truck is most efficient. Harry Waldron, superintendent of garage and transportation for the Vitagraph Company, delivered the truck at a place where the big scenes were to be staged at night, and it produced enough light for every purpose. If connected to

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truck of to-day. Nobody who has studied the problems and needs of the present will deny that the horse is doomed as an economic factor. His speed is about onefourth that of a truck under average conditions; his carrying and pulling power is about one twenty-fifth that of the half-ton truck; his upkeep on the basis of twenty miles a day is nearly double that of a halfton truck; his energy decreases with time, while that of the truck is comparatively unimpaired. So the ratio of efficiency is all

in favor of the truck.

It is now a familiar statement that the Allied victories at the Marne and before Verdun were largely due to efficient motor transport systems. The motor truck is playing a large and important part in this war. And when peace comes the truck will continue to become a more and more important factor in the business life of the Nation.

"TO THE EDITORS, DEAR SIRS:-"

I am afraid that the point you have made against the epistolary intolerance of preachers as a class is well taken. I judge that it comes not only from the fact that the preacher hears no "back talk" when he preaches, but also from the very general tendency among us to confound our theories of truth with the truth itself. We easily persuade ourselves that some one is undermining the foundations, and then we fight for the faith, when perhaps we are only bombarding some one's interpretation of the faith. The great need of preachers here is a union of vital piety and the scientific spirit that proves all things, holding fast what is good, and tries all the spirits.

I had not intended to say this when I began, but I do say it-that I feel deeply indebted to the editors of The Outlook for a broader and profounder view of religious truth than otherwise I might have received. It is one of several agencies that has greatly illuminated me.

And yet you understand, don't you, that The Outlook is frightfully unorthodox and that Dr. Abbott is a heretic? Give us more of that particular kind of heresy, say I. (REV.) RAYMOND M. SHIPMAN. Nevada, Iowa.

"The religious situation at the soldiers' encampments is not without its humor, and must tend to liberalize the men who-compose them," remarks the "Christian RegisRecently a Roman Catholic private, finding on a Friday that the supply of fish had given out, was constrained to partake of a meat diet. By his side at table sat a Jew who, unless he would .go dinnerless, had to eat of the forbidden swine's flesh. Too bad! too bad!' said the first, his Irish wit not forsaking him. Two perfectly good religions spoiled!'

WAY

A friend sends this heading from a Boston daily newspaper as "the prize misprint of the year:

SAYS PLAY IS WORTH THOUSAND LEMONS An elucidation of this remarkable statement reads: "The Wanderer' is worth a thousand sermons."

The London correspondent of "American Art News" tells of high figures for pictures recently sold at auction in London. In one case, he says, a pair of colored engravings by Nutter, after Bigg, similar to those which in 1914 brought 48 guineas, went now for 300 guineas ($1,500). "The prevailing high prices," the writer concludes, "not only in this particular branch of the fine arts, but in several others, are astonishing even to the dealers themselves."

In "Recollections of a California Pioneer Carlisle S. Abbott, at the age of eighty-eight, tells of crossing the Great American Desert in '49. His party's horses all succumbed to the heat and the canteens were empty. One man, who had been notable for his profanity, had a change of heart and began to pray: "O Lord Almighty, send us just one drop of rain!" To the astonishment of everybody, scattering raindrops soon began to fall. These were caught in a rubber blanket and greedily lapped up, though there was not enough to satisfy the travelers. "The fool !" cried one of them, looking daggers at the miracleworker; "he might just as well have prayed for a barrel of water as for a drop, for he got ten times as much as he asked for!"

The pioneer above referred to had his most exciting adventure as the result of the theft of a bag of gold dust from a claim adjoining his. He was accused of the crime, and two hundred miners assembled to lynch him. His five partners determined to defend him with their lives against the mob. As a compromise, he and another man suspected of the crime were lowered into the inine to stay there until they produced the missing gold. A revolver had been slipped into the author's hand by one of his partners, and with this he forced his companion to produce the gold and hand it over to a waiting committee. The guilty man then made good his escape in the depths of the mine, though the entire camp of enraged miners searched for him for hours. "I went to our little flat for supper," concludes the author, "but my appetite was gone, and for weeks afterwards, as I closed my eyes in sleep, I could see that accursed rope dangling above my head."

