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OUR PRESENT AND OUR PAST.
A modern Jean Valjean has bpen
discovered in New Jersey. Mayor
Folsom, a man who won the respect
and admiration of his townsmen, com
mitted suicide because of black ma^Ier^’
repeated threats to expose tlje. se^:et
of former years spent aa a convict.
The Times comments as follows;
“The criminal part of Folsom’s
record, waa a small fractipn. of it afid,
the remainder of it haying: be^ that
of a good citizen and business, man, it
was hardly necessary to rake up the
remote past.” This is a policy which
might well be applied not only to
mayors and their cities, but to stu
dents and their colleges.
It is true that the past helps to
form the future, that it pleads for
greater and higher things to be ac
complished and to be idealized. We
owe much to that past, yet all too
often prejudices brought into being by
things which others have long since
forgotten, live on and do their part in
marring the future. Gossip, that most
despicable of college sins, probes into
things that are gone and brings them
to view, attributing to them motives
dead long ago.
It seems to be human nature to fail
to understand that the little girl of
ytetcrday has grown into the woman
of today, o.r that the mean-s|»nted
citizen of past years can have beccane
the honorable, upright one. of th£
present year.
T)te past does not coerce the future;
it does not hold indomitaUe sway. It
contributes hope, inspiration, eouiagfi,
or, perhaps, failure; but the preseot
thougfhts, tJ^e present deede are t]|ose
that determine the type of n»en and
■women who- are of the gpreatest use
today.
President Butler in an address at
the opening assembly of Cokrmbia
University, made the foHowfng state
ment: “We still have far to go before
we can measure and understand- the
universe qf man and nature, and see
what lies concealed behind the curtain,
that w^ll rise upon the next century.
To prepare ourselves to witness ani
understand that spectacle and to
make vital contributions to it is our
task as students.”
The challenge here evident is one
which cannot fail to make its appeal
to students. The future holds count
less problems and opportunities which
can be met and solved only by those
who are prepared. One or two un
educated men and women may,
through unusual ability, gain much
greater success than many college
graduates, yet it is the educated class
as a whole which must push deeds to
completion, and hold cherished and
essential ideals before the gaze of
every man. It is not only the problem
but the duty of each college student
so to prepare himself that he may not
stand amazed and frightened by the
spectacle which the futur? gradually
or suddenly reveals, but that he may
recognize the possibilities in order
that he may carry his vision to others
and may give to the world his definite
contribution.
President Butler adds, “Students to
prepare themselves should seek to
multiply their needs and their in
terests”. It is not sufficient that each
individual understand and be inter
ested in one particular line or work,
gr, in the college vernacular, that he
spend all his energy on his major sub
ject, his minor, or oi) hi? electives. It
is inexcusable that, because his work
lies in the English Department, he be
ol^ivious of discoveries in the wofld
of Science and Mathematics; nor,^ on
the other hand, is the scientist par
donable for his ignorance of ancient
and mo(}em thxnighl; and progression
in literature.
^ is th« duty and it should be the
pleasure of every man and woman to
oUain as much information ^ pos
sible on as many subjects ^ possible
in order to Ife of tl^ greatest help, to
the world at large
WORLD NEWS.
offered his resignation, which, has not
yet been accepted.
Guzon is believed to have been or
iginally responsible for the feeling, in
his attitude toward General Wood
through that part of the press which
he controls. Resentment against
Americans is, disjflayed practically
everywhere tluult has any influence,
apd this means in admost every sec-
tium of Philiitpine activity.
The petitioa. of the.Philip^ne Cham-
betc of Commerce f«x reduction of im
port duties, on. forejgiL produi^s ia aa-
otber sign of bad feeling against
America. Manuiackorers otf the
United States axe accused of keeping
business, from the lalai)d& by raising
the prices of foxeigjk products, Di&-
lUce of everything American ia af.
present very evidient, and an actual:
physical outhreak is seriously feared.
“A Jewish nation vanished hope”
Says Israel Zangwill^ Jew.
He tells the Congress that this> plan
J«st simply will not do.
Israel Zan^ill, who- spobe to tJw
Ameriean Jewish Congress^ destrpyed
tiie last hopes o£ man}; of them, w^n
he said that Zion as a; natiroa ia now
aa impossibility. In. hia addxeaa, en
titled “Watchman,. ¥Qnaii o£^ the
Night?”, he discussed the League of
Nations (which he called the League
of Damnations), the Klu Klux Klan,
policy of England in Palatine and the
duty of American Jewry.
“Political Zionism is dead”, he de
clared, though maintaining that at
one time it was possible. “When the
Arab was a defeatede enemy”, even
though the number of Jewish inhabi
tants and property holders in Pales
tine was amazingly small, he thinks
it would not have been too difficult
to establish a nation. But now the
time is past, the opportunity is lost,
and, in defeat, Mr. Zangwill takes a
remarkably sensible view of the
matter, giving up his hopes withput
undue lamentation.
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