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Chicago, like New York, like many another U. S. city, clamors for Home Rule, against a State legislature controlled by rural representatives. More than 50% of the U. S. population is urban. One generation more, prophesy the experts, and two-thirds of the population will be urban. Urban communities complain that control by country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing...
...Athens the dictatorial governments of Solon, Pisistratus and Pericles marked the most brilliant stations in the evolution of democracy. ... As I repeatedly said, even when I was in power, I never believed that dictatorial rule could ever be a permanent and durable political regime. . . . I consider that by means of favorable conditions created through a temporary disregard of formalities, it is possible to solve problems and render such service as no parliamentary government would be able to achieve despite its good will. I wish that Greece may prosper in peace and happiness and may never again need my services...
...their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer: 'Yes, but our reputation is at stake...
...easy enough as a rule to scrape acquaintance with a Pullman waiter. Dr. Frank Gonzales. President of the Armour Institute, quite often exchanged words with Archibald J. Motley who ran the buffet on the "Wolverine" between New York and Chicago. When he found out that Mr. Motley had a young son who liked to paint pictures, he sent for the son and looked at the paintings. This done, he offered to finance Archibald Motley Jr. through his first semester in the Chicago Art Institute...
...what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees on admission, would possess a thumb-rule for measuring the chasm's span...