Archive for November, 2006

Thrift and Prosperity 1930

THE FIVE FAT YEARS THE subject is thrift. It happens to be a favorite topic with columnist W.G. Sibley of the Chicago Journal of Commerce. He advances the idea that in almost every normal man’s life there are five years in which it is easy to make money, and those five years, whether they come [...]

College Exams Abolished 1921

ABOLISHING COLLEGE EXAMS A NEW TERROR may await the fearsome student instead of the bed of roses that the removal of the examination test promises. Just what the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania may propose as a substitute for the “mid-years” and “finals” that they have announced abolished will be awaited with interest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]