SITUATIONS WANTED

NURSE companion to elderly person, either sex. Experienced traveler. References. 7,428, Outlook.

NURSERY-governess, mother's assistant. Experienced, good sewer. 7,430, Outlook.

REFINED widow desires position as tutor companion or teacher in one or more families, or in school. Fifteen years' experience. Grades 3-8. Southern climate preferred. 7,425, Outlook.

TUTORING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA can now be arranged for children of tourists, on whole or part time basis. Ex perienced in private school teaching, particularly with children of elementary and junior high school grades. Harvard A.B., graduate student in education. California certificate. Address Mr. R. M. Baxter, Station C, Box 26, Pasadena, California.

YOUNG Swiss lady wants position as companion or governess for winter and spring. Would be well disposed to travel. 7,424, Outlook.

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HE traveling Outlooker reports a serious divergence in diameters among the portions of wheat cakes served with syrup and sausage on the trunk lines running from New York to the Great West. In some instances the disparity is as much as one inch, though there is no corresponding shrinkage in the cost. Since wheat cakes and sausage have become heralded as the pet breakfast dish in the White House, travelers should look for some message from the President on the subject. He might at least stir up the Inter-State Commerce Commission, or set the Bureau of Standards at work to bring about an equalization of the wheat cakes area.

Agent: "By the way, there are some old Roman remains at the south end of the estate."

New Owner: "Are there? Well, you 'ave 'em cleared away before I take possession."

The setting-up exercises which are broadcast each morning at 6:45 A.M. have been proved by test to be one of the most popular features of radio. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which provides for these programs, claims to receive about 2,000 letters per day from enthusiasts all over the country. Some are from all-night rounders, who say that they feel much better now that they take exercise just before retiring.

A citizen of Frederick County, Virginia, contends that the State should board rabbits, and therefore he should not be punished for killing them on his farm, reports the Shenandoah "Herald," of Woodstock, Virginia. When he was haled before the county magistrate, he said that the rabbits were born and reared on his property, that he had fed them, or rather that they had fed themselves upon his foodstuffs grown on the farm, and that they were his separate personal property, and he therefore had a right to kill them whenever he pleased, regardless of any law limiting the

season.

The Court told the man that the State, by right of eminent domain, owned and had exclusive control of everything in the animal life that walks, crawls, swims, or flies, and this being the case, the State had

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the right to make such laws governing the killing of its game as it might see fit.

All of which was news to the litigant, who departed from the Court's presence vowing he intended sending the State of Virginia a bill for expenses for the boarding of a certain number of rabbits, partridges, and other game animals on his farm since their birth, and he intended to see that the State of Virginia paid him its board bill for them.

From the "Methodist Recorder:"

Our Mrs. Blunderby made a remark that has charmed us all recently. She often does make such remarks, and this particular one came from her lips when she was discovered by Mrs. Perkins in our museum. A shower may have accounted for her presence there, as she had handed no umbrella to the man at the turnstile; but however that may have been, she was apparently quite interested in the Grecian Room, where Mrs. Perkins found her. "Fancy meeting you here!" said Mrs. Perkins. "I didn't know you were interested in things like these." "Oh, yes, indeed," said Mrs. Blunderby, with just a touch of hauteur, "I often come here. I just delight in iniquities."

It is not many years since the razorback hog of the region below Messrs. Mason and Dixon's celebrated line was the most despised and rejected of the porcine family. Now he has become its aristocrat. Richmond dealers are sending out circulars offering his hams at the majestic rate of $1.15 per pound.

Captain Loveless, relates the "Christian Register," had strong objections to what he called the "new minister's highbrow talk." The captain's own language was of a primitive and unadorned variety, and nothing pleased him more than a chance to translate the minister's remarks to another old retired mariner, Captain Williams. The latter was deaf, and the minister's voice often failed to reach him. One night at a neighborhood gathering Captain Williams, in the course of a vivid narrative, had referred to the "big fire in '81." "Was it the consensus of opinion," said the minister, "that the conflagration was the result of some accident or the work of an Incendiary?" "Hey?" said deaf Captain

Williams, turning to his faithful friend for light. "What he wants to know," called Captain Loveless, in his shrillest tone, "is whether the big fire was sot or ketched."

We are very apt to underestimate the value and importance of country stores. Garver Brothers' Store, in Strasburg, Ohio, a village with less than 1,000 inhabitants, does a million dollars' worth of business each year. The Outlaw Trading Post, of Winner, South Dakota (population 3,000), has a yearly turnover of $850,000. Lyden Department Store, in the Washington village of that name (population 1,000), has a gross revenue of $750,000 per annum. Many such instances could be cited.

The

The psychology of propaganda was ex plained in this way by an advertising expert at a recent dinner: "A boy boarded an excursion steamer," he said. "Every bench and camp-chair was occupied. The boy devised a trick. 'Seen the whale?' he began to ask the excursionists near him. "Tied to the pier on the other side. His whale story was laughed at. But he kept on repeating it. Gradually, one by one, the passengers got up and crossed over. The boy got a seat. Soon he could have had a Th hundred seats. For the whale story had at last got in its work. Everybody had hurried off so as not to miss the whale. He sat alone for some time. Finally he hopped up and rushed to the other side of t the boat, muttering, 'Maybe there is a whale there, after all.'"

G. A. Simmons, of Conway, Arkansas, writes as follows:

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HE following highly modern advertisement is sent us as appearing in a Florida paper:

"For rent: Handsome bungalowette with a garagette, kitchenette, bathette, parlorette, and porchette."

The General Motors Company of Detroit, Michigan, has announced the staggering sum of money which will be expended by the company in advertising during 1927. Between twenty and thirty million dollars has been budgeted for advertising next year in contrast to their five million dollars expenditure of four years ago. Advertising must pay!

"How is your hearing now?"

"Yes. It is a lovely day, isn't it?"

The first speaker raises his voice: "I said, 'How is your hearing now?" "

"No. I'm still making the seven-twentythree."

"I said" (in a tremendous shout), "How is your hearing now?""

"Oh, much better, thank you."

A red cap porter of the Grand Central Station, New York City, is quoted by the "Times" as follows:

"Women are not as generous as men in tipping, but neither do they give us as heavy loads to carry. Times have changed, boss. Ten years ago the heaviest bags belonged to the women; to-day they belong to the men. Women these days travel light."

"The example was recently cited," notes the "Record of Christian Work," "of the zeal of one woman who was at, the forefront in all church work, and whose tombstone bore the inscription: "This is the only stone she ever left unturned.'"

Do any of our readers remember the following poem of fifty years ago? The boy slid out his slippery sled

The very first time that it snowed;
But when he struck a gravel bed,

Good gracious! how that slid sled
slowed;

Then this lad's sled, swift sliding, slid
Adown a slippery steep hillside;
"Twas singular the way it did,

This lad's swift slid sled slickly slide;
His sire strode forth to call him back;
The sly sharp sledder misconstrued;
And slapped his slipper on the track-
My! how that slipped sled slowed, slid,
slued;

But while this little sledded clown Upon the slippery sliding played, He struck a team-the team sat downThe sledded slider slick was slayed. According to the American Automobile Association, there are now twelve million motor campers in this country who tour through the forty-eight States at one time or another, living in their cars and seeing America first at an average daily expense of ten dollars.

A theater magnate of the West coast has won the reputation of being a great diplomat and a smart politician on account of 'the friendly meeting and entertainment provided for all visitors of importance. Any one of any consequence in the film industry who enters his office will find a picture of himself or herself in a neat gold frame on the theater magnate's desk. The magnate has worked out the following system for putting himself in the good graces of important callers: He has in his private office a complete file of photographs of all

the leading movie people. When any one of several hundred stars calls and is announced from the outer office, a quick transition of pictures is made. As the star walks into the inner sanctum his own picture is prominently placed on the desk of the magnate, who boasts of never having any friction with the temperamental film artists.

"Can I be of any assistance?" asked a sympathetic onlooker of a motorist who was having trouble with his car.

"How is your vocabulary, stranger?"
"I am a minister, sir."
"Pass on, stranger."

From the Boston "Globe:"

He dashed into the police station at midnight, explaining that his wife had been missing since eight o'clock that morning, and asking that search be made for her. "Her description," said the sergeant. "Height?"

"I-I don't know!"
"Weight?"

The husband shook his head vaguely.
"Color of eyes?"

"Er-average, I expect."

"Do you know how she was dressed?" "I expect she wore her coat and hat. She took the dog with her."

"What kind of a dog?"

