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...spired the founding of Haskell (Lawrence, Kans.), Albuquerque (N. Mex.), many another boarding school far from the Indian Reservations. But the Indian did not take to the white man's ways. The graduates of the boarding schools generally returned to their reservations and their blankets. Since the prime tenet of Progressive Education is to let pupils study what they want to study, Willard Beatty seemed well fitted for his job. In reservation schools Director Beatty will encourage the study of Indian arts, customs and languages, in addition to "pale face learning." The typically Progressive "project system" of education will...
...acquiring a huge silver investment at prices maintained only by its own huge purchases. Why it should do so puzzles some economists, but only those who have ignored the writings of the New Deal's monetary adviser, Dr. George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Dr. Warren's chief tenet is, in substance, that the Depression is due to the production of gold falling behind the production of other commodities. He is not primarily a silverite but in his book Gold & Prices, published month ago,* he asserted: "The production of silver has come much nearer the production of other things...
...then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop. Other Mennonite farmers have therefore signed. But not the Amishmen, despite the fact that a tenet of their religion requires meek obedience to the law of the land. Last week AAA officials in Washington were perplexed over the matter, finally decided that the thing to do was to have Congress amend the Tobacco Control Act exempting the Amishmen as "conscientious objectors...
...invoked in the name of Republicans, Democrats, Irishmen, Poles, reactionaries and radicals. He who combines reason with emotion is indeed a rarity. The result is that no public speaker is taken seriously, with the possible exception of President Roosevelt, who alone seems to have learned the cardinal tenet of delivery, that the conversational, gently persuasive, is the most effective...
Royal, reactionary Hungary, the kingdom without a King, overflows with secret societies and patriotic leagues. Three months ago an old one reappeared, known as the Society of Awakened Magyars, a chief tenet of which was that all unmarried Hungarian girls over 12 should wear chastity belts. Last week brought another when along the cafe fronts of the Corso marched a stalwart line of little people no higher than the table tops with banners at their head marked "JUSTICE FOR DWARFS," "MIDGETS,AWAKE...