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...disobey orders in the reformatory you will be whipped...
...Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, made speeches in St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies in defiance of the laws the men as soldiers had taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober, well-behaved typical American. The other crowd is in power. That is why such...
...first radio speech may be a great help in the solution of the most pressing international problem of the present day. Three hundred million people of the dominant race of the world will hear this speech as the voice of God. These people will not attempt to disobey this decree except under the gravest provocation. Coming at a time such as this when peace between classes and nations is being strained, it can be of great benefit and furnish to the Protestants an example to follow in their more individualistic...
...officers (Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey an order to shoot down Communists," shouted Lieutenant Scheringer, "but I would disobey a command to fire on men of my own persuasion...
Prohibition has been a success where the community as a whole really wished for its operation. Elsewhere it has failed. And the result is that one vast portion of the American public obey the law because they have no desire to disobey. The remainder, another group large enough to make an independent, nation of themselves, lives in willful disobedience to a law which they neither respect nor in any way follow. In other words, legal restriction, upon which government must be based, becomes the laughing stock of the present generation. Holding our point with respect to the colleges of America...