Show NEWSPAPERS BY EDWARD ROSS Edward Alsworth now ranked as one of the most brilliant American writers of the day is preparing a series of papers for the new volume of the Century the third eighty on the characteristics characteristics char char- of and the iba conditions in the middle west Dr Ross Koss is professor profesor of sociology in the University of Wisconsin Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin and author of those significant books cr Social Control Sin and Society So So- ciet and now The Chan Changing Chine Chi Chi- ne nese e. e Professor Ross is inclined to stress social socia environment rather than heredity to explain national character in terms of social history rather than of race and to look to economic factors for interpretation in interpretation in in- rather than to philosophical cal ideas lie Ile lays Jays great stress upon the swiftness of contemporary contemporary- social development and is a leader m in inciting inciting in ing public opinion to catch up with actual actual ac ar ac- ac tua society He Ile feels that in a tumultuously d dynamic namie epoch like ours the chief danger is Jest lest adjustment in laws and institutions be made tardily and only after a needless needle interval of or acute suffering His Ills seven years in California California Califor Califor- nia left him with an an abiding interest in the problems of a looming orient |