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...hardly worth all the excitement they have created. Perhaps it is because a Vice-President is the man to expose what may turn out to be a menace some more articles are to come we must remember-that explains the wide comment; Vice-Presidents are thought to be so harmless. This is not Mr. Coolidge's way, however: he is a man of ability, and if the case can be proved against the stalking Reds, he will do it. We respect his determination to hasten to the rescue of our fair neighbors, his chivalrous intention to spread his cloak over...
...fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral...
...Mason's perspicacity in discerning that an intelligent man with "Honest Beliefs" can expiate his treason only by being kept locked up, is commendable. I agree with his inference that only by confining such a man can he be made harmless. Mr. Mason, who is well aware that ours is a government by, not of, the majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word...
...shock to one after those which have appeared urging unity and All-Americanization. If an intelligent man has such "Honest Beliefs" as those of Mr. Debs, it is not only good but necessary that he be locked up and kept in confinement until such time as he has become harmless and has fully expiated his treason. You say that Debs is now harmless? How can a man with such "beliefs" as he displayed during the war be harmless when there are thousands, even millions, of uneducated unthinking near-Americans who accept his world as law because they have not enough...
...Angell, who has lived in France and Germany, and has been for several years intimately associated with British political movements, deals in his lecture with the forces that underlie the social upheavals in Europe and what constitutes their danger; ending with an outline of what policy might render them harmless...