Word: fair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are important signs that the vast confusion and many mistakes of the early months of our participation in the war have been replaced by the efficiency of a more orderly administration. The shipping industry is moving forward and is now turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have...
...shoulders the bothersome necessity of making out still more sets of papers and having a new collection of blue books piled before them. It is greatly to their credit that they have realized the value of the June Camp and have given every man who hopes to go a fair chance to complete his academic work...
...light of impartial judgment, Irish conscription is pre-eminently fair. Depleted English and Irish battalions have been recruited almost entirely through the British draft. It is time that Ireland should, do her share. This war is her war in as great a degree as it is England's. Irish leaders supported the original declaration of hostilities and have since maintained the belief that Ireland is directly and irrevocably concerned. The volunteer system has not brought the desired results. Fair play now demands conscription...
...side. We congratulate the 1921, speakers on their victory, but it does seem as though a labor conscription policy would bring the most efficient results in spite of the opposition that the powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always odious, but it is the only fair method of selection and it would strike rich as well as poor. The man who is drafted for labor has very little ground for objection, compared to the person chosen for trench service and a labor draft is the one and only way to put the workmen, manual and intellectual...
Perhaps the intention was to give the advanced course men extra credit because of their attendance at the Barre camp last summer. Allowing this to be an entirely fair and just reward, nevertheless should a course which requires twice as many hours of work as a regular college course count only as the equivalent of half such a course...