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...right about me being an oldtime newspaperman, but are wrong in your other assertions. I first heard of the Berlin announcement you mentioned when reporters of New York newspapers asked me about it a few days ago. I told them that I knew nothing about it. I am still waiting for an explanation of the origin of so silly a yarn...
...praising a spectacular demonstration of rising public intolerance with an emasculated system of criminal law. The lynching was a challenge to the legal fraternity. It gave them a glimpse of what failure to reform will lead to. It was a crude symptom of a state of intolerance of wrong, an intolerance against ineffectuality on the part of a mechanism originally established for the public good but reduced by changing conditions and technicalities to a mockery...
...have obstetricians gone wrong? Chiefly, said the committee, in resorting to operations and anesthesia. Competent authorities say that in only 5% of all deliveries need the physician do anything but help Nature. Yet in 67 New York hospitals the investigators found that nearly 25% of deliveries were made with the aid of instruments. To these mothers death came five times as frequently as to those who bore their children naturally. Said the committee: "A certain indictment of those undertaking interference" with Nature...
...virtually his own foreign minister, secretary of labor, secretary of commerce, and secretary of war. To alleviate this situation there should be a change in personnel. Men of the type I have mentioned above should be acquired to fill the many government positions that are either in the wrong hands, or are being carried on the already overburdened shoulders of the President...
...socialist, communist, or conservative; but for God's sake go out and experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...