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This statement in itself is commendable. There are innumerable cases where anti-Communist programs have ended up as assaults upon radicals and liberals. But how is the Commission's own policy to be carried out, and who is to carry it out? These are questions of the utmost importance, and yet the Commission has disregarded them. Are the agents to be state legislatures? This country has seen how consistently these "little dies Committees" have ignored the distinction between Communists and non-Communists. Are the agents to be college administrators or trustees or school superintendants? These people are often as sensitive...
...Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...
...report on allergic children [TIME, April 18] provokes serious reflection. After over 30 years of active medical practice I can say with utmost conviction that the specimen cases cited in the report which you quote are evidently children who have been poorly brought up, either by ignorant and indifferent parents or, more likely, by mothers who regard themselves as "progressive"-young ladies who swear by Freud and know all there is to know about inhibitions, complexes and the subconscious ego. Pity their poor children...
...Waters declared one of the greatest difficulties of the present time in that 80 percent of criminal offences, in the misdemeanor class, are punished with the utmost severity. She added that people in the "culture group" just above do the same things "only respectably...
...Another question is also asked. Is time on our side? This is not a question that can be answered except within strict limits. We have certainly not an unlimited period of time before a settlement should be achieved. The utmost vigilance should be practiced, but I do not think myself that violent or precipitate action should be taken now. War is not inevitable. The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.' Often something happens to turn or mitigate the course of events...