Archive for November, 2006

Schools Promote Agnosticism 1922

AGNOSTICISM IN THE SCHOOLS
A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL may be on the way, as some believe; but against this optimistic theory lies the charge that some of the country’s most prominent universities and colleges, and even many high schools, have become “incubators of agnosticism,” and are busy turning out atheists. Among the lecturers and writers who are [...]

Correct use of Condiments 1930

Condiments, Their Use and Abuse
FRANCE IS THE LAND OF THE FLAVOR and the sauce. Few articles of food are there regarded as sufficient unto themselves.
Writers in other lands, jealous, doubtless, of the well-deserved reputation of the French for toothsome cookery, have slyly suggested that this is because the foodstuffs of that land, flavorless in themselves, [...]

Treasury Bonds and Certificates 1927

ANOTHER RUSH FOR TREASURY OFFERINGS
THE oversubscription of the twin Treasury offers for September seems significant to the press as another evidence of the plentifulness of investment funds and of the success of the Government in putting its indebtedness on a lover interest basis with consequent ultimate saving to the taxpayer. Two offerings were made, it [...]

Effects of the 1930 Drought

Good and Evil Effects of the Drought
SOMETHING LIKE A MYSTERY ROLE is being played by the drought in the business drama. It’s an ill drought that brings no good, reflect some commentators, thinking of the rise in grain prices, the use of that burdensome wheat surplus for feed instead of corn, the encouragement given to [...]

World Aviation Code Required 1930

Lindbergh Urges World Air Code
IMPOSSIBLE TO DEVOTE too much attention to overcoming obstacles to international flying!”
So speaks Lindbergh, “aviation counsel to the world,” of what is most needed for development of air travel and commerce in the shrinking distances around our globe.
His plea for securing a uniform standard of regulations for international flyers by all [...]

Reducing Housing Costs 1930

Hoover Helps the Home-Builder
TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT EASIER for the average man or woman to obtain a home”â€”that, in the phrase of the New York World, is the object of the White House Conference on home-building and home ownership recently called by President Hoover.
Pointing out that this is the twenty-fourth commission appointed [...]

Cheap Silver Lowers Wheat Price 1930

Why Cheap Silver Cheapens Wheat
TWO price phenomena that attract world-wide attention are the very low price of wheat and the world-wide decline in the value of silver.
This is a great deal more than a coincidence, one statistical observer is inclined to think.
The Cambridge Associates of Boston have prepared a chart, here reproduced, which shows that [...]

Self Serve Grocery Stores Introduced 1930

“Cash-and-Carry” Spreading
THE BETTER TO MEET the competition of the chain stores, the Independent Grocers’ Allianceâ€”the organization’s name is self-explanatoryâ€”is advising its members to adopt the cash-and-carry and self-service systems. The New York World tells us that some two thousand of the members of the Alliance have already complied with the request, and most of the [...]