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...stern, scarlet Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
...Sirs: Suppose a few of the 400,000 do wish you to be more orthodox - orthodox-i.e, colorless - in your write ups. Don't do it. In the case of the President-elect your out spoken frankness is less pointed than the prevailing skeleton-in -the -cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing of humans and happenings. Carry on, TIME. A. S. MACGREGOR East Aurora, X. Y. No clear majority of readers "commands otherwise." Scores of letters through last week...
...Mother Methodist Episcopal Church went to her cupboard last week to pay her bishops, retired bishops and widows their salaries and pensions. The cupboard was considerably depleted-by 43%. The Church used to borrow money, when necessary, to pay its widows ($1,500 annually), retired bishops ($2,500) and active bishops ($6,000 plus allowance for secretaries and rent). Under a "pay-as-you-go" plan adopted at the General Conference last May, remittances now depend upon the amount of money in the treasury. The treasury is not likely to be chockfull, unless Methodist laymen fill it, before local conferences...
...duty of the soldier to risk everything in the service of his country. It is the misfortune of a soldier that his duty is the destruction of the property and lives of world neighbors. It is the pity of Peace that War stories must be trodded out of the cupboard to disturb the nerves of the world which need the tonic of good faith. Papen was a splendid soldier and is proving himself a good Chancellor, the Chancellor we want. He satisfies...
...economies devised by the Athletic Association to frighten the wolf away, those which eliminate activities causing such superfluous expense as the baseball trip are most to be desired. True, expensive training trips by baseball and hockey squads during vacation periods have long been accepted drains on Princeton's athletic cupboard and only a few have lifted up their heads in complaint. But it seems that this year when utility becomes the true determining factor, the baseball trip is to be lopped off, as unnecessary, and we might add, extravagant and point-less...