Items of Interest November 22, 1913 Issue

Items of Interest

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has decided to undertake an investigation into the conditions under which instruction in the law is conducted in the United States. The request that this investigation be made was brought to the attention of the Carnegie Foundation by the committee on legal education and bar admissions of the America Bar Association. The work will be commenced at once and will be as thoroughly conducted as the investigation made by the Foundation into the conditions under which medical instruction is given.

The arbitration board chosen to settle the differences between the eastern railroads and their conductors and trainmen filed its award last week in the United States district court. Wages were increased, approximately, 7 per cent, as against about 21 per cent asked by the men. The pay-rolls of the fifty-one roads concerned will be increased about six million dollars, as against eighteen million dollars which the granting of their entire demands would have cost. The new scale is to take effect from Oct. 1, 1913.

Any stockholder, even though he owns only one share of stock, may have access to the books of a corporation and make a copy of the list of stockholders, according to Associate Justice Haley of the supreme court of the state of Maine. Judge Haley ruled that it is justly a part of a stockholder's interests to know who the other stockholders are. Exceptions will be taken, and the case will go to the full bench of the state supreme court.

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