Thursday Evening, December 21 LE ROY JEFFERS, A.C., F.R.G.S., of the New York Public Library "MOUNTAINEERING IN NORTH AMERICA " (Illustrated) HUGH W. OGDEN, Esq., will preside. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. Mr. Jeffers, who is a member of the Explorers Club; English, American and Canadian Alpine Clubs; Appalachian, Fresh Air, Green Mountain, Sierra Clubs, etc.; Secretary Bureau Associated Mountaineering Clubs of North America, says, in a recent letter: “I have about two hundred colored slides which show the finest mountains, waterfalls, etc., on the continent, and which are of much interest from the scenic as well as the mountaineering standpoint." Thursday Evening, December 28 GILBERT H. MONTAGUE, Esq. (Of the New York Bar) "THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND THE CLAYTON ACT" EVERETT W. BURDETT, Esq., presiding. Dinner at 6 o'clock. Tickets at the Civic Secretary's office. FORUM MEETINGS The Monday night Forum Meetings in December come on two successive Mondays, December II and 18, in order to avoid the holidays. Both meetings will be of exceptional interest. No man who has to sustain close relationships with a variety of people engaged in the same business can afford to miss the message that Richard A. Feiss, of Cleveland, will bring. You will enjoy meeting the man, and studying his method, whether you agree with him or not. Some of our men will most decidedly not agree with him, I am told. And the night when Dr. James J. Walsh comes will be a red-letter occasion. His subject, "Does Man Progress?" is an innocently startling question. His reply to it will astonish you, but not more so than the resourceful and able manner in which he will support his contention. Moreover, you will be delighted with his charm and ease as a platform speaker. This will be an evening that will compel us to think. The question period ought to be exceptionally brilliant. We are glad to report that the first Forum meeting, with Ivy L. Lee as the speaker, more than met our fondest anticipations. The room was crowded, the speaker delivered the goods, and the question period hit just the right pace at the very start. It looks as though the members are going to take to the Forum idea like ducks to water. In that respect they are just like every other wide-awake group that has tried it. This is written before the second meeting has taken place. THE FORUM COMMITTEE. DECEMBER II-RICHARD A. FEISS, Cleveland, Ohio General manager of the Clothcraft Shops of the Joseph & Feiss Company, Cleveland, Ohio. He will tell of his own experiences, covering a period of years, in working out the theory that the employees are the most valuable asset any plant can have, and that their personal relationships to their employers and to each other are a most fruitful field of study. This concern has eight hundred employees, and has met with marked success. DECEMBER 18 JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., New York Dr. Walsh is the orator who made such a delightful impression on the occasion of the Shakespeare Tercentenary at the Opera House in Boston, last spring. He is also a deep student of scientific matters in many realms. He is coming to answer the arresting question, "Does Man Progress?" He believes that he does not. Dr. Walsh is wonderfully equipped to maintain his contention. It will be a stirring occasion. LAW LECTURES (FOR BUSINESS MEN The Entertainment Committee is gratified to announce that, after a series of conferences, an arrangement has been made with the Boston Bar Association for a series of nine lectures to be delivered as regular Club functions. The members of the Club and the members of the Boston Bar Association, with their friends, are invited to attend. Each lecture will be preceded by a dinner in honor of the speakers of the evening. The question naturally arises as to why the Bar Association has taken the trouble to get up this course of lectures, and why the busy and distinguished men named in the list below have consented to give the time and do the necessary work. It is simply for the purpose of establishing another point of contact between the bar and business men. Lawyers realize the value of knowing how business men feel and think about subjects which are of interest to the bar. Business men will not be slow to realize the value of knowing how lawyers feel and think about legal subjects which are of special interest to business men. Though their habits of thought may differ, lawyers and business men have the same great objects in view. They all want the community to be well governed, prosperous and happy. A better understanding cannot fail to promote the public welfare. Just now the need of such an under standing is especially apparent because our laws are being changed, interpreted and developed so as to accommodate them to rapidly changing methods of business. No such course of lectures has ever been given in Boston or, so far as we know, in any other city. The Boston Bar Association is to be congratulated on being the first to propose and undertake so valuable a service and on having been able to enlist in it men so conspicuous for character and ability. While the lectures may properly be called "law lectures," their whole purpose will be defeated unless the subjects are presented in a way to make them readily understood by non-professional hearers. There is no mystery in the law which makes it impossible to present a legal proposition in such a way that it can easily be comprehended by men who have had no legal training. It will be the purpose of all the lecturers to deal in this fashion with the subjects on which they are so well qualified to speak. The list of dates, subjects and speakers follows: Tuesday evening, December 12. Hon. Moorfield Storey, LL.D. Introduced by Rev. GEORGE A. GORDON, D.D. Subject: "Lawlessness." Thursday evening, December 28. Gilbert H. Montague, Esq., of the New York Bar. Introduced by EVERETT W. BURDETT, Esq. Subject: "The Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Act." Wednesday evening, January 17. Roscoe Pound, LL.D., Dean of Harvard Law School. Introduced by HOMER ALBERS, Esq., Dean of Boston University Law School. Subject: "The Limits