The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

work the Sunday schools are doing in
Japan and China. The many pictures
of Chinese and Japanese children, alert
with the promise of future years, are
not the least inspiring part of Mr..
browns message
The book describes the trip made in
1918 by committee of % authorized
by the Worlds Sunday School asso-
citation The itinerary included many
of the out-of-the-way spots of Hawaii,
Japan, China and Korea, trip across
Siberia to Russia. and ended at the
Worlds Sunday School convention at
Zurich. Everyone interested in the
Ghristianizing of the orient, and every
Sunday school worker will find this
volume of interest. MIR. Brown knows
the east we'll and his book is vividly
written. Ii is also fully illustrated
with photos taken by the party.
'NH1ILIKINS"
BY Elmer Willis serl. The Neale Pub
fishing company, publishers, New
York.
"Whillikins," by Elmer Willis Serl. is
a book of constructive dissent, compris-
ing essays on social hysteria. Mr.. Serl
may be termed an apostle of the happy
mean. Like his former books, .NVhill-
kins' bears the influence of the open
country. Here is the biography of one
Whillikins, a sociaite who looks after
he leaps, and never knows why he leaps,
anyhow. Are you being stampeded in
tellectually?" asks Mr. Serl; then he tells
us that our American brainlessness leads
us to defend our particular ism ismply
because it is ours.
EUROPEAN POLICE SYSTEMS
BY Raymond b. Fosdick; the Century
company publishers, New York.
A study of police problems In Euro
pean cities by Raymond h. Fosdick,
former commissioner of accounts of the
city of New York. has been issued under
the title European Police Systems" The
material for Mr.. Fosdick's book was
drawn from extended personal inquiry
and observation in London, Liverpool,
Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edin-
bIrgh, Paris, Lyons, Berlin, Hamburg,
Bremen. Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart,
Cologne, Vienna, Budapest. Rome. Brus-
sells, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. To the
investigation of the subject and the
preparation of the book, Mr.. FosdiclS de-
voted nearly two years.
Looking at the results of his studies
from the standpoint of American inter-
ests the striking fact disclosed is the uni
form integrity of European policemen.
Nowhere in Europe is there any such
phenomenon as we in America call ''sys-
tenn" General corruption and favcrit-
ism are absolutely unknown.
On the whole says Mr. Fosdick "the
police forces of Europe bear an excellent
reputation. Scandals are infrequent With
few exceptions, both officers and men
have the confidence of the public. 1t is
only occasionally that one hears of dis
honesty. Even suspicious of dishonesty
are not common. The police are not asso-
ciated with dishonesty in the public inn
agination. The citizens of a community
are confident of the ability of the COM
missioner both to discover corruption If
it exists and to deal with it effectively
when found. With a trained commits
sioner, whose personal character is above
suspicion, and whose powers of action
are large, the public is satisfied that the
integrity of the rank and file will be
rigidly maintained. An European city,
therefore, is inclined to take the honesty
OF its police force as matter of fact.
For this state of affairs, there are, in
Mr.. Fosdick's Judgment, several reasons.
First The head of European police force
is trained and experienced man, armed
with adequate power European police
administration is a distinct profession. 1t
is seldom that a man is chosen from an
unrelated line of activity to head police
department. The chief of department.
the president, the commissioner, the di-
rector, the project, whatever his title-is
generally jurist trained in government
work