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...political campaign and politicians work, but also the chance to join in the fight through organizing rallies and doing field work. A volunteer may find that here as well as in a political club, he can waste time, but at least he will learn something about the inefficiency and graft which deliver mortal blows at utopian schemes...
...Japanese Army made odd alliance three years ago with Japan's Depression-ridden farmers, whose sons happen to fill the Army ranks. Farmers and officers, both poor and oldfashioned, unite in hating all that Westernization has brought Japan except the guns. They hate democracy, free capitalism, politics, graft, social unrest. Without claiming to know much about economics, they feel that Japan could have both low taxes for farmers and a huge defense budget. Let the Emperor bleed the capitalists! Last week with conspiratorial secrecy, the officers rushed through the Government presses 160,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled...
...Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria. There was the usual graft and corruption, but he managed to place his good friend Lee Maurice Russell in the Governor's chair when he retired after his four-year term...
...Several months ago graft charges were preferred in a local court against the "Red Prince," but he brazenly announced, "I am called away from Georgia on an imperative official mission." Before he was caught he had squandered 128,000 rubles on the grandest Bolshevik spree on record...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...