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...Commissioner of the railways reports that satisfactory progress is being made in reorganizing the State railway systems and in reducing the number of employees. Increases have been authorized in freight and passenger rates, which are expected to yield 100,000,000 lire annually...
...cutting. But overbalancing these faults and dangers lies the great principle of educational healthiness--the ideal that students and professors should stand on their own merits and not attempt to learn or teach by compulsion. Every step in the gradual extension of freedom in cutting is a sign of progress...
...Events in the past summer have seen some progress in world peace thought In 1911 a situation arose which might have been solved by a conference, but the machinery for such a conference was lackine and war followed. In the summer of 1923 we beheld another association and another ultimately One party seemed determined to have its will Yet, after the conference, peace followed...
...Progress of reconstruction in devastated France...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...