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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Interstate Commerce Commission acted last week like ten schoolboys appointed to settled a schoolyard dispute. They made their decision, but like schoolboys, they knew that their teachers (in this instance the nine justices of the U. S. Supreme Court) would be the final arbiters. The dispute was over the valuation of U. S. railroads. It had been stewing a long time-since 1914 when the Esch-Cummins Act went into effect. By this Act Congress ordered the I. C. C. to reckon up the values of each of the U. S. railroads according to some fair formula...
Since governments act very often on the basis of documents, notes, telegrams, cabled messages and written memoranda, why do not unscrupulous propagandists introduce forged documents before the eyes, of statesmen whose minds they seek to influence? They do. Such forgery is constantly practiced, and as constantly guarded against by all responsible governments. Last week the New York World announced that one of its correspondents had become aware in Washington of an adept propaganda forger who made the following proposition...
...immoral?" but "Is it impolitie?" ask French police of themselves when called upon to act as censors. "It is impolitie," decided the Parisian police last week, when a War film appeared with Germans called "Boches" in several subtitles. "Henceforth," announced the Prefect of Police, "the term 'Boche' will not be tolerated in any stage or screen production shown in Paris, since the expression is one militating against international concord...
...cumulative and persistent is the undeviating policy of the Popes in orderly succession that the Holy See is seldom forced to act in the brusque and hasty manner of statesmen who feel they have but one life to live and that one short...
Very real and moving is "An Idyll of the Shops" by Ben Hooht and Kenneth Sawyer Good win, It would be difficult to find a better one act play of its kind a better picture of the grim conditions of modern industry frustrating human life at every turn, of health happiness and love succumbing to start necessity. Fom first to last the play is naturally and convincingly acted. The lovers by Miss Dorothy Waterman and Mr. Robert Cushing the workman who was once so gay and now returns to beg for his old job, still trying pathetically to keep...