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...peace-time period an army machine is extremely susceptible to rust; now, with numbers insufficient to maintain all barracks, and appropriations pared, prospects for efficiency are gloomy, General Pershing, however, attacks directly and offers remedies for the evils that beset all army while inactive--to prevent classification in take job he urges periodic changes of work; to prevent dependence on orders from above he forbids assumption of any duties unless peculiar to the office. With a man at the head who is willing to adopt new theories and attack old dangers, it can be hoped that our army, though small...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...latter only made for sullenness and stubborn reaction, while the former at least encouraged thought and reasoning self-correction. If the horse that has been led to the water will not drink, it is no one's concern but his own. And beating him is such a tiring job anyway...
...might have been a saint but for his own egotism. Blind to all but his own ambitions, he sought to dominate everything and everybody in the diocese as he had so long dominated the Cathedral. For years he succeeded. Like Job he seemed the favorite of a merciful God, but, again like Job, his testing was inexorable. First his friends, then his son, his wife, and finally even his God Himself seemed to desert him. Step by step his punishment is meted out to him, until finally he is overwhelmed by it all, and goes down to his grave...
...Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt...