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...order to grow more of the necessities," Professor Carver said, "it will be necessary for more men to devote their energy to such production. The Government, however, will take many men for military purposes. To get extra laborers there are two possibilities: first, there must be greater utilization of women. For this, it would be necessary for those who are not now at work discharge their servants that they might be used for other purposes. The second possibility is in cutting down on luxuries. The men thus released could enlist or turn to more necessary production. Similar results would...
...Judge Advocate General's Department), Medicine and Surgery, Metallurgy, Meteorology, etc., Navigation, Sanitation, Seismology, Telegraphy and Wireless, Topography (under U. S. Geological Survey, War Department Division), Transportation, Veterinary Science. In addition it may be suggested that business men of good experience in handling problems of supply, transportation, labor, etc., are well suited to enter the Quartermaster's Corps...
...uneven strength and all present unlimited possibilities of improvement." The principle need seems to be satisfactory endowment, which will not make the departments dependent on the varying gifts of each year. For the most part the housing of the collections is unsuitable. The price of books, binding, labor and everything else is rising so rapidly that the inelastic budget is unable to keep pace...
...Henry Abrahams, of the Boston School Committee, and secretary of the Boston Central Labor Union, will speak on "What the College Man Owes the Community." Mr. S. E. Wright, head of Hale House Settlement, will speak of "Methods of Training Volunteers." They undergraduate viewpoint on social service will be presented by two men which are doing active work in this field at the present time...
...railways, it should be permitted to get it. If the railroads and the employees need information for the purpose of collective bargaining, it is of fundamental importance to society that they should be able to secure it. So if the public which is affected by a strike or a labor dispute between railway employees and managers want information in order that they may throw the weight of their support on one side or the other, it is fundamental that they should be able to obtain it. The fact that the Adamson Act directs an eight-months' experiment to be made...