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...heavy screwing down of the present tax machinery upon tax-dodgers. Critics opined that if the Cartel had actually been brought into line behind such a program, the present. Government would have to become exceedingly pliant toward the wishes of the Cartellists if it could continue to exist...
...expedition is to leave New Orleans by steamer on January 9 for Belize, British Honduras, where a trading schooner has been chartered. In the sailing vessel the expedition will skin the Eastern Coast of Yucatan, stopping at points where ruins are known or suspected to exist in order to make excursions into the interior. Sometime in May the explorers will return to the United States...
...attitude of the Indians is reported to be more friendly, Dr. Spinden believes there is a good chance that discoveries of importance will be made. The Mayas were a city dwelling people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that the primary object of this expedition is to obtain accurate maps and photographs of the ruins as they now exist. The field of exploration...
...control have undertaken openly to repudiate; Nicaragua, $84,000, which is being paid currently, and Austria, $24,000,000, on which by act of Congress a moratorium of 20 years has been granted. The only remaining sum is $12,000,000, due from Armenia, which has now ceased to exist as an independent nation...
...atmosphere of military training is not the atmosphere for the finest, the most thoughtful work along any line requiring independent thinking. Higher education ought to exist for the encouragement of independent thinking...