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...factory girls, steel workers, miners and lumberjacks. The humanitarian spirit in America has made great strides in the last half century, but to too small an extent has it been grounded on a just understanding of the actualities of the workers' existence. Even future captains of industry who sift up through the ranks gain a somewhat distorted picture of their own experience...
...least one hundred per cent improved was the interference, each man filling his assigned part in the general scheme of the attack, cleaning out both first line and secondary defense with the precision of clock work, opening up gaping holes in the line for the backs to sift through for long gains...
...Captain Adolphus Andrews, kind-hearted skipper of the Mayflower, was requested by the Navy Department to sift all charges arising out of the sleeping Coolidge guard scandal to the bottom. Officers who have commanded their men to act as servants at "all night parties" (if there have been any such) are likely to face an unprecedentedly stern Skipper Adolphus...
...Vienna, Dr. Frank Cizek (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923) has a school for juvenile artists, whose work has been exhibited in the U. S. In Manhattan, Dr. H. E. Fritz, Art Director of Stuyvesant High School, conduct. a similar class. Like Dr. Cizek, Dr. Fritz has set himself to sift the authentic from the mediocre. Several hundred children, from 6 to 16, are recommended, each month, by their teachers. They are admitted to his class on trial; none but those whose abilities are exceptional are invited to continue. Those so invited are given, not instruction, but opportunity. They have their choice...
...would be. The Junior League is meeting with great success in applying the system. They are accepting the services of all volunteers, but giving them to understand what is expected of them. They are placing their girls carefully, shifting them to determine their bent. Then they weigh their abilities, sift out their best and most interesting workers, and turn failure to success...