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...bayonet, for the skilled workmen are slipping back to the land, where they can find a living, at any rate. Lenin has intervened, enjoining them to work, not for the zest of it, but for the triumph of their Soviet system. "Grin and bear it" is the suggested refrain of his hopeless hymn, which anticipates the coming of the night when there will be no more work because there will be no money to pay the workers. "They cannot live without pay", cries. Lenin, "and until the industrial machine gets properly running again there is no pay to give them...
...Ghandi," he went on, "does not demand complete independence for his country, but merely home rule. He wants England to redress the wrongs which she has done, and to refrain from using Indian troops in foreign wars. Contrary to the popular notion, he does not favor violence as a means to his end. His own words are" 'I would rather give up may plans than use violence, because if violence is necessary, the time for Indian freedom is not yet here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many...
...Dail Eireann has put itself on a firm basis and stands for law and order. Hereafter any one who makes trouble is in the same position as a criminal in any country, and the extremists should be treated accordingly. But there is still a possibility that they will refrain from further outbreaks or at least will keep within the limits set by New York--not more than one or two murders...
...years ago the sport writers of Boston papers were offered $100 apiece to refrain from mentioning the Yale game until the week immediately preceding it; they refused, claiming, in effect, that the importance of the Yale game was largely due to them...
...remedy for a situation which is not "such a great evil anyway" Mr. Reynal suggests that publicity be limited. To do this arbitrarily is an impossibility; a few years ago the sport writers of Boston papers were offered $100 apiece to refrain from mentioning the Yale game until the week immediately preceding it; they refused, claiming, in effect, that the importance of the Yale game was largely due to them. Nor would any benefit result from restricting the information given out daily after practice; the only result would be that the papers would print a large amount of football news...