Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York. Copyright, 1925, by The Outlook Company. By subscription $5.00 a year for the United States and Canada. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Contributing Editor The "International Interpreter" was taken over by the Outlook Company on June 11, 1924 W ILLIAM ATHERTON DU Puy writes of himself: I am a good example of just how hard it is to make a National reputation. I have written news, features, magazine articles, and books for fifteen. years in Washington without having made my name a family byword.. I am an intellectual lancer who rides forth every day to find what he can that is worthy of a tilt. 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He reached back to his native hills and picked a man whose capabilities and-more important -whose devotion he knew. Not all of the politicians within Mr. Coolidge's own party are pleased. And the politicians of the other party and of no party who forced this situation upon the President are no more pleased than are some of the Republican politicians. A precedent is established for making Cabinet selections on the ground of personal loyalty rather than of party service. April 1, 1925 ment to help to a recognition of this fact. The President has selected to do the No Entanglements The emolumental side of party politics Jor becomes necessarily less attractive if personal friendship is to be set above thick-and-thin devotion to the party. The politicians who heaved at the President what they thought was a brick have found it to be a boomerang. There are those, too, who intimate that the President is building a provincial government, that New England is being exalted to places of power out of all keeping with its relative importance as a section of a country territorially as great as the United States. The point is made that the President has given substantially no recognition to the Republicans of the South by appointment to important positions, and that the Far West, and even the Middle West, have not been too liberally dealt with. While there may be force to these contentions, there are few persons of broad enough view to extend beyond the considerations of so-called practical politics who will quarrel with Mr. Coolidge over the selection of John Garibaldi Sargent as Attorney-General. The man who supervises the work of the Department of Justice is, for the time being, the most important member of the President's Cabinet. Neither the country nor the President needed Senator Borah's state JOH OHN G. SARGENT is one of the most picturesque men that public life in Washington has recently known. Large of frame, rugged of thought, homely and simple in his tastes, he has made an immediate appeal to those who have had the opportunity of seeing him. He is one of those men in whom the effects of a hardy rural upbringing lingers as a flavor of the soil. There is no doubt among careful ob servers in Washington that Mr. Sargent The suspicion was raised immediately Number 13 was based on the fact that he was originally opposed to the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. It appears, however, that his opposition was not the result of a "wet" tendency, but of a deep conviction that the Constitution ought not to be tampered with. There is absolutely no reason for believing that he is lukewarm toward enforcement of the prohibition laws. Indeed, it was made perfectly clear by a statement from Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel, that the Anti-Saloon League is confident that under Mr. Sargent's direction the Department of Justice will use all diligence in seeing that the liquor laws are enforced. When asked by newspaper correspondents for a statement of his position with regard to the Volstead Law, the Attorney-General himself said, "I haven't any particular policy on one law or another; I want to do my duty as I discover it in. regard to all laws." That sentence is typical of the new Attorney-General. And, doubtless, it is typical of the way in which the Department of Justice will be conducted under his direction. Other Changes in the positions in the Department of Justice, planned while the President expected that Mr. Warren would be Attorney-General, was got under way immediately after Mr. Sargent assumed the duties of the office. A. T. Seymour, of Ohio, has resigned the position of Assistant to the Attorney General. This is a position of very large importance, and the man who fills it is, perhaps, closer to the Attorney-General than is any other man in the Department. William J. Donovan, of New York, has been promoted from Assistant Attorney-General to the position vacated by Mr. Seymour. Rush Holland, of the Daugherty group, retires from an Assistant Attorney-Generalship. Two new Assistant Attorneys-General, Herman J. Galloway, of Indiana, and Ira L. Letts, of Rhode Island, have begun their duties. Warren F. Martin, who came into the Department with Mr. Daugherty as private secretary to the Attorney-General, is leaving that position. What other changes may be made is not yet apparent, but it is certain that the Department of Justice will be organized in such a way as to give, in the conception of the President and his new Attorney-General, the best legal service it can be made capable of giving to the Government. Recess Appointments HE fact that President Coolidge has no intention of surrendering executive independence, though he was defeated in the contest with the Senate over confirmation of Mr. Warren, is indicated by his sending to the Senate a second time the nomination of Thomas F. Woodlock, of New York, to be a member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. The nomination of Mr. Woodlock was not rejected when first sent to the Senate, but it was a matter of general knowledge that a majority of Senators would, if the question came to