Harper's Magazine Archive (1930)

1930

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The crisis in morals by Gilbert Murray Whom does Congress represent? The problem behind the lobbies by Charles Austin Beard Lit ladies by Margaret Culkin Banning Can business be civilized? by Harold Joseph Laski Women and children first by Alicia O'Reardon Overbeck Fiction The prank by Stella Benson In the shade of the tree by Wilbur Daniel Steele The pearl necklace by Gordon Arthur Smith A buried treasure: A story in two parts—part II by Elizabeth Madox Roberts A medieval hole-in-one by Stephen Leacock Poetry Intersection by Granville Paul Smith Blizzard by Helene Magaret The moon came up by Witter Bynner Let us pretend by Florence Nash Ducks and heron by Agnes Kendrick Gray
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The dear old Constitution by Charles Austin Beard The new skirt length by William Bolitho A burglar looks at laws and codes by Jack Black On the practice of smoking in church by Albert Jay Nock Rat pie: Among the black midwives of the South by Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom Fiction Djombé River: A story in two parts—part I by John W. (John Womack) Vandercook The eight-dollar pup by Philip Everett Curtiss Office hours by Roland English Hartley Poetry Ice storm in spring by Katherine Garrison Chapin A wild thing by Witter Bynner Black and white by Margaret Emerson Bailey
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles God without religion by Elmer Holmes Davis Mr. Justice Holmes: For his eighty-ninth birthday by Harold Joseph Laski How safe is flying? by Charles J.V. Murphy Twenty-four hours of a lawbreaker by L.M. Hussey Educational leadership in America: Can wealth teach itself? by Alexander Meiklejohn Fiction Corporal Humpit of the 4th Musketeers by Herbert Russell Wakefield Solid citizen by McCready Huston Djombé River: A story in two parts—part II by John W. (John Womack) Vandercook The letter-men by Charles W. (Charles Wright) Ferguson Poetry A bribe to Saint Antony of Padua (who aids in the recovery of all lost things) by Margaret Emerson Bailey Forerunner to rain by Virginia Moore Heloïse in Brittany by Katherine Garrison Chapin Observation by Samuel Hoffenstein
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Diminishing returns in modern life: A word to the apostles of progress by James Truslow Adams Dissenting opinions by Joseph M. (Joseph Meyer) Proskauer A defense of French morals by Mary Borden Molten steel by C.J. Freund The Mad Hatter's dirty teacup by Stuart Chase Fiction Fledgling by Libby Benedict The jinx and Phyllis by Elmer Holmes Davis Encarnación by Alicia O'Reardon Overbeck Poetry Spell by Katherine Garrison Chapin Poplars by Mary Brent Whiteside Parting song by Samuel Hoffenstein Philadelphia by Louise Driscoll This rainy day by Margaret Emerson Bailey
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Roosevelt and the 1912 disaster: A friend remembers—and interprets by Owen Wister The futility of farm relief by Joseph Stagg Lawrence Our substitute lives by Katharine Fullerton Gerould Two flights in the fog: An air-mail pilot's experiences by Myron M. (Myron Morris) Stearns Why is modern youth cynical? by Bertrand Russell Fiction Come day, go day by Roark Bradford Master builder by Lee Foster Hartman Rhapsody in mauve by Letitia Preston Randall Poetry Wind horses by Carl Sandburg The road to perdition: Not to say the highway of cosmic amelioration by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The peculiar weakness of Mr. Hoover by Walter Lippmann Where is aviation? by Francis Walton Weighed and found wanting by Charles A. (Charles Andrew Armstrong) Bennett The professor has an idea by R.S. Cotterill Wanted: International co-operation! by Edward Sandford Martin Fiction The daughter of a princess: A story by Charles Caldwell Dobie The desert islander: A story by Stella Benson After all: A story by Roland English Hartley Poetry Vulnerable by Dorothy Keeley Aldis On the lake by V. (Victoria) Sackville-West White birches by Katherine Garrison Chapin Secret flowers by Katherine Mansfield Aquarium by Helene Magaret
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The nemesis of American business by Stuart Chase Squirt-gun politics by Charles Austin Beard Concerning trains by James Norman Hall The crisis in nursing by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Must we scrap the family? by Floyd Henry Allport Fiction Mr. Bellows, the monkey, and the turtle: A story by Herbert Russell Wakefield Ruin: A story by Gordon Arthur Smith Saphead: A story by M.C. Blackman Poetry Reply to a summer boarder by Edna Kingsley Wallace A ballade of a monument by Carolyn Wells
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Presidential prosperity by James Truslow Adams Vergil, the modern poet by John Erskine The Davis Cup runs over by John Roberts Tunis The business of giving away money: The problem facing the American foundations by Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers) Embree The luxury of integrity by Stuart Chase Fiction The Electric King: A story by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany Violette: A story by Vincent Sheean Mountain meadows: A story by Esse Hamot The bustle: An episode of the eighties by Charles Macomb Flandrau A resident of purgatory: A story by Thomas Boyd Poetry Prelude by Conrad Aiken Beauty shop by Mary Brent Whiteside Half-wisdom by Frederic Prokosch
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Founding fathers and straddling sons by Elmer Holmes Davis Racketeers and organized labor by Louis Adamic The new stage fright: Talking pictures by Louise Closser Hale Portrait of an empty barrel by James Truslow Adams The real value of the League by Gilbert Murray Fiction The queer island: A story by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany Good Wednesday: A story by Katharine Brush “Slapstick”: A story by Elaine Sterne Carrington The city goes mad by Charles W. (Charles Wright) Ferguson Gun-lady by Claire Wallace Flynn Poetry A Mexican parting by Witter Bynner Two by a grave by Elizabeth Hollister Frost The narrow bed by Ada Alden Before rain—Chartres by Katherine Garrison Chapin For Miss Maude in heaven by Mary Willis Shuey
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The great American enigma: An exploration of Henry Ford by Gamaliel Bradford Is Pittsburgh civilized? by R.L. (Robert Luther) Duffus Farewell to sophistication by La Mar Sheridan Warrick The pacifist bogey: An apology to prospective citizens by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Wanted: A mädchen für alles by Theodore Stearns Fiction The false talisman: A story by Charles Caldwell Dobie The other room: A story by Don Marquis The romantic man: A story by Mary Heaton Vorse Lunch by Emily Hahn If babies were novels by Worth Tuttle Hedden Poetry The blessing of the beds by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Where the danger lies by Margaret Emerson Bailey It shall not matter by Frederic Prokosch
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The enemy of prosperity: Overproduction by Stuart Chase The despotism of Polly Ross: Children, the new schools, and the old Adam by Alice Beal Parsons The vanishing sinner by Ralph W. (Ralph Washington) Sockman Pity the poor athlete by Frank Schoonmaker The Jewish world crisis by Ludwig Lewisohn Fiction A prisoner of memory: A story by Walter Gilkyson An unwritten story: A story by John Collings, Sir Squire Borderland: A story by Roland English Hartley It's the only way by Frederic L., Jr. Smith Poetry Nettle danger by Ruth Fitch Boyd The maguey by Elizabeth Morrow The little things by Josephine Winslow Johnson The unfailing light by Ada Alden Chansons populaires américaines by Morris Bishop
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The limitations of the expert by Harold Joseph Laski Men in women's colleges by Agnes Rogers Opus four, number seven by Robert Palfrey Utter Thumbs up by James Thurber Guessing the future by Edward Sandford Martin Fiction The showman: A story by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany Water never hurt a man: A story by Walter Dumaux Edmonds Poetry Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay Finality by Josephine Winslow Johnson White Christmas by Margaret Emerson Bailey Otherworld by Geoffrey Johnson The room by Charles Hanson Towne

