Automobile as the Marvel of the Age and Its Citywide Promise
A defense of the automobile as the era’s great transportation invention. It argues cars will become affordable for average earners, reduce city congestion, ease commuting from country living, and extend shop-to-door goods movement while acknowledging safety concerns and road improvements needed to support widespread use.
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Sblic
An Actress Advice for the Stage-Struck Girl
A seasoned actress counsels aspiring performers to value acting above all else. She urges relentless study, classical grounding, and personal conviction, warning against imitation and emphasizing inner feeling, literary taste, and disciplined method as keys to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Conservatoire
Irving
Compulsory Arbitration An Impossibility
A critique argues compulsory arbitration cedes government power over voluntary labor relations. It warns enforcement through courts risks involuntary servitude and undermines individual freedom, noting unions resist boards empowered to enforce wage and hour rulings via injunctions and mandatory arbitration.
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United States
Free Labor of America
Equity
Trades Unionists of
America
Mandal Boards
Public Service Salaries and Recruitment Challenge
The piece argues that public service salary stagnation for 30 years, rising cost of living, and better private sector pay reduce applicants. It notes 25,000 fewer applicants than last year, higher resignations, and the lure of private work for top exam takers. It calls for higher salaries and more permanent high‑level posts to attract and retain talent.
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National Civil Service Commission
Congress
The Poorest and Richest Man Compared
This piece contrasts poverty and wealth as moral and social states. It argues that true poverty lies in refusing influence from the larger life and self sufficiency, while true wealth comes from mingling with others and absorbing wiser teachings to understand the world and people.
What is the matter with the American small boy
An essay critiques modern city schoolboys noting precocious behavior boldness vanity and lack of reverence. It warns the group dynamic harms individualism and foresees a reaction against mob spirit in schools with a call for wiser youth conduct.
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America
Enthusiasm for the cross and country in faith
Rev. W. F. Faber argues Christianity blends intelligence obedience and enthusiasm. He warns against treating religion as purely intellectual and urges zeal as essential, noting enthusiasm fuels courage in nation and church and that noble fools may be right.
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God
Christ
Temple
Acquiring of Big Fortunes Not a Menace
TELIC sentiment in America shapes views on wealth as a threat yet honest wealth is possible. The speaker urges schools to teach that honesty is essential to success and that wealth need not erode integrity. They warn against branding all rich people dishonest and call out public ridicule of integrity.
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America
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