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Prosecutor Simpson's case against those on trial for the murder of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills was very much weakened by the complete collapse of the testimony of his last witness, one Frank Caprio. Mr. Caprio (also known as Caprior) is one of the detectives whose fraudulent methods were exposed by Ernest W. Mandeville in The Outlook of October 13, 1926. The Outlook's evidence was used by the defense attorneys in breaking down the testimony of the State's witness and brought about the withdrawal of this portion of the State's testimony by the prosecution.

The Somerville court stenographer has been selling transcripts of the complete testimony to nineteen newspapers, with a $50 daily charge to each, according to an account in "Editor and Publisher." There were over 200 reporters in Somerville throughout the trial, and the average weekly taxi bill for one scribe totaled about $80. There should be a great building boom in Somerville during 1927.

From "Life:"

Mr. Nouveau (explaining his new radio set): "Y'see, the waves ain't sound waves or electric waves- -they're ether."

Mrs. Nouveau (correcting him): "Eyether, George."

Carl E. Milkin, of the Will Hays organization, stated in a recent speech that 90,000,000 admissions are now paid weekly to moving-picture theaters in this country. The population of the United States is somewhere between 110,000,000 and 120,000,000. But, of course, some of the movie fans go to "the pictures" two or three times a week.

"Edison, with all his inventions, was a piker," says the "Hardware Age," "as com

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pared with the ambitious young photographer who advertised: 'Your baby, if you have one, can be enlarged, tinted, and

framed for $8.79.'"

Judge: "The policeman reports that you were going at a sixty-mile rate."

Prisoner: "That was necessary, your honor. You see, I had just stolen the automobile."

"Oh, that's different. Case dismissed."

A bulletin of the New York Public Library propounds a long list of questions to its readers, a few typical examples of which are here quoted:

"What three American authors, one a great novelist, one a novelist and writer of tales of adventure, whose fame is still growing, and one a living poet, all worked for a time in a customs-house?

"What English author of world-wide fame nearly died in New York?

"What great English novelist, in delight at his success in Boston, drove through the streets of that city with his feet out of the carriage window?

"What author was drowned in the Ligurian Sea?

"What is the real name of the authors known as Fiona Macleod, O. Henry, Æ?" etc., etc.

From the Boston "Herald:"

Kenneth rushed in from play with hair rumpled, clothes soiled, and hands dirty, and seated himself at the table. "What would you say if I should come to the table looking as you do?" inquired his mother. Kenneth surveyed his well-groomed mother thoughtfully, then replied: "I think I'd be too polite to say anything."

A lawyer and a doctor were arguing the relative merits of their callings:

"I don't claim that all lawyers are villains," said the doctor, "but you'll have to admit that your profession doesn't make angels of men."

"No," retorted the lawyer; "you doctors certainly have the best of us there."

An official of the American Farm Bureau Federation, returning from a tour of rural communities in twenty-five States, expressed surprise, according to a report in the Toledo "Blade," that he found almost no farmers with whiskers. "Not even the old men had them." That official may have

started out with the cartoonist's type of farmer in mind. That specimen is rare. He has passed out or shaved.

"Another thing to remember," comments the "Blade," "is that farmers never had a monopoly of whiskers. At one time full beards were quite generally worn in towns and cities, but the farmer, out in all kinds of weather, had the better excuse for them.

"We may as well abandon all notions that the farmer of to-day is a 'rube,' or 'hick.' Like most men, he wears clothes adapted to the kind of work he does. He would be foolish to go into the field dressed like a floor-walker. Mentally, he comes as near being 'dressed up' all the time as the average man. He is well-informed, we mean, and knows what is going on in the world. With all modern means at hand for keeping in touch with things, he takes advantage of them."

Teacher: "Try this sentence: "Take the cow out of the lot.' What mood?" Pupil: "The cow."

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EORGE WITTEN is of British parentage, but was born in this country. He went to sea at the age of twelve and worked chiefly on tramp steamships. In the course of his wanderings he landed at Durban, South Africa, where he joined the British forces in the Boer War and served through the entire campaign. He was twice wounded and three months a prisoner. He was only fourteen years old when he joined the army, and was reputed to be the youngest soldier of the British forces in the war. After his return to the United States he worked his way through school. At the outbreak of the World War he went to Canada and enlisted as a private in Strathcona's Horse, a regiment of Canadian cavalry, and sailed with the first contingent for Europe. As his article states, he was four times wounded in action. He was demobilized with the rank of major. At present Mr. Witten is engaged in lecturing and magazine and newspaper writing.

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Free for All

Limiteds Raise the Limit

F you had waited a month, you would have had no occasion to write your editorial of October 20 on "Faster Trains, East and West." On November 14 transcontinental lines clipped five hours from the running time of their limited trains between Chicago and California points.

Now one may leave Chicago after dinner and arrive in San Francisco or Los Angeles on the third morning after breakfast. This gives an ideal schedule of three nights and two days en route.

It is easy to talk about taking twelve to eighteen hours off the schedule of a limited train, but it is quite another thing to do it. The Overland Limited, for example, now hauls a heavy train 2,260 miles in 63 hours, which is an average of 35.88 miles an hour for the elapsed time between terminals. However, even a limited train must stop occasionally. Traffic and operating requirements necessitate stops which consume altogether about two hours of the running time. More precious minutes are subtracted by slow-downs which cannot be avoided.

Railroading in the West is different from railroading in the East. The aggregate rise and fall between Chicago and San Francisco is more than six miles. That is, the task imposed upon the Overland Lim

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ited is equivalent to lifting its gross weight of more than a thousand tons three miles straight up in the air and then lowering itself down again. Some of this lifting has to be done on grades of about one hundred feet to the mile. You would be surprised to know what an arbitrary speed restriction is imposed by half that grade.

Aside from this, there are sharp curves to be negotiated. A tragic object-lesson was given in Colorado last summer on the consequences of disregarding speed limits on sharp curves. Railroads are operated on the theory that it is better to deliver passengers alive at their destination than to deliver them in a hurry.

Anyway, why hurry? Limited trains are not merely comfortable; they are luxurious. With all creature comforts at hand, including barber, bath, maid and valet ser

Its continued advancement requires constant effort in working upon a neverending succession of seemingly unsolvable problems.

Because it leads the way in finding new pathways for telephone development, the Bell System is able to provide America with a nationwide service that sets the standard for the world.

vice, the passenger has nothing to do but loll on soft cushions and watch a landscape occasionally magnificent, often beautiful, and always interesting roll by. As the bulk of California travel is composed of health and pleasure seekers, this is entirely satisfactory for two days or longer.

Finally, experience has taught that the majority of railroad passengers are not unduly precipitate. The New York Central, for example, notwithstanding the enormous 'popularity of the Twentieth Century Limited, finds it necessary to operate a long list of other through trains, some of which consume as much as twenty-eight hours between New York and Chicago. All, inIcluding the slowest, are well patronized. CHARLES FREDERICK CARTER, Publicity Manager New York Central Lines. New York City.

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HAROLD T. PULSIFER, President and Managing Editor
NATHAN T. PULSIFER, Vice-President

ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief and Secretary
LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Contributing Editor

THE OUTLOOK, December 22, 1926. Volume 144, Number 17. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Volume 144

The House Acts and the Wets are Routed

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HATEVER the House of

Representatives may do or leave undone later, the fact stands to its credit that it got down to business almost as if it had not recessed from summer to winter. The first of the big appropriation bills, that providing for expenditures in the Treasury Department and the Post Office Department, was passed almost as promptly as a town council could have appropriated a hundred dollars for the town clerk's quarterly salary. And this prompt action was achieved despite a bitter wet-dry row.

It was the item of $30,000,000 for prohibition enforcement that the wets made their first point of attack. Though Cramton, of Michigan, and Gallivan, of Massachusetts, took part in the row, the bitterness was mainly between Hill, of Maryland, and Upshaw, of Georgia, one probably the most unreasoning wet and the other probably the most fanatical dry in Congress. Their manifestations of zeal will become private at the end of this session, the voters of Maryland and Georgia having decided to keep them at home for a while. The appropriation was made practically as planned.

