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Contains set of health rules, many of which may be easily followed right at home or while traveling. You will find in this book a wealth of information about food elements and their relation to physical welfare. This book is for those who wish to keep physi- HEALTH EXTENSION BUREAU GOOD HEALTH BLDG. Those opposed to Governor Smith are not inclined to ask many questions about him. While they admit that there are many things about him which they do not know, they believe that they do know thoroughly those things about him which determine their position. On the other hand, those who favor his nomination would like to know more about him. They talk of making an effort to have him come South and make some speeches. They have faith in the personality which they have heard so much about-faith that it could make converts of a part of the opposition. But in twenty-five years of watching from the press table I have never seen many hard-headed Southern Democrats converted by a personality. They would like the personality of Al Smith, as they would of Al Jolson. But they would no more vote for the personality of Al Smith-well, no more than they would for the personality of Al Jolson. They may possibly vote for wrong principles, but they vote for principles. Fear (Continued from page 295) motest, of the same political party. As regards yourself and the man who lives next door to you, you wish him well, but not so very well. Even if he is a member of the same church as yourself, you do not wish him so inordinately well. Whereas if he does not belong to the same church as yourself, and if, in addition, he does things a little out of the ordinary, such as walk in the street without a hat, you do not wish him well at all. In any case, as regards your neighbor and yourself, although you have no desire to see his house burn down or his children killed in a motor accident, a most modest worldly success will do very well for him, as far as you are concerned. For these and other reasons sufficiently naïve and self-revealing, you take it as a matter of course that, of the many persons involved in the recent agitation in Boston, those who were not in the thing for what they could get out of it were revolutionists of the most flagrant dye. It is impossible for you to conceive that men could weep in public and women permit themselves to be thrown in jail because (as it seemed to them) the blue hem of Justice was being dragged in the mire. In the world in which you live Justice is a woman of stone above a court-house door. As I said before, I am not sufficiently idealistic to share the political opinions of these men with whose fate I am concerned. It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man; man is quite patently, to my sight, the worm of the Moody and Sankey hymns. Except for this fact, I should of course think twice before writing as I do. For, although I was born in this country, and am possessed of that simple right of the citizen to hold any opinions he may choose and to express any opinions he may hold, yet to avail one's self of this right and express opinions contrary to the opinions. of the majority may become, as we have lately seen, a folly punishable by the extreme correction. For surely you are not still insisting that these two poor wretches were put to death solely for the crime of murder? You and I both know that we must be careful, not only what we do, but also what we say, and even what we think, if we would not have one day our sleep brutally broken in upon and ourselves rudely forced to enter a place where we do not at all wish to go. And surely you will not deny that, if you would remain undisturbed, it is more important to be on the side of the established order of things than to be innocent of even the grossest crime? As I said before, I dare say these things because I am not an Anarchist; but I dare say them for another reason, too: because my personal physical freedom, my power to go in and out when I choose, my personal life even, is no longer quite as important to me as it once was. Death even, that outrageous intrusion, appears to me at moments, and more especially when I think of what happened in Boston two months ago, death appears to me somewhat as a darkened room, in which one might rest one's battered temples out of the world's way, leaving the sweeping of the crossings to those who still think it important that the crossings be swept. As if indeed it mattered the least bit in the world whether the crossings be clean or foul, when of all the people passing to and fro there in the course of an eighthour day not one out of ten thousand has a spark of true courage in his heart. or any love at all, beyond the love of a cat for the fire, for any earthly creature other than himself. The world, the physical world, and that once was all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face. TH HE DICTATORS OF EUROPE give short shrift to their foes. In Lithuania Premier Waldemaras is suppressing opposition to his Government-which a military revolt put in power last year-and a court martial has tried and sentenced to execution an army captain and five soldiers affiliated with the Socialist Party, charged with attempting an armed uprising. Across the line in Russia, the Soviet Court has put to death three formerly wealthy aristocrats charged with espionage on behalf of Great Britain. Conservative and Communist-the methods are alike. A German Communist has argued recently in a public speech that political executions are not justified in capitalistic countries, but are justified in Soviet Russia because there they represent extermination of the enemies of Communism, and presumably would be justified in any other country under revolutionary rule. A good many reactionaries in capitalistic countries think the same thing-in re verse. K ASARINOV, a low-paid matchfactory worker, won first prize in the Soviet Air League lottery last summer-a trip around the world with first-class accommodations. He started out in khaki shirt and trousers tucked in his boots, and returned lately to his provincial town of Rybinsk in a smart tweed suit, a snappy felt hat, yellow dogskin gloves, silk socks, and patent-leather shoes. He told the home folks he was going to try for a diplomatic post abroad. The peasants stroked his suit, admired his socks and shoes, and asked what the outfit cost-to discover it was about the same as a khaki shirt and working trousers and boots in the Soviet stores! So Kasarinov's trip may prove a By MALCOLM WATERS DAVIS FROM CHILE, the former President Alessandri arrived a few days ago, with the one-time