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...report came out of Washington that, at President Coolidge's orders, the Republicans are going to limit their campaign expense to 2½ or 3 million dollars. This is less than half the amount which the Republicans spent in 1920, and offers the Democrats an opportunity of coming nearer parity with their opponents in the matter of campaign funds than they have been in many years...
...contended by some that the veneration of saints is a noble and excellent means for bringing the Christian nearer to that communion of saints towards which Christendom presses. By others, beatification is denounced as a "survival of the pagan apotheosis of the departed" and as heretical, since there is only One who is holy, even God. Here tradition and temperament divide...
...gain." Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University: "The World War destroyed the huge Russian, German and Austrian autocracies, revived several freer nations which those autocracies had crushed or cut into pieces, strengthened the three great Powers in which democratic principles have made good progress, and brought them nearer to effective union for promoting Liberty, Justice and Peace throughout the world." Gen. John J. Pershing, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the A. E. F.: "While we are probably too close to the events of the World War definitely to judge of its general benefits to mankind, yet the victory...
Nevertheless, the present high prices are a huge incentive in the attempt to overcome these difficulties of producing cotton abroad. Unless the American planter can overcome the ravages of the boll weevil, increase production and thus lower prices to something nearer a normal level, he will in a few years begin to encounter stiffer foreign competition than ever before in cotton production...
...still another way this annual 1923 report of the B. & O. is interesting. Total assets of the company as of Dec. 31, 1923, were $900,191,932. While the B. & O. is not as yet a "billion dollar concern," it is nearer that mark than is commonly realized...