Socialism and the Average Man by William H. Doughty,American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8 (AUGUST, 1922), p. 504Published by: American Bar AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25710986 .

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book should address Robert A. Carter, who is vice

president of the Consolidated Gas Co., of New York, with offices at 130 East 15th St., New York City.

The Hope of the Future, by Edward E. Eagle. Cornhill Publishing Co., Boston.?Herein the author sets forth his evidence gathered in extensive travel that Americans have an exaggerated notion of their

importance in the world, and makes his argument that the hope of the future is closer co-operation in world trade between the United States and the British Em

Inheriting the Earth, by O. D. Von Engln, Pro fessor of Physical Geography in Cornell University. The Macmillan Co., New York.?A thoughtful and

illuminating study of the intimate relation between

geographic condition and current world-wide political problems.

Essays in Taxation, by Professor Edwin R. A.

Seligman of Columbia University. The Macmillan Co., New York.?This is the ninth edition of this well-known book on taxation. An enlargement by five chapters is mainly the result of new thought on tax matters occasioned by the World War.

Kailroads and Government, by Proiessor .brank

H. Dixon of Princeton University. Charles Scrib ner's Sons, New York.?This is an able treatment of federal regulation of railroads from 1910 to the pres ent time. As few books in the field do, this one brings the discussion down to the current situation. It will be welcomed by those whose special interests lie in the area covered by the book and it will interest and in struct those whose general interests may extend so far.

Principles of the New Economics, by Professor Lionel D. Edie of Colgate University. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York.?Among widely scattered students of economics there has been in recent years a shift in emphasis from economic theory to what may be called functional economics. This book attempts to gather into one discussion these new tendencies and to present them as an organized whole.

socialism and the Average Man, by Professor William H. Doughty, Jr., of Williams College. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.?A presentation of what the author conceives to be the nature, fallacies, subtlety, and futility of socialism.

Poisoning Democracy, by George McCready. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York.?The author is Professor of Geology in Pacific Union College. Among his earlier books is "Back to the Bible." Under the present title presents his reasons for considering it an imperative duty rigorously to uproot and exor cise the teachings of socialistic and evolutionary

The Iron Man in Industry, by Arthur Pound. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston.?The book's thesis is: Automatic machinery has reduced the work with the hands to so simple a process as to render vocational training all but needless. It has, however, given the young worker earnings and leisure for spending of which he has no intelligent judgment. The need therefore is for training for leisure. This is a book which should be widely read.

Mounted Justice, by Katherine Mayo. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.?A book which tells in a most readable manner nine stories of the thrilling exploits of the Pennsylvania State Police.

II. Current Law Journals Labor Law Administration in Pennsylvania, by

Prof. Robert H. Wettach of the University of North Carolina. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, June.?As a "case" study in administration law this article is prepared with the care necessary to make it valuable.

Labor Copartnership in Industry, by Calvert Magruder. Harvard Law Review, June.?This ar

ticle examines the availability of various legal forms of business organization for use in such copartner ship in addition to discussing the desirability of such

co-operation and the administration measures neces

sary to bring it about. Possible Partnership Liability Under the Busi

ness Trust, by Noble B. Judah of the Chicago Bar. Illinois Law Review;, June.

The Use of Water in Navigable Streams for Commerce and Power.?This is a revision of an ad dress before the Alabama State Bar Association by Hon. Henry D. Clayton of Montgomery, Ala. Cen tral Law Journal, June 23.

Personal, Political and Economic Influences in the Decision of Judges, by Prof. Charles G. Haines of the University of Texas.' Illinois Law Review, June.

Federal Executive Power.?This is the annual address before the Alabama State Bar Association, April 28, 1922, by Francis G. Chaffey of New York City. Central Law Journal, July 7.

Courts v. Commissions, by Edgar Watkins of At lanta, Georgia. Central Law Journal, April 28.?The author considers the wisdom of extending the com mission idea in the regulation of business. This ar

tide is headed by the following quotation from Mr. Justice Holmes: "For the rational study of law the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the

master of economics."

The Powers and Functions of the Federal Trade Commission, by Minor Bronaugh. Law Notes, June.

Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States to Review Cases from the District Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals, by Charles W. Bunn, of St. Paul, Minn. Harvard Law Review, June.

The Origin of the Doctrine of Mens Rea, by Prof. Albert Levitt of the University of North Da kota. Illinois Law Review, June.

Aerial Code Needed

"The airplane man, alive to what is undoubted ly the most vexing of all contemporary business problems, conceives the greatest commercial need to be swifter dispatch. The railroad man, equally conscious of the need, but schooled with practical experience, demands economy. This is the chal lenge to commercial aircraft and it - is significant of .the immediate future that, in 1921, improve ment in construction, decrease in operating costs and increase in the factor of safety and reliability, went far toward establishing the commercial aerial

transportation business upon a sound financial basis, with but one thing lacking, and that about to be provided,?the enactment by Congress of an

Aerial Code/?1922 Aircraft Year Book.

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