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...country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume of traffic through its heart, partly because it saw the nation's need, New York lately offered to turn its canal over to the Government and then put on political pressure to get the Government to accept. Army engineers were assigned to survey the cost...
Arguments: The arguments presented by the New Yorkers were: 1) That the New York route would lie entirely within the U. S. 2) That U. S. ports, not Canadian ports, would profit by it. 3) That in time of war it would be valuable to the country to have the route entirely within our boundaries. 4) That it is more than 1,300 miles shorter as a route from the Great Lakes to the West Indies and South America. 5) That because it is more southerly it would be open for navigation from 30 to 45 days more a year...
...CRIMSON of a day or two age presented an interesting speculation regarding the use of humor and of humorous questions in debating. Competitive speaking between colleges happens at present to find itself in a state of metamorphosis of which some aspects are necessarily unlovely and extreme; and it can profit definitely by examining the frank criticism of those who sit in debating audiences or who serve as its official judges...
...individual mothers. The impoverished can get it free. Other private patients and hospitals pay 15¢ to 25¢ an ounce. Last year the Federation paid out $7,000 for the 1860 quarts of milk produced, or $3.70 a quart** The cost for handling an ounce was 23¢. There was no profit...
...same position as a new baby. It has sufficient ugliness to make honest friends of the parents casual in their praise; it is sufficiently naked to allow real inspection by the skeptic who rather doubts the worth of babies as items in the sum total of pragmatic profit; and it is enough of a power, for all babies are autocrats, to make the older brothers and sisters worry about future fatted calves...