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...take an analogy for illustration: Suppose, here in Cambridge there is a workingman's family, whose income, by the reduction of wages or for other reasons, has been cut by 30 percent of its former total; we may say, for argument's sake, that the said family will try to get along with the new means of budget by dispensing with the outlay of comparatively unnecessary things, in order to sustain the lives of the family...
...result of the scarcity of rice with the consequently prohibitive price of this food to the average Japanese family, a law was passed to promote and encourage the farmers who engage in the reclamation of the country's waste lands. The law provided for a governmental guarantee of 6 percent interest upon the capital invested by its farmers. I must emphasize the fact that it was only because of this 6 percent guarantee that an increase in the amount of arable land has been brought about since then, and that since 1906, the cultivated area has been practically...
...Japan that nature has given to 35,000,000 farm workers only 15,000,000 acres of arable land. It is also in Japan that more than 70 percent of the farmers are cultivating less than two and a half acres of land, while those who are given more than 15 acres constitute but 1.22 percent of the total number of farmers...
According to the War Records Office figures, taking no account of the S. A. T. C., there were 8144 Harvard men in the armies of the United States and its associates, of whom 6010 or over 73 percent received commissions; while in the navies of the United States or its associates there were 1882 men from the University, of whom 1341, or over 71 per cent were commissioned. The total number of Harvard men on the Honor Roll of those who died...
They have referred the question of Chinese revenues to a subcommittee of which Senator Underwood of the American delegation is chairman. The present custom rates of five percent were determined years ago by treaty between China and the various Powers--China is therefore not free to determine for herself her own tariff rates. The situation is complicated by what is known as the likin, a system of interprovincial tariffs. It is all far from being simple, though the desire of the Chinese to secure the right to make their own tariff laws as other nations do, is simple enough...