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THE MAROON TIGER Page Nine UR. W. E. B. DuBOIS TELLS ATLANTA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABOUT JOURNEY AROUND WORLD Back from a seven months journey around the world, i n the course of which he revisited many of the principal capitals of Europe, spent five and a half months in intensive study of life in Germany, saw Russia again after a lapse of eight years, and for the first time saw the people of the Orient and the Pacific Islands in their native environment, Dr. W. B. E. DuBois, professor of sociology in Atlanta University, Tuesday, Feb. 9, told the assembled students and faculties of the University system something of his travels and of his observations. The world to him seemed to be more concern ed than ever before in the great economic prob lems that face human beings everywhere. While he found conditions more upset than he had ever before experienced them, the chief thought that remained with him at his journey’s end was the astonishing beauty of the world, not alone the rich beauties of nature, of seas, mountains, islands, but the magnificent achievements of man in the building of his temples, and the fabrication of his other works of art. In England and France, which Dr. DuBois first visited, he found democracy facing a new and dif ficult task—that of not only adjusting itself to the constantly changing economic situation, which affects every human life but of making work and wages, income and expense, a subject of direct governmental action; and also of being very defi nitely concerned with the problem of preserving the peace of the world, even if it had to fight to do so. In this latter paradoxical situation, he said, England and France are faced with the neces sity of building ever increasing armaments, and are being loaded, as a result, with heavier and heavier taxes. Germany, to which Dr. DuBois returned for a third time, was to him a completely changed place. A central government exists which in ef fect says to the people: “We know what the Ger man people need, and what they want. We are go ing to do these things for Germany in your name and by the authority you have given us.” Through the use of the radio, he said, it is possible for the leader of the German people to speak directly to nearly all of the seventy million Germans every day, or every hour, if desired, and to tell them re peatedly what they should know, what they are to think, and the answers to any questions. Phenomena of present-day Germany that im pressed Dr. DuBois were the great popular cele brations and immense demonstrations of armed force, by which the Nazi seek to justify them selves in the eyes of the German people; the un paralleled housing program for people of the low er and middle classes; the construction of new roads everywhere, which may not be needed ex cept for the movement of troops and cannon; the national vocational guidance program, by which each youth is advised by a counselor as to the chances of work in certain fields; the compulsory work program, and reduction of unemployment to a minimum and, finally, as a result of this high ly industralized social program, the decline of the universities, which were once Germany’s greatest glory. Ten days in Russia, en route from Germany to Asia, gave Dr. DuBois a second opportunity to ob serve the far-reaching social and industrial ex periment that Soviet Russia is conducting. Most astonishing in Moscow was the absence of private retail trade. Only state stores are doing business. This symbolized to Dr. DuBois the belief of the soviet government that business and industry are the direct concern of the state, and that, in fact, government is business and industry. It was his opinion that the Russian experiment is succeed ing and that, without doubt, the mass of the peo ple of Russia are better off than they ever were, even though, he added, they were never very well off. In Manchukuo, Dr. DuBois found the attempt of the Japanese to govern an allien population suc ceeding better than the similar attempts of West ern nations which he has observed. This is be cause the Japanese recognize no racial difference, he said. Natives of Manchukuo, under Japanese rule, are employed as policemen, and are function ing elsewhere in the government. The first impression of Asia, Dr. DuBois re ported, was the amazing size and power of this great colored population, which in China, India, Japan, and the islands of the Pacific number some eight hundred million persons, and constitutes by far the majority of the people of the world. Here not only did he see the physical center of the future of mankind, but here he found “a civiliz ation that has some sort of eternity”. Many of the arts and inventions of the Western world, such as printing, paper-making, the compass, and many other accomplishments were developed by the Chinese much earlier, he recalled. Two things especially impressed him on his vis-