Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England Watch and Ward Society, in the May number of the Harvard Advocate, summarizes the aims and spirit of what he calls "The New Puritanism". After an impassioned eulogy of Old Puritanism and its fruits, the article exhorts us to consider the paramount importance of reviving Social, Civic and Individual Righteousness, spelled with capital first letters, quite as if these virtues had long since ceased...
...Although most people are drawn into the cooperative movement by the economic saving it offers them, they are beginning to realize its larger social and ethical significance," Mr. J. P. Warbasse, President of the American Cooperative League, said in his speech at the Liberal Club yesterday. "In many communities the cooperative society is superseding the local political organization in importance...
...Cooperative system, even when carried to an idealistic length on the political and social side differs from socialism. Socialism is a government, and therefore implies that its measures are carried out forcibly. One can not withdraw from a government, even a socialistic one under any conditions. Participation in a cooperative league is entirely voluntary. The large cooperative organization also differs from the usual government in that it emphasizes decentralization in control, while advocating a centralized administration...
...reason. For if the upper middle class, or even all of what could be termed the middle class, were subtracted, the total population of the nation would remain substantially intact. The proletariat remaining contains millions of city dwellers drawn largely from foreign lands, sunk at the bottom of the social scale, and intellectually nourished on simple tales of virtue and sordid tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers that have recently thrown this class into relief and emphasized its importance. Three pictorials have thriven in the city of New York...
...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...