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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER ⠀⠀ 18, · · 1936.
EPIC
CO-OP.: A NOVEL OF LIVING
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TOGETHERL
By Upion. Sinclair
(Werner Laurie, 74. 6.)
ERE is a worthy successor to Oil, The Junpla and "other books about things that matter in this world.
Upton Sinclair has made more hairs sland on end than any thriller writer, and more brains get to work on prob- lems of social conditions than any text- book, because he not emly gives the facta but presents them vividly in terms of men and women, not figures In a row or arguments ambling along skle by akde.
In short, he appeals to the con- selence da well às to the emotions.
In California in 1935 there were one tuundred and seven-five self-help co- operative societies and soventy-five in the rest of the United States. This is the story of one of them, baard on first- hand knowledge and inspired by faith In their efforts to "End Poverty in California,"
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They are not co-operative societies an we know them in this country, 'They are bands of men and women who are tired of living discarded concrete rewer pipes, watching-food rot in the ground because "# does not pay" to gather it, houses tumble down beeni there is no money to pay for necessBTY repairs and skill and knowledge and usefulness refused an outlet because they are unemployed.
In effect they have returned to a system of barter, exchanging, their labour directly for a proportion of the Iruits of their Inbour and sharing it equitably amongst themselves, without the exchange of moticy.
You need something done, but your can't afford to pay for it These co-operators will do it. If you will give them something they need (either Honds for immediate consumption or Loola for other joba) which you 'can't rell because your neighbours or cus- tomers are similarly hard up.
It is not always simple in compli cated societies such as ours. But, if you have the will and can persunde people to take your ereditz-that is, to believe you will do what you promise and that what you suggest is a reason-
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able bargain-It can be made to work. Of course, there is opposition,
You have to pick your way between vested intereats and established traders, There is likely to be internal dissension between those who want to go fast and those who want to go slow, those who are adventurous and those who are timld.
Upton Sinclair paints no Utopia and advocaten no.panacea for all economic ills in this book. In fact, he ends on questioning and topical note. Gov- ernment schemes are cutling across the work of the co-operatives and driv- ing their members back on to idleness and relief. His hero goes to the White House and tells his alory to the President
"Quite's decision for the President of the United States to make,
"Should he let the unemployed get hold of the land and the tools and set
to work to build themselves a new world, with new freedom and Inde pendence for all worker? Bhould o permit them to make a demonstration of the fact that they could do sucli a Job and that they wanted to?
"It was very, very dangerous in the eyes of everyone who believed in the pront system and thought it could be patched and kept going... What was Franklin D. Roosevelt doing to answer?"
Whether or not you think there co-operatives can build a new and better economic system, this book doca give, the lie to those who think therc is nothing to be done but despair, We have got into a mess, and we can get out of it if we are really determined. One way or another, It has got to be done.
DEAN into DOG
MY TALKS WITH DEAN SPANLEY By Lord Dunsany (Heinemann, 54.) LORD DUNSANY is going to the
dogs. There is no doubt about it. In fact, he has already gone.
And the blessing of innumerable renders will go with him, for his Inimitable humour and invention, have never been mare generously displayed than in this delightful little book about an amiable dean who loved dogs and wine and belleved in the trans- migration of soula,
The right amount of the right wine
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THELUDE TO CHRISTOPHER, 6y3 EVEN A WORM, by J. G. Bradford
Eleanor Dark (Collins, 78. Gd.) The dilemma of a eugenist married to a woman in whose family there is a strain of maducas. Fear and the tension of their relationship finally bring about the dreaded overbalance. A haunting, brilliant tale.
OF LENA GEYER, by Marela Daven- port Heinemann, Us. (d.). Staging the private life of a great singer, from the slums of Prague through the opern houses of Europe to the "best circles" in New York. An in- teresting musical background and n fasclanting story.
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(Barker, 78. Bd.). Suppose the animals suddenly decided to over- throw the rule of man-not only the creatures wo hunt and feed on, but those faithful dogs and patient cows. Not mention stuga, ., A night- mare, related with gusia and in- vention.
THE
UNCOUNTED HOUR, by H. Wamer Allen (Constable, 7a. Od.). The last hour of Summer Time saw The death of Bir Godric FitzWaren -and certain other equally mysterl- Gus things
ата Fortunately, amateur detective and doctor were about, too. Distinguished. -.
and the Dean, who had been a dog in a previous life, would begin to give this sort of advice: “Always go out of a room first: get to the door the 'moment it's opened. You may not get another chance for a long time."
A little more and he imvelled far- ther along the road of his inemorles and gave thrilling accounts of hunting rabbits, the advisability of burying bones, the different methods of chas- ing traction engines, horses and cows, the habit cats have of climbing trees, the need for letting the moon know it is being kept an eye on, the correct thing to say when you come home very Inte after having been out all day long and many other matters of in- terest to dogs and dog lovers.
Lord Dunsany threatens that if any doubt is cast on the truth of these talks with Dean Spanley he will not publish his Investigations into the Origins of the Mentality of Certain Serious Persons. Bo beware, you solemn scoffers. When he speaks, let no dog bark.
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