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...alleviating human suffering; and there is the baser but important stimulant to action of the smallness of the solicited contribution. If such appeals fail to pierce the student's armor of indifference, Harvard's future is a sad one. Everyone has at least something to give. The man who cannot sacrifice for such a cause is no man at all. He lacks the essentials of true national spirit. Today is the last day of the Red Cross campaign and the last opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to do their duty. Wake up to the urgency of the need of Harvard...
...conceded to be the privilege of German subjects and pro-Germans in this country to conspire against the United States or its allies. If they attempt it, effective remedies are available. It cannot be contended that to persons of any other nationality or extraction the same extraordinary privileges are open. Americans, of whatever origin, cannot look with favor upon the efforts of a small number of persons who seek to make trouble for an ally of the United States by preaching violence and sedition in Ireland. Boston Transcript...
...grasp of the means and methods of modern warfare. We have seen but little of him this year, but we have heard often of the work which he and his associates have accomplished at Devens. In fact there is not one member of the R. O. T. C. who cannot appreciate what his assistance at the summer camp will mean, especially in the application of theory to practice. On Tuesday Colonel Azan found that the R. O. T. C. possessed enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline." Let him but find the men who attend the summer camp imbued...
Possible abuses in the operation of the act have been carefully and wisely safeguarded. The grasping employer cannot hold the laborer to his ill-paid job by threat of imprisonment or fine if the latter ceases work. Persons temporarily unemployed by reason of differences with employers, as the law phrases it, are not included in its provisions. The law-makers, however, have not exempted the so-called "idle rich." The receipt of income from property or other source is not considered the equivalent of "gainful employment." Students are the only other class of citizens excluded from the law's operation...
Furthermore, persons not engaged in work have no excuse before the courts because of inability to secure employment. Federal, state and municipal employment offices guarantee to all applicants suitable work. If by any chance such work cannot be provided, exemption cards are issued. In the allotment of positions preference is given to the more essential war-time activities, agricultural, shipyard and munitions work...