LAND OF PROBLEMS.
Impressions of United States. Mr C. W. Collins, recently appointed librarian at Canterbury College, gave an address last evening on impressions of his tour and fifteen months’ stay in America. He had come away with the idea, he said, that America was to be a decided influence in the future cultural and political history of the world. There were no blocks of land so big with so homogeneous r 'a population, and the visitor was impressed with the enormous social difficulties confronting the country. There were innumerable persons of many races who were problem cases for any social organisation to deal with. It was the people who were least successful in Sicily who went to form the gangs of Chicago. It was the poorl v-educated and unsuccessful inhabitants of Poland who migrated to America, and it was an astounding fact that there were more native-born Poles in Detroit than in the cito of Warsaw in Poland. America was a land of problems but it was a place of the future.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20238, 23 February 1934, Page 12
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173LAND OF PROBLEMS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20238, 23 February 1934, Page 12
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