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having seen the girl he loved dying in agony, shot her to put her out of her pain and then tried to kill himself but failed. At least two novels deal with a similar theme, the latest being the story called "A Case in Camera."

"Dr. Pepys," of the "Journal" of the American Medical Association, prints this little jest on the complexity of Boston's streets: "Did meet a traveling salesman who telleth a tale that a Bostonian was instructed by his good wife to drown ye family cat in ye Charles River. He went forth at 4 P.M. and 9 at night did return home footsore and weary accompanied by ye cat. His wife asking ye reason, he did assert that he became lost in ye streets and could find ye way home only by following ye cat."

"Punch" delivers this upper-cut at labor: "First Laboring Man-'Wot's a minimum wage, Albert?' Second Ditto'Wot yer gets for goin' to yer work. If yer wants ter make a bit more yer does a bit o' work for it.'"

What is a "King's Remembrancer"? The term occurs in the London "Times" in a news item about the finding of a hoard of coins which were discovered during excavations made for a picture theater in Perth. The find consisted of 1,128 coins dating from the reign of Edward III to that of James IV, and the collection is regarded as of great importance to numismatists. The coins, instead of going to the finder, "were claimed," says the "Times," "as treasure trove and were secured practically intact by the King's Remembrancer." To the fortunate or unfortunate discoverer of the hoard the official's title must have seemed a synonym for "killjoy."

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a large steamship is strikingly brought out in a report of the Olympic's experience. This great liner had 229 men in her fire-rooms when she used coal; now, with oil, 60 men do the work. With coal.

nearly a week was spent in putting 7,500 tons into her bunkers; with oil, only six hours are needed for taking in her supply. Thus she can now make a round trip in three weeks. An additional advantage is that she now steams with almost an entire absence of smoke.

Births at sea on ships leaving and arriving at British ports, according to the London Registrar-General, average about three a week. The babies thus ushered into the world often bring a snug little endowment with them, for it is a time-honored custom to take up a collection on the ship for the benefit of the new arrival and the parents if they are immigrants, and on a big liner the sum thus obtained has, it is said, sometimes amounted to as much as $2,500.

"Two of a Kind" is the title of this dialogue found in the London "Mail" "How's your cold, Donald?" "Verra ob stinate." "And how's your wife?" "Aboot the same."

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A VITAL BRITISH FORCE

A

STOCKY, broad-shouldered, power

ful, energetic Britisher is visiting America. He is the first Viscount Northcliffe, of St. Peter, in the County of Kent, England. He has been better known as Alfred Harmsworth. He is fifty-six years old, and was born in County Dublin, Ireland. His rise from the editorship of a small comic paper to his present position of newspaper magnate, peer of England, and one of her rich men certainly illustrates "the romance of business."

Lord Northcliffe controls the London "Times" and the "Daily Mail" and is the directive mind of, it is said, some two hundred publications in the British Empire. He also controls large factories and other industries. He is thus a man of notable organizing ability and executive capacity.

During the war his rather roughly positive manner stood him in good stead. In England, as elsewhere, it was necessary for a leader to be not only a prophet but also a hard fighter. He vigorously showed England how she was blunderingly going ahead on oldfashioned notions as to munitions while Germany was winning by high explosives. His conclusions were confirmed by the observations recorded in his book, "At the War," published in 1916, and he converted England. The following year the Government appointed him Chairman of the British War Mission to the United States, the first time that a practicing journalist had been given a public mission to another country as British representative. Lord Northcliffe's special task was not diplomatic, but industrial, namely, to co-ordinate the work of the various British missions, representing a number of British Government departments, established here and charged with supplying war needs.

Above all, about the time of the armistice Lord Northcliffe made an illuminating contribution to the discussion of the forthcoming peace. Had his suggestions for the prompt determination of the war under terms to be administered by interallied commissions been adopted, an incalculable amount of present distress and unrest would have been avoided.

THE LONDON "TIMES"

ORD NORTHCLIFFE'S many and far

Lreaching activities inevitably made

him a power in politics. Indeed, Mr.

AS HE ARRIVED IN AMERICA

Asquith's resignation as Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George's rise to supreme command were, we believe, largely due to the Northcliffe influence.

At present that influence opposes the Premier. A recent issue of the "Times," referring to the approaching arms conference at Washington, goes so far as to say that "neither the Premier nor the Foreign Minister is fitted by his position, temperament, or past career to take a direct part in these negotiations." The Government's resentment, also aroused by much previous nagging, was instantly shown and its punishment was both severe and puerile. The Government official news sources were closed to the "Times," Mr. Lloyd George publicly declaring the "Times" article to have been "peculiarly offensive and mischievous." Despite such ructions, the "Times" will continue to be, we are sure,

as it always has been called, "The Thunderer." And its thunder has often cleared the air amazingly.

Lord Northcliffe is a great admirer of America, and, under him, some American features now distinguish the publication of the "Times," among them the feature of special editions. The latest of these to reach us is the "American Edition," appropriately published on July 4 and distributed gratis. It contains contributions from prominent Americans, among them being President Harding, ex-President Taft, ex-Secretary Lansing, ex-Presidents Eliot of Harvard and Hadley of Yale, Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the American "Review of Reviews," and Mr. Frank Cobb, editor of the New York "World." Mr. Harding sums up the greatest achievement of the English-speaking peoples in the past by saying that they have spread over the globe "the idea of law as the bed-rock of liberty." The complementary power of these peoples for good cannot exert its full mission, the "Times" comments, unless there are mutual understandings. Such an evidence of understanding as is the American number of the "Times" can only promote them.

The recent publication in New York of an interview with Mr. Wickham Steed, editor of the London "Times," has stirred the two countries. For in it the King was quoted as expressing impatience with the Government's laggard methods in Ireland. The King denied the statement and Mr. Steed repudiated that part of the interview as not his. In England the interview was mistakenly ascribed to Lord Northcliffe himself. When this error was corrected, Lord Northcliffe remarked: "The incident is closed."

A BRITISH-AMERICAN TIE

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XPERIENCE has proved that the harder men contest with one another in friendly rivalries the better friends they are. That is why international athletics among amateurs, particularly if those amateurs have high standards of sportsmanship, promote good international relations.

The recent athletic contests between English university men and men from American universities have furnished a good illustration of this fact.

After encountering defeat from the Yale-Harvard team, the men from Oxford and Cambridge caused general surprise by securing a tie with the men from Princeton and Cornell. The eve

UR farmers are in distress. Our transporters are in distress. Both

need money. They need it right away. The farmers are trying to get the Government to help them. It can do so in several ways, they say. One way would be to increase the amounts loanable in the Federal Farm Loan system. Another way would be to allow the Federal Reserve banks to rediscount farm paper at twice the length of present maximum limit for that paper's maturity. A third way-economically unsound, we believe, and yet powerfully urged at present in the United States Senate would be to form a Government agency with a capital of a hundred million dollars and authority to issue a billion dollars' worth of bonds for the purpose of buying farm products and exporting them, acting as agent for any producer or dealer of these products and marketing all agricultural exports. Why should a new Government agency be necessary, and further, why should a new debt be incurred (already outrageously overburdened taxpayers would have to provide the hundred million dollars), when we can utilize an existing agency and its available credits of several hundred million dollars in helping toward the needed loans? Farm loans should represent actual business, and such loans as the Government makes should be confined to those for which credit cannot be found because ordinary banking facilities have become inadequate for the necessary financial advances. But there should be no disposition to use such means to aid producers and dealers who wish merely to be enabled to hold stock and so stiffen prices.

Our transporters are also trying to get the Government to help them. They still owe the Government for some of the railway extensions and improvements it made during the war. On the other hand, the Government is still owing them even larger sums for unpaid rentals, for lack of maintenance of equipment, and for depreciation. The contract covering the Government's railway operations during the war provided that the railways should be returned to

their owners in as good condition as when taken over. In its ideal of efficiency, however, the Government made extravagant expenditures and huge wage increases, both meeting with adverse criticism from practical railway operators. Despite the Government's efforts, there was serious under-maintenance and the roads were returned in poor condition. The Railway Administration has declined to pay its debts until the amounts owing to the Government are deducted. Ordinarily the railway companies would issue bonds to cover expenditures for extensions and improvements. Why should not they be permitted to do so now, delaying cash payment, say, ten years, and why should not the War Finance Corporation take the railway notes and bonds, sell them, and turn over a substantial part of the Government's debt to the railways-say, five hundred million dollars in cash to them? The President asks Congress to authorize the corporation thus to help both agriculture and transportation.

For the first measure of relief there is moral obligation. For the second there is obligation both moral and contractual.

THE SEIZED SHIPS

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o act of the United States Shipping Board under its new régime has been as dramatic as the seizure by its agents of vessels chartered by it to the United States Mail Steamship Company. These boats included the notable George Washington (formerly a German ship, and now the largest and finest passenger vessel under American registry), the America, and the Mount Vernon (the German Amerika and Kronprinzessin Cecilie, respectively), and other German liners.

The seizure was due to the charterers' alleged failure to observe provisions as regards

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the payments to Board in their contract. On the other hand, it is claimed that the Shipping Board's agents did not observe a charter provision that any dispute should be arbitrated.

The Shipping Board thereupon allocated five of the seized vessels to the United American Lines Service, a part of the American Ship and Commerce Corporation, which has a twenty-year contract with the Hamburg-American Line, affording participation by each in the tonnage and pier facilities of the transatlantic service of the other. The United States Mail Steamship Company has a similar but less far-reaching five-year contract with the North German Lloyd Line.

Doubtless, with the above contracts, the Germans intend to make use of our boats merely to bridge over the period from the present until the time

when they shall again have an adequate amount of tonnage fully to maintain their old transatlantic services themselves. To this end they are progressing rapidly. The director of the Hamburg-American is quoted as saying that within three years his company will have regained one-third of its pre-war strength. And the Hamburg-American, be it remembered, was the largest line in the world.

The United States Mail Steamship Company applied to the courts for a restraining order to prevent the Shipping Board from interfering with the operation of the chartered vessels. It was granted, and the America sailed with freshly painted and repainted funnels! We shall now see whether the Shipping Board will succeed in getting the injunction from the courts vacated.

To the casual observer who obtains his knowledge of the facts in this controversy from the newspapers it appears very much like a contest between two German steamship lines, with Americans acting as subordinates and providing the camouflage. We cannot for a moment believe that the United States Shipping Board has had any purpose in this of giving Germany an advan tage; but it seems strange that the Shipping Board should have attempted to take ships from a line having a fiveyear arrangement with one set of German interests and to turn them over to a line having a twenty-year arrangement with another set of German interests. There must be some good reason why the Board has not shown this favor to American lines without German connection, such as the Munson or the Roosevelt Line. It was only three years ago that Germany, supported by German shipping influences, was engaged in piracy on the high seas. So far we have seen no evidence of contrition on the part of the German ship-owners for what Germany did to destroy the fine traditions and the safeguards of seafaring life. It is not pleasant to think that Americans want to make the Boches partners in the enterprise of building up the American merchant marine.