a vote, oppose confirmation. The Administration leaders recognized this fact, and made no effort to bring the nomination before the Senate for action. When the nomination of Mr. Woodlock came to the Senate the second time, the situation was unchanged. Administration leaders knew that a majority in favor of confirmation could not be mustered. Adjournment came without any sort of action taken. The President is now perfectly free to offer a recess appointment and Mr. Woodlock to accept it without the raising of the embarrassing legal question which undoubtedly would have been raised if Mr. Woodlock had been explicitly rejected, as Mr. Warren was. The warfare between the President and the Senate probably is not over. The President has not conceded anything; nor has the Senate. There is necessarily truce until the Senate meets again. What it then does with the President's recess appointments will indicate whether or not the warfare is to continue actively through another session. damentally wrong either in our political or our economic situation? We do not believe that either the recent flurry in wheat or the symptoms of bearishness in the stock markets of the country represents anything very grave in the underlying situation. This is not to say that the fall in prices has not hurt some people, chiefly in their pockets, but we incline to the opinion that most of those thus damaged have been speculators, either professional or amateur. The causes of such phenomena are often most difficult to determine. Yet in this instance they are not far or hard to seek. Nothing has occurred either in our domestic or foreign political situation to disturb the orderly progress of peaceful business. The President's clash with the Senate over Mr. Warren might be considered an exception, since it dramatically portrayed a serious weakness in the Administration's Congressional alliance, likely at some future date to recur. In the world of business the most notable bad news was that of the St. Paul receivership. But this, too, failed to have the full effect which a bear might have desired. Receiverships for railroads, while temporarily damaging to their securities, are usually regarded when needed as a healthy process, and the reorganized road-unless it be a trolley reorganized road-unless it be a trolley line--rises newer and stronger from the ashes. In this case receivership was discounted well in advance. The real reason for the reaction in the markets can be put in the word "overextension.' For several months the mar ket has been rising, and people have been buying in immense volume. buying in immense volume. Now for every legitimate investment purchase there is a certain number of speculative purchases or commitments. There is a virus in a strong bull market that causes the disease of speculation. And when And when investment and investment trading have run their course, speculation keeps on automatically for a while, outrunning the conservative movement of investors. Statistically, the positions of the stock market and the wheat market have now receded to about where they were at the close of 1924, and at that moment there were no more dark portents than there are to-day. Further, we should realize that the wheat the price of which has dropped was long ago sold by the farmer; he has lost little or nothing. And we question whether many real investors in stocks have lost or stand to lose if they have purchased sound securities. D. G. Mason's Symphony Ο RDINARILY American musical reputations, whether of composers or performers, are first established on the Continent of Europe. There seems to be a tradition running counter to music of American origin. It is therefore a matter of satisfaction to record the fact that a symphony by an American composer of American ancestry, though it has not yet been played in Europe, has been performed in this country by six famous symphonic orchestras. Daniel Gregory Mason's Symphony in C Minor, which was played on March 15 by the New York Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the Orchestra's guest conductor Bruno Walter, was first performed in 1916 under the direction of Stokowski in Philadelphia. Then, after revision, it was performed successively by the Detroit Orchestra in 1921 under the direction of Gabrilówitsch, by the New York Philharmonic in 1922 under the direction of Stransky, by the Minneapolis Orchestra in 1924 under the direction of Verbrugghen, by the Chicago Orchestra in January of this year under the direction of Stock, and now by the New York Symphony Orchestra on March 15 under the direction of Walter. It is fairly certain that this symphony will hereafter be in the regular repertory of one, if not more, of these orchestras. It is certainly worthy of a high place in the orchestral literature of recent years. In musical thought it has a profundity which is rare in these days of impressionism and claptrap. And in spirit and feeling it has nobility and restraint. It belongs in the true symphonic succession. In instrumentation it is refreshingly free from the generally omnipresent influence of the opera. It is not apparently distinctly American, but rather exotic or, perhaps better, cosmopolitan in character. It is not difficult to note in it the influence of d'Indy and Brahms. It is structurally sound and stable. Its form corresponds to its musical conceptions, and indeed may be said to be the natural product of them. Until recently the preservation of this symphony as a work of American art depended upon the safekeeping of a single manuscript copy. gle manuscript copy. The printing of such a symphony as this is expensive, and there seems to be little promise of sufficient financial return from performances to justify the expense. Undoubtedly some day this symphony will be printed; but in the meantime American composers have little opportunity to hear |