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Once more the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken up an unjust situation and helped the minority for the good of the country. Since New England is thickly settled it must obtain many staples and most of its raw materials from other states; and it must depend on the railroads to bring them. In spite of their great importance these roads have been in a precarious financial condition for some time. All the roads of the country have had hard sledding recently, but there are three difficulties peculiar to those of New England...
...abrupt halt. The thousands of amateurs over the country, had made themselves proficient radio operators, and when our Army and Navy in 1917 awoke to the situation, they found that hundreds of radio operators were wanted immediately. To train this number of men up from the condition of a raw recruit meant months and months of work, even though the training facilities were organized, which they were not. And so an appeal was made to the amateurs of the country through their national organization. To the everlasting glory of these splendid young men, be it known that they responded nobly...
...cost of wars, engaged in when she regarded her future existence as threatened, Japan secured on the mainland strategic positions which she is determined not to abandon. At the same time she has discovered that access to the raw materials of the mainland is necessary to enter here into the question whether her population has grown beyond the capacity of the islands to support it. The fact is that Japan, like all other civilized countries, is engaged in developing an industrial life. She does not want to be deprived of the natural advantage here geographical position gives...
...Winsor system is to hockey, what the Haughton-Fisher system is to football; but neither can prove successful, without sufficient raw material. Bearing in mind the fact that last year's Eli Freshmen defeated the 1925 septet, it behooves all those who have ever played the game, and those who think they might be able to learn the intricacies of chasing a puck, to report at the mass meeting in the Union tonight...
...burden of a reduction of prices. Labor unions are a close second. The threatened railroad strike is simply a maneuver to prevent a reduction in the cost of transportation, and force some other group to bear the burden of a reduced cost of production. Farmers and other producers of raw materials have already been forced to suffer a marked reduction in the prices of their products, which prices are costs of production to the secondary industries and to merchants. Few other classes have as yet accepted a corresponding reduction in the prices of their products or services. Until they...