The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-26
CURE FOR UNREST
Us MORE EDUCATION
SPEAKER DECLARES
!. R. Baumgardt, Lecturer at
Goodwin Institute, Looks
to Returned Soldiers to
Help Stabilize Country.
BY JAMES GABELLE.


Mr.. Baumgardt may fairly claim
10 be "a Cosmopolite. His father was
Swedish, his mother French, he was
born in England and has a German
name. Added to that he has been
naturalized American since he was
zs years old and loyal to the core. He
has travelled all over the world, and
says no land can compare with the
one that floats the Stars and Stripes.
He sat at ease in his room at Hotel
Ehisca, rocking backward and for
ward with his hands in his pockets.
@rhary Of gesture as the one of Anglo
Saxon training always is.
~ There is unrest everywhere and
the best cure for unrest Is education"
he stated, slowly rocking to and fro.
"Our system of education is lack
ing in many respects. although we
are justly proud of 1t. Still there is
much to be done TO add to its
strength l believe that children
should be taught to care for their
bodies. We had $4,000 men in the
&rmy; Of these the tremendous total
spf 100000 were regarded as physically
unfit and of these 225000 were unfit
from social diseases. This Is a crime
that should not be tolerated and |
do not believe it will be much longer.
uliteracy Increases. .
"Our former illiteracy was seven
and two tenths per cent, the last CEN
Fus showed that it had increased five
Nenths, this despite the vast sums
expended ON our school system. Prof.
Eliot first called the nations atten-
lion to this important matter and we
stood astohnded. OF course, this is
the result of the kind of immigration
that is pouring into our country by
The thousands"
Mr.. Baumgardt is an optimist,
however. and thinks that this will
bF remedied in time: that Americans
allow matters to go so far and then
they call a halt.
Zone big factor in our national life
will be our returned soldiers" he
rontinued. '"They will demand that
3hedemocracy for which they risked
heir lives shall be real and not a
kllam.
Zone great evil that they will un-
noubtedly attend to is the great con-
.eentration of wealth in the hands of
i few. The income tax will be a
great aid in this direction. There
was never a fairer tax than our in
come tax. | do not think however,
that 65 per cent is enough. There
fe something radically wrong when |
one man can pav $14S0000O in one
year on his income. This is at the
rate of 100000 a day Such dis
crenancies should not be tolerated.
England Is practically owned by |
- men. The dukes of Westminster, |
Devonshire, Bedford and Norfolk own
go acres of land in London The |
duke of Norfolk, who owns the en-
Tire Strand. has an income Of SIS
NN0,0 900 year from that source alone. |
lord Howard WalIdon owns four
Nduare miles on the Surrey side OF |
Iondon md so il goes.
Going Romeward.
England and the United States
are rapidly approaching the condi-
non of pagan Rome, In that dav $500
persons owned all the real estate in
Rome. They lived on the Palatine
hill in regular tenements, very much
the same as ours, Brutus, Julius
Caesar, Pompey and Antony sucked |
the orange Of the earth dry. They
conquered the earth and obtained
Tribute amounting to -200.O 900 900.
equivalent in purchasing power to
$4,000, 100000 today. Brutus, Caesar
and Pompey levied tribute on nations
five years in advance, one after the
ether. What wonder the world be-
came impoverished! They were not
sum did not 20 to enrich Rome, but
vas squandered in graft and thus de-
pauched the nation
In the days of Titus the poverty of
Inc people was so great that when
SICKNESS and the plague came they |
had no resisting powers whatever:
$4,000 died in one day. Neither Rome
onr the world has ever recovered |
from this calamity. Our world Is
drifting in that direction and the
arltt must be hcecked. I feel sure,
however, that it will be done.
RI England is doing a wonderful
work in aiding the stabilizing of the
world. ! regard the perfect type of
the Anglo-SaXon as the highest type
of any civilization. He will not lie.
or bend in the slightest from his
highest ideal He has a wonderful
sense of noblesse oblige' that has
made him the envy and confldant Of
nations.
Muddling Through.
AT the present time, more than
ever in her history, England needs
wise leadership, and is not getting
IT, David Lloyd George is an op-
p0rtunist. He has a speCious tonruc
and not much of anything else. At
the present time he and Asuuith |
khould be pulling together, but hey
are as far apart as the poles. When
England needs statesmen she Is
served by politicians. 1t is pitia0le
Il have no doubt but what Eng
land will muddle through. That
seems to be her specially. Her mud
ding, though, seems to be wiser than
many another nations well-laid
plans. Germany thought with her
millions of well-trained we'll
equipped troops, with shrewd gen
erals, and plans of many years ma
turing tina she would walk over the
earth. England had 10000 men
when the war broke out, scarcely
enough to police its own county.
These men helped to hceck the Ger
man horde. They are now IN their
graves, bat the Germans were
checked and the kaiser is now N
exile. England took clerks miners,
fishermen, farmers and laborers.
made soldiers of them and. what Is |
more equipped them with guns lud
ammunition when she had nothing to |
start with. England has performed I
many miracles, but this was her
greatest.
& The way Engiand's colonies came
TO her aid was an eye-opener II the
nations. Germany thought that In
Ola was ripe for rebellion, that Can
ada would fall away from the moth
srland, and that Australia would
proclaim her Independence The way
hey rose to the occasion was a sad
sight for the kaiser and his CO.
horts."
quite So" agreed the interviewer
last summer. | interviewed an In
dian prince, who has a modest eS-
tate of 400 square miles up near Ire
Eepaul frontier. He took a regiment
20 France and served all through the
var. II was a glorious adventure nc
snid. and he would do Il again IL thn |