Minister of Foreign Affairs and other political companions, in the capital of the Argentine Republic. The Chilean dictator Ibanez, whom an army coalition placed in control, sent the man who was known as the "Commoner President" out of his own He is one of four men convicted of assassinating the former President, General Pando, ten years ago. They cast lots to decide which one must die for the murder. Jauregui, the youngest, drew the black ballot. At once an appeal on his behalf went to the President. By not being a citizen of the United States, what a chance he missed to be a hero of the tabloids! land, where his presence apparently COMM embarrassed the military administration. The Chilean Government did not In an address at Buenos Aires, Alessandri declared that his public life was ended. His expulsion and his speech seem to make it conclusive-but in South America you never can tell. He also asserted that while he was in office he had done all he could to further an amicable adjustment of the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute between Chile and Peru, in which all South America is interested because of the threat to peace it involves. A great crowd of Argentineans and Chileans greeted him with cries of "Long live the lion Alessandri!" "Down with the military dictatorship!" and "Long live democracy!" He gave three cheers for Argentina, calling it the land of democracy and liberty. For the present, nevertheless, Chile seems to have solved the great North American problem of what to do with ex-Presidents. SENSE AND COMPROMISE have won a new victory in South Africa for the unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Union of South Africa is a particularly independent member of the Imperial system. With General Hertzog, the chief of the Boer Nationalists, as Prime Minister, the Union has shown. a special disposition to challenge British authority. In recent months a dispute about a proper South African flag has divided the country. Hertzog and his party, supported by the Labor Party, wanted "a clean flag" -by which they meant a flag that did not recall the defeat of the Boers by the British. They suggested a design that did not include the Union Jack or the flags of the Boer republics that fought Great Britain. General Smuts, formerly Premier and leader of the more proBritish Boers, and the Britishers in South Africa protested and called for a design including both the British and Boer banners. Now, by an agreement worthy of the traditions of the most effective British diplomacy, the quarrel is ended. Two flags a South African ensign and the Union Jack-are to symbolize the position of South Africa in the Empire. The Union Jack will fly alone over South African official buildings abroad, and together with the South African flag in Natal and all important ports and (Continued on page 317) F What Is the Matter with New England? OR a small section New England now and then succeeds in creating quite a stir in the country. The five New England States have a total population less than that of the single State of New York. In area Texas could accommodate three New Englands and have enough territory left to take in New York State without crowding. Political or intellectual influence evidently cannot be measured in square miles or bank clearings. Nevertheless, there is some quality or characteristic in New England that occasionally incites an attack upon her which is wholly unexplained by her size and material power. Such an attack has been provoked, I regret to say, by a perfectly innocent article of mine in these pages. It comes in the form of a letter which, I surmise, the writer intended to be no more flattering to me than to New England. Still, I may be mistaken, for I am of English ancestry (very remotely, of course), and may have inherited some of that stupidity which more than one capable English critic has thought to be characteristically British. The kindly and amiable Charles Lamb once published the following epigram at the expense of a London weekly journal of the "New Republic" type: On English ground I calculated once How many blockheads-taking dunce by dunce There are four hundred (if I don't forget), The readers of the "Literary Gazette." And coming a little after Lamb, James Robinson Planché, the successful playwright, records the judgment of George Bartley, a popular London actor: Of the intelligence of a British public Bartley's opinion was not flattering. "Sir," he would say to me, "you must first tell them you are going to do so and so; you must then tell them you are doing it, and then that you have done it; and then, by G-d" (with a slap on his thigh), "perhaps they will understand you!" Perhaps I might understand my correspondent better if he would write me a little more clearly what he has done, is doing, and proposes to do to rid the By LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT Contributing Editor of The Outlook country of the incubus of New England. Possibly he is working at some plan with Mayor Thompson, of his city, to whom the word England, with all its derivatives, is anathema. But let me hasten to print the letter of my correspondent, who writes. from Chicago, and leave the question of my stupidity to be decided by my read ers: I read with interest your article on "A New England Grandfather," which appeared in The Outlook for September 14. In part you said: "What is it that has given New England such an influence on the rest of the country? Here are five States without mines, without great farms, without wealth-producing natural resourcesunless an unsurpassed seacoast indented with safe and beautiful harbors is a resource and yet New England has contributed more men, energy, intellect, and capital to the upbuilding of the Nation than any other section of equal area." You might have explained this by saying that the resources of the South and West, particularly of the South, have made her what she is. The first wealth, as you know, New England ever had in her life she obtained through selling Africans at a big profit as slaves to the Southern people. The Hartford "Courant" in July, 1916, said that "Northern rum had much to do with the extension of slavery in the South. Northern people took rum to Africa and exchanged it for Negroes, brought the Negroes to America, and sold them to Southern people for slaves, so that Boston as well as Connecticut had made snug fortunes at that game." Harvard and Yale were built with slave-trade money and kept up on it. New England built her churches and paid her preachers with that filthy lucre. She bought her Bibles and Prayer-Books with the same sort of money. She built her good