THE MAIL MR. ANDERSON PUTS HIS THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF NEW YORK August 13, 1923. To the Editor of The Outlook: Believing that The Outlook intends to be fair, I have been very much surprised at statements made in three different issues prejudicial to the management of a moral movement that is at least entitled to the benefit of the doubt, that are not in accordance with the facts. me Months ago, at the time of the previous unsuccessful effort by a Tammany District Attorney to indict m for alleged offenses never committed, The Outlook said by unavoidable inference that the Anti-Saloon League does not make any public report of its receipts and expenditures.. The truth is, every year its books are audited by certified public accountants and the report showing the total amount of cash received and how it is spent is sent to every newspaper in the State. In the issue of August 1, in editorial comment, The Outlook said: "The. charges were brought against Mr. Anderson as a result of his handling of the funds of the Anti-Saloon League." The above is not true. Not a cent of money respecting which so much noise has been made by Tammany and the wet press was Anti-Saloon League money at the time of the transaction in question. The publicity, fund was spent as my own money at my risk. The Board ordered its repayment (it has not been nearly repaid yet) only after it was satisfied that it was a valid obligation and the League had received full value. The Outlook says that I have "lost public sympathy." Yes, of those who never had any. But if we have lost a single actual friend that ever got really into the fight for prohibition we do not know it. On the other hand, the obvious bad faith of the whole attack has brought to the League and its management many new friends, while the support from the churches has increased since and because of this frame-up. Why did The Outlook withhold recognition or even mention of the statement of the Anti-Saloon League's Board of Directors, the only body authorized to speak for the agency charged to have been wronged, denouncing the indictments as "a monstrous perversion of justice," and specifically denying and meeting each charge? Even hostile wet newspapers printed the fact that I offered the Governor di BAGà rect testimony that the request for my indictment constituted malfeasance in office prompted by the District Attorney's personal ambition to be Governor, and published the latter official's damaging admissions. Why was The Outlook less fair than the wets? . In the issue dated August 8, The Outlook hastened to condemn the Board of Directors of the Anti-Saloon League for denunciation of the Grand Jury's recommendation of a legislative investigation as palpably political and its notice that any outrage committed by the Legislature will be resented and punished if possible in the exercise of.. the League's inherent right of selfdefense. The Outlook here suppressed the absolutely vital statement by the Board of Directors that "it [the League] has nothing to fear from the disclosure of all its activities." The Outlook says, "The Anti-Saloon League has threatened the Legislature with the Church as a political force." If The Outlook were less apparently innocent and unsophisticated, and if it had more comprehension of what has been necessary to win the fight. for prohibition, to which (as distinguished from local option once and enforcement now) it gåve belated and usually qualified support, it would know that sinister forces, some of them falsely and dishonestly operating more or less under the name of religion, have long been seeking to break the influence for good in public affairs, with special reference to dry enforcement, of the constituency of the churches which have been supporting the Anti-Saloon League in recognition and discharge of their civic obligations. It was the business of the AntiSaloon League Board, as the representative of this constituency, to tell them the truth. Judging from the furor it is recognized that this warning will not be without effect.. I am surprised that The Outlook, in support of a more or less academic notion of separation of Church, from State (that is, The Outlook's own notion of the fundamental principle), should, by misplaced condemnation, in fact cover up and condone the very sort of thing it claims to condemn. The churches that the Anti-Saloon League represents did not. in this matter, start what The Outlook condemns. And, at the risk of unjust criticism, they intend to tell the truth so that nobody else can start it and get away with it safely. (Signed) WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, State Superintendent Anti-Saloon League of New York. [The charge that The Outlook gave belated and usually qualified support ON SOLID GROUND IN IN making a survey of the magazines which have published constructive articles on aeronautics, during the last eighteen months, we note that your magazine heads the list. Not only has there appeared in The Outlook more constructive material concerning aeronautics in this country than in any other magazine, but the editorial policy maintained throughout indicates an exact knowledge of the fundamentals underlying military, naval, and commercial aeronautics in this country to an extent rarely seen elsewhere. Please accept the thanks and congratulations of this Association. NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION, By C. A. Tinker, Director of Information. Washington, D. C. I THE OLE J. B. . WISH in some measure to express to you the full approval of my heart and my judgment of the masterful and persistent battle you are waging in defense of France as against England and Germany in this great crisis. With all my soul I pray that you may see your siege a victorious one. My people on both sides of the house are from England; but we have been in America almost as long as the descendants of the heroes of the Mayflower. 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The contract agreement signed by the leaders of the contestants will be finally ratified before this is read. It is substantially an acceptance of Governor Pinchot's four proposals printed in these columns last week. miners abandoned their demand that day laborers should get more than ten per cent increase in wages and their demand for the check-off; the operators agreed to the ten per cent wage increase, the eight-hour day, recognition of the union as representing the miners, and certain improvements in working conditions. One of the best provisions in this peace treaty is that fixing the running time of the contracts for two years. Mr. Lewis for the miners comments: "The fact that the agreement runs for two years will operate to give stability to the industry and relieve all apprehensions of the anthracite-consuming public." Who is to pay for the increase in the miners' pay? It may be sixty or seventy cents a ton. That does not sound large, but it would amount to perhaps $7,000,000 in the aggregate. Governor Pinchot thinks that the operators should take part of this losssay a tenth-out of their profits and hat the rest should come out of reight rates and distributers' profits. Accordingly he has written to President Coolidge suggesting that the Inter-State Commerce Commission reconsider freight rates for anthracite and asking as an aid to the public's knowledge that the findings of the United States Coal Commission on profits and costs in mine operations and in wholesale and retail distribution should be made public in great AMERICAN COMMERCE DLE ships are finding employment under the under the American flag, perhaps not as rapidly as might be desirable, but steadily. During the second quarter of 1923, a summary of which has just been completed, employment was found for a considerable number of vessels in all classes of shipping. The rapidly developing traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States through the Panama Canal has been responsible for much of the increase in active ships. There was during the quarter a gain of thirty-two privately owned tankers in this trade. There are now one hundred tankers of 786,381 gross tons engaged in transporting oil from coast to coast. This represents more than thirty per cent of the number, and almost forty per cent of the tonnage, of all privately owned tankers under the American flag. Eighteen of these tankers were transferred during the quarter from Government ownership. The largest increase has been in the coastwise service, which includes not only the coasts of the United States proper but the Hawaiian and Porto Rican lines. Passenger service has been increased by four vessels, two of which were transferred from Government ownership. Forty-six cargo vessels of 106,982 gross tons were added to the coastwise service. These recruits came principally from the idle fleet, though a few were diverted from near-by foreign service. There has been a slight decrease in the number of privately owned vessels operating overseas, the net loss being three ships. The number of cargo vessels operated by the United Shipping Board remained practically unchanged through the quarter, though an interesting shift occurred. Twelve vessels of 65,000 gross tons were withdrawn from overseas service to Atlantic ports of Europe. All of these and one additional vessel, a total of thirteen, T went into service on Oriental routes of trade. This is, in part at least, a reflection of the growing importance of American trade with the Far. East. On the whole, the three months' showing of American shipping is gratifying. In spite of all that has been said and feared, Government ships are being gradually taken over by private American owners and are finding work to do. We may be as yet unable, as many shipowners have said, to compete with foreign ships on longestablished lines, but our growing trade with the Orient both tropical and temperate, with near-by nations to the south of us, with our own island possessions and between our own coasts offers sufficient opportunity for our ships to keep them under the Stars and Stripes.. THE PRICE OF POVERTY T is a bitter fact that babies who pectancy of human beings and be useful men and women in the world die under one year of age because of poverty. An investigation of the causes of infant mortality in Baltimore, recently completed by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, reveals the fact more clearly than it has ever been shown before. Baltimore is the largest city yet studied. In population, the variety of its industries, and the prevailing rate of infant mortality, it is a more typical American city than any of the others thus far studied. In that city, typical of our urban centers, poverty was found to be an important factor in infant mortality. Differences in color and nationality rather than poverty, it has often been asserted, are responsible for the high death rate of babies. In the Baltimore investigation these elements were eliminated. With babies only of native white mothers under consideration, the facts showed that infant mortality rose as the fathers' wages fell. In the poorest families studied, about one baby in six died within the year. Among the most prosperous families the ratio was one in twenty-six. The toll that poverty 'takes of infants is even heavier than the figures of the investigation show. Employment of mothers away from home during pregnancy and during the first year afterward is given as one of the most frequent causes of babies' deaths. This, in the main, is because of pov EDWARD PAYSON DUTTON erty. Except from dire necessity, few mothers go out to work during these periods. It is a sad commentary upon our civilization that this sort of condition exists. In a real sense, the fact convicts our body social of infanticide. Our economic and industrial system, coupled with our lack of thought for our less fortunate fellows, makes us a nation of baby murderers. All that can be said in extenuation is that all other nations are like us. The bringing out of the facts may or may not help to relieve the situation. So far as relief from poverty is concerned, the relief will come slowly if at all. For other demonstrated causes of infant mortality it may come more speedily. Babies of mothers under twenty and of mothers over thirtyfive years of age showed higher mortality than other infants. Intervals of less than two years between births were also shown to result in an in creased mortality rate. Unlike poverty, these are matters measurably within the control of the family. An interesting fact brought out by the investigation is that two dissimilar groups showed infant mortality rates approximating those of New Zealand, the lowest in the world. One of these groups is foreign-born Jews. The other is native whites of the most liberal means. The highest ratios were found among Negroes, Poles, and the very poor native white families. A PUBLISHER OF GOOD BOOKS E DWARD PAYSON DUTTON, who died on September 6, was a Nestor among American book publishers, for he had been engaged in selling books for seventy years, while the firm name, E. P. Dutton & Co., dates back to 1858. It is well known that in its earlier career this publishing house was chiefly concerned with theological and devotional literature; but not so many readers will recall the fact that in its early history its business was carried"; on in Boston or that it was in part at least a successor to the famous firms of Ticknor & Fields and J. R. Osgood & Co. Mr. Dutton's interest in literature was catholic. He gradually enlarged the range of his publication, and in this he was ably seconded by his associates. At present the Dutton list is remarkable for its large proportion of stable and valuable works and the corresponding absence of "deadwood" and ephemeral stuff. The many hundreds of volumes published by Mr. Dutton and his associates are particularly rich in biography and memoirs, especially those relating to Englishmen of note and republished or imported by the firm. Travel, art, history, and philosophy are also well represented, and of late years there have been not a few notable successes in fiction put forth under the firm's imprint. Publishers as well as authors are entitled to credit or blame for the rise or decadence of quality and character in literature. The selective function of the publisher, his effort to put forth good books as well as to sell them, plays a part that deserves full recognition. Mr. Dutton is rightly to be praised because he was what one writer aptly terms "a publisher with a literary conscience and a sense of responsibility." AN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHER W" ILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, who died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 7, ranks with the best American writers of historical biography in our day. The three of his books best known are the lives of Roosevelt, Hay, and Cavour. Of the three the "Life and Times of Cavour" is far the best and it gave the author an international reputation. Mr. Roosevelt said of it in one of his signed editorials in The Outlook: "Every man interested not only in the realities but in the possi |