The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-02-10
sIDELIGHTs ON THE NEWS

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sIDELIGHTs ON THE NEWS
Divorce is to be made easy again
In Nevada. Ia response to a state
wide demand for the good old days
at Reno, the state assembly has passed
a bill providing for the six months
residence requirement.
Between the hen and the consumer
According to the figures Of the eRri.
cultural department the American egg
crop is worth S7OOOO0OOO a year, and
$5OOO0,OOO is lost through breakage
In transit.
Here is piece OF information that
may prove Of value to oklahoma. The
cultivation Of the sunflower as a
crop is extensive In the south OF Rus.
sla The plant furnishes oil In Its
seed, fodder for cattle In Its leaves
and a large quantity Of potash is
manufactured for H.
Buy now" is the slogan Buy
now" we are told, ~ the key to un-
lock the door to long confined bust.
ness. Thrift has been carried to the
point AT which 1t becomes n vice. and
prudence has developed into nlggard-
lIness. Buy now and set the wheels
Of industry revolving again.
Enrolment at American colleges
this year Is greater than ever before
and this Is cited as another evidence
Of general prosperity Columbia Uni
yersity again claims the largest regis
tratlon In this country, having iO06l
students, The University Of CHlfor
MIA is second with SiNl.
Only a few days ago Il man In New
York talked with II man In Snn Fran
cisco over the telephone, and now 1t
Is predicted that It will be- only few
years before the whole world will be
enclrcled by telephone wire and the
peoples Of this country will be In daily
communication with the people Of
other iands by telephone
More than $2,25O,OOO ls on deposit
In school savings banks in the United
States, this money belonging to 2l7,
900 pupils. Belgium has the honor
Of originating the school savings bank
system. Prof. Laurent OF Ghent Bel.
glum, In 1873, began the work among
school children "for ameliorntion Of
poverty and the Improvement Of indi-
yldual and national life" His work
soon attracted the attention Of the
leaders Of education In other coun-
tries.
That the Americans waste more
food than any other people on the
earth has long been known II Is es
tlmated that enough food goes to
waste every day In the leading hotels
OF New York city to feed 10000 peo-
pie, and, II Is said, that the American
family wastes as much, II not more
food than II consumes. Conservation
Of food In this country would soon
solve the problem of feeding the I'M
employed
Uncle Sam has completed his count
Of the natives Of Alaska and finds
there are $4,000 scattered over the
$4,000 square miles Of the territory,
OF the natives Of Alaska approx,
mately 1900 belong to 4 tribes Of In
dlans In the southeastern and south
ern Alaska, and in the valley OF the
Yukon. About II 900 are Esklmos on
the western and northwestern coasts,
along the Behrlng Sea, the Behring
Straits and the Arctic Ocean. Some
thing more than 1900 are Aleuts and
mixed races through the Aeutian
Islands.
Prohibition has not only divided the
people Of Texas but II Is likely to dl.
vide the state, A proposition is he
fore the Legislature for the creation
Of another state ont Of the present
Texas. II x an interesting fact incl
dental TO this matter that the move
ment for the division OF Texas grows
out Of the desire u the western part
Of the state which il strongly for
prohibition, to dlsassociate itself with
a section alleged to he dominated to
great extent by business interests
opposed to the prohibition cause.