The Outlook Classified Department C Austria OUNTESS MARTHA LAMBERG, Schloss Kaps, Kitzbühel, Austria, receives guests in old castle in the Tyrolese Mountains. Modern comfort. Particulars, 7,425, Outlook, or direct. England Florence Hotel Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park W 2 Old Established High Class Family Hotel famed for comfort and excellent cuisine Situated most beautiful part of Fashionable West End, almost facing Hyde Park. Few minutes all Theatres. Rooms with full board $3-$3.50 daily; $20-$22 weekly. Room with English Breakfast $2-$2.50 daily. No charge baths, boot cleaning, attendance. Make early reservations direct or through Outlook Travel Bureau Cables: Florenotel, London Switzerland Hotel Pension Nuss, Vevey, Switzerland. all-year home on Lake Geneva. Running water in all rooms, private baths, best cooking. Moderate terms. L. NUSS, Prop. Dr. Reeves' Nervine private licensed institution for the care and treatment of nervous and mild mental disorders, convalescents and elderly people; homelike atmosphere, Harriet E. Reeves, M.D., Melrose Highlands, Mass. New Jersey ENGLESIDE Beach Haven, N. J. personal care, auto drives, reasonable rates. The The Island Resort The only resort on the Jersey coast that COMBINES perfect bathing, always good THE HILLHURST fishing, with a modern hotel and gives eure ON MAINE COAST NEWAGEN INN "Where sea, cliffs, and Spruce forests meet " Open June 15th to Oct. 1st UNRIVALEDadvantages for short vacation or entire summer. Chosen guests. 200acre estate on seaward tip of 5mile cape. Inn and cottages, private baths, or hot and cold water in every room. Only hot and cold sea water baths on coast. Finest cuisine. Artesian well water. Tempered sea water swimming pool. Fishing, golf, tennis, boating, motoring. State roads. No hay fever. Write for illustrated booklet. Address until June 15th: ALAMOOSOOK Adult Camp on Lake in Maine Woods. Booklet. Miss E. M. BUCK, 159 N. Arlington Ave., East Orange, N. J. "Le Chalet" Boothbay Harbor, Me. Do you wish to perfect your French during 6 weeks while you are enjoying the privileges of educated French family, beautiful scenery, invigorating air? Address Professor Ruérat, 201 North Oxford St., Hartford, Coun. The Beeches, Paris Hill, Maine Quiet summer home for delicate, nervous or tired persons needing rest. White Mountain view. Pine groves and gardens. Booklet. TO RENT FURNISHED COTTAGES by week or season-log cabins by the sea-on Canadian border between Calais and Eastport. Dining-room service if desired. Price $14 to $20 per week for cottage. Sea and lake fishing, horseback riding. Rooms at modern farmhouse. Booklet. E. C. BROWN, Prop., Brooks Bluff Cottages, Robbinston, Maine. relief from Hay Fever beside. Booklet. Five tennis courts. Opens June 18th. R. F. ENGLE, Mgr. New York City HOTEL BRISTOL 129-135 W. 48th St., N.Y. Evening Dinner and Sunday noon. $1.00 Luncheon. .50 Special Blue Plate Service in Grill Room For comfort, for convenience to all parts of the metropolis, for its famous dining service come to Hotel Bristol. You'll feel at home." Hotel Judson 53 Washington Sq.. New York City Residential hotel of highest type, combining the facilities of hotel life with the comforts of an ideal home. American plan $4 per day and up. European plan $1.50 per day and up. SAMUEL NAYLOR, Manager. New York ADIRONDACKS THE CRATER CLUB Essex-on-Lake Champlain, offers to families of refinement at very moderate rates the attractions of a beautiful lake shore in a locality with a remarkable record for healthfulness. The club affords an excellent plain table and accommodation with rooms or individual camps. The boating is safe, there are attractive walks and drives to points of interest in the Adirondacks, good tennis courts, and opportunities for golf. References required. For information relative to board and lodging address Miss MARGARET FULLER, Club Mgr., 2273 Woolworth Bldg., New York. For particulars regarding cottage rentals write JOHN B. BURNHAM, 233 B'way, New York. AND COTTAGES Interbrook Lodge co KEENE VALLEY, N. Y. Located on hill in spruces and pines, 500 ft. above village on trail to Mt. Marcy. Best moderate-priced hotel in mountains. 400-acre farm in connection. Certified Jersey herd. 1,500 ft. elevation. $18 per week and up. Illustrated booklet on application. B.Tryon & Son. Keene Valley Inn and Cottages KEENE VALLEY, N. Y. Adirondack Mts. Rates $18 to $30 per week. 75 rooms. Fresh vegetables, own garden. Tennis, dancing, golf course two miles. Special rates for Sept. W. W. BLOCK, Prop. Blue Mountain House One of finest situations in Adirondacks. Altitude 2,055 ft.,overlooking beautiful lakes. Outdoor sports. All conveniences. Excellent table. M. TYLER MERWIN, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. 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T By the Way HE following figures may handy in answering "Ask Me Another" questionnaires: The total population of the globe, according to latest compilations, is approximately 1,817,302,000 souls. These are divided according to religious faith in the following categories: "Please do not sound horns when passing this farm." Passing motorists, thinking some one must be very ill, respected this request for some time before one of them asked the owner of the farm, John Hilkins, about it. "Well, it's like this," Hilkins explained; "those new-fangled cow horns of yours make my cows so jealous I can't do anything with them." Autoist: "How far is it to Blankville?" Boy: "As you're headed, it is 24,996 miles; but, if you turn around, it's only four miles." "Do you girls really like conceited men better than the other kind?" "What other kind?" Golfer: "Can you let me have a caddie who doesn't giggle all the time?" Caddie master: "Well-there's old Mac over there who hasn't smiled for forty years-but, of course, I can't guarantee him!" We have just uncovered a new baseball scandal. A player tells us that one major league team uses "hot" and "cold" balls. Before each game, it is said, a dozen balls are warmed up and another dozen chilled. When the home team is at bat the hot balls are thrown in, and when the opposing team bats the cold balls are put into play. It is impossible to discover the trick, for cutting open the balls reveals no tampering, but it is claimed that a chilled baseball becomes "dead" and a warmed one "lively." The value of mortgaged farms in the United States decreased from $13,775,500,013 in 1920 to $10,790,244,351 in 1926, but the amount of mortgage debit upon them increased from $4,003,767,192 to $4,517,258,689, according to an announcement by the Department of Agriculture. In other words, the mortgage burden increased from 29.1 per cent to 41.9 per cent. From "Punch:" Mother: "Well, really, Michael, the fog is so thick I am afraid we must give up the idea of going to the Zoo." Michael: "Oh, mother, we simply must go. I've put it down in my diary that we went." From the New York "Sun:" An inquisitive old lady, out for an afternoon stroll, came upon a crowd of boys following respectfully at the heels of a large man, who was in haste. "Is he some famous person?" she asked a small boy. "Naw," replied the youth, his eyes on the pavement; "he's got a hole in his pocket." Broadway, New York City, is well known as the hub of all activities of the theatrical world. Yet one can now walk from 42d Street to 53d Street on the west side of the "Great White Way" (the very heart of the theatrical district) and find every single playhouse devoted to motion pictures. An official of the Mohawk Carpet Mills, in a recent speech at Schenectady, inadvertently gave out the information that the world-famous "$100,000 rug" in the Roxy Theatre, New York City, really cost $18,000. Here is a problem in mental arithmetic: Imagine a cube of white wood three inches to the side and painted black. Now imagine this cube sawed into little one-inch cubes. Obviously, some of the surfaces of the little cubes will be black and some will be white. 1. How many little cubes will there be? 2. How many little cubes will have one black surface and five white surfaces? 3. How many little cubes will have two black surfaces and four white? 4. How many little cubes will have three black surfaces and three white? 5. How many little cubes will have no black surfaces? No pencils allowed. Answer next week. 111 The missing words which were represented by blanks in Ernest Hamlin Abbott's sonnet, printed in last week's issue, are: "Lapse," "leaps," "slape," "pales," "pleas," "spale," "Alpes," "peals," "speal," "Elaps," "sepal." Miss Anna Briest, whose watchful eye in the composing-room saves The Outlook from many errors, has noted that "pelas" (if this is an allowable plural for "pela") is a reasonable substitute for "Elaps:" that "pales" (a plural noun as distinguished from a singular verb above) makes good sense in place of the rather obscure "speal;" and that "salep" has been altogether unjustly ignored. "Twenty Questions' on General Information Answered in this issue of Give yourself 5 points for each question correctly answered. One hundred points is a perfect score. You can find the correct solution on the pages cited. 1. What nation controls the Suez Canal? (P. 106.) 2. What is the last name of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee? (P. 123.) 3. When was gold discovered in California? (P. 110.) 4. In what State is Long's Peak? (P. 122.) 5. What State does Carter Glass represent in the Senate? (P. 122.) 6. In what group of islands is Mallorca located? (P. 127.) 7. Who was Napoleon's second wife? (P. 125.) 8. Who is Governor-General of the Philippines? (P. 130.) 9. Who is President of the Radio Corporation of America? (P. 130.) 10. What is the meaning of the word "dude" as the ranchers use it? (P. 112.) 