MENDELSOHN, SIGMUND. Labor’s crisis. *$1.50 Macmillan 331
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“Looking at the question of labor reform from the employer’s point of view, the author argues that the labor scarcity is not entirely due to decrease in the number of laborers, and in support of his contention points to many effects of the unrest itself on production and on labor. In his keen introduction Mr Mendelsohn writes, ‘A labor problem still exists, and in more acute form than ever, but it concerns the welfare of society more than of labor. It is no longer based upon excess of labor, but upon insufficiency of labor; it no longer relates to an inadequate wage, but to an inflated wage; it no longer deals with an oppressed suffering class, but with an all powerful and militant element which is striving for economic dominance.’”—N Y Times
“An unusually thoughtful analysis of labor’s propositions to remedy the existing unrest.”
+ N Y Times p11 O 31 ’20 230w
“Mr Mendelsohn’s thinking goes beneath the surface and his little book will be found suggestive by all classes of readers.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 9 ’20 200w
MERCER, JOHN EDWARD. Why do we die? an essay in thanatology. *$2 Dutton 236
“Bishop Mercer points out that his question differs from the more usual one, ‘What happens after death?’ He finds it natural that we should speculate upon a future experience from which no one is exempt; but he wonders why no one has asked, ‘Why do we die at all?’ Neither biology nor physiology, he says, has answered this question; nor have the theologians or the philosophers approached any more nearly to the solution of it. The problem; What science teaches; Monadnology; and Higher aspects, are his four heads, under which he discusses Causes of the fear of death, The spiritual body, and other topics, closing with that of Death as a revealer.”—Springf’d Republican