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...Economics Department in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday. "But really at bottom the trouble arises as a sequence of the Great War. The abnormal prices and profits stimulated the opening up of a great number of shafts,--with a productive capacity far in excess of the normal requirements of the country. These mines naturally give employment to an abnormal number of men,--an army of employees which can supply the country with coal when working but a fraction of each week. So many men are now trying to get a living on part-time employment that the wages needed...
...reason for the failure of the railroads. Capital wants more security for its money, and a higher rate of interest. Labor wants more pay for less effort. Until these two extremes are reconciled, industry will continue in its present state. Of course, I believe that conditions will return to normal eventually, but that day is very far off, unless both capital and labor agree to make important concessions...
...federal control. The so-called chaotic condition of China and her backwardness have been over-emphasized in the press of America under the instigation of Japanese propagandists. From an intimate knowledge of conditions in China, I would venture the assertion that economically and commercially China is probably today more normal than any other large nation, and in spite of the political difference which exist she is today more homogenous even politically than any equal aggregate population to be found anywhere in the world...
...Fahrenheit was the temperature at which the experiments in Chicago were conducted--while detracting nothing from the intense interest in the scientific aspect of the feat, would nevertheless render the experiment useless for all practical purposes and would leave intact the present theory of atoms as regards use under normal circumstances...
...Beirut the conditions are more normal since this section of territory is under French control and so is in a better condition to make use of the educational advantages offered. The colleges are non-secretarian and are patronized by all classes of political and social believers. The object is to train leaders in all walks of life to work among their own people. The work which is carried on wholly in English includes courses in Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Engineering, and Medicine...