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...pastor has a right to "a decent living." In 1928 the average one got $1,407 -about the wage of a semiskilled worker. Salary problems are complicated by the fact that there is an ample supply of trained ministers, an oversupply of 40,000 to 50,000 untrained ones...
...only reason I'm mixing myself up in this is that I want to get something done about the way the girls are treated over at the Union," Miss Warner declared. "I know they have to have discipline, but they could still be decent. Oh, the captains are swell to your face, but they go around and squeal to Miss Murray when your back is turned...
...Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots, shot pool, went with whores, drank rotgut, occasionally made...
Unless one accepts the doctrine of the eternal damnation of infant souls--and how could a young modern fall for that?--the evidence points to the fact that it is as natural for some people to be decent as for others to be indecent. I is essentially a matter of taste. They become Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts because they like that sort of wholesome thing. They grow up with a flair for clean living and a respect for pure motherhood, for the same reason. In their business dealings they are straight shooters. They look you fair...
...contagious and hence there was no danger of an epidemic. The Housing Department launched an investigation with a view to cleaning up the hovels provided for Sack workers. The Labor Department gave Owner Sack 30 days to install sanitary lunch, dressing and toilet facilities, make his mill a decent place to work...