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 And always he was thinking of what he would do, once he reached the place where he could get away.

For Clyde's parents had proved impractical in the matter of the future of their children. They did not understand the importance or the essential necessity for some form of practical or professional training for each and every one of their young ones. Instead, being wrapped up in the notion of evangelizing the world, they had neglected to keep their children in school in any one place.

They had moved here and there, sometimes in the very midst of an advantageous school season, because of a larger and better religious field in which to work. And there were times when, the work proving highly unprofitable and Asa being unable to make much money at the two things he most understood—gardening and canvassing for one invention or another—they were quite without sufficient food or decent clothes, and the children could not go to school. In the face of such situations as these, whatever the children might think, Asa and his wife remained as optimistic as ever, or they insisted to themselves that they were, and had unwavering faith in the Lord and His intention to provide.

The combination home and mission. which this family occupied was dreary enough in most of its phases to discourage the average youth or girl of any spirit. It consisted in its entirety of one long store floor in an old and decidedly colorless and inartistic wooden building which was situated in that part of Kansas City which lies north of Independence Boulevard and west of Troost Avenue, the exact street or place being called Bickel, a very short thoroughfare opening off Missouri Avenue, a somewhat more lengthy but no less nondescript highway. And the entire neighborhood which stood was very faintly and yet not agreeably redolent of a commercial life which had long since moved farther south, if not west. It was some five blocks from the spot of which twice a week the open air meetings of the religious enthusiasts and proselytizers were held.

And it was the ground floor of this building, looking out into Bickel Street at the front and some dreary back yards of equally dreary frame houses, which was divided at the front into a hall forty by twenty-five feet in size, in which had been placed some sixty collapsible wood chairs, a lectern, a map of Palestine or the Holy Land, and for wall decorations some twenty-five printed but unframed mottoes which read, in part:

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13. On receiving an application in accordance with section 11, the Director shall make such inquiry as he considers necessary and shall determine the application—
 * (a) by registering the school in respect of which the application is made; or
 * (b) by refusing under section 14 to register the school.

14. (1) The Director may refuse to register a school if it appears to him—
 * (a) that there would be any danger to persons using the proposed school premises, whether arising inside or outside the premises, or that there would be a risk of any such danger;
 * (b) that the proposed school premises are or are likely to be for any reason unsuitable for use for the purposes of a school;
 * (c) that any provision of this Ordinance is being or will be contravened in respect of the school;
 * (d) that the proposed inclusive fee is excessive having regard to the cost of maintaining and operating the school and to the standard of education to be provided;
 * (e) that the qualifications and experience of the proposed teachers are not adequate to ensure the satisfactory operation of the school;
 * (f) that the proposed salaries of the teachers are not adequate to ensure the satisfactory operation of the school;
 * (g) that the proposed school premises or the equipment which is to be used by the school will not allow of satisfactory tuition in the subjects to be taught by the school;
 * (h) that adequate educational facilities already exist in the area in which it is proposed to operate the school;
 * (i) that the composition of the proposed management committee or of the proposed teaching staff is such that the school is not likely to be managed satisfactorily, or is such that the education of the pupils is not likely to be promoted in a proper manner;
 * (j) that the composition of the proposed management committee or the proposed teaching staff is the same or substantially the same as that of a school which the Director has previously refused to register, or the registration or provisional registration of which the Director has previously cancelled;


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 * (i) refused to register the school; or
 * (ii) cancelled the registration or provisional registration of the school;
 * (l) that any part of the proposed school premises—
 * (i) was to have been used for the purposes of a school which the Director has previously refused to register; or
 * (ii) has been used for the purposes of a school the registration or provisional registration of which the Director has cancelled;
 * (m) that the school is affiliated to or connected with or in any way controlled by a foreign government or a department of a foreign government or an organization or group of a political nature;
 * (n) that in or in connexion with the application for registration any statement has been made or information has been furnished which is false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular; or
 * (o) that the proposed registered name of the school is unsuitable, or is the same as or similar to—
 * (i) the name in which another school is registered; or
 * (ii) the name of any school the registration of which has been cancelled.

(2) The Director may also refuse to register a school if he refuses under subsection (1) of section 35 to approve as the first supervisor of the school the person who is recommended to be the supervisor by the applicant for registration of the school.

15. (1) At any time after an application for registration of a school is made in accordance with section 11 and before the application is determined, the Director may provisionally register the school for such period, not exceeding twelve months, as he thinks fit.

(2) The Director may extend the period of provisional registration of a school for such further periods, not exceeding twelve months at one time, as he thinks fit.

16. (1) If the Director registers a school which is provisionally registered, the provisional registration of the school shall cease to have effect.

(2) If the Director refuses to register a school which is provisionally registered, the provisional registration of the school shall not by reason only of such refusal cease to have effect.


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166 gion endlessly, but he never reached any satisfa< tory conclusions. He wished that he knew som professor that he could talk to. Surely some c them must know the answers to his riddles. —


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Rh plauded each other vigorously, whistled at a fright¬ ened dog that tried to cross the field and nearly lost its mind entirely when called by a thousand masters, waited breathlessly when the cheer-leaders an¬ nounced the results from other football games that had been telegraphed to the field, applauded if Har¬ vard was losing, groaned if it was n’t, sang some more, relaxed and felt consummately happy.

Sanford immediately took the offensive in the second half. Slade was consistently carrying the ball. Twice he brought it within Raleigh’s twentyfive-yard line. The first time Raleigh held firm, but the second time Slade stepped back for a dropkick. The spectators sat silent, breathless. The angle was difficult. Could he make it? Would the line hold?

Quite calmly Slade waited. The center passed the ball neatly. Slade turned it in his hands, paid not the slightest attention to the mad struggle go« ing on a few feet in front of him, dropped the ball —and kicked. The ball rose in a graceful arc and passed safely between the goal-posts.

Every one, men and women alike, the Raleigh adherents excepted, promptly turned into extraor¬ dinarily active lunatics. The women waved their banners and shrieked, or if they had no banners, they waved their arms and shrieked; the men danced up and down, yelled, pounded each other on the back, sometimes wildly embraced—many a woman


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Rh about fellows; and most of ’em that I’ve known re n’t your kind. How old are you?” “Twenty-one in a couple of months.” “I ’m twenty and lots wiser about some things m you are. I’ve been crazy about you—I guess
 * m kinda yet—and I know that you thought you

re in love with me. I wanted you to have hold me all the time. That’s all that mattered. It s—was your body, Hugh. You ’re sweet and 1 to run around with. I’m too fast. I woke up ly this morning, and I’ve done a lot of thinking
 * , and I respect you, but I’m not the kid for
 * e. You know what we came near doing last

ht? Well, that’s all we want each other for.
 * ’re not in love.”

phrase from the bull sessions rushed into igh’s mind. “You mean—sex attraction?” he led in some embarrassment. He felt weak and id. He seemed to be listening to Cynthia in a lam. Nothing was real—and everything was a e sad. Yes, that’s it—and, oh, Hugh, somehow I don’t nt that with you. We ’re not the same kind at I used to think that when I got your letters, netimes I hardly understood them, but I d close
 * eyes and see you so strong and blond and clean,
 * I’d imagine you were holding me tight and

( then I was happy. I guess I did kinda love L but we’ve spoiled it.” She wanted des-


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Rh that there must be something wrong with his sense of humor; things that struck lots of his classmates as funny seemed merely disgusting to him. He wanted very much to tell Carl about Janet but for several weeks the opportunity did not pre sent itself. There was too much excitement about the campus; the mood of the place was all wrong, and Hugh, although he did n’t know it, was very sensitive to moods and atmosphere. Finally one night in October he and Carl were seated in their big chairs before the fire. They had been walking that afternoon, and Hugh had been swept outside of himself by the brilliance of the autumn foliage. He was emotionally and physi¬ cally tired, feeling that vague, melancholy happiness that comes after an intense but pleasant experience. Carl leaned back to the center-table and switched off the study light. “Pleasanter with just the firelight,” he said quietly. He, too, had something that he wanted to tell, and the less light the better. Hugh sighed and relaxed comfortably into his chair. The shadows were thick and mysterious behind them; the flames leaped merrily in the fire¬ place. Doth boys sat silent, staring into the fire. Finally Hugh spoke.

“I met a girl this summer, Carl,” he said softly.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Little peach. Awf’lly pretty. Dainty,


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 bar to work your turning-wheel. If they ask for your papers, come to me, and I will say that you are my apprentice." I went on with the crow-bar in my hand, and he told me to give it to him, that he might carry it under his great coat, lest I should meet any of the agents. Leblanc then conducted me to his house, and on arriving, his first care was to go down into his cellar to hide the crow-bar. I went up stairs and found Lefebvre there, to whom I said that I had bought the tool. The same evening, after having sat drinking till ten o'clock, Lefebvre, Peyois, and myself went round the temple to a small street, the name of which I forget; Peyois, whilst I and Lefebvre were on the watch, made thirty-three holes by means of a centre-bit, in the shutter of a milliner's shop. The knife he used to enlarge the holes having broken, and our attempt thus failing, we retired, and went then to the market at the corner of St. Eustache, when Peyois, using the crow-bar, tried to force the door of a silk-mercer. Some one within having asked what we wanted, we fled; it was then half-past two o'clock in the morning. We went all then to the hôtel d'Angleterre, when PerjoisPeyois [sic] left with the woman of the house, whom he knew, an umbrella which he had with him.

"Before he entered, Peyois had left the crow-bar, which was wrapped up, with a coffee-seller in the street. We left the hôtel d'Angleterre about five o'clock, and Peyois again took the bar from the woman in whose charge he had left it. I must say that woman knew nothing of what it was. Peyois went then to Leblanc's, and carried the bar with him. Lefebvre and I did not part company, but returned to Leblanc's at five o'clock in the evening, and remained there till tea. Leblanc gave me a phosphorus light-box in case we should need one, and also a piece of candle. I amused myself with tracing on this light-box, which was of lead, with my knife, the letter L, which is Leblanc's initial. Peyois, Lefebvre, and I went out together. Peyois, having taken the bar with him, passed the bar-


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 rier with it, and then left it with us. He stopped on the road, to call at a house with Victoire Bigan, and Lefebvre and I went to commit (at Labatty's) the robbery for which we were subsequently apprehended. The crow-bar and a part of the booty stolen were conveyed to Leblanc's by Lefebvre.

"Leblanc, who was tried with us, had engaged us not to accuse him, and not to contradict Peyois, who was to say that it was M. Vidocq who had given him three francs to buy the crow-bar; and he has promised to give me a sum of money if I would consent to assert the same thing. I did consent, fearing that if I told the truth my situation would be still worse."

(Declaration of 3d October, 1823.)

Lefebvre, who afterwards confessed, without having any communication with Berthelet, confirmed his confession, as far as concerned Leblanc. "If I did not say," he added, "that it was he who furnished Berthelet with the money for the purchase of the crow-bar, it is because Peyois had engaged me to say that it was he, Peyois, who had bought it. Peyois being compromised in this robbery, was unwilling to charge Leblanc, who was friendly to him and would serve him again." A Monsieur Egly, chief of the employés at the Conciergerie, and Lecomte and Vermont, confined in that prison, having been heard by M. Fleuriais, related many conversations, in which Berthelet, Lefebvre, and Peyois had arranged, in their presence, how they would inculpate me. In their evidence all the convicts agreed that I had endeavoured to dissuade them from doing wrong. Vermont related, besides, that one day he having blamed them because they had compromised me without any motive, they replied: "Stuff! we will do the trick; we would have compromised the eternal Father to save ourselves; but it has not turned out so well as might be."

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 him to conceal a part of the affair, but he confessed that I knew nothing of the purchase of the crow-bar.

"During," said he, "all the time that preceded our trial, and before the court of. assizes, I have affirmed and declared that M. Vidocq gave me the three francs to buy the crow-bar, by the aid of which the robbery has been committed, which caused the apprehension of myself, Berthelet, Leblanc, Lefebvre, and others. I have persisted in saying the same thing, hoping that it might defer or diminish my term of sentence. I had thought of this plan because, some prisoners had told me that it might be of use to me. I will now truly declare that M. Vidocq gave me no money to buy the crow-bar, and I purchased it with my own money: this bar cost me forty-eight sous, and I bought it at a smith's shop in the first street on the right hand, on entering the Rue des Arcis on the side of the bridge of Notre-Dame. I do not know the name of the smith, but I could easily point out the shop, which is the second on the right on going down the street. It was on the eighth or ninth of March last that I made the purchase; the smith and his wife were in the shop; it was the first time I ever bought any thing of them."

Three days afterwards Peyois, having been transferred to Bicêtre, wrote to the chief of the second division of the prefecture of police a letter, in which he confessed that he had constantly imposed on justice, and testified a wish to make sincere disclosures: this time the whole truth did really come to light. Utinet, Chrestien, Decostard, and Coco-Lacour, who had come to the court to depose in favour of the imposture, were at once dragged to light: it became evident that Chrestien had planned the whole intrigue, which was to lead to my expulsion from the police. A declaration which the mayor of Gentilly received, exposed the whole infamy of the machination, from which Lacour, Chrestien, Decostard, and Utinet, had promised themselves the greatest success. This declaration, to which I could add a great many


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User:TE(æ)A,ea./Requests

This is a page I use to track scan requests. If you would like to make a request, add the item which you wish to have scanned in the “Pending” section. I will then try to obtain a copy of the item and scan it; as I do so, I will add notes under each item. Once I have finished scanning the item and notifying you, I will move the scan under the “Finished” section. If you have any questions about a specific item, leave them in a note under your request.

Pending

 * For EncycloPetey: the final two Pulitzer-winning plays we don't have (that are PD): Craig's Wife: & In Abraham's Bosom   These are both scans on Hathi, and so will hopefully require little processing.  --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Craig's Wife.pdf and File:The Field God and In Abraham's Bosom.pdf. You said that these are the last, but some of the post-1928 plays may be in the public domain. For example, I am fairly sure that Alison’s House (the 1931 awardee) is in the public domain. Do you want me to look into these more modern plays? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If there are others in public domain as a result of non-renewal, they would also be welcome. I have not checked beyond Street Scene, except for a few titles. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:45, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: 1929: Street Scene (R168143); 1930: The Green Pastures (R187701); 1931: Alison’s House (no renewal?); 1932: Of Thee I Sing (R235835); 1933: Both Your Houses (R256436); 1934: Men in White (no renewal?); 1935: The Old Maid (R296851); 1936: Idiot’s Delight (R309203); 1937: You Can’t Take It with You (R331082); 1938: Our Town (R356935); 1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (R388556); 1940: The Time of Your Life (R400374); 1941: There Shall Be No Night (no renewal?); 1942—no award; 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth (R480231); 1944—no award; 1945: Harvey (R517293); 1946: State of the Union (R566771); 1947—no award; 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire (R594334); 1949: Death of a Salesman (R632653); 1950: South Pacific (not renewed?); 1951—no award; 1952: The Shrike (RE0000054716); 1953: Picnic (RE0000086265); 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon (RE0000116736); 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (RE0000151470); 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank (RE0000205538); 1957: Long Day’s Journey into Night (RE0000168797, but the records are messy); 1958: Look Homeward, Angel (RE0000298946); 1959: J.B. (RE0000263865); 1960: Fiorello! (RE0000405455); 1961: All the Way Home (RE0000414977); 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (RE0000512115). This list means that Alison’s House (1931), Men in White (1934), There Shall Be No Night (1941), Harvey (1945), and South Pacific (1950) may not have been renewed. I can request these volumes, but I would like you to check over them to make sure a renewal didn’t slip through in unnoticed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I've now found renewals for all the remaining plays: Alison’s House (1930) R205100; Men in White (1933) R268410; South Pacific, 2nd ed. text only (1949) R632092 (music with separate renewals for each song); There Shall Be No Night (1943, rev. acting ed.) R495134. So, there might be an earlier edition of There Shall Be No Night that was not renewed, but given the radio and movie rights that were purchased, and the timing at the start of WWII, there also may not be. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
 * For EncycloPetey (for the MC) Could you please provide a scan file from Hathi? This is the 1920 first volume of short stories from the O. Henry Award series. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:21, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories for 1919.pdf. The scan you gave was missing a few pages, which were supplied from another scan. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:58, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The scan has incomplete pages 31 / 32. The volume that was scanned had the corner torn out apparently. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:43, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: I have restored those pages from the scan here. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * For EncycloPetey (to prep for 2025): There is a 1929 London publication of Patrick Hamilton's play Rope, that would be my work to power through on Jan 1, 2025. I found a 1930 publication, but the Library of Congress lists a London edition published in 1929  which would allow us to upload a copy locally in 2025.  Patrick Hamilton was a UK writer, who died 1962, and this play was the basis for the Hitchcock film of the same name. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: It’s been ordered, so it should be here at some time soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:08, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: The first one that came through was a modern edition, so it had to be sent back. Another one has arrived, though, and while it’s in poor condition it is the right edition. I’ll scan it sometime this month (not that I’m in any hurry given the copyright date). By the way, it was actually published in New York in 1929, so the U.S. would be the country of origin and it can be hosted on Commons. Unfortunately, the copyright was renewed, so I can’t upload it early. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:18, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Magnolia (1923), a play by Author:Booth Tarkington—I've been trying to find any script of this play for years. If you can find anything of that sort, I'm indebted to you. It's something I really want access to. SnowyCinema (talk) 00:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Sorry for not responding sooner. It seems it was published informally by Princeton around the time of its initial run; see here, Folder 09, for (likely final) text. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:21, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Upstairs, Downstairs (original 1928 version) by Edith Bishop Sherman. All current scans are locked because they're reprints from well after 1928. SnowyCinema (talk) 17:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. One question: after asking for the missing pages from The Stephenson Family, I got a better scan of the missing pages. Do you want them? (By the way, like the name change.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! But, I think I'm good on that work. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Here you go: File:Upstairs, Downstairs.pdf. The images (locally uploaded): File:UpstairsDownstairs-copy.tif, File:UpstairsDownstairs-cover.tif, File:UpstairsDownstairs-p1.tif, File:UpstairsDownstairs-p29.tif, File:UpstairsDownstairs-p65.tif, File:UpstairsDownstairs-title.tif. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:14, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Beautiful! Thank you! SnowyCinema (talk) 19:17, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

