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Indirect aid will be given by increased tariff rates on farm products, if the Ways and Means Committee can succeed in pushing its plan through Congress. The House is expected to pass the bill without difficulty, but the Senate may "load to down" by trying to include protection or manufactured products. By both the direct and indirect methods Congress is responding to the farmers appeals which admit of no delay...
...race means more than mere sport. Not only does it help to cement more firmly the friendship between the Canadian and American merchant marines; it also stimulates interest in the merchant marines themselves, and especially in the New England fleets. Like "Man o' War," Esperanto is carrying the double load of international friendship and American glory. May she carry it well, that a new bond may spring up between America and her neighbor across the St. Lawrence, and a new name be added to old Gloucester's roll of fame...
...short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life as they will have to be met day after day until death. A mind well disciplined and stripped of useless lumber should be the goal of a college education, and not an untrained intelligence staggering under a load or information never to be needed...
...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
...Flinn goes on to say that the writer of the CRIMSON editorial advocated our breaking faith with our fighting men. I am somewhat at a loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...