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Aside from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...chemist believes the electrons are at rest (what I call "the loafer theory"), but the physicist believes they are rotating in orbits at enormous speed. The chemist argues that such activity would soon dissipate all their energy, which is unanswerable if the electromagnetic laws are assumed to be valid even in the structure of atoms. But this assumption is gratuitous. The orbit theory has now been substantiated by several successful quantitative tests, but the original Bohr theory of the shape of the orbits will have to be modified by spectroscopic analysis...
Obviously the easiest way to distinguish between reformers is by the methods they would use to achieve their ends; yet as Professor Sprague has implied this test is no longer valid. It is not impossible, however, to define a true issue between socialist and non-socialist. The one regards the present social organization as a false expression of human nature, the other regards it as a system which needs improvement but is essentially reflective of mankind. Each makes an assumption as to the nature...
...other subjects insists that those to whom he listens shall be of recognized authority, to settle his own attitude toward religion without even trying to find out the truth of the matter? He who has an objection to revealed religion has no right to consider such objection valid until he has consulted one who, through study, is able to speak with authority...
...went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because it was made without advertisement or competitive bidding; 4) because Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair "did combine, conspire...