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I PAGE WM 1 THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK a friend of Sarah Orne Jewett, William James, Charles W. Eliot and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, whose reminiscences were brought out in the Atlantic Monthly. He brought John Muir into the Atlantic's family and he accepted the first novel of Mary Johnston. After five years of residence in Boston he decided that if he was so valuable to others he was worth more to himself a3 a publisher, and he joined F. N. Double day in founding the house of Doubleday, Page & Co. In his work in the develop ment of this publishing house Mr. Page has spent the best years of his life. When the World's Work was started he was made its editor, and his comments on current subjects of importance have given the magazine a high individual character. In all his work Mr. Page has shown not only that he is a literary man, but also that he has talent for organization and a thorough understanding of the needs of the various sections of the country. He himself minimizes the im portance of his services to the country, and insists that more credit is due to the men who were actually concerned in the forwarding of the various movements which he encouraged in all his writings. But it cannot be denied that Mr. Page through his writings and lectures on re construction and education in the South, has done much to bring about the pres ent situation. He is a member of the General Educa tion Board, and has been from its begin ning. He has taken keen interest in its campaigns to aid the Southern farmer, to establish country schools and to organize country life. He is also a member of the Southern Education Board and of other boards interested in the building of rural schools for negro children. As a member of the Sanitary Commission for Eradicating the Hook worm and in his extensive writings on this Southern danger he has done much valuable work. It is said that he is largely responsible for calling the atten tion of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to the hookworm peril and obtaining his aid in fighting it. It may seem strange to many that Mr. Page was chosen to fill the important post of Ambassador to England, though he has never occupied any political office. The nearest he ever came to a political office was when he served on Eoosevelt's unpaid Country Life Commission. He has known President Wilson for many years and was one of the first to see in him the qualities of a great national leader. Mr. Page is a quiet, unassuming man, leads a very modest life and shuns pub licity. It is only his keen interest in the welfare of the people that has led him into activities which have made him a public figure. In late years he has en joyed a good but not a large income. He is fonder of the poets than of busi ness, yet he has undisputed ability. In spite of statements that have ap peared in regard to his plans as Ambas sador, Mr.. Page denies that he has made any whatever. When seen in his office in Garden City, where the Doubleday, Page & Co. plant is located and where he lives, he declared that such statements were not founded on fact. " Now that I have been thrown on the screen for a moment, " h said, " specu lation has been rife as to the facts of my life and my future movements. The fact is, however, that I really have no plans. Besides, it would be very unwise for me to make my statements at the present time. You see, I am not yet Ambassador. Several formalities must still be gone through. " Furthermore, it is one of the invari able traditions of the office of the Am bassador not to talk. His special field is prompt action when necessary. So it would be tactless of me to discuss any aspect of the appointment just now. " More than this Mr. Page would not say. It is easy to see, however, from his character and his family's mode of life that the London embassy will not be conducted on the same lavish scale as it was in the time of the late Ambassa dor Reid. Mrs. Page is known to be a woman of modest tastes and to possess the preferences of the typical educated American woman. She is not fond of society in the sense of display and is very much devoted to the conduct of her household. A few quotations from the writings and speeches of Mr. Page will prove timely and will throw some light on his aims and ideals. The first quotation is especially interesting in the light of his recent appointment : " The only advantage that Americans have over their kinsmen of the Old World is the advantage of free demo cratic training. We are no more capable by nature than the English, and we are not as well trained as the Germans, but we have greater social mobility, which is the very essence of democratic train ing. We have built a type of society that permits more men to find their natural place in it. And thus it is that the greatest contribution to social sci ence, to the science of training men and of building States, is the demonstration that we have made of the ever recreative and ever renewing quality of democratic society. " " The whole American people is a good master to serve. But any sect or section or party of them would be a tyrannical master. " "Great changes come as silently as the seasons. I am no more sure of this springtime than I am of the rejuvenation of our society and the lifting up of our life." " The most sacred thing in the Com monwealth and to the Commonwealth is the child, whether it be your child or the child of the dull faced mother of the hovel. The child of the dull faced mother may for all you know be the most capable child in the State. At its worst it is capable of good citizenship and a useful life if its intelligence be quickened and trained. Several of the strongest personalities that were born in North Carolina were men whose very fathers were unknown. We have all known two such who held high places in Church and State. President Eliot said a little while ago that the ablest man that he had known in many years' connection with Harvard University was the son of ( Continued on page twelve) we Are seven" Better Than Ever Moose, 75c Scotty, 50c (new) I - r J V:?rrrv J Final, 75c (new) Meteor, 50c 0mk "0 ) GOODRICH Golf Balls Comet, 50c Stag, 75c Bantam, 75c "Best for the Long Green" The B. F. Goodrich Company Akron, Ohio Before Going Home Visit Western North Carolina; The Land of the Sky ! The Pleasure Park of America! 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