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Colonel Robert R. McCormick (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). The weekly "air editorial," delivered en route to the Orient, from Honolulu...
...Vacuum Oil Co.'s* $30,000,000 Palembang plant, biggest U.S. refinery in the Far East. Dutch soldiers held off the enemy until the oilmen escaped. The new Japanese proprietors rebuilt the refinery, saw their work undone in two Allied air raids. Few U.S.-owned plants in the Orient had taken such a beating; few staged a faster recovery...
Within a century, O.E. Baker warned in a pamphlet on "the population prospect in relation to the world's agricultural resources," America will face an Orient doubled in population, and a united Europe with ten times more people. This country will be supporting a smaller, more aged population, "weak-ened by the love of luxury and ease...
Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...Father Alexander: "Your grandchildren may see the center of power in the world go around to the East. If we give its people the best of our Christian tradition, and not the combination of Christianity and 19th Century politics which they have for the most part been handed, the Orient may become a great democratic power. The Orient needs a democracy whose rights are protected by religion against the likelihood of degenerating into a dictatorship. The opportunity for Christian missions there is seven or eight times-in some places 100 times-what it was before...