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THE CHINA
Myths That Survive The Working Man
Books Of The Day In Review Spotlight
BY REBECCA WEST
tive and paychologically penetrat-It would have been brutal to ad- ing pieces of economic writing pro dress these words to an Industrial duced by the crisis.
"More Hard Work
NEW BOOKS IN SIGHT.
Fiction
"Lark Ascending." Mazo. de la Roche. (Little, Brown & Co.) population so hag-ridden by un- "Autumnal Face." Malcolm Mug employment as ours; it would also geridge. (G. P. Putnam's
Sons.) "The Burning Bush." Sigrid
Undset. (Alfred A. Knopf.) "They Winter Abroad." James
Aston. (Viking Press.) "The Middle Child," Eleanor:
C. Kinsey Co.)
Yezierska. (Brewer, Warren & Putnam.)
But the reader is distressed by have been fatuous to have done so the fact that Dr. MacCurdy does when the type of dustrialism that not reconcile his argument with triumphed over all others till the the curious fact that the hire sys crash came was the American; Mind and Money. By John T. Mac. "He la," as Dr. McCurdy say, nearly as much from the crisis as of high wages and short hours.
tem does not seem to have suffered which was built up on the theory Curdy. (Feber and Faber.) "a label for whatever, it is in one would have expected. The The dificulty about psychology human nature that gives validity chairman of the English company is, of course, that it is an attempt to economic laws; but the wide which is most committed to import-palling thing about the present
Surely the interesting and ap "All could Neve Key & Co to investigate the nature of an or-margin of error we have to allowing the system into this country, crisis is that it shows that no de ganism governed by peculiar laws for in predicting the operation of can still make impressive speeches gree of hard work would have sav
the human mind-which is con- these economic. laws shows how at his annual meetings, and the in-ed us; that the workmen who burn-Peace Veteran Roger Bur- ducted by investigators who, being subject this element in human surance companies which depended the first machines, that the themselves specimens of that same nature is to the interference organism, are subject to those same other considerations. High among seem to have received any stagger ca canny regulations, were in a "Julius Caesar,"
on the hire system business do not trade unionists who insisted on
...- Co.). laws. The investigation of any these considerations comes the in- ing blow. The great fault of this sense right all along, since they given problem on those lines might veterate tendency of man's thought book la ita failure to account for perceived that sooner or later be compared to an inquiry into can process to seek not the truth about specific facta; but its imaginative condition of over-production would nibalism conducted by a committee the universe, but for some adjust thrust-its refusal to take super-set in and there would follow an of persons who have been brought meat of the truth about the un-ficial causes for final causes, even era of unemployment. There has up as cannibals, and who know no verse that will help man to feel a if these pe far more flattering to never been' a time whez It was others who are not cannibals. fellow fall of power.
of
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The
Non-Fiction.
lingame. (Minton, Balch
John Buchan, (D. Appleton & Co.).. R
"Greek Byways 1. R. Glover. "Beauty of Flight.". Manfred Curry, John Day Company.) (Macmillan Company.)
"It Really Happened." Catherine, Princess Radziwill. (Dia! Press)
"Oplum: The Diary of an Addict."
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Jean Cocteau.. (Longmans, Green! & Co.)
'One can easily imagine the deli•|
the human mind-makes one feel pardonabio for an economist to, berations of such
Mass Ignorance a. committee.
that man's hope to lift himself by write of the working-man"as Dr. Economics are, indeed, the most his shoe-straps is not so vain. Such members of it as had a part promissing field for that tendency,
MacCurdy has done. cular taste for little boys calves since money is not only the thing sentences which recall how im- he is moved here not by reason, but And yet one comes suddenly on But the interesting point is that and found difficulty in gratifying by which we actually, in fact, buy that taste, as traditional practice the satisfactions of our appetites, must be
are the difficulties that by an unanalysed emotion which gave the first call on these deli but the most universal symbol of rooted are the vices that have to his origins.
overcome, how deeply can be recognised by a scrutiny of cacles to hereditary landowners, power. Hence there is an im- be eradicated, before that hope can and nothing is stranger than the would deliver
He is a Canadian; Continued from previous column). sober and closely mense amount of trouble in the be realised. reasoned judgments that canniba economic world which must come
From Dickens' Days myth which flourishes among Cana What is interesting is that the Ism worked well on the whole, not from material necessity, but
For Dr. MacCurdy has his own dians and the inhabitants of the form which this myth has taken is provided only that aristocratic prt from, the clash between reality and prejudices or at least one preju United States regarding the idle fixed by a longdead romance Ask vilege were kept in check and pre- self-flattering fantasy,
dice. One comes every now and ness and baseness of the English the St. Louis, business; man who vented from arousing man's natural resentment against social fications for working in this field refers, always as to a menace, au traveller in Kansas will be surpris land can ever hold her head above
Dr. MacCurdy has unusual quali then on a sentence in which he working-classes..
English expresses doubts as to how Eng- injustice.