 * For Arcorann: Gold Ahead (1937 or 1940 ed.)
 * Arcorann: Two comments: (1) If you’d like to request a work from me, I have set up this page for requests (to avoid having to search through all of my user talk page). (2) That HathiTrust item is available for me; if the edition is good for you, do you want me to just download it? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For Prosfilaes: Fifteen poets of modern Japan; a book of translations, by Glenn Hughes and Yozan T. Iwasaki They've got a scan, but missing pages 17-20
 * Prosfilaes: The pages have been ordered. This request should be filled (hopefully) next week. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:49, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Prosfilaes: The pages have arrived: File:FifteenPoets-missing pages.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've uploaded the whole work to File:Fifteen Poets of Modern Japan - A Book of Translations (1928).pdf.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:33, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: "Joyous Things" (1925) by Stuart Pratt Sherman. Appears to be an individual essay that was published alone. SnowyCinema (talk) 15:22, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Order filed. The office is closed, &c. Thank you for deleting those files, by the way. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:10, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: “Joyous Things” is here: File:Joyous Things.pdf. Note: some (blank) pages were not scanned, but the text is complete. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 04:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: The Rhymes of Goochy Goggles and His Pollywog Named "Woogles" (1926) by Andrew Findlay Underhill
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 03:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Is this one still on its way? SnowyCinema (talk) 16:04, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: It just arrived the other day. I will likely not be able to scan it until the 20th or 21st, however. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:15, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

 * SnowyCinema: Scanned and (now) uploaded: IA. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For EncycloPetey: The Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris.
 * Book has arrived (3 vols.). All three volumes shipped. Vol. I. scanned, but likely needs re-scan.
 * Vol. I. good without re-scan; images re-scanned in high quality.
 * EncycloPetey: The volumes are here: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3. I also have some of the images scanned in high quality, if you’d like. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:43, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've set up Index:Romance of the Rose (Ellis), volume 1.pdf and found four pages missing (noted on the Index) --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:20, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Both Index:Romance of the Rose (Ellis), volume 1.pdf and Index:Romance of the Rose (Ellis), volume 2.pdf fully proofread. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:26, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * For IP (from RT): A Summary of the Evidences of Christianity, by J. Fawcett.
 * Microfilm reel ordered and arrived. Awaiting scan.
 * For Chrisguise: Batrachomuomachia, trans. by H. Price.
 * Scan delivered electronically with page doubling. PDF downloaded, needs manual repair.
 * I have the means to manipulate images and PDF's and convert to DJVU, so if you can get the images to me I can do the rest, if it helps (as per George Chapman's Crowne of all Homers Workes) Chrisguise (talk) 04:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Chrisguise: Sorry I missed this, here you go: File:Batrachomuomachia (tr. Price).pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:01, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Works otherwise completed, but awaiting January 1 for upload (dir. J1to-u)

 * For Yann: Satyagraha in South Africa, by M. K. Gandhi.
 * Main file, plus image (SatyagrahaTitle).
 * Yann: Now uploaded: PDF, plus image. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * For Yann: The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie.
 * Main file, plus images (TheMysteryOfTheBlueTrain-cover, TheMysteryOfTheBlueTrain-title).
 * Yann: Now uploaded: PDF, plus cover image and title image. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * For CalendulaAsteraceae: The Masqueraders, by Georgette Heyer.
 * Main file (no images).
 * CalendulaAsteraceae: Now uploaded: PDF. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Finished

 * For SnowyCinema: Pages 228 and 229, Love and Learn (1924) by Harry Charles Witwer, Grosset & Dunlap. The only online scan available, at this link, misses these pages. SnowyCinema (talk) 20:28, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Order filed. The office is closed until mid-January, however, so it will not be ordered until then. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: The pages have arrived: File:Love and Learn missing pages.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:44, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: "Heart o' Mine" (1928), the original sheet music for the overture song to Noah's Ark (see versions page for more info). Commons category which has a picture of the cover. This one's rather urgent, since without the lyrics, the lines may not be heard that clearly. Films from this era tended to have very poor sound quality. Do you think a scan of this one could be gotten soon? SnowyCinema (talk) 04:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * (Well the lines seemed to be pretty obvious, but still would probably be an interesting addition to Commons anyway...) SnowyCinema (talk) 04:51, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. The office is open now, so things should proceed smoothly; your other requests have been filed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

 * SnowyCinema: The PDF is available here: File:Heart O' Mine.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:17, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Weeds (1923) by Edith Summers Kelley. Certain scans of later versions exist on Google Books but they're all under copyright. Can you find the original 1923 edition? SnowyCinema (talk) 14:59, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Order filed. The office is closed until mid-January, however, so it will not be ordered until then. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:37, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: The book has been shipped, it should arrive soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: The book has arrived; I hope to scan it to-morrow. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey, sorry, I was on a Wikibreak so I didn't see these. Did you happen to get "Joyous Things" and Weeds in from that office? I'd like to start working on those if possible. Thanks. (And "to-morrow"—I swear, I thought I was the only one who did this by mistake. Years of being part of this community must do that to us all. That made my day!) SnowyCinema (talk) 03:08, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: I’ve been so corrupted by Wikisource that I use “to-day” and “to-morrow” in my text messages, even. As a matter of fact, Weeds and “Joyous Things” did come in; I was going to wait until you came back to upload them. For Weeds, I have two questions. First, the edition I scanned in is a facsimile reprint, so the actual non-text matter is copyright. I scanned in a notice at the end of the book that states (in factual terms) the bibliographical information of the book. Despite the very factual nature of that note, the copyright notice specifically identifies that note as being copyrighted. I’ll leave the decision on that to you. Second, the introduction to the new edition contains an exact reprint of a contemporaneous (1923) newspaper article about the author. I scanned that in as well, so if you’d like that uploaded, I’ll redact the actual text of the introduction and upload a PDF with just the text of the newspaper article. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 04:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Was that the only version available to be scanned of this particular novel? I found a few versions online that also were the same—modern reprints. I was hoping that maybe you'd be able to get access to an original version. But this makes me wonder what the actual contents of the note are. Is it possible for you to upload the contents of the current scan/note to the Internet Archive, or email some of it to me? I'd like to look it over.
 * What I'm fearing is that maybe the publication situation behind the novel is complicated (which maybe the note details). But a reference to this novel in a 1924 work would at least indicate that it was available to critics at the time... What do you think? Were you able to find the 1923 HARCOURT BRACE AND COMPANY version transcribed by Gutenberg? SnowyCinema (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: While it is a modern reprint, it is a facsimile reprint (from the original types), so the page numbering will be the same. There is no complicated publication history; that is why I thought that the copyright was unnecessary. This is the note: “Textual Note: The text of Weeds published here is an exact photo-offset reprint of the first printing (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923). The London publication by Cape was a reprint from the American plates. No emendations have been made in this text. M. J. B.” TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:50, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for providing that! If the facsimile matter is all that's in the scan that should be fine. I can't wait to see it. SnowyCinema (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Here you go: File:Weeds.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

