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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 cur rency 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. TAKE IT FREE What you can do for your own Told by Dr. Eliot of Harvard in this free booklet WHY not HY not decide now-to-day-that you will stop wasting your reading time? 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His next article, entitled "Is Flying Dangerous?" will appear in an early issue. WE THEN 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 adver tisers, as President of the New York, advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. Mr. Barton was born in Tennessee, and went to Amherst Col lege. 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. 1 |