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...science of population remains in too hazy a state to make legislative meddling with the birth rate profitable or even safe. Mussolini shows wisdom in his speech Thursday announcing that he would prohibit any attempt to restrict the rapid growth of Italian population, in spite of the fact that the situation is a very "preoccupying feature of the national life." France finds her low birth rate an asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby...
...Government issued a communique to the people urging them to be calm and saying in part: "The public, however, must also consider the grave and exceptional motives, leaving the Government to interpret the Constitution in a manner which, though justified by legal reasons, appears at first sight to restrict Parliamentary rights. The Government is obliged to take account not only of the gravity of the accusations against the Deputies concerned, but also of the necessity of safeguarding, as far as is still possible, the independence of the nation by avoiding, as far as it is able, the giving of grounds...
...Resolutions were passed concerning legal assistance to the poor; concerning a conference to be held in November to restrict the growth and distribution of opium...
...mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million each year, and amounts to enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon, which makes running expenses high. U. S. cars are built without especial consideration for their consumption of gasoline, where British cars are especially constructed to be economical of fuel. Yet U. S. cars have several positive advantages...
There are fewer dancing solos than usual, and the ordinarily elastic Lester Allen and Tom Patricola have to restrict the natural exuberance of their limbs to a few hoof thumpings. But in that way no one is ever on the stage long enough to wear a crease in the audience's patience. The show has two fine singers in Richard Talbot and Helen Hudson, the latter showing one of the sweetest voices this side of grand opera...