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Mrs. Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., and her husband, who, they say, is one of our coming golfers

out, and that would have been a breaking of all the records in continuous flight. It was considered quite probable, however, that he would be compelled to come down in Pernambuco or else

where.

A touch of farce was added to the air history of the week under consideration in the solo flight of Levine from France to England. No one understands or cares about Levine's quarrels with the French pilot Drouhin, but it was the result of those quarrels that Levine, who has had no extensive experience in a plane except as a passenger, took out the Columbia, which he owns, for a little exercise, as he said, and then calmly sailed it across the Channel and to the Croydon airport. He had no map, his navigation was extremely happy-golucky, and his attempts to land (his first effort at this difficult feat) almost resulted, two or three times, in his destruction. One thing at least he has accomplished, and that is to show that,

whatever other qualities he may possess, he has that of physical courage.

Jones Triumphs Again

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EMORANDUM from editorial to composing room: "Please polish up standing head, 'Jones Triumphs Again.' He has just entered another tournament."

Memorandum from composing room to editorial room: "Standing head worn out. Will have to set it again."

This interchange of compliments between The Outlook editorial and composing rooms is a matter of imagination rather than fact-as yet. Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., of Atlanta and points north, east, and south, is in his middle twenties. He can be conservatively rated as the greatest golfer of all time, and the most discouraging opponent which his friendly enemies can be called upon to face.

In the National Amateur Championship at the Minikahda Golf Course, at

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Jones again demonstrated the superlative skill which has won for him every worthwhile title except the British Amateur. At Minikahda he played the kind of golf which makes history. After playing the first eighteen holes of the qualifying round in 75, three over par, he scored a 67 on the second day, and won the qual ifying medal with a total of 142 strokes, beating his nearest rival by three. In the match play he was carried by his first opponent to the eighteenth green before winning by two up. In his second round he defeated his nearest opponent by three up and two to play. Then he hit his stride and took his next three opponents Johnston of Minneapolis, Ouimet of Boston, and Evans of Chicago -into camp by ten up and nine to play, eleven up and ten to play, eight up and seven to play. Against Evans he made the first nine holes in 31 strokes, leaving his distinguished opponent, who scored a 38, five down at the turn. His card for this round was as follows:

4 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 3-31

It was in this round that he made the uphill ninth hole of 562 yards in three shots. The second shot with a spoon, 250 yards, stopped within eighteer. inches of the hole. Such shooting would be credible for a rifleman; in golf it's simply more than human.

No wonder that Francis Ouimet took a marble to the Tournament Committee with the modest request that Jones hereafter be compelled to use it in competition. "It's the only way," he explained, "that I can get a chance to beat him."

Irving House

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T is pleasing to old New Yorkers to know that there is to be an Irving House on Irving Place and particularly pleasing, we may add, to The Outlook, which lives a block down Irving Place.

The old house at 49 Irving Place is not precisely beautiful, but it is to be unpainted and restored to its pristine old-brick color, is to become a repository of antique furniture, some of it belonging to the Irving family, and also a memorial museum of Washington Irving manuscripts.

There never has been much doubt that a nephew of Washington Irving lived here during the author's life, but there has been question as to Washington Irving's residence in the house. Lately Major George Haven Putnam has stated his clear recollection of going to this house when a boy for his father, who was then publishing Irving's books; he is not quite as positive that he saw

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Washington Irving in person, but Mrs. William Cumming Story, president of the association which has bought the old house, thinks it quite well established that the old-bachelor author made it his town residence when he was living at Sunnyside, probably in the three years ending in 1856.

It is quite appropriate that the house should be owned and managed by the National Patriotic Builders of America, which has for its aim the fostering of the patriotic ideals of the Fathers of the Republic.

The author of the "Knickerbocker History" cannot be too much honored by the people of New York City. He laughed genially at their Dutch ancestors, but he loved them,

War Dangers in Peace Time
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HAT officers and men enlisted in the service of their country often lay down their lives in performing their duty has been illustrated again and again in collisions, submarine disasters, and gun explosions. This element of danger in peace is a part of the needed preparation against war, and lives so sacrificed are truly those of patriots.

In the case of the recent collision in Japanese waters in which a hundred and twenty-nine lives were lost, the two destroyers and two cruisers involved were engaged in war maneuvers on a dark, foggy night and without lights showing. The danger was excessive and overzeal in the endeavor of the destroyers to outflank and pass the cruisers led to the disaster. Within the same month thirtyeight men were killed and forty-seven were wounded by an explosion on a Japanese mine-layer, the Tokiwa.

As was fitting, honors have been paid by the Emperor and people of Japan to all these men who suffered in the nation's service, and Americans who recognize courage and devotion to country will join in sympathy for Japan's disastrous loss.

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the best use of his time by doing some of his traveling by airplane. He went from New York to Toronto by air, and also by air from Toronto to Detroit to visit Henry Ford and to see the automobile and airplane factories there.

In choosing M. Maurice Bokanowski as their representative to the American and Canadian Bar Conventions, French lawyers selected one of the most distinguished members of the present coalition Cabinet. He came, in response to the American barristers' invitation, not only as the delegate of the association to which he brings credit, but also in a sense as the personal representative of two of the foremost French advocates whose duties prevent their attendance, Premier Poincaré, and the batonnier Aubépin, president of the French bar.

M. Bokanowski is young as men go in politics in France. He has held his seat as Deputy only since 1914, but in the financial debates that marked the crisis

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In 1925 M. Bokanowski visited Washington as member of the Caillaux mission for the settlement of the French debt to the United States, and he holds progressive views on the question of reciprocal commerce between the two countries.

The Minister will find many things aside from the Bar Convention to study while he is in the United States. Under his direction come not only the mails, telephones, and telegraphs, which are all Government monopolies in France, but radio and aeronautics as well. It was by M. Bokanowski's department that facilities were placed at the disposal of the American transatlantic fliers. Americans, therefore, remembering with pleasure the cordial French reception to our aviators, have special reason for welcoming M. Bokanowski to this country.

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recognition. He was appointed member of the Commission of Commerce and later of the Committee of Finance, where in 1922-4 he occupied the vital post of rapporteur général. During the Poincaré Ministry of 1924 M. Bokanowski was Minister of the Navy, and when the present Cabinet was formed a year ago he was called forward again, this time as Minister of Commerce.

HE French have always been most gracious in their recognition of American merit, as demonstrated in their bestowal of the Legion of Honor upon leading citizens of this country. The list published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 17 included five American names, of which one was a promotion, and four appointments. The appointments were Albert N. Connett, Jr., of the Guaranty Trust Company;

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Charles F. Goddard, managing director most democratic honor societies in the of the United Shoe Machinery Company; Edwin Scott, artist; and H. A. Webster, painter and etcher. The promotion was that of Walter Gay, artist, to the rank of Commander.

Mr. Gay first went to Paris to study art in 1876, having begun his career in 1873 by painting flower subjects. He studied under M. Bonnat, and was a constant exhibitor at the Paris Salon. The large picture "Benedicite," now in the museum in Amiens, and "Las in Amiens, and "Las Cigarreras," in the Luxembourg Gallery, are his work, and his pictures have also been purchased for the London, Boston, and Metropolitan Museums. Mr. Gay was made a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor in 1894, and promoted to Officer in 1906.

The French ministries have a happy talent for rewarding home merit with the Legion of Honor in most unexpected

places. The Legion is by no means confined to the rich and the great, and social pedigrees are so utterly discounted as to make this organization one of the

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world. Among these summer appointments, two will suffice to illustrate the point. On the list of the Minister of Commerce appears the name of M. Fargeas, a mail carrier who has been in the service for thirty-three years, and who was named for meritorious service. the list of the Department of Agriculture is the Widow Hamant, mother of nine children, eight of whom are living and still attached to the soil. "For the dignity and the activity of her life," reads the notice of this woman who has been husbandless for twenty years, and who has nobly conducted her farm with the help of her young children, "she deserves to be cited as an example."

All honor to the Legion of Honor for such recognitions.

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When he reached his Sussex home, says

a press despatch, "bands played, flags were hung out," and (climax of rural popularity) he "has been asked to present prizes at local fairs and has been cheered wherever he appeared in public."

Bottomley was convicted of a mean fraud-the misuse of money raised by his "bond clubs" in which ex-soldiers, workers, and poor people generally invested. He had ability of a sort; we described him at the time as financial necromancer, orator extraordinary, journalist amazing, and hater of things American. His "John Bull" weekly had an amazing circulation; what he offered his public was, wrote Mr. P. W. Wilson, a fellow-member of Parliament with Bottomley, "the pointed paragraph, the impudent but amusing sneer, the exposure of petty scandal, and great swelling words of discontent, denunciation, and vague aspiration." He made money by his howling patriotism.

Millions of half-educated and excitable people believed in him. It is quite likely that "John Bull" may be revived. and Bottomley once more be a rallyingpoint for hysteria.

Egypt's "Grand Old Man " Dies

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AGHLUL PASHA is dead, and in Brit

ish Government offices in London there must have been sighs of relief. At the age of seventy-six years, Zaghlul was the inspiring head of the Egyptian Nationalist movement. Without him, agitation against British suzerainty is likely to subside, as similar agitation did in India after Gandhi was removed from active public life. The Suez Canal is unthreatened for another period.

Always irreconcilable and always energetic, Zaghlul concentrated and organized Egyptian unrest. From 1888, when the British occupied his country, he devoted himself to the cause of freeing Egypt from alien rule. Sometimes at home in Cairo and sometimes in exile, he never relaxed his will and never lost a chance to further his purpose. The period in which he centered international attention upon himself began with the termination of the World War, when he demanded recognition of Egyptian independence. He rose to be Prime Minister after Great Britain granted Egypt autonomy in 1922, and resigned his post rather than accept the penalties laid down by the British Government for the assassination of its representative in Cairo, Sir Lee Stack. Since then, although British recognition has been refused to Ministries formed by him, the Egyptian voters have persistently returned his party with a majority in Parliament. King Fuad, the nominal

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ruler, has been forced to carry on the national affairs with minority Cabinets. The latest crisis arose from army reforms proposed by the Nationalist majority, and British battleships were ordered to Alexandria and the Suez Canal after a year of practically armed truce. But a general election, called in the hope of breaking Zaghlul's power, resulted in the capture of nearly nine out of ten of the legislative seats by his followers. The governmental deadlock continued, with Zaghlul as President of the Chamber.

