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When the naval conference first came into being, the opinion was generally prevalent that disarmament would take place. It was wildly suggested that war might even be abolished altogether. In the midst of the journalistic paean of praise that followed, Bernard Shaw was heard to remark that the only thing that the conference would determine would be whether the next war would be fought with twelve or eighteen inch guns. Perhaps the great dramatist had seen too many post-war scraps of paper scattered before the wind of national feeling and industrial competition...
...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...
...United Church of Canada (Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian) is a huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder...
...crusty young gazetteer from Lahore, just beginning to capture a world-wide audience of greater enthusiasm than discrimination. And when a successor to harmless old Alfred Austin was needed in 1913, Poet Kipling was already an anachronism. Moreover, the one sorry "bloomer" that Laureate Austin had committed-a headlong paean to celebrate the Jameson Raid in South Africa (1896)-was directly traceable to the Kipling virus...
...invention is a conspicuous feature of modern industry. The tale told in the February "Current History", by John W. O'Leary, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, fairly bubbles with the joy of quoting seven figure sums. His article, "Twenty-five Years of American Prosperity", is a paean of industrial progress. For the American may vaunt that the wealth of his country, 89 billions of dollars in 1900, has more than trebled since. Some Croesus power has magically turned a five billion dollar debt into a present credit of sixteen billions. The industrial majesty thus won sweeps swiftly...