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Commissioner MacCormick could not change Welfare Island overnight from a crowded, filthy firetrap to a model institution, but he could and did put Cleary, Rao & Co. in solitary confinement to await possible dope-peddling trials. The Commissioner sent narcotic addicts and diseased prisoners to the hospital, while young prisoners were segregated. He took from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden...
...Last year it was decided to await the decision of the new president. This winter President Conant gave his approval to the split without commenting on the change. It is generally understood, however, that it was not part of his new plan. This is proved by the fact that he gave his support to the merger of Physiology, Zoology, and Botany at the same time...
General labor gains in recent elections and the fact that most of the Liberal M. P.'s have now joined His Majesty's loyal opposition force upon the Cabinet a change in policy if it is not idly to await its early death. That this policy may well take the form of cartellization of British industry on the grand scale is indicated by the remark made in the Commons by Major Elliot, Minister of Agriculture: "We (the National Government) shall be forced to come to the House of Commons to ask for sanction for wide-sweeping changes in the economic...
...preceding theories have not too greatly taxed the reader's credulity, still greater trials await him. The biblical account of the construction of the tower of Babel is used as a possible example of the cooperation of men in a primitive state before any enslavement. The fact that all worked at the tower shows an absence of any class distinctions and the confusion of tongues is to be interpreted as an indication of the strife which resulted from the introduction of class distinctions...
That this is no ideal solution for the problem is certainly apparent, and it is only recommended on grounds of expediency. The answer to the question must await a happier, more prosperous day. Until then as much revenue as possible should be derived from the Stadium, and in order to accomplish this the H.A.A. should try a price reorganization as soon as possible...