TEACHERS' AGENCIES. THE FISK British Government, which contends that such a course would not be equitable, but that the British Government TEACHERS' AGENCIES is entitled to the shipping for which it Portland, Ore., 514 Journal Bldg. Boston, Mass., 2-A Park Street Birmingham, Ala., 809 Title Bldg. MISS E. F. FOSTER, Manager contracted, and which it will sorely need to make good its losses through the submarine warfare. The British view is re-enforced by the fact that, at the beginning of the war, Great Britain herself gave unconditional facilities for the completion of ships MISS T. M. HASTINGS, Acting Manager which were in process of building for THE EASTERN TEACHERS' AGENCY Reputation founded on twenty-seven years of successful experience. Established 1890 THE FICKETT TEACHER'S AGENCY Edward W. Fickett, Prop. Established 1885. grades, kindergartens, physical training, writing, art, music, manual training and domestic science. The supervisors of kindergartens, manual training and domestic science do actual classroom work in connection with their supervision. The public schools are organized with junior and senior high schools all on the departmental plan. OHIO. AKRON. This city has 125 new teachers this year. MINNESOTA. The State University has received $1,650,000 from Doctors Will J. and Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minnesota, and their great medical plant as a part of the State University, to be devoted to medical research and investigation. The Week in Review Continued from page 297. a as 8 Beacon Street, Boston Telephone Hay. 1678. ments to the bill. The bill passed the House unanimously ten days before. The Senate gave only seven hours to its consideration. TIGHTENING THE EMBARGO. The Exports Administrative Board has published a list of commodities, the export of which is practically prohibited, except that licenses may be issued when the cargoes for which applications are made are destined for actual war purposes of the Allies. The list includes wheat, wheat flour, sugar, steel and iron for shipbuilding and many materials needed for the manufacture of explosives. This rul ing of the board is, in effect, a notice to the northern neutrals of Europe that, in spite of their protests, they will have to get along without American wheat, and that, at no time during the war period, will shipments be made to them except on the strictest rationing basis, and only after satisfactory guarantees. Sweden's special diplomatic envoy to the United States declares that Sweden must starve unless she can have wheat; but the present is certainly no time to expect spe12. cial concessions from this country. early date November The proclamation conveys a warning to the people that, although the rebellion headed by General Korniloff has failed, the country is still threatened with dangers, the most serious of which is the refusal of the Cossacks to surrender to the government their leader, General Kaledines, who was a sharer in the Korniloff revolt. It is reasonably safe to predict that the date of the elections will have to be again moved ahead, unless the elections are to be a farce. UNANIMOUS AT LAST. For the first time since the United States entered the war, the Senate has passed a war bill without a dissenting vote. The measure in question was the bond issue bill urged by the administration for immediate expenditures. The bill provides for an issue of $7,538,945,460 of four per cent. convertible bonds, subject to the war super taxes and profits taxes, and also issues of not more than $2,000,000,000 of certificates of indebtedness and an equal issue of war savings certificates, which are to bear four per cent. interest. Altogether, the bonds and certificates will provide $11,538,945,460 for war expenditures. Sena tor La Follette, usually the most "wilful" senator of the group, seems to have been placated by the acceptance of two or three of his amend her allies or for neutrals, and that, when she chartered neutral merchant ships, she paid high rates for their service and guaranteed their return six months after the war. This precedent will count for a good deal in the negotiations now in progress. A DRAFT OF ALIENS. Senator Chamberlain's resolution providing for the draft of all friendly aliens in this country for military service under the American flag provides also for the conscription for non-combatant war work of all nationals of Germany and its allies living here. The conscription of all friendly aliens depends upon the approval of the diplomatic representatives of their own nations in this country. It is not expected that any difficulty will be experienced in securing the consent of France, Great Britain and Russia, though France and Great Britain would themselves take over their drafted nationals. Italy, however, and Japan and Servia would have to waive existing treaty rights before the proposed arrangement could be consummated. The Senate adopted the resolution without even a roll-call. THE LID DOWN ON WHISKEY. Under the Food Control Law, all the whiskey distilleries in the country -605 in all-were closed on September 9, and all importation of whiskey was prohibited. Comparatively few of the distilleries are equipped for making alcohol for commercial purposes, and nearly all of them will remain closed until after the war. This does not mean that there will be an immediate whiskey famine, for the distilleries, aware of the doom awaiting them, have been run at high speed for the accumulation of a large supply, and it is estimated that, on the day when the law took effect, about 210,000,000 gallons of whiskey were held in storage. Under normal conditions, this would be nearly two years' supply. least the law will prevent, duration of the war, the diversion of foods, fruits and food materials for the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes. ARLO But at for the This fall more than three hundred towns and cities, including the largest cities in the country, are using ARLO. The principle of silent reading for interpretation, as developed by ARLO, is already firmly established. To carry this work on we now offer CLEMATIS, a book of 250 pages of carefully graded, silent reading material, for upper second and beginning third grades. Like ARLO this is a complete story, in twenty chapters. By Bertha B. and Ernest Cobb. BROOKLINE, MASS.: THE RIVERDALE PRESS. Magazines In the September number of the TEACHERS' AGENCIES American Review of Reviews UNUSUALLY good teachers are often 307 ог for unexpected vacancies available after it may be difficult for superintendents trustees to find them. The Agency that knows its candidates can suggest teachers at short notice as a rule for candidate be forthcoming, the recommendaShould no tion agency can be relied upon to say so, time of busy school officals who cannot afford to be bothered with Frank H. Simonds continues his in- "Russian GOOD be depended upon to present the British Attack, and the Pope's thus saving the misfits. When a request from a Board ends with "We will appoint anyone you Peace Proposal." 