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...forest for the dandelions, like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like the parlor pussies mewing about the third international in the upper rooms of Adams House, to seek peace thusly in the modern saturnalia of all the other more valid causes of war, high tariffs, monetary friction, Father Coughlins, economic nationalism, and so on is nothing more than playing cat's cradle on a railroad crossing...
...last week Professor Lloyd Derr Felton of Harvard went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where once he studied and taught, to say that a pneumonia vaccine which he invented seemed to be valid. He had given the vaccine to 3,000 people, including himself. Not one had developed pneumonia, although in the ordinary course of life ten or a dozen of them should have contracted the disease...
...some of the men in Science that the concentrator in that field, because of the amount of work he must do in his field in order securely to grasp his subject, should not be required to have a reading knowledge of more than one language. The differentiation is undoubtedly valid in some branches of Science and the logical solution is to require a useful reading knowledge of one language to be obtained in either school or college and allow the individual departments to waive the requirement of a second language if they so desire...
...Some $2,500,000 was spent to check the 539,541 valid registrations (528,005 votes were cast, of which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied...
...being advocated by Oklahoma's Governor Marland, seemed out as far as Washington was concerned. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines. But what the President really wants is the power to 1) fix production quotas by States, 2) regulate interstate oil traffic and, if these fail, 3) to step into any oil State and set quotas for individual wells...