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...CRIMSON thinks that if there is reason to believe that revolutionary proganda caused it (which is very doubtful) that it is "time for a renewed and thorough going attempt to suppress this increasing danger." By what methods? Shall we follow Palmer's tactics again? Shall we have some more wholesale raids? Shall we "hang first and try afterwards" as Judge Anderson pointed out in the Collyer case was the result of some of the work of operatives of the Department of Justice? Is this the kind of "renewed suppression" the CRIMSON is advocating...
...spur of the instant that any special group is at fault, but if investigation demonstrates that revolutionary propaganda is still at work to such a degree as to cause a $2,000,000 blaze, the occasion would be ripe for a renewed and thorough-going attempt to suppress this increasing danger. For in spite of governmental efforts, plots and bomb outrages have not diminished since the war; yesterday's fire should be only one more argument against the extreme methods which the radicals appear to have adopted to attain their desires...
President Eliot, who delivered the next address, spoke at length on the desirability of the preservation and furthering of the existing friendship among English-speaking peoples. He also touched upon the fact that through fear of various consequences newspapers today suppress much news that the public should know, news that often would clarify circumstances and give a more correct version of affairs. He declared that newspapers are practically subsidized by their patrons, particularly advertisers...
...sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...debate in the history of this country will be held in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock, when a picked three from the University of Washington will meet a team from the University. "Free Speech" will be the subject, which is worded as follows "Resolved: That Congress should suppress all propaganda advocating the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence, constitutionality granted...