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John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education: "This country needs to spend a great deal more money on education. . . . When the American people are spending 22 billions on luxuries, certainly they can afford to spend more than one billion on schools...
...ministerial wages have not been raised. The traditional equipment of a consul's office, a stool, an alarm-clock, a cat, and a cuspidor, does not inspire an ambitious man with optimism. "Cabbages and Kings" present a consular paradise which might appeal to some; but at present, none can afford to enter the foreign service without private means. Adventure, travel and hard work may suit a young man for a short time, but unless more material incentives are provided, a permanent, expert staff cannot be maintained...
...protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number of herders I was able to afford could not protect them. The herd is now growing again under the protection of the Canadian Government...
...Large cities." it says, "are evidently finding they cannot afford to do without city planning, and some small towns are wise enough to begin locking the door before the proverbial horse shall be stolen. The competitive instinct for securing municipal advantages is thoroughly aroused in many quarters. Before long it will be easier to make a list of the principal cities which are laggards in city planning than to review the accomplishments of those which are active...
Pope Pius may cause to be built a new wing to the Vatican to house Cardinals who, because of steadily rising rents, cannot afford residences suitable to their rank...