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...issues more or less local from a political standpoint may yet develop. One of them is farm legislation. The difficulty is that it is not yet obvious just what sort of legislation the farmers want or will be satisfied with, although it is clear enough that the result they want is better crop prices. The other issue is an anti-lynching bill. If this bill comes up in the Senate, the Southerners will undertake a filibuster, an attempt may be made to supply cloture (limit the debate), and the irreconcilables may join the regular Republicans in the cloture move...
...Must two valiant nations continue throughout the ' centuries to rise up against each other periodically and must they develop a civilization that is doomed to be trampled upon by armies and crushed and saturated with blood? No. . . . Locarno has given people confidence. It makes it possible for mothers to gaze on their sons without feeling terror for the future. . . . Locarno is a germ that must be carefully tended, and not crushed by the heavy foot before it has time to grow. Such a crime must not be committed by the French foot...
...Debating Union has been open to all members of the University. And in the arguing of each question, the preliminary set speeches have always been short to conform with their function of merely directing subsequent discussion. The Oxford ideal of a free and dignified student forum to develop speakers of high calibre while providing also an extra curricular activity of some charm and glamour seems to have been consistently sought...
...university is to be a factory, and those gentlemen and scholars who brought libraries to the colonies in America would probably groan at the word, then pure science will develop better soap and shoes and sealing wax, and call the job complete. But if the university is to be something even higher than business could imagine something finer than business could really effect, then pure science will continue to function as an organism of honest research into the whys and wherefores of this odd, but necessary universe...
...Chaliapin, large Russian bass, soon to tour Europe and the U. S. with his own opera company in the Barber of Seville, has a melody of his own running through his head. Last week in Detroit he hummed a few measures of it to pressmen; said that he would develop it into an operetta, take it on tour, perhaps, after the Barber...