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...Adopt the Red Ensign as the national flag of Canada...
Canada Was First To Adopt Lacrosse...
...John Hemphill, writing in the May American Mercury, criticized the tendency of the several states to adopt uniform laws. The work of the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he says, "was done, completed, admirably performed" when it drew up the Uniform Sales Act, the Uniform Conditional Sales Act, the Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever...
President Coolidge addressed them: "There is only one way in modern civilization ... to avoid the constant interposition of Government into practically all the affairs of the people and that is for the people to adopt a correct course of action. ... If they do not want government through public action, they must provide it through private action...
...Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself is an anachronism in the twentieth century, and he must either adopt the habits and customs of the times or suffer extinction...