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...English teachers is an excellent one, but their method of attaining their end is questionable. Children, to be sure, should be taught both to appreciate the good and to distinguish the bad in aesthetic matters. But in this instance, they are being introduced to one of the worst of the modern travesties on art, before they have more than skimmed the surface of real drama and literature. They have no foundation on which to base any satisfactory evaluation of the movies' actual place in the history of the theatre. Aside from the harmful effects of regarding the movies as something...
...will it affirm or deny any political principle. Whether the conduct of the United States government will be measurably altered during the next four years should Governor Roosevelt be elected is in itself doubtful. There is nothing new in this although the present campaign has failed peculiarly to distinguish between the two leading parties. What is important and remains so unaffected by the consequences of today's election is that the working principles of government which are assumed by both democrats and republicans and to some extent by the socialists also are challenged as outworn and inadequate for the necessities...
...incubation to train themselves in hard thinking, in a knowledge of existing conditions and in the principles of human action. When a man has cast his vote and has attended a party rally he has accomplished little. If he lets it go at that he has failed to distinguish himself from the man in the street who has never had the opportunity of four years in which to think, or to learn to think. The justification for the privilege of education in the confused world of today is in the recognition of its responsibilities and the leadership it entails...
...that knows its own fodder. Chicago's rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week, his work done...
Contracts for releasing Silly Symphonies changed hands last March, from Columbia to United Artists. One reason Artist Disney decided to try using color was to distinguish United Artists' Symphonies from the old ones. Colored Symphonies cost about $6,000 extra each to produce. So far they have been so well received that Artist Disney will color the remaining eight of this year's 13 symphonies...