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...report sidestepped this dangerous issue quite neatly. It contented itself with rebuking all disputants in general for intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical age and lack of home training. It reaffirmed belief in the virgin birth of Christ and other Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions...
Resistlessly impelled by latent causes of unrest, a revolution burst at Warsaw last week, ran its triumphant course. Once more was recalled the dictum of that outspoken Austrian, General Pflanzer: "Ha! The Poles? Sir, they are one-third magpies, one-third rabbits, one-third LIONS...
Within a few hours soldiers, sailors and marines were on their way to points of expected unrest. Soon afterward civilian volunteer organizations, long ago prepared against just such an emergency by prominent Conservatives,** began to function for the maintenance of indispensable industries. The Government announced that, in these circumstances, famine conditions were not imminent. Ominously the hours drew nearer midnight...
...reflection of the labor unrest which has so paralyzed England since the beginning of the week is to be found in Cambridge. Declaring themselves willing to go to any lengths to secure higher wages and shorter hours, the CRIMSON newsboys have gone out on strike...
...unaware of unrest in the granges, but loath to ask any large measure of farm legislation from Congress, the President let it be known that he expects Agronomist* Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, to evolve a plan to dispose of surplus farm crops...