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...Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
...lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably knew more about his opinions and beliefs than does even the infallible vaudeville artist who edits the literary section of TIME. Easily the most unsatisfactory point about TIME is the air of shoulder-chip infallibility which the editors of TIME affect, and not even a belief in God justifies this in a reviewer...
...British that he retorted sharply through the press: "The economic situation [suggested by Viscount Saito] does not arise. It happens that the Washington Treaty expressly provides that no further capital ships are to be laid down until 1931. Therefore premature discussion here of capital ships could not affect the taxpayers' burden for armaments...
...future, the President gave warning that tax reduction should not be based on the returns of one year alone, also exhorted his hearers to continue the practice of economy. "Extravagance," said he, "may bring momentary pleasure and apparent benefit, but it creates a condition which is bound to affect the future adversely. ... I do not hesitate to say that one of the greatest safeguards of this nation, financially, socially and morally, lies in constructive economy in government...
...would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...