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...relationship in industry, in families, in disease, in misfortune, eac., and of types and varieties of personalities, with special interest in the question "Why do they get on well or ill with their fellows?" The more advanced course, a course in social diagnosis, will study the evils which all reform, personal or social, seeks to remove, including disease, ignorance, character defects and economic and other forms of resourcelessness...
...weakest features of our government--extravagance. The majority of thinking Americans would agree with him in favoring this budget. But we have become so hardened to the accusation of extravagance, and the idea of thrift seems to have gone so thoroughly out of fashion, that all reform which aims to curb unproductive expenditure is regarded in much the same light as an umbrella on a clear...
...suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling and inordinately repressive laws forced the postponement of much needed political and industrial reform for a period of nearly ten years. With the spread of Bolshevism through Russia and into Germany, with radicalism and anarchism the hidden watchword of imaginary Corresponding Societies of the hour, with the imperative need of industrial reform staring us in the face, one-half of the American people fear...
...fair representation in all disputes. Another member immediately arose, pointed to the portrait of Washington, pointed to the American flag, and then turning to the speaker, said: "Now look at the gentleman from Alabama!" By exalting the scions of Patriotism, he was accusing one who had suggested constructive reform measures, slightly radical though they may have been, of non-Americanism. And the House applauded...
...likely that the displacement of another leader will do much good. For the nation as for the individual, time-serving is never the best policy; and until the Mexican leaders, army and people have learned to place principle above immediate profit, there can be no permanent reform...