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...nation's greatest problems, partly because they are afraid of it, and partly because it is not a popular issue. Yet immigration regulation is one of the unsolved questions of our time and, as yet, there seems to be no satisfactory solution. We feel deeply the lack of raw immigrants every day, when we are forced to pay unheard of wages to the unskilled laborers. Yet in times when we have had immigration, we felt equally keenly how they tended to lower our standards of living. Conditions on the East Side of New York were unbelievable. In 1914, there were...
...that some cars are actually being sold for less than the cost to the manufacturer of the labor and material in them, but philanthropy is not a business policy to satisfy the average investor and there is, as usual, an excellent reason. Motor car manufactures have considerable stocks of raw materials, and a careful study of the markets by their experts has foretold a slump in these markets. Shrewd business sense has therefore dictated the policy of unloading the present inventory of raw material quickly, and at a loss if need be, in order that a falling market...
...Cold, raw weather affected the playing of both baseball teams yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Saxony Worated Mills nine winning the first game of the fall schedule, 1-0. Cameron's triple, the only clean hit made by the Saxony nine, occurred just after Thayer had failed to net a short drive to centerfield and scored the opposing pitcher, Switzer, on base due to the misplay...
...point which Coach Bingham particularly stressed is the importance of the fall practice. In previous years the men have reported for track after Christmas entirely unknown to the coaches and entirely out of condition, so that it was necessary to pick a team in two or three weeks from raw, untrained and unknown material. It is in order to avoid this necessity that fall track is being conducted this year...
...quarters of the workmen involved want to make haste slowly. Mr. Turati, veteran leader of the moderate Socialist group in the Parliament, in an interview reported in yesterday's Evening Post, said that Italy needed more production, and that production could not be increased without new management, plenty of raw materials "and, above all, tranquility." The extremists, he said, could not provide raw materials, which would have to be obtained largely from abroad, nor could they provide tranquility. The Italian workmen, he added, were not inclined to the "Asiatic" ideas of the Third International; once again Italia fara...