(The Outlook)

    THE FIGHT FOR CLEAN MILK

    BY CONSTANCE D. LEUPP

Two million quarts of milk are shipped into New York every day.  One hundred thousand of those who drink it are babies.  The milk comes from forty-four thousand dairy farms scattered through New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and even Ohio.

A large proportion of the two million quarts travels thirty-six hours before it lands on the front doorstep of the consumer.  The situation in New York is duplicated in a less acute degree in every city in the United States.

NARRATIVE BEGINNINGS.  To begin a special feature article in the narrative form is to give it a story-like character that at once arouses interest.  It is impossible in many instances to know from the introduction whether what follows is to be a short story or a special article.  An element of suspense may even be injected into the narrative introduction to stimulate the reader’s curiosity, and descriptive touches may be added to heighten the vividness.

If the whole article is in narrative form, as is the case in a personal experience or confession story, the introduction is only the first part of a continuous story, and as such gives the necessary information about the person involved.

Narrative beginnings that consist of concrete examples and specific instances are popular for expository articles.  Sometimes several instances are related in the introduction before the writer proceeds to generalize from them.  The advantage of this inductive method of explanation grows out of the fact that, after a general idea has been illustrated by an example or two, most persons can grasp it with much less effort and with much greater interest than when such exemplification follows the generalization.

Other narrative introductions consist of an anecdote, an incident, or an important event connected with the subject of the article.

Since conversation is an excellent means of enlivening a narrative, dialogue is often used in the introduction to special articles, whether for relating an incident, giving a specific instance, or beginning a personal experience story.

    Narrative Beginnings

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    (The Outlook)

    BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

    BY EMMETT J. SCOTT AND LYMAN BEECHER STOWE

It came about that in the year 1880, in Macon County, Alabama, a certain ex-Confederate colonel conceived the idea that if he could secure the Negro vote he could beat his rival and win the seat he coveted in the State Legislature.  Accordingly the colonel went to the leading Negro in the town of Tuskegee and asked him what he could do to secure the Negro vote, for Negroes then voted in Alabama without restriction.  This man, Lewis Adams by name, himself an ex-slave, promptly replied that what his race most wanted was education,