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Notes of Periodicals That racial prejudice is most violent in those sections of the United States where illiteracy is greatest is the opinion of Prof. Du Bois of Atlantic University, writing in the Editorial Rwiew for May. He earnestly ar ues the revival and enactment of the Blair bi, favored by Dr. Felix Adler and others,

by which federal aid would be given to free common school education in all states where,

S. R. Guggenheim, Lorton Horton, John A. Green, James

. Hill, Louis F. Swift of Swift

& Company, rof. Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. A. Maurice Low writes in the National Review for May of the miscarriages in the administration of justice in the United States. "Perhaps one of the most ridiculous decisions

and so long as, illiteracy exceeds a certain

rendered," he says, "which is a direct invita

minimum percentage.

tion to dishonest men to be dishonest without risk of punishment, was that of a tribunal hitherto as highly respected as the Su reme Court of Massachusetts, 8. state whose ju iciary has always been held in hi h regard by the country.‘ He refers to t e decision that an automobile is not a "carria e," within the meanin of the statute provi ing owners of public ve icles with a remedy for the non ayment of fare (see 22 Green Bag 307). he defect thus revealed in the law has since

That employers would not have to pay so much to injured employees if the Wainwright workmen's compensation bill were passed by the New York legislature, as they are paying now in civil damages recovered in 't1 ation, was shown by a table prepared by C.. Chute, copied in the Survey of May 14. The aggregate payments in twenty-two cases amounted

to

$15,215,

of

which

law ers

obtained $7,965 in fees. Under the ain wright award the estimated amount due the same employees would be $12,362.68. The most interesting discussion, probably, that has yet appeared, of the cost of living was published in the form of a symposium in the June Cosmopolitan on “The Problem of Subsistence," to which the contributors were: Charles Edward Russell. Frank Greene, managing editor of Bradstreet‘s, S. F. Ta lor, Prof. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia, rof. J. Pease Norton of Yale, Secretary of Agri culture James Wilson,

ohn Mitchell, Nahum

J. Bachelder, Marcus ll. Marks, John Wana maker, Joseph French Johnson, John Spargo,

been cured by new legislation. Edward W. Harden, writing in the Outlook, says: "Leading economists are all but agreed that the world’s increasing production of gold is the rincipal cause of the increasing cost of all wing, of all industrial activity. However that may be, the railways alone of all the country's various forms of invested capital have been caught between the rigidity of the price at which they are compelled to dispose of their service and the uncontrollable cost of producing it." The writer gives a. table showing "how small a proportion of the individual’s living expenses is assessed by the railways. . . . The point is, simply,