EUROPEAN STATES NEVER DEMOCRATIC SAYS PROFESSOR
European States Never Democratic Says Professor Glasgow University Authority Claims Dictators Rule Europe; Democracy Untried ISpecial to The Progressive) WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass.—Europe has never...
...This group of scien lists, alarmed at the shadow of extinction, has passed a resolution asking that Admirallty and Chichagof islands be made brown and grizzly bear sanctuaries, and another, deploring the liberality of the Alaska game commission in allowing residents now and then to kill one of the monsters...
...THE BROWN BEAR BUGABOO If the Alaskan brown bear knew how prominent he was, he'd come out of retirement and run for office...
...Referring to democracy in European countries...
...Even within the jurisdiction covered by western democracy there are sections in control of dictatorships where democracy has never been tried, as- in the southern states of the United States...
...More bluntly and more to the point, the majority of Alaskans arc perfectly willing that all those who raise the furor have their brown bears...
...Jugo-Slavla...
...Burns said: "They never had any democracy...
...The latest bit of publicity for, him is fostered by the American Society of Mammal-ogists...
...Cecil Delisle Burns of the University of Glasgow...
...Similarly, the government of India is a dictatorship, and so is the government of the colonial territories of European democracies...
...and Turkey because nothing approaching a democratic government ha.s ever been tried in those countries, according to Prof...
...All we ask Is that those who want them most keep them In their own backyards...
...now, therefore...
...Scotland...
...too short to warrant any conclusions," and staled that half educated1 women are usually sentimentalists who place loo high a value on mere words...
...Burns referred to tlie experience of women in governmental affairs a...
...Burns, speaking to members of the Western Civilization conference of the Institute of Politics here last week, described democracy as an experiment that has improved human life and character wherever it has been tried...
...Mass.—Europe has never experienced true democracy and it is wrong to say that democracy has failed in Russia, Italy...
...But we offer a counter resolution which might read something like this: WHEREAS: Certain eastern societies and individuals have expressed the desire to perpetuate and protect the brown and grizzly bear, and...
...The government of these slates is not democratic, nor is their power in national affairs on a democratic basis...
...WHEREAs: There are none of the species extant In areas more easily accessible to these easterners than Alaska...
...and, further, BE IT RESOLVED: That Alaska permit the removal of all the brown bear from Chichagof and Admiralty Islands to populate those eastern areas with the species...
...But there ls no reason why the education of women should not improve...
...We have enough to worry about, and If outsiders Insist that we live next door to brown bear, then we In turn Insist upon the right In .shoot t.n kill when our neighbors prowl promiscuously close.—Ketchikan Chronicle...
...BE IT RESOLVED: That all of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey be set aside as brown bear sanctuaries...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
