Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing to do" will be supplementary education as a garage mechanic in Kansas. At any rate, what intensive education lacks and what ostensive has, is the ability to train a man's capacity for growth instead of his fitness for any one job. He may not a single specific item of his four year undergraduate course, but twenty years afterward he will have a background impossible of attainment in any other...
...aside to level the ap- portunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools. The latter distribution is to be made equally between the children and the teachers the state deciding upon the local distribution, though it is put under certain restrictions by the Federal Government. Another item suggests that $20,000,000 be appropriated for physical education, and instruction in the principles of health and sanitation. The bill was reported favorably by a committee in the 66th Congress, but it was not acted upon. It is again in committee and will probably be put on the floor in the near future...
...been made up in various 'invisible" ways. Among these are the permanent drain of money (purchasing power) in the form of remittances of immigrants to the "old folks at home", and the sums spent by American tourists for "services" (eg. transportation, hotels, etc.). But by far the largest item is that for "services" in carrying our goods abroad in foreign bottoms, for which we pay with good exported...
Since this is the case, an actual reduction of operating costs is the only practicable solution. At present the greatest single item of expense is the insurance. If some scheme were devised whereby the government could provide insurance at a low rate, as was done for the army during the war, American ships would be enabled to operate on a more nearly equal footing with those of other nations, and would be prepared to take better advantage of any revival of foreign trade which occurs when the world is once more on a sound economic basis...
...recent article in the New York Tribune discusses the matter very clearly. Take, for instance, the news item of the arrival of two Russian couples, each with a baby less than a year old. The babies had both been born in Constantinople, while the families were en route to America. The Russian quota was not complete, the Turkish was; hence the parents were eligible to enter, but the babies would have to be deported. As the case of the seventy-one year old peasant who was sent back to Europe, although his son and daughter, amply able to care...