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...former Mayor of Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon offered as a remedy for corrupt and inefficient municipal government a new educational treatment of local government, with more emphasis placed on the importance of the city in the everyday life of the individual. He issued a call to college men to abandon their aloofness to city affairs and to graduates to take part in this most vital form of government...
Reform movements and reformers have fallen into ill repute because they are usually ineffective, and, if successful, temporary in their results. The reason for this, in most instances, is the lack of adequate and permanent organization. Political reformers are generally men whose chief concern is not politics, and who abandon the cause when they have attained their immediate object. If the present "younger generation" is going into politics "fifty thousand strong," as one of its members has claimed, there is in New York City today the opportunity for it to translate its academic enthusiasm into political reality. If, not fifty...
...punch had flowed and the Vagabonds' reserve had flowed with it. He determined to abandon himself to the moment; he felt he had to abandon himself to something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
Many North American visitors to the European continent have been either amused or insulted at the signs in French and Italian shop windows: "English spoken: American understood." Shall we deliberately abandon all just reason for resentment at this foreign affront...
...Labor Party, Only other occurrence of Labor's convention which remotely approached excitement was a resolution presented by the tin, iron and steelworkers group that the Federation "abandon the traditional non-partisan policy and sponsor a genuine Labor Party." Bland Secretary Frank Morrison promptly pigeonholed it. Day later the convention politely cheered Charles Dukes of the British Trade Union Congress when he told its members: "We were forced to enter politics to protect the primary necessities for ourselves and for our dependents. We believe the day has come when Labor can no longer remain quiescent. Labor is entering into...