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...twelve-hour day, prohibition?any of these may arouse the new President to action. Without altering greatly President Harding's course, Mr. Coolidge may, by exercising less of a spirit of compromise or conciliation and by a more vigorous championing of his beliefs, change the course of any one problem, upset the calculations of politicians. Political observers incline to the opinion that he is capable of just such action...
...living. In the South the departure of the Negroes will cut down cotton production somewhat. The result will be higher prices for Southern farmers, better living conditions, improved methods of farming and better conditions for the Negroes who remain in the South. As Secretary of Agriculture Wallace suggested, the problem of the wheat region of the West will probably find its ultimate solution in a similar way. Meanwhile the South is suffering by the migration. But for the country as a whole, if a Negro in the cotton fields is worth $1.25 a day, and a Negro at the steel...
...derive small aid and comfort from Professor O'Shea's compilation of data on Tobacco and Mental Efficienc*?the most temperate, unbiased and scientific approach to the question yet published. The book is the first of a series of studies projected by the Committee to Study the Tobacco Problem, organized in 1918, a group of 59 physicians, psychologists, physiologists, economists, educators and other leaders interested in the subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs and Sir William Osier, have died. While the committee...
Senator Underwood of Alabama told the Rotary Club of Birmingham that this is "a critical day for the world. ... I want to call your attention to the fact that this problem is not only a problem for Europe. It is a problem that is on the firing line of the Northwest today, and I pray to God it will not be on the firing line of the South tomorrow. ... I see black clouds blowing from the West...
Attention is drawn "to the alarming indications of industrial unrest everywhere apparent." Emphasis is laid on the unemployment problem and its disruptive effect on the trades unions, the " safeguards of industrial peace." It is estimated that if unemployment continues at its present rate the unions will be bankrupt within a year...