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...advertising space has had to be reduced, and premium rates are often charged for advertisements more than two columns wide. Rates were raised some time ago because of higher printing costs. Last week 13 dailies agreed to raise the rates another 25% on May 1. If advertising does not shrink further, it too may be rationed. Meanwhile, many advertisers are turning to billboards...
...been pushed up from the masses. The generation of Britain's show-running aristocracy which should now be in the saddle is pushing up poppies in Flanders fields. Not even sandy Winston Churchill's latest whistling in the dark ("we are certainly by no means inclined to shrink") could alter the big fact that Britain's owning classes were resigned to the prospect of financial ruin as a result of their second world war in 25 years, that its press was on the whole supinely uncritical (Premier Molotov's speech was even interpreted as "Russia Joins...
...should keep a keen eye on the more or less sweeping reform plans in force at Chicago, St. John's, Columbia, and North Carolina. They should draw their lesson from the experiences of these pioneers, who have spared Harvard the costs of hit-or-miss experimenting. They should not shrink back from the pains of a thorough cure, if they feel that eventually it would put the patient back on his feet. For liberal education has passed beyond the stage where occasional shots of stimulants--half-hearted attempts at integration--are sufficient to hold off its dissolution into chaos...
...highest standard possible for the U. S., humanitarians might concentrate on the needs at the lowest income level, even Hollywood might try dramatizing the plight of one third of a nation. But the essential U. S. standard, as the yardstick by which it measured its prosperity, did not shrink in ten years of depression. Advertisements in U. S. magazines and newspapers showed that citizens wanted the same things. No orators plumped for lowering the standard to conform to conditions; the demand was to change conditions to conform to the standard...
...members of Los Angeles' Filipino colony who have been working on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's $2,000,000 epic of the Philippine pacification, The Real Glory. "This Hollywood idea," railed Mr. Goldwyn's Filipino, "of 60 Filipino soldiers being made to cower and shrink by one Juramentado [a Moro fanatic who expects heavenly reward in proportion to the number of Christians he kills] appears to some of us to thoroughly disparage the character of Filipino soldiers as a whole. . . . That this couldn't have happened, no matter how untrained they were, is the belief of many...