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...national and local taxation. He must be assisted by the reorganization of the freight rate structure, which could reduce charges on his production. To make this fully effective there ought to be railroad consolidations. Cheaper fertilizers must be provided. . . . Unless we can meet the world market at a profit, we must stop raising for export. Organization would help to reduce acreage...
Such, then, are the facts to be weighed on the profit and loss side of the ledger. The result is not favorable and it will be well for the Student Council, on whose shoulders the responsibility for the present situation lies, to ponder the advisability of continuing a publication for which it must be accountable but of which it cannot always be entirely proud, and which requires a great deal of labor but is of little intrinsic value...
...telephone and the typewriter have played havoc with journalistic English. High speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure, the electric telegraphic typewriter have all added their quotas to the impersonality, haste and complexity of journalism. They have increased the size of papers, so that all the profit must be made-and often some of the expense borne-by advertising revenues. They have made the production of a newspaper an enterprise for large capital, with the consequent driving out of the old editor-owner and the shift of command from the editorial to the business and circulation departments...
There can be no question, on the other hand, that the public school man would profit from greater extra-curriculum work...
...course, for those who are really interested in history, no synopsis or mere condensation will ever replace the voluminous fascinating sources themselves. Those who will profit will be those who would otherwise never trouble themselves with history...