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SECRETARIES, social workers, superintendents, matrons, housekeepers, dietitians, cafeteria managers, companions, governesses, mothers' helpers. The Richards Bureau, 68 Barnes St., Providence.

HELP WANTED

EARN $110 to $250 monthly, expenses paid, as railway traffic inspector. We secure position for you after completion of 3 months' home study course or money refunded. Excellent opportunities. Write for free booklet CM-27. Standard Business Training Institution, Buffalo, N. Y.

HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN. Nation-wide demand for highsalaried men and women. Past experience unnecessary. We train you by mail and put you in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, fine living, interesting work, quick advancement, permanent. Write for free book, "YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY." Lewis Hotel Training Schools, Suite N-5842, Washington, D. C.

LECTURERS: Clergy who can speak on current events and who would be interested in several engagements each month in the churches of their State. Good payment. State qualifications in first letter. 6,573, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

AN English woman, now engaged as companion, wants a similar position or one as housekeeper; speaks French and German. Will travel. Address Miss Bligh, 5930 City Line Ave., Overbrook, Philadelphia.

CAPABLE, refined lady desires position as companion or mother's helper. Best references. 6,602, Outlook.

CAPABLE, refined young woman, fond of children, as mother's assistant. Willing to assist with sewing and light household duties. 6,612, Outlook.

EXPERIENCED young woman, speaking French, German, English, seeks position as governess, traveling companion, or housekeeper. Excellent references. Josephine Dossenbach, Box B, Leonia, N. J.

NURSE, capable, refined, desires position with invalid. Excellent recommendations. Willing to travel or go country. 6,597, Outlook.

PRIMARY teacher desires position as companion or governess. Used to travel. Able to take charge of correspondence; good voice for reading; genial; adaptable. References. Refined home wanted more than high salary. 6,606, Outlook.

WANTED, by Canadian university graduate, position as governess or teacher. 6,611, Outlook.

WORKING housekeeper, Protestant, good manager, wants entire charge for one in family in Philadelphia. 6,604, 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.

LADIES-Let Patricia Dix help you with that next club or study paper. Information upon request. Rates reasonable. 6,298, Outlook.

CANADIAN, woman, going South for winter with small daughter and maid, will take in charge another child or young girl. Strictest personal references must be given. 6,603, Outlook.

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By the Way

years ago there were fifty popular story magazines. To-day there are over three hundred. Unfortunately, many of them are of the confession-tale group and have warranted the label of "Gutter Literature" which has been given them. Book publication has also increased in volume. There are now printed an average of twenty books per day, compared to the average of six per day four years ago.

The "Arkansas Gazette" wonders if the magazines one finds in the dentist's waiting-room are put there to indicate how long the dentist has been practicing.

Press items of the week tell us that every ten persons engaged in private business and industry in the United States are supporting an eleventh who is totally dependent upon public funds. . . . Billy Sunday is reported as having received $18,500 for his share of the offerings at a recent six weeks' evangelistic campaign in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. ... The troubles of a Newark, New Jersey, theater owner with his union spotlight operator are chronicled. He asked the spot-light man to stay an extra hour for a rehearsal. The regular rate of payment is $2 per hour. The operator replied that he would have to charge the union rate for the extra hour-that rate being $11.66. In the same theater the orchestra were asked to wear velvet coats provided by the management. donned the coats, but stated that it would mean a payment of $5 more per man each week. . . . A new excuse for the busy office man has been invented. Instead of replying, "He's in a conference," a young lady secretary in Wall Street coined a new "turn-away" phrase, "He's in a temper."

They

It takes about 1,500 nuts to hold an automobile together, but one can scatter it all over the landscape.

Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, received serious newspaper publicity for his claim. that the Volstead Act is a force for evil because it has forced many women "who used to grab their weekly expense money from a tipsy husband's pocket to go to work."

Prohibition enforcement

agents in San Francisco were fooled recently by the rum-runners' subterfuge of smuggling in real liquor when supposedly posing for a motion picture of a ship unloading "prop" cases of liquor. The Federal agents turned the tables the next week by staging a fake moving-picture

scene in the main street of Watsonville, California. While the merchants were enticed from their stores by the shouts of the film director to the supposed actors, the sleuths entered every store and found large supplies of liquor in four of them. . . . The booze stream continues to flow into San Francisco, however. Ned Greene, the leading enforcement agent, had been puzzled by the smiling countenances of the rum-runners when boat-loads of contraband were seized. He understood their unconcern when he found liquor insurance papers in the pocket of one of the men captured. The boat and contents were insured for a safe landing and at a surprisingly low rate. It is said that the very small percentage of captures along the coast has led to the very nominal premium rates for the insured. Mr. Greene has asked Washington to pass upon the legality of this in

surance.

"Why didn't you send your man to mend my electric bell?"

"I did, madam; but, as he rang three times and got no answer, my man decided there was nobody home."

