Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...merely preparedness so serve in times of peace, but also in the time of a future war. The bulk of the officers in the next emergency must come from college men. Unless these wish to enlist in the ranks or fret in a training camp while their comrades light, they must prepare in advance...
...year in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. A program, consisting of music and motion pictures is scheduled for the evening. The music will be furnished by Bert Lowe's seven-piece orchestra and will consist of popular pieces and tunes from recent light operas. The motion pictures will be a Douglas Fairbanks comedy entitled "Say Young Fellow," Roscoe Arbuckle in "His Wedding Night," and a Mack Sennett comedy called "Smothered Love." No speeches are scheduled for tonight in as much as the committee considers the present program of entertainment sufficient to occupy the evening...
Although most newspaper editors seem bent on total avoidance of the subject, the many questions relating to National Prohibition can never be settled satisfactorily until they have been dragged into the light of free and frank public discussion. Should the 18th amendment be repealed, or itself amended? If it must stand, is it to be interpreted literally, so as to abolish all use of alcohol, or liberally so as to limit prohibition to actual intoxicants? These are questions which public opinion alone can answer, and the bombshell of national prohibition has left a very much dazed state of public opinion...
Spirituous liquors, then, must go, for in the only and imperfect way at our disposal, the people have declared against them. But are light wines, beer, and ale, "intoxicating"? Almost anyone would answer in the negative. Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors...
...does, however, urge the necessity of an army. That is good. But how, in the light of past experience, can he advocate the National Guard as our first line of defence? At the border, it took six months to "condition" the Militia. In the present war the bulk of the Guard divisions were sent overseas after many of the National Army troops. Yet, assuming as he does that we need troops, it is taking a lot for granted to suppose that in the next emergency we shall be given six months or a year before we must fight...