WEEKLY OUTLINE STUDY OF CURRENT HISTORY BY J. MADISON GATHANY, A.M. HOPE STREET HIGH SCHOOL, PROVIDENCE, R. I. Based on The Outlook of May 29, 1918 Each week an Outline Study of Current History based on the preceding number of The Outlook will be printed for the benefit of current events classes, debating clubs, teachers of history and of English, and the like, and for use in the home and by such individual readers as may desire suggestions in the serious study of current history.-THE EDITORS. [Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.] I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: New Power for the President; Aircraft Production. Reference: Pages 175, 176; editorial, page 181. Questions: 66 1. Is The Outlook right in saying that President Wilson has command of more political powers and material resources than any "individual in all history" (italics mine)? Explain what now the President has authority to do. 2. Prove from American history that the Democrats have been "proverbially committed to distrust of the concentration of power in any one man.' 3. Are such authority and power as are now given President Wilson undemocratic and dangerous to American democracy? Discuss. 4. Give the leading facts of our aircraft production during the past year. 5. Name several things this production has led to. A person recently said that no one should criticise the President and the management of the war. Such criticism is proof of disloyalty." Does the record show such criticism to be disloyalty? 6. The President insists that Congress shall not investigate "how efficiently money has been expended." He also says that "the lines should be clearly drawn between friends and opponents" of the Administration. Has the public the right to know through its representatives how its own money is spent? Is one to be put down as opponent" of the Administration because he questions the efficiency of an executive department? 7. Do you think the President wise to set up a distinction between "supporters " and "opponents an 66 of the Administration? Is this the Administration's war, the Democratic party's war, or the war of the people of the United States? What and how much have the people the right to know about this war? 8. Are such questions as these partisan or patriotic questions? Discuss. B. Topic: Is Germany a Civilized Nation? Germany an Economic Outlaw; The War Spirit of a Peace League. Reference: Editorials, pages 182, 183; 184. Questions: 1. What is civilization? 2. How do we know when an individual is civilized? A nation? 3. Give several reasons why Geris so remote from true civilization. many 4. Is Russia as remote from true civilization as Germany? The Outlook seems to think so. Discuss. 5. What is the German idea of the state as explained by The Outlook? What are the results upon the people who compose such a state? 6. What is liberty? What is it not? 7. Should the civilized nations make Germany an economic outlaw? 8. If these nations should effect the economic isolation of Germany, would this mean her ultimate destruction? Discuss at length. 9. What, in your opinion, are the most valuable things reported by "E. H. A.” in his correspondence on "The War Spirit of a Peace League"? Tell why. 10. What is peace? Is it an ideal or is it a state attendant upon the achievement of an ideal? 11. What things do you want to see defeated by this war? 12. Discuss the dangers of an inconclusive How prevent peace. such a peace? 13. Read the "Menace of Peace," by G. D. Herron (Mitchell Kennerley); "Germany at Bay," by Major Macfall (Doran); "Men in War," by A.. Latzko (Boni & Liveright). II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: Child Labor Law Appealed. 1. What classes of cases can be appealed from lower courts to Federal courts? Explain the process of appeal. 2. Look up a number of State child labor laws. Comment on the provisions of these laws. 3. What are the arguments of those who oppose the Federal Child Labor Law, and the arguments of Solicitor-General Davis in defense of the law? 4. Study the Fifth, the Tenth, and the Fourteenth Amendments. Explain those parts that relate to this topic. 5. Discuss Federal "responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of a virile citizenship." 6. Tell your opinion, with reasons, of those who oppose adequate child labor laws. III-PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION (These propositions are suggested directly or indirectly by the subject-matter of The Outlook, but not discussed in it.) 1. An intelligent person would never seriously think of sitting at a conference table with the Teutonic Huns. 2. No nation is righteous unless its people are willing to fight for righteousness. IV-VOCABULARY BUILDING (All of the following words and expressions are found in The Outlook for May 29, 1918. Both before and after looking them up in the dictionary or elsewhere, give their meaning in your own words. The figures in parentheses refer to pages on which the words may be found.) Proverbially, amenable, dictatorship (176); liable, red tape (181); oppression, compression, public ideas, uncivilized state (182); economic weapons, generalizations (183); fire-eaters, rue, excoriate, caption (184); brigandage (185); appellant, deterrent, plenary (187). A booklet suggesting methods of using the Weekly Outline of Current History will be sent on application This Department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION Happiest Time of Their Lives (The). By Alice Duer Miller. The Century Company, New York. $1.40. In this story of love and social problems Mrs. Miller's characters work out in fiction the question "whether sheltered women are stronger or weaker in a crisis than their sisters who have already fought somewhat outside the stockade built around women by custom." Holy City (The). Jerusalem II. By Selma This volume includes several stories about the life of American Indians on their reservations. They are written with a friendly spirit and with a full understanding of the Indian character. The Outlook had the pleasure of printing some of these sketches in its columns. BIOGRAPHY In the Days of Victoria. Some Memories of Men and Things. By Thomas F. Plowman. Illustrated. The John Lane Company, New York. $3. An agreeable narrative of reminiscence and comment on English men and notable events of the generation past. My Reminiscences. By Raphael Pumpelly. Illustrated. 2 vols. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $7.50. Two volumes of recollections ordinarily present a formidable mass of reading, but Mr. Pumpelly's life has been unusually full of stirring incidents in many lands, and his readers will find themselves rejoicing that he was blessed with a tenacious memory and has drawn so fully on its records in these books. Miner, geologist, explorer, census-maker, college professor-the aumany years of activity in all these fields give the work a background of singular interest,. and this interest is sustained to the end. thor's HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS India and the Future. By William Archer. Illustrated. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. $3. Who has not been attracted by the large, luminous style of well-known English publicists and writers-Mr. Balfour, Lord Bryce, Lord Morley, Lord Rosebery, for example? Such style characterizes the present volume. It is worth reading for this alone. But it is also worth while for matter as well as for manner. It is a painstaking, faithful account of first-hand impressions in India by a well-known observer of men and affairs. Nowhere have we seen a finer tribute to English efficiency and efficacy in India; nowhere a more scathing indictment of the customs and superstitions of over three hundred million people, a thousand years behind the times; nowhere a more stirring appeal to those people to make themselves worthy of self-government. TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION Over Periscope Pond. Letters from Two American Girls in Paris. October, 1916-January, 1918. By Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.50. Hardly any form of information concerning foreign lands and peoples is pleasanter to read than that contained in the familiar letters written by those abroad to those at home. The present volume contains excerpts from such letters. They are letters of great simplicity, straightforward 1 T The New Books (Continued) ness, and charm. They give a vivid idea of France and of conditions there as they confront all those in the various branches which make up the American Expeditionary Force. Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish. Being a History of Darrington in the Wapentake of Osgoldcross. By J. S. Fletcher. The John Lane Company, New York. $2.50. The author is interested in English local history, folk-lore, and archæology. He has been for many years rector of a parish in Yorkshire, and in an agreeable and readable way he has gathered here his recollections and has recorded the results of his investigations. WAR BOOKS Crescent and Iron Cross. By E. F. Benson. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.25. When the Young Turks came into power, they proclaimed that they were going to weld the Ottoman Empire into one homogeneous and harmonious whole. But by a piece of brilliant paradoxical reasoning, says Mr. Benson, Germany determined that it was she who was going to do it for them. He proceeds: In flat contradiction of the spirit of their manifestoes, which proclaimed the Pan-Turkish ideal, she conceived and began to carry out, under their very noses, the great new chapter of the Pan-Germanic ideal. And the Young Turks did not know the difference! They mistook that lusty Teutonic changeling for their own new-born Turkish babe, and they nursed and nourished it. Amazingly it throve, and soon it cut its teeth, and one day, when they thought it was asleep, it arose from its cradle, baby no more, but a great Prussian guardsman who shouted, "Deutschland über Allah!" Mr. Benson concludes that in Turkey "there is no God but backshish and the Deutsche bank is his prophet." Turkish youths are now sent to Germany instead of France for education. Mr. Benson adds: 66 Certainly, Prussian Gott is nearer Turkish Allah." Aside from the book's chronicle of how Turkey has practically become a German colony, another feature distinguishes it-the author's position concerning Germany's part in the Armenian mas sacres. He asserts that Germany did not want these massacres. "She wanted more agricultural labor, and I think that, if only for that reason, she deprecated them. But she allowed them to go on when it was in her power to stop them, and all the perfumes of Arabia cannot wash clean her hand from that stinking horror." Over the Threshold of War. Personal Experiences of the Great European Conflict. By Nevil Monroe Hopkins. Illustrated. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $5. This is distinctly an entertaining book about the war, full of anecdotes of the author's personal experiences in the early days of the great conflict. Many colored facsimiles of war placards lend a startling interest to its pages. The proceeds of the book's sales are to go to the fund of the Belgian Scholarship Committee, for the relief of Belgian scholars. Roots of the War (The). A Non-Technical History of Europe 1870-1914 A.D. By William Plainly and clearly written. The book covers just that period in which national and international forces were at work which resulted in Germany's deliberately formed plan to rule or ruin in Europe. The author quotes in closing this study the last lines of William Watson's "To the Troubler of the Earth :" YOUR SOLDIER'S PHOTOGRAPH An Artatone Enlargement Made from Your Film or Negative You have probably some successful snap-shots of your soldier boy. 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Room with Bath $2.50 up THE NATION'S Believing that the advance of business is a subject of vital interest and importance, The Outlook will present under the above heading frequent discussions of subjects of industrial and commercial interest. This department will include paragraphs of timely interest and articles of educational value dealing with the industrial upbuilding of the Nation. Comment and suggestions are invited. GOVERNMENT PROVES FEASIBILITY OF LONG-DISTANCE MOTOR PARCEL POST SERV. ICE The tremendous importance of good roads and motor-truck delivery were graph-. ically emphasized by the United States Post Office Department on Wednesday, March 20, with a special parcel-post run from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to New York City. The run of 180 miles was covered by a regular parcel-post truck loaded with eggs, butter, honey, and day-old chicks in actual running time of ten hours between the two points. The truck left the Lancaster Post Office at 4:15 A.M. It drew up at the Thirty-third Street Post Office, New York City, at just fit it would give the rural population thus put in such close contact with the con sumer. Mr. Blakeslee said the Post Office Department had found by experience in many sections of the country that a motor truck could profitably collect and deliver mail, including farm produce, from points fifty miles away within a day of twelve hours. He estimated that 1,560 such trucks could perform this service twice within each twenty-four hours on the 156,000 miles of improved road in the United States. The cost of operation would not exceed twenty cents per mile per truck. On such a basis, the cost per annum would be $19,531,200. The earnings of each truck would exceed $70 per truck per day, or $34,179,600 per annum. This estimate is based on the present rate of postage and the earnings of the 12-ton trucks now in operation in exactly this type of service. The truck used on the special test run from Lancaster to New York was an Autocar that has been making daily trips from the Baltimore Post Office for the past two months. It was driven by the regular postal department driver, S. David McKneil, for the entire distance. Total stops of two hours and two minutes were taken up in the delivery of letters from the Mayor of Lancaster to the Mayors of Philadelphia, Trenton, New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Newark, Jersey City, and New FIRST LONG-DISTANCE DELIVERY OF FARM PRODUCE BY UNITED STATES MAIL TRUCK 4:17 in the afternoon, and by five o'clock the shipment had all been delivered to the consignees. This brings within a daily shipment of New York City all farms within a radius of 180 miles. In telling of the trip at a dinner of the Motor Truck Club, New York, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Blakeslee declared that this event was the first time in the history of the country, by freight, express, or mail, that a shipment had been made from the producer to the consumer in one day over a distance of more than one hundred miles. "It is an epoch in the history of the United States and of the world," said Francis M. Hugo, Secretary of State of New York, in discussing the achievement at the same dinner. "Just consider," he said, "the marvelous significance of making every producing town within 180 miles of the city a real suburb in close and practicable shipping distance." He pointed out how much it would help in solving the feeding problems, not only of New York, but of all big industrial centers, and also the tremendous bene York City, a stop for refreshment, and two stops to take on gasoline. The truck carried, in addition to the driver, a checker and 1,920 pounds of mail. The total distance of 180 miles was covered with twenty gallons of gasoline. The run was made through actual traffic conditions, passing through the heart of the business districts of all towns and cities on the route between Lancaster and Philadelphia to the Twenty-third Street Ferry wharf in Jersey City and from there to the Thirty-third Street Post Office in New York City. TRUCKS CONNECT FARMS WITH WASHINGTON (From the "Commercial Vehicle") Considering the shortage of foodstuffs, the greatest problem of the near future, the Highway Transport Committee, headed by Roy Chapin, has worked out a plan for rural express services from farms to cities wherever practical. The Committee has made a special study of the conditions in Maryland and the area around Washington, Trucks Connect Farms with Washington (Continued) and is arranging for rural routes to provide transportation of food for the new 100,000 inhabitants of the capital. Questionnaires have been sent to farmers and to operators of rural express systems in Maryland. A blueprint hanging in the office of Roy Chapin shows the complete chart of the service in Maryland, displaying the motor-truck routes from Washington to Germantown, Latonville, Redland, and Ashton, an aggregate of 93 miles. Seven trucks are used, making a total daily mileage of 286 miles. Out of Baltimore there are fourteen such routes, aggregating 1,192 miles daily. The good roads of Maryland are one of the factors that stimulated the service there. Maryland has 1,500 miles of good roads, of which 300 miles are used for rural express. The