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...system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures of the government for preparedness are denounced as misdirected. Of what value are powerful armies and navies, it asks, when we have no minimum standard of living? It proceeds by demanding an elimination of all graft, and an unlimited appropriation for educating alike the thousands who dig ditches and the scores who direct corporations. The author advocates "some good way of combining democratic distribution with efficient production in our great industries," failing completely to realize that the two are incompatible. It is just such things...
This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...
...Police graft," said Mr. Woods in conclusion, "is not primarily the fault of the grafting policeman--it is to his credit that there is not more graft. And there is no adequate way of rewarding policemen for good work; yet you find them on the whole doing pretty good work with very fair honesty--for a body...
...second generation of foreigners. This is a new problem, the study of which is just beginning." He emphasized the fact that "we have to work with the law as it is, not as it should be" and said that this was responsible for some of the police graft so often talked about. "The professional criminal must be given the full extent of the law, for if he finds that he can get a shortening of sentence by any influence he may possess, the whole community of criminals is ready to take a chance...
...police commissioner is a bird of passage and usually flies so fast that the policemen can't determine what species he may be. This coupled with political graft is responsible for any lack of efficiency of the force," said Mr. Woods...