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Enthusiastic boosters of Senator Royal S. Copeland have started what has been characterized--not as a "boom"--but a "bang" for his nomination for President with the popular slogan "Bonus, Beer or Bust." The Soldiers' and Sallors' Copeland Campaign Committee has worked this havoc, and has in addition got out a campaign song, to the inspiring tune of which, no doubt the Copelanders will advance to victory...
...Changing Journalism in The Atlantic Monthly for December. "The public," says Mr. Bliven in effect, "is always asking about newspaper morals. But equally important with newspaper morals is newspaper intelligence. And both of them are changing drastically, dangerously, because of mechanical progress." The telephone and the typewriter have played havoc with journalistic English. High speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure, the electric telegraphic typewriter have all added their quotas to the impersonality, haste and complexity of journalism. They have increased the size of papers, so that all the profit must be made-and often some...
...Though their exaltation of spirit be obscured, though men make light of the aspirations for making that shone upon their path, though profiteers grow rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth...
...this subject, which, considering the attitude of most Englishmen toward the Volstead Act, is unusual indeed. I asked him if his liking for prohibition was not because it made life so much more adventuresome; but he assured me that his feeling was based entirely upon observations of the havoc caused by the drinking of hard liquor in small towns of England and Scotland...
News from Worcester would seem to indicate that the Holy Cross eleven is confident to a man that the Purple machine will play havoc with the Crimson in the Stadium on Saturday. In fact, the University's showing against Middlebury has greatly increased the optimism in Coach Cleo O'Donnell's camp until now the feeling is that Saturday's game will more than avenge the stinging 20 to 0 defeat administered by Coach Fisher last year...