The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-12-01

no relieve the congestion in BOS-
toms narrow and crooked downtown
streets, Mayor Fitzgerald is asking
for underground sidewalks
John Smith, for thirty years the
presiding Mormon patriarch, a
nephew of the Mormon founder, Jos.
Smith, died on November s in Salt
lake City.
The 1910 census has brought out
the important fact that the whites in
the United States, even exclusive Of
the immigrants, are increasing faster
in proportion than the negroes.
The week opened with the country
white with snow, from Kansas TO
Canada and from the Missouri River
to the Rockies. In the East there il
little snow yet, except among the
hills.
Automobiles are now used at the
National Capital for delivering mail.
III the experiment works well, auto
mobiles for mail carriers may b. seen
in the outlying districts OF all great
cities
"A few seedless lemon trees have
been discovered in southern Calf
fornia. From these gratis have been
taken, and i'm a few years seedles5
lemons may be as common as seed
less oranges.
There are now in the world 100
ships of the powerful Dreadnought
type, scattered among 10 nations.
Great Britain has 90; Germany is sec
ond with q, and the United States
third with 12
Kansas City, Mo-, is to have "di-
vorce proctor" his salary paid by re-
form organizations The judges have
agreed to postpone hearings on di-
vorce proceedings until the proctor
investigates the cases.
In one of the undelivered speeches
recently printed in The Congressional
Record it, admiring author inserted
fourteen "applauses" and one loud
applause" Who will praise US if we
do not praise ourselves2
Shall Inauguration day be changed
from March to the last Tuesday in
April? Debate on this question will
be one Of the features OF the next ses-
sion of Congress, which begins on the
first Monday of next month
At this season boys and girls are
10 eager to 70 on the Ice that they do
not always wait until it becomes
strong enough to bear their weight.
Two boys, s and IT years old, we're
drowned in this way at Adams, Mass,
this week.
It ID estimated that $4,000 Ameri-
cans are leaving their country this
year to settle in Canada. 1t is said
that they take with them on an av-
erage $1,000, which would mean a
money loss of $145,000,000 to this
country in this one year.
Oscar s. Straus former American
Ambassador to Turkey, speaking
from the pulpit or a New York
church, declared that Italy began the
present war against Turkey on the
flimsiest pretext in history, and no
war was ever more unwarranted.
The sale of chewing gum at ships
stores, in the ". >. Navy, whether
afloat or ashore, has been forbidden
by order of the Navy This action
was taken at the request of Captain
Fullam OF the battfeship Mississippi.
He reported that the habit of chewing
gum is highly improper and unmil-
itary."
This country IL now growing all the
rice 1t consumes and even exporting
some to the Philippines, according to
a Department of Agriculture bulletin.
Twenty years ago rice culture was al
most unknown in the United States.
Now there are 100000 acres devoted
to ii, mainly i'm Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas.
Emeritus President Eliot of Har-
ward Ia a recent interview condemned
football as more dangerous than
prize-fighting. Only one sport Is
worse than football, according to
President Eliot, and that Is aviation,
where the spectators go in the antici-
patton OF seeing the aviator fall and
perhaps get killed.
United States troops and warships
are being collected at Philippine
ports and held in readiness to 60 to
China at short notice, In case Of out
breaks which might endanger the
lives and property OF Americans.
Most of the European nations are fol-
lowing the same plan. Thus far both
sides have tried to protect foreigners
Two Methodist missionaries have
been killed, one an American, the 9TH
or a Canadian.
Rodgers the aviator who crossed
the continent in his biplane and then
lost control or 1t when taking short
trip along the Pacific coast believes
that he fell asleep or lost conscious
ness because OF gas encountered I'm
the upper air. To this dreaded gas or
vapor he charges his own fall and the
deaths or Hoxsey, tombstone, Ely and
others. These aviators lost control
Of their machines for no known rea-
SON.
Odd Fellows Reunion Committee APP
pointed.
The grand masters, OF the Odd Eel
low lodges Of Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia Pennsylvania andd the Dis