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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



MISTAKES OF LEGISLATORS. 



By way of encouraging large families 

 legislators have not hit on very happy 

 methods. Under the labour accident 

 law it has been stipulated that in the 

 event of the death of a workman due 

 to an accident at his work the employer 

 should pay some allowance for the 

 workman's children till they attained 

 their majority. Naturally, the employer 

 then prefers to employ unmarried men. 

 The State does nothing in favour of 

 large families. All it does is to make 

 them pay more taxes. The writer has 

 three children, and in consequence has 

 been obliged to move into a larger 

 appartement and pay proportionately 

 more in taxation. In addition, the State 



compels him to pay more for his license, 

 a thing which should have nothing to 

 do with the number of his children. 

 Having now to pay for more food, 

 dress, etc., the State also gets more out 

 of him in the form of indirect taxation. 

 In having children, he considers he ren- 

 ders a service to the State and some ac- 

 count should be taken of it. Professor 

 Lannelongue has proposed a series of 

 remedies for depopulation. It is sug- 

 gested, for instance, that the fathers of 

 large families should enjoy special ad- 

 vantages in the form of higher salaries 

 and promotion. But such a remedy only 

 applies to officials. On this basis, the 

 Presidency of the Republic ought to be 

 offered to the man with the largest 

 family. 



SEEKING THE MOTOR LIFE. 



Scribner s Magazine contains a very 

 enthusiastic budget of papers under the 

 mclusive heading, " The Day of the 

 Motor " — and the night as well, for that 

 matter, as the non-motorist is ready to 

 admit. Mr. Herbert Ladd Towle, con- 

 tributing a veritable Te Deuvi, " The 

 Automobile and Its Mission," indicates 

 that plus the motor a new vista of life 

 opens out for the citizen, for the trader, 

 for the nation, for the world ! — 



Perchance you have no car — as yet. But 

 you have friends living five miles away by 

 road. To visit them by rail you must go 

 half a mile to the station, ride ten miles 

 to a junction, wait an hour, and travel a 

 dozen miles more to a station half a mile 

 from their home. How often do you see your 

 friends? 



Or you are a nature-lover and a busy 

 man. The city stifles you and the daily 

 ordeal of strap-hanging is a horror. Yet 

 your wife declares that she will be ''buried 

 alive" if she goes where houses are more 

 than a hundred feet apart. She has a right 

 to her view, too. How shall yours and hers 

 be reconciled? 



Or you have children. Shall they be re- 

 duced to "tag" on the streets and in a 

 bric-a-brac-filled apartment, or shall they 

 have green grass, a sand-pile, trees, and a 

 swing? Or perhaps you are a farmer, seek- 

 ing means to relieve the monotony of farm 

 life and hold your sons from the dangerous 

 lure of the city. 



For hundreds of thousands of families the 

 automobile is at last supplying the happiest 

 of answers. 



For a dollar a day and a little spare time 

 anyone who will may now keep a small Imt 

 serviceable car and use it daily and for 

 week-ends. 



;^4O,O00,0O0 WORTH OF CARS. 



Mr. Towle draws an arresting sketch 

 of the industry, invention, energy and 

 enterprise which the motor-car has 

 called into being: — 



In t<'n years Detroit's population has 

 grown from 300,000 to nearly half a million. 

 Jt has twenty-seven automobile factories, 

 the value of whose output last year exceeded 

 £40,0rX),(K»0. Still others manufacture parts, 

 axles, radiators, engines, bodies — some used 

 in Detroit, some elsewhere. North of the 

 business section are miles of cottages, the 

 last word in mmlernity, each surrounded by 

 lawn and shrubbery, and having — perha]>8 

 one in five — a neat garage in the rear. 

 Shade trees line the streets- at frequent 

 corners stand white sanitary drinking foun- 

 tains, and everywhere are automobiles ! 

 Hardly one vehicle in twenty is horse-drawn. 

 Naturally the streets of Detroit are clean. 



And the motor factorief; ! To north, east 

 and west they radiate, nearly all new. impos- 

 ing structures, all steel and' glass, with just 

 enough brick or concrete to give a semblance 

 of walls, themselves the last word of modern 

 factory engineering. No diiiizy loop-hf>los for 

 windows, no haphazard ventilation here I 

 The mark of the efficiency expert is seen 

 even in the buildings, and we ehall find it 

 everywhere in the work it«elf. 



THE HOME OF THE CHEAP CAR. 



The description of the up-to-date 

 methods is a revelation. One plant 