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THE WEEK IN REVIEW to to Germany's supplementary note the Vatican, which reached the world by way of a verbal communication made by the foreign secretary to the Papal nuncio at Munich, must have been framed with a view to seeming to make concessions, while really conceding nothing. It promises evacuate Belgium and to contribute a share of the compensation to be paid to Belgium for war damages, but on condition that Germany "must have the right to develop her economic resources freely in Belgium,"-a phrase capable of very elastic interpretation, and leaving very little of Belgian independence; also that the Flanders and Walloon districts be given separate administration; also that Belgium be required "to give a guarantee that any such menace as that which threatened Germany in 1914 would in future be excluded." This is enigmatic indeed, for the only menace which threatened Germany in 1914 was the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality, to which Germany was a party, but which she promptly tore up as "a scrap of paper." Α semi-official explanation admits that these conditions are intentionally vague. German diplomats are slow to abandon the conviction that they can go on fooling the world to the end of time. and A FLAT REFUSAL. After backing and filling, twisting and turning, intimating this promising that, for months, the German Government has finally made up its mind to give a flat refusal to the demand that it name peace terms. That is what Chancellor Michaelis's long-deferred speech in the Reichstag amounts to. "Any such public statement at the present," he says, "could only have a confusing effect and injure German interests. We should not come a step nearer peace, but it would contribute certainly to a prolongation of the war." He adds: "I to must at present decline to specify our war aims and bind the hands of our negotiators." It is just as well have the German position made perfectly plain at last. The original German peace suggestions and the later correspondence with the Vatican have had for their one aim the befogging of international and the creating of dissension among opinion the Allies. They have failed and are now abandoned. Incidentally, it is to be noticed that Chancellor Michaelis is shocked by the "unparalleled terrorism" instituted by the Government of the United States. He must be something of a humorist. THE LATEST BRITISH DRIVE. west Over a country protected by concrete and steel redoubts and woods and shell craters, and turned into a marsh by recent rains, the British have been making a sustained and furious drive the past week. As usual, the attack was preceded by heavy and continuous artillery fire. The heaviest fighting was Zennebeke, and the British of carried important positions near the railway running from Ostend to Lille. The cutting of this line, which was the main object of the attack, seriously affect the transport of the Germans from their naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge to the south. The German official reports admit would that the defending troops were ARGENTINA'S DECISION. The vote of the Argentine Cham- and are plainly the work of the Ger- MAKING WAR BY MICROBES. Secretary Lansing has made public was SILVER BOOMING. Decrease in production and a greatly increased demand for European coinage, coupled with an increase in Oriental trade activity, requiring silver to settle Oriental exchange, explain the phenomenal rise in silver during the past year. Silver today is sixty per cent. higher than it was a year ago. When the war began, the silver in a silver dollar was worth only 40 1-2 cents. Last week it was worth 83 7-8 cents. It would only be necessary for the price to advance in October as much as it did in September to bring the value of the silver in a dollar up to 100 cents. This would happen if the price of silver per ounce were to rise to $1.29. If, by any chance, it were to rise above that figure, silver dollars would vanish from circulation, but the lesser silver coins, in which the proportion of pure silver is much smaller, would remain with us. and cordial When THE JAPANESE MISSION. While there have been no official disclosures of the results of the conferences with the Imperial Japanese War Mission, headed by Count Ishii, it is clear from the statements of the Count and of Secretary Lansing that the main object of the mission-the removal of misunderstandings the establishment of more Secretary Bryan was at the head of relations-has been secured. the State Department the issues between the United States and Japan were badly bungled. The situation frankly stated, by the fact that for was aggravated, as Count Ishii has more than and antagonism between ten years Germany has been busy sowing seeds of distrust the countries, in the hope two of bringing them into open war. culminated in Count Zimmermann's These efforts ill-starred attempt to array Japan and All that is of the past, and Japan and Mexico against the United States. the United States are allies, with common ends to serve. now cordial SOLDIERS' INSURANCE. The proposed soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill is still the subject of conferences in Congress, but is likely to reach the enactment stage before long. It would have been upon the statute books before now, had it not been for the opposition of the insurance interests. The latest section agreed upon at a conference of war department officials and insurance company representatives provides a government guarantee against lapses or forfeiture of insurance Under this plan, policies. the government would deposit bonds as security for defaulted premiums, holding as its own security a first lien on the value of the policy. This would involve no ultimate loss the while it would obviate losses to the government, representatives of the insured. proposed substitute would give memA bers of the military forces free government insurance of $2,000 OCservice, with insurance during $10,000 limit provided in the bill for to the men disabled or otherwise uninsurable at the end of the war. THE I. W. W. CONSPIRACY. to up |