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...your edition of Oct. 3 mention is made of a request for a poem to inspire the schoolchildren. May I offer the following to be given to one of America's poets to use as a beginning for such a poem...
Conscientious English readers, accustomed to rely on both the Conservative London Times and the Liberal Manchester Guardian as twin pillars of upright journalism, were puzzled, pained. In Japan schoolchildren clutching Rising Sun flags paraded by the thousand through Tokyo, celebrating the Treaty of Changchun. "Ex Oriente Lux!" headlined Tokyo's erudite & patriotic Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded...
Stirred by the story of how beloved Marshal ("Papa"') Joffre saved Paris with the aid of Galliéni's improvised ''Taxicab Army" and flung back the Germans from the Marne, more than 4,000,000 U. S. schoolchildren gave nickels, dimes and quarters to pay for the Marne Victory Monument first presented to France in May 1921 ''in return for the Statue of Liberty." Last week the schoolchildren's gift, an exciting 130-ft. granite figure of France Defiant shielding a wounded poilu, was "re-presented and unveiled" by U. S. Ambassador...
Schools. One formerly privileged Russian class has suddenly been put to hard labor: schoolchildren. Up to now Bolshevik schooling has favored the modernistic "Dalton System," each child being assigned a "problem" and "encouraged" to solve it. In practice many a Russian schoolchild has loafed under the Dalton System, was growing up illiterate. But last week they loafed no longer...
Munitions. In Tokyo the only real industrial activity centered in munitions plants. A new war chemical factory opened in the suburbs. Orders were placed for 500 military automobiles. Airplane factories worked overtime to turn out fighting planes which are being paid for in part by the yen of Japanese schoolchildren. Imports of oil, glycerine, iron ore. U. S. machine tools increased markedly...