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But he have such sweet heart. It all time speaking out nice thoughtfuls through his big round eyes, which no seem like Japanese eyes of long and narrow." The story has been notably illustrated, in full colors, by a Japanese artist. "Social Effects of Immigration" is the title of Professor Edward Alsworth Ross's second article in the December CENTURY. Professor Ross is one of the modern type of educators who, not content with the study of books, go directly to life itself for their material. He is also a writer who compresses a great deal of information and thought into a brief paragraph. We believe that these papers by Professor Ross will create public discussion of what is at this moment one of the two or three most important neglected questions in American life. Here is a paragraph that induces thought: one "In accounting for yellow journalism, no seems to have noticed that the saffron newspapers are aimed at a sub-American mind groping its way out of a fog. The scare-heads, red and green ink, pictures, words of one syllable, gong effects, and appeal to the primitive emotions, are apt to jar upon the home-bred farmer or mechanic. 'After all,' he reflects, 'I am not a child.' Since its success in the great cities, this style of newspaper has been tried everywhere; but it appears there are soils in which the 'yellows' will not thrive. When a population is 60 per cent. American stock, the editor who takes for granted some intelligence in his readers outlasts the howling dervish. But when the native stock falls below 30 per cent. and the foreign element exceeds it, yellowness tends to become endemic. False simplicity, distortion, and crude emotionalism are the resources of newspapers striving to reach and interest undeveloped minds. But the arts that win the immigrant deprave the taste of native readers and lower the intelligence of the community." (Continued on page 6.) 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