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Meanwhile the delinquent on the inside of the circle has been issuing official protests almost as far as paper marks. The German ambassadors have been ordered to withdraw from the three "hostile" capitals. America and Great Britain have been besought for something more than "moral support", with doubtful success. 10,000 citizens of Essen have met in a giant mass-meeting to protest the French "violation of the treaty of Versailles", but have been quieted by advice from the government that resistance would be futile. Yet that same government is reported to have called for a monster parade of protest...
Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
...protest that has ensued is unwarranted. Lecturing has come to be an honorable profession, and at present it vies with baseball and the movies as a source of fame and fortune. A glance at the year's harvest of lecture-tour celebrities will carry conviction: Margot Asquith, Philip Gibbs, Conan Doyle, Hugh Walpole, and now Emile Coue:--in fact, any Englishman or foreigner with more than seven lines to his credit in the current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have...
...than when allowed plenty of room for expansion. But when the Governor of a state overrides a law and frees prisoners at the very beginning of their sentences in the face of a decision by the Supreme Court that the law is constitutional; there is room for a legitimate protest...
Moreover, to say that "if there is a shortage of labor, then the unemployment period must be at an end" is like the attempt to extract rays of sunshine from a cucumber. What the manufacturers in this country protest is not the lack of skilled labor, of which, I believe, there is no serious shortage, but the generally experienced shortage of unskilled labor. In fact, there are large number of skilled workers in the shoe, textile, and other industries still unemployed...