Herrin Mine Murders

THE HERRIN MURDERS Two months after the atrocious wholesale murder of workers in and about the Herrin mines the course of justice has proceeded so far as to obtain from a Grand Jury one individual indictment, that of Otis Clark, a union miner, charged with the murder of Mr. C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the Lester Mine-a crippled man who was f... continued

France wants Gold – not Paper Money

With the firmness of the money market the only disturbing factor in the present financial situation. Wall Street has been somewhat concerned over reports from Paris that the Bank of France will convert a material portion of its enormous holdings of foreign exchange into gold. Withdrawal of the metal from this country immediately narrows the credit ... continued

Allocation of English Shares in Ford Motor Company

THE Henry Ford publicity service, which may or may not consist entirely of Mr. Ford himself, functioned splendidly during the recent dispute over the allocation of shares in the new Ford Motor Company of England, Ltd. It was announced that Mr. Ford would prevent the hogging of the issue by Americans by allotting forty per cent of the shares to Brit... continued

War Loans

ITS DUCATS mean more to Uncle Sam than the re-establishment of financial peace and health in Europe, say some witty if acrimonious French writers, who remark that the ” Shylock strain seems to predominate in the cross-breeding of Uncle Sam,” as they look with ire on the Refunding Bill which provides that the Allied debt to the United St... continued

A Million a Day for our Wounded

WHAT IS THE REASON for the failure of the Government’s program for the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers?” is the pointed question put by the leading Republican organ, the New York Tribune. Last April a new director, C. R. Forbes, of Seattle, was appointed by the President, and in August the Sweet Bill was signed, combining the insura... continued

Pope Pius XI

IN THE WHITE ROBES of his sacred office, which made a striking contrast with the scarlet gowns of the Cardinals beside him, the newly elected Pope Pius XI stood on the balcony of St. Peter’s Church overlooking the crowded square, to bestow his first apostolic Benediction on the city and the world. Since the break between Church and State in 1... continued

Speech by Vice-President Coolidge 1921

New England has represented a great deal in American history. It is not merely that there is located the home of the Pilgrim and Puritan, the tall monument on Bunker Hill and the Bridge at Concord, or the old road to Ticonderoga, or the famous Charter Oak, or the home of Stark and of Pepperill, or the land of Roger Williams. Nor does New England ho... continued

Immigration Policies

Ethnic Groups and Immigration Policies Birth rates, death rates and migrations have redistributed groups of our population in the past and these forces are at work among our ethnic stocks. Among Negroes death rates are about one and a half times as high as among whites. Death rates are also higher for the foreign born than for native born whites, a... continued

Population Distribution

Distribution and Density of Population Population policy is concerned not only with the total numbers in the nation as a whole, but also with the numbers in particular regions and localities. The most significant movements of peoples, however, relate to their concentration in centers of high density where the question is arising whether the larger ... continued

Optimum Population

The Problem of an Optimum Population Shall we aim to have a large or a limited population? This is major problem in the development of a population policy, and it is a question on which opinions differ. The manufacturer may see in a stationary or diminishing population a limitation of his market, whereas a smaller population may mean a higher stand... continued