The Reformatory Press Volume 16

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... but it is not believed that they will be found practical. It was pointed out today that the principal argument against such large boats was the fact that if one is destroyed it would at once put an extra demand for space on other boats. Another feature of the convention is the demand for safer navigation on the high seas. It provides for slower speed at night and will force the big trans-Atlantic companies to steer away from the iceberg region where the Titanic met her fate in times when such bergs are to be found. and another to crawl out. Legislation will be necess-HARD TIMES GEO. FITCH. Hard times are regular visitors in every country---the kind of visitors who outwear their welcome before they have rung the door bell. Hard times may be caused by bad crops. or decayed industries, or war, or a government which is solid timber above the collar. Hard times may also be a species of sobering up. After a country has become so prosperous that people spends billions of dollars for stocks and bonds printed by eminent promoters on fast color presses and backed by rainbows and east wind, hard times usually come along as a sort of financial bromo-seltzer. The United States has hard times about once every twenty years, this being the only precedent followed with any devotion in this country. No one knows why we have hard times except perhaps a few great financiers, who will not tell for fear the grand jury might find out. Of late, we have had hard times for the same reason that an 'audience gets up at the cry of "fire" and tries to pass unanimously through a small door at the same moment. We have hard times because one pessimist whispers, another wags his head, a third sighs heavily, a fourth declares he will curtail his...