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Today Michigan's Copper Country, on Lake Superior, looks desolate to visitors, gives the impression of having outworn its history. Beneath the birch, poplar and jackpine trees are innumerable outcroppings of lava, last traces of the volcano which brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...
Attacking the present system of medical care as outworn, inefficient, and ineffective, the Harvard debating team yesterday opposed Dartmouth's debaters in a match held at the WNAC studios in Boston. The subject of the debate was, "Resolved: that the several states should pass legislation for the socialization of medicine...
...mind, and overstepped its bounds, it was summarily defeated in 1920. On the major issues of controversy, therefore, Roosevelt and his cohorts will do well to keep a sensitive ear to the country's reaction to their policies. They should at all costs avoid the danger of rejuvenating the outworn spoils system as they face the problem of allocating federal funds. From the point of view of expediency rather than of morals, they should take care lest they succumb to the temptation of interpreting the recent victory as an indication of desire for dictatorship...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
Without Elizabeth Bergner in its leading role, "Melo" the current feature at the Fine Arts, would hardly have merited importation from Germany. Subtitled "Die Traeumende Mund" this picture is based upon a dull and utterly outworn plot. Happily married to her devoted violinist, Gaby suddenly realizes that her true love is Michael, another, and vastly superior, fiddler. She is unwilling to leave her husband who is completely dependent upon her, but the strength of her love for Michael gives her no rest. She settles her little problem by tossing herself into a conveniently located river. The film is raised from...