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From Athens comes the news that elections will be held as soon as possible. The exchange of population now going on between Turkey and Greece, will, it is feared, greatly retard the date of the elections; for the arrival of so many refugees in Greece means considerable work in revising the electoral lists and in naturalizing the newly arrived. This will be the first election to be held in Greece since the revolutionary Government seized power last year...
...telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb intellectual processes, but not in a marked degree." There was great variability between persons and from day to day. In a few of the tests (e. g., speed in addition), tobacco increased the average efficiency of the group. In most of them, it decreased the average efficiency slightly...
From the laboratory data, the author concludes that it is impossible to say that tobacco smoking will retard the intellectual processes of any one person, but in a large group it may be predicted that the majority will be slightly retarded. Dr. O'Shea takes pains to point out that the study was limited to minor intellectual processes and gives no answer regarding creative ability, judgment or general physical vitality. Conclusive tests on these matters are still to be devised...
Such an opinion, if genuinely held to by the other powers, would seriously complicate and retard future negotiations. Overtures preliminary to new treatles would be less frank; other nations would be less frank; other nations would concede less, expecting that our concessions would be withdrawn later; others, too, might try their hand at "reserving". Negotiations would thus extend from the council-table, through the ratifying bodies, to a grand international committee of conference designed to smooth over the objections which the various parliaments had enacted. This procedure would be open diplomacy openly arrived at but it is indirect, slow...
Though there are many obstacles, incomplete liquidation, excessive taxes, a critical European situation, and so forth, which tend to retard business activity, when both sides are compared it is most probable that 1922 will be a year of easier money, better business, more stable prices, and higher profits than was 1921; and there is evidence, also, that the general movement of business and wholesale prices will be upward. There is no reason, however, to anticipate a boom...