The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-18
FACTS NOT
| GENE RALLY KNOWN

A young German engineering
student experimenting with motor
less airplanes rose to height OF
600 feet, remained in the air more
than two hours and sailed for six
miles in a straight line.
During the 10 years life of the
treaty for the limitation of arma-
ments, the United States, the British
Empire and Japan will realize saw
ings of from $500,000,000 to $780,
100000 a year.
Latvia has decided to give her
printing presses rest, retire her
paper rubles, and establish a new
unit of currency with gold basis
to have the same value as the franc
and to be known as the lat
Only 16 out of 142 institutions in
the United States formerly known
as "drink cures" are now conducting
a business similar to that which
they pursued before the advent of
national prohibition of the liquor
traffic.
The interest rate in Russia is now
IL per cent month or ~ per cent
year. The Soviet government
pays SO per cent a year on foreign
funds. These facts have a bearing
on the propaganda of money for
Russia.
Agriculture constitutes the chief
source of the power and wealth OF
the Japanese people in spite of the
rapid strides made recently in the
manufacturing and mining indus.
tries. Sixty per cent of the popu-
lation of Japan is rural.
The full amount of the nationa
debt is approximately $23, 1000, 000,.
900. The annual fixed charges
against the United States treasury
on account of the public debt are
$1,300,000,000 and not SAL 300, 900.
600 as has been stated.
Negroes own and direct 113 news
papers and IA magazines in the
United States. Nearly 1900 EN-
ployes, of whom 81 are white
workers, manage the publications
The papers include SO secular, %
religious and eight fraternal papers
The Cape Peninsular Road en-
circles the whole peninsular Of
South Africa, skirting the entire
rock-bound coast for 125 miles. L
is believed to be the finest marine
drive in the world, even SURPRISING
the famous Corniche road in south
ern France.
A project is on foot to rebuilc
the Bank of England because the
old buildings are hopelessly made
quate to hold the enormous staff
which it now needs and which i.
scattered about the city of London
The project is meeting with much
opposition from sentimentalists wht
view the move as sacrilegious.
There will one day spring from
the brain of science a machine OF
force so terrible in its potentialities
so absolutely terrifying, that ever
man, the fighter, who will dare tor
ture and death in order to infict it
will be appalled,, and so will aban
don war forever" said Thomas A
Edison in a recent interview.
Work has begun on the first of 6
chain of 20 hotels for motorists, ex
tending from Vancouver, British
Columbia, through Washington, Ore
gon, California and Nevada. These
hotels will be one days automobil,
run apart and will be constructed OF
the unit plan. They will provide the
motorist with comfortable quarter.
and food supplies, auto equipment
and repair shops.
Unslightly black patches, which
mar the appearance of concrete
roads after repair work has beer
done, will be avoided by the use Of
material for the purpose de
veloped by the Department of Agri
culture. 1t has the same color az
concrete and consists of IL part.
rosin and one part crude rubber
with sufficient barium sulphate t.
give the desired color.
A colossal statue of a Franciscan
father which would eclipse the
Statue of Liberty in New Yorl
Harbor is to be erected on Yerbs
Buena Island, facing the Colder
Gate, if the proposal of the Sar
Francisco Chamber of Commerc,
carries. 1t is believed that such {
statute, built by small popular sub
scriptions, would dominate the imagi
nation of every person in the Sar
Francisco Bay region and invest the
bay itself with an outstanding char
acteristic