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...emotion, and now quietly lets what is undoubtedly the best light opera company we have had for some years go to pieces--chiefly from lack of interest on the part of the public. The goose that lays the golden egg can be killed by indifference as well as by greed...
...fashion. A conspicuous example of the harm that can be done is the recent accusation against Mr. Schwab which, after every newspaper in the country had injured his name by its insinuations, proved to be entirely unfounded. No amount of exoneration can ever undo the injury caused by this greed for higher circulation by unfounded but exciting rumors. Newspapers can be of service only when their aim is accuracy rather than sensation...
Along the paths of greed and gain...
...went on to test the attitude of poets towards the ideal of liberty, and the desire for peace. "The war poetry of the last five years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...long years. The true sacrifice is not yet ours, but it will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...