roads, railroads, libraries, schools, improvements of every kind, and fed her hungry stomach with the same sort of filthy money. And then, when she needed an excuse for a political and economic war on the South in 1861, to force her to remain in the Union where New England could use her for a good thing, to get the South's cotton and other raw materials with which to complete New England's manufacturing system and grow in wealth, the slavery question, which New England had been most guilty of causing, served her purpose. She (New England) went to war and murdered a million souls and destroyed everything the South had just to put money into her own pockets. New Englanders freed the South's Negroes for spite and kept the money, and they have it in their pockets yet. New Englanders go to church and bow and scrape around with money in their pockets that was not only obtained from a nefarious business, but it is not now theirs, and they imagine that the whole world looks on them as the most religious people on earth, and the Lord's chosen people. They are the biggest hypocrites on earth. And that class of trash is posing as America's leading citizens, and you and other writers are helping them to get away with it. Since the war of 1861, when the South was down and couldn't help herself, New England's untruthful historians from Harvard and elsewhere have written history to suit themselves, and through this untruthful history favorable to New England and against the South and others New England has risen to a high place in the eyes of the people of the world. The story of New England, like the story of the life of Lincoln since his death, have been made to order by untruthful people, and these untruths originated in New England. The capital New England has used in "the upbuilding of the Nation" was obtained in a dishonorable way. The brains she "has given" in the upbuilding of the Nation were furnished by the whole Nation; she never produced them. Most people who have gone to Harvard and Yale have gone there from other sections of the country. Harvard and Yale have risen to their high places as a result of the war of 1861, when they could have their own way and write and teach history to suit themselves. There was nobody to call them down "on the other side" for misrepresenting the facts. They taught the people that they fought for a good cause in 1861, that they have always been a deeply religious people, and all that sort of tommyrot, and the ignoramuses throughout the country have believed it and still do. In reality. they fought for their own financial interests, and now they are hiding be (Continued on page 320) Napoleon and Bismarck "W Speaking of Books ITH me, as you know, the great men come first and the military heroes last. I call those men great who have distinguished themselves in useful or constructive pursuits; the others, who ravage and subdue provinces, are merely heroes." This quotation from Voltaire is used by Ludwig on the title-page of "Genius and Character" (Harcourt, Brace & Co.). It is significant because in his great biographies of Napoleon, which is still on the list of best-selling books in America, and of Bismarck, just published, Ludwig's chief interest, or at least the chief interest which he arouses in his readers, is in those aspects of the genius of his protagonists which would have made them great in other fields than the military and political. This is in part the result, as it may have been the object, of Ludwig's emphasis upon the youth, background, training, and early mental attitudes of his subjects. This emphasis calls at once upon the reader's interest and sympathy, since it gives him the sensation of watching the development of character and of assisting at the unfolding of genius and at its slow turning toward the particular sun of its destiny. In both Bismarck and Napoleon the qualities which make the dreamer potentially the only man able to carry on the torch of culture, civilization, and life were dominated and swept into action by personal ambition. Both were men who dreamed and lived their dreams, as are all the great and incredible figures of human history. Napoleon's was a dream of the Bonaparte, Corsica, triumphant. He was able to subdue to the service of that dream even his immediate loyalties to those Bonapartes for the sake of the ultimate loyalty. He was tragically unsuccessful in his personal contacts, constantly disappointed in people. The veneration, the adoration he inspired was the adoration of humanity for an incomprehensible and implacable god. He mastered by spiritual force. Bismarck was the man of intellect. He mastered by the use of it. Even as a youth he had the onlooker's attitude, the attitude of a man bestriding A New Literary Department his world and watching petty men walk Ludwig's dramatic power, which But places himself by it as unquestionably the finest exponent of the psychological biography now writing, and anything that he writes is eminently worth reading. But "Bismarck" is a book for Germany, primarily. "Napoleon" seems to be a book for the world. What They Are Reading LIST OF BEST-SELLING BOOKS is compiled from lists sent us by telegram on Saturday by the following bookshops: Brentanos, New York; Old Corner Book Store, Boston; Scrantoms Inc., Rochester; Korner & Wood, Cleveland; Scruggs, Vandevoort & Barney, St. Louis; Kendrick Bellamy Company, Denver; Teolin Pillot Company, Houston; Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco. We asked these stores to co-operate with us each week because we believe that they are representative of the taste of the more intelligent readers in their communities. The books which are most in demand in these shops are usually those which are most discussed. We believe that they are the books which Outlook readers will want to know more about. THE FOLLOWING ALNA. for every American man in Napoleon. JA The urge to command, the dream of Bismarck is no figure of romance. Vis- Fiction By Mazo de la Roche. Little, Brown & Co. If you like clever though two-dimensional character drawing, an unexploited setting, and the spontaneity and freshness which denotes a sincere and en- ' thusiastic author, you can probably overlook the rather conspicuous defects in this book and enjoy it. It was reviewed at length last week. By E. Barring saw him, in passionate and impetuous THUNDERER & BY youth, or lapped in ermine with the the mere romance of intellect overcome The "Bismarck" should be as popular Those who enjoy fiction dealing with historical personages will find this book unsentimental, extremely vivid, and interesting throughout. 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