Show VL ho BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know is just what I 1 read in the papers or what I 1 hear see or imagine here a week or so eo ago I 1 attend attended cd my first AUS USI ilalio 11 A I 1 A thing called symposium I 1 aident know it it was going to be a circus burlesque show or a preaching well it I 1 r was all three it seems that this k symposium Is a racket its car carried ried on by colle colleges mostly its where some given number of men talk on some subject they get it discussed from different angles 1 I guess about what they are what this one was anyhow I 1 went because my friend will du rent was going to be one ot of the sym posers he was to talk on the hopes and fears of 0 russia chester rowell is tile the editor ot of tile the sa francisco chronicle well he was to speak on the hopes and feals ot of china then there was a japanese I 1 dont know his name dame but it dout dont make any difference they all have the same names anyhow he be spoke on the hopes and tears fears of japan then there was a fellow from australia that was supposed to give a summary well he be did but it was ot of australia instead ot of explaining what the others had been talking to us about for the last two erthree or three hours why he sold tickets to australia and burned it if he be aident do it pretty good too he said australia was purely a white mans country and that they were trying to make a high class country out ot of it they wanted immigration but immigrants with some kind ot of chos who record behind em he said that australla australia was the only country that was going to feature class in population he showed that it is a very fine country australia is a fine place its one of 0 the next places I 1 am going to head bead for or its beautt ul the people are congenial and hospitable and no one making a tour of any length should miss it it Is truly a white mans country there is only six and a halt million people there but enough people who wants more people than that I 1 wish I 1 had lived in this country when there was only six and a halt bait million I 1 may yet you cant tell A lot ot of em ein that have the tare fare are walking out on us mighty last fast well first was durant he Is just about our best writer and I 1 had bad read all tits his ar articles t acles in the saturday evening n ng post on russia ho he Is the most t f arless writer that has been there he tells you just what its like ile he makes a mighty fine talk one of 0 the most interesting lecturers we have and a fine fellow ile he said russia hopes to make russia industrial like us they want to manufacture everything well that will be the end ot of em ein it if they get like us their tears fears seemed to be by the ones ln in charge afraid the other million would get wise to em because there Is less than a million running the country but lord they claim there Is less than a dozen running this country chester rowell who spoke tor for china made a fine talk course he be had bad the best subject there Is something about a chinaman that everybody feels eels sorry tor for em and there is no nation in the world that needs sympathy less china will be getting along when people ot of the century will be digging and wondering what kind of 0 apes inhabited this country along about the nineteenth century rowell showed that china had no tears fears ot of the ultimate future but was just a little uneasy about local conditions tor for the moment well then come the japanese who spoke he was a very pleasant man they all are they are the nicest people over there you ever saw hospital V ity toward you is just plum suffocating well this fallow said that it was russia that ti they I 1 ey were afraid of and that mas as why they were taking over dehol and manchuria it was to keep russia from gobb gobbling ling i em up as they have already done with outer mongolia he ot of course coul dent offer much reason tor for his country taking all this but he was nice and pleasant about it said he knew his country was in bad as tar far as public opinion was concerned and they give him a big hand at the finish all in all it was fine symposium dr von the president and producer of the best football team in america the trojans was the toastmaster and did a lovely and gracious gia cious job ho he gave em all a nice boost and asked em it if they had a son that was a good athlete to send em to all this exchange of talk Is a lot of boncy it changes nobody or effects no opinions but its kinder like weather tolk it does no harm but a symposium ais is pretty good it if one ever travels through your town and plays there go bhear hear it its tile the old cracker barroll barrell arguments over again ms inc |