Reports from the Province of Quebec state that bootlegging is rife there even under the dispensary system. Liquor is being sold by the bootleggers at one-half the price asked by the Quebec Commission. This bootleg liquor has been traced to the lower St. Lawrence district, but it has been difficult to ascertain its real origin. So serious is the situation that one newspaper, commenting on the Quebec Commission's forecast surplus of $6,000,000, suggests a reduction in the price of liquor as a means of cutting down bootlegging. German newspapers also report many bootleggers in Berlin. There they sell their liquors illegally in order to avoid the high taxes. During the last war a snobbish society matron planned a large party at her residence. At the last minute she found that she lacked a sufficient number of male guests, so she telephoned to the commander of a near-by Army camp, asking him to oblige with some nice soldier boys to dance with the ladies. "But," she added, "please don't send over any Hebrews, you understand?" To her amazement an hour later a dozen strapping darkies in polished boots and pressed uniforms arrived. "I believe a mistake has been made," said the hostess. "Who sent you?" "Commander Goldberg of Camp Blank," was the answer. Testifying before the Committee of the House of Representatives in Washington, Dr. Julius Klein said that about $90,000,000 worth of American moving pictures are exported annually. He argued that the widespread use of our films in South America has created a demand for this country's commodities. "All South America now follows the American styles they see in the movies rather than those of London and Paris," said Dr. Klein. That our pictures are not considered an entirely good influence, however, is evidenced by the recent decree of the President of Bolivia barring all children under thirteen years of age from attending any motion-picture theater. The decree is prefaced by a statement that this action is taken to safeguard the morals and welfare of the children. From the Louisville "Courier-Journal:" "Why are you going to your office in full dress, Bill? Been on a bat?" "No; but the young ladies in my office dress so elaborately I feel that I must measure up." A few weeks ago The Outlook reported the signing of a movie contract with the Metro-Goldwyn Company by Major-General Le Jeune for the United States Marine Corps. The Marines seem to have gone THE OUTLOOK, April 28, 1926. BOYS' CAMPS Sagawatha Lodge Bantam Lake, Connecticut Litchfield Hills, 1,000 ft. elevation, 100 miles from N. Y. C. Cabin camp for 50 boys, 8-14. Land and water sports, riding, shooting, shopwork, tutoring, camp mother, doctor, experi enced counselors. Booklet from Dr J. H. HOBBS, 213 Harrison St., East Orange, N. J., or Lakeside, Litchfield Co., Conu. CAMP CHEEMAUNA FOR BOYS In the Valley Forge hills near Philadelphia. Altitude 600 ft. Private estate. Own natural lake. Land and water sports. Constant supervision. Separate division for little tots. 7th year. Booklet. Mrs. MARY E. GILFILLAN, Paoli, Pa. CAMP SEAPER for Girls ELKINS, N. H. Land and water sports. Dancing, music, and dramatics featured. Fresh vegetables and Guernsey milk. Address Miss Searing's School, 39 Maple Ave., Morristown, N. J., or 2 West 16th St., New York City. Rangeley Camp for Girls Situated on shore overlooking Rangeley Lake, Rangeley, Me., one of the most healthful spots in Maine. Children between the ages of 8-16. June 28 to July 26. For information address Miss GLADYS L. GILMAN, 14 Allen St., Bradford, Mass. SCOLE CHAMPLAIN FRENCH SUMMER CAMP FOR GIRLS Canoeing and other Water Sports Riding, Tennis, Mountain Trips EDWARD D. COLLINS, Director, Middlebury, Vt. The Church Touring Guild President: REV. S. PARKES CADMAN, D.D. TOURS TO EUROPE Arrangements handled by from $345 INCLUDING OCEAN PASSAGE Avoid Imitations ASK for Horlick's The ORIGINAL Safe Milk and Food For INFANTS, Children, Invalids, Nursing Mothers, etc. Sleep Enough? No? Then by all means read this book. BLOOD PRESSURE-HIGH AND LOW By Chester Tilton Stone, M.D. Giving the causes (lack of sleep is only one) of this serious condition, its effects, approved methods of prevention and curative measures. All stores, $1.50. Postpaid, $1.58. Allen Ross & Co., 1133-Y B'way, N. Y. C. REAL HARRIS TWEED The aristocrat of all sports wear-direct from makers. Patterns free. Any length cut. $2.00 per yd. Postage paid. NEWALL, 127 Stornoway, Scotland. TEACHERS' AGENCY Volume 142, Number 17. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1926, by The Cutlook 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 ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary Index and title-page for Volume 142 (January 6-April 28) of The Outlook, printed separately for binding, will be furnished gratis, on application, to any reader who desires them for this purpose over whole-heartedly to the film business. The Navy Department has assigned a major in the Marine Corps to full-time duty in the Metro-Goldwyn studio as adviser. The stock broker was very ill and at times delirious. In one of his lucid moments he asked the nurse what the last reading had shown his temperature to be. "One hundred and one," replied the nurse. "Good," said the patient. "When it gets to 1011⁄2, sell." Francis R. Hoyt, consulting engineer, states that a 'cellist who plays one musical composition, "The Evening Star," expends more energy in doing so than the coalheaver does in shoveling four tons of coal. The editor of The Book Table has handed us the following note: "A gentleman from Altoona writes to The Outlook to complain that our Book Table is very unsatisfactory. He also quotes a friend who says that our book reviews are worthless. "Unlike some critics, he suggests an improvement. Without actually suggesting that the Book Table be abandoned, he asks The Outlook to establish a Bureau of Information to answer such questions as, 'Why are bees disconcerting to the evolutionist ?' I submitted this to the Contributing Editor of The Outlook, who merely remarked that bees are also disconcerting to the Fundamentalist-if he sits down on them." A new popular song title-"When I'm With You I'm Lonesome." Some examples of the news gleaned from our newspaper headlines: From an Iowa paper FIRE AT MT. PLEASANT From an Arizona paper- From a New Orleans paper- From a Colorado paper YULETIDE SPOILED FOR YOUNGSTERS AS IT COMES Risqué plays that became box-office successes in New York City through the attention being called by the press to their salacious character are not wanted in other sections of the country. This is proved by the complete financial failures of the road tours of the dramas "The Ladies of the Evening," "The Harem," "A Good Bad Woman," "The Firebrand," "They Knew What They Wanted," etc. Free for All Kitchen Graduates EFERRING to the article of Mrs. Cart to record my profound admiration for competent Kitchen Statesmen. Competent instructors in that domain, however, do not build on Mrs. Cartland's foundation. They do not "fear" for the future of their graduates, as that depends neither on force nor bribery. The boys do not require the force of the Eighteenth Amendment for sobriety and temperance, or the girls the bribe of minimum or maximum wage to remain virtuous. The value of the vote which Mrs. Cartland stresses is also of small importance. Mr. Seitz in your same issue clearly states its present power. Graduates from the best kitchen instruction do not need propping by Constitutional amendment or coddling by paternal legislation, but are able to stand on their own feet and look the world in the face. Such graduates are the hope and dependence of the Republic. Contrast them with Mrs. Cartland's weaklings, needing the guidance and protection of Constitutional amendments and favored legislation in mature years to maintain a decent existence. DANIEL M. BONNEY. Farmington, Maine. lection of books relating to America and files of American magazines, in order to make this library the one place in Europe where accurate information on any American subject may be obtained. Books, abstracts, answers to questions, etc., are sent (gratuitously, of course) to students and teachers all over Europe, and I hope to make the library of outstanding service as a sort of interpreter of America. Among our files is, of course, one of The Outlook magazine, but we find that Volumes 118-126 are missing, and I am wondering if you would be able to supply them. They could be sent to the Bureau of International Exchanges of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., to be sent forward to us, so that there would be no expense for carriage, and we should be very glad indeed to be able to complete our file. BURTON STEVENSON, Director. The American Library in Paris, Inc., [We hope that any reader who knows where these volumes can be secured will communicate with Mr. Stevenson.