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Arnold Adair and the Swiss Spy

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A Tragic Mistake and How It Was Remedied

Many, perhaps it is safe to say most, of our readers remember how Arnold Adair, the daring American aviator, lost his helpful Swiss spy behind the German lines, and to his intense surprise brought back a German sentry instead. The story was told by Mr. Laurence La T. Driggs in The Outlook of December 26, and it brought many expressions of interest from our readers. One of the most welcome of these expressions was from one of our boy readers, who sent us the following letter:

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Your very nice letter of December 31, which has already been acknowledged, I think, has been brought to my personal attention and I want to thank you for it. I am sending it to Mr. Driggs, the author of the Arnold Adair stories, asking him if he cannot tell us in The Outlook what became of that Swiss spy. When I read the story I felt just as you did about it and I sha'n't be comfortable until I know that he is safe and sound. Thanking you very much for your letter, I am

Sincerely yours,

Laurence F. Abbott, President, The Outlook Company.

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This correspondence was sent to Mr. Driggs, the author of the Arnold Adair stories. Don't be disturbed," he replied "The spy got back all right. But I ought to warn you that in the process Arnold Adair himself disappears."

These further exciting experiences of Arnold and his colleagues will be related in some new chapters of Arnold Adair's adventures. The first will appear in next week's Outlook, the issue of February 6. The general title of these stories is

Whose Prisoner?

Previous adventures of Arnold Adair have been told in the issues of The Outlook for October 17 and 31, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 26.

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1918

A FRIENDLY ACT

BY WILLIAM H. HAMBY

John Vance Cheney, the poet, told me this story of his long-time friend John Muir. One night, after a long absence, Muir walked in, as he often did, looking like a wild man, and sat down by my fire. He had been up in the Sierras for weeks.

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Had a beautiful storm up there,' said Muir, after he got a little accustomed to the fire and the presence of a fellow human being. 'Snow was waist deep most places. One night I found a crevasse where steam was coming out of the mountain. I lay down as close to it as I could, and when one side froze numb I would turn it over to the steam.

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"In the night I dozed, and waked to feel something warm on my face that did not feel like steam. I did not stir, but opened my eyes very slowly. It was a grizzly bear licking my face!'

"The geologist looked around at me with a twinkle-Now I call that a right friendly act of that old bear.'

"Didn't you ever get scared at anything in the woods?' I asked. He always went into the wilds unarmed. In fact, usually the only preparation he would make for a five months' trip would be to take his hat off the hall rack.

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Well,' he confessed, once I was a little embarrassed by fear. You know what acres of blackberries grow up in the mountains. They were ripe, and I waded into a patch to help myself. There was a scuffing noise fifteen feet and I saw an old grizzly also helping himself. His method was to reach out and rake in an armful, eating berries, tops and all. That old grizzly looked at me in a way that suggested I was an intruder, a trespasser, committing a willful misdemeanor.

"I returned his look in the friendliest sort of way, trying to convey to him the impression that I had no thought of intrusion; that I admitted the berry patch was his, but in passing had merely stopped to taste a mouthful of berries-and that I was going on in a minute.

"I did,' smiled John Muir,' in less than a minute, for he did not seem to get my impression, but started to gather me in with his next armful of blackberry vines.'"

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BY C. H. IBERSHOFF

By appointment a serious-minded freshman called at my university office not long ago for a personal conference. After the immediate matter in hand had been disposed of my young visitor remarked: "Today one of my instructors talked to the class on university marks. When he told us that the grade E is an insult,' I was for a time utterly dumfounded, and I confess that I am still sorely confused, because at the high school which I attended for four years E was the mark of honor."

The little incident suggests this query: Why not adopt a uniform notation for the system of marking in American schools and universities? Such an arrangement would help to simplify in a slight way this complex and somewhat confusing world of ours, and would represent a reform which would, I believe, be appreciated not only by the unadjusted and unacclimated freshman and his interested parents, but also by many members of the teaching staffs of our schools and universities, not to mention our faithful deans and registrars. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

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MAR 25 '918

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JANUARY 30, 1918

Offices, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York

On account of the war and the consequent delays in the mails, both in New York City and on the railways, this copy of The Outlook may reach the subscriber late. The publishers are doing everything in their power to facilitate deliveries

MR. GARFIELD'S UKASE

On January 16 the Fuel Administrator, Mr. Garfield, ordered what was in effect a "lockout" of practically all industries east of the Mississippi.

The order provided, first, that until further notice all persons lling fuel should give precedence to the necessary current requirements of railways, domestic consumers, hospitals, charitable institutions, army and navy cantonments, public utilities, by-product coke plants supplying gas for household use, tele phone and telegraph plants, shipping for bunker purposes, the United States for strictly Governmental purposes (not including factories or plants working on contracts for the United States); manufacturers of perishable food or of food for necessary immediate consumption, and municipal, county, or State governments for necessary public uses.

