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...Free speech was regarded as an axiom of democracy, and the guardian of liberty. But the Great War brought back that fierce spirit of intolerance that Thomas Jefferson had hoped to bury forever. It took the form of demands for the dismissal of certain professors, either because they had the misfortune to be Germans, or because they spoke or wrote in a manner to alarm property. And these demands--to their shame let it be said--came most sharply from our own alumni; from men who had benefitted from the very freedom that they sought to restrain...
...Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English. They move slowly, never outrunning their communications. They bring water for their troops, as well as victuals. At Gallipoli they suffered horribly at first for water; when they withdrew I myself saw that they had installed running pipes, with hydrants, in their trenches...
...crowded city there is less excuse lor needless horn-blowing, but I feel sure that nearly everyone has owed his life at one time or another to the timely blast of an automotive horn. I uphold the saying "Rely on your brakes instead of your horn," but that axiom does not always apply. How does noiseless Mr. Brown expect to pass a lumbering motor truck on a narrow road? The driver would be only too glad to pull over if he knew someone wished to pass. IT IS NOT ONLY DISCOURTEOUS BUT DANGEROUS TO TRY TO PASS A CAR WITHOUT...
...rate price of one product linger to buy other products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
...financial axiom of long standing is that short-term debt, especially bank loans, should be refunded with long-term bonds. Lately many an oil company has taken advantage of low interest rates on bank borrowings to reverse the rule and retire long-term bonds with bank loans. Last year Gulf Oil Co. did just that and last week stockholders of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. approved a plan for borrowing $40,000,000 toward retiring the company's entire bonded indebtedness...