The House also passed quite promptly the Judicial Salaries Bill, which brings to a successful conclusion the long fight made by the American Bar Association to secure more adequate salaries for all Federal judges. The bill passed the Senate at the last session, and will undoubtedly be signed by the President. All judges of Federal courts, from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States down to the judges of district courts, will receive substantial increases in pay. Despite the length of time that was required to secure this legislation, there was no considerable opposition to it. Only thirty-nine Representatives voted against it.

The Quarrel Over the Surplus

December 22, 1926

Means Committee. This Committee, by a vote of all Republican members, determined that there should be no effort at tax legislation at this session. All revenue bills were tabled, including the Administration tax credit measure and the Democratic Tax Reduction Bill.

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The Treasury surplus of approximately $380,000,000 will be applied, automatically, to debt reduction; for, while it is possible that the Democratic organization may force the Tax Reduction Bill out of Committee, there is no likelihood of any further effort by the Administra

secure tax credit legislation. President Coolidge told Congress in his Message that, while he preferred the tax credit plan of disposing of the surplus, he left it to the discretion of Congress whether this or the debt reduction plan should be followed.

The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee opposed the motion to table tax measures because they want to get their tax reduction measure before the House. Both Representative

PERHAPS the most notable achieve- Garner, of Texas, ranking Democratic

ment toward expediting business in the House was accomplished, not by the House itself, but by the Ways and

member of the Committee, and Representative Garrett, of Tennessee, minority leader in the House, have said that all

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parliamentary means will be used to outmaneuver the Republicans and bring the bill out of Committee. They assert that the condition of the Treasury amply justifies a further reduction of taxes now. The argument that there may be no surplus next year is contradicted, they say, by Secretary Mellon's statement in his annual report that the present strong tide of prosperity will not ebb.

Each side believes that there is more politics than finance in the position of the other. The Republicans are sure that the Democrats are pressing their tax reduction measure at this time purely in the hope of political advantage, while the Democrats believe that the Republicans oppose reducing taxes now solely because they want to be able to reduce them in 1927, "just before election," as Mr. Garner said.

Vare, Smith, and Gould

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'HE Senate's talk has been largely of "slush Senators." Circumstances have largely made the Senate's volubility at this time excusable. Perhaps the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Congress might not have left to the Senate of the Seventieth Congress the task of investigating the qualifications of its own members, even if no question had arisen which properly concerned the Senate as at present constituted. Such questions, however, have arisen, and some of them are extremely complex.

The question of improper methods in securing nomination or election or both no longer applies merely to Senator-elect Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Senator-elect Smith, of Illinois. It was raised as to Senator Gould, elected from Maine to fill out an unexpired term, and therefore a member of the present Congress, and, though somewhat irregularly, as to General L. D. Tyson, elected a Senator from Tennessee in 1924 and a member of the present Congress from the beginning. It was also raised in a new form as to Colonel Smith by the death on December 7 of Senator William B. McKinley and the supposed probability that Governor Small would appoint Colonel Smith to fill out the unexpired term.

For six years Mr. McKinley served in

Congress; was manager of President the election of Mr. Vare in an effort to

Taft's disastrous campaign for re-election in 1912, when he himself was defeated for Congress; then served for six years more in Congress (of which he was one of the richest members); and concluded his public career by his term in the Senate, for which he failed of renomination.

Almost as soon as the session opened Senator Walsh, of Montana, obtained the adoption of a resolution for an investigation of the methods by which Senator Gould secured his election. He obtained it without much opposition, and with the affirmative vote of Mr. Gould himself.

A little later Senator Dill, of Washington, introduced resolutions demanding that the credentials of William S. Vare and Frank L. Smith be refused during this session. Senator Dill admitted that the present membership of the Senate could not decide whether or not Mr. Vare and Colonel Smith should be seated. He admitted, further, that, so far as he knew, there was no precedent for his resolutions. But he said that the acceptance as valid by the present membership of the Senate of the credentials of Vare and Smith would constitute a dangerous precedent, and that Vare and Smith should be disqualified as Senatorselect "from exercising the privileges to which Senators-elect whose credentials are not so tainted are ordinarily entitled."

