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monwealth Fund established by Mrs.
Stephen v. Hardness to provide income
for work in the field of mental hygiene.
Nuclei of the institute have been de-
veloping In the university for several
years" Most of the work will be done
by scientists already on the Yale faculty.
the institute work to be correlated with
their present functions, but in order
that they may not thus be overburdened,
scientists will be imported for a like
double function.
There will be a direct rate consisting
Of the deans of the graduate, medical
and law schools, one representative of
the social sciences and one representa-
tive of the natural science.
Says President Angel of Yale: ~ have
been interested in cooperative research
ever since the war, when was head of
the National Research Council. The in
Stitute is based on the belief that speak
ing precisely, the living human body
and the human mind are not separate,
but interdependent entities, and that
similarly the industrial and the social
groups can be understood only in re-
lation to each other. I cannot tell
where this cooperation Of research may
lead us, but we believe 1t will make i'm
portant contributions, not only to knowl-
edge, but also to the breaking down
of the old barriers between the branches
| Of science"
Every one should be glad that the
National Forest Reservation Commission
at Washington has voted to purchase
| 100000 acres of wooded country in
Southern Vermont for a national
reservation.
| Il will be recalled that the Federal
| Government pays Is per cent of the
receipts from timber sales In such an
area to the State in which 1t Is included,
to be applied to the road and school
funds of the State. Within few years
such payments to the Vermont govern
ment should exceed the taxes which
the State would collect In the region
should its present status continue.
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NOTES.-The latest is that Trotsky,
now in Constantinople, will not remain
long on Turkish soil, If he can gain
admittance to some other country; pre-
ferably Germany, it would seem. Paul
Loebe, president of the Reichstag, hav-
ing made in public speech remark
which might be construed as favorable
to the granting to Trotsky of an asylum
in Germany, the latter telegraphed him,
requesting his good offices with the gov
eminent in that sense.
| 1t is impossible to make out what's
doing in Afghanistan. Pretenders null
tiply and blood flows, but as to who's
who and what's what, we are quite to
seek
1t Is officially announced from San
tiago, Chile, that Chile and Peru have
settled the long vexed Tacna-Arica
controversy by direct negotiation be-
tween the two governments. We are in
formed that Tacna goes to Peru and
africa to Chile. Whether or no any
concession is made to Bolivia, has vet
definitely to appear: apparently not.
The Census Bureau estimates the
total of automotive vehicles in the
world on January /, 1928, at 90, 687, 900.
of which 23,262, 1873 were in continental
United States. OF the grand total. Is
l68,741 were passenger cars, 4.3I4.l77
motor trucks and 204 1872 buses. The
i respective figures for the United states
were 20,279, 661, 2,896,886 and 1886.
There was. by the estimate, one auto
motive vehicle for every 81 persons in
the world. and one for every five in
continental United States. Hawaii was
second with one for every eight; Canada
and New Zealand were tied with one
for every 10. China was at the bottom
! Of the list with one for every 2l,257.