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Show Prevailing Opinions ' Comment of the American Pratt ' I Country Needs Career Service ' We Americana have been charged with doing a good deal of bragging about ouraelvos. We say. in effect: "We've got the best country on earth, but we could bo a whole lot better." When wo do that, wo are revealing our-salves our-salves as citizens of a democracy proud enough of it to think that it could bo better. Sir Joaiah Stamp. British economist, econ-omist, who has been visiting in this country, hss boon struck by one thing. Ho saya that we criticise criti-cise ourselves freely sbout the things we lack. Then, ho saya further, that the one thing wo lack which ho thinks it the moat noceasary to our future well being, we never mention. He aaya wo do not seem to realise real-ise that we lack the most important impor-tant of all things training for government service. We make no attempt to train ourselves for government gov-ernment service. That is to say, nobody considers government service a career. And If we are ever going to reduce taxea. It ia about time wo stsrted thinking sbout getting men fitted for the jobs of goveramont rather than men fitted for political activity. At It la now, there ia little In-eentlvt'in In-eentlvt'in this branch of work for large-caltber man, who are lured ' to fields where their talents bring e adequate return, and where the smearing process peculiar to politics poli-tics is lacking. Civil service, applied to high ranking positions as well as to the rest of government personnel, would eventually put the business of conducting the government on a professional plane, give It the touch of an expert and ultimately remove it from the not-so-tender mercies of the plum-giving politician. poli-tician. Minneapolis Star. Sentible Younq Men I A policeman's lot may not be a happy one. but it looks good to eastern college alumni, 25 of whom recently applied for jobs to patrol the atreota of Rldgewood, N. J. This was In reply to an announcement an-nouncement made by the mayor of the town that he wanted college col-lege graduates on the local police force. The mayor has appointed three young applicants and saya he will appoint more. The job pays $2100 a year. Such a aalary waa probably not what the average student plugged for in classes, but if his training taught him to bo philosophic enough to content himself with ' auch an emolument In these times, then the criticism directed againpt college-bred young men goes for naught. Los Angeles Times, Look at a Map The Amur river flows In s generally gen-erally easterly direction from the northeastern boundary of Mongolia Mon-golia to the Gulf of Tartary. It marks the boundary between China and Siberia till It reaches the Siberian coast province town of Sabarovsk where it turns northeast to flow through Russisn territory. Before the World wsr the paragraph para-graph above would have been a simple recitation of geographical facta of little or no international Importance. Today, because of Japanese expansion in China and the U. S. S. R's determination to lose neither ground nor "face" In the far east the Amur river boundary boun-dary ia one of the danger spots of the world. At first glance it Is difficult to see why an Astatic boundary lino ahould hava world importance. But international affairs seldom are grasped at first guinea. There is always mora than appeara to the casual eye. Things to be remembered by Americana when they think of the Amur river are: That Germany and Japan have established a defensive de-fensive alliance against Russia, each agreeing to defend the other in case of attack. That both the United States and Great Britain have what diplomats call "a atako in Pacific affairs," especially Pacific Pa-cific naval affairs. An open break between Japan and Russia along the Amur river might well be as dangerous to world peace as a break between Italy and England in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean or border trouble between be-tween Franco and Germany. Get our your map and find tha Amur river. It's much more Important Im-portant to world peace than, say, the Mississippi. Minneapolis Star. t |