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Your writer must have been entertained at the Army and Navy Club and kept in ignorance of the case in question and of the develop ments in the so-called trial of General Mitchell (for such he will remain to his patriotic fellow-soldiers and countrymen, in spite of General Staff intrigue and accumulated red tape). If a generation of faithful and brilliant service in the Army of the Republic merits such treatment as yours for a single lapse (supposing that your estimate was as just as it is biased and unfair), no wonder we say that republics are ungrateful. But you are wrong on every point in your article. Your exaltation of discipline, with a big D, is laughable to real soldiers and citizens, who know something greater than discipline-something that discipline must follow and not lead. That something is the National defense, as little served by General Mitchell's assassins as were the tanks by the British Staff, who fought their introduction into trench warfare. My problem is, Why was the poor old Outlook selected as the goat in this dirty tribute to the West Point and Annapolis snobbery? Why not the "Nation" or the "Mercury" or some of the Bolshevik press? The Outlook, of all the ruck!! The Outlook-once a Roosevelt supporter, when that wonderful leader was promoting and rewarding, instead of court-martialing, a naval officer for the same offense as Mitchell's. To say nothing of Roosevelt's own part in a like offense when he circulated the embalmed beef round robin in Cuba. Why do you omit the vital facts that Mitchell had tried for years to get the matter before the country through the proper channels and that, as the miscalled "trial" itself developed, his reports were suppressed by the General Staff? been denounced in the testimony of the highest of our military authorities (now safely on the retired list) as unworthy slackers-this General Staff may yet prove to be Mr. Coolidge's Ballinger. May I suggest that your representative avoid the Army and Navy Club on his next visit? S. J. MACFARREN. Once First Lieutenant, I Company, 3-5 Pennsylvania Cavalry, Meade's Headquarters, Appomattox campaign. Yo YOU The Test of Genius Ou seem to encourage comments on the articles in The Outlook. May I suggest that there are two sides to the arguments presented by Mrs. Cartland in her "Motherhood in a Democracy," in the number for January 27? She adduces as an argument for large families the number of geniuses who have come from such families and who were among the latest born. In reading the instances she cites there came at once to my mind the names of John Singer Sargent, the eldest of three; Percy Bysshe Shelley, the eldest of four; Charlotte Brontë, the eldest of three, each one a genius; Abraham Lincoln, the second of three; Edgar Allan Poe, an only child; and George Gordon, Lord Byron, an only child. The number of children evidently has nothing to do with genius, it appears, and that is all we know about it, though when human heredity shall be deemed of as much importance as the heredity of race horses and prize cattle we shall doubtless learn more of its genesis and development. In a family of twelve there is naturally more chance of a brilliant child than in one of three, but there is the same increased chance of sub-normality. Mrs. Cartland gives several instances of large families of various nationalities in which there were about equal numbers of inferior and superior children, and she claims that the quality improved through the quantity. I can give an equal number of instances where the quality of the children steadily deteriorated, owing to the mother's loss of vitality and strength through excessive maternity. I happened to be in Los Angeles lately when the papers were giving much publicity to a "patriotic" citizen and his wife who had added twenty-four children to the city's population. I gathered from the reports that these truly patriotic citizens were sub-normal, that all their children were more or less mentally deficient, and that they lived in a hovel in ignorance, filth, and squalor. Had one of the twenty-four been su To observers on the ground here and outside the military circle Mr. Coolidge's snap action in this matter is his worst mistake since the appointment of the Secretaries of War and Navy, by whom these scandals are fostered, and he will pay for it dearly. The General Staff, half of whom have Summer Smiles Hawaii Come now and live for a while among these laughing Hawaiians-where it's always summer. Here within easy reach lies Eden-for all folk who want rest, warmth and new diversions in a romantic land. 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A. perior, Mrs. Cartland would doubtless have claimed another instance of her theory that quantity can be depended upon to produce quality; but, even so, would it be profitable to the State or the race to get one superior citizen at the price of twenty-three who would be a public charge? Mrs. Cartland speaks of the retreat of the American of colonial descent before the advance of the prolific Irish, Polish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants; but as cheap money invariably drives out good money, so the pressure of races with lower ideals and inferior standards of living have throughout history crowded out and will continue to crowd out those with higher standards of comfort and culture. The remedy is to limit the number and kind of immigrants, for it is a law of biology that the lower the type of plants and animals, the more prolific it is. (I have just telephoned to one of the most eminent biologists in the country, and he confirms my statement.) As the type rises, reproduction falls. Should the custodians of culture in the United States-the professors, scientists, literati, men with small families and smaller incomes-emulate the large families of newly arrived immigrants, they would of necessity drop to the same cultural level and revert to type in the struggle for existence. To prefer quality to quantity, says Mrs. Cartland, is a fallacy; but it is a fallacy that has preserved the culture of the world. Æsop, reflecting the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, gives us a fable in which he represents the lower animals. quarreling among themselves as to which of them belonged the credit of producing the most offspring at one birth. They carried their quarrel for precedence to the lioness, and, bowing low before her, asked how many she produced at one birth. The queen of beasts looked down upon them disdainfully. "One," she answered, "but it is a lion." Philadelphia. PERMI IMOGEN B. OAKLEY. "War and the Law" ERMIT me to felicitate you upon the clarity and soundness of your editorial, "War and the Law," appearing in The Outlook for December 30. As a student of international law for the past several years, I view the present abortive attempts to "outlaw" war as nothing short of pathetic. The efforts on the part of men in high places to flee from the fact of an exceedingly complicated world mechanism in which friction constantly arises; to shut out from their vision, ostrich-fashion, an intricate and cumulative set of causes for war; and to seek by fiat, ukase, or dictum a desirable surcease from war, betrays either incapacity to grasp the simplest elements contributing to war or naïve timorousness in facing the facts. As you properly point out, the Permanent Court of International Justice will not do away with war; it will merely delimit the field of friction one step further, and that within a realm of comparatively crystallized law. But as Raymond Leslie Buell declares in the preface to his "International Relations," much of that already settled law never gets into the courts. Political science, in its wider sense, begins where the law ends, and it is to further analysis and study of that extra-legal field that we must devote our attention. As each segment of that barely charted region lying outside the law in international relations becomes ripe for regulation, the content of the segment is being formulated into rules, either by the committee of jurists now convened at Geneva (of whom our Mr. Wickersham is a member) or by general law-evidencing conventions to which a large number of states are parties. What law already exists the Permanent Court of International Justice will apply. In the process of application new rules are formulated, as in our own Federal and State courts. When the factors of international life are sufficiently resolved to permit of the formulation of a rule, the rule will be deduced or devised, and the courts administering international law will take cognizance of those new rules. But there is no royal road to a wholesale regulation of international phenomena. The process is that of all law, which really is reflective of things as they are slow accretion, revision, amendment, codification-always, however, with an intelligently directed tendency toward that elusive ideal of justice. It may be an unwelcome thought that vast sections of our international relations are still incapable of being reduced to rule and code. It may indeed be an unwelcome thought, but it should not frighten us or make us less devoted to the task of so shaping and co-ordinating our complicated inter-State relations as to permit the derivation of rules capable of application by a judicial body. Intelligent policy prepares the ground; conference and more intelligence formulates the rule; and judges of unquestioned integrity are applying and will continue to apply the rules to controversies within their jurisdiction. How absurd, then, to hope for a new order of things by mere fiat, or even to expect such an extension of the law as will reflect, not things as they are, but In writing to the above advertiser please mention The Outlook H ENRY WYNANS JESSUP is a prominent New York lawyer and a member of the first Permanent Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly. He was born in Beirût, Syria, and is the grandson of William Jessup, of Pennsylvania, who presented to the Chicago Convention the platform on which Lincoln was first elected. E DMUND PEAR SON, who conducts The Outlook's Book Table, is the author of this week's review of the "Intimate Papers of Colonel House." He has written several books on a variety of subjects, but his hobby is the study of certain famous old murder cases. His "Studies in Murder" was brought out by the Macmillan Company last year, and a series of articles on murder are now running in "Vanity Fair" which will, we believe, be later incorporated in a book. With its own beginnings under James J. Hill deeply rooted in the picturesque formative days of the Northwest, the Great Northern is erecting monuments at historically famous spots along its route. One of these is located on the above site where, in July, 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis, leader of the momentous Lewis and Clark Expedition, encountered hostile Indians at a point just above the Great Northern's present main line (today's Meriwether Station), a few miles east of Glacier National Park. "OME, traverse the magnificent miles of the great Northwest Glacier National Park General PRICES CUT All late models, completely rebuilt and refinished brand new. 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Itself caused by a variety of circumstances not altogether easily understood or understandable, the fact of stocks rising by leaps and bounds generates a kind of fever in the public. Speculation is sure to follow, and what might have remained a normal, steady growth in market prices threatens to become gambling. It has often been stated in these columns that The Outlook does not attempt to join the array of those who predict or forecast stock-...arket changes. Our idea of investment minimizes the transitory buy-and-sell fluctuations of the exchanges. Yet we do not by any means ignore the exchanges, nor do we see any reason why the investor should not hope and expect to purchase securities which will appreciate in value as time goes on. We emphasize the bond for many investors because the bond is, broadly speaking, less subject to market There are now listed on the New York Stock Exchange $21,748,996,000 bonds, against $12,894,233,000 January 1, 1914, a gain of $8,854,763,000. This does not include Liberty Bonds totaling over $14,000,000,000. The great increase in bond and stock listings the past twelve years gives an idea of the extraordinary general growth in wealth of the United States, as it reflects the vast amount of money going into new enterprises. There are now 1,359 bond issues listed, against 1,073 in 1914. The following gives listings of various groups January 1, 1926, and January 1, 1914: In writing to the above advertiser please mention The Outlook |