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Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the American Construction Council, took occasion recently to score the irresponsible groups who were putting up buildings of an inferior and showy character. Predicting that many of them would be almost valueless in ten years, he pointed out how unsound as investments mortgage bonds were bound to be when secured by such construction. He attributed high rents in large measure to the high rates of insurance charged upon structures built of inferior materials...
...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...
...periodical examination was moved against as "unsound, unscientific and generally meaningless." The examination mark, said several speakers, has been found by educational psychologists "to have absolutely no fixed relation to mental capacity or intellectual ability." Professor Freeman (University of Chicago) stated that "the retentive capacity of the student never is accurately indicated by the written examination...
...Public Health Service, of research at Hot Springs, and of the widespread educational campaign carried on since the War. The action limiting coöperative activities with the various states is in accord with the policy recently announced by President Coolidge to discontinue all subsidies to states as economically unsound and undesirable...
...found two bristles. It was assumed that these were the remnants of primitive animals, but a closer investigation led to the theory that they represented an attempt to sweep up the gathering debris. That such an attempt was ever made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring, and upon this surface the scuffle...