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Wayside Inn Litchfield Co., Conn. Sanford Hall Flushing New York

The foothills of the Berkshires. A restful place for tired people. Good food and a comfortable home. 2 hours from New York. Booklet A. Mrs. J. E. CASTLE, Proprietor.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

THE LEE HOUSE
Fifteenth and L Streets, N. W.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

A cordial welcome awaits you
at this interesting, new hotel-
just four blocks north of the
White House.

Daily, weekly, monthly, season rates
Write for Folder No. 3

NEW YORK CITY

Hotel Webster

(Near 5th Avenue)
40 West 45th Street

NEW YORK
Directly in the fashionable club and shop-
ping section. Within five minutes' walk to
all principal theaters. A high-class hotel
patronized by those desiring the best accom-
modations at moderate cost.
REDUCED RATES DURING SUMMER
Rates and map gladly sent upon request.

sails January 6 by ADRIATIC. Hotel Le Marquis

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12 East 31st Street

New York

Combines every convenience and home comfort, and commends itself to people of refinement wishing to live on American Plan and be within easy reach of social and dramatic centers.

Rates with Illustrated Booklet gladly sent KNOTT Management. upon request.

Hotel Hargrave

West 72d St., through

to 71st St., New York
300 rooms, each with bath. Absolutely
fireproof: One block to 72d St. en-
trance of Central Park. Comfort and
refinement combined with moderate
rates. Send for illustrated booklet J.

HOTEL JUDSON 53 Washington Square adjoining Judson Memorial Church. Rooms with and without bath. Rates $3.50 per day. including meals. Special rates for two weeks or more. Location very central. Convenient to all elevated and street car lines.

"INTERPINES"

Beautiful, quiet, restful and homelike. Over 26 years of successful work. Thorough, reliable, dependable and ethical. Every comfort and convenience. Accommodations of superior quality. Disorder of the nervous system a specialty. Fred. W. Seward, Sr., M.D., Fred. W. Seward, Jr., M.D., Goshen, N. Y.

Country Board

Morristown, N.J. Restful home life, attractive

room, suitable for couple, in beautiful residential park,near station,easy commuting;excellent cuisine. Moderate rates. 8,263, Outlook.

Apartments

SUB-LEASE APARTMENT OF

3 ROOMS, with bath and kitchenette and large closets, overlooking the S. E. corner of Central Park. Furnished in old mahogany, antique rugs; attractive library; new building, elevator, maid service and dining-room. Can be seen by appointment only with the best of references Sublet for not less than a year at $3,500. 8,267, Outlook.

Furnished Apartment To Rent. High class elevator apartment overlooking Columbia University grounds. Delightful location. 3 well-heated, light, airy rooms and bath. For 6 months from about Nov.15, $800.8,283, Outlook.

Real Estate

CONNECTICUT

GREETING CARDS

COPLEY CRAFT HAND-COLORED CHRISTMAS CARDS will be sent on teu days approval. The Line is best known for its distinctive verses. Jessie A. McNicol, 18 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass.

BOARD AND ROOMS

BOARD and room. Lady, 72 years, active. alert, wants permanent location within 300 miles New York; not exceeding $45 month. 2,910, Outlook.

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LIVE STOCK

DOG OWNERS, amateur or professional. Here is your opportunity. New book, "Care of Dogs," free, contains helpful, instructive information on feeding, training, diseases. Every dog owner needs it. Book mailed free with a 3 months' trial subscription to "Sportsman's Digest," America's popular illustrated Dog and Hunting Magazine. Send 25c to-day (coin or stamps). Sportsman's Digest Pub lishing Co., 527 Butier Bldg., Cincinnati, O. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 4

SAFE 8% FIRST MORTGAGE INCOME CERTIFICATES additionally secured, tax exempted, quarterly payments. Permanent or reconvertible. Ask circulars. Home Building & Loan Co., Jacksonville, Fla.

ESTABLISHED and paying tea room in university town. House of 15 rooms, on the campus, also on State road. Rental of extra rooms pays all overhead, including rent, light, heat, etc. Cheap maid service and student help for board. An excellent opportunity for one with sons to educate. Address 2,879, Outlook.

EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES

WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schocis. Calls coming every day. Bend for circulars. Albany Tenchera' Agency, Albany, N. Y.

DIETITIANS, cafeteria managers, governesses, matrons, housekeepers, superintend ents. Miss Richarda, Providence, R. I. Box 5 East Side. Boston Office, Trinity Court, Fridays, 11 to 1. Address Providence.

WANTED-Teachers all subjects. Good vacancies in schools and colleges. International Musical and Educational Agency, Carnegie Hall, N. Y.

ENTERTAINMENTS

PLAYS, musical comedies and revues. minstrel music, blackface skits, vaudeville acts, monologs, dialogs, recitations, entertainments, musical readings, stage handbooks, make-up goods. Big catalog free. T. S. Denison & Co., 623 So. Wabash, Dept. 74, Chicago.

STATIONERY

UNUSUALLY desirable stationery for any type of correspondence. 200 sheets high grade note paper and 100 envelopes printed with your name and address postpaid $1.54 Samples on request. You can buy cheaper stationery, but do you want to? Lewis, 284 Second Ave., Troy, N. Y.

150 letter sheets and 100 envelopes, $1. Postpaid. Burnett Print Shop, Box 145, Ashland, O. OLD Hampshire bond; 100 sheets (64x7) and 75 envelopes, printed, $2 delivered.

All-Year-Round Home Franklin Printery, Warner, N. H.

For sale, in the foothills of the Berkshires,

Washington, Conn.

a country place of about 8 acres, situated in the midst of charming scenery. Colonial house of 14 rooms, 6 open fireplaces, steam heat, 3 bathrooms; stable with living quarters, 2-car garage, chicken house and yards, ice house, flower and vegetable gardens; never-failing water supply from individual spring. Waring sewage disposal system. Admirable church and school advantages and golf. Fine town library. An all-year-round home of charm and comfort. On Litchfield branch of N. Y. & N. H. R. R., 28 miles from Danbury by motor, 40 miles from New Haven. For further information address

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FIRST-class man for cutter and to take charge of small factory making men's cotton I coats. Box 39, Burlington, Vt.

Companions and Domestic Helpers WORKING housekeeper-Family of four and governess. Cooking; waiting; no wasiing. References. Telephone Scarsdale 283, or P. O. Box 54, Scarsdale, N. Y.

WANTED-Working housekeeper and as sistant to do all the work (except laundry in household of three women in Cleveland, Ohio. One of them is a professional woman away all day. Quiet honsehold, with many privi leges. Address 2,214, Outlook.

WANTED-Working housekeeper who un derstands vegetarian cooking, adult family, New York City; no laundry work. No servants need apply. Address 2,880, Outlook. WANTED-Working housekeeper by middle-aged widow living alone in small house 3 miles from Penn. Station, New York City. All conveniences. Good home, wages, reference. 2,886, Outlook.

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HELP WANTED

Companions and Domestic Helpers COMPETENT woman as housekeeper in family of two. References. Box 192, Clinton, Conn.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Private teacher, experienced, to teach young girl English and school subjects. One who also speaks French preferred. Must be willing to live two hours from New York. 2,874, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Professional Situations NURSE-Efficient for invalid. Cheerful, companionable. Can superintend home with help; or willing to travel. Physician's testimonial. 2.252, Outlook.

TRAINED nurse. Refined, Christian woman, capable of taking entire charge motherless children or invalid's home. Previous experience. References. Moderate salary. 2,915, Outlook.

Business Situations

YOUNG married man, with accountant's experience, desires position offering advancement toward responsibility and executive work. Address 2,882, Outlook.

FARM SUPERINTENDENT - Woman with 15 years' experience in farm manage ment, and a student of horticulture in England and U. S. State agricultural colleges, wishes positiontomanage an estate with up-todate dairy and ponitry plant. 2,890, Outlook. Companions and Domestic Helpers MATRON of girls' school wishes change of sitnation at Christmas. Would travel or conaider any position of trust. American and Canadian references. 2,245, Outlook.

CAPABLE woman desires position as housekeeper. Sixteen years' experience. Understands buying, catering, making of menus, and management of servants. Excels in taking charge of special occasions. 2,869, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED Companions and Domestic Helpers WANTED-Position as companion-helper in suburban home by an educated, refined woman of ability and wide experience. 2,877, Outlook.

YOUNG woman, Protestant, social and business experience America and Europe, speaking French, desires position as chaperon, courier, secretary. 2,876, Outlook.

CONGENIAL, cultured woman as useful companion or supervisor where help is kept. Widow's or widower's home preferred. 2,875, Outlook.

POSITION wanted by cheerful, sensible, experienced young woman as companion-governess or chaperon. American, Protestant. References. 2,881, Outlook.

EXPERIENCED, college educated woman desires position as secretary or governesscompanion. 2,883, Outlook.

INDUSTRIAL position desired by graduate, registered nurse of long experience. 2,887, Outlook.

TRAVELING companion-Registered nurse going to Florida about November 15 would exchange services for fare. 2,889, Outlook.

WANTED-Position as supervising housekeeper by experienced woman of ability, education, refinement. Pleasing personality. Last position held eight years. 2,892, Outlook.

YOUNG woman. Managing housekeeper institution, school, hotel. Excellent references. 2,895, Outlook.

YOUNG woman (unmarried) desires position as companion to either adult or child, in Christian family, outside New York. References. Moderate salary. 2,901, Outlook.

CULTURED, refined Southern lady desires position as traveling companion or chaperon. Highest references. 2,900, Outlook.

LADY, refined, of social position, desires situation in high-class home for winter. Experienced in management of domestic affairs and care small children; sews well having traveled, would make good companion 2,904, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED Companions and Domestic Helpers GENTLEWOMAN (middle aged) of executive experience desires position as managing housekeeper in home of elderly couple or widower. Highest references. 2,893, Outlook. EXPERIENCED, congenial, cultured woman as useful companion or supervisor where help is kept. Widow's or widower's home preferred. Would travel. 2,907, Outlook.

YOUNG woman, experienced, refined, sensible, wants position as companion, companionsecretary, or companion-housekeeper. Phila 2,908, Outlook. delphia suburbs preferred.Highest references.

WOMAN of refinement as useful companion or supervisor where help is kept. Widow's or widower's home preferred. 2,912, Outlook.

WANTED Position as housekeeper in widower's home. New York or suburban preferred. References if needed. 2,914, Outlook.

Teachers and Governesses EXPERIENCED teacher wishes positiongoverness, mother's helper, companion. Best references. 2,260, Outlook.

TUTOR, experienced, young, athletic, wants position with family traveling South for winter. 2,888, Outlook.

EXPERIENCED teacher of English with excellent credentials desires position as private tutor. 2.891, Outlook.

SCHOOL. Gentleman and wife, both with long experience in school work, seek good position Christmas, or would start small school. 2,894, Outlook.

RESIDENT tutor, 26, experienced languages. Any location. References. 2,897, Outlook.

WOMAN, practical, adaptable, institutional training, desires position as governess or companion to young unusual child. Country preferred. References. 2,898, Outlook.

EDUCATED, experienced woman desires position as governess or mother's helper. 2,906, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Teachers and Governesses POSITION wanted--Competent governess. Penn. Primary, kindergarten. Successful with delicate children. Diet. Physical care. 2,913, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a very thorough nurses' aid course of six months is offered by the Lying-In Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. Monthly allowance and full maintenance is furnished. For further information address Directress of Nurses.

MISS Guthman, New York shopper, will shop for you, services free. No samples. References. 309 West 99th St.

BOYS wanted. 500 boys wanted to sell The Outlook each week. No investment necessary. Write for selling plan, Carrier Department, The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Ave.. New York City.

FRENCH lady, home in Paris suburb, will take three girls for winter. Social and encational advantages. For references and information apply 2,871, Outlook.

