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W.L.DOUGLAS

BY MORE THAN FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN MAKING FINE SHOES

W. L. Douglas shoes are made of the best and finest selected leathers the market affords. We employ the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy.

When you need shoes look for a W.L. Douglas store. We own 107 stores located in the principal cities. You will find in our stores many kinds and styles of high-class, fine shoes that we believe are better shoe values for the money than you can buy elsewhere.

Our $7.00 and $8.00 shoes are exceptionally good values. There is one point we wish to impress upon you that is worth dollars for you to remember. W. L. Douglas shoes are put into all of our stores at factory cost. We do not make one cent of profit until the shoes are sold to you. When you buy shoes at any one of our stores you pay only one small retail profit.

No matter where you live, shoe dealers can supply you with W.L.Douglas shoes. They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. Insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes with the name and retail price stamped on the sole. Do not take a substitute and pay one or two extra profits. Order direct from the factory and save money.

w. L. Douglas Shoe Co., 167 Spark St., Brockton, Mass.

NASSAU'S

(Bahamas)

Biggest Season

Perfect Weather Outdoor Sports

Year by year the popularity of Nassau as a winter resort increases, as people from all parts of the world enjoy its golf, tennis, bathing, sailing and fishing. Ideal climateaverage temperature 71°. Magnificent hotels, British Colony. Less than three days from New York.

New Express Passenger and Freight Liner MUNARGO, finest passenger steamer in southern trade, sails from Pier 9, East River, New York, weekly during the season.

For Booklet and Reservations
address Dept. O

MUNSON

STEAMSHIP LINES

67 Wall Street, New York

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ish turn of mind can find considerable entertainment in following this lead and asking his friends what are their favorite books for re-reading. The question asked of two persons brought this response: (1) "Cloister on the Hearth." "Quentin Durward," "The Three Musketeers;" (2) "The Bible in Spain," "Pepys's Diary," Carlyle's "French Revolution."

Many readers have formed the habit of scanning only the headlines of most of the columns of the daily papers. Sometimes the "headline artist," however, sets them a puzzle that cannot easily be solved without some further reading. This, for instance, from a New York daily of wide circulation:

DOG OR COW MAN'S BEST

FRIEND PROBLEM FOR WOMEN One finds on digging into the small type below this cryptic heading that at a meeting of a woman's club the members discussed vivisection and that one of them said: "I take exception to the statement that the dog is man's best friend; I claim that the cow is the greatest friend of the human family."

The activities of Boy Scouts as reported by National Headquarters during a recent week include the following things done:

In Anaconda, Montana, Scouts collected clothing for 150 destitute families.

At Casper, Wyoming, Scouts sold Christmas trees and with the proceeds filled baskets for the needy.

In Babylon, Long Island, a Scout rescued two persons, a man and his wife, from drowning when they broke through the ice.

At Ravenna, Ohio, a Scout worked over an unconscious lineman, who had been "kicked" by a live wire, for fifty minutes and succeeded in resuscitating him.

And here are less spectacular but nevertheless useful deeds recorded: "Shoveled snow from the schoolhouse three times;" "Cleaned alleys, built sidewalks, removed débris after fire, dug ditches for draining, gave wood to poor widow, found lost child, cleaned town of Mexican sandburrs. jumped on runaway automobile and stopped it."

Apropos of the influence of the Boy Scouts, Judge F. C. Hoyt, presiding justice of the Children's Court in New York City, is reported as saying that the decrease in juvenile delinquency which is now evident can be traced "to the work of Boy Scouts, churches, community movements, and other agencies striving to help youth find itself in the right way."

The Pratt Teachers Agency

70 Fifth Avenue, New York Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. Advises parents about schools. Wm. O. Pratt, Mgr. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

CHAPERONAGE to EUROPE
Mrs. Smith and Miss Gray will close their New
York chaperonage for girls June 1st and will
accompany a few girls on a travel tour: Paris,
The Battlefields, Belgium and England.
For particulars, address

Mrs. Christine Smith and Miss Fanny J. Gray,
The Wyoming, 7th Ave. at 55th St., N. Y. City
Tel. Circle 1286

CONNECTICUT, Bantam Lake.

CAMP WONPOSET

A camp for young boys in the Berkshires. 100 miles from camp book.

ROBERT C. TINDALE, 31 East 71st St., New York City.

CAMP WAKE ROBIN Woodland, N. Y.

18th SEASON

YOUNGER BOYS EXCLUSIVELY Woodcraft, nature lore, manual training, all sports and swimning. H. O. LITTLE, Lincoln High School, Jersey City, N. J.

CAMP WAHWANDA

Hopewell Junction; N. Y.

Along the shores of beautiful Sylvan Lake. A camp run by experienced men for happy boys. Every summer recreation and the best of food and care. Ages 9 to 15. Season July 1st to September 1st. Inclusive rate $300. Enrollment positively limited to fifty boys. Send for booklet and registration forms now.

