I Nearly Unanimous Have It Your Own Way N response to our article of September 28, "Shall We Scrap Our Calendar?" the vote of our readers so far is overwhelm-. ingly in favor of a change in the calendar year from twelve to thirteen months. Of the many letters that have come in on this subject, only three are opposed to the change. Of these three, one is opposed to change in general, mainly on historical ground; the other two are based on the belief that a change would interfere with quarterly and semi-annual calculations. This we believe is misapprehended. Quarterly periods would not coincide with even numbers of months, but they would with even numbers of weeks. Besides, quarterly calculations form a very small fraction of total calculations, which are mainly by weeks and months. Let us quote from some letters: From One of America's Great Railway Executives T HE proposed international calendar, I feel, would be helpful to business in many ways. H Not on the Fence, Anyway ow, in the name of common sense, can you publish such rot as appears in your worthy weekly, entitled "Mexico Turns the Corner," by one Frank B. Lenz, who interviewed Moises Saenz, Mexican Minister of Education? Do you not see that it is more propaganda from the Mexican Government? Did Mr. Lenz go to Mexico and investigate the statements given out by Mr. Saenz to him? I doubt it. Did you read Isaac Marcosson's articles in the "Saturday Evening Post"? They give the true picture. How ridiculous for Lenz to say that "courageous men-men of character and determination-are at the helm"! True (in a measure), men of bad character with the firm determination to exploit their country until the "Colossus of the North" applies the Nicaragua medicine. Moises Saenz is a good man, but he is not one, two, or three as a Cabinet officer. The power lies between Calles and Morones. Roads in Mexico! Where are they? Open, but without teachers, because the Mexican Government won't, or don't, pay salaries promptly. Many times the teachers must wait three to six months for their salaries. Schools! All months would be of equal length and would be comparable without adjustment; each month would have exactly four weeks and the month-end would coincide with the week-end; each month would have the same number of Sundays and the same number of week days, and therefore the same number of pay days; holidays and other permanent monthly dates would always recur on the same week day; reckoning of lapse of time for interest calculation and other purposes would be greatly simplified; and, as the calendar would be fixed and perpetual, the day of the week would always indicate the monthly date and vice versa. There would, of course, be thirteen monthly closings, reports, and statements of account instead of twelve, but, as there would be thirteen monthly settlements instead of twelve, money turnover would be more rapid, and thus the same volume of business could be handled with less working capital. I L. F. LOREE, President of the Delaware and Hudson Company. New York, New York. The Household Budget VOTE "yes" to "scrap our calendar." I budget on a weekly basis from a monthly salary. I have to set aside funds for a recurring fifth week. It certainly is a preposterous way to have to work. (Mrs.) E. A. WHITNEY. Washington, D. C. Don't be fooled by Mexican propaganda. If you side with, or aid Calles through your pages, permit me to say that you are on the wrong side of the fence. I know, as I have lived in Mexico for years. THOMAS MCVITT. Los Angeles, California. M Ambiguity R. LENZ seems to have written several involved sentences, or else the linotype operator is to blame, in "Mexico Turns the Corner." "The Mexican labor movement is not like the leaders of the labor movement in America that the Communists of Russia will have nothing to do with them." What is he comparing-the leaders of the two movements, Mexican and American, or the Mexican movement and the American leaders? Which of the two labor movements, Mexican or American, does he desire to show is more antagonistic to the Communist? I cannot guess. It is not like The Outlook's writers to be so ambiguous. If he had said so like, that the Bolshies would have nothing to do with them, one could believe he meant to show by the following remarks that the Mex were less likely to go Bolshi than the Yanks. Candidly, I do not know what Mr. Lenz means to say. J. F. HARRINGTON. Yountville, California. A Reader Takes issue with the Interstate Commerce Commission M AY I make a few remarks concerning the article in your issue of October 5, 1927, by H. K. Fraser on "One Man Beats 150"? First, the spirit in which