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That the disastrous Worcester fire yesterday was incendiary in origin is the suspicion of many officials who are investigating the stricken area. If evidence is forthcoming to prove that such is the case, a serious problem is at once presented. So widespread is the district affected that whether the responsibility lies in a deliberate plot on the part of "reds," or of a gang of fanatical firebugs, the matter calls for the fullest examination...
...committee of five men elected by the Norwegian Storthing to confer the Nobel Prize is far more likely that we to place President Wilson where he properly ranks--above the place our harsh opinions would assign and below that suggested by the adoration of war-stricken peoples. The whole country will-feel proud to know that for the third time a citizen of the United States has been judged by the Norwegian committee to be worthy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Social Service Committee is now planning a new branch of activity. It will organize a bureau for keeping in touch directly with poverty-stricken families and to send aid to them from the University in substantial form at other times as well as at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter...
...lasting value as any we have rendered in the past. We must build up the civilization that has been torn down. Now that active assistance through the League has been blocked by failure of the Treaty, individual effort must be applied to the task of building up the stricken fields of enterprise. Individual capital, private organizations for reconstruction, must take up the task in the absence of Government action, by lending American resources to give that aid which the Government does not see fit to offer...
...Murlin, who was secretary of the commission appointed by the Methodist-Episcopal Church of America to administer relief to stricken countries in Europe, spent four months last summer working among the people of these republics. He has, therefore, a large store of knowledge drawn from actual observation on which to base this diagnosis of the situation...