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SAYING PRAYERS AND

PLAYING CARDS

BE you not saying more than your prayers when you assert "on excellent authority that . . . his [President Harding's] choice for what is probably the most important ambassadorial office ... is founded upon his sense of indebtedness to Colonel Harvey," etc.?

To even those of simple mind it occurs that President Harding knew that, as you say, Colonel Harvey "is thoroughly familiar with the subterranean methods of political management."

In this day and time, one hopes President Harding will appoint to all ambassadorial offices men who will know how to play the cards the United States holds, and not drop them!

I

The House of (Emeritus) the Dean's Wife, Jacksonville, Illinois.

THE CULT OF SOPHISTI

CATION

HAVE to laugh at Trenholm; he's so emphatic. "See that sign," he said; we were out in his car; there was infinite scorn in his voice. "'Drive slow. Children Use This Road.' And what road won't they use? We're a nation of children, afraid to grow up. You might think it a sin-a sin to be wise and mature, a sin to question the pathos and folly of life, or that children were the best of God's creatures, above the angels or men; yet God put a man, a gardener, and a women in Eden.

"We're a nation of children. Not Peter Pans, mind you. Barrie knew better; it is only the fairies whose youth takes on none of the cruelty, none of the awkwardness, insolent bragging and posturing of boys, the simpering of girls. They are honest, but we .. we may age, yet, wrinkled and worn, we refuse to grow up. Penrod's the stuff-we are not equal to the lion's roar. . . . Our books must be all of one syllable proper for schools; and our schools must prepare for this semblance of life, this hoax of know-nothing, with babies brought in by the doctor and sinners roasting in hell. Let there be one moment of genuine awe at the wonder, one gesture embracing the passion of life, and the book is suppressed. Say that women are aught but divine, that a man offers more than a kiss when he comes seeking them out, and-well, the movies are censored again, for at all costs we must remain immature, with illusions, the silly illusions of youth.

"So you have no art and can have none, for it is the business of art to disillusion as Lear does or Falstaff or the terrible novels by Tolstoy. You cannot have both your security from contact with life and Ibsen's 'Ghosts' or Schnitzler's genial philandering. You must choose; and we have chosen, fearful of

We boil at different degrees.

Emerson.

growing up, a nation of children with politicians ruling us and the cold, passionless chorus girl our Cleopatra for whom the world is lost."

National Press Club, Washington.

GEORGE GORDON.

THE AUTO HORN AGAIN

A

CORRESPONDENT of yours has, I think, somewhat misunderstood my position in regard to the use of the automobile horn.

He says that he considers it a necessary part of automobile operation on the highway. In this I certainly agree with him.

I also agree with him that the most satisfactory way for informing a following auto that the car ahead is about to make some change in direction or speed is an indicator on the rear of the car and operated by the driver. But so long as the authorities have not as yet ordered anything of the kind we are left in an unfortunate predicament.

About any professional work I drive a roadster, and on wet as well as cold days I must have my curtains on, and with them on I cannot extend my hand and neither can I signal through the rear window, as one can do in a closed car, because it is too small.

Thus I am left to the alternative of my reverse mirror, through which I try to watch my rear while at the same time I am watching ahead, and the mirror is of very little use on wet or foggy days. If I could use my horn to indicate my change of speed or direction, I feel sure that I should be much better related to my needs.

As to the use of the horn for warning pedestrians, I am certainly favorable if it is not depended upon to get him out of danger and at the same time the driver will put his machine under con

to have averted the accident by slowing up.

An experience of mine, last summer, illustrates the advantage of sometimes not depending on the horn to warn pedestrians. I was driving down a mild grade in a small village; on my right an electric car was going up the hill at a good speed; suddenly a young man sprang from the sidewalk on the left, making his best speed to catch that car and having no eyes for anything else. It looked as though he was due to be an auto victim.

I did not sound my horn, because it would take a little time that I needed to keep from killing the man. I stopped my car by the time he reached it, and he only stumbled against the front and was not materially injured. I am confident I should have killed him if I had attempted to avert the casualty by sounding my horn. The young man promptly took himself off, evidently much chagrined by the experience. The course which I took was upheld by wit

nesses.

I often hestitate to blow my horn when pedestrians are crossing the street in front of me, as they often heedlessly do, because I have found that they are quite as likely to jump into danger as out of it. The only way to save them from their own stupidity is to slow up.