Movie items of the week include the announcement of a film called "Her Husband" starring Count Salm, husband of Millicent Rogers, and the report of the return to the films of Theda Bara, former screen "vamp." She will now appear in two-reel comedy features. Up to the time of this writing no humor has been seen in the fact that her comedy director will be Richard Wallace, formerly an undertaker.

A new trade trick is reported in the "New Yorker." An automobile purchaser decides on an expensive club coupé, but hesitates at the prospect of paying the full list price for it. A thought occurs to him. He visits a second-hand auto shop and pays $100 for the most decrepit motor he can find. He then goes back for his club coupé and is granted a turn-in allowance of $475 for his old car.

United States Attorney Buckner tells a story about a Unitarian minister who, when asked to whom he addresses his prayers, replied, "To Whom It May Concern."

Here is another riddle. The answer will be printed next week:

In my first my second sat,
My third and fourth I ate.

In writing to the above advertisers, please mention The Outlook

Here are Ugly Facts

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About Our Country

Why the Blackjack Triumphs
and the Nightstick Fails

THE murderer's hand is 9 times as likely to strike you down in the United
States as it is in England. A New Yorker's home is 36 times as
likely to be robbed as the home of a Londoner. More than twice as many
people are murdered in Chicago in a year as in all England and Wales.

We live in a criminal's paradise. Our courts are in

efficient, often almost powerless, always paralyzed by technicalities. Our public is mush-minded; it sympathizes with a spectacular criminal. Our police are frequently corrupt, our juries too kindly, and the pardoning authorities too lenient with criminals. Bail is too easy and legal tricks too often win immunity for the criminal. In one year in Chicago 426 defendants jumped $1,500,000 worth of bail.

There is no crime wave here. There is a permanent crime business, organized like any other, and comparable in extent and resources to our major industries. Seventy-five years ago England was the most lawless nation on earth. England conquered the criminal.

Must we fail where Britain has so brilliantly succeeded?

In the hope of arousing and shocking the American public out of its good-natured apathy, THE WORLD'S WORK is publishing a series of articles on the Crime Situation. The author is Lawrence Veiller, president of the Criminal Courts Committee of the Charity Organization of New York. He is the first to present the subject from a really international point of view, for he has just returned from England, where he investigated the sharply contrasting conditions for us. He does not treat his subject with kid gloves. He spares no one's feelings. He reveals much that is startling, much that is exasperating, much that is revolting. Do not miss his extraordinary articles.

Is this Country Really Civilized?
Read the Amazing Articles on Crime in

THE WORLD'S WORK

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Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1926, by The Outlook Company. By subscription $5.00 a year for the United States and Canada. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56.

HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor NATHAN T. PULSIFER, Vice-President

ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary ARTHUR E. CARPENTER, Advertising Manager LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Contributing Editor

Volume 142

Senator Wheeler in Legal Good Standing

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NITED STATES Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, has scored another, perhaps the final, victory in the effort to clear himself of the charge of unlawful conduct in connection with oil-land manipulations. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has dismissed the conspiracy indictment against him on the ground that it fails to charge a violation. of the laws of the United States.

Legal proceedings against Wheeler began when he was pressing the investigation of Harry M. Daugherty, then Attorney-General of the United States. Wheeler and his friends have always claimed that revenge for what he did to Daugherty is the motive back of the prosecution. It has been a hard-fought contest, and the score is now three to nothing in Wheeler's favor-exoneration by a Senate committee of which Borah was chairman, acquittal before a Montana court of a fraud charge, and now dismissal by the District of Columbia Court of an indictment charging conWhile an appeal spiracy to defraud.

would lie from this latter decision, it appears fairly certain that Senator Wheeler did not commit a criminal offense by his oil-land dealings.

Unfortunately, the question of whether or not he committed an ethical offense cannot be determined. That he was associated with men who did commit offenses is certain. Gordon Campbell,

named with Wheeler in the conspiracy indictment just dismissed, was convicted. on a fraud charge in a Montana court and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary.

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grounds. The Court sustained the demurrer on one point, without considering several other points upon which Wheeler relied for acquittal perhaps more than on the one sustained.

The Court held that the law does not limit the number of prospecting permits that may be issued to one man. The regulations issued by the Department of the Interior do, however, fix the limit at

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a single permit. The Court rules that this regulation is not in conformity with the law, and is therefore void. In the opinion of the Court, the Department of the Interior confused prospecting permit with development lease, and, since only one lease may be granted to any particular person under the law, the Department concluded that only one permit may be granted. The Court pointed out the error in this conclusion by showing that wherever, as in Alaska, Congress intended to limit the number of permits it did so expressly.

There is a significance in the decision in the Wheeler case which goes beyond its effect upon Senator Wheeler.

