THE '""MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION
A M agazine for your & eading .13 ab I e
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i4 Clearing House for Ideas
Vtf ITU THIS ISSUE, we offer to our
readers a new .service. The two
columns on this page that have been
occupied by editorial announcements,
will hereafter be a clearing: house for
Ideas. We propose to invite men of
the highest standing in the nation to
contribute their views on the subjects in
which they are acknowledged experts.
There will be no place for the narrow
viewpoint, for partisanship, or for half
baked theories of any kind. The men
who will address you through this
medium will have your confidence, be
cause the open book of their past
careers will stand in proof of the fact
that they know whereof they write.
They will be our Contributing Editors;
and, issue by issue, they will cover the I
wide range of modern thought on the
great economic, moral or purely ethical
problems of the day.
But we intend to go further than
this. Our new editorial page will par
take of the character of a popular
forum. While we shall call upon the
men whose messages we know to be
worth while, we do not shut out the
obscure, but possibly profound, student
of life. On the other hand, every reader
man or woman who feels that he
has a vital message to deliver is invited
to write it within the compass of 7."0
words and to send it to the Editor.
Such contributions will receive careful
and unprejudiced consideration, and
we shall be only too pleased to use all
that meet the requirements of knowl
edge of the subject discussed, breadth
of view and sincerity of purpose. For
each article accepted for our "Con
tributing Editor's" page, we shall
pay $25.
In the forthcoming issue will appear
the first of these new editorials, an ar
tide from the pea of Dr. Orison Swett
Harden. ' ; .
Other Good Things to Cojpe
WHEN THE Honorable "Champ
Clark,, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, prepared the article,
"Rough Roads and Rough Riding to
1he White House," that will appear in
our next issue, he had just missed his
chance to run for the highest office in
the land. He wrote from his heart; and
his anecdotes about the men who failed
of the presidency are wittily told. This
article is a sequel to the former one by
Speaker Clark, "Presidential Lights
That Have flared and Failed," that
appeared a few weeks ago. Both are
valuable contrioutions to tne msiae ms
tory of the political ambitions suc
cessful and unsuccessful of the great
CO NTENTS
COVER DESIGN-" WHY HE MISSED THE AEROPLANE" .
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
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EDITORIALS 2
"THE GIRL OF 1912" Drawing by CHARLES DANA GIBSON 3
THE RETURN OF THE COLONEL OF KOEPENICK Article by IVAN NARODNY
Illustration from Photograph
"ROUGHING IT-AT NEWPORT" . . Painting by ALBERT STERNER
THE ISSUE . . .
" HER IDLE WHILE '
CONFESSION .
FOUR LETTERS
"A BIG ONE!"
Story by GEORGE BARON HUBBARD
Drawing by C. COLES PHILLIPS
Story by RALPH A. GRAVES 8
Story by LILLIAN BENNET-THOMPSON 9
Painting by W. T. SMEDLEY 10
NEW, WRINKLES . 12
WOMEN WHO COUNT ... . . . 19
, Illustration from Photograph
For rising young men!
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Jh'g" BIG BEAjy . I
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SALLE, IIII-
i nnis was named
after a man who
was always uo
early in the morning. The
men whose names go ring
ing past their century usual
. ly. see the dawn before the
reSt of the World.
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de
La Salle was always on the
march towards the Golden
West before 7 A. M. And
out at La Salle, the Westclox
people design sleepmeters
for men who, like La Salle,
will get under way while
the East is still gray.
Big Ben it an admirable example of theae
clockmakers' skill. Slender, handaome, yet
massive, -he stands 7 inches tall with clean
eat, well shaped hands and a frank, friendly
face, distinctly visible in the dim morn
ing light.
He rings just when you want and either
way you want. iiw Jfrvi'f f minults or tvry
ttktr half minutt durint Urn rninuus unless
you flag him off. His keys are large, strong,
pleasing to wind his voice deep, cheerful
pleasing to hear.
Big Ben is sold by 5.000 Canadian deal
ers. Hia price ia $3.00 anywhere. If yon
can't find him at your dealer's, a money
order sent to Wntcltx, La Sail, Illinaa,
will bring him to you duty charges paid.
leaders of the past. The illustrations
are by G. W. Hartixg. There will also
be a new story of the "November Joe"
series by Ilesketh Prichard, entitled
"The Case of Miss Virginia Plans,"
with illustrations by Percy E. Cowex ;
and a charming love story of artist life,
entitled "The Quest of Betsinda Sue,"
by IIanna Rion, illustrated by Frank
Yer Beck.
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The Present Issue
THE MAN in the street were
asked to name the three most popular
illustrators of the day, he would almost
certainly reply: "Charles Dana Gib
son, Howard Chandler Christy and
C. Coles Phillips." If he were then
asked what two painters were best
known and best liked by him through
magazine reproductions of their work,
he would not have to think long before
selecting W. T. Smedley and Albert
Sterner. A single picture by any one
of these five men is advertised as the
star feature by the publication fortu
nate enough to obtain it. The idea of
bringing them all together in one issue
would seem prodigal to the average
editor. Yet, this is just what we have
done. We are proud of the feat.
Gibson, Christy, Phillips, Smedley
and Sterner they are all represented
in the present issue; and, in each case,
the drawing or painting was made for
the exclusive benefit of the readers of
The Semi-Monthly Magazine Sec
tion. "The Colonel of Koepenick"
"VfOR ARE the fiction and special
article features of this number be
hind the high mark set by the pictures.
The leading article, "The Return of
The Colonel of Koepenick," by Ivan
Narodny, is, in journalistic parlance,
a "beat." For the first time, the world
is informed that the extraordinary
trickster, who six years ago humiliated
the German Empire by posing as a
colonel and arresting the burgomaster
and the treasurer of Koepenick; and
who was reported to have died in Lon
don this summer; is alive in New York,
and is actually planning a new and
greater international hoax. He revealed
himself to his friend, Mr. Narodny,
and Mr. Narodny brought the story to
us. Once we had our hands on it, we
did not let it go. It begins on page 4.
Read it, and be more enthralled by this
transcript from real life than you were
when you devoured the pages of "The
Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three
Musketeers." "The Issue," by George
Baron Hubbard, and "Confession," by
Ralph A. Graves, are fiction offerings
distinctly out of the ordinary.
We have secured first claaa Advertisers to talk to yon, are yon a food listener?