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...metropolitan Press, with rare exceptions, has written one of the most shameless chapters in the history of the Republic. . . . What we commonly hear is: 'Leave it to the communities that want the traffic back again to solve the problem for all of us.' Leave it to the sidewalks of New York and the slums of Chicago...
...implications of such a condition lie far deeper than the Herald would suggest. Looking to their elders for examples of an acceptable code of ethics, the offending undergraduate officials find on one side shameless dishonesty and on the other helpless complacency. Their natural reaction is to regard graft as a legitimate profit, the assumed right of officialdom. The immediate consequence of such an attitude firmly established in the minds of these college men becomes tragically obvious when one considers that they are destined to fill responsible positions in the world. There is probably need for some such disciplinary action...
...obvious that the government in itself is powerless. Indeed, the only effectual resource of the state for solving crimes is to ally itself with criminals, and never before has that alliance been so shameless. That the American people, moreover, should be willing and even eager to harbor and canonize one kidnapper because he will help them catch another, shows the government is no more than an expression of the popular ideal. When criminals take crime into their own hands there is nothing remarkable, but when outlaws get control of law, and both government and people subscribe, there...
...That is just the reason you are ashamed of it," said the father of one young wife. "These college professors are likely to be unbelievers. The products of women's colleges are mostly a faithless, shameless lot too. I ought to know for I sent three daughters to Bryn Mawr or Mt. Holyoke. [I am not sure which college he designated. It was one or the other. Perhaps the three doubters distributed themselves. Both colleges were mentioned by the father.] My married daughter is not teaching her children their prayers, a vital mistake to my Methodist mind. Probably...
...clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention of oldtime Playwright Owen Davis. Playwright Davis, 57, does not write mediocre plays. He either writes very good ones or very bad ones. In the latter tradition are such shameless thrillers as Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model; Sal, the Circus Girl; Deadwood Dick...