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...strikes would be organized with all the scientific preparation of a military campaign, with a trained commissary department, shock troops, labor liberty loans, conscription of strikers' families, and all the material, financial equipment, and propaganda necessary to wage a modern industrial class war. His prediction has had a partial fulfilment in the school for strikers which operated three months prior to the dress and waist makers' strike in New York...
...effort, he will find a better equivalent in nature", and he illustrates by reference to anaesthetics. New revelations prove, he says, that in many cases the elaborate paraphernalia of gas of chloroform is less safe and less effective than nature's own way of accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...
...home the partial settlement of the railroad strike leaves a section of the Administration's line very sparsely defended. Again the Democratic videttes can report an opportunity for a successful sortie, under the colors of federal ownership of the railroads, which, they claim, received no fair trial under war conditions and to which popular opinion in the provinces is fast rallying...
...loss of the stimulus of spoken lectures, has already found a simple remedy--the radio. Special text books, too, may eventually be made self-explanatory, so that even a second Tarzan will find no difficulty in understanding them. In any case the scheme seems a possible though only a partial answer to the question. If the proposed experiment at Columbia proves at all successful, the educational mountain may yet come to Mahomet...
...Passos, has issued two volumes of prose and one of verse which have earned him wide notice, at least as an earnest experimenter. Mr. McLane, whose student days are still more recent, has three books of verse to his credit. This is the roll of poets alone --and a partial one at that. It indicates no renaissance, perhaps, but I gives evidence of a healthy, normal growth...