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LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1931
PRICE 5 CENTS.
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ANNOUNCE PL
NS
FOR OBSERVANCE
CHARIER
DAY
Anniversary of University
jo Be Commemorated
Next Thursday.
HONOR FIRST GRADUATE
Administration and Alumni
Association Arrange
Celebration.
AVitli thr university adminis
tration nnil alumni association
rapidly formulating !)lH,,Si- ,u''
ranjrPMK'iits for the annual
Charter Dny prriiti'Hm which is
to he hold on ihe campus next
Thursday are practically complete.
The main features of the celebra
tion and recognition of the uni
versity's birthday, Feb. 15, are to
bp an' address on "Literature and
Life" Riven by Phyllis Bentley,
famous English novelist, in the
Coliseum at 10 o'clock Thursday
mnrning. and a testimonial ban
quet honoring James Stuart Dales,
first gradunte of the university,
end recently resigned corporation
secretary of the hoard of regents.
The banquet is scheduled to be
held at 7 o'clock in the evening at
the University club.
Besides these two featured
events of the day there will be two
other happenings of major impor
tance in the hirthday occasion. On
Wednesday. Feb. 14, the heads of
all college's in the state will gather
for the conference of Nebraska
universities and colleges. Dr. Fred
erick .!. Kellv, Nebraska '02, now
chief of the' division of colleges
and professional schools in the
United States office of education,
niii trivp an nddress in the ' rill
hall auditorium at 2:15 p. m. 1'his
lecture is to be open to the public.
The annual Charter week pro
gram will be terminated Sunday,
Feb. 18. when the university glee
club, of about thirty-five members,
and under the direction of Parvin
Witte. will present a concert in the
coliseum. The concert will be pre
sented at 3 o'clock, and Is open to
the public
Theta Sigma Phi Hears Betty
Segal Review Freedom
Of Press Article.
A review of an article. "The
200th Anniversary of Freedom of
the Press" which appeared in the
Matrix was given by Betty Segal
at the meeting of Tbeta Sigma
Phi. nonorary and professional
journalism society, Wednesday aft
ernoon at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
hall.
The article told of a celebration
recently held at St. Paul's church
in East Chester, New York. It was
on the green of this historic old
church that an election was held in
1733 which led to the trial of John
Peter Zenger and the ultimate
struggle for freedom of the press
which grew out of this trial.
Plans for a literary meeting in
the near future were also dis
cussed. Chemical Engineers lo
Hear Prof. Frankfurter
A group of chemical engineer!)
will meet Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock to hear" an address by
Professor Frankforter, assistant
professor of chemistry, who will
speak on the fuels In modern auto
engines. He will also speak briefly
on the refining and testing of lu
bricants. The meeting will be held
in the auditorium, first floor of
Chemistry hall.
i JOURNALISM SOCIETY
MtfTQ nw wrnMPWiv
IIILLIU UIMILUMLUUni
'Only Bank Credit Expansion Will Raise
Price Level; Gold Standard Has Little
Effect On It; States Karl M. Arndt
"Wheu the banks create more money by makinjr loans,
then the buying power of the public will increase and prices
w ill go up.-' This is the theory of Professor Arndt expressed in
his lecture to the group of students in the Central Y. M. C. A.
building Tuesday night.
' ne lecture of Professor Amau
was the first of a series of talks
which are being sponsored by the
Y.W . C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. on
topirs of the day.
"When more money is put into
the hands of the people through
expansion of credit the buying
power will be raised and the prices
will go up. Unless more credit is
fiiven there are but two more fac
tors that will cause the prices to
go up. according to some people."
He emphasized "some people" be
cause of an edict which hus been
Riven out curbing forecasts by pro-
"-ssors. Because the people minx
ttat prices will go up for some
vague reason connected with the
-aiuaiion ot me aonar mere iw
V a speculative enthusiasm which ,
." lot prices upwuru. .
Because of the cheap dollar
of'- On the other hand 'because the J
The CreeU Had an
Infinite Sum Iter of
Same for Science
Outnumbering many times the
80,(l(iO,rjO,0()0,000,()00,000,000,000, -000
possible combinations of the 52
cards of the bridge deck when dis
tributed among lour players are
tho possibilities of word formations
for scientific use from the common
Greek roots, Professor O. W. Reln
muth, acting chairman of the
Classics department, told the mem
bers of Psl Chi at their meeting
yesterday afternoon In discussing
Creek Contributions to the Termi
nology of Psychology.
About one-third of the psycho
logical nomenclature Is of Greek
origin, and upwards of a million
words formed from Greek roots
are In use in other sciences.
Scholarships at Tufts and
Northwestern Are
Announced.
N'ational scholarships open
to University ni! Nebraska stu
dents in tlic College of Busi
ness Administration mill the
School of .Journalism were an
nouced recently by the business
administration college. These
awards are to Tufts college In Bos
ton and to Northwestern university
in Chicago.
The award by Tufts college is
the Braker Graduate Teaching Fel
lowshin in Economics effective for
the year 1934 and 1935. The amount
of the fellowship is one thousand
dollars and free tuition in the grad
uate collcee. Reauiremcnts for ap-
j plication specify that the candidate
j must have either a Bachelor of
I Sciences or a Bachelor of Arts de
I gree from any recognized college.
The fellowship will consist 01 nan
teaching and half graduate study.
Journalism Awards.
The Medill School of Journalism
at Northwestern university offers
a $250 tuition scholarship in the
school for 1934 and 1935 to ap
plicants with two years of work
in an accredited school of Journal
ism. Applications must be sent to
the director of the school.
The departments of economics
and the School of Commerce at
Northwestern are providing be-
I tween them twenty-five scholastic
M t - 1... in
awarus to nppuutim. uiicimicu mi
this work. The School of Com
merce has four teaching fellow
ships, six graduate assistantships,
and eight tuition scholarships, open
to applicants. The teaching fel
lowships are for from $500 to $800
plus tuition. The assistantships
give Sl.V) to $400 and tuition, and
i the scholarships are for tuition
; only.
! Economics Grants
The department of economics
will give three assistantships of
$800 and foul of $400, neither of
them including tuition. The appli
cation for any of these twenty-five
places must be sent to the Com
mittee of Graduate Studies. The
departments included in the School
of Commerce are those of account
ing, business organization, market
ing, finance, public utilities, and
land economics.
whiteWHET talk
Eminent Research Engineer
To Come Here on
March 19.
Dr. J. B. Whitehead of John
Hopkins university and national
president of the A. I. E. E., will
speak before the Nebraska section
of this group March 19. It has
not been decided whether the
meeting will be in Lincoln or
Omaha.
Dr. Whitehead is an eminent re
search electrical engineer whose
Interests have to do with high po
tentials, insulation, spark gaps,
and corona.
dollar is cheap on the foreign ex
change markets the amount of ex
ports will probably increase. For
these reasons the prices on ex
ports and imports will probably
rise.
"The gold bullion standard has
little or no eifeit on the average
citizen or on the effect on the price
level of the ordinary commodities.
"When gold was actually han
dled by the people as money a king
could call in all the gold and melt
it up and reco'n it and put smaller
amounts in to the dollars and thus
devaluate the currency. The insig
nificance of gold now is appar
ent. " he said. "Of the 46 billions
j.n.r. in .. navinir bills
of dollars in use as paying talta
. ",,,
lUe
Bis is pin money.
Continued on Page Z.j
AWARDS OPEN 10
JOURNALISM
AND
A
STUDENTS
AS
E
Charles Steadman and Jack
Pace Support Negative
For Nebraska.
MANY STUDENTS ATTEND
White Plans Continue Open
Contests; Meet Two
Opponents Today.
Arguing the question of th"
rnliififpinent of the powers of
the president, Clnirles Stcinl
niun mid Jfick Pace, varsity de
baters, met William England
and (ieorge Steimiietz, speak
ers from Iowa State college in an
open debate in Social Sciences au
ditorium, Wednesday afternoon.
There was no decision.
Nebraska on the negative side of
the question attempted to limit the
discussion of the topic to the condi
tions of presidential power under
Franklin Roosevelt. However, the
affirmative interpreted ' the pro
position to proceed on the powers
of the president as they had been
completely outlined previous to the
present administration. They ar
gued that the question, Resolved:
That the power of the president of
the United States should be en
larged as a permanent policy,
called for any enlargement they
might suggest, and was not limited
to the present situation.
They proceeded on this basis to
offer the plan that the president
should have the sole power to in
troduce public bills into congress,
that the cabinet members should
have the right to speak on the
floor of congress, that the intro
duction of a bill could be demanded
from the president by congress by
(Continued on Pago 4.)
