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Professor Perry briefly outlined the unfortunate differences which arise in a period of reconstruction. The consideration of a national policy has caused a rupture in our thought but on Memorial Day we should put aside all differences of opinion. "All democracies", he said, "are easily panic stricken and our nineteenth century machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole...
...cupidity of France in particular and the Allies in general; the inefficacy of the League of Nations, which he terms " nothing more than a servile instrument of the victors "; the futile endeavors of the endless chain of conferences that followed the armistice in their efforts to reconstruct a war-stricken Europe. Germany is represented as having been dispossessed of intrinsic possessions-territory that had belonged to her for hundreds of years. He says that her economic life has been deliberately ruined, and yet she is asked to pay huge sums for reparations which, he says, are an euphemism for indemnities...
...world today." Countries represented: Sweden, Norway, Holland, Denmark, England, France, Spain, Belgium, United States. Individual paintings include works of all schools by leading artists of each. Spain alone is handicapped. Two of her greatest contemporary artists-Zuloaga and Sorolla-could not contribute. Sorolla has been stricken with paralysis and cannot paint again...
...Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital...
...American millionaire who has made his money and in company with his wife and daughter travels expensively all over the south of Europe. He has the best of service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried back on the same expensive ship to America. The story is told with vividness and cruel humor. The other stories relate strange and morbid events. All are lone...