Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...motive is the desire to have a place at the peace conference, when the great questions of the war are settled. What China wants is the permission from the great powers of Europe to raise her tariff. The present Chinese import duty is calculated on a five to ten per cent basis. The government needs money badly, and although supposed to be a sovereign state, China is not allowed to raise her own tariff without the consent of the treaty powers. By joining the Allies the hopes to win their support in raising her tariff...
...bills for which have not yet been paid, and the class credit has been strained to the limit. On this account it is absolutely necessary to have money to pay these bills before plans for the coming dinner and other smokers can be considered. As in previous years, fifty per cent, of the cost will be borne by the class funds and fifty per cent, by those attending the dinner, but unless the 1918 treasury is repelled immediately the committee will be unable to go ahead with its present plans...
...About 10 per cent of the men who have applied for admission to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps have been turned down on account of physical disabilities. Of the men whose applications have been accepted about 15 per cent. would be rejected by a recruiting station examining men for admission into the regular army. The majority of the men turned down have defective feet, a weak heart, poor eyes, or difficulty in hearing...
...examinations showed that 82 per cent. have feet that would probably stand the strain of a course of military training; 15.5 per cent. have feet that would not stand such work...
...Federalize the militia and double the attendance at the summer military camps, the regular army must always remain our first line of defence. Yet our army today is pitifully small, disproportionately expensive, and inefficient. It numbers 74,000 men in the United States proper, it costs $1,000 per soldier, which is ten times the amount Switzerland expends, and the difficulty of its mobilization on the Mexican border last summer would have been ludicrous had the experience not been so serious a warning...