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...race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite of the gloomy presages at Versailles, a peaceful, democratic, and very harmless people...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...unnatural horror is about to be perpetrated under the very poses of that splendid organization for the suppression of the immoral and the obscene in Boston, the Watch and Ward Society. Since time immemorial the Boston Common has been the high domain and secure retreat of the prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death...
...develish ingenuity of this plan to deprive the poor pigeon of a happy old age surrounded by a circle of his loved ones can do nothing but outrage the feelings of all God fearing people, who will see in this nothing but a new attempt to endanger the sanctity of the home and the sacred institution of marriage...