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...conception, and to clear the way for change. Youth must not fear to think for itself; it must not trust Age; it must not believe all that it is told. Surely, men will declare, this is heresy. Barrie admits it; yet he does not stop even with passive distrust. What he advocates verges on revolution; it is concerted action on the part of the younger generation toward clearing away the blindfolds that hinder age-clearing away age itself, he adds, if necessary. What is needed is a League of Youth, whereby all the enthusiasm of young men can be concentrated...
...cooperate with other nations in giving us cheaper wars. It has certainly changed the international medium, and has established trust and confidence where none previously existed. Hitherto each nation competed with its neighbor because each nation feared the neighbor. Under the veil of competition there lay a feeling of distrust, a lack of confidence. Now that stumbling block to international harmony has been done away with, but the Conference failed to touch the fundamentals of war. The present Four-Power Treaty is good, but only a step forward. It is good because it represents an advance in numbers over...
Professor Wilson went on to tell of the events of the opening session on November 12, how this underlying film of distrust was swept aside in the wake of the great ovation accorded Secretary Hughes when the latter proposed concrete measures for the immediate scrapping of naval forces, how the assembled plenipotentiaries were engaged for three months in searching consideration of the Treaty, and how the final draft agreed in every essential with the original Hughes document...
...official carfare will be taken from him to furnish the money with which to pay the "reward". But you cannot act in a custard-pie comedy without coming into contact with some of the pie. At any rate, it does seem small for the rest of us to distrust a nation that is making so honest an effort to be ingenuously amusing...
...solution. In order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring up between the police and the students. The old feeling of mutual distrust will vanish and hitherto embarrassing situations will become matters between friends...