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When Congress convenes tomorrow morning, it will undoubtedly be greeted with a long and portentous bill dealing with the banking situation. What that bill will contain, is, of course, only a matter of conjecture, even for the experts who so thickly infest Washington. But there are scores of economists all over the country who are praying that it will endorse a program of careful inflation. To many of them such a plan a mouth ago seemed dangerous and unnecessary. But now it appears that almost any sort of inflation would be preferable to drifting, while a moderate monetary expansion would...
...punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp eye for dramatic touches. Good shot: the hand of a corpse hanging out of a berth, swinging...
...stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every conceivable subject. This innovation has had two evil effects: it has raised the cost of an education, and it has led the present generations...
Three weeks ago Ratkiller Nicholes was called to Chicago by some companies in the rat-infested stockyards and by the Walgreen drug stores and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. He arrived in the automobile in which he pursues rats throughout the U. S., bringing with him two large suitcases and his young wife. Ratkiller Nicholes went to work. Wherever rats were plentiful he distributed pieces of bread, hamburger steak and apples, in each piece of food a drop of his chemical (barium carbonate with a slight touch of barium sulphide). Because the Nicholes poison is comparatively slow acting the rats...
Each year Reporter Miller accompanies an expedition to the Mexican island Guadalupe to collect elephant seals for the zoo. This capture, though it sounds adventurous, does not excite him much. More exciting are the thousands of wild goats which infest the island, and two men who live there the year round. They slaughter only the billy goats. The hides go to the U. S., the meat to the Mexican Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin...