The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-19
ROweH Says
By CHESTER H. RowELL

Nothing in human nature is so re-
markable as it's powers of recupera-
ton. ~
Only a year and half ago-it
seems less-the writer was in the
midst of the great disaster in Japan.
In Tokyo, there was enough left to
keep it going concern; there were
people, and soon there was industry,
ordered life and some sort of shelter.
But Yokohama had simply ceased to
exist Every houses and building was
totally destroyed; there was no light
or water; the bottom had literally
dropped out of the sea, where the har-
Dor had been, and even the people
moved out.
Now comes word of a new census,
showing as many people as before, and
more school children, street-car pas
sengers and bank deposits.
Everything was destroyed except the
lindomitable spirit of the people--but
that was enough. Now new Yoko-
hama justifies that spirit.
Those who witnessed the San Fran
cisco disaster will recall like situa-
ton.
San Francisco, to be sure, was not
all destroyed. There were houses, in
its unburned district and in the cities
across the bay, to shelter it's people.
But everything that had made it a
city was gone-business and industry
and the buildings, plants and goods
with which they were conducted.
Only the firm purpose of it's people
remained. Out of that determination
San Francisco rose better than ever,
and the great fire is now only a TO-
mantle memory.
Recent visitors to Europe will have
observed the same thing on a vaster
scale. If the war wounds are not
healed, they are at least covered.
The dead are in their graves, and
their vacancies in the streets are not
visible. Life goes on, specifically,
much the same.
Even in devastated France and de-
feated Germany, one must look be-
meath the surface to see that anything
has happened.
Human life gets "back to normally
with a residence that is unbelievable.
Fighting Death Is Drama-Not Death
Iteelf.
To dramatic death, you must make
it Individual and leave something for
conscious human effort. Where, as in
Nome and Sand Cave, death can be
fought by work, the workers are Gag
err and the world applauds.
But, unnoted, by a thousand bed
sides, a thousand watchers wait, de-
MED even the solace of work.
Sometimes Life wins, sometimes
Death; but at last always Death.
A whole generation goes, only its
latest ones even mourned by their sue
cessors. Death, just abstractly, is as
commonplace as seed time and harvest.
subj stunt qui ante nos in mundo
fuere ?"-"where are those who were
in the world before US ?"-the students
lightly sing, and draw no moral save
"gaudeamus, igitur, juvens dun SUI
musn-"1et US have good time, then,
while we are young"
1t was wisely ordained that we
should fight against dying, and accept
death. 1t is fighting that makes drama
or news.
More of Us Are Learning.
Annual announcement is just made
of the attendance at American univer-
sites.
As usual, Columbia and California
lead-Colu7nbia IN tota. enrolment and
California in full-time regular stu
dents.
The figures for these two superuni-
versities are: Columbia, total 30,021;
regular, 1881 California, total, a.
112; regular 1880.
The number of full-time regular stu
dents in the % largest universities is
1852, 692. The smaller institutions
would doubtless raise the total college
population to more than quarter of
a million.
This is more individuals exposed to"
higher learning than were ever in
contact with it in the world before.
And yet it is not SO many.
In the 40 years of the working life
of the present students it would mean
the accumulation of something more
than a million college graduates, or