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...This high ratio is accounted for by the fact that a barber exerts the power of life and death over his patients. Gratitude for present escape and trepidation for the future combine to stimulate the gift. Waiters must be content with less. Fifteen percent on checks under two dollars, ten percent over that. On all checks between seven and eleven dollars a dollar is the correct amount...
...Walsh, elected to the Senate in 1918, was the first Democratic Senator from Massachusetts in 68 years, the fourth in the history of the state. *This county in the Finger Lakes district is the stamping ground of the famed progeny of two sisters (Jukes) and two Dutch backwoodsmen. Sixty percent of this hereditary strain are idiots, imbeciles, harlots, murderers, thieves, perverts, felons, loons, sots, paupers, maniacs, etc. The Jukes have cost the government $1,308,000 in 75 years. "Boss" Brennan is no Juke...
Western railroads wanted a general freight rate increase of 5 percent; the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated for more than a year and last week said, "No." Its report asserted that, "so far as the major portion of the western district is concerned, no financial emergency exists...
Illiteracy figures as quoted in the current "World's Work" credit Germany with the lowest proportion of illiterates in her population with the figure of five hundredths of one percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine...
Some of the most interesting figures are those connected with Freshman class. In 1924 the number of Freshmen on the Dean's List was 89, being 9.5 percent of the enrolment. This year the number is 119 and the percentage of the enrolment is 14 percent. This shows a steady increase in the percentage of mew Freshmen on the Dean's List...