Of course there is the bumptious individual who insists on his right of way. To such I would recommend the verse which appeared in the Boston "Herald" recently:

Here lies the body of William May, Who died protesting his right of way, He was right, dead right, as he traveled along,

But he's just as dead as though he'd been wrong.

The "Automobilist” published several aphorisms in a recent number, among which was the following: "The best driver uses his horn the least." JOHN J. SHAW.

Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A FEMINIST ON FEMINISM

In a recent number of the magazine "Asia" an article entitled “A Camera Man in Borneo" contains a picture of some Tenggara women who are described as feminists, apparently because they smoke cigarettes and do all the work of the village. Can feminism be more tersely and accurately symbolized? - From "By the Way" in The Outlook for March 30, 1921.

EREWITH I enclose a clipping from

prevent an accident.

An accident reported in the daily paper recently illustrates my point. A man was run down and, I believe, fatally hurt. In the driver's excuse for the affair he stated that the victim had plenty of time to get out of the way after he sounded his horn. As I look at it, if the man had time to get out of the way, the driver had plenty of time

which is certainly amazing. I take it the last sentence is your own, and, as I have been a feminist since I was a little girl, have been active in the movement, and have known hundreds of other feminists and never one who used tobacco in any form, I should like to enquire if the editor really knows any such person either. Neither do we

wish to monopolize the "work of the village" or other part of the country. We only want to have a little girl have the same chance to develop her Godgiven powers as the little boy and not be forced into only the lowest paid work.

But perhaps you are thinking I am too literal. You only meant that feminists want to be like men. To this I

will answer that we only wish the right to be human beings and feel quite willing to take the natural handicaps of our sex, knowing they are no greater than those of men. It is the very opposite type that ape the men, both in other respects and in the use of tobacco, though that is not inherently masculine though in this country more common to men than women. For the latest word in femi

nism let me refer you to the last chapter in Proverbs where the model woman is pictured as wife and mother and a captain of industry also. Who has a better right to the pursuit of all forms of labor than the sex that originated most of it? HELEN LOVELL MILLION. Hardin Junior College and Conservatory for Young Women. Ex-Governor C. H. Hardin, A.M., LL.D., Founder: John W. Million, A.M., LL.D., President. Mexico, Missouri.

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AMBASSADOR FROM

EVERYWHERE1

HE OUTLOOK professes to be "An Illustrated Journal of Current Life." It is to be judged by the plan and purpose of its editors and publishers as thus announced.

hopefulness of them. The Outlook is my Saturday evening visitor, a welcome ambassador from everywhere.

Sometimes we Westerners have been wont to feel that the East, accusing us of being provincial, is herself provincial, ignorant of the dramatic development of the West. This feeling of pique cannot with justice or truth be directed against The Outlook. It is not running in the ruts of provincialism, but is giving space to ideas worth while from writers domiciled everywhere. An Iowa woman recently contributed an illuminating sketch of the lives of women on the farms of the Mississippi Valley. There was a time when she could not have broken the ice. The Outlook has fairly earned the right to be called truly American. Harlan, Iowa.

Twelve copies of the magazine lie on my office library table. The front cover of each of this dozen challenges my attention. The big colorful "O" is especially distinctive, and catches the eye sweeping its glances across a half hundred publications on the news-stand. Even a wayfaring man cannot miss the appeal of the front-cover cuts, frequently in pleasing and yet striking color, gripping with real human interest. This, whether the illustration shows us in lifelike attitude and expression the exultant and incomparable "Teddy" talking to Dick, Tom, and Harry, his hat high in air, or an autograph letter of the most WEARY OF POTS AND PANS1

famous showman of America and the world, or an American college football team in sturdy combat, or a long line of dignified college presidents, becapped and begowned, culled by selective draft to tell us how the intellectual highbrows are going to vote in the approaching Presidential election.

With me and in my profession, a book or magazine without an adequate index or table of contents is vexing and useless. A good table of contents, even in a weekly journal of "current life," is of paramount importance. I have no zest for playing hide-and-seek in a hunt for the literary bill of fare. The "Table of Contents" of The Outlook is never far from the front cover, is boiled down into a clear, clean column of real guide-posts, and squarely meets the requirements of the busy reader.

