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...Spartan advice that the St. Paul Pioneer Press gives the college senior when it says. "As the college commencement season approaches, it may not be amiss to tell the prospective graduate that education will not give him a sight draft on the world for a good living. The world owes no person a living, educated or not, until he has earned...
...Stevenson case is filled with rare and amusing leaflets and pamphlets which were issued at the Davos-Platz Press, with rough woodcuts by Stevenson himself. Among the Kipling items are shown an original draft of the first two verses of the "Recessional"; proof sheets of "Kim" with corrections in the author's hand, and several other equally interesting pamphlets...
...York shortly after the beginning of the war in 1914. Its avowed purpose is to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly. At the entry of the United States into the war Mr. Baldwin declared himself a conscientious objector and denounced the draft. For this he was imprisoned in Newark, N. J., under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. It is practically from this experience only that he has gained his knowledge of prison systems that Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne acquired by voluntarily entering Sing as a convict...
...profound preparations which the War Department, the Department of Justice, and the American Legion are reported to be making for the recapture, by force or diplomacy, of the draft-evader Bergdoll, suggest going hunting for mosquitoes with a battery of field artillery. The magnitude of the force and insignificance of the game are quite comparable in the two cases. That it would be pleasant to see him behind bars again, is undeniable: but surely the usefulness of his punishment as a deterrent of similar desertions is long since past. Success would only satisfy a natural though some what primitive desire...
...will take care to be safely out of the way before the Knor resolution is passed. In addition, it is doubtful whether his offence is an extraditable one in any case. Lastly, the Baden government, in releasing his would-be kidnappers at our request, expressly "suggests" that the draft-dodger "under no circumstances" be molested. Inasmuch as we are under the burden of their courtesy in the matter, we can only observe the stipulation...