, 1924-04-09

sists, is generally beloved, and fire.
quently printed.
1--WE know Americas difficulties;
we respect Americas suspicious. The
American people are drawn from
many diverse sources. They have
crossed the Atlantic with many Bit
ter memories in their hearts. F.. .
They have no intention of allowing
the mighty state which they have
doone their full share in building up
to become an adjunct to any Euro
pean Power or to get mixed up in the
diplomatic confusions and nationalist
ambitions of European policy" ].
Ramsay Macdonald, head of the Brit
ish Labor Party in Parliament.
Aroused by the increase in adver-
Using billboards which spoiled vistas
of mountain and turquoise sea, the
women of Honolulu notified the mer-
chants of the Hawaiian Islands that
they would purchase no goods so adj
vertised on the island of Oahu. To-
day there is not a single advertising
billboard on the island.
Fort Cralo, where the British Army
surgeon, r. Schukbury, wrote Cyan
kee Doodle" to poke fun at the
American colonists, the old historical
fort at Rensselaer,, New York, may
be preserved as a Revolutionary relic.
1t was built in 1912.
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Disguised as a Chinese %coolie, Will
liam NJ. McGovern, American, act
ing for the British Government, en-
tered the mystic capital of Tibet,
Lhassa, and for two months photo
graphed and recorded the peculiari-
ties of its 1000, 900 inhabitants.
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For the first time in the history of
winter seasons in Alaska the tide of
travel on the Alaska Railroad has
been inbound into the interior in
stead of outbound.
The largest electric light bulb in
the world was recently exhibited in
East Orange, New Jersey, at the
plant of the General Electric Com
pany. 1t is % inches high with a di-
ameter of 10 inches at the top. Thir-
ty thousand watts were required to
heat it.
International boxing matches as a
substitute for wal were advocated by
the Duchess of Hamilton. In the old
days of the Vikings, tribal disputes
were settled by fights between picked
men.
The burning qualities of tobacco
RI tested by 40 machine which puffs
cigars in human fashion, using air
suction in the process.
Three thousand Doukhobors from
Saskatchewan are preparing to emf
CRATE to Russia, where they will set
tie in Crimea. The Soviet govern
ment provides the land and improve
ments in return for one-sixth of their
crops.
is thought to be several hundred years
old. 1t weighs 1,400 pounds and is
thirteen and a half feet in length.
The age is determined by the width
of the nose between the e~yeteeth.
After the reptile is ten feet long,
the nose widens one-quarter of an
inch for each fifty years the alliga-
tor lives. The average adult weigh
ing about 1000 pounds will yield ap-
p~roximately one and one-hal gallons
of alligator oil and n valuable hide,
which, when tanned, weighs from
thirty-five to forty pounds.
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor
Senator from Minnesota, made the
following statement: "Sixty-five per
cent of the wealth of this country is
population, and unless there is a bet
ter distribution of this wealth, the
people are going to revolt
against it."
A prominent Paris daily paper, de-
ploring the corruption of masculine
styles and behavior by Americans in
Paris, says that although Britishers in
Paris remain gentlemen, with waist
coats and yellow kids, many French
men follow the lead Of Americans who
have left their vests in New York,
their gloves in Washington, and ar
rived with naked hands and floating
cravats."
Motor cars belonging to the King
of England have no number plate.
When He MaiaSty 10 on a raremop-