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...seamy side of war is something which the army of no nation can afford to have extensively advertised. Most governments suppress all official photographs which would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
Finland's present President, jovial Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,* stands no bluffing. Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better...
...Squelched children are the cause of most psychological maladjustments. Ninety-eight per cent of American mothers so thoroughly suppress their children before the age of six that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents...
...coal fields of Kentucky have come into the public notice with the recent account by Waldo Frank and his fellow writers of their treatment by Kentucky citizens. Entirely aside from the question of right or wrong in the coal fields, the action taken by Kentucky in attempting to suppress all investigation of the rumored regain of terror in its coal counties touches on the problem of freedom of the press. Whether the courts and citizens of a state are wise in attempting to defy this principle can be shown by the results in this instance...
Mankind is on the threshold of change, evidenced by growing unrest. To suppress the unrest, the rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means...