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...Tapping in May. If every grower who promises to refrain from tapping rubber trees during May keeps his word, rubber production for the month should be down 50%, for the year, 3%. So the Rubber Growers Association of Great Britain predicted when last week it announced that 80% of the British and Dutch growers in the Far East had assented. But dealers, knowing that active growers have never shown interest in curtailment, are skeptical, expect only a temporary effect in the rubber market...
...estimated for next year. President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music advocated state music centres, suggested supporting them by a tax on baseball and other public sports. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians seized the opportunity to flay "canned" music once more. His refrain: "There will be no incentive for young musicians if 200 cheap musicians in Hollywood can supply all the music necessary for 60,000 theatres...
Oscar Wilde once polished off an epigram to the effect that selfishness is not doing what one pleases but in trying to make others do what one pleases. Be that as it may, this genial writer can't help offering suggestions for others to read anymore than he can refrain from bouncing in delightedly on some unsuspecting lecture which offers the unusual. Besides he hasn't burst into print for a long time and probably won't again until this serious business of guiding his youthful adherents into entertaining classrooms begins again...
...aristocrats are objecting [to the Dictatorship]. . . . The Conservatives are opposed. . . . Those closest to the church refrain from applauding. . . . The press, for reasons everybody knows, all join the others who are against the Dictatorship and say it has lasted too long...
...American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., with members in every state and territory of the Union, and on behalf of millions of unorganized Atheists, respectfully requests that you refrain this year from issuing the Thanksgiving Proclamation...