Among the many voices raised in Memorial Day oratory last week was that of James Rowland Angell, A.B., A.M., Litt.D., LL.D., President of Yale University. Like many another orator of the day, he decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of...
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