Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What does this mean? It means the smallest wheat crop in eight years. It means a wheat crop so small that it should just about equal our wheat consumption-perhaps fall slightly below it, leaving no surplus for export. It means that, even if wheat prices are low abroad, they will be high here. It means that farmers will get good prices for their wheat-even if they have not a great deal to sell...
Germany, last February, offered to enter into an equal engagement with Britain, France and Belgium to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression. This meant two things: 1) That Germany was prepared voluntarily to do what the Allies had been unable to force her to do-renounce all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, accept the present frontier; 2) that Germany, as a disarmed nation, was more in need of security than France, a heavily armed nation. Unfortunately, the offer was complicated by a categoric assertion that the proposed treaty in no way bound Germany to accept the Eastern frontiers between Poland...
THUNDERSTORM-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Mistress of many moods, the author of Debatable Ground and The Matriarch (Mrs. Geoffrey Holdsworth of England) well merits the distinction of her pseudonymous initials (G. B. S.) Few writers of equal taste can so deftly thread the fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze...
Smith College (for women, at Northampton, Mass.) prolonged her commencement exercises into ceremonies observing the college's 50th anniversary. Said President William Allen Neilson: "I look forward to the time when some enlightened man will leave his money to a college which will offer young men opportunities equal to those offered in the best colleges for young women." A series of lantern slides entitled The Circling Years, accompanied by rhymed comment, showed the "meteoric" growth of Smith from 14 to 2,000 students, showed the evolution of female habiliments from trailing black cambric skirts to bloomers, showed...
Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...