was At first the plan of dimming the lights of the automobile tried out, but this proved almost as unsatisfactory as the glare, for the eye could not accommodate itself quickly enough to the change from the intenselighttoalmost complete blackness. -TO PREVENT GLARE The front of this lamp is composed of broken up into a spray a series of lenses and each ray of light is However, new styles of headlights bid fair to solve the difficulty and meet all legal requirements. In one of these the glass front of the headlight is composed of a series of strips of glass arranged so that the beams of the light are concentrated on the ground itself and not diffused on the surrounding country. The two illustrations at the bottom of the page show the difference in the lighting of the road by the ordinary light and by the new device. In the other style of lamp the glass front is composed of a series of lenses. Each ray of light is broken up by these lenses and every bit of light is diffused in a spray that covers almost 180 degrees with a greater force in front and a gradual reduction of intensity toward the side. So that by the use of these lenses it is possible to see the entire road at all times and yet not interfere with the drivers of automobiles traveling in the opposite direction. The picture on the left shows the effect of an ordinary automobile light throwing its glare directly in the face of oncoming drivers. The picture on the right depicts the light shed by a new style headlight which casts its beams directly on the ground THE "IFS" AND "ANDS" OF FOREIGN WAR BONDS III. MR. HILL CAPTURES THE ST. PAUL & PACIFIC RAILROAD AMERICA'S GOLDEN YEAR (Illustrated) 129 JOSEPH GILPIN PYLE 131 141 157 165 JEREMIAH W. JENKS AN AMERICAN AMBULANCIER AT VERDUN (Illustrated) W. KERR RAINSFORD 183 "TANKS" AND "THE HOSE OF DEATH" (Illustrated) TERMS: $3.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. For Foreign Postage add $1.00; Canada 60 cents. Published monthly. Copyright, 1916, by Doubleday, Page & Company. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Garden City, N. Y., as second-class mail matter. Unsolicited manuscripts are welcomed by the editors and are carefully read. They cannot, however, be returned unless they are accompanied by the proper amount of postage. 221 F. N. DOUBLEDAY, Pres. H. S. HOUSTON, Vice-Pres. ARTHUR W. PAGE, Vice-Pres. S. A. EVERITT, Treas. RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY, Sec'y. Copyright by International Film Service PRESIDENT-REELECT WILSON THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT SINCE ANDREW JACKSON TO SUCCEED HIMSELF AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT SINCE 1876 TO BE ELECTED WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, HIS RETURN TO POWER BEING DUE CHIEFLY TO THE REMARKABLE INDEPENDENT VOTE IN THE WEST THE WORLD'S VOLUME XXXIII DECEMBER, 1916 NUMBER 2 A THE MARCH OF EVENTS FTER all, a Presidential election determines only an administration, not a government. The government is the people. Their intelligence, their character, their will, are its guiding hand, its conscience, and its effectual instrument. No President or Congress whom they select can misrepresent them very much. Granted that the public mind is awake, the public conscience aroused, even so august an incident as a national election is only an incident in the steady flow of the country's life. Happily, the results of the election just past prove that the people did not go sleepily to the polls. They were more discerning than the politicians, who were neither clever enough nor courageous enough to join the issues squarely. The people faced them as they saw them, as the independence of the voting clearly indicates. On the Atlantic seaboard, where external dangers are naturally most plainly visible, the issue of the Nation's foreign policy largely controlled the outcome; while in the West, where political liberalism in internal affairs was most appreciated, that policy was upheld and strengthened. In many states an unprecedented number of "split" ballots were cast the voters preferring a President of one party and Congressmen of another. These are symptoms of health. They offer nothing but encouragement and hope to the patriotic citizen. The women's share in the election did not alter the result. Its effect was upon the women, not upon candidacies or issues. Women have shown that they will use the ballot when they have it. The election was a step in their political education, and in that sense its future effects may be profound-always remembering that while the suffrage movement has been forwarded by radicals the habit of women generally is more conservative than that of men. So close an election does not give the Administration of the next four years a warrant for any radical change in the conduct of affairs The tariff, the Federal Reserve Act-all the substantial body of improved domestic law-are safe from essential alteration. Our position in foreign affairs is made stronger, because the election has disposed of the issue of a divided nation-there is no "foreign vote" of any moment. The American people are one people, and their allegiance has been emphatically renewed to their own government. We have decided neither for peace nor war: we have decided above all that we are for America first, and thereafter for that policy which rests on such counsels as the wisdom, courage, and forehandedness of a free people may devise. Copyright, 1916, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved. 66 THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL MASTER-NOVELIST WHO LAID DOWN THE PEN FOR THE SWORD AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, WON THE MILITARY CROSS, WROTE THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND," ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON THE WAR, AND IS AT PRESENT VISITING THE UNITED STATES TO MANAGE THE BRITISH SECTION OF THE ALLIED BAZAARS THAT ARE BEING HELD IN THE VARIOUS CITIES |