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...have only 65,000 men, it is possible, of course, to man 18 battleships and 103 destroyers with reduced crews and also to skeletonize the crews of other necessary vessels. But even with these reductions we would have to abolish our Adriatic and Central American squadrons and this is unthinkable. With 65,000 men we could have only about 20 percent of the men for shore stations, aviation instruction, radio school, etc. Heretofore it has been our custom to have 50 percent of the enlisted personnel on shore, while in England they have 60 percent. With a navy...
...most serious difficulty in the way of solving these three fundamental problems constitutes a fourth problem; namely, the need of a stable, efficient, honest government. China is a republic only in name. The present rulers are military chieftains employing hired armies. The central government is practically bankrupt, and by the Chinese themselves is constantly charged with dishonesty. The provision of universal education, the installation of research in technical fields, the building of levees for flood control, the reforestation of the hills and mountains, the colonization of unproductive lands, the construction of railways, the securing of labor laws, the ability...
...moved from the Prospect Union because of the closing of that organization. Through the courtesy of the directors and officers of the Cambridge Welfare Union the Bureau has this year shared a room in the offices of that organization, just across the street from the Prospect Union in Central Square. The arrangement has proved very advantageous to the Bureau. Increased supervision of counsel by the directors has promoted efficiency. Two hundred and thirty-two cases were handled by the Cambridge office, in addition to the cases handled by the fifteen men attached to the Boston Legal Aid Society. A full...
...said Mr. W. S. Murray, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON regarding his work as chairman of the committee appointed by the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to report on the advisability of connecting all sources of energy on the Eastern seaboard into one central, superpower system. Mr. Murray is known especially for his work in electrifying the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Rail-road from New York to Stamford...
...extends from Boston to Washington and inland from the coast for 150 miles; a territory embracing 23 million people or more than one-fifth of the population of the United States. In this zone there are 36,000 miles of heavy traction railroads, 96,000 industrial plants and 550 central electrical stations producing power. Electricity is the greatest agent of power in the world today, the father of all accomplishments, moral, intellectual, and physical. It is only by harnessing this power into one central organization that we can hope to attain the efficiency needed to meet the engineering problems...