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...losses in battle; our communities are going to be subjected to the rigid discipline of multiplied personal griefs scattered all through the community, and we are going to search the cause of those back to their foundation, and our feelings are going to be torn and our nerves made raw. There is a place for physicians of public opinion to exercise a curative impulse. The young men who are in our colleges, who go to their homes from our colleges and make up a large part of the direction of public opinion, can exercise a curative influence by preaching...
Means for supplying Russia with necessary equipment of every description, from rolling stock and munitions to credits, must be determined. The apportionment of the world's available tonnage, so that Italy may get her raw materials and France her food and coal, will have to be settled. But the conference will do much more than this. Pressing diplomatic and political problems demand immediate settlement and mutual understanding. The Russian project of an allied declaration affirming the Russian resolutions concerning the independence of Poland, the Balkan problem, and China is one of the most important...
...chiefly in inspecting and checking the shipments handled by the Boston office, which is the clearing-house for New England and one of the six main Red Cross depots of the country. Articles are being sent in daily by the different New England chapters, which are furnished with the raw material at wholesale prices by the Boston office, and at present there are over 40 boxes waiting to be inspected and shipped according to directions received from headquarters at Washington...
...saving of man-power and the increased efficiency of the nation's workers which might also be obtained through prohibition. The great problem at the present time is to bring the nation to its highest productive efficiency. This may be done through the conservation of foodstuffs and other raw materials, by withdrawing men from non-productive or destructive occupations and putting them to work where their labor will be of use, and by increasing individual efficiency in any way whatsoever...
...three sections, wireless, wig-wagging and semaphore code word, has been formed; 60 students are enrolled for special training in aviation; a base hospital unit has been formed by Dr. Edward Martin; 41 gymnasium leaders have volunteered for special training and will become instructors for the conditioning of the raw recruits; about 150 men have joined the Naval Reserve; a machine gun corps is being trained, and enlistments have begun for farm and industrial service. The profits of the Mask and Wig Club, the Pennsylvania dramatic organization, will be donated to university military purposes...