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West Virginia nominated John W. Davis. The crowd was terribly weary, it stood and made a decent amount of noise for five minutes. Then Izetta Jewell Brown, who seconded Mr. Davis in 1920, seconded him again; moreover, she told the very same story as on the previous occasion, about God taking out man's brains and making woman (TIME, June 2). The story had been good before. It was good for a second time and for applause...
...will also note that whenever a publisher has a decent job to offer he never gives it to a newspaperman. Observe that when the New York Evening Post wanted good men it sent for Dean Gay of Harvard and Prof. Canby of Yale; that the Times employed Commissioner Finley rather than some man who had worked on the staff for 25 years; and that the Tribune sent for Stuart P. Sherman. You can count on your fingers the regular newspapermen in New York who are getting $100 per week, a mere pittance in that terrible town...
...persuading people that one product is bet ter than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something and we'll all be much better off. Let's abolish the waste and guarantee every man who is willing to work a decent living, and then we'll get rid of the "unnatural" inflation of the acquisitive instinct which makes men try to "do" the public out of every thing they can. We can then put all the people in the insurance business at work to produce something...
Steward and Griffing are both missionaries and are having fine contacts with Chinese boys, helping them to be decent and manly and are at the same time tackling one of the great problems of China, the improvement of her agriculture and the alleviation of her poverty...
Reform is essential to progress and we cannot expect to see the proofs of our reforms during our lives. Therefore we must do all within our powers to hand on at least a decent beginning to the next generation...