11. Who is Secretary of the Interior? (P. 99.) 12. What two authors have written of the French Acadians? (P. 99.) 13. What is the purchasing value of a dollar to-day compared with its value in 1913? (P. 131.) 14. When and where will the AmericoAnglo-Japanese Naval Conference, called by President Coolidge, be held? (P. 109.) 15. Who is Walter C. Teagle? (P. 99.) 16. What was Henry Ward Beecher's church? (P. 102.) 17. What State raises the most Thoroughbreds? (P. 102.) 18. Who wrote "The Mettle of the Pasture"? (P. 102.) 19. Who wrote "Up from Slavery"? (P. 102.) 20. What is the difference between a violinist and a loose-arm fiddler? (P. 105.) STR Contributors' TRUTHERS BURT has been in the cattle ranching business for many years and is part owner of a ranch in Wyoming. which qualifies him to write of that life. He is a frequent contributor to "The Saturday Evening Post" and other journals, and is well known for his novels, "The Interpreter's House" and "The Delectable Mountains." VERY magazine reader is familiar with pears in astonishing quantities and with uniform excellence. His "Rhymed Reviews" have been a feature of "Life" for some time. We are glad to prove that he does not always think and write in meter, as some may have suspected. "Put up those books and go to bed!" "MY CHILDREN are so fascinated with The World Book I can hardly drive them to bed. Such a cyclopedia makes the pursuit of truth more alluring than the reading of story books." Edward A. Ross, University of Wisconsin. 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QUARRIE & Co., Publishers, Chicago The WORLD BOOK Published weekly by The Outlook Company, 120 East 16th Street, New York. Copyright, 1927, 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 ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary The Outlook is indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. THE OUTLOOK, May 25, 1927. Volume 146, Number 4. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East Free for All: The Early History of Culion. 130 Financial Department: Conducted by WILLIAM L. STODDARD By the Way. 131 133 Volume 146 The Floods Continue A N entire month has passed as we write since the floods of the Mississippi Valley began their destructive activity. Yet the time has not arrived when it can be reported that the worst is over. The opening of crevasses along the Louisiana levees has inundated the richly productive "Sugar Bowl" country between the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi rivers. The French Acadians of whom Longfellow and later George Cable wrote have in vain held to their little homes only to be forced at last to take to boats and even to perch in trees. There has been loss of life in this district. The Agricultural Department has put out a circular of advice for farmers and tenants driven from their holdings by the floods. It holds out hopes that some of the flooded farms may grow crops this year and urges the farm people to return to their homes at the earliest safe time and raise crops at least for food and livestock. It offers help through country agents and State agricultural colleges. One caution is stressed. The circular says: Probably 65 per cent or more of the several million acres of flooded improved farm lands, except in the sugar cane area of Southern Louisiana, have heretofore been planted in cotton. It is neither possible nor desirable to replant this entire area in cotton. It is important, however, that every farmer and tenant should be able to plant a reasonable acreage as a cash crop. Need for relief, support and health measures continues and will continue for a long time. The country has contrib uted money promptly and generously and can be counted upon to give more as it is required. Against this sort of competition in the petroluem business the great producers have protested. Of course, say the cynical, the big producers of petroleum naturally protest against competition; no monopolist wants to tolerate competitors. As a consequence of widespread fear of monopoly, public opinion has been slow to arouse itself to face the evil of wastefulness that may be as damaging in consequences as any monopoly can be. At last, however, fourteen of the largest oil producing companies have braved public opinion. At the instance of Mr. Walter C. Teagle, President of the Standard Oil 246998 Company of New Jersey, executives of oil companies have conferred to see what could be done to prevent overproduction. Mr. Teagle and Mr. W. S. Farish, former President of the American Petroleum Institute, have filed with the Federal Oil Conservation Board, of which the Secretary of the Interior, Hubert Work, is Chairman, a plea for Federal assistance. The Federal Government recognizes the plight of the try. The waste in oil production fact that whenever an oi. "wild-catter" as he is called richly producing well there |