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Stocks. Statistician Roger Babson, pious and efficient moderator of the Con-gregational-Christian Church, declared that church boards now might well put their money in stocks rather than bonds. And in view of frequent churchly criticisms of Business, the Federal Council should appoint a committee to tell the churches what companies are "run according to Jesus Christ." Moderator Babson diagnosed Protestantism's basic trouble as its declining birth rate, thus perplexing listeners who recalled that a year and a half ago he was for birth control as a cure for poverty...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
...William Randolph Hearst, still championing a marriage of King Edward & Mrs. Simpson, had his London correspondents stop 100 people last week and ask them whether they were pro or con-a laborious process since it involved explaining about the King & Mrs. Simpson to British subjects, most of whom have never heard of her. Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King...
Many a lesser expert shouted his pro or con. But Dr. Freeman withstood all heckling, asserted: Our patients were treated by seasoned psychiatrists. Then they came to us. The results are permanent, appropriately, and not temporary. . . . We have not removed the idea by this operation. The idea is still there, but it has no emotional drive. . . . I think we have drawn the string, as it were, of the psychosis or neurosis...
...course the Professor may have been referring to the depressing stabs Americans make at actual gayety--that is, when they are working so hard to have a good time. Americans at play are generally a gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled...