The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-05-26
CLIPPINGS

In Bellevue Hospital, New York
City, nearly 10000 patients are treat
ed every year.
10000
JEFFERSON, the sage of Monticello. -
was the first President to be inaug-
urated in Washington.
10000
Poison gas" can now be made so
solid that each soldier could carry
canister of it in his pack.
10000
There are more than 100000
people in the world suffering from
leprosy, half of them being in India.
10000
OF the 287 900 women who became
brides in England last year, nearly
$50 were more than seventy years
old.
10000
Radlum traces in hot mineral
waters point to its existence in con-
siderable quantities in the interior of
the earth.
10000
Fifty years ago the one postoffice
in Alaska yielded the United States
government an annual revenue of less
than 500.
At the burial of an English judge
recently a man whom he had SEN
fenced to Imprisonment placed a
floral tribute on the grave
10000
Last year the United States i'm
ported more than 100000 pounds of
human hair from Hong-Kong. 1t is
cheap stuff in China, being valued at
less than 50 pound, wholesale
10000
Pink pearls are so rare as to have
no fixed commercial value, though
pearl fishers say that, when they are
found, Indian rajahs are always will
ing to pay enormous prices for them.
10000
Resumption of American repre-
sentation in allied councils will safe
guard American interests without in
volving or entangling the United
States in affairs of purely European
concern, administration officials as
sert in answer TO those Republican
senators who have been criticising
the Presidents policy.
10000
Representative Ben Johnson Dem
ocra), Kentucky, member of the
select committee which is investigat-
ing the escape of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll the Philadelphia draft
dodger, reiterated charges that Col
John f. Hunt, commanding the dis
ciplinary barracks at Governors IS
land, where Bergdoll was a prisoner
was ''whitewashed" by a military
court-martial which tried him in con
nection with the flight of the Stacker
10000
Director General Davis estimates
the operating loss to the government
for the period of federal control of
the railroads at 100000, not
including the guaranty following the
return of the roads.
10000
President Harding determines Mex
lean policy, making recognition con-
tingent on protection of American
rights.
The military appropriation bill
passed by the house, limiting the reg
ular army to 100000 men, was re-
ferred to the military affairs commit
tee, where it was said an effort would
be made to reaffirm the action of the
senate in the last session in providing
for force of It's, 1000.
10000
After announcing the selection of
Gen. Pershing for chief of staff and
the plan of organizations of the army
Secretary of War Weeks appeared
before the senate military affairs
committee to protest against the re-
duction in the army bill. He could
not make the reductions called for by
the house bill, the secretary said,
without demOralizing the army.
10000
Pete, the Pig
Did you ever realize, boys and girls.
that right here in our own America
there are many persons afflicted with
that dread disease, leprosy? 1t was
my good fortune to hear William
banner, secretary of the American
Mission to Lepers, tell the story of
Pete, the Pig and how Pete has help
ed save children from leprosy.
A few years ago Doctor Dannel
was visiting in the Chapman home il
White Cloud, Kan. A liberal dona
ton for leper relief was made in the
little town, yeraly support for nine
leper children being provided. WheI
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