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...when candidates are "sold" to the electorate by the best of advertising methods, News columns reflect as much as advertising pages the desire of vote seekers to hold the public attention by a massive emphasis on slogans and names. Issues fade, personalities are focussed. The same blaring methods that drag money from the pocket of the reader of advertisements tend to be equally successful in drawing his votes. Reiteration, not seasoning, wins...
Roaring Rails is virtually a flashback. It returns to the days when all that was necessary for a vast success was a good train wreck and a knock-down-drag-out fight (in which the villain was knocked and dragged). There was also a girl and, usually, a dynamite job under the canyon bridge. Roaring Rails has all of these plus a small section of the World War. The hero is a locomotive engineer. People who are burdened with deep intelligence are cautioned not to ride behind...
...Lakehurst a further difficulty arose. So much fuel had been burnt on the journey that the ship was very light. The ballast recovery apparatus installed on one engine compensated only in small part for the loss of fuel weight, and in three attempts at mooring, the drag ropes swung high above the ground crew. Finally Commander Lansdowne had to reconcile himself to "valving" the helium and allowing some 20,000 feet of the precious gas to escape at an estimated cost...
...other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never to be visited--and place it on the former site of John Harvard. Probably it would dissolve in the next spring shower; but something is needed to relieve the present desolation...
...been said that without differences of opinion we could scarcely have stock exchanges-or horse races. Wall Street, after some months of optimism with reservations, has lately adopted an attitude of pessimism with reservations. Yet nothing particular happens. The price of shares tends to drag, and to decline fractionally, under the notion that since things cannot get better, they are morally bound to get worse...