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Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books...
...policy has certainly been to play both ends against the middle. But whatever the future may bring forth, Lloyd George will no doubt have a solution and will sign more pacts to straighten matters out. He has been in tight places before, and he, has always been able to dig his way out in a most remarkable fashion...
...meeting in Philadelphia, when George Wharton Pepper announced that I would outline the needs of Europe, all the eloquence in the world does not mean so much to the American people as simply to tell them that somewhere little children are hungry; that statement is sufficient to make us dig down into our jeans. That audience gave...
...drool" to call it by its Record title, is inclined to have nothing to do with the issue and in places does seem a bit trite. This is only to be expected when one considers how carefully the subject has been combed for years, only to dig out the old wheezes and ancient inane comments that cracked the face enamel of our Grandmothers...
...duty of the unfortunate editors to tell how this is done. Some of the cleverest of these journalists dig up an editorial of ten years back, change a stray "a" from a Stray "the" and call the "1924 Freshman Editorial". Others will out-Fairfax Beatrice in her advice to the lovelorn. However, all we have to say to this...