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...promoting the independence of the islands. The fund, unlike any expenditure authorized by Congress, receives its annual income of 1,000,000 pesos without any specific appropriation. Moreover, it is spent secretly. Some time ago court proceedings were instituted by the opponents of the dominating political clique to compel the Governor General to publish vouchers for the expenditures. The Insular Supreme Court ruled that he could do so or not at his discretion. It is said that General Wood has meticulously refrained even from examining the vouchers presented by Philippine politicians for its expenditure. ' Its opponents intimate freely that...
Furthermore, I do not believe that it is because we do not have compulsory chapel, that we have the reputation of being "godless". Perhaps other college Christian associations are interested not that we don't compel men to go to chapel, but that our men do not go to chapel. Questions of our voluntary chapel, of our individual thinking, and of our "rational religion" may not be so dominant in their minds as the question of our actual religious life. Not what our rules are, but how we carry them out, determines the way in which other colleges regard...
...course, there is a happy ending. The pair return, get married, and compel Raleigh Crane Sr. to satisfy the material desires of his in-laws. The excellence of the acting smacked of professionalism. In fact, it would be extremely difficult to pick out anyone who surpassed the rest. The whole cast combined to give the sort of performance seldom seen in amateur circles, but which 47 Workshop audiences have learned to expect...
...Church has gone to court. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church proposed to erect a church to spread the gospel among the Japanese. Permit to erect the church was refused by the local City Council. Suit has now been entered to compel the issuance of the permit...
Circuit Judge Fisher, of Chicago, threw a bomb among the numerous sturdy opponents of birth control in that city (who include Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.), when he granted a mandamus petition to compel the city to issue a license for the proposed birth control clinic, theme of great agitation. Judge Fisher's decision contained these words: " I am loath to subscribe to the proposition that knowledge of birth preventive methods would materially lessen morality. If true, it would be sad to contemplate the weakness of our moral sense." The city will appeal. It contends that there...