Review of reviews and world's work . General Chaffee has beendetailed as the executive head of the AqueductBureau. This selection has been most fortu-nate for the city, as General Chaffee is a man ofrecognized ability and is used to the handlingof great enterprises. No employee spendslonger hours at his desk than he. The guidinggenius of the work is William Mulholland, thechief engineer. He has been connected withthe Los Angeles water system for thirty years,starting with the corporation which first con-structed the water works and being retained incharge, when the city obtained possession in1
Review of reviews and world's work . General Chaffee has beendetailed as the executive head of the AqueductBureau. This selection has been most fortu-nate for the city, as General Chaffee is a man ofrecognized ability and is used to the handlingof great enterprises. No employee spendslonger hours at his desk than he. The guidinggenius of the work is William Mulholland, thechief engineer. He has been connected withthe Los Angeles water system for thirty years,starting with the corporation which first con-structed the water works and being retained incharge, when the city obtained possession in1902. This water system under municipalmanagement, in addition to delivering waterfor nine cents per gallons, yields a netannual profit of S6co,oco. It is this splendidrecord of the c ity water department, recognizedby the citizens of the town, that originally inSpired confidence and engendered continuedsupport for the greater undertaking of buildingthe longest aquedu< t in the world and a monu-ment to applied MAI I l\. I » K ll I ON< Kl II I I II I • THE CASE OF PALADINO BY JOSEPH IAS I ROW Iv t Psychology in the University f Wisconsin) I111 case of Paladino finds it- origin in*• interests a- old and as widespread as hu-manity; it- closest affiliation i- with the timeworn and crude practices and beliefs of primi-tive peoples. It- survival into these science-saturated days make- it notable; and the ven-ture to parade in academic dress and take aplace among the accredited representativelatter day research i- astounding, whether re-garded as shrewd bravadoor as a sincere prop-agandum, and remain- so in whatever tem-per we review the successes and reverses of itscheckered career. The woman in the case at-tracts attention. Though in the main a willinginstrument of a movement that gets it-- head-way from motives and interests that far trans-cend her personality, she cannot he dismisseda- a lav figure upon which the products of aneager imagination
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