Life — February 18, 1915 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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“RE” “They Say” (Recent Opinions, Epigrammatic or Otherwise, by Some of Our Wise and Near-Wise Men and Women) UCH of this mendacity and hysterical sensa- tionalism over Belgium atrocities was need- less. A protest to Germany against the violation of Belgian neutrality would have been welcomed by her. She could then have laid her (K case hefore us.—Robert J. Thompson, American Consul at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany has been too courteous toward the rest of the world—too anxious to please. But our eyes have been opened to our folly. We have learned by bitter experience that it does not pay to be too courteous, too eager to please—Hans Heinz Ewers, German author and poet. I think it is perfectly proper to swear at times. I think it is all right to say “damn” even. If some man did some- thing terrible to you and you said “damn that man that’s all right—that man should be damned.—President Thwing, of Western Reserve University, as reported in the New York Sun. I may have been a bit excited and aroused.—Dr. Theo- bald von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Imperial Chan- cellor, If this Republic shall share the fates of other similar governments that have gone down in other times, it will not be from marching armies from across the seas. It will be from the folly of the people. It will be when they build up a great standing army in this country and make the military power dominant over the civil power. It will he when they cease to reverence the Constitution and the genius of this great government and begin to imitate the debt-ridden and the soldier-ridden countries of other na- tions.—Martin Dies, of Texas. The lack of mutual love among men, disregard for authority, unjust quarrels between the various classes, material prosperity, hecome the absorbing objects of human cudeavor, as though there were nothing higher and better fo be gained. These we regard as the four chief causes why the world is so terribly shaken.—Pope Benedict XV. Jt will take years after I get out of office to catch up with some of the newspapers that 1 want to answer. cretary Bryan. I refuse to admit that 1 am de: Villa. America’s unlimited supply of death-dealing machinery will cause an indefinite prolongation of this murder of mankind —Duke of Abruzsi, as reported in the New York Sun, In Ithaca we have found that the movies are a most potent factor in making manly fellows of our students. It is not as it was a few years ago. Nowadays, when the boys have a little time hanging on their hands of an eve- ning, they do not organize “parties”, as of old, and go down into “town” to guzzle beer and shoot pool in some ambiguous emporium.—President Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University. One man with God is always in the majority. —Emperor William, And why wouldn't he have a good brain? From baby- hood he's had the best of food and care and education, You'd have as good a brain as he if you'd had the same training. Many of the miner boys out West have better brains than he, but they haven't run them in the one channel. They've used them in producing things. Mr. Rockefeller will learn something from those miner boys when he comes out there and talks to them. —Mother Jones. The men who are directing these foundations are un- doubtedly men of wisdom and high-minded persons, but the income of the fund of one hundred million dollars is coming from the work of laboring men. The directors, it must be remembered, are chosen by men behind the foundations, so that here in a democratic country and atmosphere we have an institution essentially autocratic in spirit and government.—Dr. John Haynes Holmes. “FOR THINE 1S THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, cLory” AND THE