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...buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...
...argument is at best unsatisfactory and incomplete. The need for extraordinary measures is slight. "Harvard authorities" will probably continue to take action only on extreme and exemplary cases, and the crop of wild oats will probably grow less in the course of time, due to a scarcity of seed, and to an increasing sanity on the part of the sowers...
Other crops were estimated as follows: wheat, 781,737,000 bushels; oats, 1,302,453,000 bushels; barley, 199,251,000. bushels; hay, 102,914,000 tons; flax seed, 19,343,000 bushels; rice, 32,737,000 bushels; peaches, 45,555,000 bushels; apples, 193,855,000 bushels; sweet potatoes, 97,429,000 bushels; sugar beets, 6,667,000 tons...
...inexorable. Two men, Commander William C. Calhoun and Lieutenant Commander Seed, will be among those tried by court martial, and will lose their commands because of this report. Yet the same report asked that official letters of commendation be given these two for " coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability," for "great bravery," in meeting the emergency after their ships had dashed on the rocks...
...Council met in 1921 and established a valuable new regime But to argue that this country should not keep up to its quota or should disarm completely as an angelic example to the rest of the world is utter nonsense. For disarmament does not preclude war, and until the seed of war is completely removed, no nation will be willing to scrap all of its arms...