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Aside from the personal sufferings involved, King Edward's resignation has much graver national and international complications. The Tories have pulled a coup d'etat by eliminating a very liberal force within the country, who by his personal interest in labor problems and social conditions in the Empire, was in a position to accomplish a great deal along humanitarian lines. David Windsor, as he will now be called, was in closer contact with the masses of England than any other King before him, and those very people who needed his attention will miss it most...
...gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the life...
Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...
...Today the world faces terrible times. The European situation is graver than it was in 1914 and the stakes are higher. Today our regular army is 21 battalions smaller than in 1914, and additionally is short 12,000 men, while the territorials are 40,000 under their strength, which on paper...
There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...