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...trouble with New Yorkers is that they are afraid to walk. They take taxi, streetcar, subway for a trip of a few blocks." The chiropodists pilloried the low-priced automobile as a doubtful blessing, causing many persons to take on weight, lose strength, develop weak feet. The doctors also demonstrated an apparatus for lengthening a shortened foot...
Until President Coolidge's course of action begins to develop all vaticination is guesswork. There is but one fact evident at this time: The reins of power are in new hands? hands that were previously active, but have lately been idle. The personality of Calvin Coolidge has slept in the Chair of the Senate. Has it awakened...
Governor Scott Cardelle Bone, formerly a prominent editor in Washington, D. C., and in Seattle, Wash., later Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee, has definite ideas as to how the Territory can be developed. Others are more or less opposed to his point of view. He wants more authority for the officers of the Alaskan Government and more capital to develop the Territory's resources. Some Alaskans prefer more Washington control, which (if suffering from the red tape and the ignorance of distance) is at least likely to be impartial. As for capital, they fear its invasion...
...ever gained cheaply and Russians must pay heavily for a cultural victory. We need culture now, in our work, life and everyday existence. There is only one serious point to divert our attention from this achievement. It is the necessity of defending our country, and consequently we must develop an army. Even now nine-tenths of our army is devoting itself to the work of raising its cultural standard...
...July is no exception. Trade is experiencing its usual seasonal slackening. The extractive industries, especially steel, are at last showing a decided slowing down; even the excessive oil output is beginning to lessen. In general, five separate parts of the business outlook are now looked to as likely to develop tangible and important results: 1) the anticipated crash of German finances, with its attendant reparation problem; 2) the sagging price of American wheat; 3) the deadlock in the building industry, and the unstable rent and construction situation; 4) the demands of organized labor; 5) the alarms and excursions caused...