Word: localitis
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Chinese "Long Ruives" and Mexican bandits were both signs of an ineffective central government. Banditry in Mexico received a check when if infringed upon the rights of more responsible governments, when those governments stiffened the spines of local officials and prodded them to action. In a similar way, the sharp remonstrances of foreign diplomats may result in the disappearance of the "Long Knives" from China...
That a period of industrial peace has settled over the entire country is indicated by the report of only nine strikes of any consequence now in progress. Some of these are trivial at present, and none of them appear to cause more than a ripple of local importance. This includes the big railroad shop strike of last July, which is still in effect in some quarters...
Joseph Husband graduated from Harvard in 1908. He was one of those rare souls who was at one time an editor of the CRIMSON, the Lampoon, and Mother Advocate, so he really knows whereof he speaks when he writes about Harvard. So much for local color. The action is swift and interesting. The story is of a scion of an old New England family who expects the world to bow down and worship his blue blood. He manages to stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west...
...been a long time since the I. W. W. have engineered any strike of more than local magnitude. Crippled during the war by the Government which jailed so many of its leaders, sucked dry of effective propaganda by the return of business prosperity which vitiated their " industrial misery and slavery " pleas, and split wide open by internal strife, the I. W. W. has suffered a relapse that most experts on labor problems thought to be fatal. The Marine Workers' strike proves that the I. W. W. have relentless vitality of a kind. Like the serpents of mythology...
...Louis Post-Despatch, which prints pictures of local débutantes as they look now and as they looked ten years ago. Everybody laughs...