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From the history of past acrimonious controversies on this subject, it is clear that Dr. Eddy will not succeed in convincing all workers in the field of his achievement without herculean arguments. Knowledge has grown so rapidly that two or three years renders many notions obsolete...
...setting of both acts is in a convent.--In the first of the holy sisters are presented with a foundling, which their doctor adopts, and they agree to take care of. The second act occurs twenty years later. The foundling has grown to womanhood, and the sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...
...celebrate the fifth anniversary, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia issued a manifesto "to all workers and toilers." The manifesto was described as being "rather a tame document." It points out that the Internationale has grown from small beginnings to a "world force before which the bourgeoisie everywhere shrinks and trembles"; it also refers to a "deadly struggle against opportunism," which means a struggle against a compromise between capital and labor such as is now said to have been effected in Britain...
...Irish: "Give us no foreigners, but an Irishman!" The Pope chose Mundelein. To Chicago he went His position was "difficult." At a welcoming banquet 150 prominent citizens were poisoned by the soup. At the next banquet, the new Archbishop drank the soup first. And ever since he has grown, quietly, in the respect of a strident community. No archdiocese is more efficiently run. Its head has never committed a public blunder. The youngest to graduate, the youngest to become Bishop, one of the youngest to become Archbishop, George Mundelein will be the youngest Cardinal in the sacred College. And Chicago...
...service. "Men", he said, "exchanged products to save time, and to save labor. Then as communities grew, matters became more complex. You first had the country stores, which were finally grouped together into larger unions. Then came the chain stores, and our large department stores. Now our cities have grown so rapidly that the status of economic conditions has not kept pace with them, for the waste in the distribution of food products is very great." Summing up the matter of industrial advancement, he said, "The whole question has been to find better methods for doing things. Whatever the methods...