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Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, 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.

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THE OUTLOOK, November 18, 1925. Volume 141, Number 12. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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HE Hon. Flora Warren Seymour, the first woman to be a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, has long been interested in Indian affairs. She first went into the Indian Service

over ten years ago, and was stationed at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Phoenix, Arizona, and on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation at Dulce, New Mexico, after which she was engaged in legal work at the Indian Office in Washington. She was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1915, and later of Illinois and the United States Supreme Court. Mrs. Seymour is the founder and executive head of the Order of Bookfellows and the editor of its monthly magazine, "The Step Ladder."

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ANON DIMNET is a professor at the Collége Stanislas, in Paris, and a well-known lecturer and writer. He is the author of a number of books and contributes to French, English, and American periodicals. It was in 1898, when he was Abbé Dimnet, that he began writing for English magazines. He has contributed to The Outlook articles on Caillaux and Herriot.

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HAT are you getting out of life? A good job-a car-a house in the country? And after that? Head of your business-a comfortable fortune-more cars-a social position?

The East has a vastly different idea. The Oriental says he gets more joy out of his leisure than we do out of our wealth. He sees more happiness in the beauty of life than in high buildings, motor cars, and big business.

He looks upon his possessions-home, servants, wealth-as incidents of life. In the wisdom of his forty centuries of experiment-compared with our three-he knows the end of life is in the enjoyment of every day, not in the postponement of real living until he makes money. His art of living has given him repose of mind, peace-and the

power they bring instead of the worry of our headlong rush.

Is the Easterner right? Are you missing the realities of life?

One pigmy seems full grown to another. One American finds little new or different in another American. Main Street, Babbittville, gets very little kick out of Main Street, Smithtown.

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THE STRANGE TATTOOING CEREMONIAL IN THE SOUTH SEAS

Contents of December ASIA

CHINA THROWS OFF THE WHITE YOKE-Public opinion in China demands justice from the white man. But can there be peace in China without a real government? A prominent Chinese leader gives the

answer.

DEVIL CEREMONIALS MID THE ETERNAL SNOWS-The experiences of a woman in the mysterious temples near Tibet, "the roof of the world." SKY-SCRAPER BUDDHAS IN AFGHANISTAN'S CLIFFS-A story of these great stone figures, tall as ten-story buildings, carved centuries ago in mountainsides. Remarkable photographs of a lost civilization. MOTHERS AND CHILDREN OF THE EASTFrom equatorial Bali, isle of lovely women, to the homeland of the Koryaks of the North Pole, you see the tender appeal of childhood. STEPHEN GIRARD-MARINER AND MERCHANT-A drainatic tale of a fortune wrested from China trade. Girard's $6,000,000 willed to Philadelphia's orphans now amounts to the astonishing sum of $72,000,000.

BEHIND THE VEIL-An American tells of the contrasts of her life among Indian women of the old school, who go about in public carried in closed boxes, and among rebels of the new school, who outdo American flappers.

ISLAND DANCERS OF THE EAST-From the dramatic barbarity of the Solomon Islander, lately out of cannibalism, to the delicacy of the silk-clad women of Java, the Orient expresses itself in the dance. EYE TO EYE WITH A BARBARY PIRATEVincent Sheean interviews the celebrated brigand about whom Roosevelt sent his famous cable-"Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." PEKING CLANGOR-The charm and romance of the Orient.

FLEETING GHOSTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS-The disappearing customs of old Samoa. The remarkable tattooing ceremony is a story hardly believable.

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"Asia is not simply a place on the map. It is a way of looking at life."

ASIA Magazine is more than a look into the East. It is a fascinating combination of the best of East and West-of the two great ideas of life in the world today.

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ROMANCE, for life in the East is kaleidoscopic in its color.

ACHIEVEMENT, for some of the greatest human works have been-and will be-accomplished in Asia.

MYSTERY, for the Orient builds walls around its secrets.

VISION, for the great leaders of the West -Napoleon, Roosevelt, John Hay-have seen Asia as deciding the future of mankind.

NATURE, for the majestic animals of the East-tigers, elephants-are always in its pages.

CULTURE, for the East is moved by mind and spirit rather than by automobiles and radios. POWER, for new knowledge makes men valuable.

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Volume 141

A Lenient Court Martial

T

HE court martial trying Colonel William Mitchell for conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline is, perhaps, the most lenient court martial that we have ever seen in this country. Its leniency extends not so much to the defendant personally as to counsel and to spectators. The strict, even harsh, formality of the traditional court martial is lacking. Lawyers indulge in witty sallies and spectators laugh quite as freely here as in the most informal of civil courts. Several times members of the Court have been late in arriving, and more than one daily paper has suggested that they are themselves guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.

November 18, 1925

lows the defendant the benefit of every doubt. But it apparently does not accord with the conception of many old military men as to what was to be expected of a court martial conducting a trial for violation of the Ninety-sixth Article of War. These elder soldiers do not hesitate to assert that, according to previous procedure, the duty of the court martial is to inquire whether or not the things which Colonel Mitchell said were prejudicial to discipline, and not at all as to whether they are true or false. Perhaps the truth or falsity of the statements may not be considered in the last analysis when the Court comes to fix punishment if the statements are found to be prejudicial, but the procedure certainly does afford Colonel Mitchell the

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soldiers question its procedure. Newspaper reporters smile at it even in print.

About it all there is, somehow, a suggestion of the final hunt for the buried. doubloons in "Treasure Island." When the ghostly voice came from among the trees, it was terrible so long as it was supposed to be the voice of the ghost of Flint, the pirate captain. But when it was recognized as the voice of the maroon, either in the flesh or in the spirit-well, said Silver, "dead or alive, nobody is afraid of Ben Gunn."

Courts martial, it is evident now, are not always Flints. But possibly they are never Ben Gurns.

The Regulation of the Air

More comment has been drawn forth, opportunity of presenting his case before THE Department of Commerce and

however, by the apparently lenient attitude of the Court toward the trial itself. Colonel Mitchell has been permitted to call a long list of witnesses and to introduce a great array of documents to prove that he told the truth when he made the statements for which he is on trial. This, perhaps, is as it should be. It accords, in a certain sort, with the spirit, of American criminal procedure, which al

the court of public opinion as well as before the court martial. Probably the Court considers that he is entitled to this privilege, whatever the judgment of the Court itself may be as to his guilt.

But an illusion is shattered. The only court martial that the public has known much about in this generation is not the personification of severity that courts martial have been supposed to be. Old

the American Engineering Counsel organized last June a Committee on Civil Aviation. This Committee has now made its report and forwarded its recommendations to the President's Aircraft Board.

First of all, the Committee recommends the enactment by Congress of a civil aeronautics law. The need for such a law has been manifest since the earliest

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