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...survival of the fittest is listed by Emil Ludwig as one of seven reasons still advanced in favor of war, but all seven he devastates with withering, vigorous logic. Then wistfully he places a little hope in peace conferences, a great deal more in the give-your-child-no-toy-soldiers brand of education...
...shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small...
...display is attractive. This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think of tunes to play on the whistle...
Dictator Stalin, scorning to toy even rhetorically with such questions as "Shall we turn back?" outlined a forward looking four-year program. Keynotes: 1) Larger importations of tractors and farm machinery; 2) Devotion of huge State grain farms to the sole purpose of producing an exportable surplus; 3) Education of the peasants to rotate crops and produce a surplus even above full-to-bursting tummy needs; 4) Speeding up of production by urban workers of goods desired by the peasants but not yet available to them in quantities or at prices sufficiently tempting to seduce canny husbandmen into raising...
...only 75 years ago Japan mortally feared and hated the U. S. and all the Occident. But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations." In a flurry of trepidation and prayers the Japanese received his suggestions, sewing machines, toy trains-and a telegraph...