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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...askance at committing themselves, the rampant and juvenile variety of atheists. In The World's Work for June Homer Croy gives a survey of organizations which seem to be flourishing in certain schools and universities; united under the simple title of the Junior Athiest League, they include such formidable local societies as the Society of the Godless, God's Black Sheep, The Devil's Angles, and the Legion of the Damned; all sponsored by that non-athletic 4-A which seems to have collegiate ambitions, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism...
...sensational problems they are called on to solve. Not that many senators, representatives and presidents have no knowledge of these governmental problems--many of them have. But it is not this knowledge which endears them to the voters. And to obtain and hold office the voter and his local needs are an almost all-important consideration...
Washington, then, shows the observer few of the phenomena which underlies getting-elected to public office. But it does show a great many things, which are more interesting than local practical politics. For the budding journalist it is the real capital of the United States. What New York is to the young financier or playwright, Washington is to the journalist. For it is here that he can see for himself, form his convictions which if he is ever fortunate enough to become editor of a newspaper or by sheer force of personality break into politics at home--a rare thing...
...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
This choice specimen of local inanity appeared last night in the columns of the Transcript as a portion of the letter written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...