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...Caretakers, was at the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall. The chimney at that end of the building had decayed and a great pile of bricks, weighing at least 800 pounds was lying on the ceiling directly above the unsuspecting Messrs. Burke and Apted. How long this deadly and unknown peril had thus threatened the lives of the occupants of the office below is not known...
Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle...
...periodical tong war of the Chinese are undertaken with a disgraceful seriousness and a criminal disregard of the dramatic possibilities. With all the assets of romantic wrongdoing at his disposal for publicity, Mr. Brisbape's benevolent press agenting of the yellow peril, for weapon, the long, slim dagger of the Orient, for place of execution, a mysterious opium den, the tong-man most prosaically shoots his enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open...
...initiative, struggle and achievement, is the existence of such laws as restrain the individual without giving commensurate social value. Before legislation in social control is enacted it should be inquired whether moral instruction may not in the long run be more effective in achieving the end sought without peril to character. Moreover, practical achievement must be taken into the reckoning, as well as the incidental effect upon other social and individual interests of the effort to promote one particular interest. When law is employed not as a means of doing justice but as an agency for social control, it must...
Tossed in jeopardy on the prone sea, or waiting in anguish by a sick-bed while a human spirit wags and gutters in the draught of death, men pray rashly, and implore with extravagant promises the mercy of the Deity. If Christ will deliver them out of their peril, they swear to burn every evening a tall candle before His Mother's shrine; if he will let their darling live, they will erect a church to his glory. The sea grows calm; disease leaves the wracked body. Men smile, and forthwith forget both their anguish and their vows...