CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES.-Continued Newfoundland Dog, Bringing Back the. Painter, A Sparkling Second-Class..C. L. Hind 204 Plantagenet England, A Relic of......C. L. Hind 276 Prohibition Agent, Can a, Be Honest? Prohibition, Federal, as Seen from Kansas. Prometheus, The New Gift of....C. F. Talman 248 "Québec, Notre Cher Vieux"...... George Marvin 575 Racing Boats and Rigging........J. A. Ten Eyck 279 Road Rules for the Mountains........C. B. Roth 472 Rolls and Discs. L. J. Abbott....... 36, 188, 356, 486 E. F. Baldwin 205 Savages, Summer.. Teaching Business, This.. II-The Menace to Parliamentary Govern- III-Britain's Industrial Organization. W. R. Plewman Canada, The Government of.D. C. Seitz 348 Carteret, White and Black in....Dixon Merritt 52 Chestnut Tree's, The, Struggle to Survive. China's Fight Against Illiteracy....F. B. Lenz 444 Congress-What It Did and Left Undone........ 374 Co-operative Enterprise, A New. Democracy-Is It Bankrupt?.... Charles Maurras 176 Donkeyman, The.... C. W. Vickrey 566 Electrical Hired Man, Bringing the, to the Federal Reserve Fortress, Inside a. Those Who Have Gone Back......Carleton Beals 447 "V. M. I." Vultures of Trade...... W. B. Knox 135 George Witten 504 THE BOOK TABLE (a partial list of books African Gods, Digging for Lost (de Prorok).... 450 America, Dependent (Redfiela). Liszt, Variations on a Life of....C. H. Meltzer 416 Literary Sin, 1s It a, to Please Readers? Manning, Thomas, The Letters of, to Charles R. D. Townsend 256 Little Big Horn, The Story of the (Graham) 480 Man, The Everlasting (Chesterton). 113 Melville, Herman (Freeman). 547 148 Meredith, George (Priestley). 548 Mice, Beginning with... E. L. Pearson 546 386 Midas; or, The United States and the Future 513 (Bretherton) 148 353 Millionaire, The Mind of the (Atwood). 578 353 Moon Door, Through the (Graham). 450 149 Napoleon's Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat 480 from Moscow (Belloc)... 258 257 Nature, The Worship of (Frazer). 187 Negro, The, and His Songs (Odum and John- Peking to Lhasa (Younghusband).. Philippines, The Conquest of the, by the 222 F. de N. Schroeder 218 Indian Names in Glacier Park....J. W. Schultz 442 Institution, The Passing of an.. .D. C. Seitz 281 Life Maintained by Electricity Lincoln, Abraham, and the Eucharistic Con- Maine, The Rediscovery of... .....D. C. Seitz 108 Maryland, Three Men from....Remsen Crawford 469 Mexico, Church and State in..J. M. Bejarano 501 J. A. Ryan 534 Modernity from a Car Window. C. F. Talman 440 Money. All the, of the World R. D. Whytock 137 581 Russia, A History of (Pares). 580 After Noon (Ertz)... 256 Russia, Whither? (Trotsky).. 449 Big House of Inver, The (Somerville and 324 St. Paul, the Man and the Apostle, The Life 111 Chimes (Herrick) 354 Science and Religion, Landmarks in the Strug- Fourth Queen, The (Paterson). 185 Southwest, Pioneer Days in the Early (Fore- Great Valley, The (Johnston). World and in the New (Merriman). 418 Here and Beyond (Wharton). Hill-Billy (Lane) Mantiap (Lewis) 256 Tide, The (Marmer) 450 Novels of L. Adams Beck, The.. Old Home Town, The (Hughes). Voltaire (Aldington) 418 Precious Bane (Webb). John Davey's great contribution to America John Davey was born in England, June 6, 1846, at a time when there were no public schools. This hardy and humble genius was twenty-one before he knew his A B C's. So he started in as a full grown young man to learn to read by the slow and painful process of self-education. He began with a little copy of the New Testament and a small dictionary, picking out one word at a time. Later he acquired a grammar so that he might put the words together properly, meanwhile studying horticulture and landscape gardening during a full apprenticeship at Torquay, England. Then he heard the call of America, this great land of freedom and opportunity; and, like millions of other sturdy sons of Europe, he came here to work out his destiny. He pursued his education still further, working by day and studying by night, until he acquired an education that would do credit to the majority of college graduates. Perhaps one of the most striking things about him was the fact that he became one of the finest Americans. He learned every word of our Constitution. He learned every word of every verse of America and the Star Spangled Banner; and, until old age laid its heavy hand upon him, he could sing those songs with a zeal that was good to see. He became a full citizen at the first opportunity under our law, and to him it was a sacred day when he raised his right hand and JOHN DAVEY, Father of Tree Surgery, "Do it right or not at all" fors wore allegiance to the British crown and swore allegiance to the Constitution and the flag of America. And always, during his fifty years of life in his adopted country whenever he passed by Old Glory, he would tip his hat in veneration. John Davey saw with eyes of understanding the appalling neglect and butchery of America's trees, and he set out to find a way -a systematic, scientific way-to save them, little dreaming that a great business would be developed on the science that his love and genius created. And thus came into being the wonderful profession of Tree Surgery. His first book, The Tree Doctor, was published in 1901, and then began the gradual development of The Davey Tree Expert Company, incorporated in 1909, doing a business of nearly $2,000,000 in 1925, and now having in the field nearly 700 master Tree Surgeons, all carefully selected, thoroughly trained, properly disciplined, and regularly supervised, and giving superior service to the tree owners of America. For twenty years the business of this institution has been managed by his son, Martin L. Davey, whose highest aim has been to perpetuate the ideals and philosophy of his pioneer father. John Davey, though not now living, still lives in the spirit and purpose of the magnificent service that he rendered his adopted country-he taught the American people to think in terms of the living tree. Greater even than his creation of the invaluable science of Tree Surgery is his contribution as the apostle of the tree as a living thing. THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., INC., 604 CITY BANK BLDG., KENT, OHIO Branch offices with telephones: New York, 501 Fifth Ave., phone: Murray Hill 1629; Albany, City Savings Bank Bldg.; Boston, Massachusetts Trust Bldg.; Philadelphia, Land Title Bldg.; Baltimore, American Bldg.; Washington, Investment Bldg.; Pittsburgh,, 331 Fourth Ave.; Buffalo, 110 Franklin St.; Cleveland, Hippodrome Bldg.; Detroit, General Motors Bldg.; Cincinnati, Mercantile Library Bldg.; Indianapolis, Fletcher Savings and Trust Bldg.; Chicago, Westminster Bldg.; St. Louis, Arcade Bldg.; Kansas City, Scarritt Bldg.; Minneapolis, Andrus Bldg.; Montreal, Insurance Exchange Bldg. DAVEY TREE SURGEONS Live and work in your vicinity-quickly available, within easy motoring Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1926, by The Outlook HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary Free for Ali A Rear-Admiral Rises to Inquire RE EFERRING to the editorial, in your issue of April 7, "A Question Not Asked," in regard to prohibition conditions, there is another question which should be askedthis: In view of the fact that on April 30, 1923, the Supreme Court handed down a decision to the effect that transportation of liquors, sealed or unsealed, sea stores or otherwise, within the territorial waters of the United States is prohibited transportation in the sense of the Eighteenth Amendment and of the Volstead Law, and in view of the further fact that in 1924 our Executive negotiated and our Senate confirmed a treaty with Great Britain whereby the said prohibited transportation is allowed, protected, and required, is it possible to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment so long as the enforcement authorities, in obedience to the highest law in the land, must and do nullify that Amendment every day? What is the answer? Washington, D. C. A W. W. KIMBALL. The Trouble with Seitz STORY is told of an Irishman who ap on what grounds he wanted to petition for a divorce, he said his wife talked too much. When asked what she talked about, he said, "Faith an' she doesn't say." This is the trouble with Don C. Seitz's article "The United Universe Corporation," in the April 7 number of The Outlook. To tell another story illustrative of the article: A certain preacher had a habit of taking his text and leaving it to talk about whatever came into his mind as he spoke. One of his parishioners, exasperated, one day offered his pastor five dollars if he would take a text and stick to it. The preacher accepted the parishioner's offer, and the following Sunday announced the disconnected phrase, from one of Paul's writings, "Much in every way," as his text. That's the trouble with Seitz. Somebody said to Paul once, "Much learning doth make thee mad." Maybe that is the trouble with Seitz. But if anybody finds out what he was talking about in "The United Universe Corporation," I hope he will tell us. |