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According to J. F. Stewart, a British forest engineer who has traveled extensively through North Russian forests, the conditions which exist there have been grossly exaggerated in the outside world. He found the lumbermen comparatively well equipped in food, camps, clothes, and medical service. Furthermore Mr. Stewart considered that any deficiencies could well be laid to the faculty organization of the Soviet officials, who are more prone to theory than to actualities...
...course there was defamation. You cannot disclose evil without naming the doers or evil. . . . [Even if the statements were not all true] a newspaper cannot always wait until it gets the judgment of a court. ... [If their campaign] is not one of the things for which the Press chiefly exists, then for what does it exist...
...blatant absurdities accepted by the American and English public might well give the Moscow authorities ground for ridicule. People who take every statement from the Soviet Union as a piece of propaganda for world reform often fail to realize that propagandists can exist on both sides and that their own position has no better justification. The Pravda might supersede the proposed Columbus expedition with an international five-year plan against unfounded prejudices...
...Grubb. Commissioner Grubb, a Federal judge from Alabama and a sincere Dry, argued for a further trial of Prohibition-as-is. Said he: "If proper enforcement and observance are not had . . . within a reasonable period or if a better system is shown to exist, it will be time enough to abandon Prohibition and to adopt the better substitute...
Faith healers on the other hand admit that pain and disease really exist. But if the patient profoundly believes in God, God neutralizes the ill and drives it out. Ointments, laying on of hands, prayer help make the belief curative...