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South American Constitutions The recent visit of Secretary Bainbridge Colby to Brzfl, Uruguay, and Argentina, making for a better unoerstanuing among all the republics of the Western Hemisphere, as well as for cordial good will, fhoulu make us all realize the necessity of more ac urnte information regarding our south ern sister lepublics. They have all developed greatly, especially since their coming forward to mediate between the United States and Mexico in 1914. and the larger states in particular have grown in appreciation of their own importance. This appreciation is well founded, for they have shown independcYice in international matters, and have made progressive changes In interior affairs. Professor H. A. James, writing in the February number of Current History, summarize some of the governmental changes shown in the written constitutions of Mexico, Uruguay, and Peru, at the same time pointing out that many fundamental changes are not reflected in the written document, r'irst in interest to those, who are accustomed to think of South American countries as in the throes of perpetually renewed revolutions are the limitations nf thf ptpcuHvp iwinrpr Xfp-rfcn'c tnn. slitutidn. the first of the new era, and largely in fluential in the drafting of the others, discourages dictatorships and dynasties by making anyone belonging to the army ineligible for the presidency unless he shall have retired from service ninety days prior to the election. Because the Vlce Ptceidency was often a basis for plots against the administration, it has been omitted. The Presi dent Is permanently ineligible for re-election. In Uruguay the IMesident may be re-elected, but a period of eight years must elapse before his second j term. There, the President has been brought more directly under the 'control of the electorate, as he is -elected by direct vote, and largely has been shorn ; of his administrative powers, which are vested in a popularly elected council of nine members, though he keeps the political functions, as ex pressed in foreign relations, naval and military activities' the preparation of the. budget, and the preservation of internal peace. Peru also limits the power of the executive, and seems to be changing from the Presidential to the Cabinet form of government. This state is even more careful than Mexico In safeguarding the presi dency against the dangers of military or political intrigue. Says Professor James: 'There is a definite recognition in the new constitutions of the fundamental or social democracy in the requirements for compulsory free education, the safeguarding of the rights of labor, the prohibition of monopolies, the nationalization of natural resources and the extenfeion of the right of eminent domain to include the taking over of public utilities and services. Last,, ia the attempt to l prevent exploitation by (foreign individuals and cor porations and to avoid the international com plications that result therefrom, Kven so casual a survey of the new era In government In South America must convince us of the growth of 'democratic ideals and practice. : o Exchange of wet goods between foreign coun tries will not be permitted to pass through the United States, according to. the Attorney General. Whatever the law may say on the Subject, we'd hate to be responsible for. any assurances of safe conduct. After a week's stay in Mexico City, Mr. McAdoo announces that his visit is for pleasure, not busi ness. Americans have previously found out within a much shorter time that they had no business in Mexico. ' A Ctoln "V.I t . . uww vuiicso experiment, snows that egg' production can bej increased fifty per cent by operating an 120-Watt electric light in the hennery from sundown to 9: GO p. m. It remains to be de termined how much will have been gained after the meter has been read and the ens paid off at the rate of time and half for overtime. The Department of, Agriculture poison gas wlll ibe used to destroy the boll weevil. The value vl a bumn'er i! - ";"" nuuiu uo negligible with nobody left to hick u . i .i 1 "; , ''. 1 1 .f; ( Just by way of bslng' optimistic, it should be observed that Mr. Harding must hav bAn out for a working man., , He is. the most , ill-fated ' vacationist we hare read about In a long time. '' , Lloyd. George says he wishes someone would tell , mm mai me danger, is past. We don't see any reason why the wisa should not be granted. A man with L.v Gs ijeayy. responsibilities wouldn't ' be hurt by a. little bidding now ana then. . , v ' !?:'yoa wiU not find backbitinff Democrats half so bothered about Mr. Harding's cabinet as stalwart dyed-in-the-wool Republicans appear to be. Even so loyal a party organ as the New York Tribune is becoming Vestive over Mr. Harding's indecision, his rejection of truly big men, his leaning toward small fry.' It can not see why the President-elect should pay any attention to politicians "who seek to fill his ear with interesting advice," because the very size' of