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10 of His Greatest ~ Novels in One Beautiful Set! echoes of a world bereaved of one of its noblest souls were stilled. And now it has attained to the uproar of universal ac- claim. It is the resounding of a great discov- ery. Conrad is discovered. These tales of life and adventure are unfor- getable. They are also immortal. They live on—and the grip of Conrad on public imagi- nation and esteem is increasing daily. It is a dramatic recognition that has come with the passing of the most picturesque and arresting figure of modern literature. Is it any wonder? When you think how this rugged man for twenty years followed the seven seas of the earth, and saw men and women everywhere in the world who were romantic, adventurous, daring, cruel, fiery, strange, brooding—in fact, all the glamourous sides of human nature, caught in the pursuits of life in numberless, nameless times and places. And then for the next twenty years Conrad spun the threads of his great stories— weaving into the pattern every shade of brill- iant color, every feeling, and amazing sus- pense and thrilling action. He has laid bare the secrets of his experiences for us, through some of the clearest and most powerful fiction ever created. The incomparable style of the writing. The ability to choose exactly the right word to ex- press most clearly an exact thought. His men and women so developed that their characters come close to the reader, and live and move and have their being, not in a printed page, ik began as a whisper—even before the stories of action and adventure. Conrad does all this for his readers—and more. You are bound to listen, and once you do you will be spellbound—for these are such tales as men tell under the haunting stars. So, in response to the universal desire for these—with their stories more real than life itself—comes a subscription set of Conrad at a special low price and on remarkably easy terms. Ten of Conrad’s greatest novels are offered by the Book Division of The Outlook Company in a splendid set with uniform bind- ings. The ten volumes are: The Rescue, Youth (including Heart of Dark- ness and The End of the Tether), Chance, Victory, Typhoon, Lord Jim, Almayer’s Folly, The Arrow of Gold, An Outcast of the Islands, and The Shadow Line. Let the Books Speak for Themselves If you have not yet read Conrad, it is impos- sible to describe to you here the power and the fascination of these amazing masterpieces. You must experience for yourself the spell that Conrad’s tales hold. For this reason you are invited to examine entirely FREE, with- out even a deposit, these 10 handsome vol- umes. Then, after you have had the set for 5 days in your own home, you may return them if you choose, and the examination will have cost you nothing. If you keep them, you receive the benefit of the special low price and the convenient monthly terms. Send no money now. For the purpose of this sale, mail What fellow-craftsmen say about Conrad and his works : John Galsworthy : “ Probably the only writing of the last twelve years that will enrich the English language to any extent.” H. G. Wells: “One of my claims to dis- tinction is that I wrote the first long appreciation of Conrad’s works.” Christopher Morley : “ One comes to Conrad with unspeakable relief—with the feeling that here, at last, is a novelist who understands as the poets do.” Hugh Walpole : “Here, surely, if ever, is genius—the possession by a divine spirit of man’s earthly clay.” John Macy : “Except Hardy, no living author has inspired among fellow-craftsmen such unani- mousandsincere enthusiasm.” Kate Douglas Wiggin : “I do buy, circulate, be- lieve in, and praise Joseph Conrad.” but in life. The drama of vivid scenes and the sequence of arresting events, as become the attached form at once Stewart Edward White : Qo pr nn ---- a ane “I do believe I've made as many ‘Conrad’ readers as P. O. Name . THE OUTLOOK COMPANY Book Division 120 East 16th Street, New York Gentlemen:—Please send me without obligation on my part your 10-volume set of send you $1 as first payment and after that 9 monthly pay- Conrad. Within 5 days I will either owe you nothing. ’ Address 5 i] ] I ] l I ments of $2 each or return the books at your expense and |] ] I 1 ! I 1 1 J the next ,man, and so shal continue. Irvin Cobb : “Years ago I came across a Conrad story, I didn’t know the name then, but I read the story and re-read it, and marveled at the good clear English of it.” THE OUTLOOK, October 7, 1925. Volume 141, Subscription price $5.00 a year. Number 6. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, Published. weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act ‘of March 8, 1879. » Me Vol In th is mo men | Island the C were we WI where hope t surface escape chlorir The of the The N ie lWide we |

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Se es The Outlook Volume I4I October 7, 1925 Number 6 —_—_— In the Day’s Work NCE more the newspapers are () writing headlines over an un- happy naval event. The Service js mourning the loss of 32 officers and men lost in the submarine S-51 off Block Jsand. She was cut down at night by the City of Rome, and only three men were saved. The salvage vessels are, as we write, still hovering over the spot where the S-51 sank, in the forlorn hope that when its hull is raised to the surface there may be some survivors who escaped drowning or suffocation by chlorine gas. The menace of such a tragedy is part of the day’s work in the Naval Service. The Navy cannot train in peace for the risks of war without subjecting its per- sonnel to many war-time risks. The officers and men of the S-51 did not throw their lives away; they sacrificed them that the Navy might be instan- taneously ready for any emergency that might arise. The bodies of these men belong in Arlington, beside their brothers of the air who lost their lives in the Shenandoah. Home Again ‘ww the continent from the wreck of the S-51 the reception of the tew of the PN-9 No. 1 showed that wmetimes apparent tragedies have a appy ending. San Francisco spread it- self in its thousands over the heights along the bay to see the fliers start on their great flight less than a month ago, and it was San Francisco that turned out in its thousands to see their return. Our correspondent on the Pacific coast, Mr. Hugh A. Studdert Kennedy, sends us an account of this great welcome: Conscious that she was expressing not only her own joy and admiration but also that of the entire Nation, San Francisco gave Commander Rodgers and his men a welcome that was a fitting tribute to the real greatness of their exploit. An escort from all three ‘branches of the Service was drawn up to meet them. The Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, Theodore Douglas Robinson, was there, Admiral Dayton, and many others. San Francisco has seen a great many celebrations during the past few weeks, but during the time the com- paratively short procession was pass- ing up Market Street, towards the Civic Center, vast crowds flocked from the business district and lined the way. The day was one long round of cele- brations: the review at the Civic Center, the luncheon at the Common- wealth Club, the meeting in the after- noon when the five men were enter- tained by a thousand San Franciscan women, the whole being brought to a close by a civic banquet in the eve- ning. It was particularly interesting at this banquet to notice the one sailor- man of the crew, the machinist, W. H. Bowlin, in his traditional middy blouse and flabby pants, sitting beside Ad- miral Dayton. His frank, boyish speech was one of the successes of the evening. Commander Rodgers’s speech will have been circulated throughout the country, but to those who heard it there was something peculiarly satis- fying in its simplicity and its direct- ness. Supplemented as it was by speeches from others of the crew— speeches for the most part clearly first efforts in public speaking, but for that very reason all the more delightful— it gave a vivid picture of the nine days’ struggle and proved once again clearly enough that the truth is stranger than fiction. No sea story that Kingston or Marryat or Henty ever wrote could exceed the melo- drama of some of the fliers’ experi- ences. There was something pecu- liarly piquant in seeing this slow- spoken Marylander, Commander Rodgers, with his firm set mouth, his sandy hair, and his “poker face,” reeling off a story which would have filled the author of ‘Midshipman ‘Easy” with envy. Literally millions of people must have been listening in and holding their breath as he told the story of the famous nine days. What happiness there would be if later we could record the fact that the crew of the S-51 received a similar triumphant welcome in New York! Investigating the Army’s Wings ea faults there may be in the military and naval aviation of the United States, they are likely to be unearthed before the President’s Air Bs € mm” Wide World Photos Salvage vessels hovering over the submerged hull of the S-sr. position was first located by an airplane She lies in 127 feet of water ; her 173

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174 Board finishes its investigation. In the meantime it would be well for the public to hold its judgment in reserve. Both the Army Air Service and the Naval Air Service have fine records to their credit. All is not quite so gloomy as some of their critics seem to believe. The Acting Secretary of War, Mr. Dwight F. Davis, in his testimony ex- pressed his belief in the “skill, hardi- hood, and bravery” of the Air Service personnel and pointed to the “extraordi- narily large percentage of world records in aviation” which the Army Air Service holds. He believes that among its va- rious missions “the war mission must always govern.” He points out that if the air defenses of the country are in- adequate the responsibility rests with Congress. Certain quotations from the testimony before the Air Board indicate certain points of view which the public, affected by criticisms of the Air Service in both the Army and the Navy, have been likely to overlook. General Hines, Chief of Staff, said, for example: It is evident that, in all operations involving the employment of combined arms, there must be one directing head, and that directing head must be the commander-in-chief of the field forces. He alone can organize the forces with the general plan of combat in all of its aspects in mind... . An air service is an essential element of an army and a navy. In major operations these forces cannot operate efficiently without their own air ser- vices. On the other hand, an air ser- vice operating separately is unable to strike such a blow as will win a deci- sive battle... . Aside from the necessity of ‘co- operative action on the battlefield, there musi be co-ordination in the han- dling and operating of all ground in- stall-tions. This can be secured only through unity of command. General Patrick, who advocates the great expansion of the Air Service, would have a separate air corps in the Army and a separate air corps also in the Navy, each similar to the Marine Corps in the Navy Department. The Navy’s Aircraft | Fox the high authorities in the Army, those in the Navy were against any plan which would tend to divide author- ity and loyalty within the Service. The Secretary of the Navy, using The Outlook for October 7, 1925 words similar to those of General Hines, declared: Airplanes cannot win a battle alone, but need the closest assistance of the whole fleet... . A separate air corps would not be analogous in any respect whatever to the present Marine Corps. . . . The Marine Corps or Marines form no vital component part of a naval bat- tle. . . . If all the Marines were re- moved from ships in a naval battle, the naval battle itself would be in no way affected. The air forces, on the contrary, in the naval battle of to- morrow form a vital element or a com- ponent part of that battle. . . . The air force, therefore, is an integral part of the very fabric of the Navy itself... . The argument advanced by so many young, inexperienced naval aviators that they desire a separate air corps analogous to the Marine Corps is based on an utter fallacy and complete misunderstanding. Similarly Admiral Eberle said: The invention of new implements of warfare has always been followed by fantastic claims and unnecessary impatience on the part of some en- thusiasts. . . . First and foremost, a naval aviator must be a seaman to be able to judge conditions of wind and weather at sea, to pick up and distin- guish vessels at sea; and, should his plane be forced down, to be able to handle her when she becomes a surface boat. He must be a good navigator. He must have a knowledge of battle tactics and fleet formations; and also a knowledge of all units that make up a naval force—this being most essential to enable him to give correct informa- tion to the commander-in-chief regard- ing the dispositions of the enemy’s force. He must also have a knowledge of gunnery in order that he may give an accurate report of “spots;” that is, to make the proper corrections for range and lateral error, and be able to distinguish splashing of various cali- bers. Later testimony brought out the de- sire of aviation officers for more rapid promotion within the Service. Of course this is partly the desire of men for per- sonal advancement, but it is also the desire to see men with experience as aviators in positions of authority over the Army air pilots. Some of the diffi- culties of which Army fliers complained will correct themselves in time; but there is undoubtedly ground for some dissatis- faction with present conditions. It is important that the Air Board should find a remedy that is not worse than the dis- ease. “6A Tempest in a Teapot” ur Government is not likely to t to prevent American citizens frop serving as airmen against the Riff tribe men. Quite properly, it has called th attention of all Americans in Morocco tg Federal statutes which might affect thej status. This mild suggestion by 9 State Department has started newspape comment which is described by a Wash ington correspondent of The Outlook ag a tempest in a teapot. There is a statute that provides a pen alty for Americans who within American jurisdiction enlist in foreign armies oy induce others to enlist. That statut, evidently does not apply in this case Another statute, however, our corre spondent tells us, specifically gives t American diplomatic representatives in countries where the United States ha extra-territorial jurisdiction power to dd certain things to prevent Americans in such territories from serving in foreign ar mies. Conceivably, this may apply to ow airmen in the Riff, and in that case the penalties of the other statute may apply Having been asked, in effect, by some citizen whether laws did not exist to pre vent Americans from soldiering about thq world in any old army, fighting in an | old cause, the State Department looked up the law and gave the information to all concerned. Another question is as to what extent if at all, the air men have surrendered their inherent rights to diplomatic pro tection by serving with a foreign arny. It may be that they have done this, a-@ though they are reported as saying that they have signed no enlistment pape taken no oath of allegiance, and are fre to leave the service of the Sultan 4 Morocco (in which they are technically engaged) whenever they choose. The incident has aroused adverse com ment on what is assumed to be the rep rehensible conduct of our airmen in aif ing, as is said, two big nations to crus a small people striving for independence. This idea is based on ignorance of t® facts. The aggression is on the part d the tribesmen, and their forays outsidé their own territory have made it nece sary to protect Spanish and French pr tectorates over Moroccan territory {rot ravage and conquest. It is just as prais worthy to aid a free people in the sup pression of aggressive barbarism as it W4 for Byron to aid the Greeks in thei struggle for freedom. Our airmen of # —

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ely to t izens from Riff tribes called the Lorocco ty ffect thei n by ou newspape y a Wash Jutlook des a pen America 1 armies of it statute this case - The babbling gossip of the air cry out (Tweljth Night, Act I, Scene 5) Lm rt ‘1 \ iJ | ur corre gives to tatives in tates hag wer to dd pricans i oreign ar ply to our t case the ay apply, by some ist to pre about the 1g in an nt looked nation to at extent rrendered atic pro gn army. » this, al- ying that t papers | are free ultan oj chnicallj arse coll the rep n in aid to crusi en dence. e of the » part dl ; outsidg it neces nch pr pry from s prais the sup as it wa in thei on of U soe ff ea MNS \ \ Tes My y ‘ A ae A EI) Nes Ne ® oe Kt Now do a thorough job From H. Fornof, Chicago, III. Orr in the Chicago Tribune Gale in the Los Angeles Times II | -** And stay out !’’ From I. M. Horn, South Pasadena, Cal. Knott in the Dallas News Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.; copyright, 1925, by the Chicago Tribune Biased observers From Otis B. Nelson, Kendallville, Ind. (20, :00, 4") The Colonel pleads guilty

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176 old Lafayette Escadrille have, moreover, old associations of military service for France, and in no sense throw away American allegiance in aiding their for- mer comrades under attack. Uncle Sam Requests dae don’t have to put on the street address when you write me. Our family has lived in this town for fifty years. The postman knows where we live.” There are many individuals and busi- ness concerns too who seem to take this attitude towards the addressing of their mail. It is an attitude which causes no little trouble for the Post Office. In cities of any size there are several postal delivery districts. The mail has to be divided into carriers’ routes. The chances are that the clerks who distribute the mail are not as familiar with the names on the various routes as the car- riers who go from door to door. Then, too, carriers get sick, and inadequate ad- dresses mean all sorts of trouble for their substitutes. In big business buildings with thou- sands of inhabitants it is as important to give the room and floor number as it is to give the street address. If you want to win the gratitude of the Post Office, see that your correspondents address you at a definite street number wherever that is possible. If you use a lock box, see that its number is printed on your stationery. If you live in an apartment-house, state the street number and the suite number. Complying with these reasonable re- quests of the Post Office means that you will get your mail more promptly and efficiently and will save Uncle Sam a great deal of wasted time. Radio Looks Back and Forward N interesting event in the history of communication recently took place in the ether over Manhattan Island. At the annual dinner of the Old-Time Telegraphers and Historical Association, held on board the liner Olympic, a pho- nograph record of a telegraph message sent by Thomas A. Edison was “played” as a feature of the evening. This disk was made several years ago as a matter of historical record. The microphone of the municipal station, WNYC, was placed in the banquet salon, and it picked up the dots and dashes of the Morse code as formed by the hand of Edison, the most famous of old-time telegraphers. As far as most radio auditors were concerned, these metallic clicks of the telegraph instrument might have been mistaken for static. But to the eight hundred old-time knights of the tele- graph key present at the banquet the dots and dashes had a distinct meaning. It was radio that released the message from the limitations of the wire lines and the confines of a phonograph record by These men are flying for France The Outlook for broadcasting the clicks in every direction at the speed of sunlight, 186,000 miles a second. Audible Pictures HILE this historical record of the past was producing a curious sound in hundreds of loudspeakers, an- other event, casting a glimpse into the future, was being radiated from the aerial wires of WJZ. The 455-meter ethereal channel assigned to WJZ also vibrated with a series of dots and dashes, but they were accompanied through space by a whistle-like tone. It was a strange sound for broadcast listeners to pick up, and the average fan who missed the announcer’s introduction could not have been blamed if he had thought a wire in the receiver had suddenly snapped, or something else had happened to blot out all music. But to engineers these peculiar signs meant that a picture was passing through the air on the 455- meter wave-length. There was only one receiver in New York that could make an_ intelligent translation of these clicks. Slowly a cylinder of Captain R. H. Ranger’s photo-radio apparatus turned on its axis at the Grand Central Palace, several blocks away from the broadcaster, and within twenty-five minutes the electrical impulses had sketched a picture of Gen- eral J. G. Harbord. It was the first time a photograph was released into space by a regular broadcasting station. Pre- viously, photographs sent by radio from Europe and Honolulu were transmitted 3 on the 15,000-meter wave-length, far out of tuning range of broadcast receivers. The transmitting equipment consisted of a transparent cylinder upon which the film of the photograph was placed. This cylinder revolved at a uniform speed. Light passing through the film entered a glass tube filled with argon gas. This tube is not unlike the human eye. Its back is coated with potassium hydride, which is so sensitive to light that it starts a flow of electrons, which are made to pass to a tungsten disk in the center of the tube. This produces electrical im- pulses which sound somewhat like the dots and dashes of the telegraph or wire- less code. They represent the shadows and high lights of the picture. These dots and dashes are broadcast and are detected by a special receiving apparatus, the operating speed of which is synchronized with the speed of the O« sel tw lor ap) the thro the tion of « as it

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ok forlOctober 7, 1925 lirection} sending instrument. By an ingenious } miles a } system, these signals, ranging from one- two-hundredth to one-quarter of an inch long and one-hundredth of an inch high, appear in ink on a sheet of paper in ex- actly the same position as the light and dark areas on the original picture. In this way the photograph or illustration is reproduced, in a manner similar to that employed in making photo-engravings. There was a new significance to ex- perienced radio men who listened to the mysterious and seemingly meaning- less characters carrying the photograph through the air on WJZ’s invisible chan- nel. These men will never forget how suddenly broadcasting dawned five years ago. Many of them had heard indis- tinct mutterings and discordant musical notes, but few took these strange sounds as an indication of the beginning of a revolutionary change in wireless. They found these noises, as they were called, mixed with the dots and dashes of com- mercial and amateur stations, and they cursed them because they caused inter- ference, just as broadcast listeners the other night might have considered the “noise” of the radio picture radiated by WJZ. But now the old-timers have learned a lesson. They know strange signals in the ether are likely to be highly signifi- cant of something radically new. This time the “noises” not only may be the forerunner of photographs flashed through the walls of homes throughout the world, but, it is believed, radio mo- tion pictures and television! These marvelous features of the ether may be perfected overnight, just as is radio telephony. The fundamental prin- ciples are known to radio research en- gineers. As C, Francis Jenkins, the radio-movie experimenter of Washington, recently explained, only the details are left to be worked out, and he predicts that within five years practically every household may have an attachment to the radio set in the form of a miniature motion-picture screen on which the Hertzian waves will paint with light beams the scenes of distant cities and events of international interest. 1 of the curious ers, an- into the om the 5-meter JZ also | dashes, through t was a eners to ) missed yuld not ought a uddenly appened ngineers | picture the 455- in New telligent lowly a Ranger’s | its axis several ter, and lectrical of Gen- irst time space by 1. Pre- dio from nsmitted % , far out eivers. consisted hich the d. This n speed. ntered a s. This aye. Its hydride, it starts made to center of rical im- like the . or wire- modi More than the Uncle of “ Mr. A.” yroadcast} |N newspaper headlines the death of receivingg” Pratab Singh seems of interest only of whichfas it recalls the notorious blackmail case d of the International The Maharajah Sir Pratab Singh, of Jammu and Kashmir in which his nephew and presumptive heir, Hari Singh (the “Mr. A” of the case), was the victim. The tenderness with which the personality of Hari Singh was protected from publicity by the Court was ascribed to fear lest disclosure of the heir’s breach of caste rather than his breach of morals should rouse violent aversion to his succession. It is now believed that he will succeed his uncle, although the late Maharajah was deeply shocked by the scandal. Probably re- spect and regard for the uncle rather than for the nephew was at the back of the British reticence—which, as a matter of fact, insured silence only for a few days and doubled the réclame of the scandal. His Highness Sir Pratab Singh, Ma- harajah of Jammu and Kashmir, was a firm friend of the British as overrulers of his realm and of all the many other “native states,” big and little. In his youth he knew and admired General Roberts (Kipling’s “Bobs”). He gave half a million dollars to help pay for India’s memorial to Queen Victoria. In the Great War he not only kept his peo- ple true to British faith, but sent a little army of his own to the front (some 10,000 men, we believe), accompanied them in person, and paid his troops out of his own pocket. If anything’ were lacking to make Sir Pratab Singh popu- lar with Englishmen, it would be found in the fact that he loved the game of 177 cricket and that he highly valued the medal he once gained for saving the life of an Englishwoman. The British raj will be lucky if the new Maharajah is half as good a sport or half as loyal to his overlords as was the dead prince who in his own Oriental way for forty years preserved peace and advanced the welfare of a semi-indepen- dent kingdom of 85,000 square miles and a population of about 3,500,000. There is romance yet in Kashmir. Remembering Milton at Vallombrosa [ is safe to say that the average school- trained English-speaking person who hears the word Vallombrosa spoken thinks immediately of Milton and his famous lines about the autumn leaves. Certainly no traveler in Florence will escape hearing them quoted. The fact that Milton was actually in Tuscany, that he visited and talked long with the imprisoned Galileo, and that his works are filled with allusions to that happy time is well fixed in the Italian mind. There are no people like the Italians for recording in tangible form their own great men or those famous strangers who, under these skies, lived, worked or died. Several English poets who loved this country and made it a home, whether temporary or otherwise, are remembered by suitable tablets or monuments, and in many a city one comes across inscrip- tions to Shelley, Keats, Byron, the Brownings, and others to whom Italy was an inspiration and a joy. But for some reason, one does not know why, there has been nothing to re- call the visit of Milton until now. This year, however, joint Italian and English committees took the matter in charge, and recently there was a most interesting ceremony at Vallombrosa, where a tablet was set in the wall of the building in which the poet was lodged when he came there to visit the monks in 1638. Vallombrosa is a very beautiful spot, with its deep forests of pine and other trees. The climate is ideal in summer, for it is over three thousand feet above ‘sea-level, and it is now a favorite resort during the hot months, while in. the win- ter, when the snow lies deep, people come for-the sports. In Milton’s time it .was, of course, very solitafy; a few peasants or charcoal-burners possibly lived there, and no one else but the monks, who,

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178 under the guidance of the pious San Giovanni Gualberto, had retired from the world and founded a monastery. But it was the very place for a poet, and one can imagine what visions of solemn forest aisles or green meadows came to Milton’s memory in after years when feeble and blind and poor in troubled days in Eng- land. The recent ceremony took place in the green inclosure in front of the build- ing called “Il Paradisino,” part of the ancient monastery. The King sent a representative, the Duke of Pistoia (son of the Duke d’Aosta), while the British Government, in the unavoidable absence of its Ambassador in England, was rep- resented by the head of the British press in Rome. The tablet is the work of Hendrik Andersen, an American sculptor of Nor- wegian descent, who has lived long in Rome, but was formerly at home in Bos- ton and New York. Below the bas- relief showing the head of the poet is the inscription, written by Signor Ugo Ojetti, a distinguished scholar and orator, who was the principal speaker on this occa- sion. Its English version is as follows: “Tn 1638, here dwelt the great Eng- lish poet, John Milton, a student of our classics, devoted to our culture, a lover of this forest and of this sky. 30 August, MCMXXV.” Our Ambassador to Japan _ President’s appointment of Mr. Charles MacVeagh to be Mr. Ban- croft’s successor as American Ambassa- dor to Japan is a recess appointment. When the Senate meets, it is not likely to arouse serious opposition, for Mr. Wide Worid Photos Charles VacVeagh United States Ambassador to Japan MacVeagh has the respect of the best business and political advisers of the Administration. Yet he is neither a business man nor a politician. He is a lawyer of high attain- ments whose work has brought him into contact with wide-spreading affairs of commerce and finance. When his father, Wayne MacVeagh, was made United States Minister to Turkey by President Grant, that post was his first National office. Later Wayne MacVeagh had large political experience, became a Cabi- net Secretary, and later Ambassador to Italy, but, as with his son, his first Na- tional appointment was of a diplomatic character. Both came to diplomacy with the best kind of legal training and a large The Outlook for knowledge of world conditions. The present appointee is a co-member in a great law firm with the recent Demo- cratic candidate for the Presidency. In a sense this is a political appoint- ment, but that does not mean a political trade or political favoritism. We have not yet reached the point where the great Ambassadorships are always awarded to men of long diplomatic experience. Where ability is unquestioned, the sec- tion or State of the appointee and the preservation of a balance of preferment as between sections still exercise influ- ence. In this case no doubt a candidate from New York, and backed by Senator Wadsworth, helps that political balance. One special reason which, it is said by some, might have indicated the selection of a diplomat of experience for appoint- ment to Japan lies in the fact that the Japanese Government and people bestow an extraordinary degree of respect and courtesy upon the American Ambassador. This is in reality a tribute to the Ameri- can people and Government, but men unaccustomed to diplomatic life might easily have their heads turned by a short sojourn in the Tokyo Embassy. In this case there seems to be little danger in that direction. ‘‘ The Great Pearl Burial ”’ HE mound-tomb in Ohio, near the town of Bainbridge, which has just yielded such picturesque and puzzling treasure to excavators representing the Ohio Archeological and Historical Mu- seum, is only one of hundreds of similar tumuli, some as large, many much smaller. Most of these mounds are found along the valleys of the Missis- international The Ohio mound in which ‘‘ the great Pearl Burial ’’ took place the the

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ok for s. The ber in a - Demo- acy. appoint- political Ve have the great arded to verience. the sec- and the -ferment se influ- andidate Senator balance. , said by selection appoint- that the e bestow ect and yassador. > Ameri- jut men e might y a short In this anger in near the has just puzzling ting the ical Mu- f similar y much inds are » Missis- ‘October 7, 1925 sippi and Ohio Rivers, although a few are scattered at distant points. Prob- ably they were built from three to five thousand years ago. The skeletons found in the mounds do not differ essentially from those of the Indians who were in North America when the white man arrived. But some things found in the mounds do not cor- respond with the culture or customs of our red man. In the mound at Bainbridge, for in- stance, were half-helmets of beaten cop- per, strings of pearls (the news accounts say that some were as large as hickory nuts), fragments and prints from woven cloth, tortoise-shell ornaments with carv- ings of birds, and something which it is thought may be a musical instrument. Evidently the four skeletons in this mound were those of people of conse- quence and in a way rich and honored. The number of pearls was so great that the place has been called “the great pearl burial.” Who were the mound builders? No doubt the Ohio discoveries will cause a revival of an old and sharply contested debate on this question. One school of archeologists believes that the mound men were racially the direct ancestors of the American Indian we know, and that mound interment, pearl-collecting, and other ways of the mound builders had simply died out. Other students of the problem find that answer too simple and also not capable of explaining known facts. They see analogies between the mound builders, the Incas of Peru, and the Mayas of Yucatan, and ask whether the mound builders may not have been exploring parties from some southern race, sent northward to find such things as copper and pearls. Beyond that sup- position rises again the fascinating specu- lation as to whether the civilization that left temples and carvings and even litera- ture to the south of us may not have had its origin in adventurous parties from India or elsewhere in the Far East, voy- aging by degrees through the Polynesian seas and making stations at many islands until there came the great jump from Easter Island (where there are traces of them) to the American coast. This takes us a long way from Bain- bridge, Ohio. ‘The theory of Mayan migration, colonization, and trade in the Mississippi Valley is far from being es- tablished. But that the mounds show racial and economic life differing so much from that of the American Indian as to indicate some mighty influence from outside is at least probable. A Cardinal Pays Tribute to Science MONG Catholics as well as A among Protestants there is a division between those who fear the results of the discoveries of science and those who welcome them. Cardinal Hayes, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, has placed international Cardinal Hayes himself openly among those who in the name of religion applaud and encourage the searchers for truth by the pathway of science. At the opening of the radio station of the Paulist Fathers in New York City a few days ago he said: To-night we offer a tribute of praise and gratitude to our scientists, to those devoted servants of truth who dedicate their lives to the advancement of hu- man knowledge. He made it plain that this was not merely a tribute to the practitioners of physical science, that, as he said, “has contributed enormously to human com- fort and health and life;” it was a tribute to the students of pure science, “real, not false science,” which discloses as its ideal “truth, always, everywhere, at any cost.” By implication Cardinal Hayes denied that there was any warfare between science and religion, for he declared that the true scientist realizes, ‘as the Church ‘ 179 teaches, that there can be no vital con- flict or contradiction between the truth revealed to man by God in the natural order and that made manifest by him in the supernatural.” In the spirit of these remarks there is little, if anything, that can be reconciled with the spirit of the following. We take verbatim the postscript of a letter writ- ten by Mr. P. H. Callahan, regarded in some quarters as the foremost Catholic layman in America, to Father John A. Ryan, of the Catholic University. These are Mr. Callahan’s words: P.S.—You can imagine how long a teacher would be allowed to remain in a Catholic university or a Catholic school who would teach that man had descended from a lower order of ani- mals. No matter whether he were cleric or lay he would be fired like Shanley, the restaurant man, used to discharge his waiters caught cheating —a good strong kick going out the door and their hat and coat thrown after them—which system Shanley brought from Ireland and used to say was the best plan to retain the morale of his organization. It would be hard to find a greater con- trast than that between this attitude and the attitude expressed in Cardinal Hayes’s words, “Truth, always, every- where, at any cost.” Indeed, a British periodical, “The Month,” conducted un- der the auspices of the Jesuit Fathers, makes a statement which directly contra- dicts that of this Catholic layman. It says of the Catholic Church: Her belief in the inspiration of God’s Word cannot be shaken by scientific discoveries, in making which indeed her members have been among the foremost; nor does she deny well- supported scientific truth—the case of Galileo only illustrates the fact— because it seems opposed to revelation. She has never forbidden the teaching of evolution in her schools, because, employing always Catholic teachers, she knows that no theory of human origins will be taught that contradicts either scientific or revealed truth. The same line of division runs through all churches that separates the Baptist Fundamentalist from the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. . But there is a more fundamental dif- ference than that between those who in the name of religion fear science’ and those who welcome it. This is the differ- ence between those who regard religion as primarily and essentially a theory, a view, a doctrine, to be received on au-

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180 thority, and those who regard religion as essentially a life. There are both Catholics and Protes- tants who regard religion as something to be believed on the authority of a Creed or a Church or a Book. Some of these do not fear any conflict between conclusions established by science and the dogmas of their religion because they keep them in separate compartments of their minds. They do not allow their knowledge to heckle their belief. They follow the Fourth Commandment as if it read: “Six days shalt thou think; but the seventh day is the Sabbath, in which thou shalt do no manner of thinking.” In the laboratory they can welcome truth without qualms, but at the altar they are ready to accept anything that comes to them from their ecclesiastical superiors. But there are also both Catholics and Protestants who regard religion as a way of living. They recognize that people cannot live without thinking about life; that no one with a mind can keep that mind from considering and weighing theories; but they distinguish between theories about life and the life itself. Father George Tyrrell was a Catholic of this sort. In his “Confidential Letter to a Friend Who is a Professor of Anthro- pology,” which led to his expulsion from the Jesuit order, he set forth very clearly this distinction between his religion, which he called Catholicism, and its dog- mas. The scientist had come to Father Tyrrell for counsel because he had felt that the intellectual defense of the Cath- olic Church had broken down and be- cause he could no longer reconcile his scientific conclusions with the doctrines he had been taught. Should he leave the Church? “Yes,” answered Father Tyr- rell, “if theological ‘intellectualism’ be right; if faith mean mental assent to a system of conceptions of the understand- ing; if Catholicism be primarily a theol- ogy or at most a system of practical observances regulated by that theology. No, if Catholicism be primarily a life, and the Church a spiritual organism in whose life we participate, and if theol- ogy be but an attempt of that life to formulate and understand itself—an at- tempt which may fail wholly or in part without affecting the value and reality of the said life.” Here is the issue which is raised anew in these days. It is a mistake to think that the chief differences within the Church are differences of creeds. The difference that counts is that between those who insist that the creed is religion and those who say that the creed is no more religion than botany is a flower. The New New England ‘ X JEST INJY LANE looks at first sight as it has always looked. The apple trees— bearing a good crop this year—still line the road, inside the stone walls. There are a few elms in front of the widely separated farmhouses. The door of Deacon Noyes’s barn stands open, and the swallows flash in and out, as they did when the Deacon’s grandfather was a boy. But at the corner, at the cross- roads, stands a novel figure. Is that really Constable Pingree, who used to patrol the streets, wearing a policeman’s gray helmet and swinging a billy? He has changed his appearance extraordi- narily; in fact, he is all dolled up. He has the smart cap of a metropolitan police officer; he stands beside a revolv- ing sign with “Stop” and “Go” on it. From time to time he blows a piercing shriek on a whistle, and holds up the palm of one white-gloved hand, beckon- ing impatiently with the other hand. Think of it—a traffic cop on West Injy Lane! His are no mere “gestures,” however; nor is his presence an idle imitation of the customs of the cities. This is on the highroad between Boston and Portland, and the motor cars whiz by in endless procession. Yesterday, while Pingree was off duty and a winking green light in a white pillar was supposed to take his place, two women in a Ford tried to charge around the corner in defiance of common sense, and knocked another car into the ditch. The innocent occupants of the other car were, of course, the ones who had to be carried to the hospital. There are a few other changes along the Lane. There used not to stand, in front of Captain Bannister’s house, tables and trays offering green corn, tomatoes, and apples for sale, with signs announcing honey straight from the bee. Down at the corner, on the site of the grocery, young Dave Adams has made the place hideous with his red gasoline pumps, oil tanks, and other gaudy ap- paratus of a filling station. Farther on, near the old Patmos Bower Road (now Argonne Avenue), there are two greasy- looking shacks for the sale of hot dogs and one devoted to fried clams. All of The Outlook fot them are nasty eyesores on a fine old road. As you enter the town appear more and more signs of the triumph of the automobile. The change is more notice. able than in a city. The few scared pedestrians who are left wear the hunted look which is their usual expression everywhere. How long will it be before we read in the papers that a man has been before court, charged with coming outdoors on foot, and that the judge, remarking that this is a second offense, imposes a fine and ten days’ imprison- ment? More traffic cops and more “silent policemen” guard the street cor- ners in the old town. Frantic warnings against parking are displayed near the site of the hitching-post where Uncle Jimmy Currier used to anchor his old white horse and buggy. And the street, where Dr. Frothingham’s horse used to paw a hollow in the ground, is neatly covered with asphalt and checked off with white lines for the further guidance of motorists. On Elm Street is the for- mer home of Wigglesworth, the plumber, built on his ill-gotten gains in the Egre- gious Eighties, and in the most atrocious style of Queen Anne architecture—all towers, minarets, and points. Di Palma, the fruit dealer, owns it now, and has turned it into a wayside hotel. “The Homlyke Inn,” he calls it, and anything less homelike, this side the Mosque of St. Sophia, cannot be imagined. But the old Sir William Pepperell— the tavern which dates from 1760—has been restored, in good taste, to a style really Georgian. And the smoothly paved streets, the good country roads, are certainly better than the old lanes of rut and mud-hole. When the filling stations are a little thinned out and less insulting to the eye, when some thov- sands of the hot-dog shanties are blown up, when there ceases to be Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe every half-mile for the sale o! fake antiques and ornaments brought from the cities, when the tea-rooms quil being so very, very quaint and full of whimsy, and when a tunnel is dug under ground for those low varlets who still try to walk along the country roads, but get their carcasses in the way of the facile operation of an automobile—when al these things are done the voice of th turtle will be heard again, and the com mon hound dog will frisk once more i _~ me! the lanes, where now no dog dare ventutt unless he is encased in a stale roll and covered with a swipe of mustard. Uls

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look for a fine old pear more iph of the ore notice. ew scared the hunted expression be before L man has ith coming the judge, 1d offense, imprison- and more street cor- > warnings | near the ere Uncle or his old the street, se used to is neatly recked off t guidance is the for- > plumber, the Egre- - atrocious cture—all Di Palma, , and has el. “The | anything que of St. epperell— | 760—has to a style smoothly ry roads, d lanes of he filling t and less me thou- are blown Ide Gifte e sale 0 ; brought ooms quit id full of ug under © still try s, but get the facile when all ce of the the con » more if = looked hopeful. pened was that Ulster refused to appoint a delegate to the Commission. In other words, Ulster refused to comply with the arrangement that the British Govern- October 7, 1925 Ireland’s Divided House ; BLOOD-CLOT is no_ bigger than the head of a pin, but if it obstructs the brain it brings death. If the Irish question is to-day unsettled, it is because there is still an obstacle to peace, trivial in dimensions and local in intrinsic importance, but deadly. The total population of Ireland is only 4,500,000, or one in 400 of the human race; and yet there are two sovereignties —the Free State to the south and a re- duced Ulster to the north; on the map mere territorial fragments, but spiritually the citadels of that fierce rivalry between Catholic and Protestant which for cen- turies deluged Europe with waves of war. Between these kingdoms of the soul the boundary is still in dispute. Just as Denmark has had her Schleswig-Hol- stein, and France her Alsace-Lorraine, and Latin America her Tacna-Arica, so has Ireland her Fermanagh and Tyrone —no more than two out of thirty-eight counties, with a combined population of little over 200,000 persons—and the fate of these counties has affected, not only the rise and fall of British Governments, but the peace of the world itself. In July, 1914, it was agreed that Southern Ireland should have Home Rule and that Northern Ireland should be allowed the privilege of choosing to remain under the British Parliament. This was the basis of the famous con- ference at Buckingham Palace, the suc- cess of which might have prevented Germany from pushing on to war. What broke up the Round Table and post- poned Home Rule was the claim of both sides to Fermanagh and Tyrone. In December, 1921, after seven costly years of bloodshed and a civil war in Ireland itself, a treaty was signed creating the Free State, but leaving the future of Fermanagh and Tyrone still uncertain. Provisionally, they were in- cluded in Northern Ireland, but on con- dition that a Boundary Commission of Three be appointed—one member by the Free State, a second by Northern Ire- land, and a third by Britain—which But what then hap- e venture _ roll and rd. ment had made in consultation with Ulster’s leaders. Faced by this deadlock, Ramsay Mac- Donald as Prime Minister took the ad- vice of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which body of law lords constitutes the Supreme Court of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The authority of this august tribunal was reinforced for the occasion The Aviators’ Rebellion ‘Prener Mitcuetu has brought down upon his head the ire of his superiors. His fate will be determined by a court martial. Colonel Mitchell is not the only man in the Service who believes that the organ- ization of our air defense is upon an intolerable basis. The Outlook sioned commis- Colonel Laurence La Tourette Driggs to make a first-hand study of the dissatisfaction in the Air Service—to record the thoughts and feelings of the men who have kept out of the headlines and trouble. Colonel Driggs, in an air- plane, reached the personnel in many of the country’s most important flying-fields. His dramatic revelations of the state of mind of the Air Service will appear in the next two issues of The Outlook. by the presence of eminent judges from Australia and Canada. The decision of the Judicial Committee was that until Northern Ireland appointed a delegate the Boundary Commission could not be brought into being without fresh legisla- tion. And so important was the matter considered to be that, in October of last year, with a general election pending, Parliament was called into special session and a statute enabling the Government to appoint a delegate for Northern Ireland 181 received the royal assent. Not less sig- nificant was the fact that the Chairman of the Commission, who holds the casting vote, has been no less a person than Chief Justice Feetham, of Australia. It means that the entire British Empire, in so far as it is self-governing, has been mobilized as a steam-hammer to crack this nut; and without avail. It is a most admirable illustration of compulsory ar- bitration defied by one of the parties thereto. And if, as is possible, the Free State appeals to the League of Nations, the sovereignty of the British Empire will be brought into discussion at Geneva. That Ulster is unreasonable cannot be denied. She declares, however, that she only acquiesced in the Irish Free State on condition that the two counties be in- cluded in her province, and she quotes a letter from Lord Birkenhead, when Lord Chancellor, to Earl Balfour, giving assur- ances to that general effect. With the terms of this letter Stanley Baldwin, then a Die-Hard, certainly would have agreed; and for the Conservative Gov- ernment, with its Unionist tradition, to employ force against Ulster would un- doubtedly alienate many supporters in both houses of Parliament. As Winston Churchill’s father, Lord Randolph, said, thirty years ago, “Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right!” The proposal that Londonderry, now predominantly Cath- olic, should pass out of Ulster’s control, seems to the Protestants who have cele- brated so often the famous siege as un- thinkable as it would be to Boston to cede Bunker Hill to Britain. And yet Londonderry, Newry, and other towns are hard hit by the Free State tariff wall, cutting them off as it does from their normal markets. If the drama be acted on a small stage, it is none the less in- tense on that account. It is surmised, then, first, that Chief Justice Feetham’s award is substantially favorable to the Irish Free State, and, secondly, that Northern Ireland will be, to put it mildly, disinclined to surrender the areas thus awarded to her neighbor. If this happens, it will be asked why the rest of mankind should worry. Sup- pose that a few Protestants do remain under Roman Catholic rule and a few Roman. Catholics under Protestant rule; who seriously suffers? The important problem for Sir James Craig, Prime Min- ister in the North, is surely the prevailing unemployment in Belfast. And what President Cosgrave has to face is an ex- penditure by the Free State which far

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182 exceeds revenue, and is more than double the utmost that it would have been if Ireland had continued within the United Kingdom. So the outsider would argue. But Ireland never has been ruled by such logic. The Free State regards the delimitation of the boundary as a test of England’s good faith. And if Eng- land fails, De Valera and the demobilized Republican irregulars will raise a for- midable demand for total independence and a guerrilla war against Belfast. Megalomania By LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT Contributing Editor of The Outlook REUD, the much-discussed psy- Fk chologist, thinks that extreme self-distrust or, as he calls it, an “inferiority-complex” is one of the most unfortunate of human qualities. It may, it is true, cause an indescribable amount of unhappiness to the individual who suffers from it. But the man who is marked by an “inferiority-complex” is not nearly so unpleasant to society at large as he who is a victim of megalo- mania, the delusion of grandeur, or, to use a more popular and effective term, “the big-head.” The big-headed man is usually pom- pous and arrogant, and his boasted self- sufficiency is commonly based upon some great material success. History is full of instances of the misfortunes of megalo- mania. One of the most amusing is that of Goliath, the Philistine. He was ten feet tall, his coat of mail weighed a hun- dred and fifty pounds, he was a mass of brass both physically and mentally—in a word, he was “the world’s greatest giant.” He had a helmet of brass upon his head, greaves of brass upon his legs, a target of brass between his shoulders; the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam and his spear’s head weighed eighteen pounds; and he stood up and cried, “I defy the armies of Israel this day;” and David went out and slew him with a pebble from the brook. But Goliath did one thing—he con- tributed to the joyousness of the English language. For since his day, thanks to the ironic essays of Matthew Arnold, the word philistine has come to mean “a self-satisfied person who believes that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich and who is unaware of his own lack of culture.” Another who claimed to be “the world’s greatest giant” was Polyphemus, the Cyclops. He was rich, powerful, and arrogant, with little respect for the laws of the gods or of men. Unfortunately for him, he was a “wet,” so when he captured Odysseus, the great Greek wan- derer made him drunk, put out his only eye, and escaped by a clever stratagem which Polyphemus had not brains enough to understand. Alexander, who regarded himself as “the world’s greatest conqueror,” and in his vanity sighed because there were no more worlds to conquer, was also, un- fortunately for himself, a “wet,” and, in spite of his boasted greatness, died mis- erably, at the early age of thirty-three after a carouse. George the Third ruined himself, and came near to ruining his country, by. his big-headedness. He thought he was “the world’s greatest statesman,” but the world would not admit it. He could not govern his own country; he lost his American colonies; and he died insane. A distinguished English historian, Gar- diner, says of him: “Able to control the disposition of office, he could not control the course of events. His very ministers gave up the struggle as hopeless long be- fore he would acknowledge the true state of the case.” Charles Sumner believed that he was “the world’s greatest Senator” and that he ought to be President of the United States; but megalomania frustrated his political ambitions. His confidence in his own views, opinions, and policies was notorious. One day a friend of Grant’s came to the White House and, in horror at some Tiberal theological views which he had just heard Sumner express, exclaimed: “Do you know, Sumner doesn’t believe in the Bible!” “Well,” replied the laconic Grant, “What could you expect? He didn’t write it, did he?” I am led to these musings on the dan- gers of megalomania by a controversy— not very important, to be sure, but add- ing, perhaps, a little to the gayety of current journalism—which I have had with the Chicago “Tribune.” A few weeks ago I criticised the “Tribune” for The Outlook jm? carrying at the head of its editorial cd umns the boast that it is “the world greatest newspaper.” I criticised bot the accuracy and the good taste of thi My criticism evidently an assertion. noyed the ‘“Tribune”—which I regret, : I never desire to hurt the feelings of ser sitive people—for it now replies with th explanation that I am a lugubrious pro hibitionist and envy the “Tribune” be cause it is gloriously “wet”—a fact i Now I di not even know that the “Tribune” wa which it takes great pride. “wet,” for I find it, on the few occasion when I see it, rather dry reading. Ani so I think the lawyers would call its re ply incompetent and irrelevant. But ] gladly waive all legal technicalities ang’, i il 0 t accept its explanation. It was doubtles - in a moment of extreme wetness that it in permitted itself to boast of its greatness . for there is nothing like alcohol—espe cially in the form of a good vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, or of Clo de Vougeot ’68, or of Lanson ’04—t produce delusions of grandeur. Fortunately, American journalism he risen well above the standards of th days of Jefferson Brick. Dickens ha burlesqued the Jefferson Brick type of journalism in one of his most famou; passages—those who resent justifiable and well-meant criticism will call it on of his most infamous passages. It is: curious twist in human nature that per- mits some Americans to laugh uproar, iously at Mrs. Sairy Gamp and Mr. Pecksniff and to redden with anger at Jefferson Brick. Nevertheless I ventur to quote the passage. When Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley set foot for the first time o American soil, they were greeted by 4 chorus of newsboys: “Here’s this morning’s New York Sewer!” cried one. “Here’s this morn- ing’s New York Stabber! Here’s the New York Family Spy! Here’s the New York Private Listener! Here's the New York Peeper! Here’s the New York Plunderer! Here’s the New York Keyhole Reporter! Here’s the New York Rowdy Journal! Here’s all the New York papers! Here’s full particulars of the patriotic locofoco movement yesterday, in which the Whigs was so chawed up; and the last Alabama gouging case; and the inter- esting Alabama dooel with Bowe knives; and all the Political, Commer- cial and Fashionable news. Here they are! Here’s the papers! Here’s the papers!” ... “It is in such enlightened means,” said Colonel Diver, proprietor of the he cor inv pit - anc ask Pos tho sub to s to | rela vers

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tlook fo October 7, 1925 Rowdy Journal and employer of that immortal special writer Jefferson Brick, “that the bubbling passions of litorial col he world

cised bol§ my country find a vent.” Our news- ste Of thif papers, he added, are “the Palladium dently anf of national Liberty at home, sir, and I regret, aj the dread of foreign oppression ngs of sen 2s with th srious pro ibune”’ be ~a fact i Now I dif oune” waj - occasio ing. And call its re WILL not attempt to define a t. But] “second-best poem.” Who could? llities andl’ But I can explain why a small sec- tion of the British public—few but faith- ful to poetry—has suddenly become interested in second-best poems, and has added mightily to my correspondence. The Poetry Society began it. Under the auspices of this Society, it has be- come the custom for the president to invite a lover of poetry to enter the pul- pit of the Chapel Royal of the Savoy, off the Strand, at 3:15 on a Monday after- noon, and to speak on a poet and recite some of his verses. Twice had I been honored. I chose as my subjects two men I knew very well during their lifetime—W. E. Henley and Francis Thompson. When I was asked to take the pulpit a third time, doubtless oss that it greatness, 101— espe vintage ol or of Clo n ’04—t)

alism ha Is of th *kens has < type ol t famous justifiable all it one - It SM) chose as my subject “Second-Best that perf Poems: Contributions Towards an An- 1 uproart thology.” and Mr§ Now I must explain why this thorny anger al§ subject was pricking in my mind. For I venture} to speak of a second-best poem is usually to hurt a poet, and some, not all, of his nd Mark§ relations. time on ed by 2 A’ a luncheon party I sat next to a publisher (a woman), and the con- versation, after many false scents, started w York Jon ] t dt t popular poetry as opposed to grea erage: poetry, and some one quoted the lines re’s the , e's the that have gone round the English-speak- Here’s § 8 world: re’s the} There was a Knight of Bethlehem he New — Whose wealth was tears and sorrows. re’s the} His men-at-arms were little lambs, ere’s all} His trumpeters were sparrows. e’s fullf His castle was a wooden cross, ocofocof Whereon he hung so high; ich the— His helmet was a crown of thorns the last} Whose crest did reach the sky. , cout — wrote that?” asked the pub- ommer- f°°"'eT. re they} 1 took my note-book, a hand span re’s the fhigh, from my pocket, turned the pages, and replied: “The author was Henry neans,” § Neville Maugham. It’s from his ‘The of the § Husband of Poverty.’ ”

abroad; the Envy of the world, sir, and the leaders of Human Civiliza- tion.” If the Chicago “Tribune” does not want a Jefferson Brick thrown at its head, it might adopt as its motto, instead 183 of “the world’s greatest newspaper,” that wise saying of Solomon which will be found in the Twenty-seventh Chapter of the Book of Proverbs, at the second verse: “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.” —y an Poems: A Proposed Anthology A London Literary Letter By C. LEwIs HIND “Perhaps you can tell me,” the aston- ished publisher said, “who wrote, For the love of God is broader Than the measure of man’s mind: And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.” “Yes,” I answered, “that’s in another of my note-books. It’s from a hymn by Faber. It will probably go into my an- thology of ‘One Hundred Second-Best Poems.’ ” “Explain, please,” murmured the pub- lisher. She is a woman, I have already said. A male publisher would not talk like that. “Oh, it’s simple enough,” I said. “Ever since I was a youth I have carried a note-book with me. On the left side I write an austere diary; on the right I paste verse and prose cuttings that in- terest and move me. I must have half a hundred such note-books. Hardly any of the poems pasted in them get into anthologies. They are usually heart cries, often by amateurs; the kind of poems that thousands of people cut out from journals, keep, and show to their intimates— poems like ‘I have lived and 1 have loved,’ ‘God and I in space alone,’ ‘They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old,’ ‘The Little Gray Mule,’ and ‘Lean Hard.’ These poems go round the world. Year after year you see in- quiries in the lesser literary papers about the correct text of them and the names of the authors.” “T should like to issue a book of your ‘One Hundred Second-Best Poems,’ ” said the publisher. I smiled, but answered neither Yes nor No. I am not ready for the adventure yet. I TOLD them all this at the Savoy Chapel; and upon the ledge of the pulpit were my note-books, with pieces of paper stuck in them indicating the second-best poems of my fancy. I read them aloud. Speaking in a church is strange. One never gets used to the absence of applause; but I saw handker- chiefs go to eyes, and afterwards people came to me and said that they knew what I meant by a second-best poem, and might they send me their favorites? “Yes,” I answered, “if you will type them, and if you will not expect an im- mediate answer, or any answer.” opr gave me an idea. I wrote an article for the “Daily Chronicle,” explaining what I meant by second-best poems, and giving examples, and suggest- ing, as I had done to the Savoy audience, that readers should send me their favorite second-best poems. The response to that invitation brought me nearly one hundred letters, and as many of them contained three, four, and six examples and petitions that the an- thology should be published soon, I realized that an anthology of “One Hun- dred Second-Best Poems” might be popu- Jar. The favorite was “Lean Hard,” which begins Child of my love, lean hard And let me feel the pressure of thy care. There seems to be a doubt as to the author. One correspondent gives it to Frances Havergal, another to an Ameri- can, Miss Felicia Fisk. Weak and ill, she was in the arms of her maid, who said to her, “Lean hard—hard upon me.” Then the poem was written. Whittier was second favorite, and the poem was always “When o’er my day of life the night is falling.” The range of offerings was wide, even Browning (“Evelyn Hope’) and Henley (“Where Forlorn Sunsets”) and Mrs. Meynell (“At Night”) and Gray’s “Elegy,” which would have pleased Mrs. Meynell, who urged, in her sweet way, that the “Elegy” is not a first-class poem. And George Herbert is offered, and Kipling, and— Well, there the matter stands. Shall I ever have the courage to publish an anthology of “One Hundred Second-Best Poems” and to include some great names in it?

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Photograph from Panama Canal Canal-Building in the Age of Concrete—Miraflores Lock, Panama, 1913 The Amazing Molders of Stone By CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN would not have voiced his famous lament that the very ruins of Troy had perished—etiam periere ruine! Much of Troy remains; much of Greece and Egypt, Rome and Carthage, Nine- veh and Tyre. History records only one great nation whose architecture was ill planned to endure, and it is the one in whose midst most of us grew up—the timber-built America of yesterday. Now, at last, we are building for posterity. The material with which we are fashioning the most eloquent memorials of ourselves for the enlightenment of future archzol- ogists is one of which our grandfathers scarcely knew the existence—concrete. The sudden dawn of the Concrete Age has come so recently that we are still rubbing our astonished eyes over its won- ders. The transformations it involves are in rapid progress, and we cannot yet appraise them. It is estimated that more than three hundred thousand concrete mixers are now engaged in remaking the architectural environment of the Ameri- can people. Of cement, the manufactured ingredient of concrete, over a barrel is 184 I Lucan had foreseen Schliemann, he From Cement Gun Co. The Cement Gun invented by Carl Akeley, the well-known sculptor-naturalist, is an ingenious device for coating surfaces with cement mortar. Cement thus placed is called “gunite” used annually in this country for eacl man, woman, and child of the population. Three circumstances, in particular, e- plain why concrete, which was a rarity’ generation ago, is now ubiquitous. Th invention of the rotary kiln, toward th beginning of the present century, fol lowed by the introduction of improved grinding and conveying machinery it cement mills, made Portland cement cheap enough to be within the reach 0 every builder. The adoption of sted reinforcing vastly multiplied the poss: bilities of concrete construction. Lastly, the passing of the forests, howeve calamitous it may have been in some @ its other consequences, had the happy effect of forcing builders to abandon timber—the easy prey of decay and fire —in favor of more durable materials, 0 which concrete was, on the whole, the most inviting. It is an interesting paré dox that the scandal of deforestation bids fair to relieve us of another scandal equally notorious—our annual fire loss. Concrete crowds the — landscape Houses, offices, factories, roads, bridges dams, canal locks, breakwaters, amphi:

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Placing Concrete by Gravity The steel or wooden tower for hoisting concrete, fresh from the mixer, and chut- ing or spouting it to the forms has in re- cent years become a familiar feature of the city sky-line. These towers are often of great height, as the angle of the chutes or spouts must be steep enough to permit the ready flow of the material. As the picture shows, & single hoisting plant ean distribute con- crete over a wide area Photograph from Insley Mfg. Co. Photograph from Lock Joint Pipe The Manufacture of Concrete Pipe The versatility of concrete is most fully realized in the manu- facture of so-called “concrete products,” including a great va- riety of portable ob- jects, such as build- ing blocks, bricks and tiles, pipe, silo staves, fence posts, pedestals, sun-dials, park and garden seats, and so on through a_ long list. Pipe is one of the most important items on the list. It is used for sewers, culverts, and water supply. The larger sizes are made of reinforced concrete. Those shown in the picture, though not the biggest made, are 8 feet in diameter, and each section, 4 feet in length, weighs 5% tons. Many thou- sand miles of concrete pipe are used in the Western irrigation systems

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186 theaters, grain elevators, coal pockets, barns, silos, chimneys, troughs, fence posts, lamp-posts, benches, sun-dials, bird baths, vases, urns, pedestals, lawn rollers, Jaundry tubs, tombstones—all are made of liquid stone. Enormous oil tanks, dwarfing the biggest tanks of steel, are built of it. Leagues upon leagues of flume molded of it distribute water for irrigation, and great pipes of it ramify far and wide through the earth. Its pro- The Industrial Crisis in Britain A story of what happens to a commercial people when the engine of business slows down REAT BRITAIN is to-day un- ts easy over her economic position. There is no panic, but there is certainly a problem. And the continu- ance of the trouble has surprised and disappointed the nation. A year ago it seemed as if the country were at last overcoming the aftermath of war and re- turning to normal. Even after a cut in taxes, the Budget was amply balanced and provision made for the service of the debt to the United States. The Ex- chequer was preparing for and has since achieved the gold standard. And while exports increased, unemployment de- clined. Conditions abroad were more settled. In Europe the Dawes Plan had been ac- cepted. In India the depression that followed the Armistice was over. Egypt is so rich that she is ready to lend to the United States! In Germany the per- centage of unemployed, inflated by the occupation of the Ruhr, was rapidly falling. France was actually attracting scores of thousands of immigrants from Italy, Poland, and Belgium. If, then, the prosperity of one country brings prosperity to all countries, there was no reason why Britain should be an excep- tion to the rule. Under the circumstances, it was only the habitual caution of the people that a year ago led them to recoil from a treaty with Russia which was intended to pre- pare the way for loans to the Soviet Republic. Nobody wanted an election, and the clear majority given to Prime Minister Baldwin meant that there was desired a four years of respite from such a political disturbance. Twelve months of so-called “tran- quillity” have, however, revealed an industrial change, sudden, swift, and for tean possibilities range from ships to freight cars, from slender flagstaffs to lofty radio towers. What next? One cannot write placidly of this amazing material; so easily molded in a myriad shapes, so swiftly turning to rock, which grows more and more adamantine with the years. It would be difficult to overrate the blessings conferred upon mankind by a building material that is fire-proof, earthquake-proof, weather- By P. W. WILSON the worse. Exports have declined. The number of unemployed has mounted to the old figure. The immediate cause of the depression was simple. The recovery of Europe, de- sired by England, meant not only a wider market but an intensified compe- tition. It was found that France, Ger- many, and Belgium could undersell Brit- ain in neutral countries and even in Britain herself, unprotected as she is by tariffs. While somehow Britain has managed to retain and even to increase the proportion of the world’s commerce which was hers before the war, and while in terms of money her trade has never been so abundant as it is to-day, the fact remains that, when allowance is made for higher prices, the bulk of commodities exported is less than it was in the year 1913. And, with much improvement in machinery, this means less work for a larger population. To certain propagandists the remedy, here mentioned in passing, is obvious. Britain, they say, is overcrowded and should practice birth control. It is, per- haps, enough for us to answer that the need is not for more room for mines and furnaces and factories, or for homes, but for more orders at quotations possible to accept. If the engine were running at full speed, there would be ample employ- ment for all now awaiting it. It was in the iron and coal industries that the slump was most serious. The steel manufacturers blew out their fur- naces, dismissed their workers, and are waiting for the storm to blow over. Em- ploying less labor, they avoid labor trouble. But the coal mines, though running at little or no profit and often at a loss, made an attempt to keep going. While many were closed, the industry as The Outlook for proof, rat-proof, and insect-proof. Nor are its merits wholly utilitarian. Prac. titioners of the fine arts are turning to concrete with growing enthusiasm. In this country Lorado Taft has been the Benvenuto Cellini of the new art of cast- ing concrete statuary, while his skillful coadjutor, J. J. Earley, has opened up bewitching vistas of artistic creation in the color and texture treatment of con- crete surfaces. a whole has striven to make ends meet. And this meant a showdown on hours and wages. The mine-owners gave no- tice that agreements with their workers would terminate on July 31, to which ultimatum the miners replied with an absolute negative. The deadlock was no mere annual bar- gain between industrial conspirators both of whom .know that they can recoup themselves by raising prices to the pub- lic. It was the very existence of many mines that was at stake. And, beyond all question, a genuine lockout was threatened. The Government therefore intervened. Prime Minister Baldwin did his utmost to persuade the miners to give way. Not only did he fail, but he made matters worse. In the course of the con- versations he seems to have used the argument that the proposed reduction of wages would not apply alone to miners, but would be extended to all industry. And this hint—whatever it was—acted like a spark in tinder. In Britain all the basic trades and many others are organ- ized, which organizations are themselves organized. Latent in the Labor Move- ment there has been for years what Americans call “One Big Union.” And in July the One Big Union showed signs of emerging solid behind the miners. Prime Minister Baldwin surrendered. Let the wage scales continue in the mines, said he, and for nine months the Treasury will stand the losses incurred. A subsidy, amounting at the outset t0 £10,000,000, was appropriated. Before the guaranty is exhausted it will have cost, according to estimates, no less than £24,000,000 or $120,000,000. To all parties, except the extreme a ter Av mo ren val cur sac bee hea I next all so Te Neitl pleas golf, sort ¢ perate count: Nei luxuri ments Lay man’s Socialists, this subvention was repugnant. The relief that it afforded was no mor per. have a

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ok for of. Nor Prac- turning asm. In een the of cast- . skillful ened up ation in of con- Is meet. n hours ave no- workers > which with an ual bar- ors both recoup he pub- yf many beyond ut was herefore lwin did ; to give 1e made the con- sed the ction of miners, idustry. —acted 1 all the > organ: mselves - Move- s what » And > signs miners. ndered. in the ths the curred. itset to Before 1] have ss than xtreme ugnant. October 7, 1925 than temporary; and if the coal mines, exploiting a natural resource of incalcula- ble value, could not be self-supporting, why should not every industry, when faced by trouble over hours and wages, receive a similar dole? Yet there was nothing to be done save to pay “the Danegeld;” otherwise, as Mr. Churchill pointed out, the lockout, with attendant stoppages, would have cost the Ex- chequer alone a sum of £60,000,000 in lost revenue. To Mr. J. M. Keynes the fall in ex- ports, including coal, is simply explained by Britain’s bold return to the gold standard, which step he strongly op- posed. The rise of 12 per cent in ster- ling has meant, so he argues, that British exporters receive on foreign orders a re- mittance which, on the exchange, works out at 12 per cent reduction in prices. Yet they have to pay wages in sterling, which wages, therefore, have risen auto- matically by the said 12 per cent. About this reasoning there is a certain temporary truth. Facilis descensus Averno; nothing is easier than to pro- mote good trade by running your cur- rency down-hill to the abyss into which vanished the ruble and the mark. And equally certain is it that a restoration of currency is climbing up-hill, with all the sacrifices thereby involved. What has been called “England’s cross of gold” is heavier at the moment than Continental HERE are thousands of new ten- nis fans this year. There will be other thousands of beginners next year. It is a happy, virile game for all sorts of men and women. Tennis is not a mollycoddle game. Neither is it a source of “intellectual” pleasure. And the “nineteenth hole” in golf, generally understood to be some sort of an oasis where golfers may recu- perate after a tedious round, has no counterpart in lawn tennis. Neither is there any place of soft and luxurious comfort to loll away idle mo- ments before or during the match. Lawn tennis is by no means a lazy man’s game. And yet to excel at tennis 4 person—a champion. at least—must Oo more have a certain amount of leisure. paper. But if Britain cannot easily sell some of her products, it must be remem- bered that by the same reasoning she is able to purchase a large volume of im- ports, including raw material and food, at an even greater total advantage. In due course, therefore, the balance will revert heavily, so it is argued, to the right side. : But a still graver issue has been chal- lenged. If Labor can compel a Con- servative Government to subsidize wages, it is obvious that the capitalist system itself is at stake. The mine-owners de- clare that things have been brought to this pass by the miners themselves, who forced the industry to accept a seven- hour day, with a prospect of six hours when the industry can stand it—to which periods of work at least half an hour should be added for transit and other duties. It is a fact that the output of the British mines (280 tons per man) is less than one-third the output per man in the United States. But the men answer that the manage- ment of the mines is defective. The number of colliery concerns is 1,500. These concerns pay royalties of various kinds to 4,000 owners of landed rights. Pits are separated from one another which ought to be worked together. Over duplicate ventilation and haulage there is needless overhead expense and valuable coal is withheld as “barrier.” “T can’t seem to hit my stride to-day,” said a well-known tennis player one day recently while we were in an important match. I learned after the match that he had been spending the whole morning in con- ference with a group of big men over a deal which would likely lead him to for- tune, but which had not been concluded. He had had to leave the conference to meet me in this match. I had him at my absolute mercy, and yet he was one of our ranking players. Tennis need not be classed as a “young man’s game” any more than it is necessary to follow the fallacy that one is yet “too young for golf.” Of course, creaking joints do not make champions in tennis, but neither do they 187 In many villages housing has been neg- lected. Oil is used for safety-lamps where electricity would be more suitable. Where two-thirds of the coal in the United States is cut by machinery, five- sixths of the coal in Britain is still mined by hand. Men have to walk to their work who might be carried by trolley and mechanical propulsion, for trolleys would save the not very kindly use of pit ponies. .To put the case in a nutshell, the miners, paid about $15 a week, re- fuse to make sacrifices of wages until the mine-owners shall have set their house in order. And this is the stipulation to which the Government has been forced to agree. Hence the appointment of yet another royal commission to reorganize the coal industry. With Sir Herbert Samuel, formerly High Commissioner of Pales- tine, as Chairman, who in earlier years at the Home Office gained an intimate knowledge of mining, it looks this time like business. Without nationalizing the mines, the state will be asked, probably, to buy out the royalties, so enabling the management to mobilize their attack on the coal in the most effective way. Mines will be consolidated, machinery will be installed, and housing will be provided. So at least it is hoped. Otherwise, there may be a strike that would shake British credit to its foundations. And such a disaster must not happen. Why Play Tennis P By VINCENT RICHARDS In which one of America’s foremost players tells of the diverse lures of his favorite game in golf. Just the same, both games yield joy to thousands of men and women long past the days of youth and whose once young hair has many silver threads. All sorts of men play tennis, and play it successfully. You may find a top- notcher playing masterful tennis with as much energy as though his life depended on it—and yet he may be playing simply and solely for the love of the game and the thrill it gives him. You may see another equally adept and equally furious in his smashing play —he may be seeking prestige for busi- ness purposes. And yet another began to play for health’s sake, and keeps at it for some- thing like a course in physical culture. He finds real benefit, and keeps at it

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188 The Outlook for October 7, 1925 International Vincent Richards meets a shot that is almost too hot for the camera much more faithfully than those waning athletes who do their daily dozens to radio waves before catching the bankers’ express in the morning. There are samples of all these kinds of players, and others, among the very first players of the world. Take René La Coste, the French won- der and winner at Wimbledon. He gave up a life of ease and wealth to become a star in tennis. His only ambition was, and is, to be a top-notcher in his favorite sport. La Coste’s father, director in the great Espana Motor Car Company, had vis- ions of his son reigning as a king of big business. But René had other thoughts. He determined in advance to become a tennis champion. And he has gone about the job of making himself a champion just as any man would go about making a success of any business which he un- dertook. With La Coste tennis is business. He loves the play, he craves the stimulant of applause, and he takes his profit in fame and prestige and trophies won as thousands enviously watch. But all his playing is done on a busi- ness basis—that is, he does it carefully, systematically, and thoroughly, as one would operate a grocery store or a fac- tory. La Coste has been at interminable pains to classify and catalogue the tennis world. He “keeps books” on every player of any consequence in the world. His “Who’s Who” of tennis is kept re- ligiously up to date. Beside the names of these players he has written his ex- periences of play with them. He knows their personal habits, the qualities of their sportsmanship, their manner on the court, their methods of play. He studies these records, and after every encounter he makes new and fur- ther notes, setting down what new ideas his opponent has acquired since the last meeting with him. His book is a scientific study of every possible opponent, and its value is shown by the success with which La Coste has lately advanced his own play so that it has brought him world renown in sport- dom. There is one amusing spot in this ten- nis encyclopedia of the French star. He is baffled by “Big Bill” Tilden, America’s lanky long-time champion, whose virility and speed seem to improve with age, like bonded goods. Beside the name of Tilden in La Coste’s book there stands the mark of doubt—a question (?) mark. It is as if the Frenchman always says to himself, “How shall I slay this giant?” It takes just a little bit of the conceit out of me to know that La Coste has no such entry opposite my name. He does not fear me, and he considers that he has a catalogue of my strong and weak points that enables him to meet me on even terms. And while, of course, he realizes that I have his measure about as thoroughly as he has mine, he does not tremble be- fore me as his question-mark indicates he quakes when preparing to- face “Big Bill.” He has my name in his book. I have seen it there on a page by itself, and the page is almost blank. It takes more than one page to tell him what he must do when he stands opposite Tilden. But there is my name, and the total entry reads: “Oné must drive deep to his backhand and come to the net for a vol- ley.” Thus he has my number and thus he dismisses me. Besides this scientific study of players and their methods, La Coste has not overlooked other elements of business success in his tennis game. He has studied and practiced how to be calm and cool—and even Norman E. Brookes does not surpass him there. Gentle as he is, he displays on the court the audacity which also characterizes his colleague, Jean Borotra. His technique is marvelous and he studies consistently and deliberately to improve it. His followers in Europe look upon him as the coming world’s cham- pion. Tennis is his business, but “he loves his work.” of “1 its ¢ with in th asm smile now ter s) with tion tions of al and whic] the u S for ; of t] has the larg It devot the w Akba some faith name Sez doubt Seatt] it to Over secon.

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>on the d after nd fur- w ideas the last f every ; shown ste has that it | sport- his ten- ar. He nerica’s virility ge, like in La ark of always ay this conceit has no le does he has weak me on es that oughly ble be- ates he | “Big I have nd the e than ust do But entry to his a vol- nus he layers is not isiness e has - calm rookes > as he dacity eague, nd he ely to e look cham- loves S The Unborn By GEORGE STERLING The sunsets of a visionary sky, The roses of a still untraversed way. No dream has found you yet, no heart can say What music shall awake the listener’s sigh, What beauty shall be his ere beauty die, In years that neither hasten nor delay. Beyond our time’s horizon still you rest, Unseen, unformed, in that immensity, ONGS to be written, where are you to-day? Far in the future silence now you lie, Like mist that yet shall be the rain of night Or those high clouds that often in the west, When the great sun has gone below the sea, Lift their colossal tapestries of light. Realizing on Rainier The Spirit of Seattle Slumbers not nor Sleeps HROUGH the Northwest of big trees and bigger truth he who runs may read and hear much of “the Seattle Spirit.” In Seattle itself its citizens mention it gravely, seriously, with becoming pride. Everywhere else in the Northwest people speak of it with asmile. Sometimes it is a good-humored smile; other times it is a rueful smile; now and then, as in Tacoma, it is a bit- ter smile. In the peroration of the blast with which the city’s publicity organiza- tion seeks to charm streams of conven- tions, with their thousands and millions of alluvial deposit, to the city’s shores and within its gates, occur these words which have been copied verbatim into the uncommercial traveler’s handbook: Seattle!—a town with a reputation for putting things over—right! Home of the far-famed “‘Seattle Spirit” which has made her the major metropolis of the great Northwest Empire, and largest city of her age in all the world! It is this sort of thing that moves a devout Mohammedan, in contemplating the ways of the giaour, to mutter “Allah Akbar!” in his beard, and prompts even some outside Christians of a simpler faith with closed eyes to call upon the name of the Lord! Seattle “does put things over.” No doubt in the world about the ability of Seattlites so to put. Let us freely hand It to them. They have put their port over into the congested class of “the second largest in the United States,” By GEORGE MARVIN though they had to incorporate most of Puget Sound to do it. They have put their city over from democracy into “the major metropolis of the great Northwest Empire” and boosted-it into the hugest precocity “in all the world.” And they have put “Rainier” over—put it all over Tacoma. Perhaps it would be more geographically accurate to say they had pulled it all over Tacoma, because the smaller city lies between Seattle and the mountain and worships it under its own name of “Tacoma” at much closer range. It is an exceedingly beautiful mountain, not so symmetrical as Fuji, but dominat- ing the Washington landscape as the holy mountain of Japan presides over earthquake-smitten Tokyo. Born inta- glio out of morning skies or dying back into the gray heaven of evening, it lives as a sign of spirit, unrealizable, as de- tached as anything could be from selling and Seattle. Nevertheless the “Seattle Spirit” comprehends Rainier as a dis- tinct selling point in its aggressive pro- gramme of “putting” or pulling “things over.” The realizability of Rainier in concrete terms of sales seems to be the mountain’s one usefulness. The help that Scripturally comes from lifting one’s eyes unto the hills would seem, on first impressions, to be in Seattle computable exactly in dollars and cents. But it is only fair to a big-hearted and very American, even if self-sold, city to add that these are impressions rather than facts or just conclusions. Judging not, therefore, that we be not judged, let us hand it to Seattle with a good-humored smile. .To quote again from the un- commercial traveler’s handbook, “But what shall it profit a city if it sell the whole world on itself and lose its own soul?” The Seattle-ese will answer that ques- tion for you easily and glibly and, to themselves, convincingly. They will make your head spin with figures which prove everything they say. They will take you up into high places—at varying tariffs—and show you all the kingdoms of Seattle and the glory of them. And let it be said, even by a long-suffering Uitlander, that these kingdoms make an exceedingly impressive sight. Raising up their voices in the key of New York, though more strident in their blare, the kingdoms of the Puget “empire” con- form topographically to the outlines of Manhattan and the environing districts of New Jersey and Long Island. If you let the water-front of Puget Sound cor- respond roughly to the bay and the Hud- son River, then Lake Union and Lake Washington with their linking canals, but far more beautifully, will represent the East and the Harlem Rivers and the western end of Long Island Sound. It’s all deep water too. Ships can go along- side the dock anywhere on the long warehouse-front of lakes or sound, and in the fresh waters of the lake docks barnacles drop from the keels of ocean- going freighters as.though they had been 189

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Seattle and the mountain (Rainier) that it ‘‘ owns ’’ scraped off. Here too are boroughs of corresponding Kings and Queens, Bronxes, embryo Brooklyns, and little Jersey Cities. At night, with all the interrelated localities shining with myriad starry lights as thick as those in the sky and seemingly as far flung, Seattle looks as Constantinople might if round the Bosphorous and the Golden Horn Stam- boul and Galata and Scutari were to be electrified with “the Seattle Spirit.” There is plenty of spirit in Seattle. Trying to keep up with it costs plenty of money. “In Seattle ‘Soak ’em’ appears to have taken the place of ‘Service,’ ” says a citi- zen of Tacoma, heading south to his own bailiwick. In all fairness, however, it ought to be made clear that the Seattlers soak one another just as spiritedly as they soak the stranger within their gates. And, grace @ Dieu, they haven’t lost their saving grace of humor. They will laugh with you as well as at you. The best of them, while they profit by their much-advertised “Spirit,” frankly regret some of its expressions which they are very honest in accounting for. Sitting in his sanctum, before a desk piled high with “unfinished business,” the editor of one of the two big dailies nods assent to the obiter dicta of a visit- ing journalist. “I’ve got a four-and-a- half-ounce rod for you,” he says. “In 190 less than an hour, with that in your hand and a ‘brown hackle’ tied on your leader, I can put you where you will understand Seattle better. You're right. But, look here; most of us work hard for money to go fishin’ with. I came ’way out here from New York and sent East for my wife and kids—why? Not for this office, but for what lies around it; for the streams full of salmon and rain- bow trout, for the woods that come right into your back yard. Yes, and for the mountains too; to climb ’em and see ’em and—just be livin’ along with ‘em. I guess we’re scrambling for the dollars all right, but I doubt if you'll find any place in this country where a greater proportion of the money is spent out- doors.” And the associate editor of the other paper, a man who is never called upon in vain to put his shoulder to a public or a civic enterprise involving a degree of service, leans back in his chair and moralizes out through the open window: “See the Washington Hotel, up the street there? Well, about fifteen or twenty years ago the foundation of it stood where the roof stands now. The site of this office building was then ’way down underground. We had to take our coats off and scrape off these hills to get some place level enough to build on. This city is manufactured out of hard work and hard cash, and it’s been built by sweat and spirit. That’s what we think of as the ‘Seattle Spirit.’ - It’s material, of course, but it’s constructive and it’s healthy. We have made. this city and its enterprises in an incredibly short term of years—sawed out the lum- ber and quarried out the stone and chucked it together to do business in. And we’re doing business in it for all we are worth. Give us time. We’re young yet. And say”—the editor leaned for- ward in his chair so as to scan the roof- line eastward. “No, you can’t see it now; fog drifts in, and this time of year the air gets thick with smoke from forest fires. But you take a good look at Rainier first chance you get. Better yet, get a car or. climb on a train and go up and shake hands with her. It’s worth the time. You'll get 4 better idea of this whole place after you’ve been up there, take my word for it. -You’ll understand that no town can go far wrong with mountains like that standing round and looking on.” . Jerusalem in its setting of eternal mountains was an inspiration to David. Young cities, like those of ancient civili- zations, may thus be fortified. And Seattle, “realizing on Rainier,” neverthe- Ee Ee ge ee Se ee less derives from the snow-capped bat- tlements that fortify its spirit a power beyond all profit.

