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...blows up the White House. There is a rule of the Board of Education that a teacher . . . guilty of gross misconduct may be dropped.. . . But the teacher who teaches pacifism . ... is a thousand times more dangerous . . . than the teacher who gets drunk and lies in the gutter...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
Show Me the Way. In Dallas, F. G. Austell was wakened at 3 a.m. by muffled cries for help from outside, ran to his front yard, still heard the cries but saw no one, traced the sound to the gutter, heard a man's voice groaning deep in the earth. Police called by Austell found a stout, elderly drunk lost in the sewer, led him out through the entrance five blocks away...
...present there are five men in my family in the armed services, the majority of them having enlisted. . . . There isn't one who would drink while on duty, who would drink while driving a car, or who likes to drink and roll in the gutter. But on their occasional weekends home, they have certainly earned the right to relax as they wish and they will certainly find a drink waiting for them in my home. I'll go further and state that regardless of the success achieved by the W.C.T.U., these men will always find a drink waiting...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Wilson Carlile, 95, "Bishop of Billingsgate, Archbishop of the Gutter"; three hours after the death of his brother, Sir Hildred Carlile, 90; in Woking, England. He resigned his curacy at London's St. Mary Abbots to play trombone or trumpet at street meetings in the London slums. Thus he founded the Church Army of the Church of England in the early '80s, built it into a vast organization of aims and size comparable to the Salvation Army. (His parishioners disapproved. One objected that pocket picking had gone on at one of the street meetings...