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Such is the general reaction. Liberals are rightly indignant that the Union should have so knuckled under to its self-seeking, intellectually arid minority. By refusing on grounds of "strict neutrality" to censure Russian aggression, an organization which was not afraid to support a boycott of Japan and which gave its approval to strong condemnations of German and Italian aggression, has now acquiesced in Hitlerism when practiced by the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the only self-respecting action for the Harvard chapter, which fought the Communist dictation of policy, would appear to be resignation. There may, however, be an alternative...
...built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than Lowell's, declared that the canals were optical and psychological illusions. Certainly narrow, clear, straight markings which could be called canals do not show up in photographs, appear at their clearest in the drawings of astronomers who believe in their...
Homeward bound on the Pennsylvania one night, an idea struck him. In the arid west, where the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has for years provided water and sometimes generated power as a byproduct, Bond & Share units have bought this public power and transmitted it to their own customers over their own lines. Why could not Bond & Share keep Bonneville and Grand Coulee from building transmission lines by the same means? Why not buy their power and distribute it, dovetailing public power plants with private transmission lines and private meters...
There are two fundamentally different kinds of businessmen. One kind meets trade recessions by keeping his prices high, letting his goods gather dust on the shelves, laying off his employes, arid concentrating his efforts on hoping business will come back. The other takes the risk of cutting his prices, and often succeeds in wooing back vanishing trade, while he keeps his employes on the job, his goods in circulation, his ledgers in the black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression...
Most ominous was Pravda's comment: "Superfluous collective farmers" will be shipped to regions where farm labor is needed. Peasants, who know too well that this means the arid lower Volga, the Siberian Far East where the Soviet Union finds it difficult to tempt settlers by normal means, trembled in their greasy hip boots, wondered if this was the first shot in a new war against the peasants...