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Plans for the Legion as outlined show that it is to be essentially democratic and non-partisan. It must not become a second Grand Army of the Republic, interested only in politics and old soldiers' rights. The real aim must be constructive; it must perpetuate a purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which...
...league, which is non-partisan and non-political in organization, has representation in every state
After discussing the purpose of the book, which is to give a correct and non-partisan account of the events which led to the outbreak of the European War, by a chronological use of the published dispatches of the nations involved, Professor von Mach pointed out several statements from the Entente nations which tend to show that the action of Great Britain in the closing days of July, 1914, was decidedly incriminating. "It is undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company...
...result of a non-partisan poll of Princeton alumni taken by a committee of graduates from that university under the auspices of the Hughes National College League show 2,098 votes for Hughes and 651 for Wilson. The poll reveals that 492 alumni who voted for Wilson in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes this year; whereas 57 is the total Taft and Roosevelt vote which is going to Wilson. Equally significant is the fact that 360 men who voted for Roosevelt in 1912 are going to vote for Hughes and only 37 for Wilson. Over 90 per cent...
...with delight that we hear of the plan to play chess by wireless. Surely of all the triumphs of Marconi's genius none surpasses this. It has long been recognized by non-partisan observers that the range of the University Chess Team is much curtailed, and many possible glorious victories have been lost because of the team's inability to entertain the Swedish mathematical wizards in a dual contest, or to journey to Pekin to brave the Confucius Club upon its home chess board...