LET’S GET TOGETHER LAST June a great many children and parents and teachers faced disappointment and discouragement, and wondered why. The children for the most part agreed that their teachers expected too much of them and “never explained anything;” also that their parents “didn’t understand.” The parents with e... continued
Allenby in Palestine
August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ALLENBY TO THE RESCUE! HOBBY-HORSES in the Jordan Valley, hobbled in the Plain of Jericho! Make-believe horses, put together of sticks and canvas, hitched in long rows on either side of drinking-troughs to deceive the Turks and their instructors, the Germans! Dummy camps and dummy tents; mules drawing heavy drags around at random to make a big dust... continued
The U.S. Navy in Peace
August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ALWAYS ON GUARD – BY CAPTAIN L. M. OVERSTREET, U. S. N. THE Navy is a constructive and a humanitarian as well as a fighting organization. The general impression that the men of the Navy are idle in time of peace, save for necessary war drills, and that money appropriated for the Navy is expended entirely in preparing for future battles... continued
The American Navy and the Turks
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THE AMERICAN NAVY AND THE TURKS BY COMMANDER ROBERT A. BACHMAN (M.C.), U. S. N. WITH events in the Near East bursting suddenly from an apparently peaceful condition into a state of war, the United States Navy found itself once more so placed as to make it the center of the entire Nation’s eager interest. In order to clear up the offici... continued
Iowa on the Rampage
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Unrest in Iowa WE think of Iowa as one of the conservative States of the Union, much more so than Nebraska or Kansas, for example. Just now there is probably more reasonable as well as unreasonable unrest in Iowa than anywhere else in the central part of the country. Iowa farmers complain, of course, at the great deflation of agricultural prices fo... continued
Oxford Debating Team in America
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THE WORLD’S GREATEST DEBATING SOCIETY THE visit of an Oxford Union debating team to American shores, as Mr. George Moore pointed out in these columns, is a new thing in the relations of English and American universities. It is a new thing for the Union. The visit is bound to start comparisons of standards and values. That these may be just a... continued
Problems in Europe
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Problems with doing business in Europe RADICALISM is rebellion against the golden (capitalist) rule. How strange that the golden rule, which means to us the rule for man’s best conduct, may be used by some to mean the hated rule of gold or capitalism. One means fraternal good will, the other tyranny. The world is full of strange contradiction... continued
Britain and the Defence of the Straits
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY MAJOR GENERAL SIR GEORGE ASTON, K.C.B. THE friendship between Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson and Marshal Poch made its mark upon the world’s history. I had the little story which follows from Sir Henry Wilson’s own lips, when we were serving together on the Directing Staff of the Army Staff College at Camberley... continued
Navy Day
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ROOSEVELT AND THE NAVY THE selection of Roosevelt’s birthday, October 27, as Navy Day was a distinctly happy thought. No American President ever had greater interest in our Navy than Theodore Roosevelt, and no one has had a better comprehension of the value and principles of naval power. Many men manifest an understanding of the function ... continued
American Bankers Convention
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THOSE who desired to do so could have seen the “Money Power” in action at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, in the week beginning October 2, the occasion being the forty-eighth annual Convention of the American Bankers’ Association. There are those who entertain a very low opinion of the “Money Power,” attributing to... continued