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ALLEN TOURS, Inc., 80 Boylston St., Boston Hotels and Resorts Bermuda The American House MOST central: moderate: excellently run. HAMILTON, BERMUDA Details, rates, direct, or A. PASCHAL, Prop. Outlook Travel Bureau. Cuba The Savoy, Havana F Esq. 15. Vedado. American plan. Moder. ate. Delightfully located. Well run. Rates, details, direct, or Outlook Travel Bureau. 352 THE OUTLOOK, November 23, 1927. Volume 147, Number 12. 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, $6.56. 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. NTEREST in Miss Millay's article "Fear," published two weeks ago, has prompted us to print in this issue Professor Jastrow's very intelligent evaluation of us and our prejudices, based on the letters we have received. THE majority of our readers prob ably know already that Professor Jastrow is one of the most distinguished and widely known American psychologists. He is the author of many books on the subject, has occupied the chair of Psychology in the University of Wisconsin since 1888, and is as well a lecturer in the New School for Social Research. In effect, his article presents an intellectual view of the subject Miss Millay treated from a poet's standpoint. From Ruysdael to Constable to Corot is the line of descent in this romantic landscape by a French painter, one of the greatest exponents of the new expression in painting. Modern in spirit, it still pays sober and honest tribute to the classic tradition Volume 147 The Outlook November 23, 1927 Number 12 The Pittsburgh Explosion I F it be true, as seems probable, that the Pittsburgh disaster was caused by the use of a blow torch in repairing a tank next that which exploded, the flame being carried through a connecting pipe, then it is only one more example of the vast tragedy that may result from human careless or lack of perception and of the constant need of skilled inspection at all danger points. Whatever the cause, the tragedy was devastating. The gigantic holder of natural-gas reserves laid in ruins a district of tenements for blocks around; 25 or more killed; perhaps 500 injured; $5,000,000 worth of property destroyed -such are the bare facts as they appear the day after the calamity. The suffering, terror, panic, and despair caused cannot be put into statistics. This was the largest natural-gas tank in the world. It had a cubic capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet. It stood over 200 feet high. It went up, witnesses say, for a great height like an enormous balloon, and burst into flames, “a gigantic ball of fire against the sky." A city built on a volcano cannot move the volcano, but a city need not let an artificial volcano be built in its midst. New England's Need IT THE WEEK Red Cross when he states that the need, not for charity, but for rehabilitation, is pressing. In some places farms have been abandoned because they are flooded or lie half buried by rocks and débris. That Congress will recognize the need and deal with the New England flood situation and the Mississippi Valley situation with equal liberality and an equally long view to the future cannot be doubted. It is interesting to note that one sequel of the New England emergency was the establishing by the PostmasterGeneral of airplane mail service between Concord, New Hampshire, Montpelier, and Burlington. Not alone tributaries of the Connecticut River, but the streams of other watersheds, such as the Winooski, Mud River, Westfield River, and others, overflowed their banks, broke down dams, and caused havoc. The situation was not that of one great disaster, but of many comparatively local disasters, so that the work of both relief and reparation must be carried on here, there, and all but everywhere. Winter is coming and at mid-November there were still towns so isolated that they could be reached only afoot or by airplane; about 7,500 people in the four States injured are receiving Red Cross assistance. Yankee thrift and resource are proverbial; New England's people are independent; all the more, therefore, they deserve and must have friendly help. cue. tomb of Napoleon, amid the relics of many a war, and viewed weekly by hundreds of sightseers. But the weather was rapidly destroying it, and in the quandary which arose it was an American, Mr. Arthur D. Fleming, of Pasadena, California, who came to the resLearning of the difficulty, Mr. Fleming, who is President of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology, contributed the money with which a concrete shelter has been built at "the crossroads of the Armistice." Now the car stands just where it was when Marshal Foch and Herr Erzberger ended the war at five o'clock one autumn morning in 1918. At the recent ceremony of inauguration, M. Fournier Sarloveze, Mayor of Compiègne, presided, and M. Painlevé, Minister of War, Marshal Foch, and the American Club of Paris attended. A drive through the Compiègne country is still an utterly depressing affair, for much as reconstruction has progressed, the section is still full of completely shell-torn houses and churches. In recognition of the generous gift, President Doumergue has made Mr. Fleming a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In this era of transportation could there be a more fitting emblem of the restoration of normal relations after war than a railway car? King Automobile T was Vermont that bore the heaviest attack of New England's flood devastation, and it was to Vermont that President Coolidge sent Attorney-General Sargent, like himself, a native of the Green Mountain State, to study how Armistice Day a little ceremony cally illustrated than by the ceremonies best relief might be afforded and preventive methods taken for the future. It is believed that Federal aid will be needed, for in Vermont alone transportation by highroads and railways and over bridges has been so crippled that it may take not far from a million dollars to make them passable. Governor Weeks, of Vermont, is confirmed by the Where the War Ended N ON was held in the Forest of Compiègne, where just nine years before the war ended. In an ordinary car of the Wagon-Lit Company, a halt was called to the business which had been devastating half a continent. For some time this Armistice Car had stood in the great courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, in the shadow of the western entrances. The excited electric current communicated its vitality and briskness to waiting thousands who availed themselves of the opportunity offered them of walking through the white-tiled, perfectly ventilated, and electrically lighted tubes before the never-to-end procession of automobiles began streaming through. On the first day of its public existence between forty and fifty thousand motor cars passed through the tunnel, carrying about 180,000 passengers, without a mishap. The tunnel, nearly two miles long, is a result of the demands of mtotorists for rapid transit. But even the tunnel, a remarkable feat of engineering, will not satisfy the needs of King Automobile. For his comfort the Hudson is to be bridged by the hugest suspension span in the world at a point not very far north of the Holland Tunnel. The newspapers announce that a little morsel of 50,000 tons of steel is already in progress of fabrication for the bridge, the plans for which are hardly yet drafted. We are certainly living in an empire of speed, and the automobile is its monarch. The New York exit of the new vehicular tunnel A Railroad Election THE city of Cincinnati has several claims to distinction. It is the birthplace of the only living ex-President of the United States; it is the nearest large city to that hypothetical and abstract mathematical point known as the center of the population of the United States; and it is the only city in the United States in the entire world, for that matter which owns a trunk-line steam railroad. This municipally owned railroad, about 350 miles in length, is the Cincinnati Southern. Its construction was begun in 1869 and completed in 1889 by the municipality of Cincinnati in order to maintain that city's claim that it is the "gateway of the South." At first the municipality tried to operate the road, but failed to make it pay, and finally leased it to a private company, now a part of the Southern Railway system. Under the lease the property has been profitable and returns to the city a net annual income of more than a million dollars. In the recent election the citizens of Cincinnati, by an overwhelming majority, voted to extend the lease for ninety-nine years at a regularly increas ing rental which will not only pay the interest on the municipal bonds required for the construction of the road but will yield a handsome surplus for the payment of interest on other municipal bonds. Cincinnati's unique railway is an object-lesson in the economic policy of government ownership combined with private operation of public utilities. A Quiet Bower F OOTBALL is not, contrary to a commonly entertained opinion, the only autumn activity at Yale University. The authorities of that venerable institution, where athletic skill is both an art and a science, are hard at work completing the new Art Museum of the University, which will cost $1,000,000, a sum quite as large as the cost of a good football stadium. The Museum will not only contain the administrative offices of the Art School and an auditorium to seat five hundred persons, but it will house some of Yale's collections of sculptures and paintings, already celebrated in the educational and art world. Among these perhaps the most notable |