Organized Vice in Chicago Sees Gangsters Dominate City Affairs
A Chicago survey of racketeering alleges a vast breakdown in local government with organized vice infiltrating police, courts, and politics. It accuses gangsters of controlling labor and business, profiting from prohibition failures, and using bombs, gambling, robbery, and bootlegging to sustain power.
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Chicago
Ilinois
NEED MORE JOYFUL SERMONS
A speaker urges pastors to preach joyful hopeful sermons to draw people to church. He says modern pulpits overemphasize repentance and the cross, neglect the resurrection and sunshine, and warns against defending the faith instead of sharing the gospel. He emphasizes preaching with joy and smiling despite anxiety.
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Emile
Sex Films Great Moral Aid by Dr William Marston
Dr William Marston argues that erotic emotions are among life’s finest and should be cultivated in cinema. He contends love lowers war risk and praises cinema’s erotic actresses and the one piece bathing suit for lifting moral standards more than social agencies.
Higher Living Level Coming
An editorial argues that the US cannot burden the world with its high living standard. Global prosperity depends on balancing living costs through reduced tariff walls and cartels, with wages materials and credits aligning to raise standards worldwide.
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United States
SEES CORPORATE FARM CONTROL
The federal farm board is seen as a step toward corporate control of American farming. It could erode the rural home and turn farmers into serfs, warned as a threat to citizenship and national backbone. Leaders in the Middle West and New England favor merging thriving farms into a corporate structure with a single executive issuing day labor to independent owners.
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Federal Farm Board
Middle West
New England
Regulation of Farm Production and Demand Highlighted
James C. Stone, vice chairman of the federal farm board, urged regulating production to meet buying demand at a Nebraska farm groups meeting. He warned against overproduction, stressed efficient farming, and noted cooperative marketing aims to smooth price fluctuations over years.
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James C. Stone
Federal Farm Board
Nebraska
Stone
Congress
Mr. Stone
Farm Board
Sloan's Washington Letter Christmas in the capital
Congressman C H Sloan notes Washington during Christmas with churches charities pageants and flowers drawing focus. He observes health poverty charity and quiet club life with little dissipation and reports no disorder or drunkenness from Christmas Eve through night.
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Washington
Water Makes Up Most of Body Weight
The text notes that about three quarters of body weight is water and stresses the importance of drinking water to renew bodily fluids and prevent irritation and mental or physical discomfort.
Silence Room at Holland Tests Human Ear Behavior
A room in Holland achieved a near absolute quiet far quieter than uninhabited mountain peaks. It was built to study how human ears react in experiments disrupted by the smallest sound.
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Holland
Rewards Assured for Deliberate Seekers of Honors
No road is too long for the man who advances with steady purpose and patient preparation. The quote emphasizes that patience and prompt, steady effort lead to genuine rewards and honors.
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