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...succeeding councils are to be equally ineffective, it is a matter of small concern in what way they are elected. The recent decision to swell council membership by admitting two students not House residents is a wise one, as is the provision assuring each House a representative. The simplest methods of election in this event would be to have each House ballot for its won representative...
...Territory make a continuance of such laxity fraught with much social and political danger. . . . We found no present serious race prejudice. The races seemed to be carrying on together with exceedingly little friction. . . . We found the police administration in Honolulu impotent, undisciplined, neglectful and unintelligent, with its chief concern political activity. ... In Honolulu we found an inexperienced, inefficient County Attorney, immersed in politics. . . . We found no serious criticism of the courts. ... No serious complaint of the jury system...
...disposal of the big banks, the railroads and the corporations is not for the homeowner. . . . An objective of government should be to provide at least as much assistance to the little fellow as it is now giving to the large banks and corporations. . . . Such objectives . . . seem beyond the concern of a national administration which can think in terms only of the top of the social and economic structure. They have sought temporary relief from the top down rather than permanent relief from the bottom up, have failed to plan ahead in a comprehensive way." Greatly did this speech dismay that...
...Smith himself is not a possible Democratic standard bearer. Many will therefore suspect that because of a feeling that Mr. Roosevelt, too, is headed for defeat, he is turning his attention to feathering a Cabinet nest under some other congenial Democratic president. But the apparent sincerity of his outspoken concern for the success of his party will probably carry even more weight with his former supporters and with those who are now content to follow the teetering Roosevelt bandwagon, only because the New York governor is the one prominent candidate...
...this process of expanding his mental horizon, however, the student of astronomy does not isolate himself from contact with problems that concern his existence as a terrestrial being. The astronomer needs must look around him as well as above his head. For the study of the physical characteristics of the stars carries one into the realm of atomic physics and spectroscopic theory. The astronomical treatment of the earth as a planet necessarily requires the assistance of geology. The motions of the planets provide the application of the laws of dynamics in a somewhat more complex state of affairs than that...