WANTED-Young woman, refined, with own car to drive it for use of private family a few hours daily, in Southern winter resort, in return for room and board. Reply 2,875. Outlook.

WANTED-Invalid or elderly person will receive expert care. Ideal country home: all conveniences. Best physician's references. Address Nurse, 2,885, Outlook.

M. W. Wightman & Co. Shopping Agency, established 1895. No charge; prompt delivery. 25 West 24th St., New York.

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Dividend checks from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company are received quarterly by more than 200,000 telephone users.

Owned by those it serves

Less than fifty years ago an application was made for a patent which created the possibility of speech between distant points. It was the culmination of years of study, research and experiment. It suggested a new aid in commerce and domestic life; a new tie to bind the people together. But it was only a suggestion -a dream.

To make that dream come true required the creation of an organization unlike any other. It demanded a kind of scientific knowledge that was yet to be formulated, as well as a type of equipment still to be devised. And it necessitated the financial and moral support of many communities.

Out of this situation grew the Bell System, bringing not only a new public service, but a new democracy of public service ownership-a democracy that now has more than 200,000 stockholders-a partnership of the rank and file who use telephone service and the rank and file employed in that service. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company exists to serve the people and is

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owned directly by the people-controlled not by one, but controlled by all.

Evolution is going on. Each year the ownership is more widespread. Each year the various processes of the service are performed more efficiently and economically. Each year new lines and extensions are constructed. The responsibility of the management is to provide the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost and to provide new facilities with the growth of demand. To do these things requires equipment, men and money.

The rates must furnish a net return sufficient to induce you to become a stockholder, or to retain your stock if you already are one; after paying wages sufficient to attract and retain capable men and women in the service. They must adequately support and extend the structure of communication.

These are considerations for the interest of all-public, stockholders, employees.

"BELL SYSTEM"

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Better Service

This Week's Outlook

A outline study of current dista that published each week based on that week's issue of The Outlook and is sent without charge to all subscribers who request it, but is especially designed

for groups of students engaged in the study of current events, history, civics, English, etc. Information as to special rates for subscriptions ordered in quantities for class work will be sent on request to Educational Director

The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City

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BY THE WAY

HE good friends who, after hearing a story, say to us, "The way I heard it was this," try us terribly, but they generally improve the story, we have to admit. A subscriber thus betters the legend recently printed in this column about Lafayette's greeting to married and unmarried men: "In our story (handed down in our family in Philadelphia) he told the unmarried man he was a lucky dog, while he said to the married individual, 'What a happy man you must be!' When his attention was called to the apparent contradiction between the two compliments, he said: "There is a great difference between a happy man and a lucky dog!"

The names of towns on the borders of States are sometimes made up of syllables from the names of the States. Sylmar, for instance, in Maryland, borrows syllables from Pennsylvania and Maryland, and Pen Mar, in Pennsylvania, does the same thing in a slightly different way. Calexico, in California, indicates its proximity to Mexico in its name. Mexicali, just on the other side of the border, in Lower California, has become celebrated as the possessor of "the longest bar in the world," to which Californians can cross over from Calexico and slake their thirst without fear of prohibitory laws.

"To be offered for sale by auction," says an advertisement in an English paper, "part of the ESTATE OF LOCHIEL, extending to a total area of about 117,000 acres." This Scottish estate, consisting of over 180 square miles of territory, includes a deer forest of 13,000 acres, a castle, lakes, mountains, sheep farms, trout streams, etc. In its various preserves a total of about 200 stags are often shot during the season, and quantities of salmon and trout obtained. "In one preserve," it is said, "Lord Burton shot the famous 20-pointer." (Refers to a huge stag whose antlers had 20 points.) This vast domain is advertised as a "sporting estate," and probably could be matched only in America for extent and romantic scenery, which includes the famous Ben Nevis.

In the window of a wholesale silk house on Fourth Avenue, New York, the wayfarer sees this cheering sign: JOBS ALWAYS ON HAND. This is probably short for "job lots."

