The Benson signal., 1920-02-07
FOREIGN

The number of children attending
school in Vienna has dropped from
242,00O in 1910 to 195,00O in 1919 as
result of malnutrition, according to a
survey made for the American Red
CrOsss
Jules GueSde, the veteran Socialist
leader, backed by sixtyfive members
of the chamber of deputies in France,
has introduced a bill in the chamber
which would give women civil, politi-
cal and economic equality with men.
Disturbances have occurred in the
streets of Madrid, owing to the short
age of tobacco. The police several
times were compelled to charge
crowds in the Huerto del Sol, where
they had assembled in front of the
tobacco stores.
Professor Maggiora of Bologna Uni
verSity in Rome is reported to have
succeeded in isolating the germ of
lethargic. encepalitis. (sleeping. sick
ness) in the blood of patients. He is
now said to be preparing a serum to
combat the disease
Miss Margaret Bondfield, secretary
of the National Federation of Women
Workers, who was a member of the
British delegation to the labor confer
ence at Washington, has been chosen
the parliamentary candidate of the La
borites for the seat for Northampton.
Consideration of the future constitu-
tiOn of Prussia has been closed by the
commission assigned to the task and
it has .been decided that Prussia will
not have president of it's own. The
head of the legislative assembly will
be ex-officio chief of the state.
Bolsheviki have repeatedly attacked
the Japanese forces in the Ussuri re-
gion, Siberia, according to an EX-
change { Telegraph dispatch from
Toxic. The Japanese, the dispatch
added, used purely defensive tactics
and were able to repulse all assaults
easily.
The postwar divorce crush in Eng
land is steadily increasing, and it was
declared that no diminutiOn is in
prospect There were 1,325 undefended
cases in the January list of the di-
vorce court, and new list is being
prepared to take care Of the surplus
cases. The big increase in divorces is
attributed to the upheaval in social
circles caused by the war;
The Germans shave only arrived at
the vale of tears, through which we are
forced to pass" said Minister of Agri-
culture Braun in the Prussian diet in
connection with the food debate.
"Worse times are coming. The masses
must be told that our only hope is in
creased work" The minister then
made the startling announcement that
Germany soon would arrive at the
point where she would be unable to
buy anything abroad, but would be
wholly dependent upon home produc-
tion.
GENERAL
Fire at Pittsburg destroyed fifteen
homes of Carnegie steel company en-
plOyes at Clarion and, according to
the police, seven bodies have been TAX
en- from the ruins.
President John H. Patterson of the
National Cash Register Company OF
Dayton, Ohio, has announced that an
advisory board of twenty-five en-
ployes, exclusive of persons holding
executive positions, will be created at
once, to have a part in determining
concern.
Sharp increases in premiums paid by
automobile owners for insurance
against theft and accident are to be
announced shortly by the eastern con-
ference of the National Automobile
Underwriters, it was stated in New
York in insurance circles. The under
writer's were said to be Wavering be-
tween an increase of 40 per cent and
so per cent.
HI. B. Harper Of Philadelphia was
elected president of the National Au-
tomobile Dealers Association, and Chi
cago was chosen for the 1921 cOnven-
ton. P. III. Greer, Los Angeles, was
chosen first vice president.
Maj Richard Lloyd George, son of
the British premier, arrived in New
York on the steamer Mauretania from
Southampton and CherbOurg. The
major, who was accompanied by his
wife, said he was on business trip"
to America
Walter 2. Phillips, former president
Of the Columbia GraphOphOne com
pany, and prior to that widely known
neWspaperman and telegrapher, died at
his home in Vineyard Haven, Mass,
He was at one time general manager
Of the United Press and was the i'll
ventor of the Phillips code for tele-
graph operators.
Window washers in Chicago have
gone on strike demanding SIS a week
for experienced washers who work on
extension ladders and $44 a week for
hon rCA