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...raised throughout the liberated Provinces. People who had enthusiastically acclaimed the French as their long-lost brothers after the Armistice, were now driven to unconcealed dismay. On the one hand was the clear impossibility of maintaining German laws in French Provinces; on the other hand was the fervid determination of the Catholic population-a large majority-not to submit to anti-Catholic laws of the French Republic...
...utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...
...which once came from Europe has been checked by law. What is now necessary is apparently a broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities. The arguments against illiteracy are sufficiently convincing if only they are placed emphatically before illiterates. A shifting of some of the present fervid discussion to the problem of beginnings in education is a necessary first step toward a campaign against the disgrace of illiteracy...
...Clarence Mackay's fervid and interesting attack on the modern tendency to place life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under bureaucratic control" is unfortunately based upon a slight error of historical analysis. New Jersey's well advertised Blue Laws unmistakably prove that "the pursuit of happiness", especially on Sundays, was carefully regulated by the government long before the present generation of "self-seeking people" arrived on the scene. And if Mr. Mackay pushed his historical inquiries a little further he would discover that the price of bread and ale in England was wont to be fixed by town authorities...
These two "friendly enemies" had in their turn a predecessor in the pre-Civil War days which was one body and known as "Parliament, or Debating Society. Its arguments on slavery often served to heat an otherwise chilly room by means of abundant, fervid productions. Just how warm the rivalry between the present parties will turn out to be, remains to be seen, but it is doubtful whether, lacking the lubrication which was indispensable in the older clubs, the speeches will have that old time flavor, and fiushed conviction...