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Again, the religious house became a huge business organization. Its financial affairs were involved . . . The secular affairs absorbed the time and energies of the abbott and of the brethren at the expense of the spiritual concerns for which the foundation had been endowed...
...yielded, and were caught. Several other boatloads of men sent out to bring in bootleggers also were tempted, yielded, but to date have not been caught. It is hoped that the well-known spirit of the force will over-come the handicap created by the defection of these weaker brethren, but strict surveillance has been commanded in order to prevent any more desertions...
...Jews are showing an energy which contrasts sharply with Arab apathy. Everywhere small communities are developing the land. Great arid tracts arc being turned into fertile farms, while the Arabs, comparatively poor, do little but protest. Land is sold over the Arab fellahs' (peasants) heads by their rich brethren. Willingly they part with dry belts and swamps only to see them fertilized by irrigation and drainage. All Arabdom sees its native land being snatched from it. As between the Arabs and the Jews, since cooperation seems hopeless, there is no hope of reconciliation. That is why last week's ceremonies...
Apes cannot be elevated from their position in the animal world, according to Dr. Koehler. The chimpanzees which we see on the stage, dressed up as men, and eating with knives and forks, are not really any more developed than their brethren who depend upon hair for clothing and their hands for table implements. The ape dresses because he is made or induced to, not because he wants to or sees any reason for doing so. Apes are apes the world over...
...party (Social Democratic) and had several times taken part in the international councils of the world's Socialists. On his foreign comrades, Ebert seemed to have made no impression. In 1912, he was elected a member of the Reichstag. There, also, Ebert was undistinguished. He, like all his brethren, was bitterly opposed to militarism and, like them, he supported the Kaiser in what many Germans believed-and many still believe- to be a war of self-defense. Even in 1917, when he first began to agitate for peace, he was little more than a political nonentity and yet, within...