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...Manhattan hotel. "Eliminate Waste-Minimize Controversy," was the catchword. The speakers: Herbert Hoover; William Green, who succeeded the late Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor (TIME, Dec. 29) ; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co. (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS) ; D. L. Cease, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Marcus M. Marks, veteran clothing-merchant and labor-arbiter...
...wish to state my disapproval of the aspersions you cast upon the life-principles of "George Sherwood Eddy, famed preacher," in TIME, Feb. 23. In the same breath with which you accredit Mr. Eddy with having "in almost every land exhorted for peace, brotherhood," you fling at him the baleful charge: "He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions." Is your method of procedure in matters concerning religion constructive or destructive? If the latter, as these words seem to imply, you would in my opinion, do well to omit the column on RELIGION from your publication...
...They determined to invite Dr. Mott. They invited also George Sherwood Eddy, preeminent among the exhorters of Americans and others, who speaks always with clenched fist, contracted brow, tight-drawn lips. He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions. In almost every land, he has exhorted for peace, brotherhood, personal purity, "taking Christ seriously...
...America," says the Methodist Board of Temperance, "was founded by men who were, in the main, devoted believers in the Christian faith, and the Nation will not go far astray as long as it is directed according to the principles of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man as laid down by the Christian church...
That grown women, to all out ward appearances sane and conscious of their actions, have carried such a resolution is important as a sign of the times. Historians say it is only natural that an era of international skepticism should follow one when the universal brotherhood of man was so loudly proclaimed. Even so, liberal minded people cannot console themselves with the philosophy of Doctor Pangloss that everything must happen as it does and that all is for the best...