the article is written seems to be contrary to that usually found in Outlook articles-that is, it tends to make light of the recognized and fundamental methods of men and commerce and redounds upon a lone lawyer. "They were all out of step but Jim.” The style of the author, of whom I found no mention made, is that of an impressionable and young journalist with a view to only the dramatic and with little thought to the basic factors of life. Second, the argument reported to be presented by Mr. Richberg, that the prop erty-owners have less rights than the users of or employees of a railroad, is not consistent with custom. Are there to be no property rights? If the railroads were supported by public taxes and owned by the State, leaving out entirely the stockholder, the argument could be considered. In placing the public at large first Mr. Richberg makes it appear that the railroads get their revenues from the public without the rendering of any service. Take, for instance, a highway system; it is built by the State out of public money, and is used by the public without any specific charge for service, and any revenue accruing, such as vehicular tax, goes to the body which made the original expenditure. In the case of railroads, the stockholders supply the funds for construction; the public makes use of the service for which it pays. So, wherefore the argument that the owner should not be considered? Third, how is the plan of "original cost" logical? Present conditions are the ones to be considered-not any average of one hundred years ago and the present. Who could expect service paid for on the basis of such a wage rate? A railroad wage of $600 a year of one hundred years ago averaged with a rate of $2,400 at the present would be $1,500. What price service? Fourth, I noticed no editorial comment in this issue of The Outlook. Where do you stand? The Outlook Nods N your issue of September 21, 1927, at page 68, there is this statement: "The Charter of the Federal Reserve Bank System expires in 1934." We are told that even Homer himself occasionally nodded. By an inspection of the Act of Congress of February 25, 1927, Section 321, you will find that a Federal Reserve Bank is: ".. to have succession after the approval of this Act until dissolved by Act of Congress or until forfeiture of franchise by violation of law." EDWIN A. KRAUTHOFF. EFERRING to the article, "Our Children and the Politicians," by William McAndrew, in your issue of September 28, I would state that the reference to Denver as a city which had lost its school managers with no reason given by the Board is contrary to the facts unless Mr. McAndrew desires to go back into very ancient history. During the last ten years Denver has lost two school managers who held the title of Superintendent. One of these, Mr. Carlos M. Cole, died in June, 1920, after more than three years' service. His successor, Jesse H. Newlon, resigned in April, 1927, to be effective September 1, 1927, at his request. because he desired to accept a position in the Teachers College, Columbia University. He is now to be found at that address and can supply any details you may desire. The Denver School Board for ten years past has been exceptionally free from what is called "politics" in the usual sense of the word, regardless of Mr. McAndrew's definition thereof, and therefore we greatly regret that any suggestion to the contrary should appear in a publication with the high standing of The Outlook. Tours and Travel Mediterranean Cruise-Tour The Temple Way THE WINTER TRIP SUPREME Sailing Jan. 16 on new S. S. Laurentic Luxurious Cruise . . . . . delightful, sociable Adequate Land Travel . . fascinating, profitable Limited Group. . . comfortable, companionable Cultured Leadership . . . illuminating, inspiring 87 days de luxe travel, including cruise with 11 shore excursions, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Arabia, with the Cedars of Lebanon and the lost City of Petra. Call or write for booklet. Spring Tours To Europe Sailing March, April, and May Popular Mediterranean Steamers Most Interesting, Seasonable Routes Thorough, Carefully Planned Sightseeing Moderate Prices-Splendid Values TEMPLE TOURS, Inc. 447-A Park Square Building, Boston Melrose Lodge Tryon, N. C., beautifully situated, offers real comfort, excellent food. Capt. T. D. JERVEY. Details, rates, direct or Outlook Travel Bureau. South Carolina BELLAMY INN, Beaufort, S. C. An old Southern home, on the bay. Remodeled into exclusive tourist inn. Furnace heat; large, sunny, airy corner rooms; private baths. Tennis and shuffleboard court, good fishing and hunting. Good home cooking. Real Estate rent, delightful houses for season in beauence. List and details. Mrs. Grosvenor Tucker, Hamilton, Bermuda. Cable: Teucro, Bermuda. charming college town of lakes and trees. Ftiful Bermuda. All types, every conveniExcellent highways in all directions. For information and literature write WOOD-WINSLOW-WESTON Realtors Winter Park, Florida New York City 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. Florida FOR RENT IN ST. PETERSBURG, Florida-Apartments, bungalows, two-story dwellings, in a desirable, convenient location; attractively and completely furnished; each with a fireplace; new, cheerful, sunny. $85 to $125 a month for six months beginning Nov. 1. Address L. Clinton, E. 300 8th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, Florida. For other Classified Advertisements see the OUTHERN CALIFORNIA has all the climatic wonders of the Riviera. Warm, invigorating sunshine and energizing dry air. Golden-fruited orange groves interspersed with rose clad cities and towns. For a background, snow-covered mile-high mountains and the blue Pacific at your feet! That is the "winter" of Southern California. Strange alluring contrasts! Old Spanish Missions, 5,000 miles of fine highways, flower-carpeted desert, mineral springs. Picnic in palm-lined canyons. Motor to the Yosemite or into Owen's Valley for a memorable view of the snow-bound High Sierra. Visit such fascinating places as Pasadena (Tournament of Roses on New Year's Day), Santa Barbara, Laguna, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Ventura. Death Valley, with its oases, is readily accessible. All yours-for the thrill of a lifetime! Come and see the remarkable growth of Los Angeles-metropolis of the Pacific Coast. You will marvel at the industrial development of Los Angeles County-one of the country's richest in natural resources. This County in 1926 produced live stock and agricultural products valued at $116,500,361, its wells pumped 122,584,276 barrels of oil, and its harbor handled 22,094,976 tons of shipping. Ask your nearest ticket agent now for more complete information. Plan to come directly to Los Angeles and return via San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane. See the entire Pacific Coast. 224 Real Estate Florida St. Johns River Eight-acre estate, closely adjoining Harriet Beecher Stowe 7 bedrooms, 3 baths, extra lavatory, extensive porches, fireplace and furnace heat; electricity, artesian water. Barn, 3-stall garage (servants over). Swimming pool, tennis court, golf near by, dock, boathouse, boat. Grapes, guavas, citrus of all kinds. 12 miles south of Jacksonville. Immediate locality northern-Florida's bestknown Beauty Spot, and this property the most desirable holding therein. Season $1,500,yearly $2,100(furnished). MAYNARD CRANE, Mandarin, Fla. The Outlook for EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES INSTITUTIONAL executives, Social workers, secretaries, dietitians, cafeteria nanagers, governesses, companions, mothers' helpers, housekeepers. The Richards Bureau. 68 Barnes St., Providence. STATIONERY WRITE for free samples of embossed at PERSONAL stationery. Send for samples BOOKS, MAGAZINES MANUSCRIPTS WRITE ARTICLES THAT WILL SELL. Turn your spare moments into money. Requires only ordinary writing ability. Real opportunities. Material everywhere. Informa tion on request. Free-Lance Writer's Service, Box 85, Ashville, N. Y. HOW TO ENTERTAIN make-up goods. Big catalog free. T. S. A Mart of the Unusualments, musical reading, stage handbooks, Property Wanted HELP WANTED COLLEGE woman wanted as companion. The services as a companion of a college woman of social position are sought by woman of means and culture. Please communicate BOYS' OR GIRLS' SCHOOL complete information as to personal history Board Ring freedom from housekeeping cares. Quiet, beautiful surroundings with good food. Two rooms, bath, furnished or unfurnished. Address Mrs. F. W. TEPPER, Wyoming, N. J. EFINED home for couple desir and qualifications, addressing 8,107, Outlook. October 19, 1927 HELP WANTED MATURE or elderly woman (Protestant) of unassuming culture, preferably with col lege education and with son (or grandson) 16 or under, is wanted to take charge of an attractive house in Connecticut college town and make home for bright, well behaved boy of 14. Liberal terms can be arranged if the right person can be found (woman without son cannot be considered). In replying, kindly give extent of education, age, and other relevant particulars. 