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...machine functions at a time like this. If the men had foundered at sea in a tramp steamor, the event would not have received half a column. But because it was dramatic, and occurred in a submarine, it was a perfect opportunity for subjective citizens and obscure congressmen to assail the navy. Few there are who would advocate the abolition of the automobile to save pedestrians, but the demand that submarines be done away with was but one of the cries of a silly squabble that one cane only hope will be obscured behind the bravery of the victims...
From the accounts in the News it was seen that the President had not stepped out of his characteristically neutral attitude on all things to "assail" or "rebuke" anyone, but had discussed the U. S. press objectively, hypothetically, giving as much emphasis to his disapproval of too great nationalism therein as to his strictness on lack of patriotism...
...limit of gall for members to stand here and oppose the enforcement of a law we are bound to sustain. It is unfumigated gall for members to stand here and assail a patriotic organization like the Anti-Saloon League...
Regarding the moral problems of a surgeon he said: "We immediately come face to face with situations and circumstances which rarely subject the souls of men to more trying ordeals than those which assail the honest surgeon. Every day by his counsel, by a mere word, or even by a gesture, he may stand as an arbiter be tween the life or death of one of his fellows. . . . Lives of infants, who are on the threshold of life and in whom are centred the hopes and happiness of their parents, of women, young women, especially, who appeal most touchingly...
...this morning at 9 o'clock when Professor Yeomans proposes to discuss in Harvard 2 the influence of the said clause upon the decisions of administrative officers. A technical subject, admitted, except for the student of government, but a vagabond must fight against those vague and fanciful feelings which assail one after a Georgian breakfast...