 * For Chrisguise: Poems, chiefly lyrical, by Alfred, lord Tennyson.
 * Index:Poems, chiefly lyrical.pdf
 * For Prosfilaes: Latter-Day Psalms, by Olaf Stapledon.
 * File:Latter-Day Psalms.pdf
 * For Jan.Kamenicek: The Net of Faith, by Petr Chelčický.
 * Index:The Net of Faith.pdf
 * For SnowyCinema: Kat and Copy-Cat, by E. E. Stevens.
 * Ordered: October 12. Shipped.
 * SnowyCinema: Arrived. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Scanned and uploaded: File:Kat and Copy-Cat.pdf. See also File:KaCC-cover.tif and File:KaCC-title.tif for images. Is this good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Archived: TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:04, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not responding on this one. There are some issues with the OCR tool I'm using (that are totally not your fault), and I'm going to experiment with some other technologies in Python to do this work. SnowyCinema (talk) 03:00, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: “Diary of One Month in Honolulu,” by Katherine M. Yates.
 * Ordered: October 12.
 * SnowyCinema: Scan uploaded: File:Diary of One Month in Honolulu.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:14, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Done SnowyCinema (talk) 02:17, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Flying Death, by Edwin Balmer.
 * Ordered: October 12. Shipped.
 * SnowyCinema: Arrived. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Sorry, I actually got this scanned a while ago (the 19th), I just forgot to upload it. File:Flying Death.pdf, with the images File:FlyingDeath-cover.tif and File:FlyingDeath-title.tif. Is this good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:13, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Done SnowyCinema (talk) 22:08, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Mistress Madcap Surrenders by Edith Bishop Sherman (1926)
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 18:58, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Arrived. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 13:20, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Scanned and uploaded: File:Mistress Madcap Surrenders.pdf. See also File:MMS-cover.tif, File:MMS-frontis.tif, and File:MMS-title.tif. Is this good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:04, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but pages 162 and 163 are missing from the current scan. You didn't happen to send it back yet, did you? SnowyCinema (talk) 20:56, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: That’s why I asked, I wanted to be sure before I sent it back. Once it’s down under “Finished,” I’ve sent it back. If that’s the only missing bit, I’ll scan that tomorrow and return it afterwards. Sorry for the delay on some of the other items, I’ve been a bit busy lately. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:10, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and no worries. I have been really busy myself. But, everything else is good with this work, and once the pages are repaired the work is otherwise proofread, and ready to be processed for Wikisource publication. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:13, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Here are the missing pages. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:37, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Done SnowyCinema (talk) 06:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 * For SnowyCinema: The Road to Monterey (1925), by George W. Ogden. There are missing pages in the only available scan online, so could you please scan pages 18 and 19 and put them in a PDF? Thanks. SnowyCinema (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Pages ordered. By the way, in relation to one of your works, I do not remember which one, I saw that one of the author’s works entered the public domain next year. If you have books of that nature that you want scanned, you can ask now and I will scan them, save them on my computer, and then upload them at the beginning of the year. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Here you go: File:Road-to-Monterey missing pp-18-19 removed.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:49, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Little Elephant Visits the Farm (1941) by Heluiz Chandler Washburne. Books in this series have a lot of colorful images but are ~ 50 pages long or so. SnowyCinema (talk) 01:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:13, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Arrived. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Scanned and uploaded: IA. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: Keeping the Peace, by Gouverneur Morris.
 * Ordered: October 14.
 * SnowyCinema: Shipped. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 20:56, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Arrived. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:37, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Did you say in an edit summary that this has been scanned? If it has, could you please upload it for me? I can have it done within only hours. Thanks. SnowyCinema (talk) 21:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: No, the one I had scanned but not uploaded was Flying Death, with which you have already dealt. I could get this one scanned tomorrow, though. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 23:03, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Scanned and uploaded: File:Keeping the Peace.pdf, with image File:KtP-title.tif. Is this good? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 21:01, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

 * For SnowyCinema: Man's Country (1923) by Peter Clark MacFarlane, only the last pages after p. 342 that are missing from the only available scan: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b298606&seq=358 Not sure how many pages are needed but the scan is clearly cut off short... SnowyCinema (talk) 11:34, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Ordered. It appears that the book is 343 pages long, so only the last page was not scanned. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 15:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: Here you go: File:Man's Country pages.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:38, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * For SnowyCinema: The Stephenson Family (1906) by John Calvin Stephenson, pages 13 and 14, which are missing from any current scans. SnowyCinema (talk) 00:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: The scan came through, and had pages 10–15 except 14 (!). It has been re-ordered. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:16, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * SnowyCinema: They finally came in: here. Also, would you mind deleting some of the temporary files I’ve created for previous requests? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't see that last comment immediately. But ✅; the temp files have been deleted. SnowyCinema (talk) 16:17, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

 * For EncycloPetey: "Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage", transl. by William Butler Yeats (1928) will enter PD on 1 Jan 2024, and is only a few pages
 * EncycloPetey: I should be able to pick this one up Monday. Once I get it scanned, I’ll put in the list below, and upload it (and notify you) on January 1. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * My library said that they had it, but if they do, they didn’t let me see it. I did order it from another library, and have now scanned it. (I hope you enjoy using the score extension.) I’ll add you to the to-upload list below. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:16, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Now uploaded: PDF. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Fully proofread now. Thanks.
 * For EncycloPetey: Icebound (1923), another Pulitzer-winning play. As before, I'm not able to pull a PDF myself, but Hathi has a copy. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:27, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:Icebound.pdf. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:22, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I just noticed you grabbed the 1932 printing instead of the 1923 that I pointed to. Was there a problem with the 1923 edition?  I don't see substantive differences between the two, but would really prefer the 1923 because it makes the date less troublesome (I won't have to coordinate two different dates: the publication year and the printing year). --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: I don’t know why the 1932 came up instead of the 1923—especially so since the 1932 copy had an overscan, while the 1923 doesn’t. In any case, it’s been fixed. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 17:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Icebound (1923) will be finished today or tomorrow. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * For EncycloPetey: They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Pulitzer-winning play by Sidney Coe Howard. Hathi copy, with two photographs from the staging of the play. I'm starting to scan-back all the Pulitzer-winning dramas, but very few are available through IA. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:52, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: So, what exactly do you want? It’s on HathiTrust, right? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 19:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I found a copy there, but I am unable to move a copy to Commons. I'm unable to grab the PDF from Hathi.  If you can make the transfer, that should be all I need help with. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Sorry for the long wait, I’ve been busy the past few weeks. Here you go: File:They Knew What They Wanted.pdf. Also, are you still interested in The Fun of It? TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 22:21, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Since we can't have the images, I don't think it's worth the effort. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:25, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: I do have the images for The Fun of It, I just haven’t uploaded them because they are a lot and, if the book wasn’t going to be proofread, I wasn’t going to bother uploaded them. If you do want to proofread it, then I will upload the images. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 01:22, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought that you couldn't upload them for copyright reasons.  If there is no such issue, then yes, please proceed, but do not consider it high priority.  I will tackle the book, but not right away. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: I was wondering where you got that idea, when I looked at my message and saw that I said cannot (for some reason). In any case, the images are in Category:The Fun of It images (not created), which is local. Feel free to extract and color-correct the images and re-upload them at Commons at your leisure. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 12:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * They Knew What They Wanted is fully proofread. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * For EncycloPetey (for the MC): The Fun of It (1932) by Amelia Earhart (no renewal) --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:11, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: I should be able to scan this fairly soon. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * EncycloPetey: Here you go: File:The Fun of It.pdf. I have also scanned all of the images in high quality, which I cannot upload locally for quality improvement (color-correction). TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:51, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Update: Index:The Fun of It.pdf exists; 20% has been transcribed; and all but two of the illustration pages have been done. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:31, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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   Still shall the banner of the King of Heaven Never advance where I’m afraid to follow: While that precedes me, with an open bosom,
 * War, I defy thee!

Life for my Country and the Cause of Freedom Is but a trifle for a worm to part with; And, if preserved in so great a contest,
 * Life is redoubled.

This first, or national, period was in some ways the golden epoch of Vermont poetic activity. The “Spirit of ’76”, with the mental and spiritual excitement it engendered among those who were conquering a new land and carving out a new nation in the northern fastnesses of nature, amid the liberty-breathing hills and fertile valleys of Vermont, led to a literary activity little less than marvelous. Idealism—greater than any that we have since experienced—was rampant in the land. The spirit of freedom and candor, of activity and questioning thought and inventive daring, walked abroad among these newly settled sons and daughters of Liberty.

In this day of ferment and active idealism there sprung up what Vermont has never since produced—a distinct Local School of Expression, comparable in a sense, to such later schools as that of N. P. Willis in New York—a literary association or coterie which, because of its location in the oldest town of the state, we will call

This movement revolved around the personality and directing genius of Judge Royall Tyler of Guilford, later of Brattleboro. He has the distinction, so far as we know, of being the only Vermont poet who, in his own day, directed a distinct school of literary, or poetic, expression; the only one, at least, who consciously established such a school. But during the period between 1790 and 1805 he gathered about him in Guilford a number of friends and pupils who made an enduring impress on both the poetry and prose of later generations, in the state. His influence, in fact, through the Phelps, Hampden, Cutts and Bradley families, as well as through the Pecks and Elliotts, may be traced down even to this generation of the twentieth century.

Royall Tyler was born in Boston, July 18, 1757, of an old and wealthy family. His father, Royall Tyler, Sr., was a graduate of Harvard and became a prominent merchant in Boston. Young Tyler entered Harvard in 1772, graduating in 1776. He studied law with Hon. Francis Dana of Cambridge, and was admitted to the bar in 1779. He fought in Sullivan’s army in the Revolution; and, later, in 1787, when Shays’ Rebellion broke out, he served under General Lincoln as aide, with the rank of Major. When Shays fled into Vermont, Tyler pursued him as far as Bennington; but was brought to a halt here by the authority of Gov. Chittenden and the opposition of Ethan Allan, who not only refused to help in intercepting Shays, but declared the governing officials of Massachusetts to be “a set of damned rascals.” Though failing in his official mission, Tyler became acquainted with Vermont and with many prominent people who were later to become his neighbors.

Tyler’s father had died in 1772, at the age of 48; but despite this loss, he pursued his college course; and at the time of his graduation, his reputation for wit, genius and scholarship was recognized by a wide circle. Yale College, in recognition of his scholarship and abilities, in 1776, conferred on him (then only nineteen years old) the degree B. A.—an unprecedented honor. In Boston he mingled with a remarkably brilliant set of young men, who formed a Club, meeting at the rooms of John Trumbull, the young painter. Among these men were Rufus King, Christopher Gore, William Eustis, Aaron Dexter and Thomas Dawes—all personages of distinction in later life.

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 Directly after being admitted to the bar, Tyler moved to Portland (then Falmouth), Maine, where he practiced law for two years. With the coming of peace, 1781, he returned to Boston, which offered better opportunities for him, making his home at Quincy. After vainly pursuing Shays to Vermont, he had been entrusted with a mission to New York; but, on returning to his law practice, at the end of the rebellion, he kept up a correspondence with personages he had met in Vermont, including Ethan Allen.

At this time (1778) Goldsmith and Carrick having brought about a revival of comedy drama in England, the old Federal Street Theatre in Boston became a centre for wit and fashion. No American play of the kind had as yet been written or staged in the colonies; and Tyler, urged by his friends, resolved to attempt such a play. The result was “The Contrast”, the first American comedy-drama ever produced, which is said to have been conceived and written in three weeks. It was the first literary attempt, in America to set up and portray a distinctly Western or “Yankee” type of civilization or character; and, as such, it marks the first step toward originality in our native literature. It was brought out, in the spring of ’89, at Park Theatre, New York, attaining instant and wide success. It was published in Philadelphia by Thomas Wignell, a comic actor of the time, and was played at many theatres throughout the country.

At this same time, Tyler also wrote another farce entitled “May Day in Town”, which likewise had a large run of popularity. As his biographer says: “He was petted, caressed, feasted and toasted, and no doubt lived too freely.” At any rate, a sudden change came over his spirits at this time, and he seemed unusually depressed. He, for some reason, determined to start life anew; and, in this frame of mind, he made in 1790 a tentative visit to Vermont. The short and stormy career of this little nation-state was now drawing to a promising climax; and it became clearly evident that it would soon be admitted to full sisterhood in the confederation of states. It offered many advantages to settlers—low taxes, cheap lands, freedom of initiative; and at the time in it could be found many congenial and enlightened minds. In the summer of 1791 Tyler, [sic] accordingly settled in Guilford, then the most populous and one of the most flourishing towns of the state. In the center of the town he opened his law office, and soon became one of the most powerful factors in the social, political and intellectual life of the region round-about. He attended courts far and near. In 1794 he married Mary Palmer—a congenial helpmeet—and one who entered sympathetically into his literary activities—during a long and busy career. About this time, too, he met and established a friendship with Joseph Dennie—the beginning of a literary association which was to have a profound effect on the future journalistic and poetical literature of Vermont. Dennie was editor of the Farmer’s Weekly Museum, or New Hampshire and Vermont State Journal, at Walpole, N. H. Tyler became associate editor of the Journal; and, under the joint management it soon established a circulation extending from Maine to Georgia. It became the foremost literary journal of its day, furnishing an outlet not only for Tyler’s essays and sketches, but for the poetic and prose works of his many pupils and associates. Dennie was the foremost essayist of the day in America; and Tyler was the first dramatist, keenest wit, and most pungent paragrapher of the times.

It was at this period that there swept over the north a mania for speculation in Georgia land (very similar to the present-day craze over Florida); and, in ridicule of this furore of speculation, Tyler brought out (1797) his third comedy drama, “The Georgia Spec, or Land in the Moon.” This, like his two previous plays, was repeatedly staged at Boston and New York.

In 1797 he wrote and published at Walpole, N. H., “The Algerine Captive”—a work of real merit, and the first novel ever published by a Vermont author in the course of which he graphically portrays the horrors of the African slave trade. It was re-printed in London, 1802, and in Hartford, 1816. A copy of this book may be seen in the State Library at Montpelier.

But, if Tyler’s prestige and influence on his own and succeeding generations rest primarily on his dramatic comedies, and secondarily upon his journalistic’

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 with Dennie, his influence on the poetic history and idealism of Vermont rests almost solely upon his activities as founder and leader of that remarkable coterie of literary associates and pupils whom we have denominated “The Guilford School.” Tyler was not only the father of this school, but he was their inspirer, patron and guide. For he was not only a prodigious worker himself; he inspired others to work. While he composed a very large number of poems himself (most of which, unforunatelyunfortunately [sic], became lost after his death), his genius is to be traced through the lives and products of his pupils. Among these pupils were Samuel Elliot, orator, humanitarian and poet; James Elliot, brother to Samuel, who published in 1798 his “Poetical and Miscellaneous Works”, the second book of verse ever issued by a Vermont author, consisting of essays, sketches and poems, and who later honored his state as its representative in Congress; John Phelps, an honored lawyer and poet of Guilford; Almira Phelps, his wife, who not only wrote excellent verse, but was author of a very fine text-book on botany, and many other works; Elizabeth Peck, also a poet; John Shepardson; and, [sic] finally Henry Dennison, whose verse (fine in quality) has come down to us only through the fragmentary portion put into print after his death in “The Columbian Lyre”, a small volume, published in Glasgow, in 1828. Some of the poetical works of this coterie of poets may be found in Hemenway’s Gazetteer, Volume 5; but most of it has become lost to us through the ravages of time, change and neglect.

In 1800 Tyler, after ten years of life in Guilford, moved to Brattleboro, then becoming the business center of the county; and, in 1801, was appointed by the legislature a member of the Vermont Supreme Court, and, in 1806, he was appointed Chief Justice, retaining this position until 1812, party strife and ill health causing him to be retired in that year. He had been appointed by an adverse political legislature solely on his merits, he being a Democrat in a Federalist state. He was one of the first patrons and founder of the University of Vermont. From 1815 to 1821, he was Register of Probate for Windham County. His later years were made miserable by the presence of a cancer on the left side of the nose, near the eye. This disease hastened his death, which occurred August 16, 1826. His widow survived till 1865, dying at the age of 94.

In the realm of poesy, Tyler’s reputation (aside from his dramas) rests principally on the few lyrics that were rescued from oblivion by reason of their having been printed in periodicals. It is doubtless a great loss to the literature of this state that his voluminous collection of poetic MSS. were not retained in the family and given to the press after his death. Some of them are now in possession of Helen Tyler Brown, of Brattleboro; but most of them have disappeared, no one knows whither. His “Ode”, delivered at Windsor, 1799, is doubtlesdoubtless [sic] his best known production; but his little lyric, “Love and Liberty”, is a work of far greater merit, showing the finish and imagination of the practised poet. This lyric is one of the first (perhaps the first) instances we have in Vermont poesy of finished and melodious versification.

In briery dell or thicket brown,
 * On mountain high, in lowly vale,

Or where the thistle sheds its down,
 * And sweet fern scents the passing gale,

There hop the birds from bush to tree;
 * Love fills their throats,
 * Love sweils their notes—

Their song is love and liberty.

No parent birds their love direct;
 * Each seeks his fair in plumy throng,

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 Caught by the luster of her neck,
 * Or kindred softness of her song;

They sing and bill from bush to tree;
 * Love fills their throats,
 * Love swells their notes,—

Their song is love and liberty.

Some airy songster’s feathered shape,
 * O, could my love and I assume:—

The ring-dove’s glossy neck he take,
 * And I the modest turtle’s plume—

O, then we'd sing from bush to tree—
 * Love fill our throats,
 * Love swell our notes,

Our song be love and liberty.

Of the very few persons who may properly be denominated “major poets” of Vermont, Royall Tyler must certainly be included as one—the first in time and first in influence, although, owing to the fragmentary character of his surviving verse, there are several others who outrank him in the excellence of extant lyrics. He was, as has been truly said, “one of the fathers of American literature”. His “Memoirs”, consisting of some 300 MSS.MS. [sic] pages, and written by his son, Thomas P. Tyler, have never been published except in the form of excerpts, as in Hemenway’s Gazetteer, Vol. 5; but he left an enduring record on the ideals, culture and institutions of his state which will endure as long as our literature. Tyler wrote, in The Farmers’ Weekly Museum, under the pseudonym of “Spondee”. In T. Buckingham’s Palyanthus,. [sic] (Boston, 1806) he wrote under the heading “Trash”. In Joseph Dennie’s Portfolio (Philadelphia, 1801–12) he wrote “An Author’s Evenings” and “Original Poetry”. He contributed also to The Federal Orrery and the Columbia Centinel, Boston; to the Boston Eagle, the Dartmouth Centinel, the New England Galaxy, the Brattleboro Reporter and Yeoman. Unpublished MSS. left by Tyler include three sacred dramas, an “Oration on the Death of Washington”, 1800; “The Mantle of Washington”, 1800; “Ode to Night”, 1792. Other plays, written for the Boston Theatre, include “The Dualists”, a farce in three acts; “Barataria, or the Governor of a day”, and others.

With the passing of the Guilford School the Early National Period of Vermont Poetry really came to an end; but it remains to mention several singers of the state who stood somewhat apart from this movement. These are Josias Lyndon Arnold, Thomas Green Fessenden, Anthony Haswell and Selleck Osborn.

Arnold was born in Providence, R. I., in 1765, was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and undertook the study of law; but soon abandoning this, he became a tutor at Brown University. His father, having become settled in Vermont (one of the original settlers of St. Johnsbury), and having acquired a large estate there, died in 1792. Young Arnold, though fond of literary pursuits and already interested in the production of verse, repaired to the north and made his home there, applying himself to the care of the family estates. Here he continued his literary activities, giving his main energies to the problems of a settler. He married in 1795, but the following year was taken sick with enteric fever and died. His widow issued his collected poems in book Island College, Providence, 1797,”—this be [sic]Arnold, Esq’r, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., formerly of Providence, and a tutor in Rhode Island College, Providence, 1797,—this being the first book of poetry, so far as we know ever published by a Vermont poet. Specially noteworthy among these lyrics are his “Odes” written on the banks respectively

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The Czechoslovak automotive industry is well developed and capable of fulfilling the country's motor-transport equipment needs. A wide variety of vehicles are produced, and many are exported throughout West and East Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the U.S.S.R. Some foreign passenger cars and light trucks are imported, mainly from other East European countries, Western Europe, and the U.S.S.R. Vehicle production is expected to become more centralized throughout the CEMA as a result of recent discussions. Greater emphasis will be placed on Czechoslovakia's production of heavy trucks as a result of this new program. Extensive plant expansion has already been authorized for the Tatra truck works in Koprivnice. Other major production centers are the Skoda factories in Mlada Boleslav and the Avie plant in Prague. As of January 1972, vehicle registrations totaled 1,165,465 units; 938,203 automobiles, 207,131 trucks and 20,131 buses.

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 of the Passumpsic and Connecticut Rivers, and the “Lines To Aspasia, Sailing”. His work shows a polish and mastery of metre not common to the singers of his day.

Contemporaneous to the Guilford School, and probably somewhat influenced by it (since he was a contributor to Dennie’s Weekly Museum or Journal, along with Royall Tyler) was Thomas Green Fessenden. His career was spectacular, and his genius like a meteor across the horizon of his time. He was a son of Rev. Thomas K. Fessenden of Walpole, N. H., being thus a native of the very town in which The Weekly Museum (Dennie’s and Tyler’s periodical) was published. It is probable that he here came under the influence of Judge Tyler and his school; for we find that, after graduating from Dartmouth in 1796, he was already contributing to the columns of the Museum, under the nom-de-plume of “Simon Spunky.” He was very diffident and sensitive about publicity; but his contributions to the Museum and to the Eagle of Dartmouth were generally admired. Humor, satire, and patriotic lyrics were his forte. He was the first American poet to give us humorous descriptive portraits of New England character, manners and customs; being in this the forerunner of James Russell Lowell.

Fessenden removed to Rutland, after graduating, and began the study of law under Nathaniel Chipman. In 1801 he went to London to engage in the construction of a mill, being encouraged thereto by prominent British capitalists; but being deserted by these associates before the mill could be fairly tested and proved, he was forced to abandon it for lack of funds. This nearly ruined him financially; but seemed to stimulate his literary powers; and being driven by necessity, he undertook, and completed in the space of four weeks, 1803, the first edition of his famous satire, “Terrible Tractoration”, which the English press compared favorably with Butler’s “Hudibras”. This work was inspired by contact with a son of Dr. Elisha Perkins of Plainfield, Conn., whose celebrated cure-all, or nostrum, the “metallic tractors” were then being introduced into England. (See Perrin, as above). After going through several editions in England, this work was also published, 1805, in America. Fessenden was a man of strong Federalist or “Tory” convictions; and in elucidation of his rabid anti-Jeffersonian doctrines, he brought out, on his return to America, in 1805, a political satire, entitled “Democracy Unveiled”.

He is next found in New York City, editing a newspaper caledcalled [sic] the Weekly Inspector, 1806–7; but in this enterprise he fails, owing largely to his unpopular politics and to the rivalry of Irving’s newly established magazine, Salmagundi. In this year (1806) he issued an American edition of his “Original Poems” (first published in London in 1804), it being a collection of his verse from early Dartmouth days up to that time. This book of 203 pages received a very favorable reception from such prominent English Reviews as the British Critick, Literary Journal, Anti-Jacobin Review, Monthly Review and Critical Review; demonstrating Fessenden’s hold on the literary esteem of his own age. The volume contains a number of fine odes, some caustic and witty satires and a few splendid humorous burlesques in rhyme. Fessenden next went to Philadelphia, where, in 1809, appeared his third important satire, entitled “Pills, Political, Poetical, Philosophical.”

Returning in 1812 to Vermont, and settling at Bellows Falls, he practised law there till 1815. This latter year he was called, by the death of his brother William, to the editorship of the Brattleboro Reporter, but remained with it only a short time. He was back in Bellows Falls very soon, editing there the Bellows Falls Intelligencer from 1816 to 1822; and here, in 1818, he issued his fourth and last volume of satire, didactic in nature, entitled “The Ladies’ Monitor”.

After leaving Bellows Falls in 1822, Fessenden settled in Boston, Mass., and began there, and continued till his death in 1837, the publication of The New England Farmer, which became one of the foremost agricultural papers of the land. He also issued for a number of years The New England Farmer’s Almanac, 1828–36, which attained an extensive sale throughout New England. Here, in Boston, he passed the remaining days of his life, dying of apoplexy on November 11, 1837. The

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 Agricultural Society erected a monument to his memory in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Fessenden, as Hemenway says, “Belongs to New Hampshire by birth, to Vermont by his education, and the larger part of his literary life, and by his last labors and death to Massachusetts”. He published many valuable and useful books during his busy career. But his chief distinction is, aside from his connection with agriculture, his rank as the first really great American satirist—the “American Butler”, (so-called by English critics), and the legitimate forerunner of Saxe and Holmes in this field, as of Lowell in the field of New England descriptive humor.

Let poets scrawl satirick rhymes, And sketch the follies of the times,
 * With much caricaturing;

But I, a bon-ton bard, declare A set of slanderers they are,
 * E’en past a Job’s enduring.

Let crabbed cyniks snarl away, And pious parsons preach and pray
 * Against the vices reigning;

That mankind are so wicked grown, Morality is scarcely known,
 * And true religion waning.

Societies, who vice suppress, May make a rumpus; ne’ertheless,
 * Ours is the best of ages;

Such hum-drum folks our fathers were, They could no more with us compare,
 * Than Hottentots with sages.

It puts the poet in a pet To think of THEM, a vulgar set;
 * But we, thank God, are quality!

For we have found, this eighteenth century, What ne’er was known before, I’ll venture ye,—
 * Religion’s no reality!

Tom Paine, and Godwin, both can tell That there is no such thing as hell!
 * A doctrine mighty pleasant;

Your old-wives’ tales of a hereafter Are things for ridicule and laughter,
 * While we enjoy the present.

We’ve nought to do but frisk about At midnight ball and Sunday rout
 * And Bacchanalian revel;

To gamble, drink, and live at ease, Our great and noble selves to please,
 * Nor care for man nor devil.

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 In these good times, with little pains, And scarce a penny-worth of brains,
 * A man with great propriety—

With some small risk of being hung— May cut a pretty dash among
 * The foremost in society.

Another Vermont poet—Selleck Osborn (born 1783; died 1826), about whom very little is known, but whose “Poems”, published in 1823, are mainly of this epoch—should here receive passing mention. He wrote, under the pseudonym of “Lorenzo” in the Hartford Mercury, and other papers, and his verse, like Fessenden’s, is of unusual interest and quality.

And Anthony Haswell (1756–1816) should also receive honorable mention. The Vermont Gazette, established by him at Bennington, June, 1783, was the most powerful newspaper in Vermont for many years, and his ballads are among the best of that early period.

Thus we bring to a close the remarkable opening epoch of Early Vermont Minstrelsy. It was distinguished for the freshness and vigor of its spirit, and for the spontaneity and originality of its expression, as evidenced in the works of Rowley, Niles, Tyler and his Guilford School, and by the odes of Arnold and the humorous satires and characterizations of Fessenden.

The next epoch (extending roughly from 1812 to 1860) will exhibit the fruits of this pioneer era as brought forth in the no less remarkable outburst of song, in various parts of the state, before the dark clouds of civil war obscured the vision and quenched the spirit of our Green Mountain minstrelsy. Tyler and his “school” furnished a fit ground of preparation for the three major singers and the many secondary bards who are to distinguish this opening period. Eastman, Saxe and Lynch-Botta were to be worthy successors of the “Guilford School.”

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Vere 1. In the beginning.] The World is not eternal, but had a beginning, as all Philoophers acknowledged before Aritotle. So he himelf informs us, L. I. de Cælo, cap. 2. (peaking of the ancient Opinions concerning the Original of the World), they all aid it had a beginning: But ome thought it might have no End; others judged it to be corruptible.

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Rh It is true, that when these helps are provided, namely, a correct system of Orthography—a sketch of Grammar, a simplified system of Arithmetic,—and an extended Vocabulary, little is done beyond laying the foundation. Still however this foundation must be laid, if any superstructure of knowledge and virtue be attempted relative to the inhabitants of India. Yet, were the plan to stop here, something would have been done, a peasant, or an artificer, thus rendered capable of writing as well as reading his own language with propriety, and made acquainted with the principles of arithmetic, would be less liable to become a prey to fraud among his own countrymen, and far better able to claim for himself that protection from oppression, which it is the desire of every enlightened government to grant. But the chief advantage derivable from this plan is, its facilitating the reception of ideas which may enlarge and bless the mind in a high degree; ideas for which India must be indebted to the west, at present the seat of science, and for the communication of which, generations yet unborn will pour benedictions on the British name.

1. To this then might be added a concise but perspicuous account of the Solar System, preceded by so much of the laws of motion, of attraction and gravity, as might be necessary to render the solar system plain and intelligible. These ideas however, should not be communicated in the form of a treatise, but in that of simple axioms delivered in short and perspicuous sentences. This method comes recommended by several considerations: it agrees with the mode in which doctrines are communicated in the Hindoo Shastras, and is therefore congenial with the ideas of even the learned among them; it would admit of these sentences being written from dictation, and even committed to memory with advantage, as well as of their being easily retained; and finally the conciseness of this method would allow of a multitude of truths and facts relative to


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 This Act shall come into force from the day of its publication in the Royal Gazette onwards.

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The circle courts shall be abolished and the original circle courts shall have the status of provincial courts. In addition, the positions of chief judges of circle courts shall be dissolved.

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  industries are almost completely unorganized. Likewise the ' and ' save for small and weak A. F. of L. and I. W. W. unions. The millions of ' and , and ' have no organization at all except in the rare instances of skilled workers and a small union of migratory agricultural workers in the I. W. W. In many of these industries, whwichwhich [sic] are completely outside of trade union influence, the employers set up so-called "company unions," which are controlled by the bosses and which serve merely to delude and demoralize the workers.

American industries contain millions of foreign-born workers of all nationalities. In the great Homestead steel mills, for example, 54 nations are represented. Comparitively few of these foreign-born workers are organized except in the clothing and mining industiresindustries [sic]. The American workers tend to monopolize the best jobs in industry hence they predominate in most of the skilled workers unions. The four railroad brotherhoods are almost entirely American in character, while the four largest clothing unions are made up almost altogether of foreign-born. One-seventh of the population of the United States are Negroes. These tend constantly to migrate from the agricultural south to the industrial north, from the farms into the industries. Already great numbers of them are engaged in the steel, packing, automobile, railroad and other industries. They are almost entirely unorganized. Many of the unions, notably the four brotherhoods, with the machinists, railway clerks, railway carmen, etc., openly refuse to accept them as members. This forces them to act as strikebreakers. The Negro question is a serious problem to the whole trade union movement. Women workers are also very weakly organized, except in the needle trades, where they play a very important part in the unions. Ordinarily the women workers join the same


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 local unions as men in the same trades. In the A. F. of L. all the unions which contain considerable numbers of women are affiliated to the Women's Trade Union League This national body is typically conservative. Its alleged aim is to organize and educate women workers generally.

The American Federation of Labor is the principal trade union center for the United States and Canada. It is a very loose federation of 111 national and jnternational unions and 523 directly affiliated local unions. It is administered by an executive council of 11 members. elected at the yearly general conventions. These conventions are composed almost solely of the higher officials. With the exception of one year, Samuel Gompers was president of the A. F. of L. continuously since 1886, until his death in December, 1924. The organization was founded in 1881.

The A. F. of L. is divided into four departments building, railroad, metal and union label. The function of these departments is to secure cooperation among their affiliated unions. They were formed a few years ago to forestall a strong movement for industrial unionism. Strong resistance is made by the Gompers' clique against forming departments in other industries and those that exist have very little power. At best they are only very weak federations. Only one, being peculiar, merits description. This is the union label department. In the A. F. of L. there are 61 national organizations using different labels, stamps, and cards, which serve to indicate that their products are made by union workers. All these union label organizations are combined in the union label department. They keep up a constant campaign to induce the workers to use nothing but union made goods. The scheme, being in essence an attempt to control the purchasing power of the workers, is a sort of substitute for the co-operative and boycott movement proper. Great abuses attach to this union label agitation, which serve to


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 or over; then the minimum became twenty-five for men and twenty-one for women. Now there is a feeling that it ought to be raised. We don't want to take advantage of mere boy and girl emotions—men of my way of thinking, at any rate, don't—we want to get our samurai with experiences, with a settled mature conviction. Our hygiene and regimen are rapidly pushing back old age and death, and keeping men hale and hearty to eighty and more. There's no need to hurry the young. Let them have a chance of wine, love, and song; let them feel the bite of full-bodied desire, and know what devils they have to reckon with."

"But there is a certain fine sort of youth that knows the desirability of the better things at nineteen."

"They may keep the Rule at any time—without its privileges. But a man who breaks the Rule after his adult adhesion at five and twenty is no more in the samurai for ever. Before that age he is free to break it and repent."

"And now, what is forbidden?"

"We forbid a good deal. Many small pleasures do no great harm, but we think it well to forbid them, none the less, so that we can weed out the self-indulgent. We think that a constant resistance to little seductions is good for a man's quality. At any rate, it shows that a man is prepared to pay something for his honour and privileges. We prescribe a regimen of food, forbid tobacco, wine, or any alcoholic drink, all narcotic drugs"

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Note that in Amharic the object possessed is the subject of verb.

The negative forms are:

For the equivalents to 'have', 'have not' with feminine thing possessed see Note 5.1.

Note 4.3 Feminine definite suffix /-wa~-(y)itu~-(y)itwa/

The masculine definite suffix was discussed in Note 2.1. The feminine definite suffix is /-wa/; /-(y)itu/ (/-itu/ after consonants, /-yitwa/ after vowels).

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 weaken the labor movement. Unions having labels tend to lose their militancy. They get agreements with the employers on the basis of the amount of trade they control. The interests of the workers are often completely lost sight of in such union label bargains. Sometimes a system of semi-espionage develops, in which the workers have no say whatever over the regulation of their wages, hours and working conditions. Often serious corruption results by the officials selling the union label to "unfair" employers.

