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...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...
Thus, the spirit of contemporary U. S., according to Author Merz. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the changing frontier provided a healthy outlet for this up-and-going urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy...
True enough, most of this has been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of thought has evidence that Mr. Bab bitt laughs as heartily at his own humbug-Aeries and homilies as does the sophisticate...
...Miss Catherine Gettemy; T. B. Coolidge, Miss Edith Chesebrough; O. Cope, Miss Louisa James; R. W. Cordingley, Miss Guinevere Knot; R. A. Cutter, Miss Ruth Grew; B. F. Jones, Miss Persis McClennen; C. J. Shearn, Miss Marjorie Guthrie; W. M. Tucker, Miss Georgianna Watters; J. K. Watson, Miss Viola Merz; F. J. Wells, Miss Mary James...
...John Merz, of New York, will address the International Polity Club this evening upon the subject: "America's Role in the Great Settlement...