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Young Senator LaFollette is no less an insurgent than his father. From babyhood upward he stood at his father's side and learned the catechism of insurgency. Last year the late Senator LaFolette was read out of the Republican caucus and denied appointment to committees as a Republican. No such course was taken last week when the Republican caucus met. The young Senator was invited to be present. He did not attend, however. The reason for the change of front by the regulars was that they deem it wiser now to be conciliatory. Next year one-third...
Even juvenile imaginations must strain if they are to exaggerate the prowess of Grange. Only 23, legend has already begun to barnacle his babyhood. Tales are told of how, 14, he won a job with an ice-company by swinging a 100-pound block of ice to his shoulders?of how, at 4, after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather...
...fact, there isn't any part of human notivity, from babyhood to the finish, which Dr. Cone's discovery, so simple that any of us might just as well have made it, doesn't give us the chance to greatly improve. And so all of us countless millions who time after time tumble over the discovery without stumbling on it would like to know just how he happened to see if and pick it up. And, if anyone is offering odds, wouldn't you like to wager a little that it all sprang out of a cookie jar incident...
...Journalism is in its babyhood. It needs new men, new energy, enthusiasm and earnest conviction above all. I saw in one young group of Columbia law students three or four men at least out of a dozen that would make useful newspaper workers. I believe that in devoting their lives to the fights of the people through journalism, these young students could find greater happiness than in selling their energies to corporation fights in the court-room...