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...many evils contributing to our present array of social problems, none is more dangerous than illiteracy, which not only is wide-spread in the United States, but is rapidly increasing. Many of our labor troubles can be directly traced to the appalling prevalence of this evil; it is largely responsible for the existence of our defective and criminal classes; it multiplies agitators and radicals; it is the cause of thousands of industrial accidents...
...Senior Class Day Committee wishes to call to the attention of all members of the Senior class that they should be measured for caps and gowns at the Harvard Cooperative Society immediately. On account of the difficulty of securing materials and labor, it is important that as many men as possible be measured at once, as a rush at the end of March might prevent the filling of all orders by May 1, the day when all Seniors will wear caps and gowns to their morning classes. Until April 1, the price of the complete outfit will be $9.75; after...
...votes. But the League has spread to other states. We have a membership of 250,000 in 13 states and had tickets up in 9 states this last fall, polling a gubernatorial vote of 1,245,000 in these 9 states, more than the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties combined got in 48 states...
When asked what was the connection of the Nonpartisn League with the Farmer-Labor party, Mr. Liggett replied emphatically. "We have nothing to do with the Farmer-Labor Party and their organization has not affected our hold on the farmer, they did not even run a ticket in North Dakota." Mr. Liggett refused to say, however, either that the Farmer-Labor Party was headed to extinction or that the Nonpartian League would not amalgamate with the new party. "In fact I look to the emalgamation of all the radical parties in the country in about a year," he declared...
...letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid transportation from the postoffice to the airplane itself, the flier will labor under the handicap of time checked up against him before he is actually...