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is, you would join in earnest prayer for these people. It is literally true that even the children gamble, and boys of twelve years are already living immoral lives. Then pray for the women. Frankness, loyalty and modesty are almost unknown in Argen tine women. What kind of mothers will they make? Would you like to send your children to such teachers? Surely such con ditions call to prayer, especially when we think that Argentina is the strategic Span ish-speaking country of America and is leading all the rest. In Uruguay and Brazil, as well as in Argentina, the Italians lead in the number of immigrants, with Spaniards and Portu gese following as seconds. The great trend of immigration from Europe has been, so far to these countries, and all the immi grants who have a religion at all are mostly Roman Catholics. But the Argentine year book records 19,800 Mohemmedan Turks. One-half its Syrian population is also reckoned as Mohammedan. There are two mosques in the Brazilian city of San Paulo, and the Arabic papers are published there and in Argentina. Into the rice fields p i Brazil Japanese colonization societies are pouring immigrants by thousands and we may well remember that Count Okuma recommended the coasts of Chile, Mexico and Peru as a field of influence for Japan, and an asylum for the excess of her popu lation. Peru has large and prosperous Chi nese and Japanese elements; the Chinese are rapidly becoming the merchants of Pan ama; and in Jamaica, after two hundred years of English control, eighty per cent of the stores are operated by Chinese. According to a report there were in 1913 in British Guiana one hundred and thirty thousand East Indians and the number was said to be rapidly increasing.
PO R TO RICO The people of Porto Rico have by a majority of about 100,000 to 61,000 carried the measure of prohibition. Thus the lit tle island sets an example for the United States and leads the way to our national prohibition. Rum of a poor quality has been the special curse of the Porto Rican*. In the campaign for prohibition the mis sionaries took a prominent and most effect ive part, and the mission churches presented a solid front for the reform. The mis sionaries are given credit for having done preparatory work to this end ever since American occupation began. It is a remark- • able achievement and the majority will make it possible to enforce the laws. MORMON ACT IV ITY An illustration of the insidiousness of Mormon propaganda is to be found in the fact that the Oxford University Press has been publishing some Mormon literature bound up with the King James version of the Bible. The plates have now been returned to the Mormons. The representa tive of the Oxford Press excuses the action by saying that up to this time no protest against such method of putting out Mor mon literature has been received, although they had been putting it out in this way for several years. CHINESE MISSIONARY A Chinese graduate of Yale, who volun teered for two months’ service among the troops on the American frontier, is unques tionably the first Chinese missionary among American troops. SOUTH AMERICA So much has been said and written of the progress of Argentina that I fear for these people. If you could see Argentina as it
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