Word: paragraphing
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...opening paragraph of President Lowell's article calls attention to a fact which disposes of the arguments so frequently put forward by the wets that prohibition is the cause of the general moral laxity of the crime wave and other unsociable phenomenon of the present day. It states, "As strenuous exertion is followed by fatigue, so a violent moral effort, when the cause that produced it is removed, is succeeded by moral lassitude and therewith a turning of attention into very different channels. That this revulsion of spirit should be expected to follow peace is now recognized by those...
...regard to the last paragraph wherein he speaks of "an acute feeling of inferiority,'' I wonder if he is trying to imitate Will Rogers, he is SO amusing! The editors of TIME are Americans, and since when have citizens of a victorious nation ever had "an acute feeling of inferiority" when considering soldiers of a vanquished army...
...private owners of some public utility, the suppliers of gas, bringers of electric light, should want their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
...rest of the issue, the editorial and paragraph leaders have about them a sort of musty Transcript atmosphere of polite futility and the advertisements are very nice...
Also the lone paragraph on honesty. Mr. Flury has either been out of the state for some time or on G. W. P.'s election committee...