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...Einstein-Bohr law of radiation, which has been amply verified in the past five years. As to what the electrons are doing when they are not radiating, chemists and physicists on the whole hold divergent views. The chemist believes the electrons are at rest (what I call "the loafer theory"), but the physicist believes they are rotating in orbits at enormous speed. The chemist argues that such activity would soon dissipate all their energy, which is unanswerable if the electromagnetic laws are assumed to be valid even in the structure of atoms. But this assumption is gratuitous. The orbit theory...
...alumni and the public: but the man of solely scholastic attainments should at least be rated above the "leader," who gets the benefits of neither the executive, the athletic, nor the scholastic training, which the college offers. Not in failing to recognize the scholar, but in tolerating the loafer, do the undergraduate world and the public make a great mistake...
...group of undergraduates--those who may plan comfortable holidays at home or away from it--merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend...
...West Virginia the enforcement of the Compulsory Labor Law has been singularly successful since its passage a year ago. As a part of his punishment the convicted loafer must work upon the roads or other public works. A larger fine and longer imprisonment for delinquents are provided in the Maryland act. In their essentials, however, the laws of the three states agree...
...loafer in peace times is a drag upon society. In war he is a parasite who endangers the safety of the state. Three commonwealths have officially put an end to war-time idleness. In the remainder of the country, where loafing must be equally frowned upon, the same stringent measures are necessary. With the Government drafting millions into military service, the vagrant poor and the idle rich have no place in social organization. The effectiveness of the war's prosecution depends upon the gainful employment of everyone able to be of real service, at home as well as abroad...