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Miscellaneous

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a nine 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 particulars address Directress of Nurses.

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Graduate private sanitarium would take into her home a child. Fersonal attention. Location excellent. Modern improvements. Spring water. Near Cornell University. 8745 Outlook.

Toronto Tries Control

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running business carried on in contravention of the laws of the United States. "It is not at all," he said, "a question of the statute law of Canada or of Ontario. It is purely a question of public policy that is to say, public policy in the administration of the law by the courts which is essentially different from what may be public policy in the Public view of the legislature. . policy in this sense, or policy of the law, has been defined as the principles of justice, morality and convenience applied by the courts in matters concerning which the law is not explicit. Under this doctrine . . . freedom of contract will be restrained for the good of the community where the con

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tract conflicts with the morals of the times or contravenes some important established interest of the social order." He declared the contract void with the statement, "It is for the people of the United States to determine their own laws, and it is for the law abiding. people of other countries, including Canada, not to lend aid or comfort to ill disposed persons within their borders in their violation."

The American cynic may say that a Canadian court acted against rum running only when the chickens came home to roost, but the fact remains that a Canadian court has acted, and that in accord with the policy of the Control Board. The problems of that Board would be simpler if the United States were not a prohibition country but, its problems being what they are, it appears to be trying to solve them without complicating those of its neighbor.

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An astounding message that electrified the world

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-and stirred men's souls as no other fiery message ever written.

FTER a trying day spent in vain endeavor to persuade comatose "help" to become "radioactive," Hubbard sat down to supper discouraged and exasperated. The problem of making men act for themselves weighed heavily upon him. What to do?

In the course of a little argument over the teacups, his boy, Bert, made a suggestion. The hero, he insisted, is the man who goes alone and gets there! For instance, that chap Rowan! When we declared war on Spain, he found his way into the mountain fastnesses of Cuba with a message from the President of the United States to the insurgent leader, General Garcia.

It came to Hubbard like a flash! Yes. the boy was right. The hero is the man who sets off by himself and reaches his destination. He got up from the table, went to his desk, and in a single hour wrote "A Message to Garcia."

The March Philistine was on the presses. and room was made for the "Message," but its author thought so little of it that he ushered it into the world without even a title!

Within a week of its first obscure appearance, orders for extra Philistines in lots of hundreds, even thousands, began to roll in.

"What is stirring up the cosmic dust?" Hubbard asked.

"That stuff about Garcia," he was told.

Hot from the Heart!

"A literary trifle." it was modestly dubbed by its author. Elbert Hubbard, famous Sage of East Aurora.

But his "Message to Garcia" proved to he one of those innocent trifles that are loaded with TNT!

A sincere outburst-"The thing leaped

hot from my heart!"it fired men's souls

as nothing in print had ever done before!
George H. Daniels of the New York
Central Railroad wired for a hundred
thousand copies, and later issued two or
three editions of half a million each!

Prince Hilakof, Director of Russian
Railways, saw the little book on a visit to
this country and carried it back to Russia,
where it was translated and distributed on
a vast scale.

40 Million Copies Issued!

On the wings of fame "A Message to Garcia" swept around the world. In Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, Hindustan, China, Japan and many other countries, it was translated and distributed by millions.

Since its original appearance more than forty million copies have come from the press! A larger circulation than literary venture ever attained during the lifetime of its author in all history!

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The thing is deathless, timeless-a little classic! Its message will be needed as long as society exists. People will read it always because it is an inspiring epic of heroism and because it grips the imagination and fires the heart of every person who opens its covers!

Everybody Should Read It!

There is something in "A Message to Garcia" that appeals to every age, class and condition of humanity. Something that rouses, stimulates. inspires-gives men and women a new understanding of themselves and their possibilities.

This innocent "literary trifle" has built itself into myriads of lives. It has been the cause of heroic actions without number. It has uplifted and refreshed millions of readers.

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It says something absolutely vital to every man and woman, boy and girl. It tells you how to live your life to the utmost, how to carry YOUR message to Garcia!

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Sacco and Vanzetti

speak for themselves!

The most important evidence is now
available-the evidence revealed in
these intimate letters written during
seven years in Massachusetts prisons.

Sacco and Vanzetti, the shoemaker and the fish-
peddler whose execution stirred the world, left
behind them a record more eloquent than all the
pleadings of lawyers. It is contained in the letters
which they wrote to friends from their
first arrest up to the very day of the
execution. Now, more than a year after
their death, the letters have been re-
leased and a definitive collection is about
to be offered to the public.