-THE EDITORS.] In writing to the above advertiser please mention The Outlook T HE "drys," in the beginning of their inning before the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accomplished something toward proving alcoholic liquor an unqualified evil and prohibition a qualified success, but they have thus far done less for themselves than the "wets" did for them. If the "dry" acumen of preprohibition days had been still operative, the "dry" leaders probably would have given all the time to the "wets." Still, they may have accomplished the same. result by having Senator Reed, of Missouri, the one "wet" member of the subcommittee, always on the job as crossexaminer. He, apparently, has done more than any "dry" witness has done or can do to bring the "wet" propaganda into public disrepute. Senator Reed's prize achievement thus far was to corkscrew out of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews a statement heralded by the daily press as an admission that the distribution of beer under Government supervision would aid in prohibition enforcement. Reed twisted the corkscrew for half an hour. Andrews, trying to arrive at an understanding of the hypothetical question, insisted that the beer must be nonintoxicating in fact, that it must be distributed for home consumption only, intimated that he did not regard the Canadian systems of control as adequate, stipulated that there must be no confusion of wine with non-intoxicating beer, and finally said that with all of these safeguards his opinion was that it "would probably aid law enforcement." But, he added immediately, thorough control of distribution would be vital. The National Anti-Saloon League withheld comment on General Andrews's statement. Some officers, assuming to speak for the Kentucky Anti-Saloon League, demanded his removal. Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, denounced him as not in sympathy with prohibition. Then there began to come a realization that the opinion expressed by General Andrews might not render him unfaithful to his trust, and he is to go on the stand again to make his position clearer. The "drys," in the two days that they have had the stand, have come valiantly to the defense of the "magnificent experiment," as the spokesman for the Federal Council of Churches described prohibition. They showed that church organizations are still solidly for prohibition. They presented testimony intended to show that poverty has decreased, that health has improved, and that drunkenness and crime have decreased under prohibition. They put on the stand Canadian "drys" who contradicted practically all that the Canadian "wets" had said of the provincial control laws. Governmental control, these witnesses said, is not working effectively in any province of Canada. They introduced economists, clergymen, educators, athletic directors, to testify that prohibition has benefited the country economically, morally, socially, and physically-that, while enforcement is not as complete as it ought to be, it is Number 17 bringing beneficial results. They introduced Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, who testified that the Volstead. Law can be enforced, is being enforced with increasing success, and that the denial of jury trial advocated by United States District Attorney Buckner of New York is not necessary to enforcement. Appraisement of the results of the hearings is still for the future. McKinley's Defeat THE 'HE defeat of Senator McKinley for renomination in Illinois is proclaimed as a victory for those who would keep the United States out of the World Court. In fact, the Court issue influenced the result no more, and probably less, than did other things. It appears to be a fact that Senator McKinley lost the Republican nomination primarily because of tangles in the Republican organization in Illinois, mainly the Thompson-Small feud. The wet-dry issue also had its effect. While both Senator McKinley and his opponent, Colonel Frank L. Smith, are "dry," Senator McKinley had the indorsement of the "dry" organizations. When George E. Brennan became a candidate for the Democratic nomination, with certainty of success on the one issue of the return of liquor, many Republicans concluded that Smith, no less "dry" than McKinley, would be a better candidate against Brennan. In certain quarters it was thought possible to hold the "wet" Republicans in Chicago for Smith, but impossible to hold them for a candidate officially approved by the "dry" organization. The World Court issue probably contributed somewhat to the result, but it was not the determining factor that Senators Borah and Reed have made it to appear. Unfortunately, other contests for the nomination of candidates for United States Senator are going forward under conditions that may give false color to the claim of public resentment against those who voted for adherence to the Court. Senator Lenroot, of Wiscon |