A NEW LINCOLN BOOK
Gale, Zona
A New Lincoln Book By ZONA GALE (Famous Wisconsin Author) ABRAHAM LINCOLN TRAVELED THIS WAY, by Fred L. Holmes; illustrated; L. C. Page & Co., Boston. Price $4.00. At all bookstores. A new Lincoln...
...Holmes has come to his subject with eyes eager to see the old and eager to find in the old...
...he crushed under its own output Higher wages and shorter hours «re the only salvation a machine a.—Labor...
...A new Lincoln book is a new adventure—that is, it is if it is...
...Taking the industry together, the value of output was increased $10,000,000, and the wage bill less than $400,000...
...The book holds one with a double appeal of a familiar story enriched by unfamiliar delights...
...It is a series ot scenes which speak for themselves without much romment...
...Its report on what happened in the linoleum industry from 1927 to 1929 shows in miniature what is happening in practically every industry of America...
...WHY WE HAVE "HARD TIMES" The Department of Commerce takes a census of manufactures every two years...
...It is a picture in which perhaps Lincoln would find no stranger, no being extended and enhanced...
...There Is the basic reason for the hard times in the United States...
...Here one is writing who has the power to communicate his mood concerning his subject...
...The workers produce more, but do not get wages enough to buy more...
...the new...
...A system that, employs mass production must develop mass consumption, nr...
...But...
...The average wage increased from $1,524 a year in 1927 to $1,543 a year in 1929, a gain Of $19 a year, or a little over 1 per cent...
...Hoimes has given to all Lincoln lovers—has given to everyone—a new book and a new gift...
...The average worker produced $1,038 more for his boss, and got $19 more for himself...
...And "ABRAHAM LINCOLN TRAVELED THIS WAY," by Fred L. Holmes, is an adventure and more...
...Increased output, combined with stationary wages, and employment, leaves a sur-plus of unsold and unsalable goods to clog the industrial machine—and produce more unemployment...
...He increased the value of his output 24 per cent, and increased his own gains 1 per cent...
...the value added by manufacture Increased from $4,330 per worker in 1927 to S5.36R per worker in 1929, a gain of $1,038 a year, or 24 per cent...
...Wages and numbers employed are practically stationary, while output booms...
...The record is as simple as Lincoln...
...Lincoln in boyhood, Lincoln in love, in politics, in a frank desire to be president: Lincoln roping his own boxes and addressing them "A...
...White House...
...This mood is one of human understanding, of a reading through into the core of his man and the incidents of his life...
...The number of establishments making linoleum remained exactly the same...
...Washington"—all these are done as by one seeing for the first time a man forever new to the people...
...The number of employes increased from 5.364 to 5,544, or 3.4 per cent...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
