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...Must two valiant nations continue throughout the ' centuries to rise up against each other periodically and must they develop a civilization that is doomed to be trampled upon by armies and crushed and saturated with blood? No. . . . Locarno has given people confidence. It makes it possible for mothers to gaze on their sons without feeling terror for the future. . . . Locarno is a germ that must be carefully tended, and not crushed by the heavy foot before it has time to grow. Such a crime must not be committed by the French foot...
Capitalistic enterprises, however, are not alone responsible for American imperialism in the Pacific. The people who gaze proudly at the blotch of color on the map which represents "our island empire" or speak complacently of bringing civilization to the natives are equally to blame for this continued departure from American principles. Philippine nationalists are grimly convinced that America is being given a distorted picture of conditions there. Their attempt to forbid the mailing of photographs of the tribes on the outlying islands was the result of this feeling. In reality the Philippines have attained a high degree of civilization according...
Passing by eager youngsters, mournful oldsters, bead-eyed Jews and dour Scots, the prisoner brought his dull gaze to rest upon a distinguished figure of some three-score years...
...Line them up on the rear wall," he added to one of four assistants. Soon the diners, shivering and ashamed, their skinny, ponderous or hirsute legs exposed to the gaze of the facetious bandits, stood along one end of the restaurant. The robbers searched their "pants" for valuables extracted a total of $400. One of them devoted an idle moment to robbing the cigar counter...
...Chapman Andrews cabling accounts of antediluvian exhumations in Mongolia, the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased by 1,055 to a total of 8,519. Its educational program reached...