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Then the speaker has a chance to sum up the discussion, refute arguments, etc.-and the evening is over. Tell me, doesn't that sound more thrilling to you than going on the still hunt for a speaker, assembling in evening clothes for an elegant dinner, and being talked at for forty-five minutes? In my salad days, when I studied at Columbia University, I had a beau who used to escort me with due pomp to the Twilight Club dinners. I adored them. But my, the elegant dullness compared to the real fireworks that flash when our dentist-radical and our editorRepublican discuss the fundamentals of politics! Seriously, I wonder if there is not a fundamental difference illustrated in these two types of clubs-the difference between the creative audience and the receptive audience. Too often the receptive audience means the lazy audience the dozy audience. Well, anyway, we like our club. It's simple, it's unsophisticated, it's Middle Western, but it's alive. Coon Rapids, Iowa. ELEANOR H. GARST. MAWKISH SENTIMENT YOU ALISM OUR editorial "The New Crisis in Europe," in The Outlook of January 17, deserves a word of encomium from every reader. It is a dispassionate and illuminating statement of the situation that carries conviction. The wave of pro-German hysteria that seemed to sweep the country a few weeks ago, fanned into life by prior long-continued and persistent newspaper propaganda from a mysterious source, it seems to me, is akin to the mawkish sentimentalism that fills the cell of the murderer with flowers and weeps over the redhanded criminal in the dock. It is lavishing its grief on a Germany brought to its present state by the same pernicious and willful disregard of the principles and standards that govern other civilized nations of the world in their dealings with one another-the same spirit, manifested only in another form, that deluged the earth with the blood of the World War. It may be that our sympathies should be broad enough to cover an unrepentant people, but before we reach them let our vision travel the three thousand miles we sent thousands of our boys who never came back, or returned to a life of suffering and misery, and then over the ravished homes and soil of France and Belgium. KENDALL M. DUNBAR. I Damariscotta, Maine. LIBERTY WITHOUT HAVE been much pleased with your sound, sensible, much-to-the-point editorials on prohibition, and hope you will give us more of them. Prohibition has been greatly handicapped by an astonishing and deplorable lack of understanding of its main aims and objects, and a general, new, fresh, high-grade teaching of these aims and objects would make much more favorable the attitude of many and the general attitude. Most of those inclined to criticise or oppose prohibition seem mainly influenced by thinking of it chiefly as a restraint on personal liberty, or by imagining that some compromise measure would work satisfactorily. I was pleased to see your exposing of the weakness of these two notions. To condemn prohibition for the simple, unqualified reason that it imposes a restraint on personal liberty is absurd. If this were sufficient ground for condemning a law, all laws would be condemnable, for practically all laws impose a restraint on those who desire and seek to evade them. What these objectors mean is either that they believe more or less in the rule or policy of letting one do much as he pleases, of letting each one take care of himself and the devil take the hindermost, or that they favor laws that impose restraints on others but object to any that impose restraints on themselves. These champions of personal liberty should be asked to give a little more thought to this subject, which will surely cause some change in their ideas. Men never have been able to live together, and are least able to do so in this age of complicated modern civilized life, without submitting to all manner of restraints on their personal liberty. When accepted as proper for the common good and our habits are adapted to them, they no longer bother us, are no longer restraints. There is no avoiding of restraint on some in this matter of prohibition. All regulation involves restraint, but, further, what these advocates of personal liberty, these objectors to restraints, are demanding is that restraint be placed upon the majority of the people of this country and that their great, unselfish desire and endeavor to rid our country of the great evil and burden of the liquor habit be restrained and thwarted in order to avoid placing a restraint on a minority of our people-those much concerned about selling or using liquor, in the matter of pursuing their own special, selfish interests and pleasures. The question at issue, and this should be emphasized, is which of these classes should submit to restraint. Furthermore, what prohibition aims at is not the restraint of personal liberty, but the freedom of persons from the harmful habit of alcoholic indulgence. No man is free who is the victim of bad habits. He only is free who is not hampered by bad habits. The man who has abandoned and is free from a bad habit is no longer under a restraint, which he was under before. Of course this is commonplace, but the critics of prohibition cannot have thought of these things. And they have not thought of the broader aspect of this same idea, which, however, is receiving much recognition as a general proposition. This is that we are all largely the product of our environment, our conditions; that these always exert on us the greatest restraint and pressure and largely determine our habits, development, and welfare. We are either the beneficiaries of good customs and conditions, or the victims or slaves of harmful customs and conditions. This extremely important fact imposes upon us all the necessity of seeking earnestly for the adoption by our country, community, and associates of common customs and general habits that will make us and our families, our friends and our fellow-men, their beneficiaries and the suppression of such customs and habits as make the people victims and slaves. This is the main aim and object of prohibition-the suppression of the common custom of using alcohol, with its pressure and restraint, not the prevention of particular cases of drinking, which is incidental. When the people generally clearly understand these aims of prohibition, its supporters, believe that most of our people will approve them, will co-operate in securing them, and will willingly, with the law aiding them by keeping liquors away from them, give up the use of alcohol. The Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution is, first, a resolution of the people that our country shall abandon the use of alcoholic liquors as an approved common custom; and, second, a provision designed to carry this resolution into effect, not through penalizing drinking and destroying all liquors, but, mainly, through aiding and encouraging the people individually to give up the use of alcohol, by keeping liquors out of their way. If we can keep people from drinking just because others are doing it, the use of liquors will no longer be a common custom. F. A. SIMPSON. Cleveland, Ohio. T was Jacob Pfeiffer with his energy and enthusiasm, He found time, even in his busy days, for the Modern Commenting on the results of the Institute's training, "It has very materially increased the efficiency of the men in our plant who have made use of it." For the men at the top, and men on the way, the Alexander Hamilton Institute has a book, "Forging. Ahead in Business." 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In its wake came livid passion, death, riot-and breathless flight for O. Henry and Al Jennings, the most picturesque pair of adventurers since the days of Captain Kidd. Al Jennings and his brother Frank had stepped off a boat at Honduras. They wore top hats and dress suits-the only garb they had. They were outlaws, with prices on their heads. Al walked up to the American consulate. On the veranda sat a figure dressed immaculately in duck. It was O. Henry, penniless, yet unconcerned. O. Henry was not there for local color. He, too, was a fugitive from justice. For what crime? Let Al Jennings tell you, as only he can, in his inimitable memoirs. 'Colonel, we meet again" Years later, after Jennings .had been trapped and lay in a cell in the Ohio Penitentiary, one day he heard a familiar voice. He looked up and there-in prison stripes, too-was O. Henry. "Colonel," said O. Henry, in his Southern drawl, "it seems we meet again !" In Then follows what is certainly the most remarkable biography in American literature. Why was O. Henry imprisoned? There is no doubt he was innocent, but the story is too long to be told here. any case, in the midst of the degrading prison life, O. Henry began to write. Jennings tells about his first story, how when he read it to two hardened convicts they blubbered for the first time in their lives. He tells how there, in prison, O. Henry got the material for some of his most famous stories. Among other things, you read the pathetic story of the original of the immortal Jimmy Valentine. Out of Prison Into Fame All through his career O. Henry was an enigma. Editors could never make him out. The Four Hundred opened its doors to him, but he was not to be netted. A strangely reserved figure, except to the few who knew him. Now at last Al You see what the How Can Such Things Be? And it is about real men and women, "Through the Shadows with O. 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