A Link in the Evidence

Were they innocent or were they guilty? Disinterested people spent seven years in trying to free them; Governors and College Presidents took sides for and against them. Their friends said: "Men who can talk and act and write as they do could not be guilty." Their letters must be regarded as an essential part of the evidence. You can be the judge.

Minds in the Making

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such stuff as this the new citizenry is being made. The letters present the other side of Americanization the immigrant's side. Their point of view is worth understanding-must be understood-if the adjustment is to be smooth. International Sponsorship

Charlestown, Jan. 10, 1921

DEAR ALFONSINA:

... I heartily laughed to hear that the finger-nails of the little cat have scratched the Zora's nose, and I continue to laugh every time I think about it. Surely it is a good lesson not only for Zora and other child, but for mankind. The little cat knows very well that it has sharp nails, and that when a little girl molests it, it is. enough to scratch a little her nose for be let free. People too has sharp finger-nails, and the noses of tyrants and oppressors is make of flesh too, but it look as tho the people ignored this notion. Oh how much less sorrow and misery would be among the mortals if they know just what a little cat knows. . .

The volume will be sponsored by a committee made up of some of the world's foremost writers and thinkers, whose names will be announced on the cover. It has been carefully compiled and edited by Marion Denman Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson.

First Edition

Publication early in November. On account of the sensation caused by the Silva confession, it is expected that the first edition will be heavily over-subscribed. You can reserve a copy now by filling out and mailing the coupon. The book will then be delivered to you on publication. Contents

Kisses to the children, best regards to
Vincenzo and all those who love me.
Bartolo

THE LETTERS OF
SACCO AND
VANZETTI
In addition to nearly 300 letters, the book will contain
biographical notes, a complete and impartial record of
Edited by
the case, Sacco's and Vanzetti's speeches before the
Marion Frankfurter
Court, Vanzetti's letter to Governor Fuller, and Van-
and Gardner Jackson
zetti's last statement. Illustrated with portraits of the
men and facsimiles of their handwriting; 384 pages, octavo,
cloth bound, gold stamped.
Price $2.50

Whatever you decide, you will find in this volume.
a human document of extraordinary interest.
Sacco learned to write English in jail. Vanzetti,
already an educated man, read all the books he
could lay hands on, and his mental growth can be
traced in the letters. His comments on books and
authors, from Proudhon and Kropotkin to Emerson and
Beard, are original and shrewd. His command of language
grew until an English review, The New Statesman, could
place him among the masters of modern letter-writing.
The intimate pictures of prison life, the comments on men
and ideas, the notes on the progress of the case, and above
all the touching personal details, give this volume the
fascination that can be had only from first-hand sources.

The New Americans

Finally, if you are interested in the making of Americans, you will read these letters with absorption. From just

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THE OUTLOOK AND INDEPENDENT, October 31, 1928. Volume 150, Number 9, 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 July 20, 1928, at the Post Office at Springfield, Mass., under the Act of March 3. 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company.

IN ANY SOCIETY which is to endure, the administration of justice is one of the foundation stones. For if through

error or prejudice one man can suffer injustice at the hands of the law, there is no guaranty that another may not also and, given other circumstances, that other man may be you or I. Once men lose faith in the administration of their laws, society is on the road to disintegration.

IT IS for this reason that there is laid the upon press of any country the profound obligation of eternal vigilance and close scrutiny where courts, legal procedures and lawyers are concerned.

IT is in response to this obligation that The Outlook and Independent prints in this issue the results of its investigation of the conviction of Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the Bridgewater hold-up. Judges, like other men, are human, in their capacity for error. So are lawyers. Men accused of crime may be poorly defended, or dishonestly defended, as well as honestly and ably dealt with. No man in his senses believes that all judges can lay aside their prejudices and opinions when they mount the bench. Juries are human and make mistakes.

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YET, our system is the only means we have of dealing out justice and protecting society. We can improve this system, but we cannot discard it. keep it functioning at its best requires the vigilance of every good citizen to see that the fewest possible mistakes are made, that innocent men are not wrongly convicted, that incompetent judges are retired, and incompetent or dishonest lawyers disbarred.

THIS journal passes no judgment in presenting the results of its investigation in this particular case. It lays what it has honestly found before the people and opens its columns for comment to Governor Fuller, his Advisory Committee, the attorneys for the defense and for the prosecution.

IN THE END, society always finds that full discussion and open debate is the best way to conserve what it has. To that end, we hope all concerned in this particular case will co-operate

with us.

Francis Profers Bellamy

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