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...wealth could be acquired for about 20% of its value without cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever it was best fitted for. Likewise a gigantic civil service would put every man in his proper place. If a few odd hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages...
Reform. His Majesty announced that his Government would undertake reforms of civil, commercial and mercantile code, cede to private initiative certain state-owned enterprises...
...world has known many famed farmers, but there has probably been only one man who made himself famed by farming. He died last week. He was born on a farm - in Wisconsin, 1846. He fought in the Civil War, and then, stepping westward, he crossed the Missouri River on the ice. On the far side was Kansas. There he got a job at $12 a month, as a farmhand. Four years later he had a farm of his own. There he stayed for twelve years, making things grow. Then he undertook to edit a livestock journal, and the publicity which...
...Duke of York and his Equerry Captain Basil Brooke were beaten in a golf foursome by Frank Hodges, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and his miner friend Evan Williams. The game was played upon a miners' course laid out on a slag pile in South Wales...
Over 70 years old, he belongs to that Civil War generation that stamped its political and aesthetic ideas upon the nation. An Associate Editor of The Century Magazine, he became Editor. It was he who edited the famous Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. It was he who first urged Grant to write his Memoirs. He originated the Keats-Shelley Memorial at Rome. He wrote seven books of poems, finally collected in 1919. If to modernists his style appears sentimental or stilted, it is because the moderns have found different, and possibly no better, ways of expressing the same...