Although the A. F. of L. itself is decentralized, the 111 national and international unions composing it are highly centralized and autonomous bodies. These unions range in character from pure craft unions to pure industrial. The craft, or near craft, is the predominant structural type. In the railroad industry there are 16 "standard" organizations, one for each of the big craft divisions. The building trades are divided into 15 important organizations, and the printing trades into six. There are six unions in the clothing industry, and 25 in the metal industry. The food industry has several national craft organizations. During strikes these many unions in the various industries customarily scab on each other, save in the few cases where they have alliances among themselves. The usual method is for one or more unions to strike while the rest remain at work. In the national strike of railroad shopmen, 1922, nine unions struck while seven stayed at work. Such a lack of solidarity is of course ruinous to the workers' interests.

On the other hand there is only one union, the United Mine Workers, which includes workers of all classes employed in and around the mines. In the textile industry there is one A. F. of L. union, industrial in form, and half a dozen or more small independents. A similar condition prevails in the shoe and leather industry. In the general transport industry there are a dozen A. F. of L. national craft unions and several independents. The local type of unions that characterizes the British movement, is


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Proclamation 10190 of April 30, 2021

Jewish American Heritage Month, 2021

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The Jewish American experience is a story of faith, fortitude, and progress. It is a quintessential American experience—one that is connected to key tenets of American identity, including our Nation’s commitment to freedom of religion and conscience. This month, we honor Jewish Americans—past and present—who have inextricably woven their experience and their accomplishments into the fabric of our national identity.

Generations of Jewish people have come to this Nation fleeing oppression, discrimination, and persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their children. These Jewish Americans have created lives for themselves and their families and played indispensable roles in our Nation’s civic and community life, making invaluable contributions to our Nation through their leadership and achievements.

And this year, we also recognize two historic firsts, as America saw the Vice President take the oath of office alongside her Jewish spouse, and a Jewish American became the first Majority Leader of the United States Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish American elected official in our Nation’s history.

Alongside this narrative of achievement and opportunity, there is also a history—far older than the Nation itself—of racism, bigotry, and other forms of injustice. This includes the scourge of anti-Semitism. In recent years, Jewish Americans have increasingly been the target of white nationalism and the antisemitic violence it fuels.

As our Nation strives to heal these wounds and overcome these challenges, let us acknowledge and celebrate the crucial contributions that Jewish Americans have made to our collective struggle for a more just and fair society; leading movements for social justice, working to ensure that the opportunities they have secured are extended to others, and heeding the words of the Torah, “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”

A central concept in Judaism, “l’dor v’dor”, or “from generation to generation,” recognizes both the continuity of the Jewish people and the intergenerational responsibility we have to heal the world for our children. During Jewish American Heritage Month, we honor Jewish Americans, who, inspired by Jewish values and American ideals, have engaged in the ongoing work of forming a more perfect union.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 2021 as Jewish American Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans to visit www.JewishHeritageMonth.gov to learn more about the heritage and contributions of Jewish Americans and to observe this month with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies.


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 the courts empowered by the treaties of amity as before.

Announced on the 19th day of March 2476 Buddhist Era, being the 9th year of the present reign.

Countersignatory:

A special commissioner for organisation of outer town courts has the power to command judges in outer towns in respect of the organisation of courts and the trial and adjudication of cases. When a judge finds it appropriate, he has the power to request the special commissioner to give an order in writing affixed with the signature of the special commissioner.

The Minister of Justice shall have the power to revoke the aforementioned order of the special commissioner.

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23846 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of April, in the year two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.

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 absent in America. The A. F. of L. unions stretch over the whole expanse of the United States and Canada. A big rank and file movement is being carried on by the Trade Union Educational League to amalgamate all these craft organizations into a dozen industrial unions.

In each of the states of the United States (and in some of the provinces of Canada) the A. F. of L. has state federations, comprising all the local unions in the respective territories involved. In all the industrial centers similar federations, on a local scale, are in existence. These state and city central bodies are purposely kept weak by the centralized national unions. They have insignificant representation at the A. F. of L. conventions. They have very little power either industrially of politically, the national unions watching them jealously as a dangerous, class type of organization. In Canada all the unions affiliated to the A. F. of L. are crystallized into the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress.

The conservative independent unions, including the four railroad brotherhoods, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, etc., follow the general structural type prevailing in the A. F. of L. They are craft unions. On the other hand, most of the revolutionary independent unions take the industrial form. The I. W. W. particularly is a militant advocate of this type of organization. Operating under one general executive board, it sets up unions for each of the more important unions listed. Its strongholds are in the marine transport, metal mining, agriculture, lumber and general construction industries. The United Labor Council is a federation of revolutionary industrial unions. The Canadian O. B. U. organizes class unions with local autoonomy.

The main body_of American organized labor is unaffiliated with the workers of the world. The A. F. of L was affiliated to the Amsterdam International, but withdrew because that reactionary organization wasswas [sic] "too


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 "In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house."

"You eat fish."

"It isn't a matter of logic. In our barbaric past horrible flayed carcases of brutes dripping blood, were hung for sale in the public streets." He shrugged his shoulders.

"They do that still in London—in my world," I said.

He looked again at my laxer, coarser face, and did not say whatever thought had passed across his mind.

"Originally the samurai were forbidden usury, that is to say the lending of money at fixed rates of interest. They are still under that interdiction, but since our commercial code practically prevents usury altogether, and our law will not recognise contracts for interest upon private accommodation loans to unprosperous borrowers, it is now scarcely necessary. The idea of a man growing richer by mere inaction and at the expense of an impoverishing debtor, is profoundly distasteful to Utopian ideas, and our State insists pretty effectually now upon the participation of the lender in the borrower's risks. This, however, is only one part of a series of limitations of the same


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 revolutionary." Some of its affiliated national unions however, retain their connections with the corresponding Amsterdam organization. Among the unions retaining such affiliations are the Miners, Longshoremen, Machinists, and Ladies Garment Workers. The Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, although its constituent units are in the A. F. of L. remains affiliated to Amsterdam. In the A. F. of L. the movement for international affiliation is yet weak, both for Amsterdam and Moscow, but the growing strength of the Red International adherents within the unions, plus the desire to forestall the world unity movement of the R. I. L. U. is bringing the officialdom to consider reaffiliation to Amsterdam. The central labor councils of Minneapolis, Detroit and Seattle sent delegates to the R. I. L. U. Congresses, but could not affiliate directly. The Nova Scotia miners voted to affiliate, but had their charter taken from them by the head of the miners' union, John L. Lewis. The United Labor Council is affiliated to the Red International of Labor Unions. The I. W. W. has no international affiliation. At its 1923 convention it voted down propositions of affiliation both to the Moscow and Berlin Syndicalist Internationals. There is a strong element in the organization which holds that the I. W. W. is in itself the international.

The conservative trade unions have strongly developed insurance features, including benefits for strikes, death, sickness, unemployment, etc. This is especially true of the organizations of the most skilled workers, the unions of unskilled workers being unable to collect the high dues (which sometimes are as much as $10.00 per month) necessary to maintain such insurance. The four railroad brotherhoods have exceptionally highly developed insurance departments. Likewise the printers; in their recent great national strike the latter paid out $17,000,000 in strike benefits. On the other hand, all the revolutionary organizations are opposed to the insurance system. They charge low dues and depend upon their


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 economic power, rather than upon their funds, to win strikes and to hold their membership together.

The trade union system of educating the membership in established schools is still in a very primitive state. The only industry which evidences any serious development of this nature is the needle trades. The unions in this branch all have regular educational departments. Within the last five years a number of trade union colleges were started in Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montreal and a few other cities, but the movement has not prospered. The only live institution of this character now existing is the Brookwood College just outside of New York. It is supported by radical and liberal sources. Two years ago the labor educational institutions, mostly of a radical character, combined into the Workers' Education Bureau. But the lieutenants of Gompers managed to seize control of it and to strangle it. The whole "workers' education" movement is taking on an ever more distinct class collaborationist character.

For many years American trade unions have tried to establish a real co-operative movement. The miners, clothing workers, the railway trackmen and various central labor councils have been especially active in this direction. But such efforts have almost universally failed. Either the men managing the co-operatives were incompetent or corrupt and wrecked them outright, or the enterprises became capitalistic by one means or an other. Within the past four years this movement has taken a new turn in the formation of labor banks. The Machinists launched the first bank; then followed one by the Locomotive Engineers; and after that came many more in rapid succession. At present there are about 25 of such institutions in various big industrial centers. Their total capitalization is about thirty millions of dollars. With the corruption and incompetence now prevailing among labor officials, it will be a marvel if a number of these banks do not go the way of similar labor enterprises by failing ignobly. When financially