Hotels and Resorts North Carolina Melrose Lodge Tryon, N. C., beautifully situated, offers real comfort, excellent food. Capt, T. D. JERVEY. Details, rates, direct or Outlook Travel Bureau. South Carolina 1518 Fair SUNNYSIDE Camden, S. C. Comfortable home, steam heated. Pleasant rooms with or without bath. Golf, polo, tennis. Persons with pulmonary trouble not accepted. Write for rates. Mrs. G. H. Lenoir, Proprietor. THE CAROLINA Summerville, South Carolina Delightful climate-3 golf courses-tennissaddle horses-beautiful flowers. Quail, deer, turkeys in abundance. Guides, dogs. T. R. MOORE Real Estate Bermuda For rent, delightful houses for season in beauFtiful Bermuda. All types, every convenience. List and details. Mrs. Grosvenor Tucker, Hamilton, Bermuda. Cable: Teucro, Bermuda. Florida EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES INSTITUTIONAL executives, social workers, secretaries, dietitians, cafeteria managers, governesses, companions, inothers' helpers, housekeepers. The Richards Bureau, 68 Barnes St.. Providence. HELP WANTED EXPERIENCED tutor-companion wanted for 16-year old retarded girl. Resident position in Pennsylvania, 100 miles from New York City. Knowledge of elementary subjects and manual industrial and household arts necessary. References. 8,183, Outlook. HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN. Nation-wide demand for highsalaried men and women. Past experience unnecessary. We train you by mail and put you in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, fiue living, permanent, interesting work, quick advancement. Write for free book, Lewis "YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY." Hotel Training Schools, Suite AO-5842, Washington, D. C. MEN-South American work. Oil, fruit, rubber companies. Expenses paid. South American Service Bureau, 14,600 Alma, Detroit, Mich. NURSE-companion experienced in mental cases for lady suffering from slight mental trouble. References required. $100 monthly. New York suburb. 8,184, Outlook. SITUATIONS WANTED COMPANION or COURIER. University man, traveled extensively, as companion to act as courier abroad. 8,144, Outlook. Daytona Beach, Florida California, West Indies, anywhere, or would Cottages For Rent AL. DONNELLY FOR RENT A DAYTONA BEACH, Florida.-Pen. side, 8-room house. 4 sleeping-rooms, bath, large livingroom with fireplace, 2-stall garage; location good. Season or by year. Price reasonable. Mrs. RALPH C. SMITH, Pittsford, Vt. New Jersey BOGOTA-Owner, due to business change, sacrifices beautiful brick colonial 7-room house, 2 baths, all hardwood floors, open fireplace, spacious rooma, garage attached, steam, assessments. Few minutes to Erie, West Shore, trolley, busses, schools, etc. Carrying charges about $92 monthly. Mortgages $12,000, cash $1,500 or more. P. O. Box 72, Bogota, N.J. District of Columbia open porch, plot 106 x 107. Full screens, no Hotel Judson 53 Washington Sq.. Hotels and Resorts Bermuda Private Club in Bermuda An informal club, clientele carefully selected, offers delightful opportunity (moderately priced) to those plaining long or short stay in Bermuda. Further details, rates, Outlook Travel Bureau. The American House MOST central; moder- the facilities of hotel life with the comforts of an ideal home. Americau plau $1 per day and up. European plan $1.50 per day and up. SAMUEL NAYLOR, Manager. Hotel Wentworth 59 West 46th St., New York City The hotel you have been looking for which offers rest, comfortable appointments, thoughtful cuisine. In the heart of theatre and shopping center, just off Fifth Ave. Moderate. Further details, rates, booklets, direct, or Outlook Travel Bureau. New York Hotel LENOX, North St., west of Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N.Y, Superior accommodations; famous for good food. Write direct or Outlook's Bureau for rates, details, bookings. GOVERNESS, American, exceptional ability, desires position by February 1 with children under ten. Graduate kindergartner. Highest references. Philadelphia or vicinity. 8,181, Outlook. GOVERNESS, companion, reader, experienced Scotchwoman, 7 years present family, full charge children, useful companion to lady, excellent reader. Interview New York middle December. 8,192, Outlook. NEW England (gentle) woman of unusual worth and broad experience desires position of domesticated responsibilities. General overcharge children, sewing, shopping, accounts. Distance immaterial. 8,185, Outlook. NURSE, middle-aged widow, wishes position as managing housekeeper, companion, and nurse to elderly persons. Protestant. 8,190, Outlook. NURSERY governess, thoroughly experienced and refined. Excellent references. 8,196, Outlook. NURSE wishes chronic case near or in New York City. Protestant. 8,191, Outlook. PROFESSIONAL woman, R.N., wishes pomotherless children. Would manage household or travel with man or woman in semiinvalid condition. References. 8,194, Outlook. A Mart of the Unusual sition with private family. Prefers charge of New Edition-My Travel-Log Pleases everyone. For yourself or friend going abroad this winter. Only one dollar sent to MY TRAVEL-LOG CO. Station C, Buffalo, N. Y. ELIZABETH DAWSON WONDERFUL CHOCOLATES Packed in a beautiful 5-lb. box, $3.00 delivered to your home. This package makes an excellent Christmas gift. ALLEN & ANDREWS, Corning, N. Y. Oranges and Grape Indian River fruit, grown on Merritt Island, $5 per box, f.o.b. Cocoa. The Golden Gift Box (quarter box) packed and decorated with Florida fruits, especially for Christmas. $2.75 per box express prepaid east of the Mississippi. D. M. Fairchild, Cocoa, Fla., P. O. Box 695 Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, Direct to consumer. Complete price list on request. S. L. MITCHILL, Mount Dora, Fla. Direct from makers. Harris Tweede sporting ina terial. Any length cut. Samples free. Newall, 127 Stornoway, Scotland Instruction Opportunity to become TRAINED NURSE. $15 monthly allowance. Ideal living conditions. Tennis, surf bathing. 3 hours from New York. 8-hour day. 2% year course. Age 18 to 32; 2 years high school. Send for descriptive folder and application. Southampton Hospital Association. Southampton, Long Island, N. Y. STATIONERY PRINTING. 500 letterheads, 8x11,'$2.50; 1,000, $4.00; half-size letterheads, 1,000, $3.25, good bond; 500 6% envelopes, $2.00, 1,000, $3.00, prices include printing. Better grade paper proportionate prices. Small publications a specialty. Rue Pub. Co., Denton, Md. WRITE for free samples of embossed at $2 or printed stationery at $1.50 per box. Lewis, stationer, Troy, N. Y. REFINED middle-aged widow, very capable and trustworthy, would like position as companion, supervising housekeeper, or mother's helper. Would travel. Excellent references. 8,188, Outlook. REFINED Protestant woman of ability, position of trust, in well ordered home. Experienced housekeeper; light nursing. Can drive car. No objection to suburbs, New England preferred. References exchanged. 8,193, Outlook. THOROUGHLY experienced woman desires position as companion-housekeeper for elderly person or in motherless home. No objection to travel. 8,182, Outlook. WANTED-Part time (New York City) care of children, well or ill, preferably in afternoon or evening, by experienced nurse with best references. 8,186, Outlook. WOMAN, successful in school administration, wishes to become assistant to principal in private school at end of present school year. 8,146, Outlook. YOUNG college woman, nursery governess, near New York. Reference. 8,170, Outlook. YOUNG lady, well educated, experienced as traveling companion to lady, private or social secretary. Excellent references. 8,189, Outlook. YOUNG lady would accompany student or lady going abroad for her fare and small stipend; could be ready by February or earlier. Excellent references. Miss Katherine Weinrich, care of Mr. Carl Schindler, 3536 N. 16th St., Philadelphia, Pa. MISCELLANEOUS TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six 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. RESEARCH WORK. Club papers carefully prepared. Reasonable rates. Patricia Dix. 8,065, Outlook. WANTED-A country home for boy of seven. Permanency, intelligent supervision, sincere affection, good home surroundings essential. Within a radius of ten miles of Elizabeth, N. J. 8,197, Outlook. 447 Frank's A 6th Annual Cruise De Luxe Mediterranean Cunard S. S. "Scythia," Sailing from New York Jan. 25, 1928 See the Wonderlands of the World! Fascinating Africa, mysterious Egypt, the Holy Land, beautiful Madeira, gay Seville, Granada with its Alhambra, mighty Gibraltar, ancient Cadiz, Algiers, Biskra, Timgad, Tunis, Malta, Dardanelles, Constantinople, Bosphorus, Athens, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Messina, Taormina, Syracuse, Palermo, Monte Carlo, France, England-the glorious cruise of the palatial Cunarder "Scythia will take you to all of these wonderful places, and many others. We have again exclusively chartered this magnificent steamer, with membership limited to 390 guests-half capacity. The Cruise of the "Scythia" is the annual Mediterranean classic. The unusually large and comfortable cabins-all with hot and cold running water-the suites and private baths, the spacious decks, the passenger elevators, the famous Cunard cuisine and service and the reasonable rates, all combine to offer the most attractive of all Cruises to the Mediterranean. MAN was being tried on the charge of shooting a number of pigeons on the property of a farmer. In giving his evidence the farmer was exceedingly careful, even nervous, and the attorney for the defense endeavored to frighten him. "Now," the lawyer remarked, "are you prepared to swear that this man shot your pigeons?" "I didn't say he shot 'em," was the reply. "I said I suspected him o' doing it." "Ah, now we're coming to it. What made you suspect that man?" "Well, firstly, I caught him on my land wi' a gun. Secondly, I heerd a gun go off an' saw some pigeons fall. Thirdly, I foun' four o' my pigeons in his pocket-and I don't think them birds flew there and committed suicide." Charles A. Seiders, of Toledo, Ohio, tells of this sign seen on the back of a dilapidated Ford: "Don't laugh, girls. What would you look like if you were without paint?" 448 We borrow this problem from F. P. A. of the New York "World:" "Can you give a four-letter word ending in 'eny'? No fair writing anything down." A GOVERNMENT clerk received an unexpected raise in salary. At the close of his day's work he rushed to the telegraph office and sent this question to the girl of his choice: "Will you marry me?" He prepaid the return fees, which permitted ten words. His suspense was brief. Back came every one of them: "Yes, gladly, willingly, joyfully, delightedly, gratefully, lovingly, yes, yes, yes." How busy is not so important as why busy. The bee is congratulated, the mosquito swatted. Torrey, the famous revivalist, was holding a large evangelical mission in Albert Hall, London. He was speaking about the number of people who either had gone or would go to hell, and, coming down to cases, added: "I am sorry to say that a near relative of my ownmy aunt, in fact-died impenitent and has certainly gone to hell." This style of oratory, says the Manchester "Guardian," proved little to the taste of a young man in the congregation, who rose and made for the door. Whereupon Torrey marked him down in the usual style of the revivalist, and improved the occasion with, "Yes, and there is a young man who will certainly go to hell, too!" He proceeded to enlarge on this suggestion as the young man made his way slowly to the door, apparently unmoved. When the victim reached the door, he turned around and addressed the revivalist for the first time: "Ta-ta, I'm off! Any message for auntie? Or shall I just tell her you'll see her later?" PRINTED IN U. S. A. BY ART COLOR PRINTING COMPANY, DUNELLEN, N. J. THE OUTLOOK, December 14, 1927. Volume 147, Number 15. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1927, by The Outlook Company. T the luncheon we asked him all A the questions every one has been asking since our State Department's policy in Nicaragua first got into the This present headlines of the news. article by the General is partly the result. It affords an excellent and certainly an authoritative view of a subject hitherto discussed solely from an American point of view. It cleared our minds considerably. We hope it will do the same for our readers. DUNCAN AIKMAN, whose "Disap pearing Cowboy" appears in this issue, is well qualified to give a true as well as a colorful picture of our Southwest, for he lives in El Paso. He is not only a writer of ability, but has recently been making a study of the Western legends concerning the feminine frontier companions of our pioneers. The result has just been published under the title of "Calamity Jane and the Lady Wild This picture represents him in his best medium, though here he is dealing with a scene remote from the America that received most of his interested attention Volume 147 The Outlook December 14, 1927 Number 15 The Unready Senate T HE House of Representatives in the Seventieth Congress was ready to begin the transaction of essential business the minute after it was organized-and organization was effected without friction. The Senate, after assembling and passing routine resolutions, without definite organization, was ready merely to begin debating a mass of vexatious preliminaries to the transaction of business. The comparative efficiency of the two houses, apparently, has not changed since the last Congress, or since the last but one. For several years past the Senate has tended more and more to become an acrimonious debating society, while the House has become steadily more businesslike. The work of the last session of the Sixty-ninth Congress furnished a startling revelation of this state of affairs. The Senate is always hindered by cumbersome rules, lending themselves to obstructionist tactics. This time it is further hindered by lack of a working majority. Workable rules and a dependable majority are elements in the greater efficiency of the House, but the will to work is the main thing. Smith, Vare, and the Senate FRAN RANK L. SMITH and William S. Vare --and a majority which is a mere fiction, figment, and figure of speech. Those are the reasons for the failure of the Senate of the Seventieth Congress to organize on the first day of the session. Without Smith and Vare there is no Republican majority, and the Republicans are by no means sure that they want a majority attained by honoring the credentials of these two men. So, after such brief formalities as the swearing in of new members and the election of a chaplain (there is hope for the Senate in that it is not certain that it can get on without prayers), Senator THE WEEK Curtis, leader of the Republican (by courtesy) majority, moved adjournment until the next day, and stipulated in the motion that nothing except the hearing of the President's Message-not even the formalities of organization-should be undertaken until after determination of the question of whether or not Smith and Vare are entitled to seats in the Senate. Senator Norris, Republican, but wearing the mantle so loosely that it falls about his ankles at times, had introduced two resolutions-one declaring that Mr. Smith's election and nomination were so tainted with fraud as to invalidate even his credentials, the other declaring the same and a bit more of Vare. Many vials of wrath, carbonated with words, were ready to be uncorked. If the President of the United States were to be given the opportunity of having his Message read, some such move as that made by Senator Curtis was necessary. Senator Robinson, leader of the Democratic (by self-abnegation) minority, announced that there was no objection from his side. And so the Senate took the wise action of recessing without organizing. Until almost the last minute, it had been assumed that, since the Democrats did not want to do it, the Republicans would organize the Senate. But their recalcitrants had demanded assurances of Senator Curtis which he could not give-assurances that a farm relief bill and a bill to curb the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes would be reported out of committee. He did assure them that he would do all in his power to bring those bills to a vote, but they then demanded that he pledge the Republican members of the committees that would have the bills in charge, and that he protested his inability to do. So, it being not quite sure that the Democrats would forego the opportunity of organizing the Senate with the recalcitrant Republicans sitting silent, the Senate did nothing-which, as some would say, is its natural gait.. Meanwhile, one of the most significant questions with which the Senate has had to deal awaits determination. It is the question whether or not a man coming to the door of the Senate with credentials on their face regular can be denied a seat-whether a State can be, for any space of time, denied representation in the Senate of the United States by the man for whom the majority of ballots were cast. Before this issue of The Outlook reaches its readers the Senate doubtless will have answered that question. The answer that is given to the question of excluding Smith and Vare may determine many things in the conduct of the affairs of this Nation in the future. For Better Conditions in the Philippines A GREAT change seems to have come over the tone of the talk by Philippine politicians. In particular this change is noticeable in the recent remarks of Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate. With Senator Osmena, he has been in the United States on a mission to urge a plan that might be called a compromise between the old demand for immediate independence and the present status of the islands. Evidently it has at last penetrated the minds of some Philippine politicians that what the Philippines most urgently need is, not more politics, but more business. At present there are no commercial or industrial leaders among the Filipinos themselves. The politicians have found that you cannot carry on a country on words alone. They have been disappointed that American capital has not rushed to the islands to place itself under the whimsical regulation of men who know nothing about business or finance. Mr. Quezon practically said as much in his recent speech in New York. Of course, the last thing that these Philippine politicians want is to have the |