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...railway was superposed on a map of the Western hemisphere; it wriggled south from New York, across the Caribbean and the bulge of South America, and came to an end somewhere west of Chile, at about the latitude of the Robinson Crusoe Islands. Startling facts were flashed on a screen: "If two-thirds of the population of the world were as highly educated as the other third, the productive capacity of the world would be doubled"; "Ninety-five per cent. of the population of India is illiterate"; "Less than half of the people of the world have ever heard...
Evidence is becoming overwhelming that, in spite of the wordy smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...
Swiftly the screen of circumstances is being shifted. In the space of twelve months hundreds of thousands of Americans have become security holders, many little realizing the significance of their changing attitude. They have become Liberty Bond holders, buyers of Thrift Stamps. Many have not known, do not yet know that that which they do for their country in its crucial hour is certain to create a new instinct that of a fixed habit of saving and sound investment...
...Liberty Loan moving picture "Five Billion Dollars in Twenty-seven Days" will be shown in the open air this evening and Saturday evening at a patriotic rally on the Common. The film will be shown on a screen stretched across in front of the Shepard Norwell building on Tremont street. The program will be given at six, eight and ten o'clock. Many of the best known moving picture stars in the country have given their services in the preparation of this film. Chairman $100 Team 1 1800 Team 2 3300 Team 3 1300 Team 4 700 Team...
...have all longed to know the life stories of our screen favorites, their ideals, their triumphs, and their sorrows. The dramatic pages of the daily papers have given us personal interviews with "Flary Flickford," "Clara Bara" and "Valeska Sewerat," but all such articles seem to suppress the essentials we cry for. At last the barriers are down, Lampy has made the flickering screen transparent, and our curiosity is entirely satisfied...