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...that the wishes of some 60 or 70 million women will be felt at the peace table. If those wishes are selfish, there will be no real peace. But if we can persuade our men by our daily attitude, from this day forward, that we would rather have to scrimp the rest of our lives than leave any other people in need and despair anywhere on this earth, then the end result will be that those who will have the power to form the peace will go about their task free to avail themselves of that tremendous force which...
...emergency exists, then, in every college, and every college must retrench and scrimp and economize as best it can. The policy at Harvard, as outlined by University officials, is perhaps distinctive because of its far-sighted determination "not to sacrifice long-term gains to solve a temporary crisis." The easiest method of slashing the budget, and one which may be adopted widely, is to reduce salaries. After all, it does seem a plausible argument that teachers should participate in the sacrifices which are everywhere being made for defense. But such a way out would reverse a trend which...
...earn, scrimp, save and toilsomely amass the Chinese equivalent of seven U. S. dollars may take an industrious Shanghai coolie seven years. Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple...
...General Conference last May, remittances now depend upon the amount of money in the treasury. The treasury is not likely to be chockfull, unless Methodist laymen fill it, before local conferences begin meeting and raising funds late this month. Never before has the Methodist Church been thus forced to scrimp. Three bishops of foreign areas were obliged, lacking passage money, to linger in the U. S., probably until Oct. 1 when payments will be made...
...eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...