THE HOMESTEAD
Bailey Island, Maine
Twenty-fifth season, June 15 to Sept. 15.

Large wooded estate on seacoast. Booklet.
The Beeches, Paris Hill, Maine

Quiet summer home for delicate, nervous or tired persons needing rest. White Mountain view. Pine groves and gardens. Booklet.

PEMAQUID BEACH, MAINE

On John's Bay, in sight of the old fort built originally in 1607. Private home with modern accommodations, excellent food. For rates, booklet, and terms apply to

Mrs. HILDA WELLS, Pemaquid Beach, Me.

Why not spend your

MAINE vacation in the country

on the open ocean? Rates $16, $18, $20. Louise Spilman. THE BREAKERS, Vinalhaven, Me.

Maryland

THE BRAMARR

Private home for convalescents and rest cures. All modern conveniences; high elevation; wonderful view of 5 to 25 miles overlooking Baltimore and Howard Counties; on State road and electric line, convenient to Baltimore. Physician's endorsement. Mrs. CAROLINE D. THUMM, Ellicott City, Md.

Massachusetts

MARBLEHEAD, MASS. The Leslie

A quiet, cozy little house by the sea. Now

open. Private baths. Booklet. 23d season.

New Mexico

THE BISHOP'S LODGE New Mexico's Play Resort" Open the year round. Delightfully cool 800mers, mild winters. Send for booklet which describes trips to ancient cliff dwellings, quaint Indian pueblos, recent archeological excavations, artists' colonies. Private Cadillac cars for visiting "The Most Interesting Fifty Mile Square in America." Golf, tennis, trained saddle ponies for mountain trails. Rooms and suites; excellent cuisine. Limited to seventy-five guests. Address Manager, THE BISHOP'S LODGE, SANTA FE, N. M.

rest.

18 Cottages Altitude 1,571 ft. A noted place for health and Accommodations for tourists. Write for folder and particulars. C. FENTON PARKER, Number Four, N. Y.

PINE-OZONE Ideal summer resort with
INN in the
ADIRONDACKS Prop., Jay, N. Y.

all home comforts. Cot-
tages to rent. Special June
rates. N. S. PINNEY,

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KEENE VALLEY, N. Y.

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week. 75 rooms. Fresh vegetables. own garden. Tennis, dancing, golf course two miles. Special rates for Sept. W. W. BLOCK, Prop.

TAMARACK INN

Keene Valley, N. Y. Modern improvements. Own dairy and vegetables. Accom. 35. Booklet. GEO. R. DIBELE.

CROONING PINES Adult vacation

camp; convenient, modern; good food; all amusements: desirable clientele. Rates $18 up. Write for booklet. E. J. LEE, Warrensburgh, N. Y.

Vermont

Chester, THE MAPLES DelightVt. ful suminer home. Cheerful, large, airy rooins, pure water; bath, hot and cold; broad piazza, croquet, fine roads. Terms reasonable. References exchanged. The Misses Sargeant.

CAMP SINGING CEDARS For adults. Vermont side Lake Champlain. Booklet on request. L. S. HILL, City Hall, Albany, N. Y.

Virginia

Massanutten Lodge Woodstock,

Virginia Refined place for refined people. In heart of beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Fine view of Massanutten Mts. Vacancies for few select guests. Rates reasonable. References.

$5-6 in cities and popular resorts, $4-5 in the country

Real Estate
Connecticut

FOR SALE-Cornwall, Conn.

Attractive old Colonial house in charming village, furnished or unfurnished; large living-room, large dining-room, parlor, and library; six or seven master bedrooms, three servant rooms, two bathrooms, three open fireplaces and furnace; large sunny piazza. Suitable for residence or inn. Within 2 blocks of State highroad. Large shaded grounds. Reasonable terms. Address Ellinwood, Cornwall.