8,105, Outlook. SALESMEN-district managers-oodles of money placing our Electric Multicolor flashing cigar lighter. Classiest device conceived. Lighters given free to stores. The beautiful Flash-On-Ads in colors nets you $135 profit on each machine. You can place several weekly. Splendid territorial proposition. A real money-maker. No capital required. Harlo Manufacturing Co., 3124 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. WORKING housekeeper for two adults. Six-room apartment in New Haven. Write to Mrs. H. C. Geyer, 484 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Conn. SITUATIONS WANTED COLLEGE woman, professional experience with children, housekeeper-dietitian, experienced, desires position in motherless home. References exchanged. 8,102, Outlook. COMPANION and housekeeper for elderly or business people, November to April. Educated American Protestant, good health, good family, forty-six years. Owner summer tea room. Would enjoy getting meals, etc. Pleasant environment preferable to high salary. References exchanged. C. C., East Dorset, Vt. COMPANION or COURIER. University man, traveled extensively, as companion to California, West Indies, anywhere, or would act as courier abroad. 8,108, Outlook. ENGLISH-London graduate nurse, free October 20, desires chronic case-permanent. Very experienced. Excellent references. Salary $55 a week. 8,104, Outlook. ENGLISH middle-aged lady of culture, experience, good traveler, desires position as manager of gentleman's house or chaperon to young girl. Highest references. 8,096, Outlook. SITUATIONS WANTED GOVERNESS desires position of responsibility and trust in cultured family. Kindergarten and primary grades, fifteen years' experience in care and training of children, Protestant. Experienced traveler. Highest credentials. 8,098, Outlook. MANAGING housekeeper, New England woman of long experience. Good caterer, cheerful. Excellent references. 8,101,Outlook. POSITION in field religious education. Young woman, normal school graduate, special training in large university, teaching experience. 8,099, Outlook. PRACTICAL nurse wishes position with invalid lady. Experienced. Good city references. 8,100, Outlook. READER by the hour to invalid, or to person with defective eyesight. City only. 8,088, Outlook. TEACHER piano, violin. Experienced, graduate New England Conservatory. 7,582, Outlook. TWO sisters (Protestants), forty years of age, residents of New York State, going South, would consider assuming entire care of one or two girls. One sister is a registered nurse, the other college graduate, an experienced teacher and tutor for Regents' examinations. References exchanged. 8,103, Outlook. MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CAREER for bright men aud women in advertising, sales-planning and business writing. Am now instructing a good-sized group by mail. Textbooks of college standard used. Only properly qualified subscribers accepted. If ambitious for business success, write for prospectus. No rainbows or princely salaries promised, but I have helped hundreds to qualify for highly responsible work. 25 years' business writing and educational experience. S. Roland Hall, advertising counselor and agent, Box 621, Easton, Pa. TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six months' Durses' aid course is offered by the Lying-lu Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. Aids are provided with maintenance and given a monthly allowance of $10. For further par ticulars address Directress of Nurses. The carelessness of a printer in making galley-proof corrections led to this amusing appearance of an advertisement in the Boulder (Colorado) "Daily Camera:" "Found-Pair of tortoise-shelf glasses on University campus Sunday. Owner may have same by describing Mrs. Lucile Neuswanger of Pueblo." A subscriber thereupon wrote the "Camera" as follows: "My guess is that Mrs. Lucile Neuswanger is a tali lady with bobbed hair, wears glasses, and fur-trimmed clothes, also silk stockings. If this description fits please send me the glasses." P HILIP SCHUYLER, writing in "Editor and Publisher," states that during the past five months the newspapers of the country have spent at least $500,000 to "cover" aviation stories. In other words, $100,000 a month, or more than $3,000 a day, have been spent to acquaint the public with flying news. Mr. Schuyler says that the New York "Times" accounts for nearly $200,000 of this expenditure and the Hearst organization for over $220,000. Lindbergh, according to this writer, received $100,000 for the news record of his achievement, including the stories written on the U. S. S. Memphis return trip. When Alfred McGee, of Glenville, Alabama, died, he requested that his grave be on the roadside, and that the passing farmers call out in a loud voice the price of cotton for that day. This has been done for forty-five years. HE prize example of hard luck we think August Winkler was burned out in Wisconsin recently and started South to regain his fortune. On his way there his wife died. He started in business, and the Mississippi flood wiped him out. He went to Kansas, arriving at Rossville with his flivver and $165 in cash. He put the cash in the Rossville bank, and the bank failed the following day. W. S. Gilbert once said of a certain man: "No one can have a higher opinion of X than I have-and I think he's a dirty little beast." Father: "Young man, I understand you have made advances to my daughter." Young man: "Yes; I wasn't going to say anything about it, but since you have mentioned it, I wish you could get her to pay me back." The Moran and Mack drollery, "Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it," is getting to be a National byword. The sensational record sales of their "Two Black Crows" dialogue has popularized that phrase with millions. I Fit takes six seconds for a clock to strike six o'clock, how long does it take it to strike eleven? Mr. Caffey in "Capper's Weekly" argues that it will take twelve seconds to strike eleven because, “if it takes the clock six seconds to strike six, and the period of time is divided into five periods of equal length, each one of these periods will be just one and one-fifth seconds long. In striking eleven the clock would require five more periods. Since one period is one and one-fifth seconds, periods would be twelve seconds." ten Answer to last week's "Curious Trio:" "Cares-caress;" "princes-princess;" and "needless-needles." Beginning with this issue, we are planning to reproduce each week as our frontispiece a painting or etching by a first-class living artist. For this week we have selected "The Cove," by Niles Spencer. We are followers of no special school. We hope merely to select from the work of our modern painters a picture that we find interesting enough to pass on to you. FRANCIS RUFUS BELLAMY, Publisher MALCOLM WATERS DAVIS 225 ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief ASSOCIATE EDITORS DIXON MERRITT HAROLD T. PULSIFER WILLIAM L. ETTINGER, JR., Advertising Manager The Outlook is indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature THE OUTLOOK, October 26, 1927. Volume 147, Number 8. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $5.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1927, by The Outlook Company. time immemorial, that shop has served its customers best which has sent its agents to India, China, Persia, Italy, France-to find and buy those things which its customers had no means of discovering. LIKEWISE, in the world of ideas, that periodical has in the long run been of the most service to its readers which has discovered and presented those things from the world's thought which its subscribers wanted to know but had no means of finding out. OR instance, we have heard much FOR of Al Smith and the "Solid South" -what it would do to him, and what he would do to it. With this issue we print the first of a series of articles by Mr. Merritt, himself a Southerner, whom we have asked to tour the Southern States and find out the facts. A GAIN, every one is interested in books. We have begun in this issue a new kind of literary department, which, with the co-operation of leading book-stores from coast to coast, will hereafter report on what books people are reading and discussing everywhere, and give to our readers some idea of what they will find if they care to read these books also. UR aim in reviewing the plays OUR which are most worth while has been along the same line-that ideas potent enough to draw thousands of people to a single theatre night after night are worth reporting to you. As S nearly as we can do so, we propose increasingly to bring such things to your attention. Every one is interested, for instance, in finding out what changes the new psychologists think we should make in bettering the education of our children. Most people would like to know how America appears to the mind of our most sensitive poet. What steps are our churches taking to meet the situation brought into the open by Judge Lindsey? These are some of the things that you will find in these pages in the near future. EDITORIALLY, of course, The Outlook has always clarified and interpreted the happenings of the world with candor and intelligence. Particularly, however, we wish to assure you that our best efforts will be devoted, through the most able writers, to discovering and presenting the things you want most to know. |