Word: selfhelp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...food shop sanitation; they quarantine infected persons; they keep vital and epidemological statistics. They are mainly bureaucrats, jobholders. They must be constantly educated in their public health profession; they must be constantly egged to improve the health of their jurisdictions; they must be constantly pestered to teach their people selfhelp. And once a year they get those urgings in a massive dose...
...civic unit of America is not the dollar but the individual man. We shall strive, therefore, for the things that look to these great ends; for the education of our youth, not only in knowledge gathered from past ages but in the wholesome virtue of selfhelp; for the protection of women and children from human greed and unequal laws; for the prevention of Child Labor and for the suppression of the illicit traffic in soul-destroying drugs. We shall conserve all the natural resources of the country and prevent the hand of monopoly from closing on them...
...search in vain for a more ideal Executive than President Coolidge. The American people have already indicated their determination to keep him where he is. ... Upon the farm, among the hills of Vermont, was nourished a life which knows the frugality, the industry, the treasuring of every opportunity for selfhelp, the pursuit of knowledge despite all difficulties, the fine aspirations and patriotic ideals of what we take delight in regarding as the typical American home. The old tree is still bearing the finest fruit. President Coolidge is his own platform. . . . No other platform is needed. ... It is the unexpected that...
...democratic element is not totally eliminated only because of a remarkable development of student selfhelp. Guided from a national headquarters at Dresden, cooperative stores, student kitchens, employment bureaus are operated. And there are loan banks to which all who can contribute, and from which the most gifted students, regardless of social status, receive money without interest during the months before their final exams. John R. Mott, through the World's Student Christian Federation, has been largely instrumental in the success of these self-help activities. The Society of Friends (American Quakers) have cooperated...