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News from Havana tended to explain why it would have been especially unwise to whipcrack last week. The Scripps-Howard press called a revolution "near," marked as potential leader of the revolt Col. Carlos Mendietta, popular swashbuckler. Returning from a Cuban visit last week Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts said...
Efforts to explain the world economic depression led sapient Professor Corrado Gini of the University of Rome last week to divide homo sapiens, like Gaul, into three parts. This was important because the French semi-official newsorgan Le Temps proceeded next day to take the division most seriously. It is simple, logical, best of all allows everyone else to shift the whole blame for nearly everything upon L'Oncle...
...almost impossible to conceive of a motive for the vandalism reported yesterday afternoon from Lowell House. Theft might explain the disappearance of an entire canvas, but could not account for the cutting of the face from a large-sized portrait...
...endeavor to explain Mr. Babbitt's humanism here would be impertinent. Whoever takes his course may see for himself, if he likes. Suffice it to say that Mr. Babbitt is a preacher of proportion and the golden mean. Like the ancient Greeks, he takes as his motto: "Nothing too much". All external standards, such as religion, he throws overboard, and appeals to the wisdom of human experience as the only rule to order life. He shuns as the plague all the emotional ecstasies that break down the rigid self-discipline which is his prescription for all humanity...
...occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said he of the smaller earnings, "for almost invariably in any depressed period the mortality rate is lower than in years of great plenty and good general business. We do not attempt to explain this circumstance...