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...occurred in what Secretary of State Stimson characterized as "an exceedingly serious situation." President Hoover, alarmed, sent a special message to Congress, asked for another commission of investigation. Since 1915 when President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was publicly butchered* and revolution and carnage reigned, the U. S. has exercised a virtual protectorate over Haiti. Under a 1916 treaty, U. S. armed forces are in the republic for three purposes: 1) to protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering...
...Bursar's statement that this method is the only one under which it is possible for him to break even puts it still definitely up to those in higher authority to permit a certain loss during the early days of experimentation. A virtual subsidy of this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...
...losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government needs a large and efficient air service to provide trained men and ready material in case of war. For that future possibility it is paying the mail carriers a virtual subsidy as are foreign governments. In Europe the subsidies average $1 a mile flown, with little return in the form of postage. In the U. S. the mock subsidy also averages $1 a flying mile. But 5? an ounce postage reduces Government expense to a mere $3,000,000 Post Office deficit...
...Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is the wealthy Roy Mukerji Das, who employs 2,000 laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre...