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...expected that several days would be spent in debate. Instead, after only one day, the Democrats forced a vote and supplanted the Mellon rates by the rates proposed by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, Democrat (surtaxes beginning at 10% on $10,000 increasing to 40% at $500,000; normal tax 2% up to $4,000, 4% from $4,000 to $8,000, 6% above $8,000). The vote on the Simmons plan was 43-40 for the surtaxes and 44-37 on the normal taxes. The Republican insurgents (including Hiram W. Johnson) voted with the Democrats, whereas three Democrats, Bayard (paired...
...Raymond Pearl, famed Johns Hopkins biologist, threw a tomb into the ranks of the Drys, who had long believed that the science of physiology was on their side. Making public an investigation based on exact records of the drinking habits of more than 150,000 normal persons throughout their lives, he reached the conclusion that "moderate steady drinkers have a better expectation of life at all ages from 30 to the end of the life span than do total abstainers." Heavy drinkers have the poorest expectation of life at all ages after 30, except that heavy-drinking males from...
...possesses extraordinary ductility and elasticity. A rod or tube of it, bent or twisted from its normal position, will return to its former shape when released, without setting permanently. It can be made to assume any desired shape...
...second baseball nine will play its first home game of the season at 4 o'clock this afternoon when the Bridgewater Normal School team invades Soldier's Field. Coach Stewart and his charges are eager to get back into the win column after the two recent defeats from the hands of Exeter and Worcester, and the visitors will find the Crimson prepared for a hard game...
...unfair, however, to draw from these premises any conclusions overwhelmingly complimentary to the foreign student, and disaparaging to the American. One has every reason to believe that in normal times the continental scholar was, on the whole, quite as dilatory, as indisposed to hard work, as his American counterpart. Where there were lean and hungry students there, working overtime to gain a higher education, there were also men of the same type here. But whereas conditions in the United States have been what is considered "normal" for a long time, and at present seem inclined to remain so, political...