Each day there come to me a Chicago newspaper, an evening and a morning paper published in my own State, and during the week I read two weekly newspapers published where I live. By Saturday I feel the need of a winnowing of the wheat from the chaff. And on Saturday afternoon my Outlook comes. It brings me a fine résumé of what is going on in America and the world, much of Matthew Arnold's "sweetness and light," and of the best that is being "thought and said' in the world everywhere. I like the breacth and vision of its editorial articles, the manly courage and 1In the Arst of The Outlook's Prize Contests was one of the letters received.--The Pub

r.

EDWARD S. WHITE.

EARY of pots

Wand pans and

socks, I sank into an easy chair, heartily wishing that housekeeping had never been invented.

As I sat, suddenly a door opened before me and a friendly voice called, "Come, have a chat with

me." With pleasure I hastened to my friend as he told me briefly and enthusiastically of the thousand-dollar-a-plate dinner recently given in New York; of

1Another of the letters received in The Outlook's First Prize Contest.-The Publisher.

In the Second Prize Contest

on the subject "What the World War Did To Me"

over five hundred letters

were received. The prize win

ners will be announced soon.

the most important bills now before Congress; of the latest developments in the fields of astronomy, music, and sports; and of conditions in war-torn Europe.

The door-bell interrupted us.

"Let me introduce you to Dr. Abbott," said my friend. "He has an interesting tale to relate." And it was fun to watch the eyes of the venerable Lyman Abbott, sparkling reminiscently, as he recounted the enterprising adventures of his oldtime friend P. T. Barnum.

"Another time," concluded Dr. Abbott, "I'll tell you about John Greenleaf Whittier as he was in my boyhood days."

"Have you heard about the Mexican situation lately?" asked my friend as Dr. Abbott left.

"No; but I suppose she is in as bad a state as ever," I replied.

"I have just visited that country," said he. "Let me give you my impressions."

I was amazed as he revealed to me the needs and helplessness of Mexico. He even argued our responsibility toward that country.

And so, choosing one current topic and then another, he talked on, season

ing the seriousness of his conversation with comical anecdotes and funny pictures. Occasionally he handed me snapshots taken on his travels. I regretted that he hadn't time to explain more fully the pictures which he took in Japan. I was much impressed by his account of the artist who had the imagination to make out of drab New York scenes two such beautiful etchings as he showed me. I felt that this was a rare friend, indeed, who could so fully inform without boring, and who could display so much humor without being ridiculous.

"There is nothing one-sided about this man," thought I. "Whether the topic be religion or politics, travel or business, his mind is open, his information is accurate, and his views liberal and sound."

He had begun telling me about some new books, but I had to interrupt him. for I heard the children coming from school and I recalled that the luncheon hour had come.

"Please come again," I begged as I closed the door after him. I felt rested and refreshed.

I had read The Outlook.

CLARA PAINE OTIS.

White Plains, New York.

Railway Reform

N another page The Outlook treats editorially of what is perhaps our most important domestic problem at the present time, the problem of railway reform.

Should the National agreements imposed on the railways during the war by the Federal Railway Administration be abrogated? Illustrate your answer and discuss it somewhat fully.

Who are the real railway owners? How can you prove your answer?

Do the stockholders help shape our railway policies? If not, should they?

What is the difference between railway control and management by the Government and Government ownership of railways? Is it essential that the public keep the meaning of these terms free from confusion?

What effect has the prosperity of the railways on other industries? In giving your answer name particular industries and show how railway prosperity actually affects them.

Where do you place responsibility for the condition in which our railways are at the present time?

Two short but valuable chapters to read on the problem of American transportation are those found in "American Economic Life," by H. R. Burch (Macmillan), pages 273 to 283, and chapter 19 in "Elementary Economics," by Thomas N. Carver (Ginn & Co.).

Can you answer all the questions asked at the endings of these chapters?

England Escapes a General
Strike

Is coal absolutely essential to the survival of Great Britain as a great Power? Specifically, in what way would lack of a cheap and abundant supply of coal affect England?

Would it be wise and just to pool the profits of such an industry as mining and fix wages at a level which the average mining company could afford to pay? Or would it be unjust to make the stronger and better equipped industrial companies help bear the wage burden of the weaker and more poorly equipped companies?

Should the mining of coal be looked upon as essentially the means of making profits, or should the mines be worked merely to meet expenses? What reasons can you submit for your answer? What comparisons can you make between the way industrial troubles are handled in England and the way they are handled in the United States?

America and Great Britain are the two great democracies in the modern world.

