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Whatever the cause, the emergency is real. Whatever the extravagances of the past, money is now needed to provide the barest minimum of education. Particularly is it needed in hard-pressed districts in the poorer states of the South which never could become extravagant. Even in the best of times the teachers there were underpaid and the school facilities inadequate. Unless the government comes to their aid, these schools will this year be able to provide terms of only a few weeks. And with relief funds flowing in such golden streams it would indeed seem wise to divert...
Kuncz filled in his days at Noirmoutier by reading, writing, lecturing on literature. A sculptor made pin-money by making and selling little statuettes of his well-remembered mistress. Some ran a gambling game, others bowled on a home-made alley. The poorer prisoners acted as servants for the richer. Two madmen, one of whom thought he was God, provided occasional entertainment. In the early years perversion was comparatively rare, but, to the sex-starved prisoners, the occasional girls they saw, on their convoyed trips outside the walls, seemed part-angels, part succubi. Once Kuncz and a few companions tunneled...
...This, roughly estimated, means an increase of 12% or more in the cost of the bread loaf in the American home. It means taking vast sums of money in the way of pennies out of the homes of the poorer people for one of the necessities of life. It is another illustration of how powerful interests stealthily and persistently rob the common people...
...reply has been that tax revenues would increase if a lower priced cigarette could be stimulated by government action. The probabilities, however, are that the higher priced cigarette manufacturers would be compelled to put out a 10-cent cigarette to meet the competition, the public would get a poorer quality of cigarette all around, and the revenues which the government thought it had from the 15-cent product would diminish materially, and the farmer would get less for his product...
...years bearded old Jacobus J. Jonker got poorer, greyer and dingier washing South African gravel in the prospector's enduring hope of someday finding a diamond as big as an egg at his feet. Three miles away from his miserable diggings at Elandsfontein another prospector had found the Cullinan Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw...