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American naval experts assert that we should not violate even the spirit of the document in increasing the angle of our guns. Representative Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is sure that to do so would be a grievous violation of our good faith. The President himself must make the final decision. Three factors will probably be involved: 1) Whether the change is a violation of the treaty in spirit or letter; 2) Whether it would have undesirable consequences in the attitude of foreign nations to us; 3) Whether it would have any military value if Great Britain...
...case for endowed universities has been considerably strengthened by the Legislature of Wisconsin, That body, controlled by friends of Senator La Follette, has passed a resolution denouncing the members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, who signed a document criticizing the attitude of the Senator toward the war. The University and its faculty are rather more dependent on the generosity of the State Legislature than any endowed institution upon the generosity of its private benefactors. And no private benefactor has ever publicly prohibited the expression of political views hostile to his own. Furthermore, private benefactors, wicked though they...
...Finnish Minister at Washington drew up an agreement with the United States Government, whereby Finland will be required to pay its debt of $9,294,362. The document now awaits ratification by the Finnish Government before its terms go into effect...
Before the days of compulsory public schools, John Smith, if unable to sign his name to an important document, made a cross, and this was labeled "his mark." He could not be identified by it, but it served the official purpose. Signatures have lately become more common, but even these are not proof against fraud. A recent proposal has been made to require finger-print identifications on all certificates of birth, marriage, and death; thus making forgery or impersonation impossible, and separating the sheep from the goats...
...will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world,--an impression raised by the bickering of the Republican Senators over a constitutional document that had yet to have the slightest breath of life blown into it,--that could have been amended at our slightest word. The silliness and smallness of this misrepresentation of the American people is abysmal, when one sees the League in operation, functioning smoothly and amicably, and already developing a splendid...