Today -100: May 29, 1921: In which is revealed which is the only government that cares about art and children and who are the most care-free men in the South

Whites in southwestern Utah are worried about an Indian (Ute) uprising.

The French education minister orders the firing of all teachers who encourage Communist ideas.

Isadora Duncan accepts an offer from Russia to open a dancing academy in Moscow. “The Soviet is the only government that cared about art nowadays and children,” she says.

Charles Ortner was sentenced to 2 to 4 years for assault in 1917 and sent to Sing Sing. He liked it so much that he refused to apply for release on good behavior after 1½ years or parole when that was available at 2 years, although he was a model prisoner to whom it would certainly have been granted. They’ve finally thrown him out.

An article in the NYT Sunday Magazine explains the Southern peonage system to silly northerners who think the black peons are badly treated. The author, one James Young, explains that black farm workers are in constant debt to white farmers, and hence are never paid by them, because “The negro is not thrifty by inclination. He lives for the day and lets the next one care for itself. This is a reflection of his really childish and often happy nature. It would be difficult to find a more care-free man than the negro field worker of the South.” Meanwhile, the hapless white farmers are gouged by bankers and stores and are “the real economic slaves of the cotton field.”

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