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...important fact that the pacifists erect the figure of 85.8 as a means of propaganda only. When they come to urging their views on Congress they concentrate their entire effort on the purposes represented ) by the figure 13.5 for national defense...
...Catholic churches. These losses seem insignificant when compared with the great building plans of Roman Catholics. Fifteen million dollars' worth of contracts have been signed for the coming year. The Knights of Columbus have invested $1,000,000 for a site on 51st St., Manhattan, where they will erect a great building for recreation and other institutional activities...
...Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey complied with the request made by the Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith, Bonar Law-three past and one present Prime Minister-and Lord Grey-former Foreign Secretary-to erect a memorial to the war-time American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves...
...governors of its destiny. But instead we have become the slaves of the machine; we run hither and thither in agony of futile haste; we compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength on this false and misbegotten ideal of "College Spirit." Columbia "Varsity...