Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...
...Warsaw, Finance Minister Jerzy Zdziechowski announced a program of fiscal reform catering somewhat to the potent Jewish financiers of Poland, by whose cooperation he hoped to balance at last the Polish budget. Promptly anti-Semite influence, ever rampant in Poland, forced the resignation of Premier Count Skzrynski's coalition Cabinet...
...plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with the obvious faults of operation, the obvious misconceptions of education. Only thus can reform fall to be quixotic...
...good deal more vehemence than effect. There have been many picturesque epithets applied to the newspapers. "The putrid press," "the pornographs," "the yellow dogs" are exemplary examples. For remedies, suppression and censoring have been the least acceptable although the most tangible and the most often called for. Plans for reform from within have emanated from educated and conservative quarters but have been lacking in provision for specific relief...
...would, hence, be hard to consider the journalistic evils of our time as fit subjects for execration or ingenious reform. They are rather a symptom of a state and condition of society which is to be met and considered not alone in a dissemination of the news, but in industrial strife, in social stratification, and increasingly in political agitation...