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There is not much advantage in talking about what fools we are to boast about our glorious American civilization, democracy, heritage, and so forth and to allow at the same time the bedrock of all this civilization, democracy, heritage, and so forth to be pulverized. There is more advantage in seeing what can be done about it. And two things can be done. For one, budgets can be reduced in other ways than by attacking the schools. It is better, for example, to reduce the salaries of a few bloated. Tammany commissioners than to curtail the functioning...
...intend to do certain things to an official who smeared and muddied the glorious name of the Emperor of Japan, whose nimbus shines over the world and who is saving the world from its present crisis. The world and all human beings under the sun should be subject to the godly and divine Emperor of Japan...
...Generals sent out telegrams denouncing Peiping's "Young Marshal" Chang for not having sent more troops to Shanhaikwan, proclaimed fervently their own eagerness to fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route Army to North China...
...people as well as to the Filipinos. . . . Patriotic Filipinos can ill begrudge the hardships that may be occasioned, knowing full well that liberty has always entailed great burdens and responsibilities. . . . I'm happy and I'm grateful. I envision for my people a future grander and more glorious once we are independent and free...
Wood. In Washington, brave little Tenino's celebrated wooden money experiment (TIME, March 14) came to a glorious close, thanks to the nation's numismatists. When Tenino's one & only bank failed last year, Publisher Donald M. Major and a group of public-spirited men thought up a plan to keep some kind of currency circulating in the town. They issued to each depositor plywood certificates valued at 75% of his bank deposit. Gradually the bank's affairs were settled. Last week Tenino bought in its wooden money with U. S. money, found that...