Henry James tells in "The Middle Years about his most vivid recollection of a visit to George H. Lewes and George Eliot at their home at Witley, England. He was accompanied by Mrs. Greville, who unknown to him had lent to the famous authors a set of his own latest work. When leaving, Mr. James and Mrs. Greville were halted by Lewes with the exclamation, "Ah those books-take them away, please,

Miss Ruth Law's famous airplane trip from Chicago to Hornell, New York, without a stop, has been exceeded, according to a news despatch, by Miss Katherine Stinson, who on December 11 made a flight from San Diego, California, to San Francisco without stopping, the distance being about ninety-eight miles greater than that made by Miss Law.

A financial dictionary called "Money and Investments" makes this comment under "Woman's Signature:" "Women puzzle bankers, and business men in general, by the way they often sign their names. The writer has seen four different consecutive letters received from the same woman, all within a period of less than two weeks, the first one signed, we will say, Jane W. Fisher, the second one J. W. Fisher (thus being mistaken for a man), the third Mrs. Jane W. Fisher, and the fourth Mrs. Henry E. Fisher. A system of letter filing in an office may be much upset by this method, and letters incorrectly filed by some clerk and never afterwards located. The best way for a [married] woman to sign her business letters is, to continue above illustration, Jane W. Fisher, and then directly below (Mrs. Henry E. Fisher)."

Mr. Charles Wharton Stork, editor of "Contemporary Verse," believes in reading The Outlook from cover to cover. In the Philadelphia Public Ledger" he says: "How readers of The Outlook miss many the fine lyric that is often concealed toward the end of the reading matter? Mr. Hagedorn's Ode of Dedication' has indeed been widely mentioned. But The Chaland lenge' of Dysart McMullin 'A Poet Enlists' of Miss Burr are among the most sincere poems yet published on the "The Ode of Dedication present war. appeared in our issue of June 20, "The Challenge" May 30, and " A Poet Enlists October 24, 1917. We thank Mr. Stork for the compliment and for the information that the placing of a poer in a conspicuous place at the head of a page is a form of typographical camouflage.

When American soldiers arrive in France, they must not expect to get to the front at once. "The journey up to the front is quite a short one,' says Lieutenant Hector MacQuarrie in " How to Live at the Front: Tips for American Soldiers," "but do not expect to get there within twelve hours." "I remember," he adds, 66 censoring a letter written by one of my men to his family at home, describing the journey He said that the train had been going about an hour when it stopped; a cow was discovered in front of the engine. It was driven off and the train proceeded. The journey then continued for another two hours and the train once more stopped. It was the same cow."

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WANTED, for permanent position, refined young woman to assist in care of children in institution. Must be Protestant, in good health, and Al character. Send full personal letter and references. 5,554, Outlook.

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SITUATIONS WANTED Companions and Domestic Helpers LADY, pianist, desires position as accompanist for lady singer or violinist, etc. Visit ing or boarding. Great experience. Musical education with European masters. Would travel. 5,525, Outlook.

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Teachers and Covernesses LADY desires position as visiting teacher to child. French conversation. Music. Highest references. 5,526, Outlook.

TUTOR, college graduate, experienced, wants tutorial work. 5,547, Outlook.

A French lady living in a clergyman's family desires pupils in French evenings after seven thirty. Address Mlle. de Saulles, 49 East 80th St., New York.

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DEMOCRACY IN WAR

Alexis de Tocqueville, that famous French traveler, historian, and philosopher, in his "Democracy in America," has the following to say regarding the probable result when democracy goes to war:

"I am therefore of the opinion that, when a democratic people engages in a war after a long peace, it incurs much more risk of defeat than any other nation; but it ought not easily to be cast down by its reverses, for the chances of success for such an army are increased by the duration of the war. When a war has at length, by its long continuance, roused the whole community from their peaceful occupations and ruined their minor undertakings, the

same passions which made them attach so much importance to the maintenance of peace will be turned to arms. War, after it has destroyed all modes of speculation, becomes itself the great and sole speculation, to which all the ardent and ambitious desires which equality engenders are exclusively directed. Hence it is that the selfsame democratic nations which are SO reluctant to engage in hostilities sometimes perform prodigious achievements when once they have taken the field. . .

