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...judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber of the legislatures...
Another specific job is to warn of thi approach of war gas, so there is a committee called the Union Feminine Civique et Sociale which trains women sniffers (flaireuses) to detect nearly odorless gasses by smell without getting killed by taking too deep a whiff...
...British defense mine in Singapore harbor, of the British liner Sirdhana, with loss of eleven lives (TIME, Nov. 27). The commander of a British battery guarding the harbor testified that he saw the ship heading straight where he knew lay a mine field. Did he do anything to warn the ship? No, he replied, he had no authority to do that. But he telephoned to his fire commander and reported the situation. Did the fire commander do anything to warn the Sirdhana? No, he had first to get an order from the port war station...
Fire commander: "I myself couldn't see the ship." He explained that the battery was to defend the harbor, not to warn ships about mine fields...
...view of the report that the so-called 'Christian Front' is strenuously endeavoring to increase its forces by inviting Protestants into its membership, we are compelled to warn Protestant people against accepting such invitations and overtures. ... No organization or group of individuals fostering such evil propaganda which has resulted in numerous acts of violence in our city has the moral right to call itself Christian. . . . Any group using the name of Christ for any purpose foreign to His character is either ignorant of Christian fundamentals or else they are guilty of practicing inexcusable hypocrisy...