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...failure of the United States to join the League of Nations plus the club of financial obligations which it can hold over every major foreign power probably have more to do with this situation than even its smug prosperity, untouched by the ravages...
...them and since it is rumored that the President has reproved his former colleague, the tumults and the shouting will probably die away in short order. Nevertheless it is a sign that the crown and the sceptre still occupy an important place in the German mind, despite the smug assurance of the American press in the universal popularity of republicanism been overthrown by a majority of their subjects. The Ce man revolution was no exception to this rule, for it was effected by a minority party, the Socialists, and acquiesced in by the rest during that period of national demoralization...
...salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours has perverted freedom as a means of escaping obligation--has lost appreciation respect--humility--reverence. This generation of ours is intolerant stereotyped complacently smug cowardly ignorant." What has all this to do with education? It is the very problem of education, itself, and a few student publications are alert to the fact that present educational methods are not adequate to meet...
...Page 18 of your issue for Jan. 19, under heading RELIGION, subtitle "A Needle's Eye," after a recital of recent events in the Rockefeller family, you say (Page 18, foot of first column), "The parable is one that has often been quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle." And further on, middle of next column, you repeat: "Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich...
...parable is one that has been often quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle. The law, equally familiar, has to do with two Gods-one the Father of the Christian faith, the other Mam mon; a man cannot serve both. If he cleaves to the one, must he foreswear wealth? or can he discipline wealth and its devouring deity to the service he has himself elected...