If it stands, the Department of the Interior apparently must modify its method. of dealing with the prospecting-permit situation. A number of Western Senators and others are greatly pleased with the decision for this reason. Members of the Public Lands Committee, who toured the West last summer, are quoted in the daily press as saying that this is only one of a number of points on which the Department of the Interior has gone outside the law in issuing restrictive regulations. Senator Oddie, of Nevada, is quoted as seeing in the decision a means of escape from "law by bureaucracy" and of correction of "a great deal of bungling by the Interior Department in administration of the land and other laws."

Coincidentally with the dismissal of the Wheeler indictment there came another echo of the scandals that shook Washington and the Nation for a year. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, and ruled that he must serve the sentence imposed upon him by the trial court.

The Shenandoah Findings

HE loss of the Shenandoah was "part

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of the price that must inevitably be paid in the development of any new and hazardous art." Nobody was to blame. It was, as the old law writers used to say, "an act of God."

This is the finding of the Naval Court of Inquiry, submitted to Secretary Wil

bur after long and careful consideration. The Court recommends that no further proceedings in connection with the wreck be prosecuted. More significant, it recommended that development of lighterthan-air craft go forward with even increased vigor."

While the Navy Department and the commander and crew of the Shenandoah were cleared of any negligence or lack of caution, the findings of the Court indicate that some things were not entirely as they should have been. The report discourages for the future anything in the nature of exhibition flights unless under decidedly exceptional conditions. It praises the discretion and courage of the dead commander, but it indicates that if he had followed the advice of his meteorologist to change his course, the track of the storm might have been avoided. It holds that the strength of the ship had not been impaired by changes in construction, but that the reduction in the number of automatic gas valves from eighteen to eight was inadvisable. refutes most of the arguments of structural weakness, negligence on the part of the crew, and misconduct on the part of superiors made by Captain Anton Heinen, Colonel William Mitchell, and Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne.

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The findings of the Court were unani

mous.

The Alien Narcissus Taboo

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HE restrictions on the entry of narcissus bulbs, authorized by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace three years ago, went into effect without modification on January 1. Secretary Jardine made his ruling on the next to the last day of the year, after having the record of the hearings under advisement since early in November. The effect of the quarantine is that, for commercial purnarcissus bulbs may not be poses, brought into the United States. They may be imported, in limited numbers and under strict supervision, for experimental and certain other purposes, such as increasing by propagating in this country from imported stock the supply of any variety of which there is a shortage.

Bulb importers and bulb growers have been at war over this question, the former, of course, insisting that narcissus bulbs be admitted and the latter that they be excluded. Secretary Jardine holds, however, that neither of these groups has an interest that is compelling.

He admits that the quarantine acts as a protection for the domestic bulb industry, but insists that this is incidental and not to be considered in determining the question. The compelling interest, he holds, is that of agriculture in general.

It appears that narcissus bulbs are hosts of three insect pests-two bulb flies and an eel-worm. One of the bulb flies is destructive of onions and the eel-worm

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of alfalfa. It is admitted that all of these pests already exist in the United States, but the Secretary holds that not more than a small fraction of one per cent of domestic narcissus plantings are infested and that eradication is possible wherever infestation has occurred. The evidence brought out at the hearings, he holds, shows the danger of general infestation from imported bulbs to be such that "no one charged with the safeguarding of American agriculture could do other than restrict the entry of these bulbs." He regrets that "in protecting our various crops against pests and diseases some interests must suffer."

There is some consolation for the importer and the user of imported bulbs in the fact that of the nine classes of bulbs

originally marked for exclusion eight are exempted for the time being, at least. These are glory of the snow, snowdrop, squill, crown imperial, guineahen-flower, grape hyacinth, ixia, and winter aconite. The Secretary holds that the evidence has not disclosed a risk which would warrant exclusion at this time. Further investigations are to be made, however,

and importations of these bulbs will be subject meanwhile to inspection and such other safeguards as may be thought

necessary.

Many a layman-and horticulturist too, for that matter-still finds it hard to understand why, if the peril was so great, the doors were deliberately left open for three years (long enough to admit countless flies and worms); and why, if the peril was not so great, the doors needed to be closed at all.

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Clean Shows Win

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YEAR ago there was a great to-do about obscene and risqué plays in the New York and Chicago theaters. Producers saw themselves getting rich by putting on a drama a little more shocking than the last. A year's experience has pricked that bubble. They have learned that the public as a whole wants clean shows.

New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia turned a profit for plays such as "The Ladies of the Evening," "The Firebrand," "Desire Under the Elms," and "The Demi-Virgin." Whatever the dramatic merits of any one of them may have been, each of these was the subject of discussion because of its capacity to shock the common sense of decency; but when they went out "on the road" and attempted to draw crowds in the smaller cities the box-offices registered deficit after deficit, and the totals began to show up in red ink on the producers' books.

On the other hand, plays like "Lightnin'," "The Bat," "The First Year," "Turn to the Right," and "Seventh Heaven" were not only solid successes in New York, but they are still reaping large returns from tours into every corner of the country. Salaciousness on the stage draws a certain few, but the wise manager will heed the experience of others; that is, that Americans in the home towns prefer wholesome plays.

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