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...September, 1923, the index showed an increase of 2.2%. These figures illustrate a fallacy regarding American agriculture much commented upon lately-the tendency to judge it entirely by the price of wheat. Recently corn sold at the same price as wheat, showing that, even though the latter is cheap, the former is very dear...
...suggestion that freight rates on export wheat be lowered if possible, President Coolidge shows at least a better understanding of the causes of cheap wheat than the farmers or their representatives. Lowered freight rates on wheat for internal markets as the latter demand, would be a mere drop in the bucket; while raising the import tariff on wheat would be like shutting out imports of dirt. There simply ain't no such animal. the reason for low prices is, as President Coolidge comprehends, the almost complete absence of a foreign market, and consequently a mass of grain, usually exported, tumbled...
...argues his case by presenting his hero in the arms of a cheap woman. His fiancee, by a set of shrewdly woven and convincing circumstances, finds her man thus...
...September advice is cheap and is only too likely to be valued accordingly. "You must not be too frequent patrons of the Cambridge-Boston subway" explains one advisor, inspired by a sudden revolation of truth, while a second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
Ashes of Vengeance. Bad though it is, the title of this picture?Norma Talmadge's latest?has one redeeming feature. It seems to have attracted all of the bad taste and cheap sensationalism scattered around the Schenck studios and vented them in one trite expression. The rest of the production is consistently tasteful and enormously worth while...