10
NSTALL PEP SOCIETY
Ann Bunting Will Hold Open
House for All Tassels
February 25.
A committee to make arrange
ments for the installation for Phi
Sigma Chi, women's national pep
organization, was appointed at a
meeting of the Tassels local
branch of the group, at 7 o'clock
Tuesday in Ellen Smith hall.
The committee is made up of
Mary Edith Hendricks. Mary Rei
mers, and Elaine Woodruff. Aitho
a discussion was held at the meet
ing, no definite plans were made
for the installation which will be
held sometime in the near future.
Barbara Bible, who was made
an honorary member of Tassels,
will be the guest of the organiza
tion when Nebraska plays Missouri
Friday evening.
It was announced at the meeting
that Ann Bunting, president of the
society, will hold open house for
all members on Feb. 23.
PROF.WIl
HEADS CAMERA CLUB
Re-Elect Faculty Member
President of Lincoln
Organization.
Dwight Kirsch, chairman of the
department of fine arts and asso
ciate professor of drawing and
painting, was re-elected president
of the Lincoln Camera club at a
meeting held in Morrill hall on
Tuesday evening.
Other officers elected are: Ar
thur Carlson, vice-president; Mrs.
Aby Richards, secretary-treasurer;
and Claude Pilger, publicity chair
man. The question of affiliating with
the National Association of Cam
era Clubs of America was dis
cussed at the meeting, and was
laid over for a vote at the next
meeting, Feb. 27.
Announcement was made that
the Omaha Camera club had in
vited the Lincoln group to send an
exhibition of prints to Omaha for
display next summer.
FRANCIS ISJUCH BETTER
Freshman Athlete Is Out of
Danger Say Hospital
Attendants.
The news that Sam Francis,
fre.shnian football star ill with
pneumonia, is much better today
with his fever gone and general
condition much improved, came
welcomingly from Lincoln General
hospital today where Francis lies
abed.
The frosh tootbail star was tak
en ill Sunday and rushed to a hos
pital Monday afternoon from the
infirmary. With a temperature of
104 to 105 he was very sick for
some time, but today he responded
to treatment, and. it is believed, is
out of danger. Doctor Deppen. of
the University Student Health
Service, is in charge of the case.
Visitors are not aliowed yet.
DECISION
DEBATERS
ARGU
m
IOWA TEAM
FORDYCE TO Y.M, SESSION
Nebraska Professor Serves
As Organization Head
Fifth Time.
Dr. Charles Fordyce, of the De
partment of Educational Psychol
ogy and Measurements, went to
Omaha on Wednesday to attend
the annual session of the Nebraska
Voung Men's Christian Association.
Mr. Fordyce is serving his fifth
year as president of this Associ
ation. Secretary William Luke, of
the city Y, M. C. A., Secretary
C. D. Hayes, of the University
Y. M. C. A., and about a dozen
other men will also be In attend
ance. COLL -AGRI -FUN
TO BE TONIGHT
Annual Agriculture College
Home Talent Fun Show
Set for Feb. 16.
WM. WALDO IS CHAIRMAN
Production Will Be Short,
Fast, and Lively, Say
Skit Managers.
Rehearsal Thursday night at
the student activities building
for all skits entered in L'oll-Agri-Fun,
Ag College's annual
home talent fun show, has been
called by I Sill Waldo, Coll-Agri-Fun
committee chairman.
Tickets for the 1934 Coll-Agri-Fun
production, Waldo also an
nounced, will be on sale Friday
morning, Feb. 9. Friday night,
Feb. 16, has been set as the time
for the show.
Initiating a new policy of fewer
and better acts this year, Waldo
and his committee have indicated
that their show will not exceed ten
acts. In past years, they said,
some criticism lias been that the
show was too long. The show
this year, they said, will be short,
fast and lively.
Practically every group of stu
dents on Ag campus ..is preparing
skits for the show Feb. 16. accord
ing to the committee. Tryouts last
week indicated that the acts would
have plenty of spirit and original
ity. "The show last year," aldo ,
said Wednesday, "was considered j
the best in Coil-Agri-Fun history.
We're out to give the public a bet-'
(Continued on Page 4.) ;
ICKS LI
ON RELIGIOUS TOPIC
i
Welfare Council Will Hear
Faculty Member This
Afternoon at 4. 1
Dr. B. C. Hendricks, chairman
i if faculty committee on the Coun
cil of Kelifious welfare, will speak
to that body this afternoon at 4
o'clock in the Temple building. His
subject is ::What Constitutes a
Workable Religious Message and
Program."
The Council of Religious Wel
fare at Nebraska is composed of
three groups, the faculty as A, the
pastors as B, and the students as
C. One rabbi, one priest, and vari
ous Protestant ministers form
group B. Dr. Hendricks states that
work done by educational institu
tions for religious welfare of their
students varies from efforts of lo
cal pastors to schools of religion
that are parts of the universities.
At Nebraska an intermediate posi
tion is maintained.
Will PRESENT RECITAL
Students to Give Musical
Program Today in
Temple.
The ninth weekly student re
cital will be given this afternoon
at 4 o'clock in the Temple theater.
Those taking part in the pro
gram are: Lillian Koudele, student
with Mrs. Smith; James Fitch and
Laura Kimball, students with Miss
Wagner; Grace Kellogg and Helen
Ullery, students with Mr. Witte,
and Rose Steinberg and Vance
Leininger, students with Mr.
Schmidt
Sunday Solionl CI
Plans for Breakfat
The university class of St. Paul's
Methodist Sunday school, under
the leadership of Dr. F. D. Keim,
will hold a breakfast Sunday, Feb.
11, at 8 a. m. at the church. All
students are invited to attend. Fif
teen cents will be charged. Res
ervations may be secured by phon
ing the church office.
David G. Brubaker W ill
Address Pi Mu Epsilon
- David G. Brubaker, assistant in
the physics department, will ad
dress the meeting of Pi Mu Epsi
lon. honorary mathematical or
ganization tonight on the subject
of "Dete-minants." The meeting
will be held at 7:30 in room 307
of the Mechanic Aits building.
REHEARSAL
FOR
BRETA PETERSON
WILL BE COSTUME
PARTY MISTRESS
Annual Girls' Cornhusker
Event Takes Place This
Evening.
GRAND MARCH FEATURES
Judges Will Award Prizes
For Most Outstanding
Ideas in Dress.
ISrela Peterson will lie mis
tress of ceremonies at the an
nual f il ls' Cornhusker costume
party to be held from 7 to 8 :'M
this eveiiinji at the armory.
The outstanding feature of
the evening will be the grand
march during which the three
judges, Miss Amanda Heppner,
dean of woman, Miss Mabel Lee,
head of the department of women's
physical education, and Miss Paul
ine Gellatly, of the dramatics de
partment, will award prizes for the
prettiest, cleverest, and funniest
costumes.
Other entertainment of the eve
ning includes a vocal trio com
posed of Edytha Long, Harriet
Daly, and Jeannette Arensburg, a
skit by the A. W. S. barb league,
and a dance by Maxine Thuresson.
At this time also, Alice Geddes,
president of W. A. A., will pre
sent prizes to high saleswomen at
the football games this fall.
Calista Cooper is chairman of
the committee in charge of ar
rangements, and Willa Norris is
general chairman of the affair.
Others are, Lucille Reilly, music,
and Alaire Barkes. Madeline Ray
mond, Mary Edith Hendricks.
Roma DeBrown. and Marian
Smith, general arrangements.
BARBToOilTPLANS
FOR VARSITY PARTY;
Fifth Affair Will Be Held
February 17; Beck
To Play.
At the meeting of the Barb
Council Wednesday afternoon
plans for the fifth All-University
party of the year were discussed,
the affair being scheduled for Sat
urday, Feb. 17 in the Coliseum. It
was announced that Leo Beck and
his orchestra will play for the
dance.
Discussion at the meeting also
concerned the joint Barb A. W. S.
League-lnterclub Council party
which is tentatively scheduled for
Friday, March 23.
The February 17 All-University
function will be the last of the all
student dances to be held in the
field house this year, the final two
dances being scheduled for the
Student Activities building on the
Ag college campus. The last two
affairs will be on March 10 and
March 31. The March 10 party is
indefinitely scheduled at present,
and may be postponed to make
way for a regional basketball tour
nament. One Hour Credit Is Allowed
For Two Rehearsals
Each Week.
