Archive for November, 2006

Star Spangled Banner 1921

“LET US ALL SING THE LAST VERSE”
SO MANY COMPLAINTS have been raised against the “Star-Spangled Banner” as a national anthem that a new suggestion for its use is always welcome. A writer to the New York Herald points out that the last verse of the hymn, rather than the first, expresses American feeling and is [...]

The First Aircraft Carriers 1922

FLOATING HOMES FOR NAVAL PLANES
NO EXISTING BATTLE-SHIP, nor any that it is possible to build within the next ten years, can be kept afloat when attacked by airplanes using gas and highexplosiveÂ bombs. At any rate, this is the announcement made by Gen. Amos E. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service, to the Engineers [...]

Problems with Church Reunion 1922

THE STUMBLING-BLOCK TO CHURCH REUNION
FEELING KEENLY that it would be a humiliating reflection upon the validity of their own ministry if they agreed to a reordination of the clergy as a requisite for church union, the Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church have formally rejected the overtures of the Lambeth Conference. As told [...]

Steel Makers Favor Disarmament 1921

STEEL AND DISARMAMENT
THE PATH TO DISARMAMENT, they used to tell us, would be blocked by the makers of munitions. Yet we now hear the Gunpowder King of America declaring, as quoted in these pages two weeks ago, that the war business of the DuPont’s does not pay. “I am at the head of the largest [...]

Educating Children about War 1921

TO EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION AGAINST WAR
GREAT WARS RECUR at intervals that suggest that they are started by new generations who have forgotten the evils of the conflicts fought by their fathers. The present generation seems fully determined that wars shall cease, but in a few decades new hands will be at the helm. Will [...]

Problems with Unilateral Disarmament 1921

WHY THE ARMIES CAN NOT DISARM
AS ARISTIDE BRIAND, powerful of frame, with shaggy head and bushy downward curving mustache, arose to state the case of France before the Arms Conference, he seemed to one press correspondent to be a perfect living type of the old-time Western sheriff; and he might well have claimed for his [...]

Schools Promote Agnosticism 1922

AGNOSTICISM IN THE SCHOOLS
A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL may be on the way, as some believe; but against this optimistic theory lies the charge that some of the country’s most prominent universities and colleges, and even many high schools, have become “incubators of agnosticism,” and are busy turning out atheists. Among the lecturers and writers who are [...]

Correct use of Condiments 1930

Condiments, Their Use and Abuse
FRANCE IS THE LAND OF THE FLAVOR and the sauce. Few articles of food are there regarded as sufficient unto themselves.
Writers in other lands, jealous, doubtless, of the well-deserved reputation of the French for toothsome cookery, have slyly suggested that this is because the foodstuffs of that land, flavorless in themselves, [...]

Treasury Bonds and Certificates 1927

ANOTHER RUSH FOR TREASURY OFFERINGS
THE oversubscription of the twin Treasury offers for September seems significant to the press as another evidence of the plentifulness of investment funds and of the success of the Government in putting its indebtedness on a lover interest basis with consequent ultimate saving to the taxpayer. Two offerings were made, it [...]

Effects of the 1930 Drought

Good and Evil Effects of the Drought
SOMETHING LIKE A MYSTERY ROLE is being played by the drought in the business drama. It’s an ill drought that brings no good, reflect some commentators, thinking of the rise in grain prices, the use of that burdensome wheat surplus for feed instead of corn, the encouragement given to [...]