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ENATOR DILL's resolutions to refuse credentials to Vare and Smith were introduced largely, it was generally believed, because of the probability that Smith would be appointed to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley. While the question as to seating Smith as appointed to fill out an unexpired term would not be identical with that as to seating him as elected in consequence of a nomination secured by questionable methods, the feeling has been somewhat general that some advantage would accrue, not alone to Smith, but to Vare as well, by having Smith serve out the unexpired term of McKinley, and that the Dill move was largely for the purpose of stalling off such a possibility.

All of this made opportunity for Senatorial talk, some of it on the floor, much of it in the cloak-rooms and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the Democrats were considering contesting, not the nomination, but

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seat his Democratic opponent, W. B. Wilson. The plan was finally abandoned, but it occupied the attention of a number of Democratic Senators during the first week of the session.

Along with all of this came the charge that Senator Tyson, of Tennessee, spent $1,800,000 to secure his nomination in 1924. The charge came mainly on the authority of John R. Neal, a lawyer and perennial candidate for Governor in Tennessee, who gained Nation-wide pubTennessee, who gained Nation-wide publicity as chief counsel for Scopes in the anti-evolution trial. General Tyson is a

Meanwhile, several important committee positions will have gone to Senators who, while they have never been expelled from the party, have been regarded as somewhat radical and irregular. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, is to become Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in place of the late Senator Cummins; and Senator McNary, of Oregon, one of the authors of the McNaryHaugen Bill, will become Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. These assignments already have been approved by the Committee on Committees.

man of some wealth who, it has always Mellon on Prosperity
been understood, defrayed his own cam-

paign expenses. He is a West Point How long prosperity will last is the

graduate who spent the early part of his life in the Regular Army, then engaged life in the Regular Army, then engaged in manufacturing for some years, and reentered the Army at the time of the World War, serving with the rank of Major-General. He was never suspected of having quite as much money as he is now charged with having spent to secure his nomination. Not much is likely to come of the charge, but it has added something to the Senate excitement.

Orthodox Insurgents

ENATOR FRAZIER, of North Dakota,

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the last left in the Senate of the four insurgents who were read out of the Reinsurgents who were read out of the Republican Party two years ago, is again a Republican in good and regular standing, though the quality of his insurgency, to outward appearance, has not changed. has not changed. The exigencies of Republican organization, on the other hand, have changed.

The Senate Committee on Committees has voted to restore Senator Frazier to his old standing as a Republican and to assign him to standing committees as such. He will resume his old place on the Indian Affairs Committee and will become its Chairman upon the retirement in March of Senator Harreld, of Oklahoma.

Of the four Senators who were read out of the party, two are dead, La Follette and Ladd. The fourth, Brookhart, of Iowa, was ousted from the Senate, but has since been nominated and elected as a Republican, and will return to the Senate in March. The fact that the Republicans of Iowa nominated and elected him as a Republican will probably operate to give him regular standing without the necessity for such action as was taken with regard to Senator Frazier.

most important question in the minds of even more citizens than the

large portion who gain their livelihood directly from industry and commerce. Strangely, as it would seem, the continued existence of generally satisfactory business conditions causes the question to be asked with increasing solicitude, even when confidence is uppermost. But the present business generation has been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge that for every action comes a reaction.

Therefore the prediction in Secretary Mellon's annual report, that the country may expect "another satisfactory year," meets with hopeful incredulity on the part of business men who were surprised when prosperity did not begin to wane last summer, or even before.

Of course, the Secretary of the Treasury has his good reasons for the prediction; and it is not likely that they are political. Nineteen hundred and twentyseven will probably be "satisfactory" without producing such a fabulously large National income as 1926. But against the premonition caused by a low point in business every seven years since 1907 on the graph of National prosperity, and despite unfavorable conditions or promise in cotton and agriculture and building, business analysts can find none of the warning signals that ordinarily precede consequential depression, and they can see no possibility of anything approaching panic conditions while the United States remains so abundantly supplied with gold.

That business shall prosper and lag, approximately with the fluctuation of a cycle, is inevitable while men's stability and judgment shall be less than infallible. But the momentum of America's prosperity-based on "the broadness of

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