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if rs gfiff f 6 w r Y . . 2 +1 I WWW? 1 A SWTVQYIM It gg i 1 if t4 11 ml- . in-fl ' L fr - v MA I, ,. VZ- has this worker toiled throughout his life. It can be said truthfully that Edison, by his achievements in the field of invention, has done more than any other worker in that field, to promote universal brotherhood. The Youth of America, sending its message of brotherly love to all nations, can be personified by the birdman of the world, Lindbergh. America, how- ever, can no longer claim Lindbergh as her own. Every nation of the World now hails him as brother and joys in his wonderful achievements. Indeed, he has blazed a new trail to the realization of a more perfect brotherhood of nations, and it is for the future workers of this world to widen and develop that trail into a broad and peaceful highway. . LANGUAGE STUDY AND WORLD PEACE By FREDERICK S. SPURR I: 'ia little education is a dangerous thing, it does not neces- QF, sarily follow that more would be fatal. We are reminded of the Irishman who decided to settle the question as to whether feather pillows were comfortable. Wishing to try out the idea gradually, he slept all night on a single feather placed upon a stone. On awalcing with a violent headache, he saicl, Be- gorry! If that's what one feather does, what would a whole pillow full do? When we see the havoc wrought by a single idea, we sometimes wonder what a whole head full would do. Probably, like the pillow, they would result in comfort and sanity. Just as in our thoughts about things, we get distorted values through ignorance and partial knowledge, so in our imperfect acquaintance with people, we get prejudice and misunderstanding. In Silas lVlarner's day, those of one English village were suspicious and hostile toward those of another, just as the little Greek city-states had been hostile to one another two thousand years before. During the past century, however, more advance has been made in international communication than in all the centuries preceding. The rail- road, steamship, automobile, telephone, telegraph, wireless, and radio have fig linked distant realms more closely than towns of the same century once were bound together. An old gentleman born on the Isle of Man tells me that in his boyhood the language of that island was quite distinct from that of neighboring England, and a middle-aged Frenchman says that in his youth he learned three dialectic or village words for cat before he heard the correct word, chat But such conditions are rapidly disappearing, and not only are the people of one section of a country in communication with those of another, but distant lands are conversing across oceans and hitherto impene- trable mountain ranges and deserts. Twenty-six
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