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...Haven teams, of ancient elevens, and prehistoric nines, together with well-earned footballs and baseballs, make the Trophy Room of the Union a place worth lingering in, but at second thought it is evident that this room does not give us all that is showed. The collection is poverty-stricken in comparison with the richness of the material which must have been accumulated somewhere in all these years...
...England's war debt. In other countries there are bondholders who control the debt in the same way. The interest on the war debt of Europe amounts to one and a fifth billion dollars and this falls on the taxpayers. We see the effects of this upon the poverty stricken country people of France. But if war makes us strong and a world power, we must have...
...Southern Italy and Sicily which saddened the civilized world at the close of the old year had hardly ceased rumbling before contributions were being poured in to central agencies in this and other countries throughout the world to be used in relieving the agonies and sufferings of the stricken Messinians and Calabrians. Large sums of money have been hurried to the scene of the disaster and supplies of food and clothing are being rushed to the relief of the sufferers...
Literally hundreds of thousands of lives have been annihilated by the force of the eruptions and the fires and the sea. Lower Italy is panic stricken; mere words cannot describe the awful state into which the country has been plunged. Heroic efforts to relieve the distress are being made by scores of men and women in the vicinity whose lives were spared, but more money and more provisions are needed. It is right that this community give of its abundance at this time and contribute liberally to this, the noblest of causes--the relief of human grief and suffering...
...socialist movement is only 35 years old, but it has already a membership of over ten million men and is spreading with incredible speed over the earth. Throughout Europe all the scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and just emerging from the social conditions of the middle ages. Modern capitalizing was developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished...