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...Their size is not radically different; both run pictures; and the purpose of each is to condense the news of the world in the smallest possible space and here and there through it all planting little seeds of thought from which great ideas will grow and make this a happier place for all of us. They differ only in the selection of the community class they have decided to serve...
...Martians are happier than we are and much more intelligent. First, because their planet is several million years older than ours, and progress is the law; then, because they are less governed by matter, the gravity there being less. A man or woman of 150 pounds would weigh only 50 on Mars. "Besides, as the years are nearly twice as long, the Martian is only 50 when we are 94. Finally, the climate is more equable...
...GARDEN OF FOLLY-Stephen Leacock-Dodd Mead ($2.00). Stephen Leacock, Harold Lloyd of Letters, prefaces this volume with a quotation from Confucius-or TutankhAmen : "This poor old world works hard and gets no richer; worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones; laughs over ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Follies, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset...
...Westminster Hall in London, Mr. Hughes addressed the International gathering of lawyers, saying: "Of all international contracts, none could be happier than this...
...Business. "My law practice is as dear to me as an artist's work is to him. I am happier than I have ever been right here practicing law. What lawyer wouldn't want them [potent clients] ? ' I have J. P. Morgan & Co., the Erie Railroad, the Guaranty Trust Co., the Standard Oil Co., and other foremost American concerns on my list. I am proud of them. They are big institutions, and so long as they ask for my services for honest work, I am pleased to work for them. Big business has made this country what...