View with Alarm: Sep. 17, 1923

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm:

“Standing room only ” in the nation’s public schools. (P. 19.)

A broad belt of bubonic plague that has encircled the globe. (P. 17.)

Unfortunate interpretations of an anecdote about the late Mr. Harding. (P. 2.)

The new theatrical season on Broadway—so far a failure. (P, 14.) The unpopularity of republican government in Portugal. (P. 10.)

” The biggest graft case in German political history.” (P. 9.)

Absurd hyperbole in an upstart journal. (P. 20.)

A temperamental feud between Prima Donna Jeritza and Tenor Piccaver. (P. 12.)

A sour insult to golf. (P. 20.)

Weeds on the grave of ” one of the ablest men that ever sat in Congress.” (P. 6.)

Unprofitable irrigation that may cost people their homes and the Government $100,000,000. (P. 3.)

A rocky coast on which a whole fleet came to grief. (P. 4.)

The murderer for whose head a 5,000 prize is offered. (P. 7.)

The World War, which still visits suffering on Israel. (P. 8.)

A vast country with barefooted children, wooden-shoed parents, poverty stricken villages. (P. 10.)