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...first serious indication of the new forces at work among the laboring masses is the Passaic strike. Here the mill-owners have attempted the age old intolerably stupid method of force and terrorism in an attempt to beat back the demand for reform. They have succeeded only in arousing greater determination among the strikers and in attracting nation wide attention to the intolerable conditions among the textile workers...
...recall was part of the state reform movement which began during Roosevelt's regime. To dat, more than half of the states west of the Mississippi have adopted the recall. This piece of political machinery provides that when a certain percentage of the voters of a state sign a petition charging an official (governor, judge, etc.) with violation of his oath of office, there shall be an election held within from 20 to 90 days to oust or support the official in question...
...everyone knows, the international tariff reform most desired by businessmen is the stabilization of tariff schedules. At present they are jumped and lowered so frequently by many of the minor European states that traders find their dealings menaced by uncertainties not unlike those encountered when national currencies are fluctuating rapidly. Instances have occurred in which minor European states have deliberately jumped or lowered their tariffs on the occasion of a single large shipment across their frontiers, readjusting the tariff scale again when the shipment had passed. If such sharp practice could be eliminated and the attitude of tariff barriers fixed...
Died. Thomas Mott Osborne, 67, pioneer in prison reform, onetime (1914-15 and 1916) warden of Sing Sing, newspaper editor;* at Auburn, N.Y., of heart disease. He dropped dead on the street. Later, 1,200 convicts of Auburn Prison marched solemnly past his bier. In 1913 he became "Tom Brown," entered Auburn Prison as a convict, A week later he came out with a philosophy of prison reform. His plan was to restore the prisoner's self-respect and help him maintain it. The key to self-respect, he believed, is labor...
...international college and university affairs, to make such purposiveness and such directness of approach possible. In their, attempt one can find nothing to condemn, unless he be pessimistic concerning the ability of youth to help in the solving of the problems of youth, and everything to praise. All educational reform must come from within, as has been suggested in this column recently, and the Student Federation of America is working from within, adequately, and with a sanity quite to be praised...