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...lead of the Standard Oil Company of New York in moving to abolish obnoxious, vista-masking signboards from the public highways (TIME, March 24), is being followed by other potent corporations. The Chairman of the National Committee for Restriction of Outdoor Advertising (Mrs. W. L. Lawton of Glen Falls, N. Y.) has received pledges of sympathy and implied promises of aid from 15 concerns...
Active participation of the Liberal Club in an attempt to abolish the Military Science Department at the University, will probably he the decision reached at the meeting of the Club next week, according to an announcement made last night...
...January when to pledged themselves not to enlist in any future war, Mr. Abbot declared, "I heartily disagree with any such policy, and I thank that these people who go to the different colleges trying to stir up pacifist enthusiasm should be put in prison. If we are to abolish violence, and even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great deal of the incentive for war. It would make the declaration...
Mustapha went on to explain that Turkey had become overridden with special privileges granted to religionists-patriarchs, archbishops, missionaries, etc., and that it now intended to abolish all religious prerogatives in temporal offices. The Calif was no exception...
...every man, whether a pacifist or an opportunist," continued the speaker, "by the League of Nations or by the World Court,--let him strive to abolish war and to substitute trial by jury for trial by battle. Let every man obey his own individual conscience, even to the point of refusing to obey his country's orders--let him refuse to fight, if he thinks it evil. The abolitionists won their fight for slavery against the efforts of a united nation; why cannot we win with such a message to the world?", he concluded...