1922 BY THE HARLIE CHAPLIN (he signs himself lier's") says that one reason for his more recent popular success as a comedian was his decision to stop throwing custard pies. This statement, he adds, is not to be taken too literally. But, he concludes, "If I can sometimes stir the inaudible laughter of the mind and incite an audience to a whimsical contemplation of life itself to a spirit of mockery in which there is no sting, since it is aimed at every one and everything, I would rather have it a thousand times than the guffaws which follow the usual funny gags which any one can do." Under the title "Humor with a Gender," a writer in the "Atlantic Monthly" prints these anecdotes, which might have been sub-titled "The Old Ones Are the Best:" "The English comedian, Foote, asked a man why he was always humming a certain tune. Being told, 'Because it haunts me,' Foote remarked, 'No wonder, One when you're always murdering it.' does not readily imagine a woman saying this," the writer observes, "or even making the milder though kindred response of Douglas Jerrold, when a friend announced that 'A certain air always carries me away.' 'Can no one whistle it? asked Jerrold innocently." At the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Merchants Association of New York on November 17 special invitations were Property Wanted Wanted To Rent Small house or tea room for summer of 1923, in New England States, on automobile road. References exchanged. 8.375, Outlook. Apartments PHYSICIAN'S 5-ROOM APARTMENT, well furnished and equipped,separate entrance apartment hotel, in the Fifties near Fifth Ave. If desired would rent unfuruished. Phone Plaza 7175 for appointment. Live Stock For Sale Registered Scotch Collies A few choice pups at reasonable prices. WILBERT W. MARTIN, Tiffin, O. CHRISTMAS GIFTS KING George III silver cream jug, perfect condition, $50. Few other antiques. Mrs. Channon, Vineland, N. J. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES SECRETARIES and social workers, dietitians, cafeteria managers, governesses, matrons, housekeepers, superintendents. Miss Richarda, Providence, R. I. Box 5 East Side. Boston Office, Trinity Court, Fridays, 11 to 1. Address Providence. WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schocis. Calls coming every day. Send for circulars. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, N. Y. WANTED-Teachers all subjects. Good vacancies in schools and colleges. International Musical and Educational Agency, Carnegie Hall. N. Y. TEACHERS needed for January, February, and September, all departments of schools and colleges. Special terms. THE INTERSTATE TEACHERS' AGENCY, Macheca Building, New Orleans, La. ENTERTAINMENTS PLAYS, musical comedies and revues, minstrel music, blackface skits, vaudeville acts, inonologs, dialogs, recitations, entertainuents, musical readings, stage handbooks, make-up goods. Big catalog free. T. S. Denison & Co., 623 So. Wabash, Dept. 74, Chicago. WAY sent to businesses that had been in uninterrupted activity in the city for one hundred years or more. Twenty-five firms were found in that category-the largest number being banking houses; there were two grocers, a fur house, two newspapers, one bank note company, and one publishing house. "In this week's issue (p. 535) you spoke of Dr. Farrington's poem 'Who Won the War?' as not being 'poetry,'" a New York City public school teacher writes. "Dr. Farrington did not intend it to be 'poetry,' but a cartoon of the war. I had my pupils learn this poem and they were very enthusiastic about it." From another section of the "Armistice Day Program" we give our readers a more serious effort of Dr. Farrington's muse: 1921, ENVOYS 'Cross chanting seas, the East and West's, Come brilliant minds, their coun- On shining ships, a nation's guests, In rôle of men, and comrades' parts. Calm statesmen, sage, with logic, fact, Have hope and aim in only this: A God-sworn bond of human pactThe rust of arms in armistice. Under the Cocoanut heading "A Columbus" a book called "The Adventures of a Grain of Dust" tells of South Sea island crabs that climb cocoanut trees to get the nuts. "And who has a better right?" says one of the crabs. "This tree," he might continue, "is the GREETING CARDS UNIQUE Christmas cards, ten and fifteen cents. Anna Wildman, The Clinton, Philadelphia. 