By HELENA HUNTINGTON SMITH
The Father - Sublimation The
Miniatures from the Life by IRBY HALL
THE OUTLOOK, May 2, 1928. Volume 149, Number 1. Published weekly by The Outlook
Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies
15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class
matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office
at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company.]
A CANDID subscriber wrote in this
morning and took us to task for print-
ing, in his estimation, too many articles
about Governor Smith-intimating that
our motive in chronicling different as-
pects of Governor Smith's personality
and actions was for the purpose of boost-
ing his candidacy. Is it necessary to
point out that The Outlook is first of all
a weekly newspaper, a journal of cur-
rent life, and not a political organ de-
voted blindly to advancing anybody's
ambitions?
MOST of our readers will not need to
be reminded that so far we have printed
many articles on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Reed,
Mr. Willis, and now Mr. Dawes. In the
very near future will appear portraits of
Mr. Walsh, Mr. Lowden, and Mr. Cur-
tis. We even have a piece about Mr.
Heflin waiting for an eager public.
No, we do not sit up nights trying to
favor any one or even nominating any-
body. We are merely intensely inter-
ested in what is going on nowadays and
in the people who are making the world
go round. It merely happens that Gov-
ernor Smith is in the forefront of the
news and is by all odds the most prom-
inent as well as the most interesting of
the Democratic candidates for the Presi-
dency.
As a matter of fact, The Outlook at
present is extremely well balanced on
the subject of politics. Its editors in-
clude men of both political persuasions,
and its advertising staff is exactly di-
vided. We have just completed arrange-
ments with two of the best reporters in
the country to cover the coming political
Conventions. They are keen observers
first, and honest writers second, and be-
yond that their politics are their own.
In short, we wish to be as fair and as
thorough as possible in reporting all poli-
tics of whatever party.
THIS intention applies equally to re-
ligious subjects, to marriage, prohibition
and business, and the arts. So far as we
are aware, we have at present no ax to
grind. When we do have one, you can
rely on us to come out and say what it
is. When we decide to support any one
for the Presidency, we shall name him.
Francis Profers Bellamy
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