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...issue in the coal strike beginning at midnight tonight is chiefly one of wages. The workers demand an increase of 20 percent for contract labor while the operators want a change in the other direction. Each party has stood firmly by its original position, but for two reasons the great responsibility for the strike seems to go to the operators. They have refused to meet the United Mine Workers in a conference, as contracted for in their present wage agreement, and they have obtained and injunction against the Federal Trade Commission restraining it form investigation...
...literature and drama in a similar fashion, the boast that "A" has a rating of 15.392 will be his publisher's best selling argument. Writers may be expected to append their ratings to their names, such as William Shakespeare 22.4. Critics will debate whether one-tenth of one percent would be intoxicating for a budding novelist; and flappers will have only to consult their "Table of Critical Values" to develop the correct line for an intellectual visitor...
...have come and knocked at our doors and been admitted regardless of their education in our civilization and customs or our method of Government has cause serious apprehension for the continued stability of the nation. This Congress passed a law limiting those who could come in to 3 percent of any one nationality already here. But this Act was only temporary and expires June 30, 1922. Many sad cases have arisen under it where people have been brought here by Steamship Companies only to find that the quota or their country has been filed. A new measure has just been...
...thing that was evident in the course of the lecture was that Mr. Burns looked on crime and criminals not only from the point of view of a cold-blooded detective but form that of the philosopher and psychologist. "Environment is responsible for 85 to 90 percent of all crime committed in this country," he said. He always made an effort to find out what turned the criminal on the wrong path, and was interested in seeing whether a criminal went straight afterwards...
...first responsibility is for every citizen to at all times exercise the right of voting. This year over 40,000 people failed to vote in the Boston election and the year before only 30 percent voted for members of the municipal council. Everyone can perform this service and no man or woman who has the right to vote and fails to vote through his own fault, can regard himself as other than a traitor to democracy...