Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I have just read in TIME. Sept. 16, your story, "Suicide of a Consul." While I know that you will be branded as unpatriotic, revealers of "unpublishable" State matters, and twisters of truth, I want to congratulate you on an excellent example of fearless reporting...
...deceives no one. Senator Nye and his associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well as a word all commerce with a nation at war, whether...
Assuming that such is the truth, such an index of mass psychology from the time of the publication of "Newes from Virginia" in the early days of James-town to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence" guarantees only an historical study useful to research students. But the great value of a collection and of all these compact little volumes of the Oxford series is in furnishing a handy reference to subject matter which the general reader wants to pursue once more...
Last week a Truth writer named Joseph W. Musser appeared in Short Creek, Ariz. as counsel for four alleged polygamists haled into court. Among the defendants was John Y. Barlow, Brethren leader and man of family. Said he: "If we throw away our belief in polygamy, we throw away our entire belief." Counsel Musser explained: "Perhaps they are practicing polygamy but they are living only with one wife at a time, and when you consider that big business men in the larger cities of the nation are doing the same thing, only under the guise of wife and mistress...
...this sort would acquire enough knowledge to prevent the organic and mental deterioration of civilized nations. Its members should be given a position as highly considered, as free from political intrigues and from cheap publicity, as that of the justices of the Supreme Court. Their importance would, in truth, be much greater than that of the jurists who watch over the Constitution. For they would be the defenders of the body and the soul of a great race in its tragic struggle against the blind sciences of matter...