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Folkways is not so startling today as when it was published 33 years ago. Its basic theme - that the development of society is governed by hard evolutionary principles-is now taken for granted by every educated person. At that time this knowledge was still largely an academic possession. The first application of Darwinian theory to human customs and institutions had been made by Huxley. From Huxley, Sumner went on, demolishing one cherished faith after another, with what he called "shovelfuls of facts...
Calculators, who gave the G. 0. P. a basic strength of 16,000,000 votes in the national balloting, estimated that the number of independent votes floating around the U. S. was roughly...
Beyond these obvious lacks, Hugh Drum found others to point at. One of them was a shortage of troops. He turned it into a plug for conscription. Said he: "We are wasting time and ignoring basic lessons of history by months of discussing the volunteer versus the conscription system." Other faults he blamed on lack of training. He found smaller units (com panies, battalions, etc.) weak on the basic mechanics of fighting - patrolling, reconnaissance, communications. He found waste of man power. "Too many com manders," said he, "expected all officers and all men to be at work...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...