BERTRAND RUSSELL FINDS DIFFICULTIES IN TRAVEL

Mr. Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage around the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This, or course, applies only to steerage passengers; saloon passengers are allowed to believe whatever they please.