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...becoming more and more like the manufacture of Ford cars, standardized, uniform. " The day of ' beats ' has about disappeared, and today virtually every newspaper prints simultaneously accounts of happenings of national interest. Although Washington despatches may vary according to the way the correspondents see them, the basic facts remain the same. . . . When Secretary Mellon gave out his policy on tax reduction, it went to all the newspapers at the same time. And in a fortnight the newspapers had spoken for the country and Congress, by a non-partisan vote...
...tical value except to the moralist and the historian. On the other hand, there are those who feel we may be able to answer the question much sooner than that. Not all of this school of critics believe that the present optimism is entirely substantiated by conditions in the basic industries...
...turn in general business affairs occurred during the week. Railway traffic continued to be unusually heavy, merchants reported large sales while their customers talked of " how high everything is"; the basic industries showed depression for the most part...
...basis lies old antipathy between Moros and Christian Filipinos, and the objection of the former to being governed locally by the latter. This is the principal basic cause of unrest in the Moro Provinces. The Mohammedan period of religious devotion, which lasts from now until the tenth of the new moon, has served to accentuate the situation...
Governor Ritchie of Maryland: "This conference failed and all other similar conferences will fail as long as they refuse to face the basic question, whether or not prohibition enforcement should not be turned back to the States themselves...