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built edibly e lum- e and ss in. all we young d_for- roof- see it f year forest At the foot of The Mountain lies the inn, appropriately named “ Paradise ”

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"Phe Apache Trail in Sunshine The Outlook for Land By GEORGE LAMBERT LITTLE | AST Fall on the Sunset Limited from New Orleans to Los Angeles I met the man who introduced me to the Apache Trail trip of Arizona. And I have never ceased to thank him for his kindness. Stephen Weston knew the land he loved. To him the awesome peaks, deep- cut canyons, strange cactus growths and ancient cliff-dwellings between Globe and Pheenix were old-time friends. Cowboy —prospector—mining engineer—adven turer—he had covered every inch of this sparkling bit of the golden Southwest many times. “Each time,” he said, “I find new beauty on the sunshine stretches of the Apache Trail. A man is blind to romance who fails to take this trip on his way to Los Angeles.” To both of which sentiments I now heartily subscribe. It took little urging on his part to make me decide to go with him. In the meantime he told a tale of the Trail’s history as only such a man can tell it. “Back in the dim, distant past,” he began, “back in an age about which scientists know practically nothing, there lived a race of pygmies in the queer little cliff-dwellings that perch on the rocky buttress above the Apache Trail. What they were like—how they lived— we do not know. But of two things we can be certain. They were clever. They were thorough. The fact that they un- doubtedly built their tiny homes high in the canyon walls for safety from storm, from flood and gigantic prehistoric beast, proves their sagacity. How fearful must have been the odds they fought against! Yet, with crude, hand-made implements they wrought dwellings that stood the siege of centuries and left them for us to wonder at—mute evidence of the endur- ing quality of their handiwork. “It is not certain when the tribe that gave the Trail its name first appeared in this territory. But,” continued Weston with a grim smile, “I promise you that mighty few of the neighboring tribes and early frontiersmen would deny the exist- ence of the fierce Tonto Apache Indians. The land was theirs by right of conquest and they held it stubbornly against all comers for many years. Not until their great chief Geronimo was captured in 1886 did their bloody massacres cease. “In the following years a constant pro- cession of brave men swarmed down the Apache Trail. South and west they went—south and west with eager, search- ing eyes—pathfinders, scouts, frontiers- men in buckskin, blue-clad cavalrymen, and red-shirted miners—men who sought high adventure and their heart’s desire.” Weston’s cigar glowed red—his eyes snapped blue fire above it. Probably he was thinking of those glorious fighting days and wishing he had been there. “As time went on the number of set- tlers in this section grew. The need of good irrigation was felt. At last a group of engineers solved the problem. Roose- velt Dam was built to impound the waters of Salt River, Tonto Creek and their tributary streams. While it was under early construction the engineers found that they were unable to move the heavy machinery and building materials necessary for this gigantic task. So they built a broad modern highway from Globe to the site of the projected dam through the very heart of the mountains. It was due to the foresight of these en- gineers that this road was pushed on further until it became the smooth 120- mile boulevard over which tourists now delight to glide by auto between Globe and Pheenix. And that, sir, is the his- tory of the Apache Trail. The dam, the road are new—but the wild, untouched beauty of this canyon country remains.” His tale was told and our cigars in ashes. We said “good-night.” Through the window screens the cool night wind sang us to sleep with a soft lullaby. Then, suddenly, it was a day of Built ages before the discovery of America— the strange cliff-dwellings of Apache Land (Advertisement) Weaving colorful baskets as only an Indian can sapphire skies and golden sunshine at Globe. With the rush of crisp, clear des- ert air in our faces we were whirled away in our comfortable 12-passen- ger motor car. Over Cemetery Hill and into Apache Land we sped through snake-like canyon walls that shimmered in liquid light with every changing color of the rainbow. Please mention The Outlook when writing to the SouUTHERN PACIFIC LINES Oct Th [ye gle. soarec nearly There To on other | depths seemet shine. quiver emera! the b “Like ing lig and g Roose’ piece | earth. Nex Lodge but co six mil rushes fore tl glimps on the “The 3 pay yo houses tun. ] I saw | At 1 lunche Roose the wa rugged scape. operate createc acres b If tk ing, th even m of Fisk “Walls above 1

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for yup se- the ind vas ers the als ley October 7, 1925 Through the wild gorge of Fish Creek Canyon where the ‘‘ Walls of Bronze’ ’ rise 2,000 feet above the rushing stream Eyes began to sparkle—blood to tin- gle. Life was a glorious fact as we soared up, up on wings to the summit, nearly four thousand feet above the sea. There a wonderland lay spread before us. To one side was the Gila Valley, on the other that of the Salt River. From their depths rose needle-like spires that seemed to tremble in the swimming sun- shine. Down further the jagged rocks quivered, now amethyst, now indigo, now emerald green, to blend gradually with the blue-black shadows at their base. “Like a giant goblet filled with shak- ing lights,” said Weston as we gazed and gazed. And then he pointed out Roosevelt Lake in the distance—a little piece of blue sky that had fluttered to earth. Next we were whisked away to Apache Lodge at Roosevelt Dam, making a rapid but comfortable descent of 2,000 feet in six miles through a succession of whirling rushes down the smooth road. Just be- fore the dam was reached we caught a glimpse of the ancient cliff-dwellings high on the rocky buttress above the Trail. “The next time you take the trip it will pay you to make the detour to these cave houses and get a closer view,” said Wes- tun. Believe me, i mean to. The little I saw made me want to see more. At Apache Lodge we enjoyed a fine luncheon and strolled around the huge Roosevelt Dam—an engineering feat, by the way, that fits in uniquely with the rugged beauty of the surrounding land- scape. It can furnish the power plant it operates with 9,380 horse-power and has created an irrigable area of over 230,000 acres below the Salt River. If the first part of the trip was thrill- ing, that after we left Apache Lodge was even more so. Down into the wild gorge of Fish Creek Canyon we glided.~ The “Walls of Bronze” rising 2,000 feet above the rushing stream all but hemmed Please mention The Outlook when writing to the SOUTHERN PaciFIc LINES us in from the sky. Then our car climbed gently up ‘the steep ascent of Fish Creek Hill to the heights that crown the canyon. Soon we were gazing awestruck into the dizzy depths of Hell’s Canyon. “Bad place for a fellow to fall in,” chuckled Weston at my elbow. “Expect he’d have a hard time finding his way out.” Then Canyon Diablo, Niggerhead Mountain, Tortilla Rock, Whirlpool Rock and the Little Alps fled by in beautiful, rapid - review. Day was dying gloriously as we emerged from the foothills and swept past weird Superstition Mountain—the last outpost of the range. Like a golden pomegranate the sun slid silently beneath the blue of the enfolding hills. All about us was a smiling land of fertile fields and glowing gardens. Never could there be a better example of the creative impulse of the irrigation from Roosevelt Dam than the green growing plants of Salt River Valley. The bronzed farmers of the beautiful little towns of Mesa and Tempe were a happy, healthy lot who shouted hearty greetings to us. Then, too, they were 193 gone, and we were slipping through the park-like streets of Phoenix, where we boarded a comfortable Pullman for Los Angeles. So our happy trip over the Apache Trail ended. The next day Weston and I parted in Los Angeles. But the trip has lived on pleasantly in my mind and a letter just received from Weston has made me determine to put off my desire no longer. I am joining him at New Orleans next month. This time you can be certain that I’m going to take the detour to the cave-dwellings. -So certain am I that you will enjoy this trip that I am giving you all the information at my disposal. And I might add that if you are contemplating a trip to the Southwest or to the Coast this Winter, by all means take in the Apache Trail. It is easily and comfortably reached by the Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific on its “Sunshine all the Way” route to California. Commencing November 2, through Pullman cars are operated between New Orleans and Globe on the east and between Los An- geles and Phoenix on the west. Your through ticket in either direction is hon- ored for the side trip with an additional payment of only $10.00. The Sunset Limited carries a club car with barber shop, shower bath and valet service; an observation car with ladies’ lounge, shower bath, maid, manicure and hair- dressing service; and there are sleeping cars of the latest type, and excellent diners. 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The Happiest Man By EARL CHRISTMAS An autobiography of an unconquerable spirit UT in Minneapolis there is a () man who fought against almost overwhelming odds to get a start in life, worked hard ‘for more than fifty years to make a million and a half dol- lars, and then gave it away. As soon as he had accumulated the money he ar- ranged to turn it over to the University of Minneapolis for a hospital and home for crippled children. Although he isn’t puffed up by any pride over his munifi- cent gift, he says giving away that mill- ion and a half makes him the “happiest man in the world.” Why? Well, that’s the story. It be- gins in a little New York town in the sixties. William Henry Eustis then was a boy of fifteen, and as rugged and full of life as any yourgster in town. Then he was afflicted with tuberculosis of the hip. Doctors now are able to relieve this disease in many cases without deformity, but the doctors in this little town in those days knew little or nothing of its . treatment, and the disease usually ran its tragic course. His father had a large family, and no means to hire specialists even if they had been available. “For six months I lay helpless, unable even to move,” Mr. Eustis recalled. “For five years or so I could do nothing. They couldn’t let me read even. All I could do was to lie there in the house and look out the window at the other children playing. “That was hard to bear; but do you know what was the hardest thing about it all? It was the thought that I might always be dependent upon my father, that I probably never could make my own way in the world. That was the thing that burned into my very soul. I remember sometimes that I’d be taken to visit my grandfather. In spite of all I could do, there would be times when I would have to go out on his porch, where I would be alone, and sit there and cry. “Tt was during the Civil War, and all the able-bodied fellows were going away to fight. How I wanted to get into that! Sometimes, in a vain sort of hope, I thought I might be able to do it. I'll never forget once when I said, ‘Father, let me go on the next call?’ “ ‘Ves,’ he said, and I can see him yet as the tears began to fall. I knew that he thought I wouldn’t be living when the next call came. “Nobody expected me to live. During 194 the war there was a death in the family. One of my brothers, who was in the army, heard about it indirectly without learning the identity of the one who had died. He wrote home words of con- dolence, saying, ‘Poor Will is at peace at last.’ “I had no medical attention except that a doctor would come occasionally William Henry Eustis and lance the affected part and take out pieces of bone. Always I dressed my own wounds. “Things looked pretty black. Then one day, when I had concluded that things couldn’t possibly get worse, I dis- covered that the other hip was affected. The doctor came and lanced that side and took out some pieces of bone. “Ah, I remember that day! I said to myself: ‘My God, it’s no use now! I might as well give up.’ I went over and sat down on the window-sill. As I sat there I made up my mind that I would starve myself to death. In my misery, I thought that was the easiest way out.” But the young man did not count on the power of hope to rise even from this despair. When he awoke next morning, the desire to die was gone. Black as things were, he still had a chance, he told himself, and, anyway, he was going to fight it out. There followed many anxious days, times when he couldn’t see anything ahead, but when he hung on, as he ex- plained it to me, to keep from quitting. Only an iron constitution could have withstood the ravages of that disease. Many years later a famous New York physician, examining the traces it left, said, “You have no business to be alive.” Young Eustis didn’t know that then— not that it would have made any differ- ence! He hung on, and, probably due to his very persistence, he began to grow a bit stronger. Gradually the disease became less malignant, and then came the fall of 1865—but let Mr. Eustis himself describe the memorable event: “T took the old sorrel mare, my crutches, and a few clothes, and went down to Gouverneur, New York. I had no money, but was determined some way to get an education. To my great joy, I found that I could get a job teaching penmanship, and thus get started at the seminary. While I was registering a professor at the seminary remarked to another, ‘What is that dying boy doing here?’ “But I wasn’t to be discouraged now. Soon after I got a place teaching a dis- trict school. I was still on my crutche: when I taught that first school. It was out in the country, and I boarded around. I had to get up early in the morning and dress my wounds, and then walk to school. But the money I got was compensation enough for all the trials.” Eustis early developed into a mighty active cripple. He would teach a term. and then go to school a term. He learned bookkeeping and telegraphy, and then taught them to select classes, con- tinuing his own education meanwhile. He sold books and he sold insurance. Meanwhile he resorted to every means he could think of to strengthen his weakened body. The disease itself ap- parently was disappearing, but an in- firmity remained, and he spent hours do- ing exercises to correct it. Though he was destined always to be a cripple, he was able soon, through exercise and pure will power, to discard the crutches and adopt a cane. Taking what money he had saved, he entered Wesleyan University, at Middle- town, Connecticut, as a sophomore in 1870. 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Zoing days, thing e@ eX- ‘ting. have ease. York left, ive.” en— iffer- due grow sease came ustis he _ he pure and _ he dle- . in 1reé me” The Outlook for October 7, 1925 ASK DaD - HE KNOps | rt BZ a | Our Pamily Tree was a Tobaano Plant Number 1 of a series of talks on Sweet Caporal Cigarettes THINK there must be a whiff of tobacco in my blood. Fact is, I’m sure of it. My great-grandfather, a Vermont Irishman, went South in a wagon after the Revolution and he raised the first tobacco that was raised for export in what is now called The Black Patch of West Kentucky and West Ten- Wise old Yank, he cured and nessee. treated the heavy dark weed after crude processes of his own devising, loaded it on keelboats, floated it down the Cumberland to the Ohio, down the Ohio to the Missis- sippi and down the Mississippi to the Gulf, where he trans-shipped to sailing vessels and sent his cargoes out to the Gold Coast of Africa to be bartered off for ivory and gold dust. I understand that, dealing with black tribesmen, he rarely got the worst of adeal. Forifhe wasan Irishman, he also was a New Englander. He laid the sills for a substantial fortune. His son, my grandfather, was a planter, a factor, a re-handler of tobacco; and on the side a merchant and a banker and a steam-boatman. His small fleet of stern- wheelers, manned by crews of his slaves and mostly captained by his own kinsmen, carried tobacco of his growing and his neighbors’ growing to the city markets of the Southwest. For his day he was a rich man until the Civil War came along and smashed him up. For he had bought Confederate bonds and had financed a battery of Con- federate artillery. By Irvin S. Cobb His son, my father, followed in the foot- steps of his people. He was a warehouse- man. Later he was a buyer for foreign governments and for domestic contractors too. judges of types and grades in the district. He smoked incessantly and he chewed frequently. His son, meaning me, grew up with the smell of tobacco leaf in his young nose, with the jargon of its business in his ears. We lived on a tobacco street in a tobacco town, There was a stemmery on the cor- ner above us, a snuff factory and a cigar- maker’s shop down the road and a whole row of warehouses farther along. In the season, the fat hogsheads blocked the nar- row sidewalks. I absorbed the romance of the industry—for it is one of the most romantic of industries—along with my hot biscuits and New Orleans molasses. In four generations, I was the first of the The best smokes he ever had were “Sweet Caps” Please mention The Outlook when writing to THE AMERICAN Tospacco COMPANY He was accounted one of the best: first-born males of my breed to stray from the ancestral pathway. And now, in a way of speaking, I’m back again in the family line. I have taken on the job of doing a series of signed advertisements of which this is the introductory one. I have declined propo- sitions to turn out advertisements for various manufactured products because I feel I merely would be a hired hand, ex- ploiting this, that or the other thing for so much a word. But I reached for this opportunity. I knew I could put my heart in it—could with sincerity endorse the article I was praising. From time to time in this space, I’m go- ing to write about Sweet Caporal Ciga- rettes. The first cigarette I ever smoked was a Sweet Caporal. That must be all of thirty-five years ago. Even that far back Sweet Caporals had been on the market a good long while. Commercially speaking, the Sweet Caporal Cigarette was born in November 1878 —roughly forty- 2 monte, § seven years ago. : Any product— cigarette or what you please —which stands the tests of time and competition and shifting popular taste for nearly half a century and holds its own and steadily grows in favor is bound to have merits. It just naturally has to have ’em. It shall be my task to try to explain a few facts about these merits, Thank you. oe + Quy, P.S. 7 write one of these articles every once in awhile, Watch for the next.

