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Show BEVERLY HILLS. Well, all I know is just what I read in the papers, pa-pers, or what I hear, see or Imagine. Here a week or Vesmmmmimd so ago I attend- AUJTAAL IA ed my first thing jT v. called S y m p o-j o-j sium. I didn't A. ...-4.jpi i ..-4 jnow if it was 1 f Z going to be a clr- I c u s, burlesque rVv sliow or feV M 4Ps preaching. Well, f -VV fltl " wa3 al' three. ' V'vT seems that ' S v ii 'kis Symposium f, n. i.A is a racket. Its carried on by colleges mostly. Its where some given number of men talk on some subject. They get it discussed from different angles. I guess thats about what they are. Thats what this one was, anyhow. I went because my friend. Will Durant, was going to be one of the Symposers. He was to talk on the hopes and fears ot Russia. Chester Ches-ter Rowell Is the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Well, he was to speak on the hopes and fears of China. Then there was a Japanese. I dont know his name, but it dont make any difference, they ill have the same names, anyhow. He spoke on the hopes and fears of Japan. Then there was a fellow from Australia that was supposed to give a summary. Well he did but it was of Australia. Instead of explaining what the others had been talking to us about for the last two or three hours, why he sold tickets to Australia, Aus-tralia, aud durned if he dident 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 of it. They wanted Immigration, bnt immigrants immi-grants with some kind of "Whos Who" record behind em. He said that Australia was the only country that was going to feature class In population. He showed that it is a very fine country. There is only six and a half million people there, but thats enough people. Who w-ants more people than t'r.at? I wish I had lived In this country when there was only six and a half million. I may yet. You cant tell. A lot of em that have the fare are walking out on us mighty fast. Well first was Durant. He Is just about our best writer, and I had read all his articles in the Saturday Sat-urday Evening Post on Russia. He is the most fearless writer that has been there. He tells you just what its like. He makes a mighty fine talk. One of the most interesting lecturers we have, and a fine fellow. He said Russia hopes to make Russia industrial like us. They want to manufacture everything. Well that will be the end of em if they get like us. Their fears seemed to be by the ones in charge afraid the other 139 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 for China made a fine talk. Course he had the best subject. There is something about a Chinaman that everybody feels sorry for em, and there is no nation in the world that needs sympathy less. China will be getting along when people of the 25th century will be digging and wondering what kind of apes inhabited inhab-ited this country along about the nineteenth century. Rowell showed that China had no fears of the ultimate ulti-mate future, but was just a little uneasy about local conditions for the moment. Well then come the Japanese who spoke. He was a very pleasant pleas-ant man, they all are. They are the nicest people peo-ple over there ($5 you ever saw. -Jrhz7 Hospitality to- fl''fy ward you is just V'f l plum suff ocat- ,11 V 1 ing. Well this x(, ( twi fellow said that ?fiilA it was Russia i lU that they were afraid of, and yyfP that was why . JkN , iKS they were tak- nfitr ing over Jehol, 'n3 and Manchuria, it was to keep Russia from gobbling em up, as they have already done with outer Mongolia. He of course couldent offer much reason for bis country taWng all this, but he was nice and pleasant about it, said he knew his country was in bad as far as public opinion was concerned, and they give him a big hand at the finish. j All in all it was fine Symposium. Dr. Von Kleinschmidt the president I and producer of the best football I team in America, the Trojans, was the toastmaster, arid did a lovely j and gracious job. j All this exchange of talk is a lot j of hooey. It changes nobody or ef- i fects no opinions, but its kinder like I weather talk it does no harm. But a i Symposium is pretty good. If one ever travels through your town and plays there, go hear It. Its the old cracker barrel! arguments over again. 1931, A! c. atit SynJtfati, Imc. |