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...course it would be rash to say that prohibition will never be enforced. Perhaps if children, as President Coolidge suggests, are educated with the camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...even in his understanding the President displays a strange lack of understanding. Foreign consumers are not changing off because of heavy costs of transportation. The camel's back has already been broken without the addition of this feather. They are simply too poor to buy heat here at any price and will continue so until their exports swing exchanges back to a less prohibitive figure. Needless to say foreign countries are suffering under this enforced famine, but the United States is suffering too. It can hardly look for real prosperity as long as foreign markets are out of joint...
...unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...
...That General Wood as a martinet put the last straw on the camel's back...
...possibilities in Russia, has sat patiently under repeated injuries, only sending occasional notes of dignified rebuke. A British civil engineer was executed in 1920, British fishermen have been molested and injured in the Baltic, British prestige has been undermined abroad by propaganda. But the straw which has broken the camel's back is the insolence with which British protests over the Church trials and executions have been received, an insolence "unexampled in the case of Governments affecting to be on friendly terms...