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...withdraw from Davis Cup play and a searing indictment against the Davis Cup Committee system. He alleged that the players were not selected, in some cases, until a few hours before their match. They were given no plan of play. "I feel I am right in refusing to obey instructions given between the third and fourth sets of a match...
...There is nothing magic about the institutions of a democracy to make them take care of themselves", he said, "men of strong character must take an active part in civic life to make democracy a success. Yet this is seldom the case. Every where you will find people who obey the law and sing the "Star Spangled Banner, Justly, and call themselves good citizens. But suggest to them that they should vote or hold public office, and they would consider it preposterous. Such men are political sackers, they are a maniac to democracy...
...House of the Laity nothing changed. In the interest of women much was proposed, but nothing granted. Only women who will promise to " obey " can be church-married. The Tenth Commandment also remains intact. It still reads: "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his." Miss Maude Royden, persistent feminist agitator, endeavored to have "wife " eliminated. " Women dislike to be categoried with...
...parts of the Einstein theory have been verified. The first of these merely accounts for the peculiarity in the precession of the orbit of Mercury. The precession of this orbit does not seem to obey the Newtonian law of gravitation, inasmuch as the precession exceeds by 42 seconds of are a century any possible precession under the Newtonian laws. Einstein's theory accounts for this difference most satisfactorily...
Concerning prohibition: " I think the decision of the United States Supreme Court was a good one. . . . When we go to Europe we obey the laws of whatever country we are in, and when their boats come here we can expect them to obey pur laws...