Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evil wrought by flying will be incomparably greater than any benefit derived from it by mankind," declared Sir Hugh Frenchard, chief of the British Air staff recently. Professor Philip Baker of London University, a noted pacifist, used this statement as the basis for an address to a peace conference at York, England, several days ago. Professor Baker affirmed that Sir Hugh Frenchard had said to him that both military and civil aviation should be abandoned. This view of aerial development coming from a distinguished soldier and an experienced flyer has occasioned much comment...
...designer and navigator of the first airship to reach the North Pole, said recently to a CRIMSON reporter, "I find it hard to believe that Sir Hugh Frenchard could have made such a statement about aviation. It is true that he may have meant that flying at present is evil because it increases the taxation of European peoples. Or he may have had in mind the destructive potentialities of airplanes in war. But aviation an evil in itself, no, I cannot think that he meant that. The statement refutes itself. No flyer would ever say such a thing...
...mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...
...Locandiera, the Mistress of the Inn (Eva Le Gallienne) breaks through the crust of a woman-hater, the cavalier Ripafratta, finds him quite soft inside, then jilts him and marries her headwaiter. An old play, it is presented with all its venerable tokens of age (soliloquies, asides, good and evil characters) yet not subjected to the snickers of sophisticated production...
...offers an interesting if slightly illogical explanation of the present football phenomenon. Commenting on William Allen White's editorial in the Emporia Gazette denouncing the extreme popularity of the sport, President Butcher says that the game is valuable even in its modern overemphasis because it has replaced a greater evil--the practice of hazing. "Football is a blow-off valve for collegiates", says Mr. Butcher. Instead of leading the President's cow to the chapel platform the students now indulge in athletic worship, sometimes to the exclusion of all else...