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Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...
...tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates. The general resolutions committee took up the problem of unemployment, voted that the Y. M. C. A. should further socially ad- ministered insurance against invalidism, occupational injuries, want in old age, enforced unemployment. Most ambitious was Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore who pleaded for an immediate government program of $3,000,000,000 for public works...
...Emily Hahn's first book, Seductio ad Absurdum, was not only funny but shrewd. Beginners Luck, her second, is more ambitious than a marshmallow. but a marshmallow it is. Blake had been kicked out of an Eastern prep school for being a menace to the community. Gin was a girl who had left home, was now a guide on New Mexican bus tours. Teddy had come from poor but respectable parents to be an artist in the Southwest. They all met in Santa Fe, played together, thought it would be glorious to run away to Mexico. So they did. Just...
Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
...report in the form of a letter to Bishop McConnell. Just before the publication of both reports, the most painful evidence of the divergence between the Federal Council and the Hays organization was provided when Carl Elias Milliken, onetime Republican (1917-21) Governor of Maine, resigned from the ad- ministrative committee of the Federal Council. Impressive, 53-year-old Baptist Milliken, onetime president of the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, has been secretary of the Hays organization since...