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...opening the series of addresses arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken...
...nucleus invited the butcher, baker, the candlestick-maker to be "citizen aids" on a general committee whose object would be the raising of $250,000 for the expense of the convention...
Lion tamers and sword swallowers ply unique and dangerous trades. The movies have discovered the human fly setting bricks at the top of a chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
...Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...
...strictly the same as in the outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine...