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...plans for profit, some have inscrutable designs. It was so with the meeting of anthracite operators and miners, which resumed its Conference there after a week's adjournment. The miners had made eleven demands for a new wage-and-working-conditions contract to supersede the present contract expiring on August 31. Four of the miners' demands ? lesser ones ? were agreed on. The first of the remaining seven demands brought disagreement and an end to the Conference...
Woodrow Wilson in the August number of The Atlantic Monthly said : " The world has been made safe for democracy. . . . But democracy has not yet made the world safe against irrational revolution. That supreme task, which is nothing less than the salvation of civilization, now faces democracy, insistent, imperative. . . . It is against capitalism under one name or another that the discontented classes everywhere draw their indictment. . . . The sum of the whole matter is this: that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually...
...cure for tuberculous and undernourished children is becoming a recognized part of modern treatment for these conditions. It has been brought to its highest perfection by Dr. August Rollier and his colleague, Dr. Rosselet, in their clinic at Leysin, on one of the Alps near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Here in the last 20 years more than 2,000 cases of surgical (bone and joint) tuberculosis have been treated, and more than 80% discharged as cured. The children are gradually exposed to the sun's rays until the whole body can be bared. In Winter the whole day is spent...
...English Channel was attempted by the Messrs. Brett in 1850. They organized a company and enlisted the coöperation of Cyrus Field in 1854. After repeated failures, a cable was laid from Newfoundland to Valencia Island, Ireland, by vessels proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven twisted copper wires, covered with gutta percha, hempen yarn saturated with pitch...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...