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...Warren would have defined the "best ideals" of the culture of the United States, and what kind of personal behavior would best exemplify it? Is racial discrimination one of its essential characteristics? Is it to judge a man's character and worth by the accident of his parent's birthplace? Is it to restrict or regulate a person's opportunities by the history of his grandparents? The terms of the bequest imply all that. We doubt, however, whether these elements represent the ideals and culture of the United States as expressed by such Americans as Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln or Theodore...
...picture performance were a roug unschooled let. His first picture was "War Brides." Under the acgis of David W. Gritlith, outmoded now, Barthelmess made long longstand outside of the theatres to see his Chinamth Broken Blossoms, with Lillian Gish, and his movie lad in Tellable David. In 1917 his Parent Leader had a pathos no story of a boxer has since...
While he grows, the child must learn to behave in a way that does not repress his instincts and abilities, yet does not annoy other human beings. Teaching the infant, child and adolescent such emotional and intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn...
...foreign communities. It is up to its ears in the business of managing, financing, otherwise serving its subsidiaries. In 1928 almost half its income came from service fees, and, though the proportion has dwindled since Depression, the shrinkage came through no will of the parent company. There is nothing shaky about Bond & Share. It owes no money. It has $38,000,000 in the bank. It does not borrow from its subsidiaries; in fact, it has loaned them $90,000,000. And if the Public Utility Act were discretionary, not mandatory, Bond & Share might be allowed to live. But should...
...Captains Courageous" by Kipling emerges in a new light. It is no longer a healthy adventure story. The South End Parent-Teachers Association of Boston has denounced it as breeding racial hatred because a negro cook is referred to as a "nigger", and the Association has requested Patrick C. Campbell, Superintendent of schools, to ban it from the shelves of all schools. Boston youth may be deprived of the privilege of reading a book which their fathers enjoyed and thought of as a standard of manhood...