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...leprous residents on the island of Molokai, and as one of the two physicians on leeward Molokai, I would like to clarify and correct the wrong impressions held by most people on the mainland, which were. no doubt, strengthened after reading your otherwise excellent article on Father Damien. The general impression seems to be that Molokai is inhabited solely, or, at least, largely by lepers...
...Right v. Wrong. Having received his orders to surrender his command, General Hagood last week wired the War Department, got permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called...
...here I am, frankly before you, plump in the middle of heaven, to preach my gospel, and perfectly sure that such paragons of tolerance won't fail to take at least one look at the Other side, the Wrong side, the Bad Side, the False side, which up to now you have, in narrow bigotry, never touched...
...Your editorial page is too narrow," he breathed with smoke through his nostrils. "You only give one side to every question, the right side. What about the wrong side? Don't you know how much more interesting and exciting it is? Don't you realize that practically the whole world believes it, and likes it better than yours...
...when Mrs. Louise Kleinmeyer Ryan got an engraved invitation in her mail to the wedding of Henrietta Goetz and Mrs. Ryan's husband Ralph, 34, together with an invitation to the wedding reception, she had him jailed for bigamy. Growled Ryan, "She must have been on the wrong mailing list...