Others who had a particular has pre-eminent qualifications as a tion in the State, to the British hardship the refined English upper lower classes, to describe his vision with for the water, considering her worthless and identifying such trouble. He to a hopeless service of degrada-ed to be condoled taste for little girla' marrow-bones psychologist, being the lecturer in working-man and his trade unions. classes suffer in having to live be- of them and their lives, and ope and found difficulty in gratifying Psychopathology in the University These are not very sensible sea-side these depraved troglodytes. will find that be is describing what that taste, because a recent wave of Cambridge, and he has the know. tences; particularly the one that Ladies in Boston will demon- he has read in his youth in "Oliver of prosperity had enabled the work- ledge of human nature and human calls for an irrevaney which is strate the curious truth that the Twist" and "Bleak House." ing clases to buy these hitherto affairs that comes from being a incredibly heardless. inaccessible delicacies, would de doctor of medicine, and having live "Amid all the ponderous les facts of life but the features of the this picture on the minds of the myth-instructed eye sees not the Charles Dickens who has engraved liver equally sober and closely rea ed in America, Germany, and Eng- turing of the people which pre myth, by their shuddering accounts older generation, and they have im- soned judgments that cannibalism land. There is every reason for worked well on the whole, but pre- hoping that he may do much to
ceded the 1931 election, I heard of how they went to see a football posed it on the younger generation cautions must be taken lest
much and read Lach about the match in England and were ap-by word of mouth, the explain to us how many of our pampering of the rising democracy troubles are due to our inveterate
abuse of the gold standard; the palled by the masses of hopeless,This, and nothing else, is the, by too cheap human meat creates fantasy-building, and he does do á
need of balanced budgets, and animal faces, The origin of this root of Dr. MacCurdy's curious at a general condition of self-indul great deal.
similar technical matters, but myth is perhaps two-fold. It pro-titude to a class that has, in point no one said, "What is needed bably springs in part from a de- of fact, been curiously justified by gence disastrous to the State.
from all the people of this coun aire to compensate for the feeling the events of the last few years. try is more real hard work. "You of inferiority that many inhabi Alas, that such a bias towards un are living on the wealth your tants of a new country have for the reason should be found in one father's toil created, and it is all inhabitants of the old countries, who is out to urge others towards used up. It is time for you to and in part from a desire on the reason! But the manifest good take your coats off and do part of the weary emigrant to as will of the book, and its intermit- real day's work. Your foreign sure himself that he has raised tent brilliance, make one feel no competitor is not afraid of work-himself in the world by his trans- despair, only amurement at human Ing hard. Are you?"
plantation:
complexity.
Perhaps his most useful contri-
The reports of the aristocratic bution is his recognition of the and working-class members of the principles of group psychology as committee would inevitably take operating in the economic field. It up these challenges, and would has long been known that a group probably do nothing else. As for of people tend to be less intelli the actual basic question of gent ir their opinions and actions whether cannibalism was right or than, the individuals who compose wrong, the debate on that would it, unless it is organised by Intelli- resolve into a profitless exchange gent leadership to work for some of assertions between two con-ideal that is intensely attractive to trasted types: the type that has its deepest, nature, Dr. MacCurdy had an easy introduction into life, points out that in the past finan that consequently likes the universe cial affairs have been in the hands us it has known it, and would have of a few individuals, who either no part of that universe changed; could act independently of any and the type that has always did group or were furnishing intelli liked its circumstances, that has a gent leadership to a group, but that quarrel with the universe, and of late, owing to the immense de- therefore wants to alter all its fea-velopment of investments, they tures that it can..
have fallen into the hands of a The "Economic Man"
group which, being wholly unor The one would automatically de-anised as regards money towards fend cannibalism; the other would any high ideal, is simply a scatter automatically attack it.
brained mob." There would be no Independent judgment
Instance of Calamity on the merits or demerits of canni-
Perhaps the best instance be balism until one found an outsider gives of this calamity is the story who knew other forms of diet, he tells in a footnote regarding the The difficulty of psychological directors of an American company investigation is that no such out who were able to know, the exact sists in the education that brings position of another company be- process cannot be investigated by cause they dealt almost entirely anything but other thought pro- with Ita products. In 1928 they cesses, The human thinker can- perceived from this inside informa- not hope for any help in his dark- tion that though the shares of this ness save from another human company were high, the business thinker, also in his darkness. The it was doing was so poor that their sole condition of illumination con- price must go down when the next sists in the education that brings balance sheet was published, so scepticism of the intellectual in- they sold these shares, short in ex- strument, vigilance regarding pre-pectation of a fall Judice.
But when the balance-sheet was? One might say, as they did in published the shares did not dim- the Army, "What a hope!" It is as injeh in price at all. They would 11 man had determined, to lift him have if the financial market had self by his mental shoe-straps. It been governed by the judgment of la ridiculous and impossible, it is individuals, but it was not. Those a glorious ambition, and it succeeds were the days when it was govern- far more than one could have exed by millions of small pected. It succeeds so well that it
who
vere just as trul gives one reason to suppose that any blind and how some day life may be reasonable
and harmonious, it fails so often that no one has any need to ear that the millennium in coming soon endura to
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