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Pending General Smith's return (in February) from foreign service, West Point is to be temporarily superintended by a cavalry man??? Brigadier General Edwin B. Winans, whose latest command was the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss...
...NEXT AGE OF MAN???Albert Edward Wiggam ? Bobbs-Merrill ($3). "Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign...
True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man???but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
...NATURE OF MAN???George A. Dorsey?Harper ($1). In a short preface to this small book, Author Dorsey, of Why We Behave Like Human Beings, says: "This book . . . aims especially to introduce you to the important known facts of human nature and to such biologic hypotheses as can be made to work." Concerned only with the facts of the case, Author Dorsey politely performs introductions to Visceral, Genetic, Somatic, Social, Cultural Behaviour in successive chapters. The book does not argue, it states. Its aim, the aim of the "Things-to-Know Series" to which it belongs,! is to inform...
...That man is the German motion picture director. Schultz** whom you describe in TIME, May 31, p. 14. The man who would spring a trap under two horses, send them crunching off a cliff to their death, and finally have motion pictures taken of their agony, is not a man???he is in truth a fiend. I have never written a letter to a magazine before, but I could not sleep last night, thinking of Schultz. I have had to write, and "get it out of my system...