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...Ours is a force of defense, not offense. To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only economic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors. . . . Our problem is ... to prevent extremists on one side from undermining the public will to support our necessary forces and to prevent extremists on the other side from waste of public funds...
...below. But the amenities of the House Plan make all the more evident the discrepancy between the sheltered college and the world outside. Many men, particularly those holding scholarships, will find swift disillusionment when they discover that their carning capacity in the first year after graduation is insufficient to maintain the inflated standard of living to which they have become accustomed...
...cooperate with our Engineering Staff in a Decrease-In-Membership Drive inaugurated in June. This drive is aimed to discourage applications from new members and to encourage a reduction in the number of old members. It is only in this way that the Guild will be able to maintain its deficits...
...example, still enables local boards to keep the standard of teachers high; while the provision that the Central Board may reduce the promised 50 per cent of total local expenses in the case of schools which allow overcrowding of classes, unsanitary conditions, or other causes of inefficiency, helps to maintain a high standard of school administration. The advance of school age which Mr. Fisher contemplated has not yet been realized, but night schools, vocational schools and other special classes for children of over 14 years of age, help to compensate for this failure...
Followed an explanation of urinary surgery, by Dr. Arthur Henry Bitrgess of Manchester, England. An important point: catheterization for urinary retention is a dangerous procedure The retention causes a back pressure against the kidneys, which adjust themselves to the abnormal condition. Perspiration removes sufficient water from the body to maintain a satisfactory state of invalidism. Catheterization suddenly relieves the kidneys of back pressure, causes kidney injuries and, usually, a fatal kidney bleeding. In aged persons is this fact especially...