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...Nazi eugenic tenets contented themselves with remaining mum observers last week while the German Press quoted Dr. Campbell by the yard. Abroad excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him, found nothing more remarkable than that his wife was named Helen Fahnestock. Socialite Dr. Campbell's boldest dicta: "The difference between the Jew and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white. . . . Germany has set a pattern which other nations must follow...
...their present position they might be replaced by automatons trained to reproduce in speech the dicta of their masters. If the positions are worthy of capable, industrious, and intelligent men, then let those who are carefully chosen to fill them exercise some of the virtues for which they are presumably selected. A government of men is infinitely superior to one of laws...
...like Jack Oakie's cockiness and Lanny Ross' voice you will enjoy "College Rhythm" in spite of the plot. As a matter of fact there is no plot according to all dicta of drama, as far as the reviewer could determine. The action hovers around unrevealed and unrequited love, a theme which is as old as the world itself...
...that our politicians are different in intelligence from those who destroyed former civilizations." Thus does Mr. Neilson point out the futility of entrusting our social welfare to politicians instead of training experts. "One of the strangest things to me," he says again, "is how we bow down before the dicta of physicists and close our mind to the findings of fundamental economists." But how different, Mr. Neilson, is the predictability of matter and the behavior of the complex organism called man. How comparatively easy to test the validity of a physical law and how extremely difficult to test...
Today as never before the individual is prey to ever-changing currents of opinion. Modern methods of communication bring to the loneliest dwelling the latest dicta of statesmen. How is the average uneducated citizen to distinguish between the truth and demagoguery? The perfect case in point is that of Germany, where millions literally bow down before the emotional appeals of as fanatical a leader as ever ruled a nation. The hope of western civilization lies in those countries which have succeeded in keeping lighted the lamp of truth, and the hope of those countries lies in their institutions of learning...