Another sign, at a recent industrial show, read: GUARANTEED EGGS. THESE EGGS ARE LAID BY HAPPY, HEALTHY HENS. A sign on the Bowery reads: FRENCHY, ARTIST. It speaks volumes as to the popular impression that the French are up on art.

Another Bowery sign, perhaps suggested by "Frenchy's," is: SHOEY THE BOOTBLACK.

A Yiddish-English sign in Brooklyn reads as follows: OUR MOTTO: QUALITY, TRUTHNESS, QUICK SERVICE.

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What I Think of
Pelmanism

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By Judge Ben B. Lindsey

ELMANISM is a big, vital, signifi

cant contribution to the mental life of America. I have the deep conviction that it is going to strike at the very roots of individual failure, for I see in it a new power, a great driving force.

I first heard of Pelmanism while in England on war work. Sooner or later almost every conversation touched on it, for the movement seemed to have the sweep of a religious conviction. Men and women of every class and circumstance were acclaiming it as a new departure in mental training that gave promise of ending that preventable inefficiency which acts as a brake on human progress. Even in France I did not escape the word, for thousands of officers and men were Pelananizing in order to fit themselves for return to civil life.

When I learned that Pelmanism had been brought to America by Americans for Americans, I was among the first to enroll. My reasons were two: first, because I have always felt that every mind needed regular, systematic and scientific exercise, and secondly, because I wanted to find out if Pelmanism was the thing that I could recommend to the hundreds who continually ask my advice in relation -to their lives, problems and ambitions.

Failure is a sad word in any language, but it is peculiarly tragic here in America where institutions and resources join to put success within the reach of every individual. In the twenty years that I have sat on the bench of the Juvenile Court of Denver, almost every variety of human failure has passed before me in melancholy procession. By failure I do not mean the merely criminal mistakes of the individual, but the faults of training that keep a life from full development and complete expression.

Pelmanism the Answer

If I were asked to set down the principal cause of the average failure, I would have to put the blame at the door of our educational system. It is there that trouble begins-trouble that only the gifted and most fortunate are strong enough to overcome in later life.

Either think back on your own experience or else look into a schoolroom in your own town. Routine is the ideal, with pupils drilled to do the same thing at the same time in the same way. There is no room for originality or initiative because these qualities would throw the machinery out of gear. Individuality is discouraged and imagination frowned upon for the same reason. No steadfast attempt to appeal to interest or to arouse and develop latent powers.

What wonder that our boys and girls come forth into the world with something less than firm purpose, full confidence and

leaping courage? What wonder that mind
wandering and wool gathering are common,
and that so many individuals are shackled
by indecisions, doubts and fears?

It is to these needs and these lacks that
Pelmanism comes as an answer. The
"twelve little gray books" are a remarkable
achievement. Not only do they contain the
discoveries that science knows about the
mind and its workings, but the treatment
is so simple that the truths may be grasped
by anyone of average education.

In plain words, what Pelmanism has done is to take psychology out of the college and put it into harness for the day's work. It lifts great, helpful truths out of the back water and plants them in the living stream.

As a matter of fact, Pelmanism ought to be the beginning of education instead of a remedy for its faults. First of all, it teaches the science of self-realization; it makes the student discover himself; it acquaints him with his sleeping powers and shows him how to develop them. The method is exercise, not of the haphazard sort, but a steady, increasing kind that brings each hidden power to full strength without strain or break.

Pelmanism's Large Returns

The human mind is not an automatic device. It will not "take care of itself." Will power, originality, decision, resourcefulness, imagination, initiative, couragethese things are not gifts but results. Every one of these qualities can be developed by effort just as muscles can be developed by exercise. I do not mean by this that the individual can add to the brains that God gave him, but he can learn to make use of the brains that he has instead of letting them fall into flabbiness through disuse.

Other methods and systems that I have examined, while realizing the value of mental exercise, have made the mistake of limiting their efforts to the development of some single sense. What Pelmanism does is to consider the mind as a whole and treat it as a whole. It goes in for mental team play, training the mind as a unity.

