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...should be thrown into the ring so soon, there were several reasons why the announcement should have been made at this time. In the first place there have been rumors steadily gathering force and cogency in Washington to the effect that Mr. Harding was tired of his job, that his own health and that of his wife precluded another long and strenuous campaign, that harassed by the extremists of the Old Guard on the one hand and the insurgent LaFollette group on the other, he preferred to have the Republican Party ship steered by other hands. These rumors are automatically...
...master wizard of all radioists, Guglielmo Marconi, is again on the job, and forecasts the early attainment of complete directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded...
...through representatives, are mainly economic problems. In order to vote and act intelligently, one must possess an understanding of the underlying economic principles. The time is past when these problems were so simple that any one with a fair degree of common sense could vote intelligently. Like all other jobs, the job of the citizen is coming to require a certain amount of technical knowledge. Neither the lawyer nor the engineer can get along now without something more than his untrained common sense. The economic problems which the average citizen has to decide are quite as complicated as those...
...follow the will o' the wisp of the dollar, according to Mr. Gay, leads the business man into a bog of profit and loss and his career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening...
...press-agents of the public educational system have not been properly on the job...