BY TYPE

Poems (51)

BY DEPARTMENT

Editor's easy chair (12)

Personal and otherwise (1)

The lion's mouth (29)

PEOPLE DISCUSSED

Balfour, Arthur James

Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of

Bland, Marie Averil

Butler, Nicholas Murray

Caraway, Thaddeus Horatius

Carnegie, Andrew

Clemenceau, Georges

Compton, Arthur Holly

Coolidge, Calvin

Curran, Henry H. (Henry Hastings)

Darwin, Charles

Davis, Dwight Filley

Davison, Archibald T. (Archibald Thompson)

Dickinson, Emily

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Edwards, Jonathan

Flexner, Abraham

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Gompers, Samuel

Grundy, Joseph R. (Joseph Ridgway)

Hadley, Arthur Twining

Hale, Louise Closser

Hearst, William Randolph

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hoover, Herbert

La Motte, Ellen Newbold

Langdon-Davies, John

Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich

Lippmann, Walter

MacDonald, Ramsay

Macintosh, Douglas Clyde

McNamara, James B. (James Barnabas)

McNamara, John J.

Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William)

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis)

Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney)

Mussolini, Benito

Overbeck, Alicia O'Reardon

Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison)

Roosevelt, Theodore

Santayana, George

Schwimmer, Rosika

Snowden, Philip Snowden, Viscount

Stickney, William B.C.

Taft, William H.(William) Howard

Todd, Mabel Loomis

Wilson, Woodrow

TOP SUBJECTS

Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney)

Grundy, Joseph R. (Joseph Ridgway)

Darwin, Charles

Hoover, Herbert

Roosevelt, Theodore

Lippmann, Walter

Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Coolidge, Calvin

Snowden, Philip Snowden, Viscount

Gompers, Samuel

McNamara, John J.

