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Show This Week Arthur Brisbane Some Good, Some Bad Mr. Tunney in Russia Some Ladies of Liberia China Orders Airplanes The news of each day is like an old-fashioned old-fashioned layer cake, or a slice of Neapolitan ice cream, one layer belter than the other. Immigration to thlg country is now lowest In sixty-six years, which means that ambitious men and women, with courage and new ideas, the sort that made this country, are shut out. That is BAD news. The American Library Association, in conference at New Haven, completed complet-ed with ease, a one million dollar endowment en-dowment fund and will get another million from a foundation, not named. The money will be used, largely, for "adult education," which is important and neglected. Millions of men and women past 30, and past 50, long for education, and would make good use of it. That is GOOD news. Mr. Gene Tunney, who has returned to America after a trip to Jerusalem and extensive traveling in Russia, brings Interesting observations on the Soviet Republics, including this: "There are .. in Russia 30,000,000 young people under 27 years of age that know nothing but Communism. "They have been brought up breathing breath-ing the atmosphere of Communism as their ideal, their religion. They would die for it, as any Mohammedan would die for his faith. They do not know what you talk about, if you discuss anything opposed to the modern theories of Russia." That is something to be taken into consideration by those that ask themselves them-selves "After Bolshevism, what?" After Bolshevism it wil probably be MORE BOLSHEVISM. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, whose eye penetrates pene-trates with equal facility the interior of the atom or the vastness of the Great Nebula In Orion, has found out all about the "Free State of Liberia." One gentleman, formerly a slave in the United States, now owns his own slaves in "free" Liberia. Colored men and women from the United States buy and sell natives. Ragged little native na-tive children, sometimes cruelly beaten, beat-en, carry school books for the well dressed little Americo-Liberlans, descendants de-scendants of United States slaves. And this displeases Mr. Curtis more" than anything else: The ruling class, descendants of United States slaves, have in their houses "comely young native women" that play the part of "supplementary wives." Local clergy offer no objection on the "dwellers in glass houses" principle. princ-iple. Killings by brigands, "reds" and government authorities, when they catch the brigands or "reds," continus in China. China's "reds" alone are said by civic authorities of Changsha to have killed four hundred thousand within Ave years, and this Is a comparatively small area. Canton, opposed to domination by northern China, has been purchasing war materials with considerable intelligence. intel-ligence. The purchases include thirty-six thirty-six .airplanes, sixteen of them from America. Thirty-six airplanes, with only one hundred and eight Chinese In them, can do more to worry northern north-ern Chinese cities than one hundred and thirty-six thousand Cantonese marching along the ground. The little old school house sees its last days. Consolidation will make one larger school take the place of many small schools. That is necessary in these days of efficiency, economy, and motor busses for school children. Bu! It Is a pity. There was value in the 161,531 tiny schools scattered over this country, each with its wood box outside the door, its patient teacher and small group of children. The bigger boys that sat outside on the fence until the last minute, and Bwallowed their luncheon whole to have more time for baseball at "recess," "re-cess," often amounted to something later on. At least they could spell, add, subtract sub-tract and divide. They lived in the country, saw the sky every day, went barefoot and caught turtles in summer, read Dickens and put fire crackers under milk cans, all useful parts of education. New York hotel kppnprs find nn 1m. provement ln public methods of dealing deal-ing with gangsters and racketeers. The general public does not know how Important a part the United States Treasury plays in discouraging discourag-ing the higher-up criminals. The latter are financiers on a big scale, and make huge profits, in some cases millions a year for single individuals. The income tax department traces the huge winnings, wants to know why no report has been made, and no tax paid, collects one-half of the money and sends the criminal financiers finan-ciers to Jail, j The Treasury Department has brok- en up the worst of Chicago's gangs and has the most dangerous ringlead-, i era on their way to jail, somefbj ', that Chicago's police could not ! reasons not mysterious. Trader Horn, now &jr walked and tradei miles in Africa, Ing him. An rj? coverod him.r the world jr |
