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...Goodbye to Western Culture" is delightful reading, however one may carp at the author's motive in writing it. Its pages bristle with indignation at Miss Mayo's "Mother India." And if we smile at the idea of Mr. Douglas rushing forward, eyes aflame, to defend the East, we cannot help laughing aloud at many of his clever pokes in the less salubrious corners of that "frowsy and fidgetty little hole called Europe." For though his main thesis may be a defense of India, his dislike of all that is smug in Europe does not have to be read between...
...Augsburg Confession admonishes Lutherans to "engage in just wars." But many modern Lutherans are thoroughgoing pacifists. The Milwaukee meeting decided: "The State is a divine institution, and under certain circumstances it may become the duty of a Christian to defend the State even at the cost of human life; but what these circumstances must be cannot be determined by the Church. Here the individual conscience alone can serve as a sufficient guide...
Three weeks ago militiamen were called out to defend from angry citizens of Cartersville, Ga. a Negro called John Willie Clark, who confessed shooting to death Police Chief Joe Ben Jenkins but said it had been an accident. John Willie then was transferred to an Atlanta gaol for safekeeping. But one day last week, despite his attorney's pleas for change of venue, he was brought back to Cartersville for trial. Early next morning about...
This year he is sailing four-out-of-seven races off Newport, R. I. against astute Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, skipper of Enterprise, the boat that was picked from four million-dollar, syndicate-owned craft to defend the trophy...
Doeg, nephew of May Sutton Bundy (first American woman to win at Wimbledon, 25 years ago) announced after the match: he would defend his title until defeated, then retire...