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years of the college course in two years. He worked and he studied for all he was worth, but, in spite of all that he could do, along in November of the third year, when he was a senior, his funds gave out. Eustis sat down and began to take stock. He wanted to be a lawyer, and to reach his goal he had yet before him the senior year at Wesleyan and a two- year course at Columbia Law School. There was no time to lose. Whereupon he decided upon a bold step. He told the Wesleyan authorities that he would go out and replenish his for- tunes by selling insurance, and then come back in the spring and take his ex- aminations. Then he borrowed $1,000, went to New York, and enrolled as a freshman in the Columbia Law School. During the year he kept up the work in the Law School, did the senior work in Wesleyan College, and in between times sold insurance. He was going to make that $1,000 go as far as he could. Now Wesleyan had a rule that no student could take work for a degree while enrolled in another institution. Eustis knew about that rule, but he simply had to gain that extra year. Con- sider that, if you will, in the light of modern student escapades—a_ student breaking the rule to carry courses in two universities at the same time! But the Faculty at Wesleyan in some way heard what Eustis was doing, and when he came back to take his examina- tions confronted him with the knowledge of his terrible offense. Only when Eustis told the professors how much that extra year meant did they relent and allow him to proceed with his examinations. Even then he was reprimanded before the student body, and the other students were warned against such . escapades. His professor solemnly advised him not to carry such sharp practices out into his profession. Eustis passed the examinations at Wesleyan with flying colors, won a prize or two, and graduated with his class in June, 1873. - The next year he began the last lap of his long struggle for an education, taking up the senior work at the Colum- bia Law School. To make part of his expenses he got a job teaching in a New York grammar school. In June, 1874, he was graduated. To complete the four-year college course and the two- year law course he had taken just four years. Now he had that $1,000 to pay off. He got a position teaching both night and day, and by the end of the year the debt had been paid and he was ready to

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$15 in his pocket and a new suit of clothes as his only material assets. The opportunity already had come John R. Putnam, an able lawyer o Saratoga Springs, who had been at tracted by the way Eustis worked hi way through school, had offered him partnership upon graduation, and thi association proved both pleasant ani profitable. The clouds were beginning to scatter Six years later Eustis had saved w $10,000 and enough to pay his expense; on a trip to Europe. When he returne/ from his trip in 1881, he came West and decided to locate in Minneapolis. He invested that $10,000 in property in Minneapolis and began the practice o law, increasing his investments as he made more money. For more than fort; years now he has taken an active part in business and civic affairs of the city. He was Mayor of Minneapolis in 1893 and 1894, and in 1898 was the Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota, but was defeated by John Lind, whos Swedish descent proved a big drawing card with the Scandinavian voters. In these forty years of activity he has won the honor and respect of his fellow-men, considerable property, and most of the other rewards that come to the success ful man. Handicapped? In one way, yes. All his life while engaged with seemingly tireless energies in big enterprises he ha: had to contend with infirmity of body. Yet, significantly enough, as we sat there in his office talking that afternoon the crutches, which in recent years have re placed his cane, stood in a corner for- gotten. Here he was, still active and alert at eighty years—and the neighbors used to shake their heads sadly about him and say, “Poor boy, he can’t live long!” He had outlasted nearly all his classmates, and, still filled with the zest of living, was talking of this new enterprise, which was to be his biggest achievement. me, the The office in which we sat was well up hiring ¢ to the top of the building, and from itB go, 7+ one could look out over the city. M®§ cylmina Eustis put up that building. Across th§ A, 4 street stands another large office build-§ purchas ing. He owned that, too, and a few§ the ban blocks away in the heart of the busines skirts 9 district there is another valuable cornet throw { that had his name registered as its ownel Fhe gave He had just parted with them all—as é§ neanolis gift. Dowling He looked out of the window, and !§ children couldn’t help contrasting the scene with} four ac) the picture of the boy at the window off of Minn that littke New York home sixty-fiv¢§ endowm years before. I may be wrong, but If crippled think that his mind went back for a mf The { ing plan ent trug the f “<i vo t any | prob: nio: Th the | the « was |] curity from perso’ plishr body you ¢ acon. “M would if I « make wante have | hardly some | | ‘ nity | wanter than I <7 v While year t day w them. would feel th: of my g0 on dren a “Aft superio cannot that I work.” Did part wi didn’t ©

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k fo crober 7, 1925 suit of % come yer oj en. at ed hi him ; d thi it ané ment to some of those early days and the truggles associated with them. He was he first to break the silence. “Tt might have been worse,” he said. Yo bitterness, no complaint. “I haven’t any kick coming. If I had been well, I probably would have gone into the Jnion Army and got killed.” Then he laughed, and came back to the present with its office buildings and the crowded streets down below. He was happy. Not from any sense of se- curity he might feel in looking down from his eminence, not because of any personal vanity or pride in his accom- plishment. As for that, he says: ‘“Any- body can do it. If you think you can. you can.” But there was another rea- Bson. “Many years ago I decided that I would do something for crippled children if I ever could get enough money to make it worth while,” he said. “I wanted them to have a real chance. You have seen them, little fellows who can hardly hope to be anything in life unless some one helps. “IT wanted to give them an opportu- nity the same as other children. I wanted them to have a better chance than I had. “T worked hard and saved my money. While adding a little to the amount from year to year, I looked forward to the day when I could put it to work for them. I was afraid the dream never would come true; but now it has, and I feel that I have accomplished the mission of my life. The hospital, I hope, will go on for all time giving crippled chil- dren a chance. “After all, there is no human service superior to that of helping those who cannot help in return, and I am glad that I can do this bit to help in the work.” Did William Henry Eustis regret to part with that million and a half? He didn’t hesitate a minute—less, he told me, than he might have thought about Il up hiring a taxicab when a street car would mifdo. It was part of the big plan, the Mr. § culmination of a lifelong ambition. s thei As a site for the hospital Mr. Eustis uild-# purchased a beautiful wooded tract on | feW § the banks of the Mississippi in the out- ines § skirts of Minneapolis and but a stone’s nel § throw from Minnehaha Falls. Of this ynel fhe gave 21 acres to the city of Min- ‘@S4E neapolis for a site for the Michael J. Dowling School, a school for the crippled children of that city. The other forty- four acres he deeded to the University of Minnesota, as part of the $1,500,000 endowment for the hospital and home for crippled children, all to be held in trust. The University of Minnesota is mak- catter, ed up pense: turne/ st and operty tice o/ as he | forty art in y. He 3 and blican esota, whose awing » In $ won -men, f the CCESS- Al ingly e has body. there 1 the re re > for- rt at used 1 and He ates, ving, vhich nd I with w of -five ut I 4 $ ‘ ‘ J ¢ i] 4 Still the lowest priced way to travel Since the first appear- ance ofthis monogram ofthe General Electric Company on the motors of early street cars, it has been asso- ciated with every im- portant development in electrical transpor- tation. It travels millions of miles every day on the motors of subway, surface and interurban cars and is on many of the large generators that make trolley service possible. Though transportation is ad- vancing by giant strides, the cost-per-mile of a street car ride is still the lowest of all. While three-quarters of the people in our cities depend on electric transportation, these cars constitute only one- quarter of the traffic. And every day sees some new improvement made in this vital form of transportation. GENERAL ELECTRIC 10 DAYS FREE TRKAL. - MONEY Sanh. IF NOT SATISFIED ~ GREATEST VALUE EVER OFFERED ! ing plans for one of the finest hospitals — hu Perk Heme Instrument You'll never use a fountain pen once you In writing to the above advertisers, please mention The Outlook hn No complicated mechanism ¥o of SEND NO MONEY. 60 Year’s guarantee

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He continued to manage the two office buildings for the benefit of the trust fund without financial considera- tion. Giving his property wasn’t enough. He has given his services along with it and is devoting all his energies to nur- turing the growth of that fund. The in- The Book Table Edited by EDMUND PEARSON The Outlook fo Octo come from it this year will be $100,0008 ctri Next year it will be $125,000. Enough}.ame money will be available, he plans, so that esel the hospital and home can be maintainedfit, y without cost to the public. the property to the University outright, No strings are attached. He even re. notes Mr. Eustis has given the money and§ nome fined viousl fused to allow the hospital to bear hifi uch name, believing that it would serve its aden purpose better in the name of the State, and p In selecting the University rather thanfio¢ y, private trustees to administer the trust he feels the assurance that the Univer- sity, standing for the best in the State and having the finest medical skill, al- ways will use the fund in the best way for the crippled children. “For all time,” he says. Amy Lowell’s friends that her ex- haustive and scholarly biography of Keats does not stand as her last literary work. Her book of poems, “What’s O’Clock,”* comes as something of an anti-climax; nor can it be said to add greatly to her degree asa poet. Strangely enough, considering her heritage of intel- lect and culture, with a name which, as she herself says, “honors all who bear it,” her verse speaks, not to the intellect, but to the senses. Her audience of imagists like and emulate it, but whoever takes up the book to read a good poem finds himself groping about for the thought, and, having discovered it, mixed up with highly colored pigments, is quite likely to find it trivial. He is lucky, too, if he is not surprised by profanity and some vul- garity. True, he may open to the hu- morous “View of Teignmouth in Devon- shire,” and enjoy a rainy day there with Keats, or to the fluently told “Tomb Valley,” or he may read the rhymed story of “Evelyn Ray,” a quaint, well- constructed tale which would have been wholly artistic had she related her story, propounded her problem, and left it with the reader, instead of solving it herself. But Amy Lowell’s admirers must concede that she rarely knows when to stop. “Evelyn Ray” is not free verse, it is true, but Miss Lowell has contracted the free- verse habit which ambles along indefi- l’ should be a matter of regret to 1“What’s O’Clock.” By Amy Lowell. The Salesroom : Pierce luilding, opp. Public Library Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.25. In writing to the above advertiser, please mention The Outlook Is Free Verse Poetry P A Review by CLARA BELLINGER GREEN nitely (naturally, being, as often as not, without feet) and drops off, to all seem- ing, when it gets tired, not infrequently on its feeblest line. In the poem “The Sisters” Miss Low- ell enumerates three outstanding women poets—Sappho, Mrs. Browning, and Emily Dickinson. She is minded to add a fourth, Amy Lowell. ‘We are one family,” she writes; but a wave of hu- mility stays her hand. “How extraordi- narily unlike each is to me,” she con- fesses; “vastly unlike, that’s for certain.” Still she hopes the judgment of posterity may be otherwise: I cannot write like you... . I only hope that possibly some day Some other woman with an itch for writing May turn to me as I have turned to you. The much-lauded “Lilacs,” which we are told Amy Lowell accounted her best work—and we take her word for it— certainly has the making of a beautiful poem. Unfortunately, she chose free verse for her medium, and so was at lib- erty to ramble on according to her wont, as her thoughts occurred to her, now and then lapsing into a‘flat-footed gait, then reining herseif up into something like musical meter, and ending, as usual, on an inconSequent line. The art of work- ing an idea up to a strong climax is not Amy Lowell’s. She merely stops. There is much defining of poetry to- says 4 and i Write remait prose than - verse. Thi: Keats: he cult cultiva surely home Does r must ] feet. Let 1 of Am sensuot in liters prepost travage her wol Imag vor, CO have, b it is no THE SCA The . In 1¢ historic Press th a sort o tale of characte successfi is the ta 80 highh guess pr famous was. Ii wherein strange Blaise di in the } expeditio gny.” J man adv isa fave romancer ‘La Row: ting. “oT of the str day. 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efor 0,000, nough o that tained y and right, on re. ar his ve its State, than trust niver- State ll, al- L way ime,” ; not, eem- ently Low- omen and » add one r hu- ordi- con- ain. erity for we best it— tiful free lib- ont, and then like ork- not to- October 7, 1925 metrical or free verse, should be the same; it is the form of it which is our present concern. Is free verse poetry? To us, free verse could be defined as notes for a possible poem awaiting a moment of inspiration. Amy Lowell de- fined free verse as cadenced verse. Ob- viously, it should be cadenced. But much prose—the best prose—is also cadenced. Now, if free verse is cadenced and prose is cadenced, we may. say that free verse is prose. Write it out as prose, says Amy Lowell’s “In a Powder Closet,” and it will be seen that it is prose. Write metrical verse as prose, and it still remains metrical verse. Writing it as prose does not make it prose, any more than writing prose as verse makes it verse. This is what St. Loe Strachey says of Keats: “He was fully aware that when he cultivated sound and harmony he was cultivating the thing which would most surely drive the arrow of his thought home and which would wing his words.” Does not this define poetry? Its words must have wings. Poetry has winged feet. Let us apply this test to the free verse of Amy Lowell. We find her a rich, sensuous nature, a book woman, steeped in literature, exotic, abnormal, sometimes preposterous—she wrote at night—ex- travagant in her use of color. But do her words have wings? Imagery, originality, imagination, fer- vor, color—all these and more it may have, but if the wingéd feet are wanting it is not poetry. Fiction THE SCARLET COCKEREL. By C. M. Sublette. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston. $2. In 1923 died C. B. 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k fomoctober 7, 1925 a pernicious tendency to pun; he has at times tried to be profoundly far-seeing, mixing thereto a strain of sentiment which has stretched credulity, as, for instance in ““The Melting Pot” and “The Next Religion.” Such pleasantries as “Merely Mary Ann” have been vehicles only for acting of a light character, that carries no further than the three hours’ traffic of the stage. “Too Much Money,” called a farcical comedy, is a slow farce and a mild com- edy. Mr. Zangwill says that he took relief from the war by writing this bit of fun, this “irresistible horse-play,” so Mr. Archer is quoted as having said. This is the sort of drama that many of our minor playwrights could have done bet- ter; in fact, Miss Claire Kummer in her “A Successful Calamity” treated a some- what similar theme with lightness and grace. The thing about Mr. Zangwill is that the reader does not know when his moods shift, when his sympathies change. 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He is witty and sound and useful as he flays the fakers. He talks about all the lovely foolish fads that delight the newspapers and their credulous readers; about rejuvenation and birth control and chiropractic and osteopathy and many another thing. His book is good fun. He is especially amusing as he writes about the “big muscle boys’—the physical culture teachers, who love to be photographed all lumpy muscle and wearing a leopard skin and a ferocious pompadour. Miscellaneous PERSEUS; OR, OF DRAGONS. By H. F. Scott Stokes. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1. This little book is one of a series. 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ok fonOctober 7, 1925 Miwas invited, and he chose to talk upon the hopelessly useless and altogether fWey(Mliascinating topic of dragons. All about their origin, birth, and death; what their insides are good for; where dragons came from; how they act; and what you had ers mine . f enemy's |better do if you meet one. There isn’t | an atom of self-improvement in the } through : ’ 7 gum line 000k; no word of woman’s future; noth- ces tooth Jing about the wage scale in Lancashire or a most iOregon. And, for our part—our own decay or shameless part—we are content to let all —t- the lofty domes talk as they will under alized, re Ithe elms. We will step aside with Mr. kand sg \Scott Stokes, and learn about dragons. } present. posen. ont a pockets eria which Notes on New Books the system }many o- iTHE CREDIBILITY OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH. jeases of By Orville E. Crain. The Abingdon Press, New York. 50c. copleout} A review of the history of this ancient ver forty loontroversy. s this Pyor- Forhan's SOBRIETY. By Edgar Cole. The Meroduk Pub- prevents lishing Company, Philadelphia. $1. if usedin | The author intimates that Washington used cov |on the battle of Trenton because his men 's hardens ("°° sober and the enemy had been weak- s It aa ened by alcohol. Mr. Cole’s intentions are ¥ doubtless better than his knowledge of his- teeth and jlory. > THE CHURCH’S PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEO- f h PLE. By Herbert Carleton Mayer. The Cen- oO “9 tury Company, New York. 2 while you | “A text-book of adolescent religious edu- sing you fcation in the local church.” entifcally. tr CYNIC’S CYCLOPAEDIA. Little Brown & — pleas Co., Boston. $1. 2s taste. Six hundred and fifty attempts to concoct shrinkage F good epigram. = An in, PROTEUS; OR, THE FUTURE OF INTELLI- ® s GENCE. By Vernon Lee. E. P. Dutton & Ley Co., New York. $1. oa | A critic of art and literature considers a ‘few theory of intelligence. 1 60c tubes .andCan. THE BOOK OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. By nula of Dorethy Mills. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New han, D.D.8. York. TAN ¢2. _ introduction to the history of Greece. an’e, Ltd. RACE OR NATION. By Gino Speranza. The mtreal Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $3. and to the American Nation. HN HEYL VINCENT. By Leon H. Vincent. The Macmillan Company, New York. $3.50. The biography of Bishop Vincent, with references to the origins of Chautauqua. pound. hye FRESHMAN GIRL. By Kate W. Jameson

