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IT ,, tlie Editor of Atlantica:I am a constant reader of AT-I-,\NTICA, whose good balance,rf articles I have always ad-:.nired. It surprised me, there-;ore, to find on Page 4 of theissue a review of "Capital-Tulyand Labor under Fascism" bylliss Carmen Haider, rvhichgives the impression that saidstudy deals impartially rvith thelabor situation in Italy.The fact is that l{iss Haiclerstretched her desire to be impartialto the point of acceptingas true certain statements macleto her by anti-Fascists in ltai,vand elser'vhere, rvithout analyzingthem or ascertaining the motivesbehind them.On page 233, lor example, shestates that "it seems as thouqheven he (Mussolini) is beginningto lose public confidence." I{otvand rvhere N{iss Haicler got herinformation is obvious. But it isequally obvious that she couldnot secure that information herse1f,because public opinion is sodilficult to evaluate and verv fewanti-Fascists in Italy would beso naive as to take her into their'confidence. lJttt even if a fen'o f them tl'uSte{l hcr Lr ) tlte cxtentof con{rclirrg their cloubtsabout Mussolini to her, it isobvious that her generalizationsare quite unscientific.Likewise, on page 268, she repeatsthe old standby of the anti-Fascists to the effect that Fascismdid not save ltal.v f romchaos, and expresses her cloubtsas to whether. "it was still necessaryand advantageous to thecountry for the Fascists to 1'emainin power."We can, of course, ignore herevaluation of the Italians, "whoby nature present a more turbulentelement than the northernraces" (.page 274), but rve cannotshare her belief on the futurefali of Fascism as expressed b-vher on page 284. Morcovet'. itis evident that Miss Haider didnot quite grasp the meaning oI"totalitarian" in the Fascist legime,for apparently she confusesit rvith tyrauny.No doubt N{iss Haider is Perfectl_v entitle,l to her opiniorrs.but she should not label thetl asthe product of oltjective researchfor research is {actual.Y orr'rs trul\,Federi,co SannaNew Yorlz Citt'BOOKS IN REVIEWexan'rple is thai of the man, sentencedto die, lr,ho had been told, asan experiment to show the Power:of suggestion, that he would beexecuticl by being bled to death."At the time of the execution 1iervas first blindfolcled ancl irnmediatelyafter this a sharp instrumentrvas applied along the radial artervabout the r'vrist, simulating vervclosely an incision. Then water ofblood-temperature u'as made to falldrop by drop upon where the suPnoscdirrcision had l,een rrradc. Thci:on.lcnrnecl man died r'rithout evenan abrasion or the loss of even asingle drop of blood."The author gives in his booklnany cxanlples oi self-culcs attdlikeu'ise of sel f-inHictctl painsthrough auto-suggestion, 9ndleaches tl-re conclusion that ideasthrough suggestion, evcn if in somcinstances they do not bring aborrtcomplete recovery, lvill make illncsstr,ore bearable. A u''e11-kno"l'nChicago ph1'sician, Dr' Ferri revealsin his'bobk a complete commancl ofthe subject, and traces the .porverof a'.rto-suggestion from prtmtttvesociety to our ou'n dat's. A ver.vintereiting chapter is that dealingwith the rt'orking of the nervoussvstem.THE II:ORLD'S [)EBT' TO TH tlCATHOLIC CLIURCH, bY -lame's I'I.l/atsh, 14.D. Ph.D., Sc. D', etc- 31)f oges. Bo.stott: The 'StrLttf ord Prc't't'$2.Civiiization is undoubteclly deelllvinclebtecl to the great institution thatis the Catholic Church, anct r've cannotbut {eel grateful to Dr. Walshfor harring, in this volume, srln-rme!up the miin items of this indebtecl-IIESS.Dr. Walsh, also the author oi"\\rhat Civilization Ou,'es to Italy,"here te1ls the storY of what theCatholic Chur-ch iras tlone throughoutthe ages to cleveloP the senseo{ beauty and the sense of dutY in1xan, so as to leac1 him to a higherlife ancl therehy make hirn happy.He points out horv the Church hasfostered the cultivation of the arts,painting, sculpture. tttttsic. architeci,,..^nilthe rrrakillg oi rrsehrl thingsbeautiful, that u'hich u'e call the artsa'd crafts.The book also takes uP theachievements o{ the Church in religion.charitl' arrd humane tvorks.cilucation. scholarship. larv, literature,philosophy, physical science,surserv. merlicine, etc. His ainr, ino:her ir:ortls. is to shorr that ferv, ifanv human institutions have done asmitch f or civilization as has theCatholic Church.TIIB l.'IftEIlT THEFLESIIBy Garibaldi M. 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