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...many, eight of these stories at once will be a little too much, but there is no rule that you must read them all at a sitting. And if you have read one, you are more than likely to come back and read another provided you are the sort of person who ought to be reading them in the first place...
Finally there was a Conclusion-a sort of preliminary farewell to the U.S. people from Calvin Coolidge (who will make at least one more Last Speech at the Hoover inauguration). Said he of peace and prosperity: ". . . Having reached this position, we should not fail to comprehend that it can be easily lost. It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world. . . . Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods. It is too easy under their influence for a nation to become selfish and degenerate. This test has come to the United States...
President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...
...morning after this sort of thing began, last week, all 'Roman newspapers printed the names, ages and all supplementary information obtained from the Signore and Signori who had been caught "walking wrong" on the Corso Umberto. Fifty women and men were thus pilloried. On the second day it was necessary to pillory only one woman, nine men. On the third day "walking wrong" had practically ceased...
This collection of modern advertising literature contains scores of large colored posters from Holland, Belgium, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden of remarkable beauty. There are a few of the same sort of large posters which have been printed by American railroads, including several by John Held Jr. of original character...