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...common difficulties concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce: the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment...
American Bank Note. While young bankers learned about scrip, the public suddenly learned that there was an American Bank Note Co. Shortly before midnight, Friday, President Daniel Ellis Woodhull was suddenly given the order for hundreds of millions of dollars of Clearing House certificates. His was the only concern that could do the job and do it on time. Never an advertiser, American Bank Note suddenly became the most thoroughly publicized company in the U. S. From the dribble of business it has had since the Depression, its chief plant in The Bronx, N. Y. jumped to capacity production...
...same. Huge savings could be effected by elimination of these costly duplications. R.G. Dun & Co. is proud of the fact that Abraham Lincoln while an Illinois lawyer was one of their correspondents. Still in their files is a Lincoln report noting a rat hole in the office of a concern he was investigating suggesting that it "should be looked into...
Even accepting the philosophy of the new era and granting that the increased Freshman application may be permanent, the desirability of enlarging the College is very doubtful. To cry mass production would be unfair but it may be pointed out that the College's first concern should be to raise the standard rather than the number of those admitted. The existence of a larger surplus of applicants offers a solendid opportunity for greater discrimination, and surely the University is under no moral obligation to admit all who satisfy the existing requirements...
...With the immediate future of literature, however, we may justly concern ourselves, but of this we need not despair. We should not demand a Shakespeare every ten years; we should be grateful to have one Shakespeare. The present is, undoubtedly, a period of change, and the forms of literature are changing with everything else. There is a rapid replacement of literary generations, every one of which brings something new to the standards and styles which we have already...