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...hardly necessary to remark that an essential of the reorganized course will be an improvement in material equipment. An experimental theatre, whether a remodeled building or preferably a new auditorium, is Indispensable. The past has too bitterly demonstrated the futility of expecting sustained results with poverty stricken equipment. The genius-killing grind with inadequate tools must be eliminated outright...
...dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus may the diabetes-stricken fight their malady, at some future time, with lozenges...
...battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining the fate of soldiers and civilians reported missing. He was, through his personal organization, enabled to help stricken relatives in every way possible by forwarding parcels and organizing charities. Another thing, not at all well known, was that the King offered to lead an Army himself in the Allied cause. The offer was refused as clearly impossible if Spain were to maintain a neutral attitude. And, in last proof...
...supporting the exported soul-savers and their families, will it not be desirable that the enlightened Americans revise their ideas of soul and its salvation and see that by merely converting large numbers of starving Indians to Christianity they are saving only bodies? Such "relief work" in the famine stricken areas of that poor country is undoubtedly commendable. As long as India is politically in bondage and hence unable to handle her problems of artificial famines, she will have to depend upon the generosity of other nations to protect her millions from starvation. No educated Indian could be or would...
...which he was interested. This appropriation was included in the budget estimates for the Department of the Interior for next year, and Senator Pittman allowed the deficiency bill to pass. Then he heard that the Appropriations Committee of the House, in reporting the Department of Interior supply bill, had stricken out the Spanish Springs project again. Again his ire was aroused. He announced that the Interior supply bill would never pass the Senate unless Spanish Springs were included, and prepared to renew his fight...