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...Farmer's Pocketbook. The farmer wants to make a living. For him this is the basic fact. He sees the rest of the community benefited by the tariff, but the tariff does him no good because he has a surplus to sell abroad. What is he going to do about it? He asks in a louder and louder voice for price fixing?and Congress takes...
That ancient institution which we call a Court is really the supreme and basic invention of all civilization. It is the only device which has been found to work to prevent war when quarrels became acute. Without it, civilization itself would soon disappear; in fact, it could never have existed. It is the Court which everywhere has kept peace and this has been true in ever-widening circles. Even our humblest Court is that of the "Justice of the Peace...
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
There is a situation in Turkey of which Senator King presented two aspects. The basic fact of this situation is that the Turks have moved their capital from Constantinople to Angora, as have the Bolsheviki from Leningrad (Petrograd) to Moscow. At Constantinople many of the Powers have costly embassy buildings and are not disposed, as the Turkish Government would have them do, to move to Angora, which, as a city, is neither prepossessing nor conveniently situate. But the chief reason upon which their refusal is based is the expense of building new embassy or legation quarters at primitive Angora...
Although the tendency has become pronounced for different industries to go their own gait, nevertheless the typical and basic character of the steel industry has not been forgotten. Thus no small curiosity awaited last week the publication of earnings of the U. S. Steel Corporation for the second quarter...