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...never a red-hot prohibitionist. He was known to be dry, just as he was known to be a bit stubborn.*** He never campaigned sensationally for prohibition; he never signed a prohibition pledge or belonged to the Prohibition party. In fact, in 1916, when he came up for election he was opposed by a prohibition candidate. How did he win? He said: "I just kept in the middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls...
They began their tour by visiting a newspaper, an ice plant, a bakery, several power plants, and the garment factories in New York City. The most astounding thing to them was the wages paid, especially to women workers. So far as the press was concerned, they were a bit slow in formulating their estimates of what they saw, but one of them said: "One can observe the close co-operation between the worker and the employer at once. The wages, of course, are unusually high. It is my impression that high wages bring high production, although some hold...
...scores of popular songs now forgotten?or almost so. To anyone over 35 it will bring a renewed sense' of the progress he has forgotten, of the things for which he lived in days only a little gone by?a feeling at once poignant and a bit sad to see how completely yesterday has vanished...
...English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau is a head whose clarity has not been greatly affected by occasional, more or less comprehensible, enlargements...
...seems to bit strange at the present day to find such backward conditions prevailing in a large industrial center. Trade unionism has long established itself as the most satisfactory method of adjusting differences between capital and labor. In unusual periods of great production, to be sure, the unions may become too dominant. But under ordinary conditions, natural economic laws preserve the necessary balance. Yet disorganized labor is always at the mercy of capital. And the Passaic manufacturers, if historical precedent runs true, must eventually recognize the inherent right of their workers to a permanent union which can protect their interests...