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Sergeant Carlson, who has served in several branches of the Army during his seven years of service, was assigned to the Statistical School from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, last June as one of the original cadre of the School. The officers and enlisted men, the civilian instructor staff, and the secretaries of the Statistical School, all wish him the best of luck and "Good Shooting...
...Russian people have had no Thomas Jefferson to uphold "the arraignment of all abuses...
...America's great men of the Revolution, Jefferson was the one who was attuned most perfectly to its meaning: that men, for the first time in history, should be set free from the outworn restraints of feudalism and primogeniture, allowed to work out their own destiny without exploitation by government. He did not believe, as his words in the Declaration of Independence seemed to say, that all men were equally good; he did believe that all men were born worthy of an equal chance. Then the U.S. would move forward, to vistas beyond the imagination, under the leadership...
...ideas have sometimes been considered hopelessly outmoded. He grew up in an agricultural economy, never saw a village as big as 20 houses until he was 18. As the American Revolution was followed by the industrial revolution, Jefferson lost his hold on the minds of men. In the '20s, while the U.S. was on its final materialistic jag and the only popular biographies of heroes were written by debunkers, he was a tarnished idol...
Groaned the Times: "1,705 of the 7,000 students, or 25%, did not know that Abraham Lincoln was President . . . during the Civil War. . . . Many students attending Southern colleges thought that Jefferson Davis had been President of the United States . . . 2,077 students, or 30%, did not know that Woodrow Wilson was President . . . during the last World...