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...axiom used to be that there were only three important textile fibres-wool, cotton and silk. Since the War, the new artificial fibre "rayon" has forged ahead so rapidly that it has already passed silk in point of production, and now looms as a dangerous competitor to wool and cotton. In 1924, world output of cotton was 9,000 million pounds; of wool, 2,600 million pounds; of rayon, between 100 and 125 million pounds. Rayon production for 1925 is estimated at 150 to 200 million pounds, with steady growth ahead...
...delegates to the International Planning Conference which met last week in New York refused to go into ecstasies over the greatest collection of tall buildings in the world. One of them Dr. Raymond Unwin of England, even dared to call it "congested impotence". With eyes unprejudiced by the American axiom that the biggest thing must necessarily be the best, these men looked into the future and recoiled at the thought of fifty-story apartment houses so thickly set that the people will have to take turns walking on the street. They believe the solution lies in "satellite" cities, garden suburbs...
...Goldsborough has re-discovered the axiom that college is intended as a house of culture. He attacks the spirit of competition and self-seeking which gains for a "Big Man" the privilege of membership in one of Yale's awesome fraternities and Senior societies...
...first important axiom in the education of a healthy child is that it shall be kept healthy; intensive education over long periods of time is too much for an average child's mind and eventually too much for its body. All of which the World endorses by renewing an old idea in the ''development of the work-play-study school," which seems the logical answer to the nation's educational problems. But if the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, the Marys, Janes and Joans ever catch their fathers and mothers agreeing to the monstrous proposal that summer...
...entirely condemn the decision of the Iroquois. There have been worse religions than the Iroquois axiom that all men have one body, one brain, one heart. Certain bold Aryan spirits, among them Rousseau, have had the temerity to hint forcibly that the white man's civilization has come far from converting the world into an earthly happy hunting ground. The Indians may go too far in their reaction, but some degree of reaction will be a blessing. Nothing is more disillusioning than to see the descendants of roving warriors, who dangled from their waists the dripping scalps of whole colonies...