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Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
...what he termed clerical fascism and bureaucracy in this country. The British system of selecting children and training them from youth to hold positions in government, was also upheld by him, in contrast to this country's policy of supplying such training in colleges for those who wish to avail themselves of it. He did not specify whether this selection was to be based upon intelligence or caste...
...Since 1927 the U.S. Government has spent well over a billion dollars and states have spent hundreds of millions more on dams, levees and river channel dredging. But it has all been of doubtful avail: last spring one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model includes all the sources...
Would they care at all that we struggle with the Navy red tape? Would they care that we try and try but still our efforts seem of no avail when we sit in class and try and try to figure pay accounts or balance our books? Or would they be more interested in other phases of the never ending Battle of Briggs...
Cattlemen protested, got out their rifles again, but to no avail. John Mohler moved ruthlessly on, stamping out every trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep...