The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-11-13

MIA independence. The Rev. Henry Rigg:
in charge of the American college II
kharput said: Until six months age
believed in an independent Armenia, bu'
now positively not. l regard a single man
date for the former empire as best, In
which the Armenians by native .tntelli-
gence may forge ahead, If a new Armenia
were formed, there would remain the In
soluble race problem with the Turks, who
are in the majority.
Search for evidence supporting the the
DRY of a lost Pacific continent is being
prosecuted in the Hawaiian islands, the
South seas and along the west coast OF
South America. Prof. Douglas r. Camp
bell, of the botany department of Stan
ford university thinks that in certain
specimens of ferns found on the island of
Hawaii he has established the fact that
at some period there was land connection
between the Hawaiian group and the
islands to the south and west through to
the Malay peninsula.
9TH eight-hour system was introduced
at the spinning mill in Nakatsu, Kyushu,
Japan, but the result was very unsatis-
factory, The unedncated girls had too
many idle hours. which led them to re-
sort to overeating between meals, thereby
making them Ill. In another instance, the
parents of the girls put them to work IN
the fields during their spare hours, thus
taking away all advantage gained by the
eight-hour system" says S. Buto, spokes-
man of the Japan Cotton Spinners' union.
An interesting situation brought to light
by the first compilation of Harvard's 1919
enrolment figures is the fact that in the
medical school the students barely out
number the instructors, there being about
$50 students and 263 instructors, an ap-
proximate ration of four to three. Ninety
one of the teaching staff receive no salary
at all and 80 receive an annual salary of
$500 or less.
%Shantung returned to China by Japan.
would within two years be b%artered to
some other nations, declared Bishop John
McKim, of Toxic, to the triennial general
convention of the protestant Episcopal
church Tuesday. He maintained that the
reorganiZed Chinese government is corrupt
and untrustworthy and that there Is no
stable government to. which Japan could
return Shantung.
A Paris cable reports that when DR..
Schumacher, who represents the Tyroi
at the peace conference, was asked why
that state had refused to permit ship
ments of food to Vienna, he replied: Be
cause l have no confidence in the sta
bility of this country and consider 1t
prudent to be prepared when the down
fall comes and to keep hat food We have
within our boundaries"
A young man recently accused of rob-
bing a Los Angeles bank, confessed the
crime and signed a statement to thai
effect. The grand jury asked to see the
man. and when he was brought before
them. decided he had only enough sense
10 confess anything that he was given an
opportunity to confess, so let him go free.
The chairman of the Arkansas branch
OF the legion has been made trustee of q
fund of 10000 which will be turned over
to the legion to be administered in behalf
Of disabled soldiers and sailors. This
money was raised through the Give a
Bushel' movement. when every person
was asked to contribute a bushel of any
thing he raised.
Postage stamps of the new Peoples Re-
public of the Ukruine," one OF the young
antibolshevis states which seeded from
Russia are triangular, typifying the domi-
nance of The Christian faith over the Mo-
hammedan. The triaform stands for the
Holy Trinity, and is said to be reproduced
from a sacred candelabra in the cathedral
of st. Sophia at Kieff.
Some OF the associates of Quentin Roose-
welt In France repeat a story he told them
there about his father: Father said
to him one day in my childhood, what is
. gentleman farmer?" Quentin said my
father. "a gentleman farmer is a chap
who never raises anything except his
hat"
The Christian Science Monitor comments
on the fact that there may be legitimate
debut as to what 1.-The American stand
ard of living really is. Nearly 1900 fam
II schedules nave been studied and II
large cities and % small cities in the
limited States have established their re-
spectiye Standards"
Trimming the beard of barley is tho
accomplishment claimed by the agrono-
1nists at the University of Alberta this
summer. Specifically what they did was
20 aftelnpI to remove the beard altogether,
succeeding only In taking the bard out of
the beard. This, it was declared, is of
immense potential agricultural benefit.
Two ancient trade secrets which the
world probably never will learn are the
Chinese method of making a brilliant YER
million color and the Turkish method for
anlaying gold or silver on the hardest
steel.
A movement is being inaugurated in
London to bring about the compelled II.
censing OF managers of British musical
comedy or burlesque~ theatrical companies
which travel with choruses Of more than
five girls.
The German government is issuing new
60-Inark notes because of wholesale coun-
iefIeiting OF the present note and are
having them made in Vienna In hopee OF
preventing general counterfeiting in Ger
any future.
The theaters In Berlin. especially the
more pretentious ones are planning to
cut down their programs and revive their
.~schedules so that only plays with sim
PIE lighting effects are necessary as the
result OF the Eight restrictions for the
coming winter.
Paris millinery FOR Canadian BUYERS ia
70 be carried by airplane to London and
from there shipped across the tlantic
with AL speed, In order to meet American
competition.
More than zoo different kinds or birds
md So different kinds of reptiles, were
shipped recently from the New York zoo.
logical Society to the Royal Geological.
Garden at Antwerp.
The shipping board is asked to notify
S1e Senate whether 1t Is making any
effort TO dispose OF government built
vessels In q resolution introduced sby
senator Edge, New JerseysAE4s@s
n building Nv Japanese 81 30 shspy for
q American government with American
materials has been somewhat DELAYED by
4 decision OF the United States Ia mako
certain modiftcations In the designs.
Az Melbourne the PROPOSAL Tor One RE
Union hAs sDeenE tlro n out BY the trades
haM council.
By unanimous vote dakawnt 80 ~ xG.