of Effective Legal Action." Wednesday evening, January 31. Hon. George W. Wickersham, LL.D., former Attorney-Genera of the United States. Introduced by Hon. SAMUEL J. ELDER. Subject: "The Sherman Anti-Trust Law." Thursday evening, February 8. Henry W. Dunn, LL.D., former Dean of Law School, University of Iowa. Introduced by Hon. SAMUEL L. POWERS. Subject: "The Constitution and the Courts." Wednesday evening, February 28. Frederick P. Fish, Esq. Introduced by ODIN ROBERTS, Esq. Subject: "Invention and the Patent System of the United States." Thursday evening, March 15. William G. Thompson, Esq. Introduced by HENRY F. HURLBURT, Esq. Subject: "Administration of Law in Massachusetts." Wednesday evening, March 28. Intro Hon. Nathan Matthews, LL.D., former Mayor of Boston. duced by B. N. JOHNSON, Esq. Subject: "Public Service Company Valuations and Rates." CHRISTMAS BOX FOR CLUB EMPLOYEES The Christmas Boxes for Club Employees have been placed in the Entrance Hall and in the Main Dining Room. It is hoped that members will respond generously to this appeal. These boxes afford the only opportunity for showing appreciation of the faithful service of Club employees who inasmuch as they receive no tips are surely deserving, once each year, of liberal giving on the part of each member. In past years, the amount subscribed has not been commensurate with the size and character of the Club. Members who do not find it convenient to use the Christmas Boxes may send checks to the House Committee. REVIEW OF RECENT EVENTS DAVID JAYNE HILL ON "NATIONAL NEEDS" At the dinner given in honor of Hon. David Jayne Hill, Mr. James P. Munroe presided and acted as toastmaster. Speeches complimentary to the guest were made by Mr. Louis E. Cadieux, Mr. Arthur L. Williston of Wentworth Institute, Hon. Samuel J. Elder, and Mr. Daniel J. Kiley. At the session in the auditorium following the dinner, Mr. Munroe presided and introduced the speaker, who said: "I have come to you with a message, the importance of which I very earnestly and very conscientiously feel. I shall not tell you much that is new, I think, because you are so well read, so well informed, and your habits of mind are so directed, that it would be very difficult for a mere man to tell you anything of importance that is wholly new. The best I can hope to do is to try to cause you to feel and understand the immense interest I have, and that I think you ought to have, in the subject I am about to discuss, for I really believe, and I say it without the least sense of exaggeration, that the times through which we are at this moment passing in this country have in store for the business men of America more important issues and consequences than any we have been called upon to face since our Civil War. That war taught us to think nationally. The times in which we live are teaching us to think internationally, and it is high time that we not only have a sense of our nationality, but of the importance and the peril of our position as a nation among nations. It is a very easy thing for business men to perceive and estimate the immediate conditions with which their experience brings them in daily contact, but it is a far more difficult thing to comprehend the remoter economic forces which affect the destinies of the United States as a whole, and yet it is these wider and deeper causes, more difficult to grasp and to understand, which determine the whole course of the business world. "Some of these forces are of course entirely beyond our control. We can no more affect them by the laws and resolutions we pass than we can change the seasons, or the tides, or the courses of the stars; but there are certain courses of preparation and of action by which we may avoid the untoward consequences which might follow upon our indifference and neglect, and I think it is in seeing these courses and determining to follow them that constitutes true statesmanship. "The prosperity of our country, and of every country, rests primarily upon the degree of efficiency with which our human energies, expressed through our hands and our brains, are applied to our national resources. It is by our labor and our enterprise and our intelligent use of wealth that national prosperity is produced, and whatever interferes with their fullest activity retards or arrests our economic progress. And it is of great importance that we, who belong as every man in a sense belongs to a certain particular class, should remember that it is neither labor alone, nor capital alone, nor enterprise alone, that creates prosperity. Prosperity comes from their complete harmony and cooperation. We must, therefore, look beyond our occupation and beyond our list of stocks and bonds, and beyond our factories, in order to see that it is from this voluntary and intensive coöperation of all our national forces that our prosperity is derived. "Now, at this present moment, we seem, in the United States, to be enjoying a high degree of prosperity. If we measure it by the ordinary standards, the scale of prices, the amount of our exports, the employment of labor, or the extent of other countries' obligations to the United States, the conclusion is indisputable that we are at present in a prosperous state. It is only when we go beyond the surface that we become impressed with the fact that our present economic situation is the result of causes that are temporary, artificial, and even abnormal, causes that do not inhere in our present legislation or in our superior social organization and efficiency. On the contrary, they are to be found in the needs and preoccupations of other peoples, upon whose misfortunes our apparent prosperity is based. But, whatever the causes of our present economic situation, I think it cannot honestly be asserted that the time is one of general contentment and assured security. "Reasons for Forethought "We have in this country developed a higher standard of living for wage earners than any other in the world, a standard of living incomparably high. But there goes with that higher standard of living an even greater sense of insecurity. What if capital should flow to countries where the cost of production is lower, because the standard of liv |