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...Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only question is about the facts she does not present...
...Chancellor Chamberlain took the stand that he must be left as free to extemporize and monkey with the pound as President Roosevelt is to monkey with the dollar. "If this country were to go back to the gold standard, it would mean we were no longer free to adapt our policy," Mr. Chamberlain suavely told the Mansion House banqueters. Earlier in the day, before the Lord Mayor's wines had mellowed his mood, the Chancellor had said harshly what he really meant, "even the most tentative approach to stabilization is quite unthinkable...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular...
...School men know that Dean Pound, 65, is one of the ranking U. S. authorities on jurisprudence, a tireless legal reformer who has long campaigned to simplify and de-emotionalize legal processes, adapt English common law to 20th Century U. S. conditions. His most famed dictum: "The law must be stable but cannot stand still...
Thus, one is again forced to the conclusion that the Republican Party is nothing but an uncritical headless opposition. With no principles to guide it, and no leader to enforce them, it has been unable to adapt itself as a critical anti-administration party. This function, intelligently performed, is as essential to the efficient operation of our two-party democracy as able leadership by the group in power. Unless it can show its usefulness, which entails a complete reorganization, the Republican Party is doomed to oblivion...