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...could not be ascertained last week) affects one-fifth of the population of the earth, but an actual electorate of only 36,000,000. It will not apply to the Indian native states, but to the nine provinces of British India. The worst knots in the problem of communal representation were untangled as follows...
...source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over the large areas which communal dwellings require...
...sorely felt. He was an optimist, filled with a tremendous and awful faith in the possibilities of man. Yet the flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas...
...greatest problem in putting through what is virtually communal health insurance is to keep politicians from chiseling their commissions out of the expenditures...
...months ago (TIME, Dec. 14), urged its attendants to get busy and encourage the building of houses. Now pending before Congress is a bill to create a Federal Home Loan Discount system to safeguard mortgages and open up fresh credit for private building (TIME, Nov. 23). A variety of communal plans have been offered in an effort to get the building business again above ground. None seemed more encouraging, more logical to contractors than a proposal prepared by the Building Trades Employers' Association in New York City last week...