Arizona republican., 1917-11-15
CENTURY MAGAZINE NOTES

One of the most interesting of our administrative developments during the is the creation of the state Councils of National Defense There forty eight of them; and they differ radically status and functions the Maine fisherman differs from the Arizona cowboy. Some of them created by statute others gained their official standing through appointment by the governor. few Of Them are composed of certain regularly elected off cers of the state the great majority made up representative civilians. So great is the variety of the councils in fact that gives special impressive ness to the qualities which they have in common especially the type of that they have brought into the service of the country. To the December Century, 1t is announced, Frederick Lewis Allen will contribute study of the work of these under the title. The Forty Eight Defenders" One of the most powerful elements of their work according to MT. Allen, Is that these often powerful and dis tnguished men oppressed with the thought of being very small in machine that pulls together one hundred million people. They and thousands like them taking part in government by the people for the nation.
 The world has been imressed with Germanys preparedness for war and with the precision and unity which have enabled the German machine to attain its gigantic output This prepared ness is largely the result of German ways schooling which have long been accepted models for the pedagogc world, exerting a compelling influence the trdlnlng of American youth in American schools. Since the public elementary schools the country the main criterion by which judge of the civ Zaton of it's people, and because public school methods are being increasingly copied from the Ger model it is of the utmost importance for Amer jeans to realize the relationship between the educational system and the society resulted from 1t so to select the good and reject the bad and not swallow ndiscrimnately Gargantuan peda- gogic meal which may result in serious harm to us The Truth about German Schooling, German Folk Schools and Preparedness is the title of article by Winthrop Talbot announced for the November Century. MT. Talbot is said to present careful alysis of the German school system and to show incompatablty with American institutions and ideals
 Edward Ellsworth Ross the famous Wisconsin socielogist and author of South of Panama The Changing Chinese" etc. is at present in Russia gath ering material for series of articles appear in the Century Magazine. Professor Rosss plan is put the background first which the professional magazin- est who has rushed get the story of the uton is unable to do. His first article "The Over throw of Autocracy in Russia" announced for De- cember issue is said to be survey of the causes of the revolution Another article dealing with Russia to appear in the same number, will be The Seasons in Russian Painting by Francis Haffkine Snow, with many illustrations from photographs. Russian art is little known in this country compared with sian literature but it is almost field of in- terest MT Snow in his article is said to compare the Russian landscape with the that is based upon it. showing how the moods the one reflect the moods of the other.