SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton THE EASY acceptance of any doctrine is merely indifference with another name; a cause needs stress to bring out its inherent justice. One reason I...
...Sometimes one, and sometimes two packs are required, and the main point of the game is getting rid of the cards in three or four of a kind or in sequences...
...In appealing to the men, they are educating the men...
...Literary Notes ESSAYS IN TAXATION (Macmillan) by Edwin R. A. Seligman, published this week, while nominally a revised and enlarged edition of a book brought out in 1895 under the same title, is in effect a new work...
...Brooks's subject...
...Is it a sound one...
...What is the basis for this claim...
...Out in the West and in Philadelphia they speak of it as "Rum...
...As the cause is triumphing because of its reason, it is, through this education, becoming founded so firmly that men and women together are building for a better expression of their enfranchisement...
...DURING the present administration there may be an opportunity to observe the effect of a work of fiction on a governmental policy...
...It would lead players into all sorts of awkward explanations...
...The book was published by Stokes in the first week of February...
...Moreover almost everyone who thinks he knows has an interpretation which, while quite satisfactory to him, is not satisfactory to a second enthusiast...
...Neither guess is correct and it is unlikely that the writer's identity will be revealed...
...In London Cooncan is said to be displacing Bridge and Auction Bridge...
...This fact is due largely to his writings...
...Foster is a master of tactics and has explained the game well...
...I believe, further, men will soon see that women should have the ballot whether all women want it or not...
...It is this mutual education of the other's needs and failings, as well as the virtues each sex has to contribute, which will be one of the great assets of universal suffrage...
...she should add her voice to the legislation which touches on all her social relations with men...
...In American Syndicalism the author attempts to get down to the real meaning of the syndicalist movement, which may accurately be described as a world movement...
...And woman suffrage, of course, should not be sought or granted on the basis of anything but reason...
...This is Mr...
...He has also given the laws for each form of the game...
...According to reliable authority this has been read by Woodrow Wilson, William J. Bryan, Chancellor Houston and William MeAdoo, that is to say, the President and at least three members of his Cabinet...
...Women themselves are seeking and finding new facts with which to fortify the reasons for being granted full suffrage, and in the resulting education are qualifying themselves more and more for its proper use as it is being obtained...
...The thirteen chapters of the original have grown to twenty and these, together with the additions to the remainder of the text, have resulted in a volume of almost double the size...
...I believe in woman suffrage because I think it will bring to women greater understanding of the failures men have made in so many directions, and also because it will make men see how much of their failures may have been due to lack of co-operation with women...
...The favor with which it has been received in past years has rendered necessary seven earlier editions which have, however, contained but slight changes...
...As the story deals with the overthrow of the present government and its reconstruction on a new basis, and as such a theme gives the author an opportunity to touch on every activity of the state, its appeal to the personnel of our progressive administration will be readily understood...
...Now, how can a game gain popularity with such a name as Rum...
...Consequently when R. F. Foster's book on the new game was ready, the author and publishers agreed to give it the title Cooncan, believing that in the long run that is the name by which the game will be known...
...Those who remember what stir The Social Unrest created—that pioneer of the now large library of works on social questions—are expecting this new volume, the first from its author in several years, to be the center of no less discussion...
...she should take her share of the responsibilities in the laws when they are unjust...
...He has written another pioneer work for it is the first in the field to set forth impartially, full and lucidly, the whole meaning of Syndicalism...
...Beginning with a consideration of The Development of Taxation, he takes up in turn The General Property Tax, The Single Tax, Double Taxation, The Inheritance Tax, The Taxation of Corporations, Modern Problems in Taxation, A Quarter Century's Progress in Taxation, Separation of State and Local Revenues, The Relations of State and Federal Finance, The Importance of Precision in Assessments, The Classification of Public Revenues, The Betterment Tax, Recent Reforms in Taxation, concluding with a chapter on Recent Literature in Taxation and three chapters on American Reports on Taxation and a comprehensive bibliography of reports of special commissions...
...In short, what likelihood is there that syndicalist principles will be applied to American labor and social problems with anything like revolutionary power...
...Women should share in man's obligations...
...There is a lot of excitement in it and more chance for tactics than is at first appreciated...
...The present book summarizes his thought, the result of years of investigation and study, on all phases of the taxation question...
...It will be remembered that last fall B. W. Huebsch published an anonymous novel entitled Philip Dru: Administrator...
...JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS'S new book, American Syndicalism (Macmillan), is ready...
...IN ENGLAND and in the New York clubs they are calling it Cooncan, believed to be a corruption of the Mexican Conquian...
...Brooks's subject is a live one and strange as it may seem, while there, is a great deal of interest in Syndicalism there is not a very clear conception of what the term means...
...Men, too, have traditions to break from, and, since granting the woman her suffrage lies in man's power, they must find reasons rather than gallantries for granting it...
...It is an interesting game, very easy to play, with simple rules, and can be played by two, three, four or five players...
...The progress of the world in fiscal facts and in economic theory has been so marked that in order to keep the book a satisfactory interpretation of actual conditions it has now been necessary to rework it throughout, and it is this reworking which the eighth edition embodies...
...One reason I am believing more than ever in woman suffrage is because I see the value which has come in the struggle for it...
...Brooks says in one part of bis book: "The claim is made that it has differentiated a revolutionary force of its own, sure to supersede the niggardly ways of ordinary labor organization on the one side and an entangled political Socialism on the other...
...One reviewer surmised that The dore Roosevelt wrote the book, while another suggested William J. Bryan as the author...
...There is probably no greater authority on taxation than the McVickar Professor of Political Economy in Columbia University...
Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 13