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 $1.50. Samples on request. You can buy cheaper stationery, but do you want to? Lewis, 284 Second Ave., Troy, N. Y. OLD Hampshire bond; 100 sheets (6%x7) and 75 envelopes, printed, $2 delivered. Franklin Printery, Warner, N. H. HELP WANTED Business Situations HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND Teachers and Governesses WANTED Nursery governess to assist with four children, ages 7, 5, 3 years, and 4 months. Refined, good health. State recommendations and salary desired. Mrs. T. S. Quinn, Lebanon, Pa. SITUATIONS WANTED Professional Situations Business Situations YOUNG man with a wide and varied experience in child welfare work, recently superintendent of an orphanage, desires executive or sub-executive position. Conversant in French, Italian, and German. Capable grade school teacher. Best of references. 3,038, Outlook. Mediterranean by Specially Chartered New "HOMERIC" Sailing January 20 Limited to 500 Guests Chief among the inviting features of this cruise, making it excel in magnificence, are the following: Steamer-Cuisine-Service— tine, etc. In addition, optional visit to London and Paris on the homeward trip; stopover privileges with return by other famous White Star Liners, MAJESTIC, OLYMPIC, etc. We suggest prompt reservations. THOS. COOK R SON 245 Broadway NEW YORK 561 Fifth Ave. Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles. San Francisco, Montreal,Toronto, Vancouver Companions and Domestic Helpers YOUNG French lady of culture, ability. and exceptional character, experience as teacher in the best English schools, finishing governess in England and Italy, is open to engagement for the winter as traveling companion or teacher to young lady. Being at present in Rome, she is available immediately in Europe or would return to this country. Refer for further details to Mrs. R. G. Hazard, Dial House, Santa Barbara, Cal. YOUNG lady, adaptable, fond of children, some hospital training, can teach basketry, etc., desires position. Excellent references. 3,089, Outlook. WANTED, position-experienced, capable housekeeper. Aged or business couple or institution. 3,106, Outlook. COMPANION to elderly lady or semiinvalid after January 1, 1923, by middle-aged trained nurse No objections to country. References. 3,115, Outlook. UNENCUMBERED middle-aged practical nurse, experienced housekeeper, will manage house and care for elderly or convalescent. 3,120, Outlook. CULTURED gentlewoman as companion to elderly lady or semi-invalid. Will go South or California. 3,125, Outlook. Teachers and Governesses GOVERNESS wants position in kind American family. French; two and a half years' experience; good musician. References. 3,095, Outlook. DOMESTIC science graduate, experienced, desires position teaching, companion, or executive position in tea room, school, or institution. 3,109, Outlook. SITUATIONS WANTED Teachers and Governesses ENGLISHWOMAN desires position in private school. Fully certificated. Wide experience. Highest references. 3,123, Outlook. GENTLEWOMAN, experienced teacher, wishes position with family going South for the winter. B. M., Sound Beach, Conn. 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. PROFESSIONAL nurse owning luxurious home would like elderly couples or persons as guests or patients. Address 2,948, Outlook. M. W. Wightman & Co. Shopping Agency, established 1895. No charge; prompt delivery. 25 West 24th St., New York. EXCELLENT private home and nursing for limited number tubercular patients. Special diets. Address 2,949, Outlook. FOR adoption, or foster home, interesting boy 4 years of age, American parentage and Protestant. Address 610 Elm St., New Haven, Conn. FOR adoption, girl of nine years, Protes tant, American parents, mentally and physi cally normal. Address 610 Elin St., New Haven, Conn. GRADUATE nurse and physician will take into their home and care for small children. References exchanged. 3,112, Outlook. LADY taking independent ten-week Mediterranean trip, sailing February, wishes protégé. Small fee. References exchanged. 3,116, Outlook. IMPORTER, woman, sailing February, stopping Mediterranean ports and Holy Land, will execute other missions. Antique and gift shop buying my specialty. Creden tials. 