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...fathers. . . . The things we call modernism, modern education and evolution are all bound up in one package and we must deal with the three as one. It is the theory of evolution which has swept the country that is causing the very foundations of liberty, morals and Christianity to totter. . . . We must control the medium which controls the people, whether it be the newspaper, motion picture or what, and we must rebuild in the minds of our children the religion of our fathers. . . . We are not going to grapple with science, but we are going to work with it. True...
Germany has its industry, England its stolidity, and America its ingenuity, but to France has fallen the priceless gift of arousing the world to laughter. While governments tremble and nations totter on the brink of war, a solemn conclave meets in Paris, not to decide the next premier nor to formulate new regulations to assist the birthrate, but--to select the best chef in France...
...make history; for this year he rules Congress?rules it in the same way that, as the progressives say, one man rules the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision. With opposing weights almost evenly balanced he stands at the fulcrum of the teeter-totter, able to see-saw decisive power to either power. It is the supreme triumph, the acme of power, to which a man of La Follette's type, by character an eternal insurgent, can attain...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
What makes the "Tribune's" rude disclosure so embarrassing is that only a few weeks past word came from Cambridge in old England that in its opinion our Harvard-Radcliffe arrangement was perfect. How the firmest foundations crumble and totter in these cruel days! If we uttered a prayer not long ago that Cornell be saved for mankind from the inroads of ambitious women, we utter the same prayer for ourselves more fervently than over, now that our danger has been demonstrated to be so close and so real. To the pessimist there can be little hope; to the optimists...