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...first time last week the public could view the manuscripts and cough its head off without danger of damage. To the Public Library under armed guard were moved 150 of the Morgan treasures to be placed in cloth-lined cases, each with a wet sponge in a little dish to keep the vellum leaves from cracking...
...capitalist solution has been advanced by Mr. H. L. Mencken; since the farmers are obviously not up to the serious business of feeding us cheaply, they should be made hired labourers, and the agricultural system owned and managed by competing corporations, much as in mining or the manufacture of cloth. In a time of depression, even such corporations as these would be hard hit, but they would be more in keeping with the outlines of our business structure and with its implications than the present indeterminate bathos, in which prices are set by the pragmatic conclave of an inefficient majority...
Scare-heads about the blood Japan has spilled in Manchuria have obscured her quiet, deadly cloth war with Britain, waged with the sharp price-cutting weapon of her depreciated yen. Japan took the yen off gold two years ago (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931), has thus been able to cut her cotton textile prices unbelievably low and to steal British markets throughout the East. Last week the yen was down to 36.7% of its par gold value, while Britain's pound, though also depreciated, stood at 65% of its gold parity...
...British, Indian and Japanese delegates to meet at Simla in September for a secretive Cotton Conference at which haggling continued last week. Japan, hampered but not hamstrung, has continued to dump. Last week, according to the figures in Minister Nakajima's hands, Japan had outstripped Britain in cotton cloth exports for the first time in history. In the first eight months of this year Japan exported 1,392,000,000 square yards. Britain 1,386,000,000. Since Britain has reigned for a century and more as the world's No. 1 cotton textile exporter, Japanese cotton...
...alone. Professor Smith dying in 1932. Last week The Short Bible was published as Book-of-the-Fall ($2) of the University of Chicago Press. Edited down to 545 pp. from the 2,000 pp. of a standard Bible, it is a book for reading, gaily bound in red cloth to emphasize its unchurchliness. Short Bibles, revised Bibles and vulgate Bibles are by no means new-the King James version (1611) was undoubtedly strikingly modern in its time...