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...conclusions: "We . . . give our time for nothing. . . . What can the public legitimately expect under such conditions? . . . [It] is probably getting at least as good government as it deserves. Most of the citizens, as I see it . . . [think] that while they can neglect public affairs and exclusively pursue their own self-interest, democracy will somehow be preserved by someone else...
...Edward S. Harkness donated $250,000 for cancer research. The hospital was able to introduce treatment by large amounts of radium at a distance (tele-radium therapy). "Up to that time," says Dr. James Ewing, Memorial's grand old man of oncology, "the hospital had enjoyed the studied neglect of the public, while the medical profession had let us severely alone...
...official account of the expedition continued: "This afforded us an opportunity of informing ourselves whether they were cannibals; and we did not neglect it. We first tried, by many indirect questions put to each of them apart, to learn in what manner the rest of the bodies had been disposed of; and finding them very constant in one story, that, after the flesh had been cut off, it was all burnt; we at last put the direct question, whether they had not eaten some of it? They immediately shewed as much horror at the idea as any European would have...
...neglect other objectives. Like farmers at their fall planting of death, pilots plowed the fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol and Ypenburg in the Netherlands, around Calais, at Dunkirk, Abbeville, Antwerp; sowed seeds in the fertile congestion of Berlin; weeded out Channel gun emplacements near Boulogne; fertilized with grimness barges on the coast, oil tanks and rail sidings throughout the German areas, and special objectives like the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, the docks at Hamburg, Marelli magneto plant near Turin, an aluminum factory at Bitterfeld, huge power plants at Genoa...
...Conscription of all wealth that is needed for national defense is a duty that no nation can neglect if it is to survive. But let Reader Dean ponder two facts: i) The Government cannot conscript unbuilt factories. Just now, it is trying to get volunteers to build them, hence some difficulties. 2) Con scripting wealth is a long-established principle of government. Its common name is taxation. One rearmament tax bill has been passed and another is pending...