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There are various ways of looking at the past: through rose-colored spectacles, through the wrong end of a telescope, or- by an imaginative effort of which few are capable-face to face. Josephine Herbst's method is neither bespectacled nor telescopic, nor is it a personal, Proustian total-recall. Pity Is Not Enough is a medley of autobiographies, a family album of actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst...
...Houses. All examinations being at 9.15 o'clock unless otherwise specified. Daily exercise in all course and on Wednesday, May 31. Students are warned that they must take the examination with the section with which they are officially enrolled. A student who takes the examination with the wrong section will lose credit for the course...
...skimmed the subject of inflation: "The Administration has the definite objective of raising commodity prices to such an extent that those who have borrowed money will, on the average, be able to repay that money in the same kind of dollar which they borrowed. . . . We seek to correct a wrong and not create another wrong in the opposite direction. . . . These powers will be used when, as and if it may be necessary to accomplish the purpose." President Roosevelt reported conditions "a little better than they were two months ago," with industry picking up. freight traffic increasing, farm prices improving...
...From an I. W. W. song written about 1905 and sung to the music of an old Salvation Army hymn: Long-eared preachers come out every night, And try to tell you what's wrong and what's right. When asked about something to cat, They will answer with voices so sweet: (Chorus) You will cat bye and bye In that glorious land above, the sky. ('Way up high.) Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when...
...EARTH TURNS-Gladys Hasty Carroll-Macmillan ($2.50). Farmers have it hard, but some of them, luckily for the rest of society, like the life. U. S. newspaper readers know that George Bernard Shaw was not far wrong when he told a Manhattan audience last month that U. S. farmers are in "armed revolt." But readers of As the Earth Turns will be reminded that farmers' lives are long, farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...