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...another thing, however, to say that democratic government can exist only in countries where literacy is general. The success of the republics of antiquity with their large slave populations obviously precludes such a conclusion. Yet it does definitely appear that literacy must prevail among the franchised if popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education...
...longer can the Harvard smile exist as some member of certain polytechnical institutions words his love of old Building 399B. Harvard too has her lapses into crispness of phrasing. Yet her sacrifice is far too great for comfort. Pity the future dweller in the waste lands beyond the freshman dormitories who must spend his college years in old D Hall. Of course that will not be like living in E, or even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon...
...Legation Quarter of Peking became an isolated isle of safety last week as the encircling armies of Chinese Super-Tuchuns (super-bandit warlords) stirred the whole region into a frothing sea of civil war. All communication by rail, road or telephone ceased to exist; and only one foreign cable wire was in operation. Throughout the week some thousands of more or less embattled Chinese soldiers in the vicinity of Peking continued respectful, even obliging, toward those foreigners who had occasion to pass through the civil war area...
...Prohibition does not exist in Canada, outside of some of its maritime provinces and Ontario, which, however, does not lack 4% beer. Yet, the economic welfare of Canada during the last five years, as evidenced in building and other material activities, is so amazing that at times the Canadian dollar has commanded a premium over our dollar...
...With no real provocation to offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...