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...majority is expressed by a plurality of those who take the trouble to vote. ...Taking our state and municipal elections, and averaging them for the country as a whole, the figures show that the will of the people is regularly expressed by less than twenty per cent of our adult citizenship, or about ten per cent of the population. What was have in fact, therefore, is not a government by the whole people, or by a majority of the people, or even by a majority, of the registered voters, but government by a mere plurality of the politically active...
...however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches of the notorious Borgias. In doing so, Actor Barrymore slashes and dashes through several reels that will possibly cause Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such revolution of character and such extravagant heroics, unless some overpowering agency transports him into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here...
With the exception of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, no appeal has been made to the adult population. It has been essentially a children's affair and it is the desire of the Navy Department to ultimately offer each child in the nation the opportunity to do its bit in saving this historic treasure...
...Vassar Alumnae Association has made its chief executive of its Associate an educational director, whose section is primarily adult education, and not the raising of funds. Princeton and Amherst and other colleges have developed various intellectual channels for teaching their alumni, and the results have been most promising...
...Reed of Pennsylvania: "I want to say a word about the Senator's strictures on the expenditures in Pennsylvania. The Senator forgets, I think, that the population of Pennsylvania is over 9,000,000 people, and all of our adults who are citizens are permitted to vote. In the Senator's home State, where three-fourths of the adult citizens are disfranchised, it doubtless is not necessary to spend a dollar...