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With the Chinese withdrawal to their prepared positions behind Shanghai almost completed, the Shanghai front was quiet last week, though planes and big guns brought the International Settlement again under fire. There were fewer casualties than usual. After five weeks of bloody experience Chinese had finally learned that the streets are no place to be in during an air raid...
Into Shanghai's foreign settlements from the war-torn countryside nearly a million and a half panic-stricken Chinese refugees had surged by last week, some with cholera, some with expected smallpox and all with ravenous stomachs. "They constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai on a par with the menace of the war itself. . . . God alone knows what will happen!" groaned International Settlement Municipal Councilman W. H. Plant. "The public little realizes the dangers Shanghai is facing. . . . These 1,500,000 people are evidently going to remain indefinitely. Food riots, epidemics and disease seem certain...
...Social Service committee primarily is interested in introducing the undergraduate to the Settlement Houses. In these settlement houses there is an opportunity for coaching athletics, dramatics, for teaching music, English and civics to naturalization classes, for leading discussion groups and organizing boys clubs. Last year at the peak of activity there were 209 men doing this work. In addition, this committee during the past year has become interested in the problems of juvenile delinquency and the prevention of crime, and they offer in this line an opportunity to visit the local prisons and to meet the men engaged...
...sent to all Freshmen having signified an interest in Brooks House work giving appointments when they may consult the various committee chairmen to discover where their particular interests and abilities lie. During the next two weeks, a series of nightly trips will offord an opportunity to visit Boston Settlement houses...
...female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures, Fleischer distributor, promptly denied it. Fact was that some theatres had indeed banned the Fleischer cartoons, others had temporarily dropped them to keep their audiences quiet...