Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benjamin Rand in Saturday's CRIMSON writes ". . . lost we forget, these who have been splendid in service and sublime in suffering." Eulogizing the dead and the living soldier, praising his heroic martyrdom, he hallows war. He makes it a holy step in a path of glory, threats it as the means to "peace and nobler life," actually calls those "happy who actively served in this great cause...
...cannot give us heroes and great men--but it can take them away from us. That is the lesson we ought not forget. When public opinion recognizes that war is waste; killing, cruel; and soldiers and all those connected with war, deluded--when public opinion realizes that no lasting peace can ever be attained by war; that each war makes peace just so much more remote, and life just so much more primitive--perhaps then we will do away with force as a means of settlement. Then only will we really have peace in which our young men can work...
Load, Lest we forget--they were not martyrs, but poor, deluded fools. Spare us from their fate. James L. Hymes...
...hearse-voiced political speeches, full of nonsense and false accusations, full of nonsense and false accusations, will again turn its attention to jazz, music, and toothpaste. Special trains will become ordinary for another four years. The American Ambassador to the Court of St. James will try to make people forget that he made a campaign speech for Hoover in Manchester, England; and the Mayor of Boston, that he opened the City Hall to take "silver" contributions to the Democratic Campaign Fund...
...behooves white Louisianians to forget that in 1860 no Negro could be taught to read, write, figure, in that State, under rigid statutory law; that in 1930 the State of Louisiana through its public schools paid $40.64 to educate each white, $7.84 for each black child. Remembering this disgraceful disparity in providing equal opportunity for all its children, let them also remember the great tax-supported State university at Baton Rouge, for whites only, and the magnificent new Medical School built and supported in New Orleans by State Tax funds, where no Negro can enter...