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...sudden expansion of certain war industries made it necessary for them to get labor at any wage. This caused a vast shifting of our labor force everywhere. It occasioned an apparent dearth in all other industries and they began bidding against one another for the remaining supply. Only those industries that could pay the highest wages could get labor. Farmers lost out in this competition and the supply of farm labor was greatly reduced. Domestic service suffered a similar depletion. Even the schools were robbed of some of their pupils. The unusual demand for labor also drew into industry multitudes...
...might seem to be a precious bit of documentation for him, but what is its real explanation. The solemn senators did not say. They may have winked or smiled at each other, but the stenoraphers could not get that down. So, as far as the record goes, it must remain a mystery why Americans. Consule Volstead, liked to make trips to Canada or Cuba. New York Times...
...navies and far harder in the future to increase them. If it cannot accomplish this result any limitation of armament achieved by the coming Conference would be precarious. In a disorderly country where there is no security of person and property, men will carry guns. The western Pacific would remain as essentially disorderly as it has been during the past twenty-five years. Its inhabitants would need armaments for their own protection. The present agitation in favor of disarmament which is prompted as much by poverty as by any devotion to justice and peace would be superseded and its results...
...navies and far harder in the future to increase them. If it cannot accomplish this result any limitation of armament achieved by the coming Conference would be precarious. In a disorderly country where there is no security of person and property, men will carry guns. The western Pacific would remain as essentially disorderly as it has been during the past twenty-five years. Its inhabitants would need armaments for their own protection. The present agitation in favor of disarmament which is prompted as much by poverty as by any devotion to justice and peace would be superseded and its results...
...seldom that the Frenchman, speaking of Germany, can remain absolutely cool and impartial--and little wonder; so that when General Taufflieb, of the French Army, who has an article in the current issue of "The Outlook", makes his statements with the calmness of an unbiased observer, he lends no inconsiderable amount of power to his words. What he says is, in substance, only what all of us know but most have forgotten: Germany must be watched...