THE OUTLOOK CLASSIFIED SECTION Hotels and Resorts New York Hotel LENOX, North St., west of Delaware Buffalo, N. Y, Superior accommodations; famous for good food. Write direct or Outlook's Bureau for rates, details, bookings, Vermont Chester, THE MAPLES Delight Vt. ful summer home. Cheerful, large airy rooms, pure water; bath, hot and co.d; broad piazza, croquet, fine roads. Terms reasonable. References exchanged. The Misses Sargeant. Mountain View Farm DANBY, VT. Comfortable farm home offers restful vacation in the Green Mountains. Pure spring water. Modern conveniences. Booklet. $18. N. P. DILLINGHAM. Washington The CAMLIN Seattle's most distinguished MARBLEHEAD, MASS. hotel. Smartly correct in guest facilities and service at sensibly moderate rates. Illus. brochure on request. H. L. BLANCHER, Mgr. Rent for season Seashore Cottage rooms, bath, hot and cold water, electric lights; fully furnished. 8. W. LITTELL, 138 S. Main St., Rockland, Me. Southport, Maine-For Sale The Murdock Estate at Newagen A delightful 9-room summer home, fully furnished,situated directly on the water-front at Newagen (island of Southport), Boothbay Harbor, Maine. There are 6 chambers, bath, 2 sleeping-porches, hardwood floors, electric lights, and town water; a 2-car garage and about 1 acres of land, with boating, bathing, fishing, golf, and riding unsurpassed. A price has been set upon this property to insure an early sale this season. An adjoining estate, built and beautifully furnished by the owner of this property, could also be had at a very reasonable price. Full information of D. BRADLEE RICH & CO., 24 Milk St., Boston. Phone Liberty 5689. 120 For summer, rare old colonial mansion, furnished. 14 rooms, 2 baths, lavatory, hotwater heat, gas, electricity, piano; garage. acre of secluded lawns, fruit, roses, etc. Mrs. M. F. Boles, 90 Walker St., Cambridge, Mass. New Hampshire ADIRONDACK CAMP Situated on Long Lake, in center of forest preserve; suitable for club, boys' camp, convalescent camp or summer boarders. For further details inquire of Mrs. C. V. MANN, 97 Morris St., Albany, N. Y. FURNISHED COTTAGES FOR RENT IN ADIRONDACKS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN In the pines, on privately owned estate, furnished housekeeping cottages, with open fireplaces, running spring water, sand beach, garage, tennis courts. Within driving distance of all principal points in Adirondacks. Daily delivery of supplies and mail. References required. Rentals for Season, $190 to $550 C. H. EASTON, Scarborough, N. Y. For Rustic Cottage, Adirondack Hills Rent Ideal camping place; fishing. Terms reasonable. Address Frank F. Hayward, Willsboro, N. Y. CASTLETON-ON-HUDSON A beautiful home overlooking the Hudson River, east bank, eight miles south of Albany, on main line of New York Central Railroad and concrete river road from Albany to New York. View of Helderberg and Catskill Moun-. tains. About six acres. 10 rooms, 2 baths, water, electricity, good schools and markets. For sale at $10,000, which is about one-third of cost of reproduction of house alone. PETER C. BRASHEAR, 475 Fifth Ave., N. Y. For Rent in Catskills Near Kingston. farmhouse on large estate. Ideal spot for children. Modern conveniences. Pool for children. Small, exclusive colony. L. E. CHASE, Ashokan, N. Y. Lake Champlain, For rent cot. tage, six rooms, furnished; south of Essex, ideal location; 1% acres land; beach; $175. E. W. Leaning, Room 530, 100 State St., Albany, N. Y. FOR Vermont SITUATIONS WANTED COMPANION, secretary-Young woman, college graduate, artist-teacher, wishes to travel abroad as companion or secretary to changed. 8,484, Outlook. RENT 10-Room Furnished House lady or tutor for one child. References ex in Manchester-in-the-Mts., Vt. All modern Country Board Quiet Home for Quiet People Electricity, bath, steam heat. CHICHESTER FARM, Mahopac, Putnam Co., New York. Apartments For Rent-Riverside Drive Apartment (cor. 85th St.), 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner living-room facing river, dining-room, and kitchen. All outside rooms. Fully furnished, piano. Summer months, reasonable rent. Rev. R. J. CLINCHY, 131 Riverside Drive, New York. A Mart of the Unusual Harris Tweed Direct from makers. sporting material. Any length cut. Samples free. Newall, 127 Stornoway, Scotland BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY BOYS' school near New York City, full enrollment, successful, lease, sale or partnership to strong educator. 8,480, Outlook. HOW TO ENTERTAIN PLAYS, musical comedies and revues, minstrel music, blackface skits, vaudeville acts, monologs, dialogs, recitatious, entertainments, musical readings, stage handbooks, make-up goods. Big catalog free. T. S. Denison & Co., 623 S. Wabash, Dept. 74, Chicago. STATIONERY PERSONAL STATIONERY-$1 boxes of 200 sheets and 100 envelopes, white bond paper; gray, $1.25. High grade work. Hicksite Press, Macedon, N. Y. WRITE for free samples of embossed at $2 or printed stationery at $1.50 per box. Lewis, stationer. Troy, N. Y. EMPLOYMENT AGENCY TEACHERS register now, attractive vacancies for September. Associated Teachers' Agency, 522 Fifth Ave., New York City. HELP WANTED-Instruction HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN. Nation-wide demand for highsalaried men and women. Past experience unnecessary. We train you by mail and put you in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, fine living, permanent, interesting work, quick advancement. Write for free book, YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY." Lewis Hotel Training Schools, Suite AU-5842, Washington, D. C. HELP WANTED EDUCATED young woman who wishes an opportunity to express her domestic tendencies during summer months, and who would enjoy living at camp in Vermont mountains. 8,473, Outlook. MIDDLE-aged woman as companion and working housekeeper for woman alone. No heavy work. Small town, sixty miles from New York. Comfortable, permanent home, but not large salary. References required. 8,463, Outlook. SITUATIONS WANTED CHAUFFEUSE-companion-English gentlewoman, expert driver, capable, cultured, adaptable, desires position with lady or semiinvalid lady. Highest American and English references. 8,471, Outlook. COLLEGE instructor, 23, Protestant, wants job for summer mouths as tutor aud companion. Will travel. References. 8,478, Outlook. COMPANION, family assistant. Private teacher accustomed to young people; music, languages. 8,462, Outlook. CULTURED young woman, graduate of Eastern school, will accept position as companion to lady traveling abroad, or will chap eron one or two persons. Very highest references. 8,474, Outlook. EXPERIENCED teacher desires position as companion, tutor, or governess during July and August. References exchanged. 8,477, Outlook. EXPERIENCED teacher desires position during summer months as companion, gov erness, or tutor. Free to travel. References exchanged. 8,476, Outlook. FRENCH lady with highest credentials seeks position as governess, companion, or teacher. Free May 25. Write Mme. de Gilève, Finch School, 61 East 77th St., New York. FRENCH teacher, widow, middle-aged, de sires position in camp, or companion. 8,483, Outlook. GENTLEWOMAN, widow, desires posi tion as housekeeper-companion, or oversight grown children. Wide experience. Reterences. 8,486, Outlook. GOVERNESS, companion, mother's asist ant. French and German; teacher. Realdence or travel. 8,460, Outlook. GOVERNESS-mother's assistant. Educated, experienced, fond of children. 8,481, Outlook. GRADUATE nurse desires position. Intel lectual companionship, knowledge of scien tific diet. Travel anywhere. Highest cre deutials. 8,435, Outlook. GRADUATE nurse, woman of refinement, HOUSEKEEPER - Widow, cultured, POSITION as chaperon or housemother in POSITION as companion; free to travel after July 1. References exchanged. 8,346, Outlook. REFINED, educated girl desires position a governess. Free from present position July 1. Musical education. References exchanged 8,345, Outlook. REFINED girl desires position as private SWEDISH SUPERVISING housekeeper-New Eng UNIVERSITY graduate, B.A., B.Sc. in Edn., 22, 2% years' teaching experience, de sires companion-secretary position. Will travel. Available early June. 8,475, Outlook. WOMAN, 36, thorough knowledge of Amer icau antiques, wishes position permanently or for summer months in city or country. Highest references. 8,464, Outlook. WOMAN of experience desires to super vise a household. BEST social references 8,468 exchanged. INQUIRIES invited. Outlook. YALE medical student desires summer po sition traveling as advisory companion or tu tor. Best references. 8,445, Outlook. YOUNG college teacher with governes experience desires position for summer companion, tutor, or governess. Will travel Write Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., Bo 201. YOUNG lady, Protestant, with four years teaching experience wishes position for summer months as tutor, governess, companion, either for travel or at smer residence. Good references, 8,472, Outlo YOUNG woman, college graduate, desires position for summer in charge of child. Ca teach music, especially violin, and other su jects. Speaks French. 8,438, Outlook. YOUNG woman, college graduate, with teaching and secretarial experience, destre position as companion or secretary on Kam pean or other trip. Speaks French. Box Sturgeon Bay, Wis. MISCELLANEOUS TO young women desiring training in ti care of obstetrical patients a nine months nurses' aid course is offered by the Lying Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. A are provided with maintenance and given mouthly allowance of $10. For further p ticulars address Directress of Nurses. PRINTED IN U. s. A. BY ART COLOR PRINTING COMPANY. DUNELLEN, N. J. IT seems to be a habit of our friends iately to ask us where we are going with The Outlook-by which they usually mean, what sort of magazine do we finally hope to publish for our subscribers? Well, ordinarily, we like to reply that in time we hope to have a magazine which we can hand to visiting foreigners to our shores, and say: "That's about the way America looks to us. These are the things we are interested in here. This is the manner in which we are seeking our goal; and this is the sort of argument we are having getting there. Don't bother to travel. Read The Outlook." SOME of our friends call this a kind of intelligent super-reporter. Others remark that it sounds like a real international journal, at last; while still others say that to them it sounds like a national weekly which will interest all those intelligent people who live, move, and have their being somewhere between the "Saturday Evening Post" and the "Atlantic Monthly." We suppose that's a good description of it. The truth is, we want a genuine weekly which will be what its name implies the present-day outlook on life of civilized men and women. IT'S the reason we are beginning next week such a pleasant thing as a Sports Department by Herbert Reed. It's summer-and we can't keep the golf bags or the tennis racquets in the closet any longer. Also, it is why we are speeding Mr. Bonner to European shores to get a view of the European music festivals and affairs, generally. It explains further why we are beginning a series soon on famous American literary figures of the past, from Emerson down, revalued by the critics of today. And why we will follow it with papers from English authors on the intellectual movement for religion without revelation, which is taking place in that country. AND, meanwhile, Dixon Merritt and Henry Pringle are trying to keep from promising beds to every newspaper man they know who wants to go with them to Houston and Kansas City and see the Republican and Democratic Conven tions. THE fact is that life is exceedingly varied and colorful today, both in the world of action and ideas, in the home and out of it. To keep up with it requires a better Outlook every week. Francis Profers Bellamy The Outlook May 23, 1928 Lowden of Illinois RANK O. LOWDEN has his resemblances to Andrew Jackson. Such things are likely to be discovered in any public man in this centennial year of Jackson's rise to the Presidency, but the basis of comparison will not be quite the same in the case of any of the others. Between them, Jackson and Lowden have done about all the pushing aside of high offices and honors that has ever been done in the United States. Jack Son's way was to accept election or appointment, serve a little while, and resign. Lowden's way has been to refuse to accept in the first place. He developed this habit, in a big way, in 1896. That year he was chairman of the Political Action Committee of the Union League Club of Chicago, and did ringing work for sound money. McKinley, duly elected, offered to reward Lowden by making him First Assistant Postmaster-General. Lowden was then thirty-five years old, and, if he expected to get anywhere in politics, needed. stepping-stones. He declined this one, however. During the succeeding twenty years Lowden did a good deal of minor league declining, including a re-election to Congress and two or three proffers of the nomination for Governor, but the bulk of his brilliant work as a refuser of honors has been done since 1920. He refused to accept from Harding appointment either as Secretary of the Navy or as Ambassador to practically any firstclass country. That he declined the Secretaryship of the Navy is a pity. It By DIXON MERRITT Lowden, the Republican, the farmers' candidate a democrat who does not believe that democracy is the last word in government. This political portrait, the sixth in a series, is written by The Outlook's Washington correspondent. is not too much to guess that had he accepted, Teapot Dome would not be the symbol for corruption and Warren G. Harding might not be in an all but dishonored grave. When George Harvey came back from the London Embassy to accept the last installment of his reward for low-rating Woodrow Wilson, to accept it not from the Administration which had passed into the control of Coolidge, but from the hand of Ned McLean-which hand, Albert B. Fall first said, slipped him the slithery hundred thousand-Lowden was offered the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. Harvey wrote a soggy editorial page for the Washington "Post," Lowden stayed on his Illinois farm, and Frank B. Kellogg went to London. Lowden's star declination came in June, 1924, when the Republican National Convention had unanimously nominated him for Vice-President. Do not know why Lowden has so I persistently refused to accept any thing at the hands of his party, in power at Washington since March 4, 1921. He has never made any explanation, except to say that he did not want to give up living on the farm. Some of his friends say that it has been his practice all his life not to accept a position unless he knew that there was a particular work to be done and that he was the man to do it. Those statements may be the truth and nothing but the truth, but there is just room for the suspicion that they are not the whole truth. In 1920 Lowden was, for once in his life, an active candidate. He wanted to be President. He had the votes of thirty-two States. But General Leonard Wood deadlocked the Convention with him. Certain persons, sniffing around, thought they could detect on Wood the odor of the soap works at Ivorydale. These and other persons smelled Lowden out, and followed the trail of $39,000 into Missouri. Only $5,000 of it smelled bad. That sum appeared to have been paid for two delegates. There was not much evidence to that effect except that $2,500 a head was regarded as about the right price for delegates on the hoof. The Missouri affair did the business for Lowden, as the P. & G. affair did for Wood, and Warren G. Harding was nominated. It has always been claimed for Lowden that Missouri was the one State into which he was not permitted to send his own manager, and that any improper use of money was wholly without the knowl edge of Lowden and of those directly responsible for his campaign. However that may be, the Republican Party, in so far as it is concerned, washed the stain from Lowden's name when, four years later, it offered him, without a dissenting voice, the nomination for VicePresident. Meanwhile, keeping his mouth shut, Lowden had steadfastly refused to accept anything from the Administration or from the Republican Party as then organized. Here, certainly, is one Republican who can be neither credited nor charged with any part in anything done by the Republican Administration or the Republican organization since the early stages of the National Convention of 1920. Nobody is likely to proclaim that as an issue, but, none the less, it may be an issue on which to elect or defeat a candidate. IN IN the sixty-seven years of his life Lowden has held but two public offices. In 1906 he was appointed to fill out an unexpired term in Congress. Thereafter he was twice elected. Passing Congressmen leave but few and shallow footprints on the sands of legislation. Lowden did, however, leave one that has grown deeper. He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and was, apparently, more concerned with the committee room than with the floor. He was the first to insist that the United States Government increase appropriations, and keep a safe balance. When Lowden became Governor, there were in the Government of Illinois 128 separate bureaus, boards, and commissions. He consolidated them into nine departments. There is here something strangely prophetic of what Alfred E. Smith was to do as Governor of New York. I have not the figures before me, but I believe that Governor Smith had somewhat fewer bureaus, boards, and commissions and did not combine them in quite so few departments. Lowden's Department of Finance set up a State budget and became the model for the United States Bureau of the Budget. Following is a summary of the main achievements of Lowden's administra tion: Improvement of roads and inland waterways; abolition of private and unregulated banks; revision of the revenue laws; reduction in costs of elections; reorganization of State and municipal pension systems; development of State forestry; encouragement of co-operative marketing; enactment of a compulsory employee's compensation act; an adequate corporation code; and a housing code for the State as a whole, but more particularly for the city of Chicago. S IMULTANEOUSLY, Lowden was help own its embassies and consulates abroad. ing as much as a Governor could to He pestered the State Department a good deal trying to find out what could be done and, withal, fairly launched the movement which, in very recent years, has resulted in the carrying out of his plan. From 1917 to 1921 Frank O. Lowden was Governor of Illinois. Despite the fact that his administration covered the period of our participation in the World War and of the depression immediately following it, Lowden did much constructive work. Indeed, it is only simple justice to say that he was one of the most successful Governors on a large scale that the American States have produced. When Lowden entered the Governor's office, the Treasury of Illinois contained $528.82. One of the first things that the new Governor did was to bring about a reduction of taxes from ninety to sixty cents. Later, he brought about another reduction to approximately forty cents. He inaugurated an extensive program of improvements, greatly reduced the State debt, and left a balance of $15,132,658.03 cents in the Treasury, thus disproving in advance the contention later. made at Washington that a government cannot at the same time reduce taxes, win the war. He was among the group of Governors most earnestly behind the Administration at Washington in war matters. The National Guard regiment of which he was long Lieutenant-Colonel -with which he fought the Battle of Florida in the Spanish-American War became the nucleus of the Thirty-third National Guard Division, one of the National Guard Division, one of the crack outfits of our expeditionary forces. When the war was over, Lowden believed in the League of Nations, as Coolidge and Hoover did. Lowden has not recanted. This does not necessarily prove that he has not changed his mind. prove that he has not changed his mind. It may be due to the same trait that has It may be due to the same trait that has kept him from answering Senator Borah's wet and dry questionnaire. He is said to have no objection to having his prohibition views known, but is not ready to recognize Borah as his political overlord. One other worthy item of Lowden's war record ought to be mentioned. William Hale Thompson decided to stage an anti-war demonstration. Lowden warned him not to do it. Thompson persisted. Lowden sent troops to Chicago, quite effectually restrained the demonstrators, and won the lasting enmity of William Hale Thompson. The time has come to see who this Lowden is. IN N the late fifties of the last centur Lorenzo Lowden, a a blacksmith trekked from Pennsylvania to the prairie frontier of Minnesota. Between the St. Croix and Sunrise Rivers, at a trading post which was to become the village of Sunrise, he settled and set up a blacksmith shop. Later he bought and moved to a farm two miles from the post. Came the night of January 26, 1861. A blizzard was howling down from Medicine Hat. A farm-hand, mufflered and booted, staggered into the post. stork was at the Lowden farmhouse. Such was the intensity of the bliz that for thirty hours neither the farmhand nor anybody from the post c negotiate those two miles to the fam properly to introduce Frank Orren L den to the world. But he got on. It may indicate something of th man's character to relate the fact that Frank O. Lowden owns the farmhouse in which he was born and the blacksmi shop which his father built, and has helped in making the schoolhouse a com munity center for the village of Sunn Sunrise. When Frank was seven years old, the wagon bows were sprung again and the family moved to central Iowa. There Frank O. Lowden grew up, taught school, went to the State Universit taught a year between each two college years, and, with honors, got his degree and began to read law. Thence he went to Chicago to finish his law course at Northwestern, and, when he had a again won honors and a degree, settled d in the city to practice. That was in 1887. For nineteen years Lowden successfully practiced and for a time taught law at his Alma Mater Then he retired from practice and moved to a farm in Rock River Valley. hap Ten years before this retirement, the blacksmith's son had married the carpenter's daughter. The carpenter h who pened to be George M. Pullman, carpentered a sleeping-car and ex lished one of America's great fortunes. estab Frank O. Lowden has looked after his wife's interests in the Pullman Company He has had connections with banking It is said that he dominated in the establishment of the American Radiator Company. He was influential in the re busines organization of the National Bis Company. Decidedly, Lowden's bus has not been small. For twenty-two years, Frank O. (Please turn to continuation, page 158 |