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...inevitably follow. Under such conditions the amortization of our national debt would be impossible. As an alternative the people may save. New assets would then be accumulated. The inflation of loans which the Federal Reserve Banks has been fighting to the extent of raising the rediscount rates to 7 percent would cease. Our national debt could then be genuinely paid for by savings...
Since its organization, about 90 percent of its membership has been composed of college men, many of the more prominent athletes having been numbered on its rolls. After its Mexican Border service, foreseeing that this country must become involved in the World War practically every enlisted man in the Squadron entered a training camp and was commissioned in one of the various branches of the service. The best commentary on the character of its personnel is that out of a total of about 1200 ex-members, over 850 served as commissioned officers in the United States Army or Navy during...
...been estimated that a third our population is unable to pay an appreciable sum for attorney's fees. In Boston the Legal Aid Society found that during the 17 months ended August 31, 1917, the fees required by the State caused a total failure of justice in 23 percent of the persons who needed the aid of the courts...
...point where the present form of primary fails is in the lack of interest which it arouses among the voters. It would seem, this year of all years, that there were burning issues to draw the attention of the most delinquent citizen, but the figures show that not ten percent of the Republican voters of the country expressed their opinions in the primaries just past. Those who did vote do not seem to have done anything which can in any way affect the result of the election...
...method of exaggerating the importance of small minorities this system is quite ideal. The newspapers announce that somebody or other has "swept" a given State, but, when we get the facts, it is found that the "sweeping" consisted in polling somewhere between four and twenty percent of the party vote. It is probable that in all the recent primaries so widely advertised throughout the land there were not so many votes cast for all the contestants as will be cast for President alone in the City of New York next November...