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...have dallied with this business long enough. The time has come for action, vigorous action: There can be no compromise on Bicker Week. The present system of election must go along with various other noxious customs. NO man in his right, mind can defend Bicker Week and keep a shred of honesty. The manner of elections calls forth the worst elements in human nature pride, jealousy, deceit, desire for revenge and hatred. A system founded on such a basis must...
Shortly preceding and long following July 1, 1918 came the Prohibition joke--a noxious thing which everyone hoped would shortly die a natural death. But it was imbued with remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth...
...Treaty of Versailles forbids the German Army the use of the aerial machine and the noxious gas. What difference does it make...
...Chemical Warfare Service is giving serious attention to the problem of developing a gas to destroy the worm which preys on golf greens and fairways, raising little piles of dirt. The gas must hang low and kill the worm without injuring the vegetation. The Service has already developed gases noxious to various kinds of pests, including the boll weevil...
...assert that more has been done in the three years since the League of Nations came into existence for putting an end to that terrible evil, the trade in noxious drugs, than had been done for 50 years before the League of Nations came into being. And I assert that with almost equal speed conventions have been agreed upon through the instrumentality of the League which will really, I hope, put a spoke in the wheel of those devilish beings who carry on the white slave traffic...