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...turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane and his prolific school. The literature of escape may draw the sarcastic fire of the critics, for it is untrue, badly written and inspires false hopes, but for the common man it is often a godsend...
Admiral Sims is agitated because there "is not a competent military critic on any newspaper in the United States, while on the other side (of the Atlantic) there isn't a newspaper without one." The New York Globe, believing this situation to be a godsend rather than a calamity, has the following...
...recommend such a proposal without adequate knowledge of the constructional difficulties involved. But the plan is so simple that it sounds reasonable; it is used in England to take care of soccer crowds that sometimes number 100,000. If it is feasible, it might prove somewhat of a godsend to the committee appointed by the H. A. A. to solve some exceedingly knotty problems...
...last week to make pertinent the question whether peace is so far beyond the horizon as most people imagine. It is not all certain for example, that the Russian debacle has been unqualifiedly to the advantage of Germany. In relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from...
...Hirst, editor of "The Economist," London, delivered a very interesting lecture on "The Political Economy of War" last night in Emerson D. He began by upholding Adam Smith's view that war is waste, which is contrary to the popular view. The idea that a battleship is a godsend to the community where it is built, because it employs so many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public...