Are You An Investor? During the past year the Financial Editor of The Outlook has helped hundreds of of Outlook Outlook readers to solve intelligently their particular investment problems. Perhaps you are contemplating a shifting of your present holdings or have fresh funds to invest. In either case we shall be glad to give you specific information on any securities in which you may be interested. This service is entirely free to Outlook readers. THE OUTLOOK FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT The Outlook Company, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York A Query (Continued) "visit your local high school, if you can bring yourself to take the trouble, and investigate these things for yourselves. If they are not true to a great extent, my observational powers are nil." And the worst of it is, the end of the whole problem is beyond most of us. If these things continue (and frankly I can't see that much has been done to ameliorate conditions lately), grammar and high school education in America will become a byword and a reproach. To my mind, the whole system of secondary education must be renovated, and at once. Begin at the beginning, if possible, and teach the children something which is worth while, but teach them something. Then there will be some fundamentals to work on when they come up to high school, and if we can take things easy and cut out a large part of the drivel that finds its way into a majority of the curricula we will have traveled far in the right direction. What we want is some one far-sighted enough and brave enough to rip the whole fabric from top to bottom, and begin to weave all over again. This, I am convinced, is the only solution to the problem. "THE CAPTAIN OF THE I read with hearty approval your edi torial entitled "The Captain of the Men of Death," in The Outlook of December 5. It is timely and stated in plain language, the meaning of which cannot be misunderstood. It should be read by every citizen of this country. Education by lectures and printed articles will do much to curb the evil. Lectures on the subject should be given in every cantonment and college and university in the land. Bishops Lawrence and Williams have also spoken plainly. But the most effective remedy is the law and its enforcement. If a person has any contagious disease, the law isolates him, confines him, and prohibits even relatives from visiting him. But common prostitutes, reeking with the most filthy and dangerous diseases, are permitted to walk our streets and congregate in houses from which to spread disease, physical, mental, and moral. In Michigan the extreme penalty for keeping a house of prostitution is imprisonment for five years. The extreme penalty is none too severe for the keepers of these vile dens. Other States have similar laws. Yet is there a large city in the United States where these dens do not exist, and by the connivance and protection of the public officers? Officers charged with the duty to enforce the laws are mayors of cities, the police, sheriffs, marshals, and constables, with the district or prosecuting attorneys to prosecute. All those who aid or abet the commission of a crime are equally guilty with the actual perpetrator. It follows that the owner of the house who rents it for the purpose, the head of the house, the inmates, and its patrons are all alike guilty. This law can be easily enforced with competent and honest officials and fearless judges. The rigid enforcement of the laws against these vile dens will destroy the white slave trade by destroying its markets. Educate, educate, educate, but for the sake of consistency and decency let us remove from our country the disgrace of the non-enforcement of law and try the effect of enforcement. C. B. GRANT. Orlando, Florida. 1918 BY THE The "Railway Age" says that a great deal of delay in freight-carrying is due to carelessly loaded cars. In shipping lumber, for instance, the load, in a large number of cases, slides" over the top" and gets disarranged at the end of an open car during the process of shunting. "In the month of May alone the cost of transferring and reshaping loads of lumber at Memphis amounted to $39,308." Bulkheading the ends of the cars is the remedy suggested. A pungent thought uttered by Henry Ward Beecher finds its way into a contemporary trade magazine: "I'd rather have a man feel sorry for his sins after hearing one of my sermons than to have him tell me what a fine sermon it was." An inventor who has attracted considerable attention claims to have found a way to drive a battle-ship without fuel. But what the average householder would like to see is an invention that can be harnessed up to the furnace in his cellar to enable it to be operated in this way. A writer in "The Sphere" (London) says that electrically heated gloves are a part of the equipment of a certain automobile, the current for heating the gloves being obtained from the lighting system of the car. Furthermore, "in the aviation service of some of the Allied forces electric heating for all the clothing has already been adopted." The aviator will thus be enabled to attain higher altitudes without inconvenience from the extreme cold of the upper air currents. An unintentionally irreverent prayer was made in a missionary meeting called for the benefit of Chinese converts, as reported in "Harper's Magazine." "O Lord," prayed a fervent helper in the work, "we have shunned these Thy children because of their pigtails and crooked eyes. But, O Lord, we are sorry, for we have this day learned that they, too, are made in Thy image." "One of the chaps in my company," writes a young soldier from France as quoted in a Chicago paper, "threw down a book he was studying and said, I got stuck when I bought this." I said, 'What is it?' 'It's supposed to be a French and English dictionary. But all I can see in it is such words as umbrella, uncle, and undertaker.' 'Well,' I said, 'tell me what you want to find; perhaps I can help you.' 'Oh,' he said, 'something like, "Say,you got nice eyes,kid," or" Ain't I seen you some place before?"" Ugo d'Annunzio, son of the famous poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, is in this country as the head of an Italian commission. To a reporter he said: "My father, although beyond military age, is enthusiastic and will continue active to the end of this war. Of course you know of his having lost an eye in battle in the air and also of a serious wound in his wrist from shell fire, but do you know that he was not long ago up for nine and a half hours in an airplane flying over the Austrian lines-which is a remarkable record"? The poet is in his fifty fourth year. His son's portrait is printed in this issue. Now comes Government control of fashions, if a despatch from London, purporting to come from the American Consul-General, is authentic: War office forbids from February 1, except under permit from Director of Raw Materials, the purchase, sale, or offers to purchase or sell any boots for women with uppers exceeding 7 inches in height if of leather or 8 inches in height if of any other WAY material. From January 1 manufacturers are for- A story credited to Mr. C. H. Towne, 6 399 A naïve appreciation of an artist's work comes from another source. This story refers to Ben Foster, who, when sketching in the Maine woods last summer, came upon an old cabin that he had once occupied when camping out. The owner at first failed to recognize Mr. Foster, then exclaimed: "Oh, now I remember you; you're the fellow that painted that picture on the door. Say, lots of people liked that picture and wanted to buy it of me. Say, I've been offered as much as three dollars for that picture. Fact! But I won't sell it. Money can't buy it ! Oddly named articles were sold in the stores in Colonial times, according to Lee's recently published "History of American Journalism." An advertisement published in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" in 1752 announced that Isaac Jones would sell cheap the following things: Boiled and common camblets, single and double Dowlas and ozenbrigs, it may be explained, Another advertisement quoted by Mr. Taken out of Pew in the Church, a Common Some of the items found in Colonial powder because its odor would drive away Since the beginning of the war, accord- 1 228 THE OUTLOOK TRAVEL AND RECREATION BUREAU CALIFORNIA FOR YOUR VACATION THIS WINTER Each season brings hundreds of visitors to California for the winter. San Francisco, Del Monte, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, Coronado, etc., are most attractive and offer many advantages to both the tourist and the homeseeker. Accommodations of all kinds, from small furnished bungalows at a nominal rental to the large comfortable hotels, are available. Let us help you plan a trip to California. There is no charge to Outlook readers for this service. 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