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...Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals of the "James boys...
With the publication in yesterday's transcript of the substance of President Harding's sixteen points, we come at last to some of the definite issues which are to be discussed at Washington. The United States is still talking the lead; it is the first nation definitely to commit itself. This is a fact which should be borne in mind by those who are inclined to criticize President Harding's policy. It is expressly stated that the program is offered principally as a starting point for discussion...
...such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...
...equally necessary. The composer is the capitalist or investor who provides the financial sinews; the orchestra is that body of aviation which provides the machines to fly and the pilots and crew to fly them and man them, and the audience is the flying public at large who commit themselves or their freight to the air. Unfortunately, in aviation, neither the first not the last are present in any considerable degree, in reality they are almost non-existent, and so it is not surprising that the soft pedal is down what time our orchestra is playing discordantly to itself...
...President Hibben said: "We are now taking a further and, we believe, important step in this direction (speaking of the Honor System). Students are unwilling to report the misdeeds of their fellows to an outside body. It is occasionally, however, known to them that certain members of the University commit actions or are guilty of conduct which, in their own words, are hurting the good name of Princeton and the moral tone of the place...