PROFESSOR HERBERT MILLER '99 COVERS MOST OF GLOBE
Professor Herbert A. Miller '99 of the department of sociology of Ohio State University has just returned from a seven months' trip through Western Europe and Asia. Leaving Columbus last summer, he and his family went directly to Sweden then to Geneva, where the Miller children entered the International School. Professor Miller went from there to Prague, through Poland to Russia, and back through the Baltic States and Germany. The object of the trip was to study nationality and race problems, and especially conflicting situtations in Europe and Asia.
Professor Miller is writing two books based on his observations during the trip. The first, "American Side-lights on the Czechoslovakian Revolution," will be translated into the Czech, with an introduction by President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. The second, which will be a continuation of the first, is "The Future Moves East."
Discusses Trip In discussing his trip Dr. Miller said: "In some ways at least my travels for the last seven months have been out of the ordinary. Although I have been most of the time in what might be called the less up-to-date countries I think I have established a world's record in golf that is likely to stand for some time. If I play in Columbus within the first three weeks of April I shall have played on four continents in three months. In Beirut I played on the only course in Western Asia from the Alrtic to the Indian Oceans so far as I could learn, and in Africa I played within the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, covering half of the nine holes. In both places my caddies were Arabs wearing what looked like long white nightgowns.
Traveled in 19 States "My passport has 65 official permits on it. I have crossed 28 frontiers, and spent from a few days to some weeks in 19 different states, and passed, in addition, near enough to the borders to see Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Aus- tria, and Albania.
"I have visited former students in Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece, and have made speeches that have been translated into Russian, Esthonian, Czech, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Arabic, and in 10 countries I lectured in English.
"In 16 countries I have interviewed at least five hundred people, ranging from presidents, prime ministers, and archbishops to refugees, atheists, laborers, sheiks, and university professors.. Unfortunately my appointment with the dictator of Greece came after I had to sail for Egypt, and the king of Bulgaria escaped me by being out of town. My only glimpse of the now depleted ranks of royalty was meeting the King of Jugoslavia walking on a country road."
