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...Bolsheviki continue to export grain. Four million bushels await shipment on the Black Sea; another 1,200,000 bushels at Petrograd. Tho struggle between the peasants and the government has brought about the lamentable policy of exporting wheat while the people starve...
...ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more than to cry, "Boo!" and the Englishman of leisure is still able to sleep sweetly on a full stomach and say to himself...
...posted in New York and delivered a week later in San Francisco. The public, little realizing the precedent established, laughed and forgot the incident. And now what is the result? Postmaster Behymer of Cincinnati rises in his seat at the National Association of Postmasters to protest against the promiscuous shipment of alligators. Mr. Behymer points out that livestock, under the law, is entitled to the privileges of being mailed. He faces calmly the prospect of "being obliged to attend, water and feed various fowls and irritated livestock",--if they can be termed "harmless" and wear badges to that effect...
Practice for both squads will be held daily from now on, and the men will be divided as soon as possible into groups to report at regular hours during the afternoon. Owing to a delay in the shipment of materials, the board track will not be ready for use until tomorrow, and practice today will be held underneath the Stadium...
...expeditiously enough to remedy this situaation. If not, it will be up to the individual members of these schools to aid the track management in entertaining the visitors. Whether the school graduates do this or not, these men must be given more of a reception than the impersonal shipment from school to Stadium, which has been accorded them in years past...