CAMP WAHWANDA, A. E. BALLOU, Ass't Director, 77 West 50th Street, New York City.

CAMP NORRIDGEWOCK FOR BOYS

Fast Lake, Oakland, Maine, one of the famous Belgrade Lakes. Canoe trips, Fishing, Tennis, Baseball, Swimming, Football coaching and tutoring. Boys eight to eighteen years. No tents. Modern Cabins. Camp Mother and graduate nurse. illustrated booklet. Arthur M. Condon, Northampton, Mass.

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Waynesville, North Carolina Invites inquiry from parents who are seeking the highest xcellence in camp opportunity. Booklet upon request. 620 E. 40th St., Savannah, Ga.

CAMP WABASSO

CAKE BLAISDELL, SUTTON, N. H. Altitude ,100 ft. Junior and Senior Camps. All water and land ports. Riding, arts and crafts, trips. For prospectus adfresa Miss Christine H. Smith, Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass.

CAMP JUNALUSKA

One of the finest "all around" camps for girls in the outh. Lake Junaluska, N. C., in the "Land of the Sky," ear Asheville. Send for illustrated booklet. Miss ETHEL J. MCCOY, Director, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Va.

THE TREATIES IN THE SENATE

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F the treaties which were framed during the Armament Conference, the first to be approved by the Senate was the agreement between the American and Japanese Governments concerning the island of Yap. Insignifi

cant as the island is in size, it is important as a cable and radio station. By the Treaty of Versailles the administration of the island was intrusted to Japan as mandatory; but the United States was not willing to acquiesce in the arrangement without reserving the right to have access to this island for the purposes of assuring means of communication to the Far East. By this Yap Treaty, which was negotiated both before and during the Armament Conference, but not by the Conference itself, the United States secures rights and privileges and exemptions, and provides for certain safeguards to the natives and other residents of the island. This treaty received the approval of the Senate by a vote of 67 to 22. Of the votes against the treaty 19 were Democratic, while 13 Democrats were counted among the Senators voting in the affirmative. Only 3 Republicans voted against it and 54 in its favor.

As soon as the Yap Treaty was disposed of, Senator Lodge, as majority leader, presented the Four-Power Treaty. This provides that the four Powers involved-America, Britain, France, and Japan-shall respect one another's rights in their island possessions and dominions in the Pacific, and that if any dispute arises among themselves or with any outside Power concerning the Pacific they shall meet in conference to see what shall be done. With this treaty was presented a supplementary agreement excluding the mainland of Japan from the scope of the treaty, and a reservation as follows:

The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obligation to join in any defense.

This appears to be an instance in which it is necessary to state the obvious. Such a reservation seems to us wholly unnecessary but wholly harmless. The Administration has been convinced that Senators whose votes are necessary for the adoption of the treaty consider this reservation essential. The fact that some newspaper despatches from Japan refer to this treaty as an alliance may have stimulated the demand for the reservation. Some of the

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on other grounds. One might just as well oppose a bill in Congress because it was drawn up in a Congressman's private office. The terms of the treaty were known before it was adopted, and the reasons for its adoption were stated in public session of the Conference. The real opposition to this Four-Power Treaty comes from those who see that there is no threat in this treaty and believe that it is unsafe to attempt any understanding between nations which is not supported by a threat of force. Strange to say, the opponents of this treaty consist of pacifists as well as jingoes. Of course this treaty has no place in any arrangement for international relations which rests upon the assumption that every nation is a potential enemy of every other nation.

The real danger that would follow if this treaty were defeated is perhaps not yet fully realized by the country. If the American Senate defeats this treaty, it gives virtual notification to Japan and Great Britain that America does not trust them. If the Senate does that, what justification could it possibly give for then reducing the American Republic's armament?

MOINCIDENT with the plan for reduction of the Navy President Harding has proposed to Congress a plan for increasing our Merchant Marine. He does not suggest a new method for doing this, but a new application of an old method. In a word, he proposes ship subsidies.

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His reasons for believing that must foster a large and successful Merchant Marine may be stated briefly as follows: It is an axiom of commerce that no nation can be successful in industry and commerce that does not sell its commodities in foreign markets, or, in other words, does not maintain an export trade. It is an axiom of history that no nation has long been successful as an exporting nation without building up its own carrying capacity. He might have mentioned illustrations, although he did not, the Venetian Republic in mediæval and the British Empire in modern times. Shipping is not a local interest. "Commerce on the seas is quite as vital to the great interior as it is to our coast territory." A Merchant Marine, next to the Navy, is the greatest factor in national defense. The European war proved this. In that emergency the Government had to build in great haste and at great cost a Merchant Marine. But experience has shown us

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that Government ownership and operation of merchant ships is wasteful, extravagant, and unprofitable. A Merchant Marine needs "individual initiative, which is the very soul of successful enterprise." But without some kind of aid American ship-owners cannot successfully meet foreign competition, because wages, rations, and working conditions of American seamen are better than those of any other country, and these conditions must not be lowered to competing standards. The only way to solve this problem, President Harding thinks, is to establish a reasonable and carefully guarded system of ship subsi. dies.

His plan for ship subsidies is, in outline, this: Abandon the idea of imposing discriminatory duties in favor of imports carried in American ships. Take ten per cent of all duties "on imports brought to us in American or foreign bottoms and create therefrom a Merchant Marine fund." Out of this fund, with the addition of certain other marine taxes, subsidies shall be paid to American built and operated ships on a sliding scale according to the speed of the ship. When Government inspection shows that a ship-owner is earning more than ten per cent on his investment annually, his subsidy shall cease and he shall pay back to the fund annually fifty per cent of all profits over ten per cent "until the full amount of subsidy previously received is returned to its source." Subsidized ships shall carry the United States mails, except parcels post, without charge, and shall form a naval reserve. Subsidies on the scale proposed will not reach $15,000,000 the first year, nor are they ever likely to exceed in the largest extension of the system $30,000,000 annually, the President believes. If the system is adopted, the President advises that the Government should sell the huge Merchant Marine it now owns "at prices prevailing in the world market" and completely retire from the shipping business. He believes that the plan which he sets forth and which we have attempted to outline "makes impossible the enrichment of any special interest at public expense, puts an end to the Government assumption of all losses, and leaves to private enterprise the prospective profits of successful management."

Next week we shall print a special article dealing with ship subsidies and state our own views of what is involved in the problem and the President's solution of it.

(C) Harris & Ewing

HUBERT WORK, THE NEW POSTMASTERGENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

Postmaster-General. Instead of listen ing to the many voices which have been suggesting now this, now that politician as a desirable head for the position of enormous political patronage, Mr. Harding resolutely set his face against those suggestions and promoted, instead, the First Assistant Postmaster-General, namely, Dr. Hubert Work.

The praise for Dr. Work's appointment should, in the first place, go to Mr. Hays, who, with the President's approval, selected him as the First Assistant Postmaster-General. Mr. Hays knows how to choose men of efficiency and organizing ability. As Chairman of the Republican National Committee he became associated with Dr. Work, who had been Chairman of the Colorado Republican Committee and who came to Chicago to assist Chairman Hays after the nomination of President Harding. To Dr. Work was given the task of organizing the farmers, and he did this effectively in forty States.

Dr. Work is a native of Pennsylvania, and was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan. For twenty-five years he was a practicing physician in Pueblo, Colorado. During the war the late General Gorgas, Surgeon-General of the Army, selected Dr. Work to be the liaison officer between him and Provost-Marshal General Crow der, with supervision of the medical features of the selective draft. Dr. Work was first commissioned a major, and, later, lieutenant-colonel and colonel. In medicine Colonel Work showed not only distinguished personal ability, but also a marked gift for organization. This is evidenced by the fact that ne was long President of the Colorado State Medical Society, the Colorado State

Board of Medical Examiners, the Colorado State Board of Health, and the American Medico-Psychological Society. At the time of his nomination last March to be First Assistant PostmasterGeneral he was the incoming President of the American Medical Association.

When Colonel Work was appointed to his present office, The Outlook declared that his name sounded like an augury for accomplishment. Since then the accomplishment has occurred. Not only has he managed his own special department (the appointment and personnel of postmasters are largely in his charge) to the general admiration and satisfaction of those who know him, but in recent weeks has been carrying most of the load of the Postal Service on his shoulders, as Postmaster-General Hays has been largely away from Washington and Colonel Shaughnessy, Second Assistant Postmaster-General, was one of the mortally injured in the Knickerbocker Theater disaster.

Dr. Work is, we believe, the first physician ever to receive a Cabinet post.

MAKING LABOR UNIONS PLAY FAIR

PPOSITION

to labor unions would have lacked much of the force that it has had if it were not justified in part by abuses to which organized labor has occasionally given its sanction. Among these abuses have been the limitation of output, limitation upon tae right of employers to deal in the open market, favoritism, and collusion witn contractors in attempts to collect debts. It has not always been possible, and it has never been easy, to hold labor unions responsible for such abuses.

These abuses are now the subject of a consent decree which was signed in Washington recently. It affects over 100,000 members of the Masons, and Plasterers' Union of America.

Bricklayers, International

A consent decree is not a judicial sentence, but it is an agreement sanctioned by the Court between parties to a dispute, and when it is entered it is admitted by both parties as a just determination of their respective rights. Such a consent decree has been, or is about to be, entered in the United States Court in New York City. Because failure to accept such a decree would mean prosecution and possible imprisonment under a charge of conspiracy, the unions involved were ready to discuss the question with the authorities. Indeed, Attorney-General Daugherty has said that the Department of Justice did not feel justified in undertaking to secure indictments in the case of these union leaders, who had shown every desire to