THE MAIL JUSTICE AND HUNGER FA AMINE is ever present in China. Last year it was Honan, Shantung, Shensi, and Chihli provinces-north China. This year it is Kweichow, Hunan, north Kiangsu, Anhui, and parts of Honan and Shantung. No appeal is being made for foreign help, as considerable sums of money left over from the North China Famine Relief last year are available for use in central and south China this year, besides funds from the customs and communications surtaxes. In Hunan the famine now is due to prolonged drought last summer, while in Anhui, northern Kiangsu, and Honan it is due to flood. Foreigners do not fully realize the different conditions prevailing in this vast land. No foreign aid is being given to Kweichow Province, southwest China, in spite of terrible conditions there, as we all feel that if the fields which were given over to opium. last year had been planted to rice and wheat and corn there would have been no famine this year. In Hunan we are giving assistance to no district where opium is found growing. The anarchic conditions prevailing throughout China are in large measure responsible for the prevalent want and suffering. For instance, here in Hunan military officers and district officials secretly encourage opium-growing. Also, in spite of the rice shortage in Hunan, military officers are profiteering in rice and exporting it to other provinces. Again, as the district magistrates have to buy their posts and hold them for only a few months, they have no interest in the welfare of their districts, so granaries are not replenished and no effort is made to help the poor farmers. Armed robbery is rife, especially in the southwest of Hunan. In one district (county) 150 villages and tons of grain. were burned by these marauding tu-fei. In the same district 200 Chinese have been kidnapped this past winter and held for ransom. Americans who contributed to famine relief in China last year may know that their money is honestly used with a minimum of waste and overhead to save the lives of the poor Chinese farmers. But there must be an end to this famine relief somewhere, because the Chinese officials are coming to think that they can squeeze their people unmercifully, profiteer in foodstuffs, and divert harvest fields to opium-growing, and that it won't matter, because the rich Americans will come to the aid of the starving farmers! If the great mass of the Chinese could only rise up and throw off the yoke of militarism and corrupt "democracy"! But they have neither arms nor money. The one hope is for partial disarmament under some sort of foreign control, in return for a foreign loan through the banking consortium, and a foreigner to see that the guns and equipment are actually turned in for destruction, a cer BAG tain amount being paid over to each "soldier" as he is discharged and turns in his arms and equipment. Things are going from bad to worse here in China, and there seems to be no leader whom more than three or four of the twentyone provinces will recognize. The Canton Government is far better than the helpless gang at Peking. Wu Pei-fu one-time hope of China, is so surrounded by corrupt lieutenants that he is useless. The uncrowned King of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, is a tool of the Prussian militarists who still control Japan. And so it goes. And yet, when there is no justice in China even for Chinese, some people talk about giving up extraterritoriality!. ROGER D. WOLCOTT. Changsha, Hunan Province, China. WHAT OUR SOLDIERS READ [The writer of this letter is one of the field secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. who has lately returned from Coblenz.] o soldiers in a foreign land were Never so fortunate in the matter of reading as has been our little army in Germany. It fell heir to the collection made by the American Library Associa and Aristotle. A lone, small volume of Plato was forthcoming, but for Aristote an S. O. S. was sent to the America library at Paris. Before the desk a man who wants a book on mining law is fol lowed by the French clerk who insists that she wishes to read "Evano," with a misleading accent on the second syllable of the name of Walter Scott's most popular hero, Ivanhoe. These are fol lowed by the man who, taking advantage of the rate of exchange to purchase a fine microscopic outfit, comes in for a work on microscopy. The library has been the court of last resort for every imaginable problemwhen bowling alleys were to be built, for instance, or American plumbing to be installed, or army mules to be poisoned. In these last months there has been a run on shelves never before popu lar, the 395's, which, as any librarian will tell you, are books on etiquette. The men have been going home. Many are leaving the Army. Beyond his bailiwick the soldier is shy, and will tell you quite humbly that in the Army he has forgotten how the outside world behaves. EVELINE W. BRAINARD. New York City. LETTERS TO MR. TAYLOR READ with interest your article on tion for the A. E. F. (some 35,000 vol- The Great Under-Weight Delusion" umes), and current books were added. by gifts from the A. L. A., individuals, and the American Y. M. C. A., which has conducted the soldiers' libraries in the occupied area. Every unit has had its bookcase, while the main library has been housed in one of the finest buildings in Coblenz. This was once a club of Prussian officers, the comforts and elegancies of which the Yankee soldier has accepted as a matter of course. Books have been made to play a large part at the army hospital, where the Association secretary has daily trundled the little shelf-wagon through the wards. She has kept a novel by Zane Grey always in reserve to read aloud to men coming out of ether, for she has found that these stories hold them in the midst of pain when nothing else will. During weeks of convalescence many men have learned the pleasure held between book covers. The "firsts" are this secretary's special delight. A man met his first Outlook in her hut one day, and was shortly after heard advising a fellow-patient, "Now, if you really want to know what France is doing, and why she is doing it, you just better read The Outlook, and you will know a lot more than you do now." Another began his cruise into literature by way of volumes of cartoons. He returned his first story, an adventure yarn, on the scheduled date, but asked to take it for a second reading. "For," he explained, "a fellow who never read a book before can't get the hang of it all at once." The readers range from "firsts" to highbrows indeed, however, like the youth in khaki who shook the dust of the library from his feet when it failed to supply Swinburne complete, and the other young man who called for Plato in The Outlook of March 15, and am wishing that there could be reprints of this article for use in the schools in the State. It has seemed to some of us that there was too great stress being laid on the under-weight test, not because it was not important, but because so often it is the only factor that is taken into consideration, and your article will do much to counteract this. HELEN G. MILLER, Office of Executive Secretary. Missouri Tuberculosis Association. St. Louis, Missouri. I cannot tell how much I appreciate that article of yours in The Outlook for March 15. I think you have performed a conspicuous service. F. M. GREGG, Department of Psychology, Nebraska Wesleyan University. University Place, Nebraska. PRACTICING LUKE X. 33, 34 AND MATTHEW XXVI. 35-40 I HAVE lately read of a Protestant church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which employs a physician to treat the poor and needy of the city. There seem to be great possibilities for such service in all our large cities. I thought perhaps you might care to consider giving the idea publicity. It seems to me that if the Church first cares for the physical needs of especially the poor and discouraged, the way will be opened to teach these people the things of the spirit which they so much need. HARRY G. DENNISON, Worcester, Massachusetts. W Is it possible that we are offering a value too great to be credible? E recently mailed several thousand circulars to booklovers. We described and pictured these thirty volumes of the Little Leather Library honestly, sincerely, accurately. But we received relatively few orders. Then we mailed several more thousand circulars to booklovers, this time enclosing a sample cover of one of the volumes illustrated above. Orders came in by the hundred! The reason, we believe, is that most people cannot believe we can really offer so great a value unless they see a sample! In this advertisement, naturally, it is impossible for us to show you a sample volume. The best we can do is to describe and picture the books in the limited space on this page. We depend on your faith in the statements made by the advertisements appearing in The Outlook Magazine; and we are hoping you will believe what we say, instead of thinking this offer is "too good to be true." What this offer is Here then is our offer. The illustration above shows thirty of the world's greatest masterpieces of literature. These include the finest works of such immortal authors as Shakespeare, Kipling, Stevenson, Emerson, Poe, Coleridge, Burns, Omar Khayyam, Macaulay, Lincoln, Washington, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert, Longfellow, Drummond, Conan Doyle, Edward Everett Hale, Thoreau, Tennyson, Browning, and others. These are books which no one cares to confess he has not read and re-read; books which bear reading a score of times. Each of these volumes is complete -this is not that abomination, a collection of extracts; the paper is a high-grade white wove antique, equal to that used in books selling at $1.50 to $2.00; the type is clear and easy to read; the binding is a beautiful limp material, tinted in antique copper and green, and so handsomely embossed as to give it the appearance of hand tooled leather. And, though each of these volumes is complete (the entire set contains over 3,000 pages), a volume can be carried conveniently wherever you go, in your pocket or purse; several can be placed in your handbag or grip; or the entire thirty can be placed on your library table "without cluttering it up" as one purchaser expressed it. What about the price? Producing such fine books is, in itself, no great achievement. But the aim of this enterprise has been to produce them at a price that anyone in the whole land could afford; the only way we could do this was to manufacture them in quantities of nearly a million at a time-to bring the price down through "quantity production." And we relied for our sales on our faith that Americans would rather read classics than trash. What happened? OVER TEN MILLION of these volumes Many people who have been asked to guess the value of these books have estimated, before we told them the price, that they are worth from $50 to $100 for the complete set. These records are on file for inspection of any one interested. have already been purchased by people in every walk of life. Yet we know, from our daily mail, that many thousands of people still cannot believe we can sell 30 such volumes for $2.98 (plus postage). We do not know how to combat this skepticism. All we can say is: send for these 30 volumes; if you are not satisfied, return them at any time within a month and you will not be out one penny. Of the thousands of readers who purchased this set not one in a hundred expressed dissatisfaction for any reason whatever. Send No Money No description, no illustration, can do these 30 volumes justice. You must see them. We should like to send every reader a sample, but frankly our profit is so small we cannot afford it. We offer, instead, to send the entire set on trial. Simply mail the coupon or a letter; when the set arrives, pay the postman $2.98 plus postage; then examine the books. As stated above, your money will be returned at any time within 30 days for any reason, or for NO reason, if you request it. Mail the coupon or a letter NOW while this page is before you, or you may forget. Little Leather Library Corporation Dept. 464, 354 Fourth Avenue, New York Little Leather Library Corp'n, Dept. 464 Please send me the set of 30 volumes of the De Luxe edition of the Little Leather Library. It is understood that the price of these 30 volumes is ONLY $2.98 plus postage, which I will pay the postman when the set arrives. But if I am not satisfied, after examining them, I will mail the books back at your expense within 30 days, and you are to refund my money at once. It is understood there is no further payment or obligation of any kind. Camp Penn VALCOUR ISLAND Lake Champlain, N. Y. 16th Season "A Training Camp for Young America" CAMP PENN will appeal to those parents who would wish their sons to learn to stand on their own feet, to develop resourcefulness, initiative, a capacity for self-help, a working knowledge of real camperaft and woodcraft, and to have a mighty good time along with them. Our program holds a wide variety of activities of unusual interest and benefit. It ranges from a rational amount of athletics to camp construction, from playing on our band to practical woodcraft and nature study, from photography to field engineering. And by this latter we mean REAL field engineer ing. In 1919 our boys duplicated, full size, and down to 14 years of age, almost every kind of footbridge, up to 30-foot spans, made on the American Front in France. It would astonish you to realize the capacity of boys for constructive endeavor of this kind. It astonished us! We pay a great deal of attention to individual physical training, and to individual character-study. The resident physician looks after the general health and sanitation-and sometimes umpires a "Champlain League" baseball game! The table is plain and plentifully supplied. No elaborate equipment is required of a boy. Valcour Island seems specially planned for a boys' paradise. It is beautifully wooded, high above the water, and possesses beautiful views of lake and mountain. The Northwoods Camps Co., 508 Ludlow Bldg., Dayton, 0. CAMP PISCATAQUIS Lobster Lake, FOR BOYS 12-17. Eugene Hayden, Director. CAMP WONPOSET A camp for young boys in the Berkshires. 100 miles from CAMP WAKE ROBIN Woodland, N. Y. 18th SEASON YOUNGER BOYS EXCLUSIVELY Woodcraft, nature lore, manual training, all sports and swimming. H. O. LITTLE, Lincoln High School, Jersey City, N. J. ROOSEVELT, WISCONSIN CAMP TY-GLYN FOR BOYS, 7 to 17 Riding, tennis, swimming, canoe trips with guides, baseball, CAMP NORRIDGEWOCK FOR BOYS East Lake, Oakland, Maine, one of the famous Belgrade CAMP SOKOKIS, for Boys Bridgton, Me. On famous Long Lake. In CAMP ONAWAY, CAPE COD, MASS. CAMP CHENANGO FOR BOYS 7 to 15 yrs. GIRLS' CAMPS Booklet upon request-correspondence invited. CAMP AREY On lovely Lake Keuka, Ours is a simple, vigorous our booklet would interest CHAS. K. TAYLOR, Senior camp 15-16 years, Intermediate Camp 12-14 years, Junior Camp 9-11 years. A first-class character reference is required of new applicants. Fee $250. Index and Title-page for Volume 130 GIRLS' CAMPS Camp Juttaunoh for Girls Crystal Lake, Canaan, N. H. NINTH SEASON Horses, Hikes, andicrafts, Anoeing, Mountain Climbing, Nature Study. reful supervision by trained councilors. Catalog, Prof. and Mrs. ETHAN ALLEN SHAW, Lock Box 52, Northfield, Vt. MASSACHUSETTS Abbot Academy Ninety years' devotion to the development of cultured and intelligent womanhood. Notable school-home and equipment-ample athletic fields. College preparatory course. Academic course, including two years' work for High School graduates, gives advanced college credit. Christian but not sectarian. 23 miles from Boston. Catalogue. Address MISS BERTHA BAILEY, Principal, Andover, Mass. NORTH CAROLINA BINGHAM SCHOOL MEBANE, N.C. ESTABLISHED 1793 AN IDEAL BOYS' SCHOOL IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA Here, at Bingham, the spirit of old-time Southern hospitality makes each boy feel genuinely welcome. AGLE'S NEST CAMP for Girls High moral tone. Military organization, begun in 1861. Lovely lawns. Gymnasium. Athletic park. Honor System. Celebrated climate. Outdoor classes. Limited numbers. Sports in variety. 340 acres. Summer camp. A modern school with an ancient name, fame and history. Send for catalogue. Col. PRESTON LEWIS GRAY, President, Box 3, Mebane, N. C. Waynesville, North Carolina Invites inquiry from parents who are seeking the highest cellence in camp opportunity. Booklet upon request. 620 E. 40th St., Savannah, Ga. CAMPS Vanted, position in summer camp a cultured woman of pleasing personality d executive ability, experienced and adaptable; ine pianist and chorus conductor, teaches appreciation of 1sic, etc. References exchanged. Address 7,161, Outlook. VANTED by an experienced woman of ability and pleasant personality, a position as ousemother, housekeeper, or other executive sition in summer camp for girls or boys r season of 1922. Satisfactory references Don request. Address 6,801, Outlook. RAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES . John's Riverside Hospital Training School for Nurses YONKERS, NEW YORK Registered in New York State, offers a 2x years' coursegeneral training to refined, educated women. Requireents one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the rectress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York. SUMMER SCHOOLS SUMMER SCHOOL June, July and August BOYS 8 TO 18 Combining all the delights of mountain d lake camping with optional studies rough college preparation under regular aff of superior teachers and coaches. All nd and water sports. In famous Orange ounty and Ramapo country, 50 miles from ew York City. Full information and illus- The Curtis School for Young Boys A GROUP READY FOR A PLUNGE E HALLOWELL SCHOOL OF ADJUSTMENT ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. An All Year School Offering a SPECIAL SUMMER TERM inning at any date between May 15 and July 1st. Ending at any stated time between the dates of September 1st and October 15th.) For Children and Young Adults requiring Educational and Social Training, Physical Upbuilding, Nervous Adjustment and Personality Development mprehensive report on the present condition of the with recommendations will be submitted as the result udy over this period through intensive examinations cientific observations. Military Régime for Boys Campfire Activities Domestic Science Speech Correction Ocean Bathing Cottage Plan Careful Home-Life Ethical Training MASSACHUSETTS, Cambridge, 48 Quincy Street. New-Church Theological School Est. 1866. Three years' course. College preparation desired. Reformulation (the writings of Swedenborg) of Christian teaching from the Bible; spiritual exposition of the Bible; emphasized. Correspondence courses. Catalog. WILLIAM L. WORCESTER, President. DEAN ACADEMY, Franklin, Mass. 56th Year. Young men and young women find here a homelike atmosphere, thorough and efficient training in every department of a broad culture, a loyal and helpful school spirit. Liberal endowment permits liberal terms, $400 to $500 per year. Special course in domestic science. For catalogue and information address. ARTHUR W. PEIRCE, Litt.D., Headmaster SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES NEW JERSEY 20 miles from N. Y. KENT PLACE Summit, N. J. NEW YORK Crane Normal Institute of Music 51 MAIN STREET, POTSDAM, NEW YORK PUTNAM HALL, School for Girls College preparatory, social secretary and other courses. All out-of-door sports. Campus of four acres. Supervised gymnastics. Sleeping porches. Hockey field. ELLEN C. BARTLETT, A.B., Principal, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (807) VIRGINIA School Men Wanted Excellent opportunity for part ownership in chain of boys' summer camps. Applicants must be qualified to assist in conducting. Directors-teachers of woodcraft-manual arts. Scouting, music, swimming and all branches of athletics. Tutors. Address H. G. ACKER, Staunton Military Academy Staunton, Va. To Proprietors of Summer Camps The Outlook will carry the announcements of many of the best boys' and girls' camps this spring. Camp advertisements will be largely grouped in the second and fourth issues of May and June. Perhaps an inch or two of space will be sufficient to convey your message to thousands of Outlook families. 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