Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no need to point to the moral or to adorn the tale. Again, one man, one individual has nullified the deliberately expressed will of 50,000 voters who had written a virtually new chapter in American political initiative in meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted...
Lastly, there is a fine moral issue. Britain is bound by promises given to the Sudanese people. Premier MacDonald recently said: "It must clearly be understood that Great Britain cannot throw off its responsibilities contracted to the Sudan and the Sudanese by withdrawing and handing the government of that country to any other government. . . . We must stand by the people of the Sudan; we have a moral obligation to them...
...changing their attitude as to the comparative values of athletics, etc., and studies. Still, it is to be considered that the school has charge of the boys during their formative years, that they directly control their conduct and influence their character. As far as leadership, physical condition, and moral standards are concerned, they certainly succeed in developing fine boys, but when it comes to preparing their students for any sort of intellectual broadening or creating in them a real desire for knowledge, it is not to be denied that they are falling far short of the mark...
KEEPING THE PEACE ? Gouverneur Morris ? Scribners ($2.00). Edward Eaton's maternal parent was known in her family as "dear Mother." She was a sweet, soft and pious woman, whose sweetness drove one son to follow the sea, whose softness bred moral degeneracy in another, whose piety did its best to force Edward, an artist of sorts, into the clergy. This jauntily unpleasant book is an attack upon a type of woman to which the term Victorian has often been applied, always inaccurately, since lust, ignorance and bigotry are not the peculiar property of any particular period...
...Originally, it was, in part, regarded as reparation for the "blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount of moral suasion to keep them loyal to the regular reception of the sacraments." Function. It serves to organize laymen for the general welfare of the Church...