Abstract

Editorials

American cooperation with the League of Nations in attempting to end the Manchurian crisis is of more than passing significance. It means that for the first time the United States is taking part in an international effort to prevent a threatened war. A great American and a benefactor of all humanity was Thomas A. Edison. The sobriquet of "wizard" popularly applied to him was by no means undeserved, for if he was not a genius it would be hard to find anyone really to merit the designation. The world learned with surprise that Mahatma Gandhi had never heard of Charlie Chaplin. That fact may be taken to prove-if anything can-that no fame is absolute, but if one may rely upon an investigation recently undertaken by the sprightly contemporary Variety, then the only road to even quasi-universal renown is either moving-picture acting or some other crime.