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...Federation to select one boy as "Chicago's Best Citizen in 1950" deserves the serious attention of urban dwellers all over the country. Reports of the effects of a city on abnormal children are not lacking, but so far, no one has investigated the results of urban life on normal children. If it is carried out thoroughly, the Chicago plan ought to show what Chicago people think a citizen should be and also what they think their city is doing to children...
There was a good deal of excitement over the reappearance of Amelia Bingham after an extended absence from our footlights. Her part was "fattened" for her special type of playing and well done. Janet Beecher was occupied in her normal, manner with the part of the mother while Katherine Alexander took the general honors as the daughter. Miss Alexander is a tall, handsome miss who has made her most enviable impressions as the various daughters who are this recalcitrant younger generation...
...great part of the world's rubber is under British control. In 1922, the British Colonial office, headed by Winston Churchill, pursuaded Parliament to limit rubber production in the Empire and to reduce exportation to 60% of the normal production. The price of rubber promptly advanced from 15 to 37c. a pound...
...Exchequer, responsible for the enforcement of the rubber-prohibition. He enforced. He told his fellow-countrymen that Americans should pay at least 50c. a pound. Last August, the British Government made a further reduction of 5%, a similar one in November, so that now only 50% of normal British rubber production may, by law, be exported...
Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee received from his legislature a bill. The legislators of Tennessee saw fit to make it unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal or other schools of the State which obtain state funds "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals...