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...citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood...
...admission pleased Dr. Morris Fishbein who has been managing the American Medical Association's long and harsh fight against chiropractors and irregular practitioners of medicine. Dr. Fishbein recently prophesied that chiropractic would perish within two years...
Many religiously-minded moderns believe that unless organized religion stops seeking old, elusive gods and identifies itself with scientific humanism in an attempt to improve Man, it is doomed to perish from the earth. Five able pedagogs subscribed to this belief in a letter which they sent last week to many a U. S. scholar, author, teacher, scientist. The letter began by stating that the Society of Friends (Quakers) is one body in which modern thinking and religious impulses may be reconciled. Excerpts...
...Perish!" As he rose to his climax Socialist MacDonald launched on a theme seldom seriously dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...
World Divided. Convening in Minneapolis, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association declared that in ten years the Christian World will be divided between Roman Catholics, Modernists and Fundamentalists. Other divisions of Christianity would "largely perish from the earth...