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Show in Singapore ns there are in our own cities. The other side of tho world does not seem so different from the side with which we are acquainted as one might suppose. They dance after dinner at the fashionable fash-ionable hotels, they use safety razors and eat Quaker oats, and take patent medicines for rheumatism, and use alarm clocks to rouse the lethargic from their morning sleep, and the.v sit through plays which depict the antics an-tics of college students the same us we do lu our own undergraduate-tilled tnwr-- me as read the Singapore Free Press is that on the other side of the world things go ou much as the.v do in these middle western American towns ot ours. People play the same games eat and drink the. same food, wiih only slight modifications, and in the main follow the same daily routine aud think the same thoughts. (fcX 1928. Western Newspaper Union I j On the Other Side J ! ( of the World i i ; i I By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK j Dean of Men, Univerity of j Illinois. .--- n n tut nni m 'm ''' I HAVE always thought that things would be very different on the other oth-er side of the world different customs, cus-toms, a different language, different peoples. The South Sea islands have always spelled mystery and magic to me and dusky forms waving strange weapons in the air. India and the 1 Malay peninsula I was sure was an- other world. My cousin Tracy, who Is a banker ' with nothing to do ou occasion but to sail tlie seas and to stop at strange ' aud unfamiliar parts has been going , around the world recently, an esperi-j esperi-j euce which is new neither to him nor I to his much traveled wife. He sends me "a bundle of newspapers from Singapore. Of course you all know what and where Singapore is. 1 do, since 1 asked Nancy, and she, to be certain, looked it up in the Atlas. It is an English possession, 1 believe, where the papers advertise "snappy bathing costumes" at from nine to fifteen dollars each dollars, mind you ; good American dollars, not pounds, shillings, and pence. They marry and murder in Singapore Sing-apore the same as we do in this civilized civ-ilized and enlightened country. They ! advertise motor cars and whisky (without an e) for Mr. Volstead's in ' tluence has not traveled so far. They have moving pictures, and just at the time when Tracy was there, Andy und Min and Chester Gump were holding the boards. Think of little Chester doing his stuff in Singapore! Ir seems inconceivable to me. They have political outrages tlre, and men are shot in a manner very similar to the way in which our own unscrupulous politicians are done away with. The only difference that I can detect ts that the account of the shooting is announced in a very modest manner upon the back page rather than in flaming head lines on the front page of the paper as is our own refined custom. cus-tom. They seem to have the same motor 1 cars, the same lubricating oils, the same rubber tires, the same varieties of ice cream and typewriters in Singapore Sing-apore as in Kankakee, 111. It rather surprised me. There are military training schools and pacifists, and tennis ten-nis clubs, and football associations, and all sorts of snorts and sportsmen |
