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WHoS WHO INsAAiERIcA. Edited
Nelson Marquis. a. n. Mar
S&sauisa 6 Co.. 4t0 S. Dearborn Street
sChicago.
5Ss s WHO'S Who In America" for 1920
n F& has Just come from the press, a
letter volume, IL possible, than any
ssoh It's predecessors. This is the
ISeleyenth biennial Issue OF publica-
sssa lAon which long since became the
standard bioEraphicaf re-
ssAAsLercnce book OF the country book
ina, Is as Indispensable to the up
sfto-date man or woman as tho tcle-
'S phone or the dictionary of the English
Language.
y contains sso4 pages. presenting,
present them, nearly $4,000 crisp. per
& sonal Sketches, and $500 OF these
sSs sRetches are entirely new, having
4 nppeared In no previous edition. AS
usual, the latest address is appended
ssESo each sketch. and the index by
state and post-office address is re-
ssa5nco as necessary corollary to a
volume that has become welcome
s. biennial visitor to all weii-equippcd
s@ homes of the country.
Turn to the index and see how
State. Become familiar with the life
records OF the people who are doing
II things. 1t will be an Inspiration to
you. 1t Will help YOU to know the
about in the newspapers and mag
n azincs. 1t will help YOU to know and
2 understand them as school children
are coming to understand them by
4 the constantly growing use of who's
ifsVho in America" in the schoolroom
BANkRuPTING a GREAT CITY.
by Henry II. Klein. deputy commits
nailainE. New York City. 'u"'
The purpose of this book, which is
tho people in all large cities to the
danger which confronts them in
II municipal government II points out
nat unless the cities acquire addi-
tionai revenues or curtail the cost of
government. bankruptcy is certain.
Taxes will become uncollcctible. The
!. author takes the position that the
& cities must own their own public utili-
ties or derive most of the profits
therefrom, TO provide for public need
Up to the present time, II is con-
tended Tended, the bulk OF profits of public
X cre1se the already swollcS fortunes
OF only n few men and families.
me cities can acquire most of the
income from these properties without
cost and in simple manner II the
nation limits private fortunes TO n
reasonable sum. say s1o.Ooo,oot tho
author suggests. then all wealth in
excess of that sum goes back to the
z nation. The nation thus becomes the
/ Dossessor of securities In all large
\ corporations and OF national, state
Cancelled to relieve the burden of pub
lie debt. The bulk OF profits on pub
lie utilities would go 10 the cities and
=. States in which they are located
come from national railroad and in
dustrial corporations. Nation, States
& and cities would be provided with new
revenues and taxation might in time
n t,-in 1,,1 n
be lowered and the menace of large
I private fortunes removed. That. in
e brief. is the argument contained in
the book. 1
SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE
S COMPETENCE; BY c. II. Haskins
and r. II. Lord. Harvard University
\ Press. Cambridge, Mass.
In this volume Professors Haskins
( and Lord, two OF tho experts who ac-
+ companicd President Wilson to Paris,
; territorial settlements of the treaties,
including the relations to such qucs-
lions as the league OF nations. Pro-
\ lessor Haskins was attached to the
s was the American member or the
special committee OF three which
drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-
lessor Lord served as the America
adviser on Poland and related prob
lens both at Paris and in Poland it
One OF the salient features OF the
work is that II Is the first account of
( the tasks methods and results of the
conference from the pen of any Amer
can delegate. Its information is
therefore unique: is really inside"
history by two of the small number.
outside the Council of Four, who were
inside" most of the time
y gain,dts main attention Ia devoted
Il TO questions of territorial adjustment,
which is regarded as perhaps the
& most spSsSSYaacN-Epak of the confer
gus HARVEY THE Roy SKIPPER
y OF CAPE ANN. By Captain Charl-
i ton l.; sm.h. -Alsrshan Jones Co,
3 Every boy who loves the ocean will
= want TO know sturdy Gus Harvey
An orphcn at !lfteen, he was adopted
by the big-heartcd captain of Glou-
< cester fishing vessel and take from
I New York 10 Capes.Ann. /. ON their
way they made q 'xccord haul" of
mackerel and then had,an exciting
e race to market with rival schooner
S He made friends with an old ship
4 builder who taught him how to build
\ boats and how to sail them. He won
thrilling yacht races, he camped. he
salvaged a wreck and-well! IT'S a
good story for red FLOODED boys of all
Z ages.
A glossary explains sea terms and
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