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...President Hutchins' two-year "Associate in Arts" degree, Mr. Lake let his animosity toward Harvard lead him into a contradiction. The only excuse for laboriously learning the classics is the thorough nature of the education it gives. Nothing is more contrary to Mr. Lake's desires than a speedy veneer of culture, followed by a purely vocational course. A two-year university degree comes close to being a contradiction of terms. President Lowell is reported as saying that "In sixty years the Lord can make an oak, but the best He can do in six months is a pumpkin...
...This appears to us to be a case of vindictive persecution covered by a thin veneer of legal Phariseeism...
Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3,000 more are shipped by other people. Last week, as hundreds of Mr. Loeb's arboreal monstrosities lay on the docks of Portland's Oceanic Terminal, the Pacific Northwest forest experiment station announced that as many burls were exported in 1937 as in 1936, despite the fact that...
About three-quarters of all burls go to Europe. There, in the veneer Tnills of France, Italy, England, Germany, revolving lathes like apple peelers cut them up into great strips about 1/50 of an inch thick. The grain pattern of burl veneer is an incredibly complicated tangle of knots and loops and swirls, often beautiful, always very elaborate. A good proportion of the U. S. burl veneer is then shipped back to the furniture factories of the U. S., where it is carefully glued on decorative pieces like radio cabinets...
...present prosperity is, I fear, but a veneer that masks the grave dangers that will be obvious to anyone who explores beneath the surface. . . . Hovering clouds of war, mounting debt, financial fears and continued deficits in these days of comparative prosperity reveal themselves as sinister symptoms in a diagnosis of our national health. . . . But the American people are not dumb. Their pride in the industrial development of our nation is deep seated, and when they are sure that the unsocial in our midst are eliminated, they will turn to Management's help ... to get the ship back...