July 1947
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Articles
This Month
My Interplanetary Teens
Sand Gets in Your Eyes
Born Under Virgo
The Case of the Glass Coffin
Poets Versus Readers
On Human Misunderstanding
The Press and Its Critics
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Canada
Is This Russia?
Craftsmanship and the Art School
Without Seeing the Dawn
The World Grows Round My Door
Painting and Personality: A Study of Young Children
The Side of the Angels
A Treasury of Mexican Folkways
Knock on Any Door
Latin American
Partnership Capitalism
While he was President of the United States Chamber of Commerce ERIC JOHNSTON toured Russia, inter - viewed Stalin,traveled widely in Europe and in South America. And last year, as President of the Motion Picture Association of America, he made an intensive study of England. Out of this experience comes his philosophy that the United States must export the idea of freedom and the techniques of industrialization: American capital and American skill must join forces with foreign capital to build a new economy.
A Lever That Can Lift the World
In World War II the United States spent 330 billion dollars. An American businessman on the staff of the Reader’s Digest, WILLARD R. ESPYproposes that by spending 100 million dollars a year on engineering projects in China, India, and Palestine we can increase the irrigated areas of the world by a sixth and add to the world’s electric energy an amount equal to all the hydroelectric power produced in the United States. The projects he blueprints would be self-liquidating: in time they would result in a steady flow of orders for American goods.
Washington
Songs for Flying
Three poems
Hello and Good-Bye
The Schools I Want and How to Get Them
Wide, Deep River
The Playwright and the Actress
The People's Peace
When Salmon Sulk: The Problem of Low-Water Fishing
Recipe for Pork
World the Way It Is
Hooly
My First Years in the Conservatory
Chosen for Ability
Should well-qualified Negroes be invited to teach in our Northern colleges? The question is raised by FRED G. WALE, Director of Education of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, In June, 1946, Mr. Wale wrote to over 500 college and university presidents in thirty Northern states. “ It would be wrong,” the letter stated, “to appoint an unworthy person just because he was a Negro, but it would be equally wrong to turn down a worthy candidate because he was a Negro.” The presidents of 400 colleges never replied. But the inquiry persisted. Today 43 Northern colleges and universities have added Negro teachers to their staffs.
Like a Star
Ladies Only
End of a Berlin Diary
Europe
