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...Frederick Roy Martin '93, general manager of the Associated Press...
...France in the Cannes Conference was a serious diplomatic blunder. Many think that the trip of the Prince of Wales to India, where his presence has failed to allay the revolutionary discontent, was another costly mistake. Conditions in Egypt, already bad enough from the meagre reports that reach the press, call for drastic remedies, according to General Allenby, and ones which the present Cabinet cannot well grant...
...rapidly changing world needs championing and support?" In humbler but more outspoken phrasing, she charges the colleges with conservatism and blindness to the radical movements of the country. Such a suggestion is refreshingly unconventional. We have become accustomed, during the last few years, to hear warnings from press and political sources against the menace of perverting young minds with radical doctrine. The college mind, we have been told again and again, lacks the necessary perspective to make it a competent judge of human affairs. So now, when we hear that not enough college graduates are advocates of the newer movements...
...part of the Fordney Tariff Bill which deals with imported books has come in for much merited abuse. The more thoughtful part of the press, as well as all the prominent educationalists, have been outspoken in their condemnation of it. But, to our knowledge, no one has arisen in its defence. In fact even the publishers, who might be expected to profit by the measure, have declared their disfavor...
...Class hatred which is so rampant today is caused by the monopoly of social control of the machinery of credit, the Press, and industry. We are all of us cowards concerning public opinion; we fear the mob; not that the mob does not recognize a good thing, but someone free from the conservatism of the mob must see it first and call their attention to it. Mob superstitions are more vehemently held among the white-collared middle class (bankers are very middle class) than among the proletariat and real aristocrats...