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...entirely the public's fault. It is born of an underlying infirmity of purpose in the plans of the administration. The President during the campaign incurred a clear obligation to move in the direction of peace through international agreement, and for that purpose he was bound to summon a conference of the Allied and Associated Powers. But if his conference was to accomplish an immediate practical result, it must avoid the ugly and for the present irreconcilable dissensions which Europe had inherited from the war and for which the Republican leaders did not wish the American government to assume responsibility...
...dogma would summon to journalism those who follow the brooding stars of art. He calls for language of downright statement from those whose writings aspire to suggest. He would indenture to erudition or popular data those who are apprenticed to imagination...
From the Boston Massacre to the present, we have seen that to summon armed force before it is needed can only act as a provocation for violence. The ability to keep cool in a crisis is unhappily too rare. Where it occurs, the crisis usually passes off without further friction. In labor disputes, perhaps more than anywhere else, violence can never be justified except as the last resort, in the face of actual danger. Its untimely use is invariably disastrous. When once we realize this, our labor conflicts will be at once less bloody and less frequent...
...perhaps find it hard to summon mentally and definite, unmistakable plot which we can thumb. The play is too rapid a frolic for that. And its plot is a bewildering melange of characters and incidents, as episodic carnival rather than a blunt sequence of cause and effect. We encounter no sex problems, no ouija jigglings; Moraleda is Medford, Mass.; or Spoon River before it became a cemetery...
...noble words of this youthful martyr ought to recall visions of Madame Roland and Sidney Carton, but somehow even the dry press dispatches summon a wry smile to our lips when they prate of our newest Kansan soviet...