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Three years later Dwight Morrow's first civic obligation descended upon him. Press and public in New Jersey were kicking up a storm of protest about the State's prison conditions. Harried Governor Walter Evans Edge appealed to him to serve on a correctional committee. Morrow accepted, became chairman, finally knew more about prison conditions than any layman in the country. From then on his duties came thick & fast. He was sent all over the State by Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo to boom War Saving Stamps. Soon after, President Wilson put him on the Allied Maritime Transport Council, sent...
...wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . Labor is the source of created wealth and Labor will protest so long as the inequitable distribution of wealth continues. This inequity can be wiped out in two ways, through a distribution in the form of wages and earnings, and through redistribution through the masses by taxation. . . . No man should have the right to hand down his great fortune intact, any more than...
...Glasgow was not calmed that easily. Looting and rioting continued intermittently for three days. Scotch reporters gloomily wired that a simple impulse to snatch and steal, rather than any motive of politics or protest seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy...
...sailing date of the French Line ship that will carry him, 5. S. lie de France. Promptly in several hundred European hotels other passengers booked on the lie de France seized the usual ink-clogged pens, dipped them furiously into the familiar purple fluid, scratched and splattered torrents of protest...