think and which is not a simple reflex, which carries all of the musical, artistic and poetic aspirations and emotions and all of those special qualities of the spirit which distinguish man from an earthworm. The architecture of the brain cells, in which all our impressions are stored, does not differ very much between the genius, the idiot or the lower animal; it is the number of these cells and the extraordinary complexity of their in- terconnections that characterize the hu- man brain; but that science has yet found a method for seeing the soul by merely examining the house in which it lives is foolish. Analyze Dead Material. We may analyze chemically, but we analyze only dead material. The proc- esses of nature may be stimulated in curious ways. The sea urchin can be produced from an unfertilized egg by changing the composition of the sea water in which jt grows, but it is not a very good sea urchin, at best. A frog may be produced by puncturing an un- fertilized egg with a sharp needle, but it is a poor sort of frog that results. In other words, it is sometimes simple to arouse unknown forces, to set in motion unknown processes and thus produce something which is merely an imitation of nature’s own product. The scientist may measure the activities of the brain and may study its reactions. He may conduct intelligence tests, but all he is doing is testing the efficiency of the automatic telephone system through which the soul sends its messages to the outer world. ‘The scientist forgets too often that his laws are merely momentary statements >f what we now know. The views of the great physicists on physics are final for the moment. His views on whether there is a soul and a higher power above us, or an after-life, have no more value than those of the simplest human creature. | While there is no reason why a pro- tessor even of physics should not be per- mitted to air his views on prohibition and finance, or even on child welfare, and express his feelings concerning life now and hereafter, the fact that he is a competent physicist gives him no pri- vate knowledge concerning matters of which physics know nothing, questions which are, after all, matters of faith: and faith is for the individual and his rela- tion with those infinite powers of the divine which cannot be weighed nor measured. How can the men of science, knowing that the movement of one atom sets up a disturbance which reaches in the sourse of years the far distance of space, ind being absorbed there may then start up a new process which will in course of time come here to earth again—how can such a man deny the probability of sim- {lar radiation of spiritual energy and the necessary implication of immortality? Era of Experiment Comes. ‘This continually shifting point of view is no new thing in science. Progress was made very slowly in the early ages of civilization because only a few people thought and none investigated. Later came minds that preferred to experi- ment rather than think, so instead of the old Greek idea of the flat world with a few stars stuck on the roof to entertain people, the astronomers of the Middl> Ages began to point out that certain stars moved and that a new ex- planation was necessary. So they de- vised a complicated system in which the stars rotated around the earth, but always in a perfect path, that of a circle. Suddenly Galileo, searching the Dominican Republic 18441924 NABOTH’S VINEYARD By Sumner Welles Formerly Chief of the Latin-American Division of the Department of State The definitive history of Santo Domingo which will raise a storm of con- troversy about our Latin- American policies. Twe Volumes Boxed, $7.50 PAYSON & CLARKE, LTD. Their Activities. Leavens with a telescope but little better than a modern opera glass, found that other worlds had moons rotating round them, and began making opservations which led Kepler and Newton to dis- over the fundamental laws which con- trol the movement of the heavenly bodies. It was hard for the people of those days ts believe that the earth was not the center of the universe and that the movement of the planets was not in per- fect circles but in irregular ellipses, but this did not perturb Newton or Kepler. They kept their reverences, though the earth’s position became unimportant in the galaxy of larger celestial bodies Newton had no doubts that he had a soul. And when Pasteur, studying the aniverse of the infinitely little, found the germs v hich cause plagues in silkworms and animals and human beings, he re- garded these facts only as proof of the all-powerful wisdom which is above us, and girded up his soul to struggle against personal illness and the incom- petence and animosity of the small minds around him; to struggle on until finally he had mastered the disease hy- drophobia. Faith Not Shaken. Nér has the study of the fragments of the atom shaken the faith of Milli- ken. He has not hesitated to weigh that which no balance, however deli- cate, cculd estimate, to determine the electrical charge of an electron, a frag- ment of matter so small that perhaps it will always be invisible. And now, weary perhaps for the moment of the infini- tesimal, he has turned to the vast ranges of interstellar space to explain matters which his laboratory could not answer. The fact that in interstellar space there is going on a continual construction of what we call elements from simpler fragmer.ts and that during this process invisible cosmic rays are given out which finally reach the earth, though from an almost infinite distance, so that the matter which gives off the rays was really created thousands of years before man began to think—this fact has not weakened Milliken's faith, it has only increased it. Think of the extraordinary discoveries of modern astronomical science which enable us to analyze the composition of the distant stars as accurately as a piece of steel can be assayed in the laboratory. Pupin and Sir Oliver Lodge, great scientists as they are in the elec- trical field, have not failed to find God. 1 remember that shortly after Mme. Curie isolated radium, a well known physicist came to me and said: “This newly discovered substance gives off heat—that means all the laws of physics are wrong and my life work has been thrown away.” He never did any- thing worth while after that, so great was his disappointment. Mme. Curie’s Activities. But Mme. Curie went to work to investigate the question entirely without emotions. She had not lost faith in her science and faith in her soul. First she found out how much heat radium gave off, and then that it gave it off constantly at the same rate and that nothing that she could do would make the heat come off any faster or any slower. She knew then that there must be some novel change going on in this radium. ‘Then Rutherford and others took up the task, showed that rays were given off from radium, and finally showed that an actual gas was procured, and that this gas was one which had been first discovered in the sun and recently found in our own atmosphere. They counted these gas particles which came from the radium by one of the most ingenious pieces of apparatus ever in- vented, and then an Englishman, work- ing quietly in a laboratory in Cam- bridge, showed that these particles could be made visible as they bumped around the molecules of the air in a glass tube. Thus for the first time it was proved that an atom could break up into frag- ments which could be made visible. So the work went on until it S ) By THE EARL “All the world will read and discuss _the Asquith autobiog- raphy. It is the most unreserved story of inside happenings that has appeared.”—Boston Herald. “Really important sidelights on history . . . Revelations of the personal and intellectual side of Asquith "—New York World. “The war passages are startling- ly candid ... The volumes are of vast importance historically. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. 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Science has nothing to do, as I have said, but study the laws of the universe with the senses, aided by the imagina- tion in forming theories for purely working purposes. If in investigating the brain of an animal it is found that the removal of a certain portion pre- vents that animal from moving his foreleg, or if a human being ceases to have intelligence and sinks to the level of a beast because there has been a hemorrhage in a certain portion of the brain, does this prove that the brain is the only thing and that there is no soul? Not at all. It shows only that the brain is the means by which the soul communicates with the outer world. The brain is a filing and telephone sys~ tem which runs automatically when well supplied with blood. Fortunately, most of the things which we do are reflex. Part of the brain is a labor- saving device by which we can live, digest our food, sleep and walk about. Shakespea;_’s Plays Put Into Japanese Translation into Japaness of the complete works of Shakespeare, nume= bering 34 different volumes, is the fruit of 43 years’ labor by Dr. Yuzo Tsubou= chi, better known by his pen name Shoyo Tsuboushi, honorary professor of ‘Waseda University in Tokio and Japan’s prominent dramatist and authority on literature of the Exst and West. In celebration of this event in Japa- nese literary circles the pupils of Dr. Tsubouchi have plannad the erection of a dramatic library in the compound of Waseda University. Work already has been started on the library, first of its kind in Japan, which is to be built on an elaborate scale, including a stage where plays may be performed. ‘The translation by Dr. Tsubouchi is recognized as leaving nothing to be de- sired. Neither has he omitted any word nor added any which is not found in the original. Yet the dramas he trans- lated leave no trace of translation, but are just like so many straight Japanese dramas. 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