Howard Kirkpatrick, of the
university school of music, issues
a call for men singers for the
Choral union, which is one of the
oldest institutions on this campus
and has existed for thirty-eight
years. It offers one hour credit
for two mixed chorus rehearsals a
week. The meetings are held in
Morrill hall 220. Monday and Wed
nesday at 11. or Tuesday and
Thursday at 3. Students may reg
ister to the end of this week with
out paying a late registration fee.
Mr. Kirkpatrick said, "We need
more men singers. We have
enough women, but most of the
men are in other colleges." He ex
pressed some indignation at other
colleges which allow their students
only six or eight hours electives.
He stated, "I think that it would
be an excellent thing il the col
leges which now limit their elec
tives so strictly could see their
way clear to allow at least two
semesters to music. For those men
who can neither sing nor play an
instrument, courses in music ap
preciation and the history of mu
sic are offered."
Mr. Kirkpatrick felt sure that if
the men in other colleges knew
about some of the music courses,
they would support them and we
would have a strong choral group.
Children Will Sing
Al Sundav Service
A children's choir, directed by
Mrs. Lillian H. Polley. instructor
in the university school of music,
will sing at the Sunday services of
the Unitarian church at 11 o'clock.
Composed of young Lincoln chil
dren, the choir has won much at
tention for its rendition of sacred
and semiclassical music
Home Ec Graduate
List Two Divorce
For 380 Marriage
Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman
of the Home Economics depart
ment at this university, has reason
to believe that her courses tend to
make business slow for the divorce
courts. Only two divorces have
been recorded among the 380 mar
riages among graduates of the de
partment. "We don't mention divorce In
our classes," she said. "I'm not
set against divorce, and at times
I believe It Is the only solution
to some domestic problems. But
we emphasize home-making and
think about It definitely as a
career."
Ideas among coeds as to matri
mony and home-making are
changing, she said. Ten years ago
few girls in college went about the
business systematically of prepar
ing for marriage. Now many of
them are taking courses and train
ing with the definite Idea of mar
riage In mind, even though the fu
ture husband may not yet be In
sight, she said.
COLLEGES OFFER
OF SCHOLARSHIP
Fellowships Available to
Graduate Students at
Home and Abroad.
A variety of fellowships, of
fered by both American uni
versities and institutions
abroad, and ranging from .10(1
to 1),.')00 are available to grad
uate students this year.
All of the fellowships require
the candidate to be a holder of a
degree in an institution of recog
nized standing or a senior who will
receive a degree prior to entering
upon the fellowship.
In addition to these require
ments, foreign universities require
the candidate to be a citizen of the
United States, and to have a prac
tical reading, writing and speaking
knowledge of the language of the
country in which he will study.
Student Exchanges.
The student .exchanges, of. the
Institute of International Educa
tion are offering several fellow
ships which cover board, lodging
and tuition but the candidate must
pay his traveling and incidental
expenses. Recipients of these fel
lowships may go to Austria.
Czechoslovakia, France. Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Spain or Switzer
land. Other scholarships for study
abroad are offered by the American-Scandinavian
foundation. They
include one year's study in the
Scandinavian countries with $1,000
stipend.
Four scholarships of 500 pounds
each are offered to either Oxford
or Cambridge universities.
Yale offers fellowships of be
tween $1,000 to $2,500 per year
while the New York graduate
school offers several of $500 and
$1,000.
Northwestern university offers
many in various fields of work
and Stanford makes available a
(Continued on Page 4.1
GIVES MUSICAL PROGRAM
Miss Ruth Dreamer Presents
Fifteenth Convocation
Of Year.
Miss Ruth Dreamer, pianist, as
sisted by the university school of
mur.ic orchestra under the direc
tion of Carl Frederic Steckelberg,
presented the fifteenth musical
convocation Wednesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock at the Temple theater.
The program consisted of "The
Merry Wives of Windsor" over
ture, by Nicolai, and Concerto, K
minor. Allegro Maestoso, Romanze
and Rondo, by Chopin.
VARIOUS AWARDS
Miss Phyllis Bentley, Noted English
Author Here Charter Day, Famous for
'Inheritance' and 'A Modern Tragedy
No meager fame is that of Miss
Phyllis Bentley. famous English
novelist, who will deliver the Char
ter day address entitled "Litera
ture and Life" in the Coliseum next
Thursday morning. Miss Bentley,
who is best known as the writer of
"Inheritance" and "A Modern
Tragedy," was recently honored by
the New York Times in that pub
lication's weekly book review sec
tion Sunday, Feb. 4. The full page
article concerning Miss Bentley
was given the rare front page rat
ing in the section which deals with
the works of the most widely rec
ognized writers of the day. The ar
ticle dealing with her latest pro
duction "A Modern Tragedy" was
written by Percy Hutchinson, book
reviewer, and is entitled "A Novel
That Clarifies Our Age."