1 These questions and comments are designed not only for the use of current events classes and clubs, debating societies, teachers of history al English, and the like, but also for discusin the home and, for suggestions to any who desires to study current affairs as to read about them.-The Editors.

Both of these countries are constantly experiencing political and industrial troubles and difficulties. Does it follow that democracy is an unstable and insecure form of government? Has democracy accomplished as much as other kinds of government for the well-being of the people? In answer to the questions in this paragraph no better reference could be given than "Modern Democracies," by Viscount Bryce (Macmillan).

Foreign Policy: President

Harding's Message

With what statements about President Harding's foreign policy found in the English press as quoted in The Outlook do you agree? With what ones do you disagree? Explain why you think about these English comments as you do.

Do you like the French comments quoted in this poll of the press better than you do the English? Explain why or why not.

Should we pay any attention to what the Germans think about our President's Message? What reasons can you give for answering as you do?

Are you pleased or displeased with the foreign policy of the Republican party since March 4? What particular instances can you give in answering this question?

Four books which would be very helpful to read in this connection are: "French Foreign Policy," by Graham H. Stuart (Century); "The Passing of the New Freedom," by James M. Beck (George H. Doran); "Problems of Today," by Moorfield Storey (Houghton Mifflin); and "Contemporary French Politics," by Raymond Leslie Buell (Appleton).

League or Association

State in your own words the difference between the two conceptions of international relations which are raised by contrasting a league with an association of nations.

Which one of these two conceptions of international relations do you champion? Explain carefuly your reason.

Are you glad that the Senate during

President Wilson's Administration did

not ratify the Treaty of Versailles? How carefully did you weigh your answer to this question?

Define carefully the following terms: International law, diplomacy, community, incompatible, super-state.

Have you read the following books on the League of Nations? "American World Policies," by David Jayne Hill (Doran); "The League of Nations at Work," by A. Sweetser (Macmillan); "Taft Papers on the League of Nations," by W. H. Taft (Macmillan); "The First Year of the League of Nations," by G. G. Wilson (Little, Brown & Co.).

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ILLIAM S. WALK

LEY sends us from Chelsea, Massachusetts, this "little thumb-nail Who's Who" at our request: "Born in Kentucky; educated in OhioA.B. from Kenyon College; M.D. from Boston University long enough ago to round out a full quarter-century's practice here in New England. Married; one boy. Medicine is not the practice of it-all sugarand chocolate-coated, and my favorite side-shunts are fly-fishing and teasing fiction from a typewriter."

ROBERT ARTHUR CURRY, whose immedi

ate acquaintance with aviation is evident from his article in this issue, was a lieutenant in the Royal Air Force in the World War. He served in France, Egypt, and Arabia, with the British Expeditionary Force and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. When in France he was wounded on flying duty. He was also a lieutenant, Royal Air Force, in the Third Afghan War on the northwest frontier of India. He has also flown in England, Scotland, and from Florida to the Bahamas. He is a native of the Bahama Islands, a graduate of Columbia University in New York City, and the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Flying Association.

I had thought for your own sakes to have well through with you; but I cannot allow any one to speak of me as Captain Adams.

"Bud," "Highpockets," or just plain Bill Adams, any of them first-rate titles for any good American lad, would have been well enough-but this is too much.

Never was I a skipper. Nor yet a "Sea Dog"-oh, Lord!

I may have been a sea pup, though. I dislike that way that some folks have of letting a high-sounding title get attached to their names quite undeservedly.

Once upon a royal yard I did myself address a Liverpool Irish A.B. as "SIR." "Don't sir me-I'm no dog," was his reply.

My all too short years at sea did not get me a command.

I shall next expect some well-meaning person to call me "the Reverent Adams" on the strength of my having by hook and by crook gotten into the army Y. M. C. A. during the war. Cheerioh, and the Lord go with you. Sincerely,

Bill, which isn't my name; but my friends call me by it.

OBERT H. MOULTON sends his account

Roof Glendale's solution of the boy

problem from Chicago.

Bring Me A City!

Heeding no barrier of river, mountain, forest or desert; unmindful of distance; the telephone has spread its network of communication to the farthest outposts of our country.

The ranchman, a score of miles from his nearest neighbor, a hundred miles from the nearest town, may sit in the solitude of his prairie home and, at will, order the far-distant city brought to him. And the telephone obeys his command.

Time and space become of small account when, through desire or necessity, you would call across a continent.

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