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...future. Unless the deflcit is met by increased taxes, however, the country as a whole will suffer indirectly through higher prices. A billion dollar deflcit is a heavy load under any circumstances, but a raise in taxes now will strain national credit less in the future than would wide-spread borrowing by the federal government, which is the course of least resistance at the present time...
...athletics are now organized the situation seems unavoidable. Yet it could be considerably improved by a wide-spread adoption of the "double-header" scheme used by Harvard for its opening games. Under this system, the whole squad of the large college can get the necessary practice, while the small colleges have a fairer chance of scoring, by not having to face a succession of fresh players put into the game in numerous substitutions. The general employment of this scheme would be an important step toward the goal of introducing a sporting element into what tends to be a commercial enterprise...
...empire that for centuries was a model of efficiency and well-being far surpassing anything Europe had produced, it is now a question of adapting the old political ideals, to forms more sutable for competition in an industrial age. Force alone cannot hold together a country as wide-spread and as poorly provided with means of transportation as China; a fact amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades just passed. So the progress of the Revolution has really been the story of a search...
Indications at the present time point to the possibility of a wide-spread textile strike throughout the South. Labor is inflamed, and justly so, over housing conditions, hours of employment, and the low wage scale prevalent in the textile mills of the southern states...
...come again upon feminish and its allied evil, industrialian. The general participation of women and the economic struggle has as a wide-spread emotional discouraging of the female organism, a common predisposition to hysteria and nervous explosiveness. The restlessness of women, their baneful pushing into activities for which they are biologically not suited, and the resultant rise in the numbers of congenital defectives, are all fruits of this tree...