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...adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which he is made to write in order to accord with the traditional in literature...
...stifles rather than develops, and that in conforming to conventions much that is fine is lost; but silly as conventions often are, they usually express some natural law necessary to the maintenance of a complicated society. It is an understanding of these laws and the ability to work in accord with them that must govern true greatness. For certainly a man who preserves or returns to the simplicity of childhood, in spite of a worldly knowledge is greater than the child who knows nothing of the ways of the world...
Since the Hoover cannonade, epochal changes have come upon Peru. In the purses of her citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
...spends more to maintain a pleasure resort than he is willing to accord 100 destitute families...
...Commission considers . . . enforcement in the country as a whole unsatisfactory. . . . The Commission by a large majority does not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment. . . . I am in accord with this view. I am in unity with the spirit of the report in seeking constructive steps to advance the national ideal of eradication of the social and economic and political evils of the [liquor] traffic . . . at the same time facing with an open mind the difficulties which have arisen under this experiment...