LOOKING
FORWARD

►► IT GIVES us great pleasure to announce that for the coming year our London correspondent and general roving European collaborator will be Rebecca West.

►► BEST known as the author of that excellent novel, *The Judge*, as well as numerous other books and essays, Rebecca West is most at home in the humanities, whether they be literary, social or political. One thing she possesses above even her keen feminine insight and her ability to write exquisite prose. She has genuine intellectual integrity. She is the poet in prose. She combines three things, a perception of the truth, a talent to put it dramatically into words, and the courage to do so.

►► THE fact, that she will appear every week in our pages is an earnest of the quality of the magazine we expect to present for the coming year. Intimate personally with most of the celebrities of London and Paris, possessing a keen wit and a knowledge of the sophisti-cated world of literature, politics and the stage, she will contribute sketches of personal experiences in England and on the Continent, political and social ideas which come to the surface in Europe, personality portraits of men and women sufficiently in the public eye to be of international interest, a dash of literary and theatrical criticism and occasionally a glimpse of her own Pepys' diary as she feels it to be en-tertaining to American men and women. Her first article will appear some time next month.

►► DAILY the European scene becomes closer and more interesting to Americans. Besides Miss West, during the coming year, five well known correspondents in European capitals will send us from time to time, first-hand accounts of affairs as they develop under their observation, while Mr. Ybarra will continue to contribute an occasional piece. These articles in addition to Rebecca West's weekly column will serve to keep Outlook readers intelligently informed of affairs and personalities abroad.

VOLUME 156

NUMBER 1

OUTLOOK
and Independent

September 3, 1930

<table><tr><td>Looking Forward</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Frontispiece: Washington Monument</td><td>2</td></tr></table>

Articles

<table><tr><td>One Way Out</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>O! O! McIntyre</td><td>Harry Salpeter</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>The Curse of Plenty</td><td>Lawrence Sullivan</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>The Student Works His Way</td><td>Raymond F. Howes</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>The Stream of Business</td><td>Frank A. Fall</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>British Polo Goes Yankee</td><td>George Trevor</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Timing the Big Turn</td><td>William O. Scroggs</td><td>26</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>The Trend of Events</td><td>12</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Backstage in Washington</td><td>A. F. C.</td><td>18</td></tr></table>

Editorial

<table><tr><td>The Auerbach Plan</td><td>The Editors</td><td>19</td></tr></table>

The Leisure Arts

<table><tr><td>Speaking of Books</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td>William Howard Taft</td><td>Allen W. Porterfield</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td>Novels of the Week</td><td>Virgilia Peterson Ross</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Behind the Blurbs</td><td>Walter R. Brooks</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Religion's Voice</td><td>Edmund B. Chaffee</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>The Movies</td><td>Creighton Peet</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Ivory, Apes and Peacocks</td><td>W. R. Brooks</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>The Theatre</td><td>Otis Chatfield Taylor</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>From the Life</td><td>Ibby Hall</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td>With Our Readers</td><td></td><td>39</td></tr></table>

EDITORS

Francis Rufus Bellamy
Parkhurst Whitney
Henry F. Pringle
John T. Hackett
William T. Adee
Rodman Gilder

ASSOCIATES

Malcolm Waters Davis
Helen Chandler
Walter R. Brooks
Harold T. Pulsifer
Frances Lamont Robbins
William O. Scroggs

The Outlook and Independent is indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.

THE OUTLOOK AND INDEPENDENT, September 3, 1930. Volume 156, Number 1.
Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y.
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Entered as second-class matter July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.
July 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of March 3,
1879. Copyright, 1930, by the Outlook Company.