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...Science is the first line defense of freedom of the mind. Of all things it, on the whole, is most nearly objective and least involved in the prejudices and emotions of men. Its conclusions are capable of being most easily tested. When free, it knows no nationality, race or creed. Its spirit is a model for the world...
...nation's top-rank educators. It is partly supported by the Lincoln School of Columbia's Teachers College, until this year had a staff of WPA researchers. Claiming to be impartial, scientific, it presents the problems of modern civilization to junior and senior high-school children. Its creed: "The American people have so far mastered the forces of nature that, for the first time in history, we can now live in an age of plenty for all." It publishes eight issues a year, each dealing with a particular problem. Issues to date have included Housing, Food, Men & Machines...
Last month Herbert Hoover, who has been trying to convince his fellow Republican bigwigs that the best way to keep 17,000,000 Republican voters together in lean times is to supply them with a creed, proposed to the National Committee in Chicago that they call a party conference to formulate a positive program. Fearful of the splits this might disclose, the com mittee voted instead to have its creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week...
...still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms...
...first time in a decade a re-adoption of creed, a pillar on which to suspend the machinery of P. B. H., a reaffirmation of the idealism that must in the end enliven an organization founded in memory of Bishop Brooks--these have been placed on paper. Thus a recent growth of activity in Harvard's charitable institution has been climaxed; with the constitution the denouement should be effective and long...