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Three hundred orphans in an asylum near Ann Arbor, Mich, raised a tumult of delight last week when they learned that Professor Russell Welford Bunting, University of Michigan oral pathologist, had decided that acidophilus bacilli make teeth decay. That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years...
From 970 B. C., when Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, until 606 B. C. when the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, was a period of war, decay idolatry in Palestine. King Solomon had created an Israelitish state, but he turned apostate. God's judgment on his sins was that the kingdom should be rent into Israel on the north and Judah on the south. Some good kings followed Solomon, and the great Prophets Elijah Elisha, Isaiah and Jeremiah thundered God's words at the children of Israel. But the age was full of such...
...representatives of the Hitler government should dare to lay this swastika wreath in the name of peace, at the precise moment when Hitler, throwing aside all pretense, is arming his enslaved nation to the teeth, is a glaring example of the obscene hypocrisy which is typical of Fascist decay...
...repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than any communistic agitation, is the greatest existing menace to democracy and free capitalism...
...Earth is so old that if its story were imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead...