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...logic of the illogical has never penetrated the American mind. Judging by the less subtle standards of Western civilization, no act seemed more certainly doomed to a fruitless failure than that of the anonymous Japanese who several months ago committed hara-kiri near the American Embassy in protest against the exclusion law. In this country a man who committed suicide, however elaborately, in rebuke to the foreign policy of Japan would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan...
...veteran General registers the only protest. Since seeing a photo graph of the model, he has been un able to sleep nights. Although a U. S. soldier might fly on an eagle, says he, he would never carry a sword instead...
...last stroke of the campaign was struck by the Republicans. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ordered that the gross amounts of tax returns by individuals and corporations should be made public. The law which made this possible was passed over the Administration's protest by Democrats and insurgents. A howl of rage went up from business men everywhere. Perhaps Secretary Mellon meant to suggest by his gesture: "You may expect more of this if you support our opponents...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...
...Lampoon took exceptions to the claims of the Nihilist leaders, as announced in Saturday's CRIMSON, that he had several all connection with the Republican Club and would march tonight under the Nihilist standard. He appeared at the CRIMSON office Saturday and entered a protest...