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Commissioner Leach's scheme is just the old one of "passing the buck", poorly concealed. If the scum were skimmed from New York, it would of course fall upon the next gold mine--perhaps Boston or Philadelphia. And since New York is the richest mine of all, it would come slipping back as soon as the temporary vigilance relaxed. The onus cannot be shifted. If the police cannot police the city, then it becomes time for internal reformation; and if the present Commissioners cannot handle the situation, the burghers of New York will doubtless find it expedient to institute...
...jibe at all social scum...
...white margin of a new book, is to moralize with Don Juan. My suggestion is that the Library provide at the desk slips of gummed onion-skin paper such as are used by Law students, which can be attached to the page in peril, covered with critical and artistic scum which floats to the surface of the defiler's mind, and later removed when their appropriateness is past. GLENN C. BRAMBLE...
...time must come when the pot shall be taken off the fire for a time, and the scum skimmed from the surface. By means of the three-percent Bill of 1921, the quantity of immigrants was limited, but the result has been to increase the number slipping in over the borders of Canada and Mexico, or slipping past the officials. It is a biological fallacy that we can assimilate indefinitely the vast numbers of immigrants of a different race which are continually pouring into the United States. When the nationalities of the immigrants corresponded to those already here, and when...
...days when the English town criers used to call, "No lazar nor infecte paupers or poor shall come within the town", a delegation of unemployed would never have come within the town gate, let alone seen the king. Then all good English citizens thought the poor man the scum of the earth and would sing, "Rattle his bones over the stones": he's only a pauper whom nobody owns," and think nothing more...