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...Mountains and slept there for twenty years. Young children have kicked their heels before an open fire as mothers read them the tale of Rip Van Winkle. Barefooted urchins with long bamboo poles have wondered at the persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon...
...East Didsbury, Manchester, was a worker in a British cotton mill. In his spare time Charles Powell of East Dids-bury likes to take pictures. This summer he went on vacation with his pretty tousle-haired fiancee to the Isle of Man. He took her picture sitting on a rock against the sunset with a cheap Kodak she had given him for a birthday present. The picture seemed very good. He enlarged it and sent it to the International Kodak Exhibition at Geneva, a contest for which the various European and U. S. subsidiaries of the U. S. Eastman Kodak...
...adopted heroic measures in regard to its "non-resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting fire trails...
...plan is a significant one. In contrast to Owen D. Young's tearful pleas for money to tide over the starving, here is a hard-headed measure of a man's real willingness to work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the industrious needy from the conveniently unemployed. Any able-bodied man can keep body and soul together at the work provided without a drain upon the state, thus greatly lessening the need for downright dole...
Italy honors the fearless spirit of youth by naming her National organization of boys after the youth Baltila, who is reputed to have opened fire on the enemy invading his native village with the only weapon at his command, a rock, while all about him stood helpless in the paralysis of fear. He gave his life to kindle the fighting spirit in his fellow townsmen and lives forever in the lives and activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost...