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...Council of Social Agencies. Spry, capable, intelligent Dr. Nutting devoted herself to religious education of the young after graduating from Iowa University. She took a Doctor's degree at Boston University, taught ethics at Boston before going to Dayton five years ago. She organized and operated the self-help units, got 4,000 jobless to enroll. Last winter Economist Ralph Borsodi, who had set up a private subsistence farm at Suffern, N. Y. when he lost his money in the depression of 1921. went to Dayton, suggested a back-to-the-farm movement for the unemployed. Dayton...
During its brief career, Polity has presented a study of tariffs and world economics by Professor W. Y. Elliott, and a discussion by John Farnham on the government measure forming cooperative and self-help associations for the barter of goods and services. The late unpleasantness involving Mr. Morgan has been capably treated by Ernest McDougall, and C. W. Eliot, 2d, reviewed with grateful incision the current thought on national planning. From these examples it may be inferred that Polity does not lack its quota of arresting names, and, more important, that its interests are both diverse and contemporary...
...Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...
Gist of the Ford philosophy: A man has no divine right to a job but must work to find work; charity undermines character; self-help is the only road to economic salvation. Excerpts from his "contributions...
...Universities of Virginia, Georgia and Alabama self-help students constitute about 40% of the total. The universities so far have been able to furnish jobs or loans, expect no decrease in enrollment...