Furnished house, on the water, for rent. 5 bedrooms, 2 screened porches, kitchen, living-room, fireplace, bath. Write Mrs. E. R. MAXWELL, 134 Charles St., Boston, Mass.

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Massachusetts

100D CAMPS for rent on beautiful Berkshire lake. Birds, flowers, berries, tennis, water sports. American Protestant colony. $150-$200. Ice, wood, boat. To congenial people, lots at low prices. Particulars, photos, Ray S. Hubbard, South Braintree, Mass.

SITUATIONS WANTED

ENGLISH gentlewoman, educated, trav eled, interesting, would undertake temporary duties with Americans visiting England May-July. Chaperon, companion-guide to London. Understands nursing and massage. 8,442, Outlook.

EXPERIENCED tutor (high school and junior high school) and music teacher, com petent with dramatization work, desires sum mer position after May 25. Best credentialsBryn Mawr. Address MacN., Ardsley Inn, New Canaan, Conn.

GOVERNESS, mother's assistant. Educated, experienced woman, fond of children. 8,457, Outlook.

GRADUATE nurse, German-American, unencumbered, desires position with coule or gentleman. Intellectual companionship, knowledge of scientific diet. Travel to Europe or anywhere. Highest credentials. 8,45, Outlook.

INSTRUCTOR, 22, in boys' private school, wishes summer position as traveling compan ion or tutor. Experienced. References 8,422, Outlook.

MIDDLE-aged woman, agreeable personality, excellent cook and housekeeper. Refer

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NEW England girl, 17, musical, junior councilor or assistant in girls' camp. Highest school, camp, and family references. 8, Outlook.

POSITION as companion or companionsecretary, resident or travel, after August L References exchanged. 8,452, Outlook.

PRE-MEDICAL student, graduating in June, desires position as tutor. Active ath letically. 8,446, Outlook.

PRINCIPAL wishes to hear of summer colony where organized games, handcraft, and music would be welcome for children all ages. Position with family considered. 8,412, Outlook.

REFINED woman, managing housekeeper in motherless home. Experienced in taking care of children and entire charge of home and household help. Excellent references 8,454, Outlook.

REFINED Woman, Protestant, offers ser vices as companion or managing housekeeper in exchange of home for daughter, graduate student. 8,440, Outlook.

RELIABLE, experienced woman desires position inatron, housemother, care of valid. 8,436, Outlook.

TRAVELING companion. Graduate nurse, 10 years' experience, unencumbered. Refer ences. Carolyn Clements, R. N., 805 Burlin game Ave., Burlingame, Cal.

UNIVERSITY graduate, legal training, business experience in Mexico, fluent speaker of Spanish, will accompany party to Mexico as secretary or assume position in Mexica 8,450, Outlook.

UNIVERSITY graduate with sixteen

FOR SALE

321 acres, mile from Jacob's Ladder Route at Bonny Rigg Four Corners: 14-room house, slate roofs, and 2 large barns in first-class condition; modern hennery, 4-car garage and workshop combined; million feet standing timber; 2,000 cords of wood; excellent trout brook; large body of water can be dammed up at small expense; elevation 1,850 feet. Thorough inspection invited at any time. Chester Granite Quarries, Inc., Chester, Mass.

New York

ADIRONDACK CAMP Situated on Long Lake, in center of forest preserve; suitable for club, boys' camp, convalescent camp or summer boarders. For further details inquire of Mrs. C. V. MANN, 97 Morris St., Albany, N. Y.

Canadice Lake of the famous Finger

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CAMP FOR SALE-100 ft. frontage, 200 ft. deep. Pure water, fishing, hunting, good roads, etc. Offered to quick cash buyer for $2,500. Another camp, smaller but two stories, high and on same size lot, price $1,800. Further particulars from LA. WITHINGTON, 90 West St., New York City.

STATIONERY

HELP WANTED WANTED-Protestant woman, as companion-housekeeper, where one servant is kept. English preferred. References. 8,443, Outlook. WORKING HOUSEKEEPER, responsible (white) woman; permanent position; must be good cook, able to do some serving and light laundry work; seashore in summer. Mrs. I. L. White, 17 Fernwood Road, Summit, N. J.