Hutchinson declares at the start
that the novel with which he deals
is a "searching drama of the post
war period " It deals with the de
pression in England, and how it
affected the dramatis personae, as
Miss Bentley calls the characters
in the story. The people dealt with
in the novel are engaged in the
English textile industry, and are
caught in Ihe whirl of' the indus
trial depression. In writing on that
subject, Miss Bentley discussed one
COUNCIL
OPENS
FILINGS TODAY
FORPRi GIRL
Candidates Must Enter Race
By Feb. 16; Require
Senior Standing.
REPORT ON CORNHUSKER
New Price of $3.50 Would
Reduce Cost of Pages
And Pictures.
Filings for the position of
Prom Girl will open this morn
incr and continue until 5 o'clock
Friday, Feb. 10, the student
council decided at a special
meeting held Wednesday after
noon. Filings are to be made in
the Student Activities office in the
Coliseum.
To be eligible for the position of
Prom girl, women must have sen
ior standing which requires a min
imum of eighty-nine credit hours.
The usual eligibility rules that
twenty-seven hours must have
been earned the two previous se
mesters, and twelve during the se
mester immediately preceding the
activity, will apply to candidates.
May Hold Elimination.
Decision to hold an elimination
election on Tuesday, Feb. 20, if the
number of candidates filing for the
office exceeds five, was reached by
the council. Successful candidates
in this election, or all candidates
filing if the number is less than
five, will probably have their
names printed on the prom tickets,
the council indicated.
Progress of the activity tax
committee's efforts to prepare the
tax proposal for submission to the
regents was reported by Byron
Goulding, who also announced new
figures for the Cornhusker should
it be included in the report. The
new arrangements concerning the
yearbook would make it a com
pulsory item in the tax for juniors
and seniors, and optional for fresh
men and sophomores. The price for
the yearbook would be $3.50, a re
duction of $1.00 from the present
price. A reduction would also be
effected in the price of pictures
and pages in the Cornhusker. Jun
4or and .senior pictures wojild be
priced at $1.00 instead of $2.50,
and fraternity or sorority pictures
would also be $1.00 instead of the
present $1.25. In addition, single
pages for organizations would be
reduced from $20 to $10, and fra
ternity and sorority two page
spreads would be offered at $25
instead of $50. The council gave
the tax committee permission to
include the new Cornhusker ar
rangement in its final report on
the plan.
Resubmit Union Plan.
A proposal that the 10 cent
charge for a student union build
ing fund be included in the report
(Continued on Page 4.)
E
Inspect Equipment of Power
And Telephone Companies
' On Recent Trip.
I Twenty five Electrical Engineer-
ing seniors and juniors spent an
afternoon in Omaha recently on an
inspection trip of the plants of the
Nebraska Power Co. and that of
the Northwestern Bell Telephone
Co. During the evening the Ne
braska section of the A. I. E. E.
held a dinner meeting.
After the dinner, class president
R. B. Bonney of Denver, gave a
talk on the organization which is
now 50 years old. He finished by
giving a resume of the midyear
convention of the A. I. E. E. which
has just closed in New York City.
with which she has been well ac
quainted throughout her life, her
father being Joseph E. Bentley,
cloth manufacturer of Yorkshire.
"Miss Bentley knows Yorkshire,"
states Hutchinson, "she knows the
West Riding of Yorkshire, she
knows the people and industry she
portrays, and, most important of
all, she understands all the com
plex Interrelations between the
people and the industry .... her
book is objectively and humanly
effective."
' 'A Modern Tragedy' peers be
low the surface . . . Today, every
Ixxty is talking economics in one
guise or another. It is well, then,
to have so clear, so impartial, aa
understanding a picture, free from
anything which might be called
doctrinaire, as this descendant of
industrialists has put before us.
A Modern Tragedy' has profound
significance for all who are strug
gling to understand this our so
muddled present."
Miss Bentley's work. "Inheri
tance," was written as an epic,
tracing- life in one English family
from several centuries ago to the
i time of the war. discussing and re
i vealing tradition as the core and
i iCuntinued on Pse