McNamara, James B. (James Barnabas)

Hale, Louise Closser

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Georgics (Book) by Virgil and Lewis, C. Day

Poems of Emily Dickinson (Book) by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth , Dickinson, Emily , and Todd, Mabel Loomis

The dangers of obedience (Book) by Laski, Harold Joseph

Æneid (Book) by Virgil

DEATHS

Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of

Bennett, Charles A. (Charles Andrew Armstrong)

Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of

Bolitho, William

Bonner, Geraldine

Bridges, Robert Seymour

Clark, Clarence D. (Clarence Don)

Coupland, Sidney

Curtiss, Glenn Hammond

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Elliott, Henry Wood

Emerson, Edward Waldo

Emerton, J.H. (James Henry)

Foster, William E. (William Eaton)

Francis, J.G. (Joseph Greene)

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount

Gould, John Mead

Hadley, Arthur Twining

Hardy, Arthur Sherburne

Harrison, Henry Sydnor

Hawthorne, Charles Webster

Hendrick, Ellwood

Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee)

Hill, Frederick Trevor

Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

Judah, Mary Jameson

Kimball, William Wirt

Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert)

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Nansen, Fridtjof

Pepper, Charles Melville

Phillips, Henry Wallace

Phillpotts, J. Surtees (James Surtees)

Post, Melville Davisson

Putnam, George Haven

Scott-Moncrieff, C.K. (Charles Kenneth)

Setoun, Gabriel

Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)

Symons, George Gardner

Taft, William H.(William) Howard

Whibley, Charles

Winslow, Herbert Hall

Woodberry, George Edward

BIRTHS

Arnothy, Christine

Baker, James Addison

Bertino, Joseph R.

Birmingham, Stephen

Blechman, R.O. (Robert O.)

Bloom, Allan David

Borchardt, Danuta

Brodkey, Harold

Callahan, Daniel

Carteri, Rosanna

Carver, George A.

Cohen, Jerome Alan

D'Arcangelo, Allan

Delattre, Pierre

Derrida, Jacques

Duberman, Martin B.

Falk, Richard A.

Feibleman, Peter S.

Fornés, Maria Irene

Forrester, Maureen

Frankenheimer, John

Friedman, Bruce Jay

Godard, Jean-Luc

Gordon, Stewart

Gray, Francine du Plessix

Greenfield, Meg

Gulda, Friedrich

Gurney, A.R. (Albert Ramsdell)

Harper, Heather

Harris, Fred R.

Harris, Richard

Hart, Jeffrey Peter

Hollander, Anne

Howard, Maureen

Irving, Clifford

Kent, Leonard J.

Kidron, Michael

Kirkwood, James

Kleiber, Carlos

Levins, Richard

Liddy, G. Gordon

MacFarquhar, Roderick

McElroy, Joseph

Mobutu Sese Seko

Mooney, Michael Macdonald

Najder, Zdzislaw

Nelson, Richard R.

Nuland, Sherwin B.

O'Connor, Sandra Day

Oberman, Heiko Augustinus

Oppenheimer, Joel

Opthof, Cornelis

Palladino, Tony

Pappastavrou, George

Podhoretz, Norman

Prussian, Claire

Raaijmakers, Dick

Ringgold, Faith

Schippers, Thomas

Schmertz, Herbert

Schneider, Howie

Service, William

Smith, Charles R. (Charles Richard)

Smith, Robert Kimmel

Sondheim, Stephen

Steinbrenner, George M.(George Michael)

Takemitsu, Toru

Thornburg, Newton

Veasey, Josephine

Weissmann, Gerald

Wunderlich, Fritz

Zeiger, Henry A.

Zelka, Charlotte

Featured
Items

1

A story in two parts—part II

by John W. (John Womack) Vandercook
Fiction, March 1930, 18 pp.

2

Roosevelt and the war:

A chapter of memories

by Owen Wister
Article, June 1930, 16 pp.

3

Roosevelt and the 1912 disaster:

A friend remembers—and interprets

by Owen Wister
Article, May 1930, 16 pp.

4

A story in two parts—part I

by John W. (John Womack) Vandercook
Fiction, February 1930, 16 pp.

5

The religion of a scientist

by Floyd Henry Allport
Article, February 1930, 15 pp.

6

A prisoner of memory:

by Walter Gilkyson
Fiction, November 1930, 14 pp.

7

Funneling the European news

by John Gunther
Article, April 1930, 13 pp.

8

Racketeers and organized labor

by Louis Adamic
Article, September 1930, 13 pp.

9

The crisis in nursing

by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
Article, July 1930, 13 pp.

10

by Gordon Arthur Smith
Fiction, July 1930, 13 pp.

11

The pacifist bogey:

An apology to prospective citizens

by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
Article, October 1930, 13 pp.

12

by Roland English Hartley
Fiction, November 1930, 13 pp.

13

God without religion

by Elmer Holmes Davis
Article, March 1930, 13 pp.

14

The desert islander:

by Stella Benson
Fiction, June 1930, 12 pp.

15

Are religious people fooling themselves?

by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Article, June 1930, 12 pp.

16

The great American enigma:

An exploration of Henry Ford

by Gamaliel Bradford
Article, October 1930, 12 pp.

17

The false talisman:

by Charles Caldwell Dobie
Fiction, October 1930, 12 pp.

18

The other room:

by Don Marquis
Fiction, October 1930, 12 pp.

19

What is this communism?

by Lillian Symes
Article, December 1930, 12 pp.

20

The three R's on a mountain top:

School-teaching at a Bolivian mining camp

by Alicia O'Reardon Overbeck
Article, December 1930, 12 pp.