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...Origin of the Next War" begins with the statement that the World War failed completely as a war to end war, because international conflict as an institution did not cease. His short survey over post-war history makes us aware of the alarming fact that there have been wars of more or less importance in one part of the world or another ever since the Armistice. Inquiring into the causes of wars in general, Mr. Bakeless asserts that a complex chain of economic forces makes war almost inevitable in the modern world. "The general increase in population," he writes...
...Greenough presents significant variations from the form. For example, whil the percentage of Seniors seeking distinction has increased in one year ten percent and in two years eighteen the proportion actually achieving it has slightly fallen off. The wish is evidently not father to the deed. The much heralded post-war renaissance of study seems at first sight not to go beyond the vaporings of a fatile ambition. If, however, the undoubted fact be weighed that the college's four-year tax on labor has become progressively more severe, then the evidence that distinction that men have held their...
...explanation of the great vogue of these periodicals is simple enough. The relaxation and reaction from prurient Victorian prudery has extended to the masses. The post-war restlessness completed the swing and it was accentuated by returning soldiers who had come into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work...
Observers recalled that many post-War frontiers are not yet accurately mapped...
Blunt, two-fisted Samuel Matthews Vauclain has been President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, with plants at Philadelphia and Eddystone, Pa., since 1919. During the early post-War years his company continued supplying U. S. and foreign railroads at large production and large profit. In 1923 its profits reached the tidy sum of $11,931,521. But in the next year the railroad equipment market throughout the world was beginning to show demoralization. Baldwin's profits for 1924 were only $1,920,026. But stored surplus was $18,367,268. The profit showing was not seriously groaned...