Its big value, however, is the instructional note. Each lesson is accompanied by a work sheet that is really a progress sheet. The student goes forward under a teacher in the sense that he is followed through from first to last, helped, guided and encouraged at every turn by conscientious experts.

Pelmanism is no miracle. It calls for application. But I know of nothing that pays larger returns on an investment of one's spare time from day to day.

(Signed) BEN B. LINDSEY.

Note: As Judge Lindsey has pointed out,
Pelmanism is neither an experiment nor a
theory. For almost a quarter of a century,
it has been showing men and women how
to lead happy, successful, well rounded
lives. 650,000 Pelmanists in every country
on the globe are the guarantee of what
Pelman training can do for you.

No matter what your own particular diffi-
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JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY

Judge Ben B. Lindsey is known throughout the whole modern world for his work in the Juvenile Court of Denver. Years ago his vision and courage lifted children out of the cruelties and stupidities of the criminal law, and forced society to recognize its duties and responsibilities in connection with the "citizens of tomorrow."

culties are poor memory, mind wandering, indecision, timidity, nervousness or lack of personality-Pelmanism will show you the way to correct and overcome them. And on the positive side, it will uncover and develop qualities which you never dreamed existed in you. It will be of direct, tangible value to you in your business and social life. In the files at the Pelman Institute of America are hundreds of letters from successful Pelmanists telling how they doubled, trebled and even quadrupled their salaries thanks to Pelman training.

How to Become a Pelmanist

Pelmanism is taught entirely by correspondence. There are twelve lessons"Twelve Little Gray Books." The course can be completed in three to twelve months, depending entirely on the amount of time devoted to study. Half an hour daily will enable the student to finish the course in three months.

"Scientific Mind Training" is the name of the absorbingly interesting booklet which tells about Pelmanism in detail. It is fascinating in itself with its wealth of original thought and clear observation. "Scientific Mind Training" makes an interesting addition to your library.

Your copy is waiting for you. It is absolutely free. Simply fill out the coupon and mail it today. It costs you nothing, it obligates you to nothing, but it is absolutely sure to show you the way to success and happiness. Don't put it off and then forget about it. Don't miss a big opportunity. MAIL THE COUPON NOW.

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THE REALITY OF

DEBATING

INCE I always read The Outlook with

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great interest, and am very much interested in debating, I of course gave especial attention to your number of September 13, containing the editorial on "Debates and Beliefs" and the article on "Where Men Debate Beliefs-Not Statistics." Because of my observations and experiences from four years' debating at college, I should like to take exception to most of your assertions in your editorial and article. But for the present I shall confine my attention to your statement that American college debating "lacks actuality" and to the inference from your quotation from Roosevelt's Autobiography that American college debating does not "turn out of our colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of the right."

Your editorial writer asserts on his ipse dixit that our college debating "lacks actuality." Unfortunately, he does not inform us what he means by "actuality" or why this debating "lacks actuality." The assertion is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." If the editorial writer had only slight debating training, he would have learned to define his terms and give his reasons or "beliefs." Does he mean by "actuality" that the subjects chosen for debate are academic or archaic? Does he mean that the present methods of preparation and speaking are "unreal" because they give the debaters no training helpful in any way? Or has he something else tucked away in his mind? I must confess that my strong "convictions" are that your writer never debated or attended a debate.

Of course I may have been a young man who had visions and dreamed dreams, but debating seemed very real to me during my four years' contact with it. The subjects were always inter

vital. I felt that I had "sin

fellow's; an appreciation of the fact that there are generally two sides to a question and that it is a great mistake to be cocksure that you are always "on the side of the right." I must confess that often, after a debate, into which I entered believing myself "on the side of the right" and the exclusive apostle of justice, I found the other team were not such insincere, "glibly" talking assignees and had some "right" in their case. I have strong convictions that American college debating has made me a better citizen and lawyer.

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Before closing, I want further to expose myself to the elements by giving you my reasons why "college debates do not evoke the interest of the general student body nor do they call out the talents of the real college leaders." To one group of undergraduates the studious preparation necessary for debating "smacks too much of the curriculum," and the average student pays no more attention to the curriculum than is required to attain a "gentleman's grade." Consequently anything calling for very diligent, thorough study is taboo. another group, debating interferes too much with many undergraduates' ideas of a college as a social clearing-house and country club. Again, the "rockingchair fleet" is sufficient to anchor many who might otherwise hazard the debating tempests. Then there are the countless hosts who have never debated or attended a debate and consequently have false notions about it. Finally, there are those who often before they left "prep school" have set their eyes on the traditional college "honors" regardless of what college activities and opportunities possess the most value to them as future citizens. LINCOLN L. KELLOGG.

Oneonta, New York.

A MAGNIFICENT
EXPERIMENT

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esting and intensity the conviction." I pleasure to read your entirely reason

While I may not have "moved the hearers," I thought that I was "moved."

At any rate, I have "ardent convictions" that my American college debating experience was the most valuable training that I have thus far received in my young life. While I shall not relate all of my reasons for this statement,, I shall trouble you with a few. I am not so foolish as to believe that I possess all the qualities that debating teaches, but it has pointed them out to me and demonstrated their inestimable value not only in my effort to be a citizen but a lawyer also: ease; poise; self-control; courtesy; ability to stand on one's feet before people and think and speak clearly, concisely, accurately, cogently; a knowledge of human nature; the value of diligent and thorough preparation not only of your own side but of the other

able interpretation of the recent poll upon the Eighteenth Amendment, and to emphasize your judgment as expressed in the editorial of September 27, that Nation-wide prohibition is a magnificent and unique experiment, achieving most favorable results. As casting light upon the situation in an ordinary town, and in the center of the country, I present this interesting fact. Formerly this town was, like all small towns, saloonridden. This summer we have had three "big events." A Fourth of July celebration brought five thousand people here; a circus day, another five thousand; and our county fair has had an attendance of twenty-five thousand. In all there was but one arrest for intoxication, and that on circus day. Our county fair has closed without even one breach of the peace. The splendid American crowds,

full of happiness, enjoyed the event without the former disturbances due to the presence of the saloon and the sale of liquor, and the testimony seems unanimous that the conditions now enjoyed are here to stay. S. M. CAMPBELL. Macon, Missouri.

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"DEAF" OR "DEAF-MUTE"? HE Outlook for September 27 contains an excellent illustration of the Gallaudet statue on the grounds of Gallaudet College for the Deaf at Washington, D. C. The explanatory foot-note accompanying the illustration is in error when it says that Gallaudet College "is the only college which gives degrees to deaf-mutes." Gallaudet College is the only college in which the methods of instruction are adapted to meet the special requirements of the deaf. Any college or university will give degrees to the deaf otherwise qualified and several have done so, among them Yale, Washington University, and the University of California.

The Gallaudet of the statue at Washington is known as the "founder of deafmute education in America." His first school at Hartford was known as "The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb." It was located on "Asylum" street. So much for the corporate title and the public view-point of the education of the deaf at its beginning. The word "Asylum" soon gained the disfavor of educators of the deaf and of the educated deaf. Schools of the era following the one at Hartford took as their corporate title "Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb." Later on the teaching of speech to the deaf began to be stressed. The fact that every deaf child otherwise normal could learn to talk more or less made the word "dumb" appear inappropriate, so schools began to take the title "Institution for the Deaf." The most up-to-date title is "School for the Deaf." Gallaudet College originally was "The National Deaf-Mute College." About thirty years ago the alumni of the college inaugurated a movement which culminated in a change to the name it now bears.

In so far as the general public is concerned, the terms "mute," "deaf-mute." and "deaf and dumb" are practically synonymous; but among the instructors of the deaf, the educated deaf, and wellinformed people the words "mute," "deaf-mute," and "dumb" are looked upon with disfavor and their use is discouraged when referring to the pupils and graduates of schools for the deaf.

Following the line of least resistance, the deaf young man or woman seeking a higher education will go to Gallaudet College, where the method of instruction is designed to circumvent the hearing defect. Some have gone directly to colleges and universities for the hearing

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