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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shall we be content to sit idly . . . or shall we use [our] great advantages carefully, moderately but firmly and above all intelligently to help protect the world, which includes ourselves, from its imminent and continuing danger...
...States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have stretched and perverted these powers to impose taxes, trucking fees, quarantines, which...
Most arresting was her extemporaneous speech challenging the entire U. S. economic system (TIME, March 6). Excerpt: "I believe in the Social Security Act . . . in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer. . . . These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. . . . There is no use kidding ourselves. We have got to face this problem. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies...
...armies, but just a world police force. But by last February she had to conclude that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike to do it, it may be necessary to use the forces of this world in the hope of keeping civilization going until spiritual forces gain sufficient strength everywhere to make an acceptance of disarmament possible...
...education and its fundamental theory that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication," business English, current events in economics, wholesome recreation in the community, social amenities and manners and the use of leisure time...