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...nearly 100 years ago by Georg Büchner, a German poet-scientist who had ideas far ahead of his time. Büchner died at 23 in Zurich where he earned a doctorate with a treatise on the nervous system of fish. He left three plays: Leonce and Lena, written while authorities were hunting him for his revolutionary sympathies; Danton's Tod, given in the U. S. a few seasons ago by Max Reinhardt's troupe; Wozzeck, found in fragmentary form years after his death...
...Pitiful, pitiful," groaned his Honor, Justice Norman S. Dike of the New York Supreme Court. Peering over his glasses he surveyed Lena Burlatt, a girl of 17 who had just come out of New York's repository for wayward females, Bedford Reformatory. He learned that Lena's mother had taken her to court one day 18 months ago, on her 16th birthday. Lena's mother had told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime...
Justice Dike told Lena Burlatt that in Bedford Reformatory, well-run though it is, "there are some vicious women, some frightfully vicious women." He advised her to forget anything she had learned there. . . . Then he sent her home with the mother who had committed her at 16 for "staying out late...
...sleeping dog was somewhat rudely roused last Saturday night, January 24, at the Massachusetts Business and Professional Women's dinner in the Hotel Bellevue, when Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, notable militant and feminist, touched on the subject of the late-lamented scrubwomen. She suggested that the $25,000 which was left the University by the late A. E. Pillsbury to combat feminism, should be devoted in part to returning the scrubwomen to their homes, in accordance with Mr. Pillsbury's wish that "college authorities create and develop sound public opinion against impairment of the family by taking women...
Russia's Gold. Irrespective of Lena's troubles, the paramount gold fact about Russia is that she ranks after South Africa, the U. S. and Canada as the world's fourth largest producer. Even in her year of reddest revolution (1918) she produced $12,000,000 in gold, and last year she reached an output of $24,000,000, nearly up to pre-War volume. Under Tsar Nicholas II the gold reserve of the Imperial Russian Bank was maintained at $800,000,000-twice that of the Bank of England. Today the gold reserve of the Soviet...