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 Index to Periodicals of a secure legal basis for such an adjustment of passenger tariffs as will continue and fortify the various forms of ‘special’ fares as vital factors in industrial and commercial life and growth." "Charter Contracts and the Regulation of Rates." By Charles G. Fenwick. 9 Michigan Law Rarie-w 225 (_Ian.). "1. It is within the power of the legislature, provided there be no restriction in the state constitution, to make binding contracts with public service corporations, by which it can renounce its general power of regulating the rates for their services. This power of making bind ing contracts the legislature may delegate to

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stitutionality of Fcderal Corporation Tax Law." By Israel Freeman. 72 Central Law Journal 59 (Jan. 27). “A conclusion may be reached that the present Cor ration Tax Law, which requires every pro t-making corporation to pay a special excise tax, with respect to the carrying on or doing business by such corporation equivalent to one per centum upon the entire net income, etc., may be taken for what it says, and not a direct tax subject to apportionment." Wage Assignment. "The Validity of Laws Regulating Wage Assignment." By Guy M. Blake. 5 Illinois Law Review 343 (Jan.).

municipalities, whose ordinances therefore are

only binding within the limits of the authority conferred. "2. Such contracts of a legislature or muni cipality with public service corporations are construed strictly against the corporation in favor of the state or municipality. But as between the state and a municipality exercising delegated power, the existence of the delegated power is construed against the municipality. "3. The right of ultimate decision as to the reasonableness of rates, whether by the legisla ture or by the company, resides in the courts. "4. The reservation, either in the charter or in the constitution of a state or in a general law, to which the charter does not form a clear exception, of the power of alteration and repeal gives to the state the right to reject any agree ments it may make concerning the rates to be charged." "A Discussion of the Rate Question." New York Time: Annual Financial Review, Jan. 8. Contains the following articles: “Why the Railroads want Increased Rates," by Walker D. Hines, General Counsel of the Atchison; "Rail

road Capital and Real Value," by Darius Miller, President of the Burlington 8: Quincy; "The Relation Between Capitalization and Rates," by W. H. Williams, Vice-President Delaware & Hudson; "The Shippers’ Point of View," by E. G. McVann, Commercial Club of Omaha; "This Demand Only a Beginning," by David O.

In Massie v. Cessna, 239 Ill. 352, the court held unconstitutional, as interfering with free

dom of contract, a statute designed to surround the process of attachment of wages with certain

safeguards in the interest of the wage-earner. The author thinks that this decision leaves the borrower at the mercy of the money-lender and that it stands "without a parallel or precedent in any other state." Witnesses. "Psychology for the Witness Stand." By Dorr Kuizema. 72 Central Law Journal 41 (Jan. 20).

The writer discusses from a purely psycho logical standpoint the laws of suggestion and association, our knowledge of which may be practically applied in the examination of wit nesses. Women. “Women and Wealth." By Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin. Scribner’r, v. 49, p. 199 (Feb.). This writer considers that there has been a radical change in the character of the American woman which has resulted from altered economic conditions. The multiplication of riches has created a large class of idle, unintelligent women

who are hungry for social position, and even the less well-to-do have been contaminated by the contagion of false standards of conduct, so that

the American woman of today is strongly at

Ives, Chairman Seaboard Shippers; "Saving by

tracted into living an idle, selﬁsh, inane life,

Scientiﬁc Management,"by Harrington Emerson. See Federal Incorporation, Interstate Com merce, Public Service Corporations, Railways. Real Property. See Federal and State Powers. Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court Jus tices." By Elbert F. Baldwin. Outlook, v. 97, p. 156 (Jan. 28). The most readable, personal and vivid sketch of the interesting men who compose our highest court which we have yet seen. See International Arbitration. Survival of Actions. "Construction of ‘Sur vival Act' and ‘Death Act’ in Michigan." By T. A. Bogle. 9 Michigan Law Review 205 (Jan). Discussing a question solely of Michigan law. Taxation (Federal Corporation Tax). “Con

which unfits her for the duties of a helpmeet and

mother.

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Professor Laughlin has endeavored to offer an unprejudiced, sincere estimate of the American woman, but we fear that he has pressed his generalization too far. Undoubtedly economic conditions have altered the ideals and habits of women, but we cannot accept his conclusion that feminine extravagance and selﬁshness are already menacing the soundness of our American civili ration. The fact that wealth tends, in the long run. to beget a special sense of public duty cannot be ignored. Moreover, simply because women are not equal to men in economic capa city, it does not follow that their function is

wholly unproductive and that they are de barred from that co-operation with their hus bands which we constantly see them exercising in all walks of life. Ethical standards, more over, undergo continuous re-adjustment to economic conditions, and through them the race