TO RENT Lovely Village Home. Eight rooms and bath, good furnace, electricity, ample supply pure water, garage, garden; near church, academy, library, post office, lake, links. Reasonable rate. Address BLANCHE STOUTENBURGH, Home Acre, Woodstock, Conn.

Maine

New Hampshire

FOR SALE Professional man's home.

25 acres, 9 rooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 fireplaces, hardwood floors, furnace, electric lights, spring water, 800 square foot veranda; beautiful mountain views; village and Lake Sunapee 1 mile. Fruit trees and small fruits, wood lot, barn, poultry house. Owner, Lock Box 20, New London, N. H.

New York

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service. Cars to drive yourself. inclusive tours, and hire of car with chauffeur only. Steamship accommodations. For booklets and details write to 578 Madison Ave., New York.

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Mother: "Darling, you were awfully late last night. I'm afraid I'm dreadfully oldfashioned, but I should like to know where you go." Daughter: "Certainly, mummy, darling. I dined with-oh, well, you don't know him-and we went to several places I don't suppose you've been to, and we finished at a queer little club-I forget its name, but it's in a cellar somewhere in Soho. It's all right, isn't it, mummy?" Mother: "Of course, darling. It's only that I just like to know."

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From the "Western Christian Advocate:" Guest (whose wedding gift of a coalscuttle has not been acknowledged): "I hope our little present arrived quite safely?"

Bride: "Oh, yes, indeed it did. Didn't you get my letter? It's perfectly adorable, and-er-we're taking it with us on our honeymoon."

By the Way

Consider the following figures, printed in the Syracuse "Journal:"

The total circulation of the daily morning and evening Hearst newspapers is 4,393,420, and the total circulation of the Sunday newspapers is 4,653,212. Last year Hearst newspapers used enough newsprint to encircle the globe more than 120 times. Last year Hearst newspapers spent more than $2,500,000 in telegraph and cable tolls. Hearst newspapers employ more than 96,000 people, and pay more than $29,000,000 in salaries yearly. They pay more than $1,000,000 in salaries for comic features. Newsboys and agents of Hearst newspapers earn over $18,000,000 a year. Hearst newspapers are read by more than 20,000,000 people yearly.

From "Punch:"

The play was of the most wildly made dramatic character, but the great scene was that in which the hero confronts the sneeringly triumphant villain. "Sir Marmaduke," he exclaimed, "you have reduced me to beggary, broken the heart of my aged mother, and eloped with my wife. But beware! Don't go too far."

All teachers can learn something from Edward Everett Hale's "How to Do It:"

"I once went to examine a high school on a lonely hillside in a lonely country town," he wrote. "The first class was in botany, and they rattled off from the book very fast. They said 'cotyledon,' and 'syngenesious,' and 'coniferous,' and such words, remarkably well, considering they did not care two straws about them. Well, when it was my turn to 'make a few remarks' I said: 'Huckleberry.'

"I do not remember another word I said, but I do remember the sense of amazement that a minister should have spoken such a wicked word in a school-room. What was worse, I sent a child out to bring in some unripe huckleberries from the roadside, and we went to work on our botany to some purpose."

From "Life:"

Interviewer (to big business man): "I have called to learn the secret of your unparalleled success."

Big business man: "Just one moment, please Are you from the 'American Magazine' or the district attorney's office?"

Ed Howe's rule for success is "Work hard, behave, and eat less."

Ireland can raise something besides Cain. Mayler M. Roche, of Ballyseskin House, County Wexford, reports harvesting 23 tons of sugar beets per acre through the use of nitrate of soda on the soil. His normal return improved sixteen tons.

From the London "Chronicle:"

He was boring her to tears when in came her dog. "Ah," he exclaimed, "have you taught him any more tricks since I was here last?" "Yes," she said sweetly, "if you whistle he will bring your hat."

"Where did you get that fine new hat?" "I bought it ten years ago. Seven years ago I had it newly pressed. Three years ago it was dyed black. The year before last I had a new band put around it. Last week I exchanged it at a restaurant."

In one of the orthodox Jewish churches where the custom is to charge an admission or exact a fee for entrance to nonseat holders on the Jewish high religious days, it is stated that an applicant with an accent walked up to the ticket taker stating he had to see one of the pillars of the church on important business. The doorman, also with an accent, said it couldn't be done; that the man wanted was at prayer and to get in the applicant would have to pay the usual tariff, $2.

The applicant expostulated and dilated upon the urgency of his business matter: that it meant a great deal to the man sought. Wearied by the argument, the doorman exclaimed:

"All right, go in, but mind, don't you pray."

Sta

6. Name five Presidents that have not

I pictured on the stamps of the United (P. 416.)

7. Why was Louis Napoleon of France

known as Napoleon III? (P. 416.)

8. What forces beseiged Paris in 1870? (P. 416.)

9. In what States is the Appalachian National Park to be located? (P. 419.)

10. What is a bond? (P. 420.)

11. In what State is the "Great Stone Face"? (Inside back cover.)

12. What is the oldest golf club in the world? (P. 403.)

13. With what country do certain groups in Austria favor uniting? (P. 398.)

14. What are the highest mountains between the Rockies and the Alps? (P. 408.) 15. Who won the British Open Golf Championship? (P. 395.)

16. What world-famous church in Jerusalem was recently damaged by earthquake? (P. 399.)

17. Who is president of the American Federation of Labor? (P. 399.)

18. Who was the designer and builder of Commander Byrd's plane? (P. 407.)

19. Who is Governor of Virginia? 405.)

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20. On which one of the Hawaiian Islands is there a leper colony? (P. 395.)

Contributors' Gallery

COL

OLONEL CHARLES FRANCIS BATES, U. S. A., retired, was born in Monroe, Michigan, the home of General and Mrs. Custer and has known the family well for years. He is now working on a book on the Indian campaigns of General Custer in which will be used much material heretofore unpublished, including letters from actual participants in the battle of the Little Big Horn. Colonel Bates was in the regular army for almost twenty-five years, and since his retirement in 1923 has been living in Bronxville, New York. It was through him that we secured the introduction to his article from Mrs. Custer in which she speaks so tolerantly and forgivingly of the Indians.

C

ONRAD H. BIDDLECOMBE has been making airplane flights for fifteen years. During the War he joined the British Royal Flying Corps and retired as Major from the Royal Air Force in June, 1919. He attempted a transatlantic flight from Newfoundland in July, 1919, when such feats were not so usual. For several years he served as technical advisor in the Civil Aviation Department of the British Air Ministry in order to develop commercial aviation in the British Empire. He is now the manager of operations of Colonial Air Transport Corporation in New York and a so manages operations for the Colonial Western Airways.

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"Twenty Questions" on General Infor

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Contributors' Gallery.

Seven Strokes Under Par!

The Second Flight to Hawaii

Still Camping on the Levees

Snake Bite Peril Grows

Orchestraless Chicago

Pacific Relations on the Pacific

The Vienna "Revolution"

Settled, not to come off

Cartoons of the Week

The Russians Retreat from China.
Reformers in the Soviet Paradise

A Double Celebration at the University

More Trouble in Nicaragua

of Paris

The Palestine Earthquake

Progress at Geneva

Some Scientific Aspects of Commander

Byrd's Transatlantic Flight
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HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor NATHAN T. PULSIFER, Vice-President

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Seven Strokes under Par!

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IXTY-EIGHT, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-two. So ran the story of Bobby Jones's adventure at St. Andrews. And when the tale was told, this young American found himself victor in the British Open Championship by the generous margin of six strokes below his nearest rivals and seven under that common enemy of all -par. To tie the course record in an open championship as Bobby Jones did in his first eighteen holes, to start at the head and never be passed in a contest with the world's best golfers, that was an amazing achievement. Jones was not only an ambassador from the golf courses of America to the golf links of Scotland, he was also a representative of the best that America has to offer in the personality and spirit of its youth.

