BY THE WAY The elevator boy of the New York G apartment house is often weary and indi posed to answer questions. A woman, a cording to “Harper's,” said to one of the little potentates : " If any one calls, Lou while I am out, tell him to wait. I shall | right back.” There was no answer. “D you hear me? Why don't you answer asked the woman, with some indignatio “I never answers, ma'am,” he responde wearily, “unless I doesn't hear, and then 1917 PATENTED The Refill Shaving Stick says, “What? You needn't buy a That beneficent insect the ladybu otherwise known as “ladybird, “lad • clock,” and, in Ireland, as « God's cow was mentioned in this column lately. subscriber writes : You may be interested to know that the cottony cushion scale, one of our orange pests here in California, is absolutely controlled by ladybird beetles, and that the young of other scales are also eaten by them. We find the ladsbirds in great masses in our mountain canyons where they breed, and whence they migrate to the valley. I got about $50 worth from a colony which I found, scooping most of them up by double handfuls. I am told they ship them into Imperial Valley in carloads to pro tect the cantaloups from the aphis. Nor do you have to buy a new metal COLGATE & CO. New York “NO NIGHT THERE” One Book for Sunday School and Church. (The “City Four-Square") A beautiful Sacred song for Church or Home 50c per copy postpaid The Biglow & Main Co., 156 5th Ave., N. Y. For the preventing of automobile acc dents a writer in the New York “ Evenin Post” makes this novel suggestion : “L our traffic laws forbid the use of the hoi or signal in city streets.” This, he claim would put the burden of not hitting pede trians entirely on drivers. “The presen COLGATE&CO practice of the average driver is to rely o the horn for scattering people-worse la to him or her who doesn't jump quic STICK enough. 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Policeman (turning pale and speaking -nidly- “ I'm afraid ye're right, sir. I W. L. Douglas shoes are made by the ugged him all the way—a matter of a highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under mindred yards or more.' the direction and supervision of experi enced men, all working with an honest 1"Our Irish domestic spoke of the sec determination to make the best shoes for On' (sexton) of the church, said of a snub G the price that money can buy. osed baby that it had a 'plug' (pug) nose, W. L. Douglas shoes are for sale by over 9000 shoe dealer ad referred proudly to her Cansistors besides ourown stores. If your local dealer cannot supply iccent on sis).” you, take no other make. Order direct from factory. Send for booklet telling how to order shoes by mail, postagefree. "The following are examples of mis President CAUTION.—Insist upon having W.L.Doug. rints doubtless due to hurried pronuncialas shoes. 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No sooner had the August. 18th issue appeared than newspapers began wiring us for permission to reprint the notable interview with Senator Harding on labor. The Chicago Tribune reprinted the interview in full, featuring it in front-page first-column position, in its issue of August 17th. The New York Times, New York Tribune, New York Sun and Herald, Springfield Republican, Detroit Free Press, Omaha Bee, and many other leading dailies promptly passed this Outlook interview on to their readers in whole or in large part. The aggressive timeliness of The Outlook is just one of the many characteristics that make it necessary to business executives and professional men, and that place it first on the list of many of the most careful national advertis The Outlook Company 381 Fourth Ave., New York City The Outlook Copyright, 1920, by The Outlook Company THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE $7.00 $8.00 $9.00 & $10.00 SHOES FOR MEN AND WOMEN 'YO YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY WEARING W. L. 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They are the leaders in the fashion centers of America. The stamped price is W. L. Douglas personal guarantee that the shoes are always worth the price paid for them. The prices are the same everywhere; they cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. W. L. Douglas shoes are made by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. Co-Responsibility versus Syndicalism. 175 A Bon Marcheur' 175 The Aaland Islands .. 176 Murder by Wholesale.. 176 The Five Socialists Return and Depart 176 The Primary Battle in Illinois....... 177 The Nominations in New York and Connecticut.. 177 A Safety Margin for Suffrage.... 178 American Ships for American Goods 178 We Say a Good Word for the Post Office Department.. 178 Cartoons of the Week.. -179 The Jenny Lind Centenary... 180 An Accounting with the Steward. 180 Talking Red and Seeing Red.. 181 Three Plays. 182 For New York Dyspeptics Only..... 183 Parliament and Treasury on Trial: Soviets in England ...... 184 Special Correspondence by Frank Dilnot 11-Britain's Credit... 185 Special Correspondence by P. W. Wilson A New Lincoln Statue and a Lincoln Story 186 By M. C. de K. Knoll Papers : God's Way of Doing Things' 187 By Lyman Abbott Current Events Jllustrated ... 188 Painless Taxation : Is an “ Employer's Privilege Tax” Practicable ?....... 190 By Theodore H. Price A First-Hand Study of the Presiden- 193 By J. Madison Gathany Pictures from Outlook Readers.... 200 The Book Table : The Story of Opal.. 201 The New Books.. 201 This Week's Outlook : A Weekly Outline Study of Current History..... 204 By J, Madison Gatbany By the Way. 204 W. L. Douglas shoes are for sale by over 9000 shoe dealers besides ourown stores. If your local dealer cannot supply you, take no other make. Order direct from factory. Send for booklet telling how to order shoes bymail,postagefree. CAUTION.-Insist upon having W.L.Doug President las shoes. The name and price is plainly W.L.Douglas Shoe Co., stamped on the sole. Be careful to see 167 Spark Street, that it has not been changed or mutilated. Brockton, Mass. We foreglos A Cash Offer for Cartoons and Photographs Cash payment, from $1 to $5, will promptly be made to our readers who send us a cartoon or photograph accepted by The Outlook. We want to see the best cartoons published in your local papers, and the most interesting and newsy pictures you may own. Read carefully the coupons below for conditions governing payment. Then fill in the coupon, paste it on the back of the cartoon or print, and mail to us. THE EDITORS OF THE OUTLOOK, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York BY SUBSCRIPTION $5.00 A YEAR. Single copies 15 cents. For foreign subscription to countries in the Postal Union, $6.56. Address all communications to THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 381 Fourth Avenue New York City THE OUTLOOK. September 29, 1920. Volume 126, Number 5. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. To the Cartoon Editor of The Outlook : The attached cartoon is clipped from the of the following To the Photograph Editor of The Outlook : The attached photograplı is the property of the undersigner and is submitted for publication in The Outlook. Postage is enclosed for its return if unavailable. It is my understanding that The Outlook agrees to pay $3 for this photograph if reproduced as a halfpage cut, or smaller, and $5 if reproduced in larger size than a half page. The enclosed brief account of the object or event depicted you may use as you see fit. date If this particular clipping is selected for reproduction in The Outlook, I will accept One Dollar as paymenti in full for my service in bringing it to your attention. I agree that if it is not used it will not be returned nor its receipt acknowledged. Name.. Name.... Address... Address.. 10 was CONTRIBUTORS' GALLERY SOON OON after Frank A. Vanderlip, the banker, founded the famous Scar borough School J. MADISON GATHANY appointed head of the Department of History and American Citizenship. The author of " What's the Matter with the Eastern Farmer ?” began his contact with the soil on a farm in the hills of Pennsylvania, where he was appropriately born in a log cabin. This contact he kept throughout his boyhood, as this bit of autobiography, which we have elicited from him, reveals : After spending fourteen years on the old home farm, I was hired out to a farmer for $7 per month and my board. I had to get up at four o'clock in the morning, go fully a mile for the cows through the wet grass, and help milk them. After breakfast I went out into the fields and worked until seven o'clock in the evening. Frequently we went out to do a little extra work To Insure Christmas Delivery Monogrammed Handkerchiefs Should be ordered now He went to Brown University, where he earned not only his way but his A.M. in English and History. HEODORE H. PRICE brings to bis discussion of taxation a very necessary commodity for one who writes on this subject. He brings the good will of his readers, for he has earned it by his many articles in The Outlook. He brings also experience in finance, expe rience as an editor and writer (he is editor of " Commerce and Finance"), and the open-mindedness that enables à man to change his opinion in the presence of new evidence. In connection with his article we have a story to tell that may interest our readers. Mr. Price mentions in his article a cartoon. We were interested in it and wanted to find it to show it to our readers, so Mr. Moore, the Art Manager of The Outlook, turned to his friend Mr. Foss, of the Brooklyn Library, who promptly discovered the cartoon as reproduced in the columns of the “Literary Digesti", We had not access to the old age of the New York “ World,” in which it orig. inally appeared. We therefore applied to the “Digest," and were accorded the courtesy of access to the “Digest's file, from which the cartoon as it appears in The Outlook was re-reproduced. R ICHARD BARRY contrasted the char acters of Cox and Harding as news paper men in his article last week. The article this week is a mate to that one. In obtaining his information at first hand Mr. Barry visited both Dayton and Marion, meeting and talking not only with the candidates themselves. but with their friends and neighbors. Send for Fall and Winter Catalogue No. 35 mailed free on request. 99 |