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...best foreign customer ot U. S. radio-makers, however, is Canada, which imported $2,413,687 worth of U. S. radio equipment last year...
...school system is an labor-factory", says Dr. Kallen in the current "New Republic". After much erudite writing on the origins of schools, he concludes that the present school system, colleges included, exists solely ot perpetuate the status quo in economics and religion, and to make docile workers out of the children of workers...
...significance of this Treaty is that it hampers the much-mooted coalition ot German coke and Lorraine ore, as under the most favored nation clause whatever privileges Germany may extend to France she will automatically extend to the United Kingdom. It also means an end of discrimination against the Germans in Britain, for they will, under the Treaty, be allowed to deal in non-ferrous metals, to reopen banks, to serve in the merchant marine on the same terms as other aliens. Moreover, fishing rights have been made reciprocal. Apart from its significance, the raison d'etre...
...method of collecting the juice from the poppy is laborious. After the leaves of the flower have fallen and the capsules have assumed a whitish color, they are punctured in the evening with a small three-pronged instrument. The following morning, the juice, having exuded and thickened by exposure ot the air, is scraped off by a small iron instrument previously dipped in oil. It is then worked in a heated pot until it is thick and can be formed into cakes about four pounds in weight. The cakes are than packed in leaves to prevent them sticking together...
Archbishop Begin, a venerable figure of 74, is one of the senior members ot the College of Cardinals. He recently made a grave pronouncement against the frivolous fashions of women...