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Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
...Ouch! Help. You're tickling; that thing hurts!" screamed a patient while Pete, the painless tatoo man at Scollay Square, received the CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...person merely maladjusted. And ideally that may be so, especially in the case of the petty criminal and the extremely youthful one. But a reasonable man is often led to wonder why a man who has made himself repeatedly dangerous to society should be treated with such consideration. Does painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn afternoons, may well be led to wonder. Of course, if there is a chance that the law-breaker will...
...Laboring mothers should not plead with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...