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Everyone will not be satisfied with what the present Congress accomplished in its final session. Its worst critics will affirm that it did things it ought not to have done and left undone all the important things. Labor wants immediate action on the immigration question; others want relief at once from the heavy burdens of war-time taxation. And to make matters worse the long-suffering Congress has only-till March 4 to satisfy popular clamor...
Congress should cheek all immigration without wasting much time, and this would be the wisest thing to do, inasmuch as the present emergency passport legislation under which immigration is now controlled expires on March 4. The solution of such an important question as the admission of foreigners demands time for investigation and discussion; no doubt the present administration would gladly pass on to President-elect Harding the responsibility of determining our future policy in the matter. If Congress, with the immigration problems off its hands, could then accomplish something to relieve the taxpayers of the country, it will, at least...
...There is no question of White Australia," declared Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, speaking at the Union last night, "it was settled years...
...does labor strike? Figures published by the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration in New York show that of the 240 industrial disputes in that state for one year, 139 were for higher wages, 21 for shorter hours and 37 were on the question of trade unionism. The most noticeable, feature of these statistics is that the number of demands for higher wages was 52 percent greater than in the previous report. It indicates clearly the attitude of labor to force its demands without reasoning matters out. For the idea of settling higher wages in proportion to greater production never appeared...
...There is no question that the University's greatest need at the present time is the completion of the Endowment Fund," said Professor T. W. Richards '86, Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, in an interview yesterday. Professor Richards is a member of many important scientific societies of both this country and Europe, and a noted authority on chemical problems. He is President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...