3,117, Outlook. BY THE WAY-(Continued) descendant of a nut that some of my ancestors sailed upon to this island; for a cocoanut, dropping into the water from a tree near some far shore, often carries on it the crab that had started to eat it. Then a current of the sea carries the nut and its passenger to some other island." "Up to the eighth stein I am a republican," the Junker says, as reported by the Munich "Simplicissimus," "but after that I can't keep from saying what I think." One day a big man watched an angler casting in a stream for some time, the London "Morning Post" says, and eventually inquired: "Had any luck?" "Yes," replied the fisher. "I took thirtyone trout out of here yesterday." "That's interesting," said the inquirer. "By the way, do you know who I am? I am the senior magistrate in this district, and this stream happens to be on my estate." "Ah! Do you know who I am?" responded the angler. "I am the champion liar in the district." This joke is just as good as when it was first told of an American game warden. "Remember," said the serious friend, as reported by the Washington "Star," "your country is calling you." "I know that," replied Senator Sorghum; "but different parts of the country are calling me different things." The following "infallible recipe to preserve children" is from the "Michigan Health Bulletin:" "Take one large, grassy field, one-half dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook and some pebbles. Mix the children and dogs well together and put them in the field, stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles. Sprinkle the field with flowers. Spread over all a deep, blue sky, and bake in the hot When brown, remove and set away to cool in a bath-tub." sun. A son of William Dean Howells, John Mead Howells, recently won a $50,000 prize in the Chicago "Tribune's" competition for plans for its new building to be erected at a cost of $7,000,000. A native of Finland, Eliel Saarinen, won the second prize of $20,000. The building will be of a tower-like character. The Outlook HIS FAVORITE READING-"BY THE WAY" An original sketch by James R. H. Ford, Oberlin, Ohio tell your daddy to come on out to California this winter and be sure to come on the Santa Fe tell your daddy to mail Mr. W. J. Black this Pass. Traf. Mgr., Santa Fe System Lines 1118 Railway Exchange, Chicago Please mail to me following Santa Fe booklets: CALIFORNIA PICTURE BOOK GRAND CANYON OUTINGS FRED HARVEY MEAL SERVICE Also details as to cost of trip. Cough Asthma, Spasmodic Croup, Bronchitis Coughs, Influenza Used while you slee A household remedy avoiding drugs. Cresolene is vaporized at the bedside during the night. 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LIGHTNER WITMER'S METHOD of restoring backward children to normality Small home school at his country place near Philadelphia. BROOKWOOD SCHOOL A home school for nervous and backward children and youth. VIRGINIA Church Schools in the Diocese of Virginia, (Inc.). Pres.-the Bishop of Va. Episc. Ch. ownership; health scholarship; culture; beauty of environment, Christian idealism. Boys:St. Christopher's-$600, Richmond; Christchurch-$400, Christchurch P. O., Middlesex Co. GIRLS: St. Catherine's-$800, Richmond; St. Anne's-$500, Charlottesville; St. Margaret's $450, Tappahannock, Essex Co. Catalogs from Principals. TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES St. John's Riverside Hospital Training School for Nurses YONKERS. NEW YORK Registered in New York State, offers a 2 years' courseA general training to refined, educated women. Requirements one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the Directress of Nurses, Yonkers, New York. 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(We also publish the individual record blanks and containers) The Status of the Straits: A Historical Sketch.... 748 Sure Rupture BE COMFORTABLE-Wear the BROOKS APPLIANCE CO., 471J State St., Marshall, Mich. The Foreign postage extra CHRISTIAN CENTURY 508 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Dear Sirs: Please enter my name (a new subscriber) for a year's subscription to The Christian Century at your regular rate of $4.00 (ministers $3.00). I will remit upon receipt of bill and you will please send me without extra charge a copy of "The Reconstruction of Religion," by Ellwood, or "The Crisis of the Churches," by Leighton Parks, or "The Mind in the Making," by Robinson, or "What Christianity Means to Me," by Lyman Abbott. Name........ Address Index and Title-page for Volume 132 (September 6-December 27, 1922) of The Outlook, printed separately for binding, will be furnished gratis, on application, to any reader who desires them for this purpos Out. 12-27 22 THE ST. LAWRENCE ROUTE MT K. GILBERT's article appearing in a recent number of The Outlook on the St. Lawrence canalization project is most interesting, discussing, as it does, a matter of National importance, and one that is misunderstood by the people at large, who are not familiar with the practical side of the question, viz., to open up the Middle West to direct Atlantic commerce. Mr. Gilbert well sets forth the proposition, but naturally does it as an engineer, and not from the standpoint of the ship-owner or transportation operator. He evinces an idealistic longing, and not a proposition that would appeal to capital. The Middle West has long since dreamed of a deep-sea outlet, failing to realize the difficulties in the way-that she is two thousand miles inland and that for five months of the year all navigation is closed. No seaport so far removed from the Atlantic Ocean can compete with one on the seaboard. Vessels seek the nearest harbor where there is a market and where rail facilities are to be found and where a return cargo may be expected. For such advantages a ship will pay greater port charges and the consumer or manufacturer a greater freight rate. It is not reasonably possible to conceive a lake city successfully contending with one on the Atlantic seaboard. The St. Lawrence River canalization project, stripped of the fog surrounding it, reveals a hydroelectric water-power proposition, a thing greatly to be desired, but to be obtained under conditions very dissimilar to the method proposed. Why saddle a reasonable project with the overweight of an uneconomic shipping project? Hydroelectric water power to an extent of 1,000,000 horse power can be had in the State of New York, and even now plans looking to such requirement are being developed by the State authorities. By the terms of the proposal this country is asked to enter into a joint partnership with Canada on a "fifty-fifty" basis to build and operate the canalized river and lakes. This in itself is a dangerous proposal, involving many points of discord. The Federal Government should use its resources to build up and develop territory within its own boundaries and not enter into "entangling alliances." The writer of the article fails to take into sufficient consideration the fact that there now exists an outlet from the lakes to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the enlarged Barge Canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. Onefifth of the capabilities of this great waterway, which has cost the State of New York $170,000,000, have not been utilized. In reality, the thing that the lake cities long for is on the point of realization. By 1923 the Barge Canal will offer facilities to that five per cent of export trade which originates in the fifteen States tributary to the Great Lakes. The canal has been deepened for the passage of 2,000-ton self-propelled vessels, numerous corporations have been organized to construct and operate modern steel barges which can take on cargo at Duluth, Minnesota, and then under their own power proceed and without break of bulk land their burden along side the wharf in New York Harbor or on the deck of the vessel outward bound, and all at a rate that is reasonable and economic. As already stated, the St. Lawrence River route is ice-bound for five months of every year. This in itself is prohibitory in competition with well-equipped ports where vessels arrive and leave throughout the year. It is said that a vessel passes through the Narrows in New York Harbor every twenty minutes of daylight. Our American railways, in order to accommodate the ever-growing business of the Western States, must be kept at peak, and to attain this economically must obtain a twelve months' business. Are we to antagonize and limit the means by which this country was developed? Are we to expend an enormous sum (not yet stated, as no estimates have been made of the cost of dredging and enlarging lake city harbors) to divert from our trunk line railways the freight rightfully belonging to them and enter into a plan to send the ocean-bound commodity through a canal two thousand miles long, physically bordering more on the Canadian shore than on that of this country, and to do this by spending a fabulous sum of the taxpayers' money, enter into a moneyed partnership with a foreign Government, divert just Government appropriations from our old Atlantic seaboard harbors, ignore the adequate facilities already at hand, and antagonize transportation interests wherein American capital is represented by billions of invested funds? Certainly not. It is unreasonable to conclude or contemplate this either from a commercial or a financial standpoint. I have referred to the needs of our Atlantic seaboard. Let me cite one enterprise that is now being considered. For several years the project of enlarging the inland waterways along the Atlantic coast has been discussed with an ever-increasing interest. Step by step openings have been made from one waterway (river, sound, or bay) until now it is possible to navigate lightdraught vessels from Portland, Maine, to Jacksonville, Florida, inside the coast line and away from the ocean's perils and the danger of an enemy fleet. One link in the chain is imperfect-the short stretch of forty miles across the State of New Jersey from Morgan, on Raritan Bay, to Bordentown, on the Delaware River, just below Trenton. At about the point of entrance on the Delaware, "the busiest river in the United States," are situated Philadelphia, Cam den, and Chester. By such a route a distance of 180 miles is saved from Philadelphia to New York, and. that largely outside navigation. Consider what this would mean to the iron and coal interests and to the manufactures of New England. How much more reasonable to ask the Federal Government for the necessary appropriation for this work (about $40,000,000) than to enlist in an effort to enter into the Canadian partnership, involving perhaps $1,000,000,000. As to the St. Lawrence River project, I am not objecting to it as a dream, but combat it as an uneconomic business proposition involving great expenditure of capital at a time when the world is knocking at our doors asking for aid, a serious entrance into financial partnership with a state not under our jursdiction, as diverting strength from our seaboard cities, as injuring vast railway interests, and all in the end to meet with failure by not accomplishing the results aimed at. TH Salt Lake City 47 E. So. Temple St., Dec. 9, 1922. HE following is a quotation from an article entitled: "A Radical in Power," published in The Outlook of November 29, 1922: This is not his gravest problem. Smoot is next in line for the Presidency of the Mormon Church, an office which any good Mormon considers the most exalted on earth. The President, Heber Grant, is very old, and likely to die at any moment. If Smoot were ready to take the Mormon Presidency, Grant would probably resign immediately. As a matter of fact, Senator Smoot is not next in line for the Presidency of the Mormon Church. There is another member of the Church who is ahead of him. It may also be said that President Heber J. Grant is by no means "a very old man," he having attained the age of sixty-six in November, 1922, and is therefore not likely to die at "any moment." He is in good health. And, furthermore, President Grant would not, under any circumstances, resign, no matter who might be regarded as ready to take the Mormon Presidency. The office of President of the Mormon Church is a life appointment, and is not transferred so long as the incumbent is in good standing and fellowship in the Church. I am calling attention to this matter because the writer of the article, Mr. Richard Barry, seems to think that this is the gravest problem Senator Smoot has to face, and yet it is no problem at all. In conclusion, let me say that in dealing with the "Mormons" or the "Mormon" question writers generally come as near to the truth as did Mr. Barry. RUDGER CLAWSON, A member of the Quorum of the Twelve to which Senator Smoot belongs. CON HERE'S HOPPING ONTRIBUTIONS drift in from all over the world. We print here an offer of stories which we regretfully were forced to decline. Who knows, we may have nipped some budding genius. Who knows, ten years from now-or two perhaps, considering the age of some popular writers-we may be held up to scorn as the journal which rejected the first short stories of our nameless friend. I have ben reading the storys in the Outlook of the outdoor life. I am a Boy Scout and would like to write storys for the Outlook of my life of the mountains. What would do if you were out in the mountains all By your self at night. When the roar of the pine trees made you homesick and you could hear the mountain lion and he sounded like he was about to eat you up for his midnight supper. If you will let me write the story for your paper and of corse I can write dozens more. hopping to hear from you. YOUR FRIEND. I not give them a chance to get to their baggage to get clean clothes. I met a student from Palestine there who had been confined for twenty-three days in that terrible place without ever going out in the fresh air. Avedis Donabedian had been there for fifteen days when I was there, and I left him there because he could not prove to them that he was a student. Luckily for me, Tech had sent me a paper stating that I was going to study, and so I had no trouble getting out except waiting through Sunday. PENALTIES OF AM sorry to say that I will have to discontinue my subscription to The Outlook. It is too good a magazine. I have not time enough to read it properly. M. H. W. Cambridge, Massachusetts. O ON BEHALF OF THE NE should always lodge a complaint by first offering a compliment, thereby gaining a hearing where the bald complaint might take the shortest route to the waste-basket. Accordingly, I bring my compliment, which is wholly sincere. I enjoy reading The Outlook for a number of reasons, one of which is that it expresses an opinion freely and courageously. I enjoy the editorials, not because they agree with what I think, for often they do not, but because they seem so fair, so free from prejudice, and usually show that they are the result of deliberation upon established facts. But-now for the complaint-I feel that you have been guilty of an expression, not of opinion, but of prejudice, a prejudice not justified by the facts. In The Outlook for November 15 there was an excellent article on "Fascisti Triumphant." It was an informing editorial setting forth the facts in the case with a splendid analogy. But it included one gratuitous qualifying remark that ELLIS ISLAND CONDITIONS added nothing to the clarity of the ex Ε WE lately published a letter narrating position, that seemed, indeed, to be the experiences on Ellis Island of a cultivated woman, technically an alien, who was returning to her home from a visit in Europe; her son-in-law is an American officer. Here is another letter narrating the experiences of a graduate of the American University at Beirut, Syria, who came to this country to study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was well provided with credentials showing that he had a right to enter this country. He says: Coming in I was taken by a mistake to Ellis Island, and, as it was a Saturday afternoon, I had to wait till Monday to be able to come out. The place is terribly filthy and dirty, and, worse than this, there are people who remain there for months, and they do inspired by an unfounded if not malicious prejudice. I refer to the statement that ran as follows: "And then suppose that these veterans, organized as the American Legion is organized, but devoted, not to their own advancement, not for any bonus for themselves, not for the glorification of their own past deeds, but for the salvation of the country from disaster" (the italics are mine). As a loyal member of the American Legion, I am forced to call your attention to this glaring misstatement of fact. You know well enough the expressed purpose of the organization of the American Legion. You know as well as I do that portion of the preamble to the Legion Constitution which states that "For God and Country" the Legion was organized. You know that patriotism, Americanism, good citizenship, clean politics, and high National and civic ideals are the real purpose of the American Legion. When, with the heat of the conflict just behind, the American Legion came into being, it was not with any thought of self-glorification. It was not with any idea of personal advancement. It is true that the organization may have lost sight, for a time, of its high purpose. But you know and I know that the American Legion is sound at heart and that it cannot, in fairness, be accused of having the motives you ascribed to it, by inference at least, in the words I quoted. As for the bonus, I believe that most of the Legionaires who are working for adjusted compensation are working to secure it, not for themselves, but for their comrades who need it. And you ought to know, if you do not, that the Legion is not responsible for the great bonus outcry. Its records show that the Legion stepped into the fight only when scheming office-seekers were trying to capitalize their stand on the question, and that it has since been fighting for a measure that would meet the need for compensation without wrecking the treasury or pauperizing the recipients. If you are in close touch with what the Legion is doing-and you should not have said what you did unless you knew whereof you spoke-you know that there are Legion posts that stand sponsor for the Boy Scout movement in their cities. There are posts that are carrying on extensive Americanization work among the alien population. There are posts that have their speakers visit the public schools, not to tell of the Marne and the Argonne, but to teach the way of devoted and intelligent citizenship. These are only a few of the things that the Legion is doing quietly but well. It is so easy with a swift, subtle inferential phrase to create an impression far from correct. I am sure that you will be willing to grant most of the arguments I have advanced. I only hope that you, in all fairness, will see how false an impression you will have created, and that the prejudicial statement had much better have been left out of the otherwise valuable editorial. JEAN F. LOBA. San Francisco, California. |