John J. Raskob (Continued from page 649) ing, of wealth and refinement. At the Raskob household, I am told, there are few restrictions. The father has never played the part of the stern parent. He is not a drinking man, and yet wines were often on the table at dinner. He does not smoke and prefers that his sons shall not cultivate the habit. But he has never told them that they must not do so. As a high official of a company which employs 300,000 men, Raskob must face, of course, comment on his attitude toward labor. There are already mutterings that he is anti-union and opposed to collective bargaining, and that the policy of General Motors is one of benevolent paternalism. No doubt there is an element of truth in this. Yet Raskob has demonstrated many times that he is a person of understanding and of sympathy. Another argument against prohibition, he once said, is that it permits the wealthy man to drink without danger while the poor man must get along on nothing or risk poisoning. Not long ago he expressed impatience with those who criticize the working girl because she wears silk stockings and lives in cheap room. a "You or I might say that she is a damned fool," he exploded, making it clear that he would say nothing of the sort. "But there is such a thing as temperament and she is the best judge of what her temperament needs." Like Owen Young (and like Herbert Hoover), Raskob finds that there are many evils in the present social order, and one of these is the abuse of labor. He does not believe, though, that the conflict is between capital and labor but between "management and labor." He feels that executives in industry must be given the status of ownership and that this will give them a feeling of responsibility for the welfare of the men in the ranks. It was partly for this reason that so many officials of General Motors were encouraged to buy stock. The wage earner, he thinks, is entitled to more than merely adequate wages, and he offers the theory that labor should share in the Twentieth Century benefits of increased productivity. The Christianity By Charles W. Eliot, L. L. D. And other liberal religious literature sent upon request. G. T. Carr, Station A-3, Worcester, Mass. employees of General Motors are therefore assisted in purchasing common stock of the company. Finally, again like Hoover, Raskob looks hopefully forward to a day when men will have The Outlook more leisure, more happiness, more time in which to do those things which make life bearable. He has said that the five-day week must come in the not too distant future. As chairman of the Democratic National Committee Raskob plays, of course, a part quite subordinate to Governor Smith. The Democratic candidate is without question the directing mentality of the campaign. But Raskob has given the party new respectability, and he will have built up, long before Election Day, an organization which is smooth, orderly and efficient. Raskob has a mind which swiftly grasps new ideas, and day by day he grows more familiar with the important issues and with the mysteries of politics. Day by day he becomes better qualified for his duties. At a conference with the political correspondents recently one of the writers. pointed out that the Republican Party had announced it would seek $4,000,000 instead of $3,000,000 for its campaign Would the Democrats also raise fund. the bid? "They need," said Raskob, neatly evading the question, "about twice as much money as we do. They've got twice as hard a selling job." The correspondents grinned. "Ah, Mr. Raskob," murmured one, "you're learning fast, very fast!" The Mind and Art of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Continued from page 653) present discloses two values of which Hawthorne was at best only partially and sub-consciously aware. The modern short story form evolved from those concentrated studies in motivation which he and Poe developed in America. Further, the interest which he felt in the processes of the human mind has proceeded from his beginnings, even though it has followed scientific rather than moral or theological channels. In many of his short stories and in the longer "Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne pushed on by a trail which was later to become a highway. On the road of psychological fiction, which has since his time grown firmer and broader, he was a lonely traveler proceeding for a time by a sense of direction of which he was little aware, in the firm belief that it led through his moonlit woodland of allegory and Hester and not Hep"high" truth. zibah speaks for him to the future; yet Hepzibah is more truly his own. 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By way of contrast, imagine trying to beat mass production by assembling one's own automobile! F INALLY, a very serious situation develops by virtue of the overcrowded ether. This congestion is not only reducing the consumer's pleasure, but costing him an unconscionable amount of money. There are upwards of 700 stations broadcasting in the United States at the present time, forever spilling over one another's channels. Competent engineers have decreed that for good reception, not over three hundred should be operating. It is estimated that this aerial jam puts a tax of fifty per cent upon both the first cost and the operating costs of sets, as well as forcing set design in the direction of an unreasonable accent on selectivity rather than upon quality. Three otherwise useless tubes are needed when the ether channels are crowded, more battery power is required, as well as more complicated and expensive mechanisms. Thus the emphasis has been shifted from getting more faithful reproduction of broad tone cast sounds, to getting and holding any sort of tolerable reproduction at all. ance. : A year or two ago one of the large manufacturers produced a set of really superior tone quality. What happened? High-pitched heterodyne whistles due to interference of the close-packed carrier audible though waves, and adequate reception of both low and high frequencies, ruined its perform(Too many stations provide possibly the greatest single factor of disturbances.) The more perfect the set, the more sound frequencies it reproduces. The purchasers of these really good sets were dissatisfied, and returned them great numbers. Whereupon the manufacturer mutilated the whole output; made its tone quality deliberately worse. After which the sets stayed sold! The tone quality came down to the normal performance of the Jones's set, with much less of the essential frequency range that lends depth and timbre to music. The Joneses have received their tonal education from the thin and colorless reproduction of the average phonograph. THE in HE margin for improvement in the field of radio reception is very great. A considerable fraction of that· improvement hangs on the elimination of over half the broadcasting stations now on the air and a suitable spacing of those that remain. But the greatest evil in the industry at the present time -the quality, that should have the preponderant appeal to persons of taste and musical discrimination-is sacrificed for selectivity, and for various knobs, gadgets, stunts, and tricks of design. We must remember, of course, that much of this is due to the growing pains of an infant industry. With maturity one can only hope for honest laboratories and information stations that will connect the consumer directl with the radio scientist; that will repor tangible measurements of performance, and so provide the buyer with the accredited knowledge to liquidate the charms of the sorcerers. The soundest advice now to be ha by the newcomer into the radio field is that given by a good amateur who has read widely in the scientific publications, has built a few sets of his own, and has, by trial and error, learned caution and discrimination. Such scientific amateurs are not living on every street, but if you can find one, he knows more, and can tell you more, than any dealer or any manufacturer. Furthermore, between such amateurs flows an underground stream of reasonably reliable and up-to-date information concerning the whole art. 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Write us for rates, 'booklets. This is a free service offered our friends and readers. Meanwhile consumers, except the few who know their way about, do not secure nearly as good equipment as the technical art is capable of affording, and for the inferior product they have to pay an enormous load of overhead The Outlook Travel Bureau costs working out to a sale price which is probably five to ten times the cost of manufacture. Faithful reproduction EVA R. DIXON, Director. 120 East 16th Street, New York City. A Dionysian in Concord By GORHAM B. MUNSON The World This Week Dr. Butler Dissents Last of the Bosses Picturing the Next War Mr. Coolidge and Mr. West Life and Luck Making Wastes Pay Dental Note A Stand Is Modified Venus' Waistline The Future of Coal Coolidge and the Veterans Prohibition and the Clergy Speeding the Mail George Otto Trevelyan The Movies in the Home Regrets at Paris Sensations of Falling By EUGENE BONNER 694 The Argentine Threat 695 By HERBERT REED 695 695 708 710 THE OUTLOOK, August 29, 1928. Volume 149, Number 18, 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 July 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company. PROTESTANT ministers, and Protestants everywhere, will be interested in the spirited protest in this issue by George W. Hinman, Jr.-himself a Protestant against what he terms the "outspoken usurpation of secular authority by self-appointed clerical leaders, which is going on in this country." ADMITTEDLY, the question how far a minister shall interest himself in politics is a difficult one. Religion is not wholly a matter of the next world. Churchmen, like other leaders, have a duty to society. To deny them a right to participate in society's efforts to solve its problems would be absurd. AND yet, the temptation to use the authority of the church, the tendency to range God on the side of one's own opinions (unless our memory fails us, we were informed during the late war that God was on the side of the Kaiser) constitutes a grave danger both to any established church and to society itself. So distinct a menace has it been in the past, that the necessity for the separation of church and state in this country is specifically recognized in the Constitution. CERTAINLY, wholly to substitute legislation and political activity for personal religious work is no gain for the ordinary mortal so far as the church is concerned. So far as the minister, himself, is involved, it tends to lead men away from themselves and from their own necessity of spiritual improvement in the direction of criticizing and legislating for others. Where the state is in question, it undoubtedly constitutes a menace which Protestants are quick to discern in other sects, but inclined to disregard in their own case. UNLESS the Protestant churches are to be brought into disrepute the better class of Protestant clergyman ought soon to take hold of the problem. THE main value of religion, we think most people will agree, lies in its power to bring men back to their best selves, to lead them to face their own consciences and truth. The best man of God has always been he who set a God-like example, who followed the creed of Christ, who gave aid to the suffering and was a helper in time of spiritual and mental trouble. |