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...sheers off into a third party (Roosevelt in 1912; La Follette in 1924"). Normally it works within the party organization. Insurgent Republicans expect their party to advance them to important posts but feel no obligation to render party support in return. Exercise of free judgment is their great tenet...
Last week, the Roman Catholics, who seldom have anything to say on Prohibition.- made clear their position on Birth Control. Simultaneously Presbyterians, who do not make Birth Control an issue, issued a statement on Prohibition which is virtually a Presbyterian tenet. At Philadelphia, the administration committee of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. met in executive session and re-dedicated itself "to a program of education which will make America the most temperate and the most law-observing nation in the world." Copies of this statement, prepared by their moderator, Pittsburgh...
...credo says that rich school children are inclined to be lazy, impertinent to their teachers, and that they make less of their opportunities than their less advantaged classmates. Liberal-minded folk usually discount this tenet, refusing to believe that the devil plays checkers exclusively on the coattails of affluent youngsters. But statistics published last week by School & Society appeared to support the credo...
There exists at Harvard a unique tradition, unlike that of many college and universities in this country. This tradition embodies the tenet that no Freshman activity, be it Red Book, Jubilee, or class affair of any sort, shall be concerned with making money for those involved in the project. It is in their violation of a wise tradition more than in their appropriation of class funds that the proposed action of the Jubilee Committee is ill-advised. The profits of the 1933 Red Book may be large enough to pay the Jubilee expenses twice over, but that does not justify...
...Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week placed a whacking veto, resounding with such adjectives as "absurd," "unjust," "impracticable," upon a prime Republican power bill. The bill dealt with a state policy of valuation of utility properties for rate-fixing purposes. Governor Roosevelt stoutly reiterated the Democratic tenet, voiced clearly before now by such Democrats as Alfred Emanuel Smith and Owen D. Young, that the rate-fixing basis should be actual cost of plants and not the replacement cost thereof...