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From our own point of view, the cancellation of all war debts may be the easiest if not the only, means of preserving our present status as an exporting nation. The European countries can scarcely pay their debts to us in anything but goods, and such an eventuality would very likely result in our own mills and factories being forced into idleness while we live on the articles that are sent from abroad. Those goods must be brought in, if the debt is to be paid--there is no alternative. Thus, commercial payment of these war debts may well result...
...easiest way, then, is to enter with proper reservations the league that is. At present, it may be improperly based and crudely put together, but it contains elements which are good. Furthermore the practical difficulties of negotiating for a new association are great. The course to be followed should be not so much a matter of principle between a new organization and the existing one with reservations as of the conditions which will be met with in the pursuance of either course. Practical friends of the League, however, should not despair but should be disposed to accept either plan according...
...primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest kind of work can a man become an officer and a college graduate at one and the same time. Boston Transcript...
This is no time for protest. In union there is strength, and the slang "crabbing" must be kept out of our national vocabulary. Yet we cannot help feeling that the War Department has erred. To shelve a leader is not the easiest way to win the war. A good general in France is worth many in San Francisco...
...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...