19 OCTOBER 1929, page 13

A Number Of Recent Studies Indicate That The Widespread Use

of machinery is making it more difficult for older men to secure employment in the United States. While the life span has risen from about forty years in 1850 to fifty-six in......

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THE TARIFF DEBATES. The Senate tariff debates continue to range far and wide, recent general topics of discussion being the proposal for granting independence to the Philippines......

Liw Enforcement.

President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, which convenes this week, is prepared to settle down in earnest to the immense task with which it was entrusted a little over four......

* * * * Illinois Deals With Advertisements.

The State authorities of Illinois have decided to try a novel method of dealing with the unsightly billboards which deface the countryside. The intention is to plant trees......

* * * * Professor Dewey's Seventieth Birthday.

On Sunday Professor John Dewey, the philosopher, will be seventy years old and the occasion is to have a fitting cele- bration. Scholars of national and international repute,......

A Revised Prayer Book.

Many changes are embodied in the revision of the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church now in the hands of the printers. The revisions, which are the fruits......

American Notes Of The Week

(B) Cable) AIR. MACDONALD'S VISIT. As the spokesmen, in the Press and elsewhere, for the diverse elements constituting American public opinion settle down to analyze the effects......