World Press Digest

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The Evening Chronicle, a British daily published in Newcastle, in an article on human nature says:

That race prejudice is not ordained by native human impulses, any more than any other prejudice is ordained by instinct, is well demonstrated in Russia.

The old Russia was fraught with as much race prejudice as any land under the sun. The history of the Jews in Russia amply illustrates my point. That the Jews have recently received the most barbarous treatment in Germany we all know. It is something that will tarnish the name of the New Germany in civilization’s memory. In Russia the story has been reversed.

The old Russia instigated many a Jewish pogrom. The new Russia seems to have its prejudices—but race prejudice is not one of them. To the Russian of today race means little.

WOMEN QUIT CAREERS IN GERMANY

The Yorkshire Observer, an English daily, carries the following editorial:

Some light on the set-back to the freedom to women to choose their own careers in Germany is found in the decline in medical students by twenty-two per cent., in law students by fifty-seven per cent., and in chemistry by fifty-eight per cent. The clock is also being put back in the higher secondary schools.

No doubt some of this drop in women students may be among the Jewish population and economic conditions may also play a part. The late Lord Haldane used to quote the German zeal for the higher professions as an example to this country.

Whatever the causes or motives, it is distressing to see such a decline in educated womanhood in a Western nation.

WANTS ANTI-LIBEL LAW IN QUEBEC ALSO

The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, commenting on the plan to introduce an anti-libel law in Ontario in order to check anti-Semitic propaganda there, comments as follows:

Now that the Manitoban enactment is moving eastward, would it be too much to hope that it will travel yet a little further and find a place in the province of Quebec? We are not so sanguine as to believe that protective measures are not required in Ontario or Manitoba, but the sporadic fulminations which crop up in those provinces are not to be compared at all with the highly organized and well-subsidized libelous groups that exist in this province.

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