WEEKLY OUTLINE STUDY OF CURRENT HISTORY · BY J. MADISON GATHANY, A.M. HOPE STREET high SCHOOL, Providence, R. I. Based on The Outlook of January 1, 1919 Each week an Outline Study of Current History based on the preceding number of The Outlook will be printed for the benefit of current events classes, debating clubs, teachers of history and of English, and the like, and for use in the home and by such individual readers as may desire suggestions in the serious study of current history.-THE EDITORS. [Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.] I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: Germany's Political Kaleido scope. Reference: Pages 6, 7. 1. The Outlook says: "New parties and new combinations appear almost daily in Germany." How do you account for this? Name some of the parties and factions. 2. Give eight or ten reasons why it would seem that Germany will not become as chaotic and anarchic as Russia is. 3. Suppose the extreme Socialists should secure control of Germany and establish a proletarian dictatorship. What would this mean for Germany? For the Allies? Would it involve Allied intervention? 4. The Outlook says that "no one outside Germany can object to slowness in the working out of the political problem in Germany. What is the political problem? Ought the Allies to help solve it? Reasons. 5. The Allies cannot make a treaty with Germany until there is a responsible Government in Germany with which to make it. Give reasons why this is so. How long ought the Allies to wait for such a Government to ress claims. B. Topic: Have We a League of Nations? 1. Senators Knox and Lodge believe that the creation of a League of Nations should not be a part of the Peace Treaty. For what reasons does The Outlook not share their point of view? 2. Give several reasons why The Outlook should be supported in its belief that (a) Senators who honestly differ from the President should express their opinions, and that (b) those who attack them for expressing their opinions are attacking one of the Constitutional foundations of the country. 3. Name and discuss the hazards and the hopes the League of Nations would mean to the neutral countries. 4. Give several reasons why nations possessing common ideals should league ogether permanently. 5. Read two suggest 1. For what reasons does Professor Hart believe that "a peace which does not encourage and facilitate trade on a great scale will fail to make itself permanent "? 2. What can the Peace Conference do to bring about such conditions of trade? 3. Suggest reasons why "it might be good for the German soul to put it through the process it designed for others." What was that process? 4. But Professor Hart believes that "it would be extremely disadvantageous to mankind, and particularly to the United States," to do so. What are his reasons? Do you agree? Reasons. 5. Explain what Professor Hart means when he says: "The United States must either fish or cut bait.' 6. Give reasons why this is a valuable article to read. II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS Topic: 1919.. Reference: Editorial, pages 11, 12. 1. The Outlook says that "liberty, III-PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. No nation is fit to sit in judgment on IV-VOCABULARY BUILDING (All of the following words and expressions are found in The Outlook for January 1, 1919. Both before and after looking them up in the dictionary or elsewhere, give their meaning in your own words. The figures in parentheses refer to pages on which the words may be found.) Kaleidoscope (6); stolid obedience (7); germane (12); pact, pertinent (13); protective tariff (18); liberty, evolution, revolution (12). A booklet suggesting methods of using the Weekly Outline of Current History will be sent on application Piedmont has been full of students during the whole war; but, as our boys are now returning from training camps, army and navy, all our accommodations will soon overflow. We have had nearly 200 boys in war service. If all who read this appeal and who are interested in developing and training citizens from the hundreds of thousands of capable young people within the reach of Piedmont will respond the best they can, they will relieve completely this strain and set Piedmont free to do its work unfettered by deficit and debt. 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Young Diana (The). By Marie Corelli. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.50. Readers of English fiction are divided into two classes-those who can and those who cannot read the novels of Marie Corelli. Both classes are large. Queen Victoria, it is said, belonged to Miss Corelli's admirers. Others of less exalted rank but perhaps of equally good literary judgment find this author's diction high-flown and overwrought. BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Boy with the U. S. Naturalists (The). By Boys' Own Book of Great Inventions Children's Homer (The). The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy. By Padraio Colum. Presented by Willy Pogany. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2. Ducky Daddles' Party. By Bertha Parker Hall. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.25. Fighters Young Americans Want to Jimmie May in the Fighting Line. By Two Alike. By Edith Barnard Delano. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.35. This is a well-written story for girls, with amusement and romance and mystery mingled in pleasing proportions. POETRY Christ in the Poetry of Today. Compiled by Martha Foote Crow. Revised Edition. The Woman's Press, New York. $2. ears. ... In this collection, to use the words of the compiler in her Introduction, we have a sort of new biography of Jesus, each chapter of which consists of a poem written by a different author, and the whole forming the poetic reaction of our time to the thought of Jesus, what He was, what His life meant to the world, and what He might yet be to the world if we would but listen to the Voice that still rings in our "This is not a book only for socalled "pious" people. Lovers of poetry will find here some of the most exquisite poems this generation has made. Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering. By Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.50. Two of the collections of poems which first made Sir Rabindranath Tagore's reputation in the Western world are here republished in one volume, with illustrations in color and in half-tone by four Hindu artists, two of them kinsmen of the poet. The illustrations have infinite delicacy and im The New Books (Continued) agination, differing from ninety-nine hundredths of the illustrations of Occidental artists, inasmuch as they do not limit the imagination of the reader, but carry it on. Springtide of Life (The). By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $3. During his later years Swinburne spoke frequently of a desire to collect all his poems of childhood into one volume. This wish has at last been carried out by his executor, Edmund Gosse, in a volume which would have been a delight to the poet himself. For the illustrations by Arthur Rackham, with their delicate loveliness and depth of imagination, are an achievement as great as the poems they illustrate. The poems and the pictures are about, rather than for, children. Mothers will cherish them. The TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION London and Its Environs. Edited by Findlay Muirhead, M.A. The Blue Guides. Macmillan Company, New York. $4. This guide is, as the editor announces, founded on normal rather than abnormal conditions in London, and will be very useful to the traveler when the big rush of travel begins after the four years of famine for the tourist that have just passed. Printed just before the armistice was signed, it contains this now happily out-of-date note: "The streets of London are scantily lighted after nightfall, and the stranger is strongly recommended to provide himself with an electric torch." It is modeled on the Baedeker guide-books; Mr. Muirhead was the English editor of those famous handbooks for travelers. Samurai Trails. By Lucian Swift Kirtland. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $2.50. This attractively printed and illustrated book describes a journey taken just before the war; it is a relief to turn to it from books on which the shadow of war rests and enjoy its pleasant descriptions of life in the byways of Japan. The author has a dry humor that lends additional charm to his narrative. WAR BOOKS One Hundred Per Cent American. Ad dresses Delivered by Famous Patriots of all This book is a storehouse of valuable data for the historian of the war. It is more than that. It is a repository of good reading for everybody who is interested in the right settlement of the problems arising from the great conflict. It is a pity that these speeches could not have been presented in a typographical form that would have seemed less like an aggregation of pamphlets. " Lie (The) of the 3rd of August, 1914. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.75. Vital Issues of the War (The). 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And it will admit to its pages only those financial advertisements which after thorough expert scrutiny are believed to be worthy of confidence. All letters of inquiry regarding investment securities should be addressed to THE OUTLOOK FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York A CAPITALIST IN THE MAKING S the man with a salary of $3,000 a year rich? Decidedly not-there is little cause for argument. Is the man with a salary of $10,000 rich? There probably will be a difference of opinion. Some will say "No," a few may think perhaps he is. Is the man with a salary of $25,000 a year rich? By the majority he might be considered so. A salary, however, is a most uncertain quantity; by force of innumerable circumstances it may cease at any moment. Is the man with an income of $3,000 a year-obtained entirely from carefully selected investments-to be envied by the man with a salary of $5,000? This is not as easily answered. A salary may be only temporary, whereas an income from capital, cautiously invested, may be perpetual. "Salary" may be defined as a periodical allowance as compensation for services, whereas "vested income " is the amount of money coming in as payment for the use of capital. The actual salary or income one enjoys is not fundamentally the most important consideration. In the last analysis, it is the ratio of savings to earnings that really counts; and the ability to save cannot be determined by the capacity to earn. The strength of a modern business man may be measured by his financial independence. How quickly we discern the spirit of self-reliance in a man who is free from dependence upon others! His expression, appearance, opinion, his range of vision, is vastly different from that of the man involved in financial difficulties. In drawing a contract, consummating a purchase, effecting a sale, striking a bargain, or in seeking a position, a man's success is often proportional to his monetary selfconfidence. The man who has saved a halfyear's salary is free from disturbing money troubles, is able to give closer attention to his occupation, and obtains from it more satisfactory results; he is able to talk to his employer on a different basis than if he had only one week's salary in reserve. The man who is living for his weekly stipendhis wage-must keep his present position or he may starve. If this be his attitude and these his circumstances, he can have no initiative, he can afford to take no risk. A successful cotton planter, in discussing his unusual freedom from labor difficulties during the entire season, gave as his expla nation: "I pay my colored cotton pickers every day, and they never have sufficient funds to take them to the next town." Lack of thriftiness is really bad management or thoughtlessness. Many economies are absurd and pathetic in their actuality, although real and serious in their intent. People often think they are saving when they are not. Moving a long distance to reduce rent, and paying transportation, cartage, and purchasing even necessary new equipment for the less pretentious home, is no economy. The expenditure often amounts to more than the saving in rent. After all, saving is largely a matter of efficient spending. It is better to plan beforehand than to regret afterward; and if a man plans and knows where every cent goes, he has absolute control over his pocketbook. He knows exactly what he can afford to spend, and does not worry lest he is spending money that ought to go for something else. A great many people lay out a budget separate their fixed operating expenses from their general and household expenses, and make their savings bear a fixed ratio to the whole. It is interesting, and a man feels a just pride in having a careful record of both income and expenditures, with its confession of waste here and leak or extravagance there, and after careful perusal and study there will probably be a stronger desire to save than ever before. There is something humiliating about the ghosts of past inefficiencies. Spending, as well as saving, is a science, for a science may be defined as knowledge gained and verified by exact observation and correct thinking. Care and wisdom in the control and manipulation of one's resources promotes thrift, and the direct result of economy is accumulation of capital. 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