"Brindle bull terrier, weight 141⁄2 pounds, four dark blotches on his body, shaded from gray to white. Round, blackish spray over the left eye, white stub tail, three white legs and right front leg brindled, all but two toes. A small nick in the left ear, a silver link collar, with-"

"That'll do!" gasped the sergeant. "We'll find the dog!"

The New York "Daily Mirror" endeavors to build circulation by ever-changing weekly contests. After two years of this effort they have come to asking their readers to "jazz up the names of the old songs," and offer as examples: "A Kiss in the Dark-until I've seen you in the daylight," "Where'd You Get Those Eyes-they don't match," etc.

A subscriber to a paper once edited by Mark Twain wrote him, stating he had found a spider in his paper and wanted to know if it meant good or bad luck. Mark replied:

"Old Subscriber: Finding a spider in your paper was neither good luck nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant is not advertising, so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door, and live a life of undisturbed peace afterward." From "Punch:"

"I say an awfully funny thing happened to me just as I was on my way here five minutes ago-stop me if you've heard it before, won't you?"

Not long ago a train on the Long Island Railroad ran very gently off the track. While most of the passengers fumed and fretted or slept as they waited for relief, a group of three friends were observed killing the time with a simple form of anagram. The game consisted in thinking of from five to eight letters from which words could be made. The game is limited only by the ingenuity of the players. starter, what words can you make from the following combination of letters: Taaro, kenfi, tysaure, upsanobe?

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Answer to last week's limerick-anagram: "Rhea's," "Hera's," "shear," "hears," "share," "hares."

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Volume 144

"The Same Smith "

U

PON Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, Senator-elect for a full term and Senator-designate for the filling out of an unexpired term, rests the responsibility of deciding whether or not the question of his right to a seat because of excessive expenditures in the primary shall be precipitated upon the Senate at

this short session. Governor Small has

offered him appointment to the position made vacant by the death of Senator McKinley. As this issue of The Outlook goes to press Colonel Smith has neither accepted nor declined to accept the appointment. The opinion has been prevalent in Washington that he will do neither the one nor the other, but will permit the place to remain vacant until the end of this Congress. If he does so, Illinois will be deprived of half the representation to which it is entitled in the Senate, but, from the standpoint of Governor Small and Colonel Smith, something will be gained. By offering Colonel Smith the appointment Governor Small has recorded his belief in the legality and regularity of Smith's nomination and election. And this may constitute some fortification of Colonel Smith's position when he comes to make the fight for a seat in the Congress to which he was elected.

If Colonel Smith should accept the appointment, he will be resisted at the door of the Senate quite as vigorously as if he had waited until the opening of the Seventieth Congress. This became apparent, even before the appointment was made, when Republican Senators urged Smith not to come to Washington with an appointment. As soon as the appointment was offered Smith, the Reed Committee rushed into the Senate a specially prepared preliminary report on expenditures in Smith's behalf and preparations were made generally for the fight to declare him disqualified. The view that the taint which may attach to his election does not attach to his appointment did not gain favor among Senators. The feeling was expressed in the laconic statement that "he would be the same Smith both times." This rea

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soning may be unsound, but its unsoundness would not prevent consumption of much of the Senate's time in urging it. If Smith should present his credentials at this session, business would be delayed and an extra session might become

necessary.

Admitting Alien Wives

and Children

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HE amendment to admit, regardless of quota restrictions, 35,000 wives and children of aliens who came to the United States before July 1, 1926, and who have applied for naturalization, was looked upon by the thirty-seven Senators who voted against it as "the opening wedge in the break-down of the Restrictive Immigration Act." By the thirtynine who voted for it, thereby sending the amendment to the House of Representatives for action, it was considered sentatives for action, it was considered a humane and practicable remedy for an unfortunate result of immigration restriction.

The amendment's wise specification of the families of immigrants who came bethe families of immigrants who came before the present Immigration Law became effective justifies its passage. The immigrants affected entered the United States with the legitimate expectation that their families could follow them. Immigrants since the passage of the law, on the contrary, were able to know that they might not be able to send for their families. It is proper to alleviate the unhappy separations of the first class of immigrants. The separations of the later immigrants are on their own responsibility; and humanitarian considerations must give way to those of policy.

The Menace to the

Federal Reserve System

OMETHING less than a year ago The

Outlook published an article which discussed the question, "Is the Federal Reserve System in Danger?" The article was evoked by the present unprecedented spread of branch banking throughout the country. Under existing Federal banking laws, branch banking— that is, branches outside the city of the

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original bank-can be undertaken only by State banks; and for several years the competition of the State banks, with their branches, has gone very hardly with the National banks, confined as they are to their chosen headquarters cities. The article related that, as a result of this competition, many National banks throughout the country were surrendering their National charters and enrolling themselves as State banks, with the consequence that the Federal Reserve System, the foundation of which is the National banks, was being steadily undermined.

It is, of course, to remedy this state of things that the McFadden Banking Bill was introduced, having been designed to accord to National banks the same privileges in branch banking as are at present enjoyed by the State banks. The McFadden Bill has received the approval of both houses of Congress; but the difference between the Senate and the House over the so-called Hull Amendment, which would restrict the branches of National banks hereafter in States which do not permit branch banks, has so far prevented the measure from becoming law.

So serious has the situation become, developing along the lines indicated in The Outlook's article, that the Comptroller of the Currency has made an urgent appeal in his report to Congress for prompt enactment of the McFadden Bill.

The Comptroller declares that there is "a steady decline in the relative strength of the National banking system," and insists that some such meassure as the McFadden Bill is requisite as a means of "resuscitation." During the year ending October 1 no fewer than 87 National banks left the National system and took out State charters, carrying with them an aggregate of $560,000,000 in resources. Only 29 State banks, with resources of $235,000,000, obtained National charters in the same period.

Such a state of affairs certainly needs to be remedied. This point will be generally conceded, quite apart from any differences that may exist as to the efficacy of the McFadden Bill in this direc

tion or as to the soundness or the unsoundness of the Hull Amendment.

A Victory for Arbitration

THE

HE involution and complex diplomacy of the various garmentmakers' strikes in New York City are as hard to follow as the doings and talkings of the League of Nations. The strike that has just been settled by an arbitration board consisting of three members of Governor Smith's advisory commission for reorganizing the garment trade called out some 20,000 or more workers employed in several hundreds of contractors' shops. They belonged to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and their quarrel was with the American Association of Cloak and Suit Manufacturers. Previously a settlement had been obtained as regards some 15,000 workers of the New York Cloakmakers' Union and their employers. The outlook for general peace accordingly is now better than it has seemed for many months.

The conditions in this general industry are complex because not only workers and manufacturers but also contractors and sub-contractors not belonging to the employers' associations are concerned. The present settlement is said to meet all reasonable demands of the employees which related chiefly to methods of employment, discharge, seasonal conditions, and contractual relations, although it also includes a moderate reduction as to hours of labor and a minimum wage provision. The agreement reads like an international protocol.

The moderate members of the union regard the settlement as a triumph over the "Communists," for better terms are now secured than the radicals had been able to obtain in the previous settlement made for the 15,000 employees as stated above. Diplomacy is better than war even in the garment trade.

A proposed addition to the New York skyline-it looks more like an engineering feat than an architectural triumph drafted various New York State labor laws.

The Special Commissioner's investigation found, for New York State, that the purpose of the parole law as an intermediary stage to complete freedom for diary stage to complete freedom for

prisoners and its potential value as an incentive to reform are largely lost be cause of improper administration. The basis for parole in New York has become practically the mere failure to violate prison laws, rather than the more difficult standard of reasonable probability that the applicant for parole will remain at liberty without violating the law. But "it is wholly unfair to conclude from the results that parole has been tried and found wanting." Commissioner Alger believes that the parole. system should be given a continued trial in New York State under three full-time commissioners, entirely alert to their function, rather than under the present part-time board, and with the paroled prisoners supervised by an adequate force of parole officers.

For prison reform the Special Commissioner recommended principally a stronger central control over the four State prisons and the State reformatory, and a reclassification, by prisons, to keep boys and young men from being confined with hardened criminals.

Babel Outdone

IT

is announced that a building 1,208 feet high may be constructed on Forty-second Street, New York, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, to accommodate 110 stories.

This is a nearer approach to heaven than the celebrated edifice at Babylon made. If built, it will be 416 feet higher than the Woolworth Building and will contain 50 more floors. It will be 224 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower, which is now the tallest structure in the world. The need of so tall a structure does not exist, but as an example of human. endeavor it is awesome to contemplate. Man will not restrain his energies. An obstacle is something to overcome, and overcome it he will, mainly because it is an obstacle. If he could, he would probably throw the earth out of its periphery just to see what would happen.