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...balance based on the right of every individual to make a living out of life. . . . The complete solving of these economic problems which are national in scope is impossible without leadership and a plan and action by the national Government. . . . We should not seek in any way to destroy or tear down. The American system of economics and government is everlasting. . . . Let us restore and at the same time remodel. The times call for a leadership which insists on the permanence of our fundamental institutions. . . . The mistakes of the past call for ... a leadership, practical, sound, courageous and alert...
...files of most physicians, described the secret weaknesses and vices of his clients, became invaluable to historians and blackmailers. Professor Dercum died suddenly last year, as he opened proceedings of the American Philosophical Society(TIME, May 4). He had been forethoughtful. In his will he instructed Mrs. Dercum to destroy every case record he had. No one will ever know what President Wilson and other patients told Professor Dercum because last week Widow Dercum announced that she had carried out her husband's instructions...
...Scouts, urged Scouts everywhere to destroy, as senseless and dangerous, any "chain letter" they may receive. Said he: "Letters I have received have threatened me with all sorts of disasters if I disobeyed their instructions. I have destroyed scores of them in my life but the disasters have never come...
...German private debts must have priority over Reparations-in flat contradiction of M. Laval (TIME, Nov. 23). Already the propaganda guns of U. S. and British private lenders to Germany were blazing away last week with the statement in various forms that an attempt to give Reparations priority would destroy the whole fabric of German private credit, bankrupt the Fatherland and defeat its own purpose by making further payment of Reparations impossible...
...spirit in his fellow townsmen and lives forever in the lives and activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost) to one who gave his life in an effort to destroy that order-yet the spirit of de Bosis will continue to soar even if his body has crashed to earth in the wreckage of Pegasus...