questionnaires sent out resulted in urgent requests by farmers for better roads. Many said they would go out of business if they did not have better roads to help them get their produce to market. As an example of the work done, one man operating rural service brings 400 gallons of milk and cream daily to Washington. On his return trip he takes coal and other merchandise back from the city to the farmer. One farmer near Baltimore reported that, in addition to his regular route service, the operator in his district also handled for him 100 live hogs, 200 live sheep, and 800 bushels of wheat, and brought back to the farm 190 tons of fertilizer, eighty tons of lime, sixty-five tons of building sand, and seventy tons of coal. One reply showing the importance of the rural express system was from a farmer who said that" without the truck it would take a man and a pair of horses two days to make the trip to Washington and back, which is now made in three hours with the truck." The Maryland rural express systems are regulated by the Public Service Commission. The State Highway Commissioner of Maryland and the State Highway Commissioner of Virginia are preparing maps and routes showing how Washington can be served as Baltimore is. LONG ISLAND FARMERS ORGANIZE FOR CHEAPER TRANSPORTATION (From the "Commercial Car.Journal") The farmers of Nassau County, Long Island, New York, have launched the "Farmer to the Consumer" movement and are holding a series of meetings throughout Long Island to interest other producers of vegetables, garden products, fruits, etc. It is believed by those fathering the plan that it will be possible to inaugurate similar organizations in those sections of New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York that supply metropolitan New York. Commissioner of Public Markets Jonathan C. Day is co-operating with the farmers, and it is proposed to transport the food from the producers to the market in the most efficient and economic way, viz., by the use of commercial cars. According to a most comprehensive report, dealing with the food problem of New York, and compiled by a committee appointed in April, 1917, by the Merchants' Association of that city, the demands of war and inclement weather have so handicapped the railroads that food deliveries are at present very uncertain in New York City. When it is considered that 1,323 carloads of food products are received daily at A wonderful display of French Underwear, Hand- We also have a variety of dainty Embroidery and Lacetrimmed Bridal sets of Hand-made Linen and real Valtrimming. Suitable for the June Bride. Fine Philippine Lingerie All on fine Nainsook, very dainty Embroidery, some with fine Val edges. Gowns-$1.95, 2.50, 2.95, 3.25, 4.25 to 6.75. Fine Crepe Gowns, Picot edge-$1.25. Orders by mail given special attention. James McCutcheon & Co. the 127 terminals in Metropolitan New York, and that the daily average of vegetables is 232 cars, it will be seen that the proposed "farmer to the consumer" movement should, with the co-operation of the city and use of motor trucks, bring about some improvement of the present conditions.. Lack of capital and a shortage of practical labor are problems confronting the farmer to-day, but the chief obstacle is the unreliable marketing facilities. Farmers have been flooded with tons of literature telling them how they can make two blades of grass grow where one grew before. While this is very interesting, the farmers would much prefer to be shown how they can market the one blade before they attempt to produce the two.. ... The motor truck is to play an important rôle in the solving of the food problem, not only in Greater New York, where food must be provided for 30,000,000 meals daily, but in all sections not self-sustaining. The establishment of regular daily scheduled motor-truck service, either by the Government, private concerns, or individuals, will tap a much-needed source of food supply. Motor trucks will be used for trans porting the products of the farm to the consumer, to the public markets, railway stations, and to those plants engaged in preserving the regular and surplus production, conserving the by-products and converting the raw into edible food. Economical transportation by motor truck in the cities, for hauling from the terminals to the wholesaler and retailer, has been demonstrated. Unfortunately, increasing congestion, traffic and terminal, has handicapped these carriers in New York. There is another factor, the influence of which is bound to make itself felt before long, and that is the tractor. Already one large manufacturer of farm tractors has begun an educational campaign in the territory serving Greater New York with food products. With the tractor making possible increased production, and with the motor truck economically transporting the product, it would appear that the solution of New York's food problem would lie in the co-operation of the Federal, State, and City departments in providing adequate terminal facilities and wholesale markets; that is, if the farmer is to be encouraged to increase crop production. BY THE "Why is it," says E. A. Ross in discussing Russian character in the "Century,' "that your great writers portray the woman as the stronger character?" The question was addressed to an eminent Russian literary woman. She answered: "They simply pictured Russian life as they found it." The curious lack of chivalry on the part of Russian men is perhaps a result of this state of things. "Never," says Professor Ross, "did I see a Russian man in a tramcar rise and offer his seat to a woman, although I did see a woman offer her seat to a rosy-cheeked seminarist; and the budding priest took it!" A Japanese resident of Vancouver recently enlisted in a British Columbia battalion, and, before going to the front, wished to sell a small marine engine. He wrote to a possible purchaser, as reported in the Vancouver "World," the following letter. Its English may be unidiomatic, but it makes his meaning clear and his spirit infectious: "I was educated in most excellent high school in Japan, and in high hope of my condition bettering made my resolution and embarked for this nation. But things do not find themselves thus. Bad time eventuated. I sell hull of boat engine I possess. I have signal honor to fight for this land and am distributing my property before I depart to encounter common foe, dam Hun, excuse me I beseech you my colloquial phraseology. Price 95 dollars. Ask for K T- -, private." The man who feels that he has important ideas about the war and who thereupon writes to the Government at Washington on the subject might save letter paper and officials' time by consulting a bulletin that is daily posted up in the 56,000 post offices of the country. This "Official U. S. Bulletin" gives important rulings, decisions, orders, etc., and it is said that a little study of it would make most of the correspondence with which the Departments are deluged unnecessary. Hundreds of clerks who are now occupied in answering these letters could then be put to more productive work. Pronouns and their definitions as the Army understands them are quoted in a camp journal as follows: I-the rookie; You the sergeant; He-the colonel; We -the gang; They-the Huns; It-the war; His-what the Kaiser will get; Theirs-what the Huns will get. The recent Red Cross sale at Christie's famous auction rooms in London had as its most remarkable incident, perhaps, the sale of a blank canvas for 650 guineas ($3,300). The well-known artist Richard Jack had promised to paint upon it, without charge, the portrait of one of the war's heroes, Colonel Lancelot Robson, who defended West Hartlepool when that town was bombarded by the Germans. re A young philologist in a college paper, when asked for a definition of "nut,' plied in verse: When you've bats in your belfry that flut, In the top of your dome, Then your head's not a head-it's a nut." Concerning the article "The Peril of Thinking in Billions," in The Outlook of April 17, a subscriber writes: "We have grown so accustomed to hearing' billions' that a billion dollars now seems nothing like as large an amount as a hundred millions sounded before the war. To get the idea of a billion, try this experiment. A minute is a short space of time—now answer WAY quickly, How many minutes have elapsed from the birth of Christ to Christmas, 1917? Some guessers say, 'Fifty billions'-'A hundred billions.' The fact is that (even allowing for seven extra years-the chronologists say Christ was born 7 B.C.) only one billion eleven million and some odd thousand minutes have elapsed." A heart of stone might be moved by the following advertisement in a New York daily paper-but probably the automobile thief's heart is case-hardened: Will party who took my Mitchell cabriolette automobile from Battery Place on Saturday be kind enough to at least return handbag which was under rear deck. This bag contains papers and memoranda of no value to any one but myself. Ship by express, collect if necessary. Battery Place, N. Y. C. An epigram attributed to Congressman Gallivan has a mixture of cynicism, humor, and truth: "Rum has more enemies in public and more friends in private than any other substance the world has ever known." In less than a year the United States Government has become the greatest lifeinsuring agency in the country. Since last October it has written insurance amounting to more than $14,000,000,000-almost onehalf the total amount of outstanding life insurance carried by all the insurance companies in the land. Ninety-two per cent of our soldiers and sailors, it is reported, have taken out the Government's policies. Black walnut for gun stocks and other military uses is a wood that is now in great demand, and President Wilson has requested the Boy Scouts to locate and report black walnut trees. James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, asks the boys to see that five walnut trees are planted for every one that is cut down to supply the existing urgent need. Recently, a subscriber writes, a sevenyear-old of Pasadena, California, after his usual nightly petitions remained silent for a few moments without rising, and then added: "O Lord, make the Kaiser good. We don't want the Kaiser dead, but if can't make him good, kill him.' you The Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul, in Petrograd, has an evil reputation as the former place of imprisonment of many of Russia's idealists, including Prince Kropotkin and Madame Breshkovsky; but one blot on its scutcheon is removed by an illustrated article in the London "Sphere." The article reproduces a painting by the Russian artist Flavitsky, showing a beautiful woman standing on her bed in a cell in this prison, seeking to escape the rising waters of a flood that threatens her life. This was the Princess Tarakanova, who had incurred the enmity of Catherine the Great. The tradition is that she was drowned, by order of the Empress, during the inundation of 1777. The "Sphere,' however, shows that she died of tuberculosis, two years before the flood swept through the fortress. Thus this gloomy prison and the great Empress are relieved of one of the tragedies with which they have been associated. The following definition of "poetry," which won a prize of fifty dollars, is printed in "The Writer." It is by Annie L. Laney, of Providence, Rhode Island : "The magic light that springs |