What will happen with Zaghlul gone is uncertain. His party may temporarily lose spirit, or less shrewd heads may get control of it and drive it to extremes which will cause British intervention. The one thing certain is that no other Egyptian leader has his brains, the astuteness which made him avoid fatal breaks. The British hold on the Sudan and the vital Canal will be made easier. As always, time plays for the Empire, and death often proves its best friend.

Hungary's Prime Minister

HE good boys in school are never

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well known. It is the bad ones that form the topic of discussion. So it is with Count Stephen Bethlen, of Hungary, who since April 15, 1921, has uninterruptedly held the reins of office, and who therefore goes his quiet, efficient way without very much being said about him.

The Peace Treaty, which reduced Hungary to less than one-third of its former size, introduced countless new problems, political, social, and economic. As in most other European countries, the following years saw a mad succession of Cabinets, who were expected to work immediate miracles, and, failing, found themselves deposed. When, after many years of parliamentary life, Count Bethlen came to the helm in 1921, the country was in a chaos. Within a few months King Charles, who had been forced to abandon his throne by the Revolution of 1918, made his second and ill-advised attempt to regain it. What followed was one of the bitterest pages of Hungarian history, when, in reply to the demand not only of her neighbors, but of the Great Powers, the nation was compelled

to deliver up its crowned King and to pass the Dethronization Act, which put an end to the Hapsburg succession.

The National Assembly was pletely shattered by these events, and proved incapable of passing constructive legislation for the development of the bicameral parliamentary system and the Suffrage Bill. It was dissolved at the suggestion of Count Bethlen, and the second National Assembly gave him the

support necessary for the passage of the reform bills. One of his most important achievements was obtaining the sympathy and support of the League of Nations for the financial reconstruction of the country, a program which was carried out in unexpectedly short time. The last elections for the new Par

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liament, in December last, brought in an overwhelming majority in the Prime Minister's favor, demonstrating the continued faith of the country in his guidance. He is now well into the seventh year of Premiership, the longest record of present-day Europe, and there are no signs of diminishing influence.

Count Bethlen has many affinities with the United States. He is, first of all, a great sportsman, fond of tennis, golf, and shooting. His wife is active in the literary world, with several novels to her credit, and his eldest son, who wishes. to develop a business career for himself, is working in a bank in New York. China Retells the Old Story THE Nationalist movement in China,

that appeared triumphantly united a few months ago, now seems fatally divided. The radicals of Hankow and the moderates of Nanking are trying to come to some understanding while-with General Chiang Kai-shek in retirement. after having led their victorious advance from Canton in South China to the Yangtze Valley in central China-the northern militarists advance. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian Gen

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eral," is now the nominal head of the Nationalist forces, but it is not certain what he intends to do.

General Sun Chuan-fang, of Shantung, has been pushing the Nationalists back from his strategically important province and threatening Nanking. Behind him, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, of Manchuria, titular "Generalissimo" of the northern armies, is reported to frown. slightly on Sun's successes, fearing that he is gaining too much power. So disunity threatens the northerners also.

Unabashed, Premier Pan Fu, of the Peking administration, which still claims to be the rightful Government of China, has declared in an interview that "the expediency of calling upon the United States, Great Britain, and the other Powers to fulfill their promises of willingness to take up the matter of treaty revision with regard to China is being carefully considered." In other words, whether South or North is winning at the moment, the need to appeal to an evidently steady demand of public opinion forces the "top dogs" to challenge the privileged position of the Powers in China. The one thing upon which the Chinese are able to agree is their desire to get the "foreign devils" out.

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MONG the most understanding friends of America in England was John St. Loe Strachey. English to the marrow, imbued with the feeling, deeper than any formulated conviction, that an Englishman who has inherited advantages and opportunities owes whatever power they give him to the public service, conscious of the Empire as the background of every English problem, he had that breadth of mind that enabled him to look at another people that had none of the traditions which make England what it is and understand that people's life and ways of thinking. His death on August 26 at the age of sixtyseven brings to many Americans who were acquainted with him through his writings and his influence as a publicist a sense of loss.

From 1897 to 1925 he was editor and

proprietor of the "Spectator." Under his direction the "Spectator" not only maintained the high place that it had under R. H. Hutton but grew in influence. One might almost say that its position among weekly journals of England corresponds to that of the "Times" among daily newspapers. It had, and still maintains, a view of world affairs which was at once British and cosmopolitan.

On his retirement he relinquished con

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