Word: decentered
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Science is bound to play a greater role in our future. As the country develops and its natural resources become loss responsive to wasteful exploitation, engineers and economists must find the ways to continue progress and maintain life on a decent scale of existence for an ever-increasing population. With the increasing complications in the social and political structure attending the growth of population, and the fuller development of our economic resources, better methods must be found to administer the machinery of government and better men in greater number must be found to do the work of the state...
...have there been such evils in Motion Pictures? It is sufficient to quote an editorial in the Boston Herald, in defense of the Industry and appealing for vote against the law. Yet the Editor said: "The Motion-Picture magnates descended to such depths of indecency and obscenity that decent people were aroused.... We believe that they deserved severe punishment." A police officer, railing at the "old maids" that were asking the legislature to pass such a law, added: "But one thing I should like to see stopped,--Motion Pictures are making all the boys in my neighborhood little thugs...
...Decent conduct at the games on the part of every season ticket user will be required by the Association. Violation of this requirement will subject the ticket to forfeiture and the Harvard man through whom it was issued to the cancellation or restriction of his ticket privileges in the future...
...more the duty of decent citizens to try to make an improvement in the government of their country, and stupid because the slightest investigation will show any intelligent man that the widespread stories of American political dishonesty are almost always without foundation. In those cases where corruption and bribery have been clearly demonstrated, it has invariably been discovered that a group of the most successful business men of the community have combined to achieve the election or appointment of a corrupt man to a comparatively small position for their private profit. It is my firm conviction that except for certain...
...ideal and idealistic remedy, of course, is a reform among the managers themselves which would result in the production of only decent plays. But apparently such a reform is out of the question, if only for the reason that the indecent plays make money on the free advertising gained from the controversies about them. Such, at least, has been the history of one play still holding the boards in New York...