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...caused more than one explosion. Let us remember that to free press, democracy owes most of her important victories. Political advances and governmental achievements as well as the exposure of wrongdoing, are concomitants of newspaper activity. Journalism has its evils to be sure, but if in order to abolish those evils we must also dispense with the functions of political support and opposition, by all means let us keep the entire field...
...scholarships interviewed by competent men who would make full inquiry into the financial condition of applicants and then, after careful consideration and an accurate investigation of statements made by applicant, aid should be given according to financial need. If the above method should be found too costly. I should abolish all financial aid and use the money in raising the salary of professors and instructors: since, from personal experience. I know that the present system of awarding scholarships is to say the least, rank: aid being given men who should not even apply for it, while the deserving...
...bishop in his place. Instead they elected the Rev. Edwin F. Lee of Singapore, to be missionary bishop to the Malaya provinces, a position hitherto held by one of the regular bishops of the church. For the rest in the last week of their session, the Methodists refused to abolish life tenure of bishops;* went on record against military training for schoolboys; accepted the recommendations of the Committee on Episcopacy to the effect that there be 21 areas in the United States and 12 in foreign parts; considered a committee's report which suggested liberalizing in favor...
...German State Railways officially announced, last week, for submission to the Reichstag a project to abolish 1st & 4th class railway cars. The residual 2nd & 3rd class cars will be redesignated "soft" & "hard," if the Reichstag approves, thus abolishing class distinctions which are felt to be inappropriate in the democratic German Republic...
...chemical sel-skabs were well represented, as were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers...