Bermuda

Real Estate

Just the Place for a bright, energetic young woman who is looking for a place to operate as an inn and tea room. This place is located in

PITTSFIELD, MASS. in the "Heart of the Berkshire Hills," on the trunk road from New York State into Massachusetts, and is conveniently situated to the business section of the city. The house, which was formerly a private residence, is surrounded by beautiful and spacious grounds, is now open and is equipped to accommodate forty guests, a most ideal place for a tourist inn. For particulars communicate with the EATON, CRANE & PIKE COMPANY, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

A

California POMONA, CALIFORNIA 4-room bunga

For Sale,

low with sleeping-porch. All conveniences. Newly decorated. Good residential section. For price and further information write Miss L. KNEEN, Lock Box 212, Springfield, N. J.

Connecticut

DO YOU WISH TO OWN A
PLACE IN CONNECTICUT

on the shore of Long Island Sound, within easy commuting distance (less than one hour) of New York, where there is a private bathing beach and clean water to bathe in; where there is a safe harbor for your boat, and where you will enjoy knowing your neighbors; a place near schools and churches, with good roads and town improvements? If you do, write to

REED G. HAVILAND, South Norwalk, Conn.

A Mart of the Unusual

Hand Embroideries for Christmas Gifts

American Workshops in Greece offer the exquisite embroideries of that land -hand-bags, hand-woven raw silk luncheon sets,, handkerchiefs, household linens-original in quality and rare workmanship.

Value-Distinction-Beauty together with the fact that you help a thousand women in employment. Write for catalog and price lists. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GREECE, INC., Investment Bldg., Washington, D. C.

GREETING CARDS

SPECIAL assortment of 12 beautiful steel engraved Christmas cards with fancy lined envelopes to match. Each design different. All for $1. These are 15 and 25 cent cards. If not entirely satisfied money will be promptly refunded. Scholl Studios, 34 South 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

TIMELY warning, from "Punch:"

It is less than two months now to January-the period of frosts and pipebursts. You'll be wanting a plumber then, so send now.

A suspicious subscriber writes in to inform us that the recent California earthquake scare was Florida propaganda.

The curious one asked a Negro who was whitewashing a fence, "Sam, why don't you get a brush with more bristles in it?" "Wha' foh?" replied the old man. "Why, if you had a good brush you could do twice as much work."

"Yassah, but Ah ain't got twicet as much wu'k to do."

From the "Passing Show:"

Visitor: "Isn't it difficult to keep your household budget straight?"

Mrs. Newlywed: "My dear-it's terrible. This month I've had to put in four mistakes to make mine balance correctly!"

A Cuban subscriber sends us the following true story:

An American family, preparing to leave Cuba, were selling their household effects, among which was an old-fashioned motto which contained the picture of their daughter who had died. After removing the photograph they sold the framed motto to The a Cuban who cannot read English. motto now hangs on the wall in the Cuban's house with the photo of himself (who Above his picis very much alive) in it. ture in pretty gilt letters are the words:

THOU ART GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

The Bureau of Census reports that the production of radio apparatus jumped 215.5 The output of manufacper cent in 1925. tured parts totaled $170,390,572 in value as compared with $54,000,470 in 1923, the last There were 2,180,622 tube census year. sets manufactured in 1925. The number of tubes jumped from 4,687,400 in 1923 to 23,934,658 in 1925-an increase of 410.6 per cent. A strong trend toward higher-priced tube sets is noticed in the Census report.

STATIONERY

WOMEN.

Manchester

Jazz, after all, says the "Guardian," has its uses, as a correspondent's anecdote points out. The vicar had employed a man to do some painting in the church, and found him plying his brush briskly to the whistled air of a syncopated song. "A somewhat-er-secular melody," said the vicar, hesitatingly. "Could you not whistle something-er-slightly more appropriate?" Two hours later he returned to find the painter whistling the "Old Hundredth," his brush moving slowly in uni"Dear me," he said thoughtfully, after watching a minute or two; "there was that other tune. Perhaps, after all, you might whistle that again!"

son.

Father to his bright offspring: "When I was your age, I was glad to get dry bread to eat."

Bright offspring: "You're much better off now that you are living with us, aren't you, daddy?"

SITUATIONS WANTED

AMERICAN Protestant, college educated young lady, experienced in household management and child training, desires position as managing housekeeper for cultured and refined gentleman. Unusual references. 7,359, Outlook.

CLUB hostess, supervising housekeeper, household manager (52). Refined, tactful. References. Lewis trained. Experienced. 7,358, Outlook.

ENGLISH woman as governess. Experienced children over 5. Anywhere. 7,355, Outlook.

GOVERNESS-companion-secretary. Position wanted at once by college girl. Personality, capable, excellent health. Will travel. References exchanged. 7,352, Outlook.

REFINED American lady as secretary, companion-nurse, or housekeeper for elderly person. 60 Curtis Ave., Wallingford, Conn.

RELIABLE, practical, and capable American Protestant wishes position of trust-to manage home, care motherless children or child, or companion. Excellent references. 7,353, Outlook.

TWO sisters, educated, capable, desire positions in refined family going South for the winter. 7,354, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six months' nurses' aid course is offered by the Lying-In Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. Aids are provided with maintenance and given a monthly allowance of $10. For further particulars address Directress of Nurses.

SCHOLARSHIPS available, Nationally known boys' school. 7,345, Outlook.

EXPERT help for all kinds of club papers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reasonable. 7,262, Outlook.

WANTED-By competent mother and teacher, child to board-one who needs to be in country. Have now one five year old child of prominent educator. Mrs. M. Grendler, Lake Grove, L. I., N. Y.

Free for All

I beg you to reconsider this. Heretofore I have sent you intelligent and spontaneously real poetry. Since you didn't accept those verses of actual merit, I have tried you with this one twice. It is just the type The Outlook publishes-without inspiration, without intense originality, without anything to make it a poem. Outlook, in the whole history of its existence, has never published a poem. Hence I am begging you to continue your vapid policy and publish this one. You will discover that it will titillate your admirably stupid and conventional readers.

I

Belovingly yours,

The

PHILLIPS KLOSS.

Ambassadors of Americanism

HAVE just been reading your editorial "'Hundred Per Cents' Abroad" in the number of August 11. As an American who resided in Japan as teacher from 1916 to 1921 and in Germany as student from 1921 till last month, I have only heartily to commend the sentiments expressed.

In the first place, the typical American tourist is too often more a person of means than of culture. In 1922 I was on an express going from Frankfort to Munich. There happened to be some compatriots in the coach who began a conversation. "My daughter," said one lady, "is studying in a cemetery in the Middle West." As one of two gentlemen temporarily left the compartment, the other said: "You know So-and-So's brand of bread, don't you? That man is the maker, and is worth a million dollars."

With such a background, it is not remarkable that many traveling Americans offend against the taste of those through whose countries they pass. A few months ago the German university town where I was studying received the visit of a large party of American hotel-keepers. They were taken to an outdoor fête by their German hosts. En route they passed a young wandering apprentice from Upper Bavaria dressed in the characteristic feathered hat, jacket, and short leather pants. A group of Americans stopped and actually bought the young man's hat from off his head for $5. Decency prevented their purchasing the remainder of his costume. Is it any wonder that the next day the local papers carried articles on American naïveness? Naïveness is indeed a mild expression to use.

To the same town this summer there came two hundred American physicians. They were the guests of the faculty of medicine of the University. The climax of the entertainment was a banquet. On this occasion, so one of the leading professors of medicine present later told me, the Americans imbibed quite freely of Rhenish wine. An American woman doctor became so hilarious that she seized a bouquet of roses from the table and threw it in the professor's face. Later the two hundred guests united in asking the local faculty to sing a new piece of popular German ragtime. This request was politely refused as being "too childish." Is it not quite natural that the professor, in referring to a resident American of quite different type, added, "Is X a real American? He is a man of such fine parts." OWEN WALKER.

Grenoble, France.

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T'S mighty rare to find a man who is taking what life has for him.

You've got to be something to get the keenest and deepest pleasures, and this world of ours is so incredibly rich and varied that only a developed personality gets even a glimpse of the Joyous Round which its possibilities offer.

The Fun of Growing

"Happiness consists in this," said one of the wisest of men (Spinoza) "that one's powers are increased." The more you grow, the more there isand the more different kinds appear. The very sense of growing is one of the most exciting things this existence contains.

This growth of mind and feeling is what we call Culture. Always, people have recognized that one great source of culture is the stored-up World Literature.

There isn't anything sacred, or solemn, or hidden about "Literature.'

Literature Belongs to You

A lot of men and women in the last 7,000 years have observed other men, and women, and life; they have had emotions so keen, ideas so moving that they had to put them on paper (or burnt bricks, or papyrus, or vellum, or what-not). Those writings which convey the most significant thoughts, which pass on feeling most vividly, constitute Literature.

Some of it belongs to you.

It is full of knowledge about Man: animal, poet, philosopher, statesman, merchant, fighter. There are things in it that increase your powers, give you more insight into other human beings, wake new ideas in your mind. For Knowledge really is Power; where other qualities are at all equal, it is the man who has thought most who makes the largest material success in life-more important, who gets most out of life.

