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...National Wheat Conference at Chicago: "More than ten million men, women and children of the United States are directly interested in the production of wheat." The announcement was probably true, but the Governors might have added 'several thousand politicians who are very much concerned with the wheat problem...
...promulgated, in no way affects the subterranean efforts for a "settlement" which have been going on for some weeks at Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, even Washington. The French have no intention of staying their hand in the Ruhr until definite preliminaries to a settlement of the Ruhr and reparations problem have been agreed upon...
...Drew a Crowd. The Rev. Ernest Thorn of Peckham, England, has gone to extreme lengths to solve the problem of lax church attendance. Last week he appeared before his flock as Abraham at the age of 127, and told the story of Sarah's death and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He asked the audience to refrain from applause, and requested that no one regard it as a performance. So great a crowd did he draw that he packed his church twice over. In this connection, it may be pointed out that the modern theatre arose...
Many inexplicable accidents have been attributed to the lack of physical adaptability of pilots in the rarefied air and intense cold of great heights. To investigate this important problem, the French Air Ministry has constructed a pneumatic caisson from which air can be withdrawn at will and which can be cooled by means of a refrigerating machine, so that the occupants of the chamber may be made to experience these effects. Into this chamber three well known French military aviators, armed with oxygen tanks and clothed in fur costumes, were recently introduced and "ascended" some 30,000 feet without leaving...
...there's the problem, too, for what of Babbitt, Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...