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...sanctifying of politics by the inception of moral and spiritual laws. Mr. Gandhi says that all that is immoral, unholy, and unjust in the life of an individual is equally so if it is found in the life of a nation. Governments should be judged with the same strict standards of morality that we all wish to apply in judging the conduct of an individual. The moral code in the public life of a man cannot be different from the moral code in his private life; in the same manner no nation or government can have one set of moral...
...Strict censorship of the press...
Investigations. The layman will say: " Why doesn't some one con-duct a strict scientific investigation of Abrams' extravagant claims and fantastic methods f Attempts have been made. The American Medical Association consistently refuses to do so. It will conduct a serious investigation, its says, "when the American Astronomical Society appoints a committee to determine the truth or falsity of the theory of Voliva (head of the Zion City Dowieite colony) that the earth is flat." Abrams has constantly refused to submit his method to tests controlled by the ordinary canons of science. His "reactions" often disagree with conventional diagnoses...
...minute silence observed throughout Britain on Armistice Day (Nov. 11) which this year falls on a Sunday will be observed only in church, owing to a suggestion from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some are glad to escape this sentimental act; others desire to keep the strict ceremony, fearing that to confine it to the churches will lead to its eventual neglect...
Immediately thereupon arose an interesting legal point. The old law, still on the statute books, commands that any person so convicted be ducked forth-with upon the town ducking stool. Unfortunately for a strict observance of the letter of the mandate, however, all Phillipsburg's ducking stools were either in museums, which refused to give them up, or else had long since been smashed into kindling wood to light Phillipsburg fires of a winter morning. The Judge was in a quandary. The law commanded him in unmistakable terms to have the malefactress ducked; on the other hand, even a judge...