Elsewhere in this issue Lawrence F. Abbott gives from personal experience a glimpse of the surroundings and an account of the traditions which gave such a flavor to the achievement of Robert T. Jones, Jr., in winning for the second time the Open Championship of Great Britain.

The Second Flight to Hawaii
THE

'HE flight of Ernest L. Smith and Emory B. Bronte from California to the Hawaiian Islands was somewhat overshadowed by the Maitland-Hegenberger success. The public also was somewhat disinclined to feel enthusiastic about the Smith-Bronte flight because of unfortunate incidents which indicated a lack of that precision and planning characteristic of everything that the Army flyers or Lindbergh or Byrd's party did. Smith's first attempt was almost a ridiculous failure simply because someone had not secured an attachment to the plane the loss of which made exact navigation difficult. In the second flight the wireless news sent out by Smith when he was several hundred miles away from Hawaii to the effect that his fuel was exhausted and that he should have to land in mid-ocean proved to be a mistake. He had enough fuel to reach the Hawaiian Islands and only just enough. He crashed through a tree on the Island of Molokai (the leper colony) when he had used the very last drop of his gasoline. At once the ques

July 27, 1927

tion was asked, How did he reach Molokai if his fuel was exhausted or nearly exhausted hundreds of miles away? Secretary Wilbur of the Navy put forth a premature criticism on the SOS messages sent out by Smith, The actual fact as stated by Smith was that his pump went wrong and misled him, and

Wide World

The World's Greatest Golfer

that it was impossible for him later to correct the first statement because the antennæ of his wireless had been torn off when he was forced close to the water.

Despite all this unsatisfactory and bungling work, Smith and Bronte made a remarkable flight, especially for amateurs. The accounts state that their flying time from California to Hawaii was even a trifle better than Maitland's -about fifteen minutes. While Maitland had already broken the world record for a non-stop sea flight over about 2,400 miles of sea, it is possible that Smith has increased the record of non-stop distance a little more. To decide this positively requires such collating of the courses taken by the two planes and the actual distances traversed as could be made only by experts on examination of all the factors involved.

The lesson of this flight emphasizes the need of just that care and thoroughness which the Army and Navy air ser

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vices have given the men who (graduating, so to speak, from their schools) have attained wonderful achievements this summer.

The two flights to Hawaii have also shown the value of the radio-beam system. In neither case did the aviators get quite complete information as to position, but the fault was in the planes and not in the system.

Still Camping on the Levees

DE

ESOLATION, devastation, miserythese are the words used by a correspondent of the New York "Times," Mr. L. C. Speers, to sum up the condition he found along the Mississippi in Arkansas and Louisiana as the floods have receded. The homes left are not habitable; the growing crops are negligible; a cotton crop is not to be had this year; farmers here and there are planting soy beans or other makeshift vegetables in regions where corn, rice, and cotton are the staples. On the levees are still camping hordes of homeless people.

The work of immediate relief was done promptly and efficiently. The people are grateful; but the coming months carry the threat of starvation and the possibility of epidemic disease.

Secretary Hoover, the Red Cross, and the Governors of the afflicted States are working out plans of relief, credit, and sustentation. Rebuilding and reconstruction are but beginning. It is evident that the whole country must join in aiding in the gigantic tasks which confront the victims of the floods.

The American people are generous, but when the high point of a catastrophe has passed they are apt to turn their interest to new sensations. We must not forget that for many months to come the suffering and poverty in the devastated flood region will continue. Mr. Speers sums up a general situation when he speaks of the people of one Louisiana town he saw as "facing, without money or credit, and in numerous instances without adequate food or clothing, a winter that carries with it a threat of destitution and starvation."

Snake Bite Peril Grows