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Union could do nearly as well If they started on a similar quest. We would not wish to insist that all the rising geniuses are exclusively Californian, although it is significant that the de sirability of segregating geniuses for special training first became impera tive in California. The department assumes that these potential geniuses will inevitably be come the leaders of the next genera tion. That will certainly revolution ize a great many professions, includ ing politics; especially if these young people prove as morally superior as they are physically ' and mentally. I |— — L. A. Times. Without a Bible and without unfail ing faith in that Bible as the unchang- « ing Word of God, these "geniuses” would be a menace rather than a bless ing to our land. v BEWARE OF BOLSHEVISM The atmosphere constantly created by the radical press is that of embit tered and distorted denunciation of all that is connected with legally con stituted government- According to the warped vision of these agitators, no ray of light can pierce the murky gloom that envelops “ Capitalism and our present civilization. Their ap peals are bent upon arousing to direct action the worst motives of human nature— hatred, jealousy, envy, class feeling and desire to gain control. Through gross misrepresentation, they try to make it appear that the rights of the majority of mankind are denied and that only wrongs and grievances are permitted to exist. They see no good in any governmént except in the single type represented by revolution. Their only praise is for the dictators now ruling Russia and those engaged in the effort to bring about the world-wide establish ment of Sovietism, wherein they them selves expect to be supreme. There is no more unnatural spec tacle presented in the United States today than that of the hundreds of perverted hirelings of Bolshevism fomenting revolution. •The poisonous influences of their activities have be come our worst internal menace. The Bolshevist government that sends them here has become a world-wide danger. The day of general realiza tion of this surely is not far distant. The ^-frequent recent uprisings in Ehrope and the Orient, and the unmis takable evidence of carefully planned outrages upon a still wider scale, seemingly must call forth a self- defense in a consecrated resistance by all Governments whose peace and wel fare are continuously threatened. — Better America Federation.
way. What this business man has done, others can do with greater or less success.— The Presbyterian of the South. FICKLE FADING FAME Everybody seems to be in a hurry to cash in on their glory or publicity as quickly as possible. They would get theirs while the getting is good. The football stars would round up their millions before their fame grows cold. The country fiddler whom Henry Ford and the press correspondents dowered with fame is either signing up for vaudeville or figuring on $25,000 con certs in Madison Square Garden. The newspapers confer notoriety upon some hectic soul and the next act is either in vaudeville or the movies. Whether the notoriety is good or evil it is converted into cash with the least possible delay. The people are fickle and by another day the fame may have faded.— L. A. Times. STUDENTS CONVICTED B e r k e l e y , Calif.— Eighty-three charges of cheating in examinations, gambling and other offenses against students of the University of Califor nia were disposed of by the student affairs committee of the university in the semester just closing. The report of the committee was made public today. Fifty were found guilty of the of fenses charged. Nineteen were found cot guilty. The remaining cases were dismissed for lack- of evidence. Twenty were found guilty of gambling, of whom sixteen were placed on proba tion. The remaining four are gradu ate students and the cases will be con sidered further by the dean of the graduate division.— Exchange. TRAINING o u r su pe rm en Stanford University’s psychology de partment has selected 1000 “ excep tionally intelligent” young people, who may confidently be regarded as em bryo geniuses, for special study and training. These young people rate at from 140 to 190 per cent— where ordinary bright minds rate 90 to 100 per cent. They are the extreme antithesis of those “ morons” we have been hearing so much about. Moreover, since it is claimed that they are not physical weaklings, hut also above the average in health and build, they should evolve into veritable young demigods and goddesses. The selectors also think that they could probably find another 1000 if they searched the rural districts and the private schools. The present 1000 have been culled from the city public schools exclusively. We may also magnanimously assume that most of the other States in the
FISH OB FLESH? It must be admitted that the public mind will be contused over the virtue of a law which permits the French Ambassador to serve wine at his din ners in Washington, yet would make a criminal of the President of the United States doing the same thing at the White House on the next block. No wonder the Senators themsettves get confused and do the wrong thing every now and then.— Exchange. EDUCATION DOES NOT EDUCATE American colleges are turning out uneducated men whose knowledge of books is confined to choosing attrac tive bindings for their libraries. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn opened the intercollegiate parley on American education with this startling indict ment. His audience was made up of 200 or more undergraduates who had come on their own initiative to Wes leyan University to discuss “ What s Wrong With the Colleges?” More than thirty of the leading colleges in the East were represented. — L. A. Herald. A RUTHLESS RULER The greatest dictator of this day of dictators is the Pacha de la Medina, who rules with an iron hand over the holy Moroccan city of Fez. Each day, in a public square, he holds open court and in these he exercises the power of life and death over those who come before him. Since the fighting in Morocco has been in progress, it has been reported at various times that he has been cap tured by one or the other of the oppos ing forces, but none of these reports ever was confirmed, and it is more than probable that he is still exercis ing his dictatorship over his loyal and __somewhat— fanatical subjects. — News Exchange. LOYAL LAYMEN Laymen have done, and are Increas ingly doing, a great work in person ally winning souls for Christ. In the past it was generally supposed that it was the preacher’s work to do this. But laymen are beginning to realize that it is their privilege as well as their duty to do this work for their Saviour and for their fellowman, and thus they are entering richly into the Joys of their Lord. We heard recently of one layman in one of our Southern States who can well rejoice in the way in which He has used him. He is said to have had no apparent special fitness for the work, except his firm faith in his Saviour and his desire to share His salvatfon with others. With this equipment he started to work and in twenty years he has succeeded in winning more than 2,000 men for Christ. They would make ten strong churches, If grouped together in that
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