The Road to Culture

There never was a nation that strove harder for Culture than ours. And it is worth having-simply because it helps you to suck out of life the pleasures that mean most to you.

But nobody ever got Culture from reading good books alone.

You must be interested by what you read in order to have ideas flame up, to start something growing in your own mind.

And when you do find yourself absorbed in the writings of men who have knowledge

and sensitiveness and ideas-then you can't help increasing your own mental stature.

Read What You Like of the Things Worth Reading

THE GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE is a monthly selection from the whole world library of things that are both interesting and worthwhile.

It may be a piece of wisdom scratched on a papyrus by an Egyptian 6,000 years ago; it may be a new story written last year; it may be a memorable saying picked from a newspaper or overheard somewhere; if it is alive, if it is worth reading, it belongs in this magazine -fiction, essays, poetry, history, adventure, character studies, bits of philosophy, humor, epigrams. With such material to choose from, the magazine could not help being truly entertaining. It is good reading-for five minutes, for an hour, for relaxing the sleepless mind after a hard day's work.

But it is a lot more than that.

The Book of Man: Fiction Fiction is the Book of Man. Story writers of this grade help you to understand other human beings and why they act as they do. And all success in business and social life depends on that.

All you've got to do is to discover among the things that count some that you really like.

And we believe you will find THE GOLDEN BOOK MAGAZINE a short cut to this desirable end-as have some hundreds of thousands of other Americans in the last two years.

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Volume 144

A Judge Retires Under Fire

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MPEACHED by the House of Representatives and facing trial by the Senate, Judge George W. English, of Illinois, has resigned from the bench.

In accepting Judge English's resignation the President has acted in accordance with the views of the House managers in the case. The object of the impeachment, the sole object possible in such a case as this, was to remove from office one who had been deemed unfit to perform its duties. As Judge English himself declared in his letter of resignation that he had felt his "usefulness" as a judge had been "impaired," the ground for accepting the resignation was ample and the object of the impeachment was attained. When William W. Belknap, Secretary of War in 1876, resigned after he had been impeached but before the trial had begun, the Senate voted to proceed to the trial, but failed to secure the necessary vote to convict the Secretary. In other cases, as told in the article by Eugene Thackrey in The Outlook last week, four impeached judges have averted trial by resigning from office. Whether Judge English's trial will continue in spite of the resignation remains to be decided; but the House managers have requested the Senate not to proceed with the impeaching trial on November 10, as planned, but to continue the matter until the regular session, which convenes on the first Monday in December, in order that the House of Representatives may have the opportunity of instructing the House managers as to its wishes.

Two weeks before he resigned Judge English, it is reported, emphatically denied he had any intention of resigning. Under the circumstances, his resignation seems like an acknowledgment that the House of Representatives was right in asking for his removal.

November 17, 1926

slow in correcting his own errors, and is reluctant to let go any money he has once received. President Coolidge's proposal, therefore, to use the surplus in the Treasury in paying back to the taxpayer such proportion of the taxes as are not actually needed for the Government has

Wide World

George W. English

rather taken the taxpayer's breath away. For most taxpayers the refund would be very small. A taxpayer with an income of $3,000 would, it is estimated, get a quarter-that is, not a quarter of his income or a quarter of his tax, but a quarter of a dollar, twenty-five cents. It is not the sum that he hopes to receive that takes his breath away, but the generosity of the Government.

The Democrats, speaking with the voice of Senator Simmons, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, attack the President for his humiliating surrender to the Democratic demand for tax reduction, and then say that this rebate will never do, but that the taxes should be reduced.

Secretary Mellon, as head of the Treasury Department, approves of the refund in principle, but says that it

should be carried out by means of a credit to be applied to future tax payments. Perhaps there is a difference be

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tween such a refund and tax reduction, but precisely what the difference is the ordinary taxpayer would be at a loss to say.

At any rate, the President's proposal has stirred up the politicians and given them something to talk about. For that they should be grateful. For the prospect of getting even a quarter of a dollar out of the Government the taxpayer should be grateful. And for the fact that there is more money in the Treasury than was expected the whole country should be grateful. Certainly there is no cause for depression when the only thing that politicians have to fight about is the proper use to be made of the country's prosperity.

Plant-Grown Rubber

MEN

EN and women wear rubber overshoes to keep out the wet. By unique appositeness the guayule plant, indigenous in northern Mexico, lines the space between its stalk and bark with rubber to keep itself from suffering during periods of drought, such as prevail in its native region. Much rubber is now being extracted from the guayule in Mexico. It grows in the Big Bend section of Texas, and the discovery has now been made, it is announced, that it will thrive in the Salinas Valley of California. Experiments are now under way by the interests engaged in extracting

rubber from the shrub in Mexico for extensive planting. That it requires a dry region for its development makes it a valuable accessory to the use of the desert lands in the Southwest, while the success attending its cultivation will afford further relief to American users of rubber from the British monopoly. Seventy per cent of the 850,000,000 pounds of crude rubber now produced is used in the United States. Salinas lies near San Francisco, which is stretching out a friendly hand to the new enterprise.

Squeezing Our Rubber Supply
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VERY one who drives a car or wears a raincoat or uses an eraser or a hose or any other of the hundred and one common articles for which rubber is

needed is concerned in a recent British decision to cut down the output of crude rubber. It means higher prices for everything made of rubber.

The move has been made under the terms of the so-called Stevenson Restriction Plan, which the British Colonial Secretary put into effect in 1922. The purpose of the plan, devised at a time when the market price of rubber had fallen very low, was to restrict production in order to keep prices at a level favorable to the planters in the East Indian colonies. In general, it provided that if the price of rubber rose above one shilling and threepence (about 30 cents) a pound production should be gradually increased, and that if the price fell below this level production should be curtailed. In accordance with this scheme, the Government of Great Britain has determined that exports from her rubber-growing colonies shall be reduced twenty per cent for the coming year.

Americans will recall the many protests of Secretary Hoover and his experts of the Department of Commerce against this policy as applied, not only to rubber, but to other raw materials which the United States must import. Reprisals by the exercise of a similar control of essential materials which the United States produces have been suggested. But it is probable that a far better remedy is the development of other American sources of supply of the things we must have. Investigations by the Department of Commerce and by private

read it often to Secretary Kellogg in his little-boyhood. He seems to have taken it to heart and must repeat it to himself in the Department of State.

The latest evidence of its teaching is the decision to debar Mme. Alexandra Kollontai, the picturesque woman diplomat of Soviet Russia, who has been appointed Minister to Mexico, from entry into the United States because "she has been actively associated with the International Communist subversive movement."

Mme. Kollontai, now in Berlin, where the American Consul-General declined to visa her passport, will have to choose a direct route to Mexico or enter that country by way of Guatemala.

Technically correct, in view of American unwillingness to establish diplomatic relations with the Bolshevik Government, this refusal of a visa to allow Mme. Kollontai to pass through our territory on her way to Mexico City seems, to say the least, excessively cautious. American institutions, we believe, are sufficiently strong and sound to stand the strain of allowing her to land at New York and go south-perhaps, it might be, in a carefully sealed car-to cross the Rio Grande. Not only a somewhat exaggerated concern for the safety of the Constitution is involved, but also a discourtesy to a friendly nation to whom she is accredited as a diplomatic envoy.

The Chinese used to have the custom of erecting wooden screens in front of

The electors must choose from among those who offer themselves for election to Congress. Time was when there were, everything considered, few better positions in the United States than the position of a Representative in Congress, few positions that men coveted more. There may still be few positions that are in all respects better, but there are many positions now that many men had much rather occupy. Members of Congress are not now, by virtue of their position, the outstanding men that members of Congress once were. It may be true, therefore, that better citizens cannot elect better Representatives because better men do not offer themselves for those positions.

We are not undertaking to refute Speaker Longworth's statement that the character of the lower house is as high as it ever was. We might have been willing to accept his statement, unsupported. We are not willing to accept the reasoning by which he supports it.

New York's Record for Violent Deaths

of cultivating rubber in the Philippines and in Liberia. Lately, as recorded in The Outlook, rubber trees have been found thriving in Florida, and the practicability of establishing a rubber industry there is being considered. And, as we have indicated above, there is the

eyes on them to ward off evil spirits. The Administration ought to set up something of the sort off the Port of New York to shield the Statue of Liberty.

Is Congress Improving?

sources.

How to Deal with Bogies "THE

HE gobble-uns '11 git you-if you don't watch out," was the warning of Little Orphant Annie, in Riley's famous poem. Somebody must have

RITING in the "Nation's Business," Speaker Longworth says that "the quality of membership of the lower branch of Congress averages as high as that of any legislative body at any time in any country of the world." He argues that, since the character of citizenship in the United States has improved, it is impossible that the character of Representatives in Congress has deteriorated. In other words, better men would not elect poorer Representatives.

We suppose that the accuracy of Mr. Longworth's premise must be admitted, though improvement in the quality of men is an almost discouragingly slow

Examiner for New York, reports that in the past year there were 5,581 deaths from violence in the great city. The analysis shows that the largest single toll of human life, 1,272, was due to motor mishaps. Hard drinking, not credited to accidents, killed 585 persons, or less than half the number due to autos. Score one, therefore, for prohibition! There were 356 homicides, of which 248 were due to gun-play. The weary of life numbered 994.