Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Should we, therefore, make education more materialistic? For two reasons we should not: (1) The greatest after the-war problems will be social and moral, not materialistic. However much we may be concerned about the expansion of our South American trade, we are far more concerned about conserving the moral insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money...
...these days of censorship, rumor and uncertainty the American journal has found a ripe field for the interpretation of news according to its own desires. Given any bit of information from abroad, a casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable...
...from a belief in what we are fighting for. We need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines that "American Troops Stop Germans." It appeals to a selfish national pride, but does little toward winning...
...Service of the American Library Association which has been making the collection during the past week hopes that the books will continue to come in, as they will be needed as long as the war lasts, and the supply must be constantly replenished. All collection stations will be kept open indefinitely and the public is urged to form the habit of turning in their new books as soon as they have read them. More than a half-million volumes are needed at once in France and space has already been reserved in transports and freighters to send over thousands...
...English woman who has been closely connected with the work which the women of England are doing in the various industries of that country, will be the principal speaker of the evening. She has come to this country as an accredited representative of the English Government to tell the American people of the way in which the women of England have stepped forward to fill the gaps in the industrial organization caused by the enlistment of men for the British armies...