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...workaday age of ours. The fact that laymen are perfectly willing to pay taxes for our public schools and then support at the same time parochial schools indicates how Catholic parents feel; they make sacrifices to maintain both. The public schools for those who want them; the parochial schools ditto. Plumber Sanders brazenly declares, "I am a member of the Catholic Church and in years gone by !" He's probably the kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door...
...Secretary of State: Calvin Coolidge (but he might like eventually to be Chief Justice, succeeding William Howard Taft); Charles Evans Hughes (but ditto and he needs to make money). Possibly to be: Dwight Whitney Morrow (although Mr. Hoover seemed to have difficulty in coming to this conclusion...
...Casino Syndicate is corruptly concealing profits and nefariously neglecting public works which it has contracted to perform. Item: the electric plant frequently breaks down. Item: so do the waterworks. Item: ditto the telephones...
HELEW KANE'S DITTO...
...arrived in Venice to find the streets flooded. It was all wet all right. The Swiss? They wear velvet B. V. Ds. Not only the mountains are high in that country, the hotel rates ditto. No wonder people won't fight those guys, they're gallant chargers...