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Last week seven U. S. peace bodies* issued a Pacifist Handbook designed to inform and gird pacifists and conscientious objectors for the next war. The Handbook is factual, realistic, anything but meek and mild. In some 60 questions and answers, it shows pacifists what happened to their fellows in the last war, what will probably happen to them in the next, not excluding "the concentration camp and even the firing squad." The Handbook summarizes the arguments against pacifism to which its adherents will be subjected, suggests various courses of action in such dilemmas as: whether to refuse...
...next year), California went a step further in using horse racing to balance a budget. To Governor Olson, the State Legislature last week sent a bill legalizing (and supervising) poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will net the State $20,000,000 a year, its proponents say, in addition to the $2,500,000 the State now receives from pari-mutuel wagering at its five tracks...
...Inside Europe, first published three years ago and since continuously revised to keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
...this problem, the staff of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., under the direction of Physician-in-Chief George Miner Mackenzie, last autumn held a conference of country doctors and public-health experts. Last week the papers of the Cooperstown Conference were published in a well-documented handbook, containing the most complete information on U. S. rural medicine to date.* Significant facts...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...