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[Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.]

I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

A. Topic: The Mexican Situation.
Reference: Page 625.
Questions:

1. What is the present Mexican situation both from a National and an international point of view? 2. Discuss whether the American Government should pay the ransom money demanded by the Mexican bandits. 3. Did Captain Matlack do right in escaping with the two American aviators after he had paid only half the sum demanded? Give reasons. 4. Tell somewhat at length what you think The Outlook means by saying that "the incident supplies its own commentary." 5. State and discuss what you consider the attitude of President Carranza toward the United States to be. 6. Find out all the facts you can about Carranza. Has the United States recognized him as the head of the de facto Mexican Government? If when? Would you recognize such a man as Carranza as the head of a Government in the twentieth century? Discuss. 7. What would it mean for the Government at Washington "to adopt a radical change in its policy with regard to Mexico"? Describe Mr. Wilson's policy toward Mexico since he became President. 8. Tell, with reasons, whether

So,

you approve of his policy. 9. Is it the duty of the United States to protect its own citizens wherever they may be? Is it true that "every failure on the part of our Government to protect its own nationals is simply an invitation to the Mexicans to go on killing Americans "? Give several

reasons. 10. Discuss whether it is the duty of the United States to establish a stable government in Mexico? What would such a step by our Government involve? 11. What, in your opinion, is the basic trouble with Mexico and the Mexicans? B. Topic: England at Peace. Reference Pages 636, 637. Questions:

1. What impressions of England at peace do you get from reading this article by Mr. Nichols? 2. Make several comparisons between the effect of the great war upon England and its effect upon the United States. 3. The main theme of his article Mr. Nichols tells us is "an English-speaking fellowship." How much do you prize the friendship between America and Great Britain? Discuss whether there is any other country whose friendship the United States should prize more. Name a dozen or fifteen

democratic contributions England has made to America. 4. Write up a brief account of the story of liberty and self-government in England. Estimate the world-wide importance of this story. 5. Explain how, in your opinion, still closer relations between Britain, America, and the English-speaking peoples as a whole can be maintained. 6. Discuss to what extent the future of civilization depends upon mutual kindly. feelings among the English-speaking peoples. 7. You cannot afford to be ignorant of the contents of the following books: "British-American Discords and Concords," by the History Circle (Putnams); "Imperial England," by Lovell and Payne by F. W. Wile (Doran); "The English(Macmillan); "Explaining the Britishers," Speaking Peoples," by G. L. Beer (Macmillan).

II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Topic: A Significant Prophecy.
Reference: Editorial, pages 631, 631.
Questions:

1. What, in your opinion, are the most significant sentences in the paragraph The Outlook quotes from Professor Schmidt, found on page 631? Say a few things about each one of the sentences you select. 2. The Outlook is sure that "the autocracy of the mob is proved to be as fatal to the community as the autocracy of kings," but it does not cite instances. Can you? 3. Explain why" the rule of the majority does not make a democracy." Had you thought that such rule did make a democracy? 4. In the course of civilization several different types of government have been tried and finally rejected. Do you think it possible likewise that democracy will be forced to give way to some other system of government? Reasons. 5. Discuss whether any other system of government could be productive of better results to mankind. 6. Do some of the interpreting The Outlook, gests ought to be done. in the last paragraph of this editorial, sug

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Your editorial of August 6 on "Racial Tension and Race Riots" is unfortunate, because it does an injustice to the brotherhood of Outlook readers who have come to expect only the highest standard of justice and fair play in your weekly. Your "impartial correspondent" has violated your own policy of" the square deal" and has given offense to the citizens of Washington. It is not necessary for me to analyze the entire article; I need only turn the light on a few statements to show its quality. He speaks of "four or five attempts to commit rape, one of them successful," and of the "wife of a soldier returning from her work... jostled by two Negroes," and of " innocent Negroes dragged from street cars and brutally beaten." The facts are that there were four actual cases of rape by Negroes, that the wife of the soldier was not merely "jostled," but shamefully handled. While your correspondent speaks of " innocent Negroes" being "dragged from street cars and beaten," he does not say that there were very few of such cases; and he makes no reference to the attacks by Negroes, to their shooting from their windows at passing street cars and automobiles, to their attempts at terrorism by rushing squads of armed men in automobiles shooting promiscuously as they dashed along the streets, to their resistance to officers of the law, to their attempts to protect those who were arrested though they were known to be guilty.

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I have written the foregoing simply to indicate how an innocent-looking article may muddy the waters of race relations. Some of us Southerners have been giving our lives for years in an effort to solve this problem of race relations. We may be too sensitive at interference. But we are conscious of working at the most delicate, difficult, and dangerous job in America. Some of us are perfectly willing ourselves to drink the bitter cup of the mob and be lynched if thereby we could remove the race hatred from the hearts of white and Negro alike.

In race relations democracy has failed. This problem can never be solved by force -least of all by force from the Negroes. American civilization is like a long procession ever advancing on a narrow highway. The Negroes are in the rear of this procession, except for a few who, by the aid of white people, have moved forward

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and can never turn back.

Nothing is more foolish than for the Negro to fight for his rights, for the more he fights the farther the procession moves ahead. He forgets that he has absolutely nothing that the white man will turn back in the procession to get-no language, no literature, no commerce, no art, no science, no philosophy, no religion. The destiny of the Negro in America is as inexorable as the law of gravitation. He must advance or perish, and he can advance only by winning the good will of the great white hosts ahead of him.

Turning back to the Washington riots, I charge that the great crimes were not committed by the mobs at all, "for they knew not what they were doing," but by the public press, for kindling the fires of race hatred; by the Negro ministry, for playing the part of the demagogue and inciting their people to fight for their rights;

Another View of the Washington Riots (Continued) and by the white ministry, for their aloofness from the great unfinished missionary job lying at their doorstep and for their failure to preach justice and forgiveness to this race in childhood. The Christian ministry of America is under indictment for the crimes of race riots, for the unspeakable burden of fear that the Negroes carry on their hearts day and night, for the shameful injustice perpetrated by white employers and landlords, for the blight of race hatred that tarnishes the soul of every white child born on this continent. The race problem will be solved in America on the day that the Christian ministry ceases preaching racehood and begins preaching in reality brotherhood. The Negro minister will then lead his people to achieve the blessings of civilization, not by fighting for them, but by becoming worthy of them; and the white minister will lead his people, not to look on the misfortune of their brothers in black and pass by on the other side, but will be as the good Samaritan, ever ready to walk in the princely strength of a son of God in order that his less favored fellow-citizen may enjoy blessings that he is not fully able to pay for. J. E. McCULLOCH, General Secretary Southern Sociological Congress.

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WE STAND CORRECTED A St. Louis (Mo.) friend of The Outlook has sent us the clipping from the St. Louis (Mo.) "Republic" which we publish below. In view of the charges contained therein, we have appointed a special member of our staff to have jurisdiction over the guardianship of the fair name and fame of St. Louis (Mo.). If St. Louis (Mo.) ever is confused in our columns again with East St. Louis (Ill.) we will promptly throw this member of our staff to the St. Louis (Mo.) lions. This promise holds good until St. Louis (Mo.) is considerate enough to have a riot of its own which will bring the blush of shame to the civic cheek of East St. Louis (Ill.) or until one or other of the cities in question is considerate enough of our proof-readers to change its name.THE EDITORS.

(From the St. Louis Republic of August 15)

THE OUTLOOK GOES TO SLEEP An article in The Outlook by Charles W. Holman, of Chicago, deals with the race riot there and in other cities. It is preceded by a few paragraphs of comment by the editors, in which they discuss the subject, but fail to note that their correspondent has repeated an ancient and exploded libel upon St. Louis. Mr. Holman

says:

"The trouble in Chicago in no way resembled outbreaks which have taken place in other cities, such as those in Washington and St. Louis."

Is it possible that the editors of The Outlook do not know that there has been no outbreak against Negroes in St. Louis? Are they ignorant of the fact that there was an outbreak in East St. Louis, a city in the same State that boasts of Chicago as its metropolis, and that the terrified Negroes in East St. Louis fled across the Mississippi to St. Louis-which, may we remind The Outlook, is in Missouri-where they were protected and cared for?

Of course they are not, but somebody should rap the Rev. Lyman Abbott across the knuckles with a ruler. St. Louis had enough trouble making the New York dailies correct the same blunder directly after the riots without being obliged to take The Outlook to task at this late date.