"Thus, while the interests and tastes of the members of a democratic community divert them from war, their habits of mind fit them for carrying on war well; they soon make good soldiers, when they are aroused from their business and their enjoyments.

"If peace is peculiarly hurtful to democratic armies, war secures them advantages which no other armies ever possess, and these advantages, however little felt at first, cannot fail in the end to give them the victory. An aristocratic nation, which in a contest with a democratic people does not succeed in ruining the latter at the outset of the war, always runs a great risk of being conquered by it."

Now de Tocqueville was a close observer of the tendencies in men and governments; he perhaps saw more of the latent possibilities in democracy than most other men of his time. He saw that free peoples were filled with almost boundless energy and enthusiasm. He saw, furthermore, that this same spirit of energy and enthusiasm which in times of peace spent itself in the pursuit of commerce and the accumulation of wealth would when turned to the prosecution of a long war acquire in time an almost irresistible momentum. Democracy in its present struggle with autocracy has not yet reached, perhaps, the momentum stage, but it is certainly approaching it. The Prussian host did not ruin its democratic opponents in the summer and fall of 1914, and that gave democracy its chance.

De Tocqueville quaintly remarks in the preface to his volume that men will seldom accept the truth at the hands of their enemies. The Potsdam gang, accordingly, would probably not accept at its face value the philosophy of war as quoted above. But to us it rings true, for history has proved it. Anyhow, it would seem as if all those faint-hearted ones who to-day take alarm at the present seeming success of the German arms might find splendid encouragement in the words of this old philosopher-historian, who saw with the vision of a seer and wrote with the quill of a prophet. H. J. FENTON.

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This is the Most Complete

Single Map of the Western Front

It is 28x36 inches in size, but folds into a convenient cover 52x71⁄2 inches in size, just right to be carried conveniently in the pocket for frequent consultation. It is printed on excellent paper, and can be had mounted on cloth if desired at slight extra cost. Most existing maps of the Western Front are valueless because they are not indexed, or because they do not contain the smaller places. Neither objection applies to this new map, just published, so complete that it enables one to read the newspapers understandingly.

This photograph is not the map itself, but is only a miniature reproduction made to show the vast number of cities, towns, villages and hamlets which appear on this new map. The State of Illinois contains about the same number of square miles as shown on this map, and in Illinois there are less than 1,700 places of 100 or more inhabitants. On this new map in a territory as said above, about the same size as Illinois, there are shown more than 7,000 places. This fact alone serves to give some idea of the completeness of this wonderful new map.

The Map

includes practically every village, town and hamlet in the territory shown.

In addition to this vast number of places, it gives all woods, fortresses, fortified towns, naval arsenals, forts, redoubts, batteries, aircraft depots, wireless stations and railways.

The forests and woods are indicated in green, giving the map an attractive appearance, and adding a strategical feature of importance.

The scale of the map is 10 miles to the incb. It extends west to Ashford, England; north to Antwerp, Belgium; east to Frankfort, Germany, and south to Orleans, France.

It shows for comparison the battle line of 1914, when the Germans were almost at the gates of Paris. The ground regained by the Allies, therefore, may be plainly seen.

It is without exception the most satisfactory map of the Western Front which has been engraved. It has been prepared especially to throw light on movements as they occur. It may be examined with ease, for the type is bold and clean cut.

The Index

An index of towns and villages accompanying a map of this kind has been proven an absolute

necessity. The smaller towns are the ones usually mentioned in the news dispatches. They are not to be found on ordinary maps, and the locations of most of them were and still are, utterly unknown to the general public, but unless their locations are known their strategical importance cannot be grasped. Nothing is more unsatisfactory than searching all over a map for a small place that may or may not appear upon it. However, this loss of time and patience is now at an end, for the Index which accompanies this map makes it vastly more useful and valuable. The index contains over 7,000 names. An idea of the importance of this statement may be gained from the fact that 90 per cent of the war maps available to-day contain less than 500 names. This index is bound in with the map and enables one to locate instantly any one of the 7,000 places mentioned.

NELSON DOUBLEDAY Dept. 11 Oyster Bay, N. Y. Please send me the Large Scale War Map of the Western Front on approval. If it suits me, within five days I will send you $1.00. Otherwise I will return it.

NELSON DOUBLEDAY Dept. 11 Oyster Bay, N. Y.