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Secondly, the cry which has reached you comes very largely from the newspapers. This is purely a selfish cry resulting from the fact that the vast majority of newspapers call upon writers who are only partly qualified to handle the subject. They are men whose normal field is baseball, boxing, golf, or some other un-allied subject. The newspapers seem unwilling to bear the expense of securing expert writers and sending them to various preliminary games which will qualify them to write an accurate account of the proceedings in a big game. I see no reason why anyone should cater...
...functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal fluctuations characteristic of every industry are carefully eliminated; while allowance is made for other causes which have no part in the normal course of the business cycle. The various series which appear to have most in common in the character and time of their fluctuations are then grouped together. They naturally divide themselves into three groups of which one, that covering the activities of speculation in securities, predicts the movements of the others...
...affairs, none but the gullible have any choice but to register at the polls without voting at all. This line of action requires of us courage to withstand exasperating misrepresentation and it is futile without public explanation. But it will remain the only effective course open to liberals until normal-minded parties arise in place of those organizations which have effected not one act of public importance since their provocation of civil...
...voice in the management of their factories, but that is not revolution; it is progress. Italy, in other words, far from turning "bolshevik," has finally thrown off the scum of unrest brought to the surface by the boiling heat of war, and has settled back again to a normal period of living and working...
After the four years of war and one year of reconstruction, the Pierian Sodality is just getting back to its normal basis this season...