.1-I Letu (By Marion Kerr Echoes of events in Rus, our consciousness like lo from a medieval goblin bo casional personal touch '1 of the Russian goblin book cry from one of the chara in, strikes us with surpr: discover for the nth time, ishment, -that stories, like eluding the Freudian vf sometimes true. Following is a letteri Dean E. H. Kraus of -the of mineralogy from a for] mate, Prof. P. Sustschinsk at Novotcherkasak, Russia was en.route for fifteen me mailed to Dean Kraus on 30, 1920, coming to Ameri by way of Japan through t friend. A similar letter Dean Kraus from Russia i of 1918 was also received a few weeks ago. The letter is quoted ver Russian version of the Evening Post language. TI "Allow me as your old f Munich to write you somE which are now of great va and for many of my friends. "The sad conditions in the painful position of Ru versities and technical hg make me and, some of my fr upon the possibility of ii to the United States or to C chief difficulty of immigrat we all are personally use ruined and all we have is sor's salary, which is of sufficient for the removalt because the Russian ruble only one-tenth of what it the war. "I do not know whether is or Canadian universities ar as assistants, demonstrators sors-foreigners. I know Russian professor- of Zoolo University of.New Haven, a be thankful to you if you on the following questions "1-Which amount is ne -one person for the travel fr to America at the present "2-Which is the minimus essary for moderate life I in a provinial American town? "3-Is it possible for a Rt + F o .I u s i upon the abundance of fruits and vege- or frlm Russia tables. They are appallingly lazy. Everything lives and grows easily; r) - fessor to receive an appointment as there are thousands of different spe- sia slip into professor or assistant in mineralogy cies of plants and animals. There is or geology in an American provincial no such thing 'as hurry and rush- ose leaves university or technical school, or as- animals and humans all move and act ok. An oc- sistant in a geological survey, and if slowly, generally indolently and with- ith realities possible, perhaps you know where. out ambition. On the other hand, , or an out- Which is the salary of it? plants and animals have little or -no r 4-Is it possible to hope to receive resistance to disease, and die as eas- cters there- ily as they live and grow. One of ise, and we agnt om the American govern- the biggest factors for a state of un- mwent or private American men for the healthiness is the 'great number of with aston- immigration of Russian professors and paastes fs wh t nmals dreams (in- engineers? parasites, from which both animals and humans suffer. The mosquitoes ariety) are "5-Which is the situation of Rus- are, however, very scarce; due to the siais now in America in general? diligent efforts of the government they received by "Now it is possible to send letters have been practically exterminated. department through Japan and I profit at the kind- "The Americans down there are, I mer school- ness of Professor Jimbo, to which you think, just as energetic as /the Amer- y, stranded will address your answer and he will icans up here," said Miss Cobb. This The note forward it to me. I wrote, you two might be taken as a refutation of the euths, being years ago but it was impossible to get theory that- tropical climate makes November answer." men indolent-and then again, it may ca secretly simply be that only those Americans he aid of a * remain who can stand the climate and written to Conftions at anama maintain their energy and efficiency. n February (By Dorothy Geltz) Miss Cobb some time ago re rned here only from a four-weeks' stay in Pa aua, One of the most remarkable things where she has been assisting her hatim, with about conditions in the Panama Canal father, a biologist in the Department batimwith.of_ Agriculture at Washington, in the Saturday Zone, according to Miss Frieda Cobb, study of a disease of cocoanut palms, hs letter is: assistant-director of the botanical gar- called "red ring." The disease occurs riend from dens of the University, is the fact that in most places where the palms are suei for me everythilig down there is so unex- grown, but has only been found to yRussian petedly modern and comfortable, be serious in a few of the larger plan- tations, where grave losses of hun- which is in decided contrast to the dreds of the trees have been sustained Russia and conditions in bordering Panamanian as a result of the disease. It is caused ssian Uns- towns. All of the foods, conveniences, by nematodes-small, worm-like ani- gh schools ' rlswih settle by the thosnsi ieiads think and luxuries which may be found in mals whit ousands in immigration the United -States are available in a red ring around the inside of the tree-trunk, gradually destroying the anada. The Panama. The entire Canal Zone is life of the tree. Since the cocoanut ion is that under the jurisdiction of the United industry is one of the largest and Oarlyqrt States War department, and orders most important ones in the tropis, our .profes- SaesWr earmnthndodesmstuImpoantoesointheitroiss course not issued regarding sanitation and clean- the stud and control of this disease is becoming Increasingly important, to America liness must, perforce, be carried out. not only to the natives, who use the is now The. work which has been' accom- palms in various forms of food, cloth- was before plished by the government in this mat- ing, and even shelter, but also to the ter is strikingly shown by a glance northern countries, which use many n American at the filthiness of the bordering cocoanut products. re accepted towns which do not come under gov- s or profes- ernment control. There is one town A new subscription edition of Rob- only one in particular, which happens to lie on ert Louis Stevenson's works is now gy in Yale the border-line -between the native being published, 1000 sets being for nd I would territory and that taken over by the England and 1000 sets for this coun- answer me government. In the native section, try. This edition, wshich is issued one the lazy, shiftless inhabitants 'are volume a month; will be the finest cessary for dirty, diseased and unspeakably and most complete collection of Stev- rem Russia filthy, while in the American section, enson's works which has ever been time? practically across the street, may be published, being even superior to -the n rate nec- found 'a rigid 'egime of cleanliness, famous Edinburgh edition. The sub- per person neatness and comfort. scriptions are being eagerly sought university The mortality in the native district by collectors, and the price of the is abnormally high. 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