E Perhaps you are not sailing any of the seven seas this Summer. No matter-the breeze that blows the traveler happily on his way is a land breeze also. It is money. a Not so much in amount, as that it shall be convenient, safe against loss or theft, and good as gold anywhere. 20 VERY blacksmith and wheelwright knows that the way to fit a tire onto the felloe is to heat the tire, so that while it is expanded by the heat it is larger than the felloe, and as it cools it contracts, binding itself fast upon the wheel. But it has remained for the Bureau of Standards to reverse that principle. This problem came to the Bureau: Find a method of binding heavy steel plates together where it is impossible to use bolts because of the location of the plates and where the shearing power is too great for screws. The scientists bored inch holes through the steel plates and prepared steel pins eight or ten inches long and one-thousandth of an inch or onefifteen hundredth of an inch larger in diameter than the holes. The pins were about ten inches long—the thickness of the two plates to be fastened together. Then, the plates being in position, the steel pins were immersed for ten minutes in a beaker of liquid air which was at a temperature of 2,000° F. below zero. This intense cold contracts the pins, so that they are easily driven into the holes, and upon their regaining their normal temperature the expansion gives an enormous grip, stronger than any rivets. Another method, equally original, but a little less reliably effective, consists in making the steel pins slightly smaller in diameter than the holes into which they are to fit. Then along the axis of each pin is drilled a hole an eighth of an inch in diameter. This hole is filled with a high explosive known to soldiers as TNT. 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I deplored this rash of commerce in New England. Its pur. destruction of the gateway, but the chase by the Government for $11,500,000 Rawat declared that he could never has been recommended by Secretary have looked upon it again with comWeeks, on account of its military and placency, since it had nearly deprived naval potentialities. me of life.” FASTEST PASSENGER AND FREIGHT STEAMERS Mother (as reported in the "American In some wide-awake stores, according Legion Weekly”)—“Why do you wish to to "American Business Methods," a offering the best of accommodations, in be a great general like Sherman?' meeting of employees is held once a cluding drawing rooms - lounges Willie-"So's I can say things like him month to discover and eliminate all veranda cafés - swimming baths and not get licked." waste of effort, time, and material. A gymnasia. list of questions is asked and answered. ONE MILLION TONS Edward Payson Weston, the pedes. 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Address all communications to THE OUTLOOK COMPANY 381 Fourth Avenue New York ('ity TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES St. John's Riverside Hospital Training School for Nurses YONKERS, NEW YORK Registered in New York State, oflera * 2X years' courseAs general training to refined, educated women. Require. mente one year high school or its equivalent. Apply to the Directress of Nurses Youkers, New York. JULY 20, 1921 G as PRESIDENT HARDING'S PROPOSAL ain and Japan. Of course with respect is only fair to accept the document as FOR A WORLD CONFERENCE to both the Far East and naval arma- at least presenting Obregon's view. It RATIFICATION, mounting in ments, any agreement reached by Great is full of friendly assurances; but how some cases to jubilation, has Britain, Japan, and the United States far can we rely on assurances by Presigreeted the invitation extended would undoubtedly prevail. It was wise, dent Obregon? His own political staby President Harding to the principal however, to include France and Italy bility is none too firm, and one of the Allied and Associated Powers to a con because, aside from their interests as best points that he makes—namely, that ference at Washington to consider the naval Powers and influences in the he has no power to commit his Congress limitation of armaments and Pacific and Orient, they are indispensable factors in in advance or to order the courts to inFar Eastern affairs. world peace and justice. No question of terpret the Mexican Constitution to meet No other Power could have done what limiting or reducing armaments of any our views-really emphasizes the diffiAmerica has in summoning this con kind can justly be considered without culty of getting valid and solid proof ference. Proposals on the part of every considering also the position of France that American lives and property shall other great nation concerning disarma as a neighbor of Germany. No question be protected. ment or concerning the Far East would of naval armament can justly be consid- We are no more in a hurry than is have been subject to suspicion. Great ered without considering also the Medi. Mexico for normal international relaBritain, the predominant naval terranean naval Power, Italy. tions. It is, then, for Mexico to find a Power, could hardly take the initiative In extending the invitation infor- way to establish her just intentions for in asking others to limit their ’navies. mally, the President, through Secretary the future. A year ago Senator Fall, of France, of course, might have suggested Hughes, has made it clear that, in th the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, a naval holiday; but she has hardly at discussions of Far Eastern problems, proposed that the assurances we demand stake what the United States has, and China has also been invited to take part. should be embodied in a new treaty and any suggestion from her would have Some speculation has been entertained that the ratification of the treaty should been discounted. Any request of that concerning the bearing of this confer- be followed by immediate recognition. nature from Japan or Italy might have ence upon the fortunes of the League of If that course were legitimate a year been interpreted as a request for favor. Nations. Some earnest advocates of the ago, it might well be considered now. The United States, however, has inter League have deplored the fact that the It is, unfortunately, quite possible for ests which call for the defense of a navy President did not have recourse to the Mexico to injure unfairly American inand yet is strong enough to make any League, and thus give it something to terests without confiscation, strictly so suggestion it pleases without fear of be do. Others have seen in this conference called, and without legislation aimed ing thought over-timid. No little credit the beginnings of a new association of solely at Americans. Mr. Obregon can for this suggestion is due to Senator nations which will gradually take the point out, as he does, that the muchBorah; for he was indefatigable in League's place. Those who have their talked-of Article Twenty-seven of the pushing, first as a resolution and then minds more on means than on ends, Mexican Constitution does not in the as an amendment to the Naval Appro more on organizations for justice than least authorize confiscation, but simply priation Bill, a provision authorizing on justice itself, may find these specula- asserts the national original ownership the President to call such a conference. tions important. Those, however, who of natural rights while conceding the By including the discussion of problems look for the gradual development of a national power to transfer these rights of the Pacific and the Far East Presi sense of international law and justice, to private ownership. This same article dent Harding has gone beyond the scope and who hope for peace as a fruit of declares positively that such private of any such conference as that author. justice, will welcome every practical ownership may not be destroyed "except ized in the Borah Amendment. Indeed, measure, whatever its name, which will for reasons of public utility and through the subject of limiting armament must cake justice and peace between nations indemnification." Moreover, another be made subordinate to the larger ques. out of the realm of academic discussion article of the Constitution declares that tions of policy and principle; and Mr. and into the realm of fact. "no law shall be retroactive against any Harding has exercised wisdom by using person." This flatly forbids any ex post the demand for a conference on arma- HOW FAR CAN WE TRUST facto legislation. This is all very well ment to forward the larger idea of coMEXICO? and very true, and it does seem to prooperation between the nations on mat. o far nothing practical has resulted vide against the seizure of concessions ters of foreign policy. from Secretary Hughes's plain notice to Americans. So far as law and ConThe bearing of such a conference upon to Mexico that the United States cannot stitution go, at the present time, theothe question of the renewal of the Anglo- resume formal relations with that coun- retically the property rights of Ameri. Japanese Alliance is obvious. That try until it is assured that Americans cans in Mexico are the same as those of treaty was designed to preserve stability will be free from confiscation and dis- Englishmen in Mexico or of Mexicans in in the Far East, vhere Japan and Great crimination as regards their property Mexico. Britain are both involved. If out of this rights. A long and plausible letter from But the fact that foreign property conference comes an understanding, not President Obregon in the New York rights in Mexico cover investments of only between Great Britain and Japan, "World" has clarified, but not solved the universal importance in which Mexicans but also among the other principal na. question. Its authority was lessened themselves are but slightly interested tions-France, Italy, and the United when it was reported that its real writer financially-as in the case of oil, fer States-there will be less, if any, need was Mr. George Creel; but Mr. Creel instance-leaves a door open to such unfor a special treaty between Great Brit. modestly disclaims authorship, and it just and grasping legislation toward |