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...from the point of view of a cold-blooded detective but form that of the philosopher and psychologist. "Environment is responsible for 85 to 90 percent of all crime committed in this country," he said. He always made an effort to find out what turned the criminal on the wrong path, and was interested in seeing whether a criminal went straight afterwards...
Needless to say, none of these measures will be of very great value if they are taken in the wrong spirit. If the spirit of the game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for its own sake; many games such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel...
...present system of private property, of capitalism and inheritance is fundamentally wrong. The millionaire stockholder must not be allowed to live at Venice or Palm Beach on the earnings resulting from the labor of a steel-hand in the mills of Pittsburg...
Meanwhile the orders are out, plans are being made, and every one is wondering how long the coal above ground will last. Apparently whoever is right or wrong the consumer is the one who is going to suffer--as usual. We sometimes wonder how long the "average man" will allow the whole farcical capital-labor obsession to continue...
President Harding in his address to Congress finally admitted what most of the United States has known for the last three years: namely, that government operation of merchant ships is "fundamentally wrong and practically impossible." Moreover he has declared himself as favorable to a government subsidy for shipping--a plan which built up Germany's merchant marine and for which shipping men have long been asking...