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ok fo October 7, 1925 y kindly the an iblished EVERAL times in the past our showing S monthly collection of records has knowl. contained what we might have > mind. ge that his bed ho were ‘ith the other ired to n Miss Can called an “imposing array” of worth- while selections. But now we realize that at the time we had no conception of the extent to which an “imposing array” might reach. This month brings a staggering list of new records. An- other catalogue of the Columbia Master- works Series has been issued, and in it are some thirty-odd additions to the col- lection—most of them major works, such as symphonies, sonatas, quartettes, and orchestral suites. Incidentally, all of these recordings were made in England. It seems that England’s thirst for the highest forms of music on the phono- “9 graph has been greater than America’s, and accordingly the British cousins of our own phonograph companies have brought out highly interesting and meri- torious recordings of fine music. And now the American Columbia Company has imported by the wholesale matrices from the British Columbia Company and has presented the American public with a really astounding collection of the best music. Among the recordings are symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; orchestral works. by Richard Strauss, Gustav Holst—to say nothing of Papa Bach; and much chamber music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Franck, and Ravel. It is a de- light simply to thumb over the pages of the catalogue. The Columbia Company is to be congratulated on making a brave move. Unfortunately, the list is so great that it is impossible to comment on all the records adequately in this month’s column. So a few will be reviewed now, and more later. re, ? ght; and 1all, care. Phonograph Records , CONCERTO IN D MINOR FOR TWO VIOLINS (Bach). Played by Arthur Catterall and John S. Bridge, with orchestra conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. In five parts, on three records. Columbia. One of the most popular as well as beautiful of Bach’s compositions, this Concerto flows along from start to finish with noble and majestic dignity. Its second movement, very similar in mood to the famous Handel Largo, could be Profitably substituted on many pro- Stammes for that greatly overplayed Composition, and not lose a speck of its Ireshness. The whole concerto seems to Bail in a sea of melody in which each of he solo violins vies with the other for supremacy. In the performance of . Al Law- ram- et, Rolls and Discs . By LAWRENCE JACOB ABBOTT Messrs. Catterall and Bridge there is a whole-hearted enthusiasnt. The orches- tra is kept very much in the background, but that is probably necessary to avoid a confusion of sound that would obscure the solo instruments. On the reverse of the last record the extra space is utilized by the celebrated aria from the Overture in D. This is often heard in transcrip- tion as the “Air for G String,” but is here played by Sir Hamilton Harty and orchestra as originally written. 4 SUITE IN B MINOR FOR FLUTE AND STRINGS (Bach). Played by Robert Murcie and orchestra conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. In four parts, on two records. Columbia. In certain ways this suite outdoes the D Minor Concerto. Some of the dance are full of life and movement; others, like the “Sarabande,” are sheer loveli- ness. One advantage for the phonograph of a suite is that each part is completed on a single record face. There is no sudden pause in the middle of a move- ment, as is the disturbing fact in a sym- phony recording. The strings are excel- lent in reproduction; the flute is a little overpowered. Mr. Murcie is at his best in the rapid and cheerful “Badinerie” which closes the suite. CHACONNE FOR VIOLA ONLY (Bach). Played by Lionel Tertis.. In four parts, on two records. Columbia. There is something at least unusual in a lengthy composition for a melodic in- strument with no accompaniment. As it happens, there is more than novelty in this particular example of an obsolete dance form. A large portion is composed of figures which are repeated and de- veloped. But there is melody, too. The viola covers a wide range, giving itself a chance to exhibit its full warmth of tone. In some double-stopped passages there is all the sonority of the harmonizings of a Tuskegee quartette. BENI MORA—ORIENTAL SUITE (Gustav Holst). Played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustav Holst. In four parts, on two records. Columbia. An interesting expression of Oriental atmosphere, with rich prismatic effects and exotic, dissonant harmonies. Mr. Holst has a strong sense of the dramatic. In the “Street of the Ouled Nails” he builds a complexity of themes one upon the other, as in imitation of the conflict- ing sounds of street activity. 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Mart Of Tue UNusua The Outlook 120 East 16th Street New York The Outlook for October 7, 1925 most grandiose of Beethoven’s sym- phonies. Even such things as repeats are taken into account. The symphony is conducted with admirable contrasts— especially the second movement. Its chief weakness is in reproduction. The famous double-bass passage in the scherzo, instead of being played with powerful elephantine zest, sounds timidly thin and remote. From the first we were aware of a disappointed feeling that the tone of the orchestra did not come out as fully, clearly, and colorfully as it should. And Beethoven’s Fifth, even when conducted by Weingartner, loses much effectiveness when it lacks a full majestic power of tone. IN THE VILLAGE (Ippolitow-Iwanow); PRINCE IGOR—Polovetzki Dance (Borodin). Played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra con- ducted by Leopold Stokowski. Victor. It becomes more and more surprising what the phonograph can do in orches- tral recording. In the delicate scoring of “In the Village” the deeper stringed in- struments as well as oboe and violins sound almost too vividly real. Right in back of that dark slotted opening in the phonograph out of which the sound comes, the orchestra breathes—alive. In both these Russian numbers it has a chance to show itself off to advantage, with Eastern melodies, crisp rhythms, and weird touches. PIRATE SONG (Stevenson-Gilbert); CAPTAIN STRATTON’S FANCY (Masefield-Taylor). Sung by Reinald Werrenrath. Victor. Two rousing good tunes, especially Deems Taylor’s setting of John Mase- field’s “Captain Stratton’s Fancy.” The The words get lost in the shuffle, which is a pity, for the whole character of the song depends upon the telling of the goodly narrative. Piano Rolls THE IRISH WASHERWOMAN Sowerby). Played by Leo Sowerby. We cannot refrain from placing first among the piano rolls a setting of this gay little country-dance tune which must be familiar to almost everybody. It is the one to which the would-be humorists sing “The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold.” In Sowerby’s piano arrangement it is put through elaborate paces. The result is a piece of genuine beauty. There is an atmosphere of charm altogether strange for this over- familiar little reel that has emerged from many a rustic fiddle or accordion. (Arranged by Ampico. SYMPHONY NO. 5—First and second movements (Tchaikowsky). Played by Albert Stoessel. Duo-Art. PIQUE DAME OVERTURE (von Suppé). Played by Milton Suskind and Julius Buerger; con- ducted by Artur Bodanzky. Ampico. Here are two totally different piano recordings of orchestral music. 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Florida FOR SALE or RENT 4.82207 BUNGALOW. Modern conveniences. Well Supmianee. About middle of East Coast. Write C. ORTON, Germantown, Md.

Maine uaint, artistic home for sale on Andros- coggin Lake. 4 acres, large baru suitable for camp or studio, excelient fishing, delight- ful summer or year-around home, modern conveniences. Price moderate. May be seen September and October. Box 24, \\ ayne, Me. $1, 100 buys furnished camp on lake front. 20 miles Portland, over Tarvia road. Screened porch. Boat. Marne Lakes & Coast Co., Portland, Maine. New York GENTLEMAN’S FARM In beautiful Dutchess Co., N. Y. 65 miles from New York. 100 acres self-sup- ~~ throu =I B+ acres anoles. All nec- farm Idings. Site for mansion with Sele views sof Alpine scenery. One mile to station. $15,000. G. W. K., 4,471, Outlook. Cottage in the Adirondacks Fuynishet rent or board in fine hunting grounds. Ad- dress HALSEY BOWEN, Clintonville, N. Y.

Virginia Fe Rent, pleasant fali and winter home on salt water, completely furnished, 4 bed- poome, 2 bathrooms, electric lights. Oyster bed, State oe good high school, churches. 8.C. WOLCO Nuttall, Gloucester Co., Va

A Mart of the Unusual HARDY PHLOX peers ties—20c. each. Six varieties $1, label R. B. LOTT, Nurseryman, Eatontown, N. J.

Board—Rooms A Lady Living in Her| "925° Well-Appointet? Home} . 4°<°5 desires to secure two permanent Golf paying guests. References ex-| Grounds chang Write to Hotel Miss E. Desray LonecHamMP Lakehurst, New Jersey

ANTED—1 or 2 a ypeemene companionable boarders, elderly, semi-invalids. Modern, well-located home. Ketined adult family. W rite Berkshires, Gen. Del., Gt. Barrington, Mass.

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EMPLOYMENT AGENCY SCHOOLS, hospitals, hotels, cinbs, tea- rooms, welfare organizations, supplied with workers. Positions for secretaries, social workers, superintendents, matrons, honse- keepers. «dietitians. cafeteria managers. The Richards Bureau, 68 Barnes 8t., Providence. HELP WANTED EARN $110 to $250 monthly, expenses paid, as railway traffic inspector. Position guaran- teed after completion of 3 nonths’ home study course or money refunded. 7 oO - tunities. Write for free CMs. Standard Business Training iectination, Buf- falo, N. Y¥. EXPERIENCED NURSERY GOVERN- ESS for girls one and three years old. Prefer one 8) ing French, a specially seek — petent, amiable person for __ tion. Dougherty, 103 East 86th St., New oak. wal NEED TRAINED MEN AND MEN. Nation-wide demand.for high- salaried men and women. Past experience 1 + We train you by mail and put kasi in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, ne living. ~~ Ta rare: quick advance-

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HELP WANTED NURSE-—Active, intelligent, for care baby 10 months, and assist 3 — — boy 6, twins 3; preferably oly Engnet Good recent references. rsdale, N. Y. Address 6,373, Outlook SALESMEN wanted. $10 daily“easy. We start you in auto accessory business. No investment, no experience necessary. Ex. clusive territory. otor Products Co., 1760 Lunt Ave., Chicago. WANTED, at once, mother's helper and companies to two girls, 7 and 10, going to school. Must be Protestant, of leasing a sonality, perfect health, be able to pla Bend Age 30-35. Personal interview desir nd references and answer to Mrs. J. R, Moore, Morristown, N. J. WANTED.—Companion for elderly lad who is to spend winter in a Southern hotel. Experience capable eee about forty preferred. Box 6,399, Outlook WANTED—companion, Riches Re- fined, willing, and obliging. Musical pre- ferred. Age 30-35. Able to supervise house- keeping. 6,406, Outlook. WANTED, near Wilmington, Delaware, mother’s helper for 3 children. oung, com- petent woman desired. Personal interview yeqeemes. Mrs. N. T. Booth, New Castle, e WANTED—Pleasant young woman com- pales for elderly lady. Light housework uties. 6,377, Outlook. WANTED.—Useful companion to widow — in suburbs of New York. Pleasing per- sonality. Neat sewer. Some experience nurs- ing; willing to assist light chamberwork. Protestant. At once. ell recommended. 6,396, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED AS companionable house manager to semi- invalid or to assist in adult household like member of family. References exchanged. L., 44 Cottage St., New Haven, Conn. COLLEGE position wanted by pulprestty graduate in social sciences. 6,409, Outlook. ENGLISH woman of refinement, traveled and experienced, as companion, assisting in supervision of household. Has held similar position fourteen years. Excellent references. 6,397, Outlook. EXPERIENCED teacher wishes grade aition. Mrs. W. 8. George, Route, 23, Vinthrop, Me. GENTLEW OMAN desires position as com- Renton to young or middle-aged woman. ould manage household, do secretarial 3 =e or travel. Excellent references. 6,395, ut POSITION as companion and home man- ager, at once. Would travel or not as desired. 6,393, Outlook. POSITION desired by young American woman as useful a aud household assistant. References. Address 6,387, Outlook. PRACTICAL middle-aged gentlewoman (not servant), assistant in refined home where such service is needed. Moderate compensa- tion. References exchanged. 6,411, Outlook. REFINED, educated woman desires posi- tion as oungonen to young or middle-aged woman. Wili travel. Address E. K. L., 228 Garfield St., Kennett Square, Pa. REFINED young woman desires ition taking care of children. Kind and gentile discipline, capable in sickness. Scotch. F100 a mouth. 6,398, Outlook. REFINED young woman, pleasing person- ality, experienced, desires position, nursery governess, “ elder sister,” or — Al references. 6,404, Outlook. SAILING early November,two professional women, experienced travelers, will escort children or adults requiring companions to destinations in England or Europe. tate terms. 6,403, Outlook. SUPERINTENDENT or matron children’s home or any institution. Experienced. 6,4 Outlook. TEACHER, lor. Virile Westerner, now in Ea Tuterested i in higher things. Fond of boys and outdoors. Wil \ trustworthy, and strictly temperate. An athlete who doubts value of athletics. 6,394, Outlook. TEACHER of great sympathy and under- standing will tutor (Calvert System) children under 8 in i, - own homes. Brooklyn or New York. Interview requested. 413, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six months’ nurses’ aid course is offered by the hide Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York are provided with maintenance and given a monthiy allowance of $10. For further par- ticuiars address Directress of Nurses. LADIES—Let Patricia Dix help Tt with that next club or study paper. =i tion upon req Rates Outlook. CHILD care for winter months. Northern woman of culture, going South for winter, will take care of hea — hg for the season. References. 6,407, Out

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symphony is one of Tchaikowsky’s great- est—thrilling in its climaxes, emotionally alive from first to last. Its arrangement is interesting in that its treatment by a solo pianist often differs markedly from the usual orchestral interpretation. The “Pique Dame” Overture is interesting in a different way. Its military precision of handling creates the illusion of an or- chestral performance. The music itself is merely light entertainment. Person- ally we should prefer to hear Bodanzky conduct something more interesting and substantial. CONCERTO IN E MINOR, Opus 11 (Chopin). Played by Josef Hofmann. Duo-Art. Chopin is for the most part not a com- poser of surprises. The E Minor Con- certo discloses him.as we expect to find him, with a characteristically resonant use of the pianoforte, delicate grace of melody, and a mood of soft, gentle sad- ness. He becomes sometimes monoto- nous—as with the disquieting regularity of his accompaniment in the second movement—but never unpleasant. Hof- mann’s performance shows precision and shading. He has also skillfully blended the orchestral and piano parts into one.

Contributors’ Gallery ee RICHARDS has been for two years a member of the United States team in the Davis Cup matches. In 1924 he won the Olympic Tennis Championship and with William Tilden 2d has held the National Doubles Cham- pionship. He is noteworthy for his good sportsmanship in a game where good sportsmanship is taken for granted. | Faye CHRISTMAS was born in Kansas, and grew up on an Oklahoma farm. He was graduated from the University of Oklahoma and later took a course in journalism at the University of Missouri. Following graduation he traveled over most of the Middle West, and eventually settled in St. Paul, where he has since been engaged in journalism. (."* STERLING has for many years made his home on the Pacific coast. He is the author of some ten volumes of poetry. He is one of the most distin- guished lyricists of America. i this issue George Marvin dares to wonder if go-getting is the chief end of man.