where it is said the company has opened the Grand Vizier's palace as a hotel. These are indeed the days of the magic carpet and the seven-league boots to those who fear not adventure in the air! "Have you any cooks on hand?" asks the housekeeper, as reported in the Louisville "Courier-Journal." "Six in the anteroom." "Ask 'em to look me over and see if there is anybody here I might suit." Cor You can't fool a smart American. nelius Husk, on his first visit to the seaside, says a paragrapher, went down to the beach at low tide, and saw a big fishing smack lying high and dry on the mud flats. "Hey, mister," he said to a fisherman, "how do you get that big boat down to the water?" "We don't take the boat down to the water, mate," said the fisherman. "The water comes up to the boat." Cornelius Husk gave a harsh laugh. Say, mister," he said, "I may be from the country, but I ain't goin' to swaller that." 66 From the London "Morning Post:" A French boy in an English school wrote "too when it should have been "to." His master was pleased to be sarcastic, and said (we can only represent it arithmetically): "There are three 2's in the English language. Write that out twenty times and then perhaps you will remember it." After puzzling for a while the boy asked how it was to be done, and the master had to admit that he was bowled out. It is one of the few English sentences which cannot be written. Life insurance policies of over a million dollars are not uncommon now, according to a daily paper. In Chicago alone several men carry policies of that amount or more. In one recent instance the president of a big Chicago company had his life insured for $1,250,000 in favor of the company. The corporation itself will pay the premium, amounting to $62,500 per annum, it is stated. Evidently the services of this man are regarded as so exceptionally valuable that the company believes it should discount his possible loss. From "Meggendorfer Blaetter," of Munich: Slim Poet (to poetess of ample proportions)-"I have read your poems, Miss Flora. Do you get your ideas from experience?" "No. They come from within." "Then we may expect many more volumes from ?" you? From "Karikaturen," Christiania, Norway (where modern methods of pedagogy have apparently not penetrated): Friend of the Family-"You are doing better at school, my boy. Your teacher, I hear, has not beaten you once this month." Youngster-" No. Teacher has rheu matics." From "Lustige Blaetter," of Berlin: Burglar (to terrorized young girl)—" I mean no harm, miss! I've only come to rob the house!" The worship of pedigree and title is satirized by a writer on "Snobocracy" in this anecdote of the conversation of two women of fashion: "I come from a very old family," said the first; one of my ancestors was beheaded during the reign of Henry the Eighth." "How perfectly lovely sighed the other. 66 One chance in three you're eating wrong Enough food, probably, but not enough HIS morning someone probably But did you really mean it? Are you feel- If the truth were known Experts in nutrition say that right here in America one person in every threerich and poor alike-suffers from malnutrition without realizing it. In the three square meals you and your family get each day there's enough food probably, but very likely there's not enough of the right kind. If you lack vitality; if a child of yours doesn't seem to thrive, the chances are you're not getting a sufficient supply of certain food elements. 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But there is in this country a very large number of people-rich and poor, men and women- -who wanted General Wood to be our next President. The large campaign fund was only one expression of an almost National desire to put a loved and trusted servant of the people in our highest office, not so much as a reward for services well done, but as an expression of our trust in him above all others-trust in his honesty, trust in his judgment, trust in his great patriotism. We know he sacrificed every personal advantage of his position to save us from the idealistic folly of this Administration. We know that if he had been willing to close his eyes and his mouth he would have had the chief command of our armies in France, and many other honors would have been added in payment for his complaisance. The women of this country will never forget the debt we owe General Wood. It was he who made the supreme effort of his life for our sons, our husbands, our fathers, and our lovers. It was we women who spoke our gratitude in that big campaign fund. It was our influence that raised it. The fund was a tribute to him, not a disgrace. We accept Nicholas Murray Butler's apology. We warn Hiram Johnson that the cave-man stuff is out of style with us, and that we will raise another fund, a bigger one, if necessary, and put. General Wood in the White House four years from now. That fund will be as honorable and as honorably spent as if we raised and used it to build a monument to his memory. Theodore Roosevelt is dead; flowers to the living, I say. MABEL BONNER. DEFLATION OF THE CURRENCY I have read your "More Capitalists (issue of June 23) and "You Owe the World a Living" (issue of July 7) with great satisfaction. I also generally find the editorials in The Outlook quite satisfactory. However, they set forth one principle which I cannot see their way; namely, that the currency should be deflated. After the Civil War this could not be avoided because gold and paper were not on a par. But now I can see no reason for deflation, nor any result but misery to the debtor and profit to the creditor, myself included. Instead of deflation of the currency I should pursue the following policies to remedy the high cost of living: All manufactures should show both cost price and selling price of the manufacturer, the jobber, the wholesaler, and the retailer for secrecy is the corner-stone of profiteering, the absolutely impassable bar between capital and labor, and, incidentally, the heaviest drag on production. Interference with price is of doubtful merit in any case. All manufactured articles should bear a label showing the materials of which they are composed. Congress should provide a law under which any body of citizens can co-operate in commerce and industry under Government supervision. JAMES W. Dow. 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Address all communications to THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 381 Fourth Avenue New York City L THE CONTRIBUTORS' GALLERY AURENCE LA TOURETTE DRIGGS, author of "Speed Thirst Satisfied,' has slaked his speed thirst in many thrilling flights. He was an observer during the war and often flew over the lines. He is the President of the I American Flying Club. He has contributed previous articles on aviation to The Outlook. He probably knows and is known by more aviators in the United States and Europe than any other American identified with aviation. He is reorganizing the aviation section of the Police Reserve of New York, at the request of the Police Commissioner. His next article, entitled "Is Flying Dangerous?" will appear in an early issue. | W HEN BRUCE BARTON is not engaged in making after-dinner speeches or writing magazine articles, he presides over the advertising destinies of a number of large national advertisers, as President of the New York advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. Mr. Barton was born in Tennessee, and went to Amherst College. He was editor of "Every Week" during that novel journal's interesting life. His article, "The Faith of Frank Stearns," is another story of Calvin Coolidge, Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States. LAWRENCE MCCONNELL left Kansas for Washington, D. C., after the war and liked Washington so well that i Kansas has never seen him again. He tells all about it in "The Confessions of a Profiteer." This young man, who confesses himself to be a peace-slacker, is no slacker when he picks up his for he writes with great spirit. G per, REGORY MASON is The Outlook's globe-trotter. He has been to Mexico, Russia, and Japan for us, and, during the war, on the western front and with the navy. His dining-car sketch in this issue is an example of his powers as an observer which have rendered his Outlook Staff Correspondence graphic. He studied his world geography at Williams College, and is not unknown to the lecture platform. FRANK HUNTER POTTER reviews Katherine Mayo's book "That Damn Y." Several chapters of this book appeared originally in The Outlook. Mr. Potter has contributed many articles to The Outlook on European affairs, art, music, theology, and war work, He is a brother of the late Bishop Potter, of New York, |