Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prevent Moral Injury...
...should be noted, also, that this decision sweeps away the objection that the present laws, punishing indecencies after exhibition, are sufficient. The only reason for punishing obscene or crime-provoking exhibitions is to prevent moral injury to the spectators. Mr. Will Hays, himself, said to a deputation from Massachusetts: "It would be better that the whole film industry should be sunk in the depths of the sea than that the delicate mechanism of the child's mind should be defiled." But, if the exhibition is once given, the harm is done. Legal procedure is costly of time and money...
...past few years, the Student Council has considered means of arranging the meetings of various University organizations in a way to prevent the many conflicts that are now often evident. At its last meeting the Council voted to establish a date book in the office of the Harvard CRIMSON. It was also voted that each of the principal organizations be requested to use this book in picking times for their meetings. It is, of course, impossible to do more than make this request, but it is believed by the Council that these bodies will be anxious to cooperate to improve...
...from the French, Russians and Italians, and were to add the mutual jealousies and disagreements of the Great Powers as well as the reserved policy of this country, he would be led to the conclusion that not even the coming Conference will be able to achieve anything important or prevent the Turks from returning to Europe; nor will it be able to secure the safety of the non-Turkish minority in Asia Minor which, according to the opinion of eye witnesses like Dr. Ward, Professor Harlow and other Americans, unless protected from the outside, will be unable to escape death...
Soft heads are much commoner than hard ones, even today. They seem to have learned nothing from the war. They are now proclaiming that the way to prevent war is for us to disarm--not necessarily concurrently with the other nations, but alone, as an example for the other nations to follow. Since this chimerical statement by itself is not enough to soften the skulls of most Americans, its advocates resort to another more potent argument. They say that disarmament will reduce taxes, will put money into the pockets of us all; and under the melting influence of this argument...