SITUATIONS WANTED

ADAPTABLE young woman, some hospital training, experienced care of children, charge delicate child, motherless home, any position of trust. 8,441, Outlook.

CANADIAN lady desires position as mother's helper, governess, or companion, in BALTIMORE or vicinity. Experienced teacher, fond of children. Available last of July. 8,418, Outlook.

COLLEGE TEACHER will give course in ESSENTIALS of FRENCH, GERMAN, English, and art appreciation for European travel Can conduct party. References. P. O. Box 4488, Jacksonville, Fla.

nections abroad, attending International Conference in Paris in July, willing to execute minor business commissions abroad. &,458 Outlook.

WANTED-Summer work, shore or moun tain resort, young man, eighteen, graduating high school June. Two summers' experience. Trustworthy. References. 8,444, Outlook.

YALE medical student desires summer position traveling as advisory companion or tu tor. Best references. 8,445, Outlook.

YOUNG lady desires position as traveling companion to gentlewoman or governess to young children. Preferably going to England or Continent for summer. 8,459, Outlook.

YOUNG woman, college graduate, desires position for summer in charge of child. Can teach music, especially violin, and other subjects. Speaks French. 8,438, Outlook.

YOUNG woman of culture and refinement, college graduate, expert stenographer and typist, desires position of trust, such as pr vate secretary, preferably to an intellectual and refined gentleman. Interview requested. 8,449, Outlook.

YOUNG woman of reliability, refinement, education, capability, and common sense, posi tion as cashier or any other capacity except bookkeeper in high class summer resort hotel or shop. 8,448, Outlook.

YOUNG woman, trained, six years' experi ence, wishes position in tea room, inn,jor club. 8,425, Outlook.

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CARETAKER. Young attorney in leading law firm desires to occupy home of family going away for summer. 8,453, Outlook.

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a nine months' nurses' aid course is offered by the Lying-In Hospital, 307 Second Ave., New York. Aids are provided with maintenance and given a monthly allowance of $10. For further par ticulars address Directress of Nurses.

THE OUTLOOK, May 16, 1928. Volume 149, Number 3. 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 subscriptions 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, 1928, by The Outlook Company.

THE homeward journey of a gentleman from California was interrupted in New York the other day because just as he was about to disembark Customs officials found twenty-three bottles of liquor in his baggage. To people who know American travelers abroad there is nothing surprising in this. Ever since the advent of prohibition the childishness of American travelers in the presence of alcohol has become a byword among the nations.

WHAT is interesting in this particular case is that the gentleman in question is reported to be one of the leaders of a political organization which has selected Hoover as its candidate on a bone-dry platform; and so, presumably, is interested in co-operating with his associates in securing more and better prohibition. To our mind, it is this sort of thing which makes our main difficulty with the prohibition question. The majority of the people we know occasionally drink alcohol in some form or another. Yet publicly they are for prohibition. In their opinion, it's a good thing-for others. Particularly, it's a good thing for those unfortunate people-not themselves who never were able to keep from misusing alcohol.

IT seems to us that there is an essential falsity in a point of view which has only the other fellow in mind. Certainly, honesty lies in legislating for yourself— not for others. People who are in favor of prohibition for others and yet crave occasional indulgence for themselves are dishonest in their thinking.

WE do not see any escape from the problem which prohibition presents. Either we must cease drinking (unless we just come out for the private making of alcoholic beverages) or we must find some way of regulating the consumption of alcohol which pleases us all. Meanwhile, let those who are publicly for bone-dry prohibition cease drinking privately. Conversely, let those who drink privately come out publicly for some other solution for the problem-say, the Swedish pass-book system, which penalizes the unfortunate who misuses alco-hol, but does not make it immoral to drink liquor.

THE saloon is gone forever from this country. But genuine temperance will never be achieved through personal hypocrisy and public humbug. So far, what we have gained through prohibition has been at the expense of our characters. Let us all come out in the open. one way or another.

FRANCIS RUFUS BELLAMY.

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May 16, 1928

HE name of Charles Curtis, of Kansas, majority leader of the Senate and the first man away from the barrier in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, is a synonym for party regularity. Political storms of great violence-populism, free silverism, progressivism-have swept the Kansas prairies in his time, but none of them has shaken him from his moorings. Through his third of a century in the House and the Senate he has planted both feet on the party platform, waved aloft the banner of protection for industry and the farmer, and stood fast for government by regular Republicans in the tried and regular way. He is the most conspicuous Western outpost of Eastern conservative political thought. If elected President-and he cannot, at this writing, be wholly erased from the picture--he will continue to be intensely regular; men do not change their habits of mind at sixty-nine, which will be Curtis's age in March, 1929. Among the Presidents he would be classed with McKinley.

For a safe and sane candidate, Curtis had a singularly romantic early career. On his mother's side he traces his ancestry back through White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas Indians, to the iamous Pawhuska, chief of the Osage tribe. White Plume's granddaughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader, and their daughter, Ellen Pappan, married the adventurous descendant of a New England family, who became Captain Curtis in the Civil War. Charles Curtis was born of this union on January 25, 1860, at Topeka, Kansas.

His mother died when he was three

By CHARLES G. ROSS

Hoover's foes among the Republicans are looking toward Senator Curtis, of Kansas, with growing interest. For, according to his friends, here is a Westerner who is highly satisfactory to the East and a conservative who is not wholly unacceptable to the progressives, and who may be counted upon to emerge a winner from the Republican National Convention. A St. Louis journalist gives us this story of Charles Curtis, the fifth in a series of political portraits.

years old, and he was taken in charge by his grandmother Pappan, who lived on the Indian reservation sixty miles west of Topeka. The Senator has some vivid memories of those early days among his grandmother's people. Once when the Cheyennes went on the warpath he was the youthful Paul Revere, though not on horseback, who went miles across the plains at night to summon aid. What a theme that will be for the campaign biographers of the Senator if he gains the nomination! Again, there was the year of the great grasshopper plague, when his wise grandmother Pappan, as he recalls with gratitude, persuaded him that he ought to stay in suaded him that he ought to stay in school rather than join an exodus to the Indian Territory. He sold fruit at trains and worked in stores to get money to keep himself in school.

Before he was nine he became a jockey. He must have been a good one, for the owner of Tilden, a famous Kan

sas horse of those days, gave him a regular job. He toured the Southwest with Tilden, meeting all comers and never losing a race. The racing of that period was a haphazard but none the less serious business. Meets were arranged at any convenient place to bring together the fancied horses of fival owners or communities, and the stakes ran high. Curtis recalls that at a race down in Texas the man for whom he was riding called him over for final instructions. The owner was seated with a rifle across his knees. "Son," he said, "the last dollar I have in the world is on this race. If you don't win, don't stop when you cross the finish line. Keep right on going." Curtis won.

T sixteen Curtis was about to quit. school entirely for his riding, when another grandmother intervened. This time it was Permelia Hubbard Curtis, of New Hampshire, who set him on the road to the Senate and a Presidential candidacy. On her advice, he gave up racing and buckled down to his books. A year or so later he was a reporter on the North Topeka "Times." At nineteen he began to read law in a Topeka office. The financial going was rough, and he was tempted more than once to return to the track. Finally he hit upon a way to make money. A livery-stable keeper of his acquaintance had an unused hack and a spavined horse. Curtis owned a horse equally spavined. He rented the outfit from the stable, added his own animal, and set up as a hack proprietor. Success became assured when the politicians who frequented the old Copeland House in Topeka took a

fancy to Curtis's disreputable-looking rig and began to patronize it to the exclusion of others. He read law books while waiting for fares. The venture enabled him to keep on with his studies and gave him his first contacts with politicians. He drove the hack for two years, at the end of which time he was admitted to the bar and began practice.

In 1884, when he was twenty-four years old, Curtis began a career of officeholding that has suffered only one brief interruption. His first post was that of prosecuting attorney of Shawnee County -and thereby hangs a tale. Prohibition had come to Kansas, but it was not being enforced. A hundred saloons flourished in Topeka without interference. To make sure that this happy condition would not be disturbed, the wet faction decided to run young Charlie Curtis, ex-hacker, for prosecutor. Curtis told them that if elected he would enforce the law, and he added that he knew how to enforce it. They laughed. Nothing could be funnier than the idea of Charlie Curtis, their good friend, putting the saloons out of business. He was merely indulging in a little Kansas humor. So it seemed to both sides, for the drys voted against Curtis and the wets voted for him and put him over.

Curtis had no sooner been installed in office than he began bringing charges against the Topeka joint-keepers. When the first case came on for trial, the case that would test the sincerity of his preelection statement, the court-room was packed. Even then it didn't seem possible to the wets that Curtis would carry out his threat. The drys were equally skeptical. On seeing the young prosecutor allow several known wets to remain in the jury box, the drys groaned and several of their leaders marched out of the room in disgust, convinced that the case was lost before it started. Curtis's speech surprised everybody; it was something wholly new in the annals of prohibition enforcement in Topeka. He indulged in no moral homilies, but based his demand for conviction solely on the fact that prohibition was the law of the State. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, whereupon the other defendants came forward, pleaded guilty, and threw themselves on the mercy of the Court. Within thirty days Curtis had closed every saloon in the city, and they stayed closed throughout his four years as prosecutor.

ever since.

Promotion to the Senate came in 1907. His one defeat was in 1912, the year of the Bull Moose uprising, when, although he received the popular vote of his party, he carried an insufficient number of districts to win the nomination. The law was changed the next year to provide for nomination by the direct vote of the people, and in 1914 Curtis staged his comeback at the expense of Senator Bristow. He was the whip of the Republican majority under Senator Lodge, and after the death of the latter in 1924 was chosen leader.

Search the "Congressional Record," and you will find but few speeches by Curtis. When he does speak on the floor, it is rarely for more than a minute or two. Both in Kansas politics and in the Senate he gets his results by the private and confidential putting together of a few heads. He has been calledand is the greatest whisperer in the Senate. When most Senators whisper, they are merely telling what Pat said to Mike; when Curtis whispers, he may be Mike; when Curtis whispers, he may be arranging a deal with the opposition, or telling how the next vote in the Senate will result, or conveying some message he has received from the White House -conveying just as much of it as he thinks his listener ought to hear.

In spite of the fewness of his words, or perhaps because of it, Curtis has left his impress on Congress and the country. One of his first chances to make a mark was given him in the House by "Czar" Reed, whose favor he had gained by his native shrewdness and his unflagging party regularity. Going into the Speaker's office one day, he found himself in the midst of a caucus of Republican leaders. He started to retreat, but Reed, addressing him as "Indian," called him back. Gold-standard legislation was being discussed. It soon became evident that the group would never reach an agreement. "Indian," said Reed, "what would you do about this?" Reed, "what would you do about this?" Curtis replied that he would take the whole matter out of the hands of the standing committee which had been unsuccessfully trying to write a bill, and turn it over to a special committee. A day or two later Reed summoned the young man from Kansas to his office and told him his suggestion had been adopted. Curtis was one of the committee of eleven appointed by the Speaker

to write a bill. The result of their efforts was the Gold Standard Act of 1900, which remains on the statute-books today without amendment.

Curtis was one of the first National legislators to come out for women's suf

frage, and as whip of the Senate in 1919 he did much to put through the suffrage Amendment. He has been a consistent supporter of legislation in the interest of women. Being a Kansan, he has naturally been active on the side of farmrelief measures. In the last Congress the McNary-Haugen Bill put him in difficult position. His desire to do something for the farmer clashed with the fact that the "equalization fee" feature of the bill ran counter to his political and economic philosophy. Like a good many others in the same predicament, he voted for the bill.

Curtis was an early advocate of the two-thirds cloture rule adopted by the Senate in 1917. He had an importan hand in bringing about the adoption of the National budget system, and it was on his motion that the Senate rule forbidding legislation by conferees was adopted. A stanch prohibitionist from his early Kansas days, he has cast his votes on the dry side without shadow of turning. He followed his party leader. Lodge, in the fight over the League of Nations, and led the Administration forces in the effort to take the United States into the World Court. He went the whole route for the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill when to do so was to court political disaster in his home State, and he cast an orthodox Republican vote for the Fordney-McCumber schedules.

Curtis as leader of the Senate majority relies on his time-tried methods of compromise and conciliation. His peculiar qualities are well suited to the task of trying to bring a semblance of harmony out of the deep-seated discord on the Republican side, and he has done as much in that direction as anybody could have done.