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...stupendous force which might change everything to the world's heart's desire, has failed to do so, charges Dickinson S. Miller in this week's New Republic, not because it lacks power, but because it is too young and afraid of itself. Well-equipped with all the raw material furnished by the scientific method, intelligence is nevertheless too cautions about thinking things to an end he says; hence there are wars, slums, crimes, stupid politics and still more stupid schemes of education...
Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
Sugar refineries have in the meantime been operating practically at capacity, with the result that they have accumulated large stocks of refined sugar. This heavy surplus tends of course to keep prices low for the raw as well as the refined product...
...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...
...accused of indifference--he is most likely unusually fond of children, and his fondness has doubtlessly been inspired by observing the Cambridge Police. Boston society has, of course, contributed to make the Harvard man a drunkard--a position which requires judgment and no small capacity for uniting various raw materials. Harvard's sense of proportion and blance is amply illustrated by Professor Moss' assumption that the Harvard graduate who becomes a caretaker is probably a moron...