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...considered proper for ambitious Republicans to ally themselves with the "reform element" of the party. Mr. Root soon found himself Chairman of the Judiciary Committee which was drawing up a new state constitution for New York.* People called it a model. In Washington the name of Elihu Root began to be whispered. President McKinley appointed him Secretary of War; President Roosevelt liked him, kept him in office. Mr. Root became busier than the one-handed piccolo player. He despatched 70,000 troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code...
Undergraduates have often most praiseworthy ideas on the reform of government and promotion of the general welfare. Usually the undergraduate contemplates starting something new, with a new name, with new traditions and with new leaders. This is, in fact, the form usually followed in some foreign countries where the popular political instinct is more emotional and more revolutionary than at home. In Turkey perhaps the aims of "The Republican Associates" would be effected by a "youth movement" or a gang calling themseves "Young Turks...
...Campus Flirt (Bebe Daniels). Herein a snobbish young lady is levelled down to democratic normalcy by collegiate pranks known only to cinema directors. After the reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...
...endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make use of experts in any branch of public administration is in large measure a by-product of this national obsession. The most formidable obstacle in the path of civil service reform is not the avarice of the politician. It is the deep-seated popular conviction that any able-bodied citizen, whatever his competence or lack of it, has an equal and indefeasible right to a place on the public pay-roll...
...gloom be justified or not, it is a needed palliative for national over-confidence. Minority politicians may assert that the country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...