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Governor Smith gave five sharp and sane reasons for his veto: 1) public authorities can finance bridges at lower cost than private; 2) bridges are public and the public should own them; 3) privately owned toll bridges are as old-fashioned as privately owned toll roads; 4) the particular New York franchises sought were practically perpetual; 5) if private corporations can make money on the construction of toll bridges, the government...
Last week the District Court of Appeals at Lima, Ohio, decided that Killer Remus was sane, ordered him released from the asylum. The majority opinion handed down by Judges Phil M. Crow and Kent W. Hughes said: "We frankly say that if his [Remus's] mental condition was at the time he committed the homicide as it was shown to be at the time of the trial before us, the verdict was a most flagrant and reprehensible outrage of judicial administration which cannot be too strongly condemned...
...Psychiatric literature is full of the case histories of identical twins stricken by the same psychoses at the same time. They have the same hallucinations, hear the same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone mad if the existence of the other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having...
...number of children who have been injured and killed by automobiles is deplorable," said President Coolidge, contributing his voice to a crusade by Washington newspapers for "sane" driving in the Capital. The American Road Builders Association last week reported that automobiles killed 26,618 persons in 1927; maimed...
Anyone who has interested himself in a sane appraisal of the results of the Reading Period will discover little that is new in the report with the possible exception of the authoritative statistics. Almost too much has been said and written about the success of the experiment in connection with the various Departments, the Faculty, the Library, the extra-curriculum activities, and last but not least, the upperclassmen. The main thing proved by Dean Hanford's article is the fact that the Reading Period has definitely established itself, that not only is there an improvement in the matter of satisfactory...