The five days from January 18 to January 22, and every Monday thereafter until March 25, were by this order made days of enforced idleness for most of the business men of the country. With certain exceptions, manufacturing plants have been forbidden to burn fuel or use power derived from fuel on any of these days. This provision is made to apply to all business offices on each "workless Monday." The exceptions to this provision included manufacturers of certain kinds of food, and plants necessary to the publication of daily papers and current periodicals. Plants which must be operated continuously to avoid serious injury have been permitted to use as much fuel as is necessary to avoid such injury. All plants and buildings have been of course permitted to use nough fuel to prevent injury by freezing.

Food stores, under this sweeping order, have been permitted o keep open on any of the specified days until twelve o'clock oon. Stores selling drugs and medical supplies have been pernitted to maintain the heat necessary for this purpose throughat the day and evening. Theaters and places of public enterainment were first included in the general provisions of the law, hich would have necessitated their closing on Monday. Upon he urgent plea of men interested in the theatrical business heaters were later granted permission to open on Monday, proided they kept closed on Tuesday.

After this sweeping order was issued it was found necessary modify its action in regard to certain specified industries enaged in important war work. It is a curious fact that in makg public the list of necessary exceptions Mr. Garfield violated e of the fundamental rulings of the Governmental censorship rulings which are posted and observed in every newspaper fice in the country. This ruling prohibits the publication of formation concerning contracts and production of air mateal. Yet Mr. Garfield scattered broadcast over the country a st of firms engaged in work of this kind-work of such impornce to the Government that it was deemed essential to release em from the restriction of the Fuel Administrator's order. here seems to have been lack of co-ordination somewhere along P line.

The effect of the ramifications of the Garfield order in proeing confusion in the business centers of the country is well ustrated by a notice which the Postmaster of the city of New ork found it necessary to issue to every business house of that y. This notice stated that "it is anticipated that congestion ay result from the accumulation of mail during the period [of days' closing] unless some provision is made for its delivery or to January 23." In view of this congestion the Postmaster ested that concerns whose place of business are affected

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have an authorized representative stationed at the street entrance of their various places of business to receive mail from the carriers, who will make their usual rounds," since "it can be readily understood that an accumulation of five days' mail for delivery on Wednesday next will tend to unduly tax the capacity of the Post-Office.'

There was also lack of co-ordination to some extent between the officials responsible for this order and those whom the order affected. The order was designed to save fuel and clear up freight congestion. Nevertheless, in New York City, for instance, it failed of part of its purpose, because many manufac turers closed down so completely on the first idle day that they refrained from taking away from the freight depots such material as was awaiting delivery. Such misunderstandings of the order were the natural consequence of the haste and suddenness with which the order. was issued.

MR. GARFIELD'S EXPLANATION

The suddenness with which the order was issued was explained in part by Mr. Garfield in his public defense of his action. Plainly he regarded his order as an emergency operation of the kill-or-cure variety. In the course of his defense he said:

Industry is in an unbalanced condition. We lack many essentials-food, clothing, fuel. We have piled up enormous stores of things not essential to life, but very essential to war. We have piled these up so high on our docks and in our storehouses that the ships available cannot carry them away as fast as they pile up. For lack of bunker coal held back by traffic congestion the number of ships in our harbors increases menacingly.

The food supply is threatened to an even greater degree than the fuel supply. This condition is in large part due to the congestion that at many points holds the loaded cars in its grip.

The order as it stands puts all industry on an equal footing, favoring none and avoiding unfair competition, but this reason alone is not sufficient.

This reason, plus the fact the order will put coal in the empty bins of the people, will save coal, will aid in breaking up congestion of traffic and in furnishing an adequate supply of coal to the people who need it and to the ships which cannot sail without it--these are sufficient reasons and justify the order.

To have delayed the application of the order would only have added to the congestion.

President Wilson, in support of Mr. Garfield, has said that he agreed that such action was necessary, and that he had ap proved of the order. Press comment on the order of the Fuel Administrator has been sharply critical of the inefficiency which has permitted the present situation to develop-some of the severest arraignments of the handling of the fuel situation have come from journals which have been consistent and whole-hearted defenders of the Administration.

THE AMERICAN DEFENSE SOCIETY
HEARS A DEFENSE OF CRITICISM

The American Defense Society has brought an active year to an active conclusion by acquiring a new honorary President, Theodore Roosevelt. In accepting the honorary presidency of this society Mr. Roosevelt pointed out very distinctly the fallacy of those who pleaded that to support the present Administration it is necessary to suppress unpleasant facts concerning its shortcomings. He pointed out the fact that every loyal

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