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Contingencies such as this are bound to occur whenever there is a division of power or authority. The League, in giving to Poland the prerogative of using her army to keep the peace, has don the only thing possible to prevent Danzig from becoming a perpetual stew-pot of international differences...
...said, "to send representatives of the Legion to talk to the immigrants before they left Ellis Island. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, for reasons best known to himself, refused to allow us to do this, but we must see to it that America ceases to be the melting pot of nations and becomes one united nation...
...solution of our melting pot problem is closely involved with this idea. Americanization is not to be learned from books. Teaching children a sense of co-operation is more valuable than any scheme that could be broached along those lines. The sacredness of the community should be taught in every day school life. There are three elements in democracy, so well expressed in the Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, of the French revolution. We have overstressed the first two. The war did bring out the last idea, but transiently. "We shall never realize our democracy," said Mr. Osborne, "until we recognize...
...These reports are followed up by short talks and discussions during the first period that a group of cooperative students returns to the school proper. This is for the purpose of bringing individual experiences into a "melting pot," where they may be modified in comparison with other viewpoints...
...institution of learning, are great assets. A great and loyal body of alumni scattered throughout the length and breadth of the land helps to explain the wide scope of Harvard's appeal. At any rate a freshman class recruited from 43 states ought to prove a pretty fair melting-pot of broad Americanism. --Boston Herald...