his majority it conceives to be a charter of freedom from petty obligations. It con tinues: ". " " r Much to the report and gossip that has come from the neighborhood of the Peesident-elect ; is disturbing. Few sincere friends of his will say that his cabinet, if the list finally sent the Senate Is according to prevailing prognosti-, cation, will be satisfying to this country. Too: many names of the conspicuously lit are absent for any one to say it is the best avail able. The guessers mention too many whose claims rest on personal friendship, too many who will derive luster from cabinet office rather than add luster to the new Administra tion. The country has expected a cabinet of . Lincoln size. It will be gravely disappointed if its expectation is not met. The folks do not, wish to embarrass Mr. Harding by intrud ing their counsel, but they have a distinct idea of what they would like. There was no reason to expect a Lincoln cabinet, because- there is no Lincoln to do the choosing. But, if the 'Tribune nursed any expectation that Mr. Harding would select the "conspicuously fit", it must be suffering a rude disillusionment as the Hayses and the Daughertys begin to loom up as probable cabinet officers. The New York Evening Post points out, as the worst aspect of the matter, that the cabinet is likely to be made up not merely of mediocrities but of representatives of the Old Guard. This would amount to an instant surrender to the Senate, and the reduction of the President to a position not of co-operation but of subserviency. When the country considers the number and complexity of the problems which await . Mr. Harding's solution, it finds small comfort in the prospect of vacillation completely surrounded by, standpatters and nonentities. -- o The Wages of Science Scientists who add immeasurably to the health and wealth of the world do not always reap a money rewartl. Now that-Mme. Marie Curie, co discoverer, with her husband, of radium, is to visit this country, the fact is conspicious. For while Mme. Curie worked with her husband in the dis covery and isolation of the precious element, she owns not the smallest atom Of radium. Such ownership would make possible experimentation of. great value to science, arid would make com plete the life of Mm. Curie, who said, when asked what she desired above all else in the world, "A gramme of radium all my own." That she may have her desire, a group of Ameri can women are now raising a fund of $130,000, the market price of a gramme ot radium for the pur chase of a gramme which they will present to her on her arrival. This will more than double the amount of'the costly substance now in France, as, though New York state possesses 42 grammes, the land of its discovery has less than one gramme. The market price itself, with Mme. Curie's oc cupation, explain her lack of it. For four years she spent her time in hospitals along the rench front, and then returned to her post as a professor at the Sarbonne. This post is one 'of the honors which have come to her in iieu of, moneys for she Is the first woman: to hold uch a place. All pre cedents were broken in" order that Mme. Curfe might lecture on radio-activity after Pierre Curie's death, for unfortunately raidam did not choose two men for its discoverers. Precedent could not be broken too far, however; in spite of the facts that she alone discovered the element polonium, and that she was twice a recipient of the Nobel 'Prize, she failed of election In the French Academy by two votes. This country will confer upon her the Willard Gfbbi medal for Important scientific work, never before given to a woman, and universities will confer honorary degress.jbut it goes without saying that "the greatest woman in the world" will treasure most of all that gramme of the element .whicbhas in it such tremendous potentialities for the human, race. It Is as though one gave to a mother the child she had lost. . , . .- A "Buck" Gets Even Among former members of the army, particu larly, there will be a rather keen interest in the Norfolk case growing out of an ex-private's at tack upon a former captain, under whom he had servatl during the war. The retired "buck", hav ing stated upon paying a fine of ten dollars that, the privilege of licking his late superior was worth ten thousand dollars. Is said to have been taken at his word by the one-time wearer of two bars, and a suit for the latter amount now rests against the "buck" on'the civil docket We have not read the ex-captain's story. From accounts of the brief bout, in fact, we infer that he is not able to handle his Jaws with wonted ease or comfort. Men who spent a few life-times in the army during the years ,1917-W-J.S wUl be ( interested in the statement of the former private that he promised himself two years ago at 'Camp Lee that some day he would get even '1 with his company commander. The captain, he - asserts, "picked on" him, gave him most of the company's "dirty work" and laughed at him .while 4 he, per-, formed it. He has been taking a course in physical training against the day of his "oppor tunity. This day came recently, and the world was giyen, another illustration of the fact that a ; man can nearly always attain his goal if he hews to' the line and keeps his eye on the indicator. Former service, men will attach special signifi cance to the -encounter as bringing to light the only man in about four million who has kept his promise to lick a captain or a lieutenant "some -of these days.";. All of. the others seem to have ; been totally, deficient in the qualities which might have enabled them to keep! rIn fighting -"fever through an extended period of engrossment with other affairs.. It is lnde4 fortunate that only a , negligible number of the promised humiliations carried according to schedule and with the origin ally intended violence; ' otherwise the afterwar ' casualties would have made the A. E. F.'s JitUe engagement : look like a college tug-of-war. t vt We Imagine ' the former" "buck" is somewhat at -.H'V Cf.:---. a loss now pver plans -for the future ; It ay.be assumed there is little left f 6r him in, the. .way of an incentive to endeavorj; It mayJworthwhile-to note, however; that his" case emphasises again how things have slumped in recent months., .His entertainment- two years ago would have ost him twenty years in Fort Leavenworth. He pays only ten dollars now and, at the buside, values it at only ten thousand. The government's decision to begin - making syrup out of sweet potatoes can hardly be due to. any belief that the farmers are not raising enough cane. x - Tfe are not -willing to believe that the two items have any sinister connection, but we've just been reading in the papers that Mrs. Harding is on her way to Florida and that Mr. Harding says his vacation is over. Contemporary Views THE ALLIED DEBTS Boston Post: While it is denied here that any. official proposition for the annulment of the ?10, 000,000,000. of allied debts to us was made, it haa been known for a long time that very strong 'feel ers' were put forth; and now the British chan cellor has admitted that Washington turned the proposal down. The plan suggested was that if the United States canceled the 110,000,000,000 of debt for the allies they would in turn expunge the debit bal ances standing between themselves. That is, Great Britain , would cancel the advances made by her to France, Russia and others of the smaller allies, and they would in turn wipe their slates clean. If this were done, we should lose ?10,000,000,-000, which we are entitled to believe constitutes a legitimate and collectible claim. Great Britain would lose about as much, in that she loaned as much. But there is this essential difference. Her loans were made largely? to Russia and others of the smaller nations which apparently cannot or wjll not pay. The British chancellor has In fact, admitted a year or more ago that there was little chance of collecting more than half of her out standing . loans. Actually, therefore, If the can cellation program were put through we should lose the entire $10,000,000,000, while Great Britain would only lose that which she has already charged off as uncollectible. The chancellor says: ,rWe made the proposal because we believed it would be in the interest of good relations among the peoples, the rehabili tation of international credit and the restoration of international trade." But this hardly fits in with the fact that the allies, at the time that they ask to cancel their debfs to us, are insisting' that Germany pay five times that amount to them selves. If Germany alone can pay this indemnity, surely the allies can pay the comparatively small debt to us. . A FLABBY ARGUMENT Atheville Citizen: Some members of the Gen eral Assembly have .been sery much disturbed by the fact, that in a recent loan, evidenced by one year coupons notes the State of North Carolina was forced to pay six and a quarter per cent in terest They recall those not distant halcyon days when the State could borrow all the money needed for its purposes on a four per cent interest basis without the nece&sity-of huckstering its securities in the eastern financial markets. There Is nothing unusually alarming in this situation. Any person who has recently had occasion totest the temper of the credit market knows- that money is earning a larger return than it did a few years ago. The days of four per cent interest have passed. Whether they will ever re turn the shrewdest financiers do not know. When the State of North Carolina found itself In the position where It was forced to dispose of $4,500, 000; worth of short term notes in order to refund a maturing bond issue, it had to meet the rates prevailing in the market, for government securities exempt from all Federal income taxes. These developments should not be permitted to swerve North Carolina from its settled purpose of voting adequate appropriations for the State institutions4 and for "good roads. The cleverest financiers can offer no rational hope that the rates of Interest will stabilize much, below the present levels in the next, few years. It is an illusory promise which admonishes us that if we will only postpone our plans we .can anticipate with confi dence the return of the day when tbe State can borrow money at four per cent. .Our needs are so -pressing that we should not allow ourselves to be shunted from the path of progress which, we have determined to travel these next few years. ' -rr - . '. TO PROTECT THECOUNTRT SIDE Charlotte Newsi' The plan of some of those. who have . been largely Instrumental in framing the proposed State highway bill, the measure which is likely to be passed without material changes -Ms to have the superintendents of the mainten ance forces serve as a rural constabulary. The measure provides for the upkeep of the roads by the state, the mileage being divided into sectors to which a superintendent and a force of workers will be assigned for constant work. It lookB as if this would be a very practical proposition. By clothing these road supervisors with power to arrest Wrong-doers along the public highways, much of the current lawlessness could be broken up in the rural sections. ..It seems that some sort of a constabulary is greatly needed ffc the countryside from the amount of disorder that prevails and it would also appear that the' law has been made abundantly clear-cut and specific to Interfere very materially with the continued practices of this sort if there were some body to apprehend the guilty parties. ,Just the other day, to illustrate the potency of the law relating to immorality on the Highways, a rather prominent man of a little village near Charlotte, was a defendant in Mecklenburg courts kon theT.charge of violating this law, He was found guilty "and the presiding judgie had to be earnestly Importuned before he agreed to let the defendant off with, a fine and then he plastered, a fine of $250 and the costs on him. v , , Such an instance goes to show that the law Is. effective enough. .It.could be made stronger,, and perhaps, ought : to he made .a little more compre hensive as well as specific, but if no change were to be made at all in the statute, gTeat numbers of people can be punished under It if a"" system was devised by which they .might be', arrested.; "- ' v ";n L DOUGHTON MAKES SOME GRAMMAR ' TheRafeiffh Times: While we have known for some time that Doughton of Alleghany had quite definite yleWB on gender and sex as applied to poli tics andhe holding of public office, we had not ,suwecteaheT over either. Indee he has been "pretty 'generally for leaving aluch things as1 they are And here LCmftCnvls thl Passage of a bill through tne aouseao toake some of our vfery best political . nouns now masculine in gender common. rSfSyyS North Carollna elects a woman ZSJFi- be a Governess, and the old ' ET? 3?' adntalrlx-inay be abandoned Si Sf Sri ar executr, etc. . Rather consider ate of Mr, Doughton, eh ? . . ''t-yr-?!??-1'-0'10, Carolina Legis J?.UW in t!me "omid to the business of " Daily Editorial Digest The Labor Board's New Problem With the railroad, executive?' de mands for release Vfrom . iieir! wag agreements and the .Union v heads' as surance that they -will fijchtanv at tempt - tcr cat downjJy, the Labor Board;-fcas .a problem before; it yrhicli the press of the-onntry" seems to think;--may produce another crisis. While a number of writers apparently believe that the drop in the cost of living has been sufficient to justify reduced, wages for the c railroad : men, many think that trouble lies not In too Tiigh wages but In the fact as stated by . the Railway Age that the railroads "are being- compelled to pay employees in the chops many millions of dollars annually for work which Is not done " That, whatever . be the trobble with transportation, the em ployees -mustn't' be allowed to- suffer, is an opinion voiced by at least a few newspapers. Among- these is the Cleveland Plain Dealer (ind. Dera.) which considers it "doubtful if anything like a general and . arbitrary railway wage, reduction could be justified at the present time. The. railroad .meat werre among the last to receive the wage advances ' to compensate for the great increase in living cost-" The St. Louis Star Ind. poiats out: . . - "A downward revision cannot- safely mean the beating- down of wages be yond the level of a good livelihood, but should be a readjustment to meet the plainly recognizable -change in liv Ing costs." Some relief could be afforded th3 public in the high rates for freight and passenger traffic, the Memphis Xews Scimitar (Ind.) believes, "with out, entailing a reduction in wages" and -the New York Glob. Ind.J while it admits that the theory is in a sense revolutionary," yet "one of the revolutionary measures wifeh prevents revolution," declares: "To reduce this (wage) rate whilft 'prices are still high above the pre war level will work as serious a hard ship on multitudes of employees as high freight rates and passenger tarifT do on shippers and passengers. Sol vency for workmen is just as desirable as solvency for railroads or private business." The San Francisco Chronicle (Ind.) "hopes" no wage reduction may se necessary for the present, but if the roads have not the business they must reduce their forces." The Fargo Courier News (Non. Part. League), however, asserts that no "immediate crisis confronts the railroads" but they are 'simply trying to do away with the Esch-Cumming's Labor Board "as a preliminary to a general open shop fight on all railroad labor." While the New Tork Post (Ind.)-makes W such accusations it does go so far as to say that "it is an open question whether conditions are so desperate as to justify the abandonment of tne method ef inquiry and negotiation' for the method of conflict." . There is a general call for "a show down" from supporters of both sides of the controversy. Labor, official organ of the Plumb Plan League, de clares that "the people are entitled to know all the facts" whic the Inter state Commerce Commission cap easily obtain for them. If this iV done, the Chicago Tribune (Ind. Rep.y ..ielieves "the air will, quickly clear and wrongs will be righted." The Milwaukee Journal (Ind.) thinks the railroad heads could give the public some in formation if they would: The honest belief of the railroad executives is that the public can't understand their business.' But since the executives can't run the .business it is time the public began . to learn. And the best little trick the managers cculd take today woii:d h to turn all the- cards face up." S-'cme writers fel that the. agree ments which the railroads liave asked to hsve cancelled have outgrown their practicability. It is not simply a ques tion of wages, the New York Times (Ind. Dem.) explains, but whether "the wage fund is being administered as economically as the rate fund under private management with public fix ing of rates" and "the 'roads are not disputing about the rate of pay, but about the work given for the pay." After citing as an example how the roads are forced to pay for a minimum number of hours no matter how short a . time a job might take, the Boston. Herald (Ind. Rep.) remarks that ' "it is not strange that the -railroads wish to be released from the 'national agreements' w-hich under changed con ditions and individual control would handicap the roads." The Grand Rapids Press (Ind.) considers it "inevitable that the railroads should demand release- from these temporary - agree ments" and the Oklahoma City Oklaho ma n (Dem.) thinks that: "If the railroads can convince the Railroad Labor Board that a change in working rules and conditions can save millions of dollars a year and that the , service to tne puoitc will not deterio rate as a result, there is reason to be lieve that their request will be granted." On the other hand the New York World (Dem.) thinks the demand for annullment of the agreements is most "extraordinary" and the reasons for the action equally "extraordinary," quite justifying "the labor organizations af fected in making a protest." As to the concrete question of wage reduction a number of newspapers re flect the opinion of the Columbia State (Dem.) that since other costs have dropped wages must drop too. The Sioux City (La.) Tribune (Ind.) says: "When rail employees were demand ing increases in wages they based jthelr plea on the rising cost of liv ing; railroad executives, in asking per mission of the labor board to reduce wages, .are reversing the argument." And the Philadelphia Record (Ind. Dem.) believes the latter's reasoning "has undoubted merit." Eventually the employees "must reconcile themselves to less pay," the Richmond Tomes Dis patch (Dem.) declares and the Brook lyn Eagle (Ind.) sees no reason why this particular group should demand that the government should keep it from "participating in the sacrifice that must be general If stabilization of values is ever to come as the herald of business prosperity." Says the iNew York Herald (Ind.): .;.The railroads are prepared, for ac tion looking to traffic rate reductions. Are the railroad workers, rapidly los ing their-Jobs as traffic dies, ready to k lend a hand?" to. the necessity 0f Much lias nanner. .1 "'fc In America. a mtrXerr since the end of the wall which Is to educate du I ' 1 ' oiM enforce the desirab' j" op :l: I aocieties as the A!i:ar.r v " ' 5 president of which i. V, 1Cr-:. tltiion, are dointr a this respect. Ur.jr r-- vn such a propaganda tv- p ment has for the fir t pass .a number of b:. -, long run may fc drastic law was pasf In order to suppre av. Large families hav . benefit of cheap br amending the old a? p-v r presented to the t ha- i . i- - -i " Pi- -4' A 53 ject of increasing th j. ' - "I'1'11 Port ionatW tn t v. .. ' f-"0' Another device worth r.. r r.i " so-called sursalair- . '. rS U sists in an additional x-'fer" Jj a i so proportionate to v, family. This kind of n..r.A. 1 recently created t.v a r .v.as- niovers . P? v thn , ".'-r "t fl there wrrp in Vr i - .. -J ... " " t .j -i , Initiative 4 V.iU ,', V. " '' .- -. "iu iic - fraf. a number of member? in order to make tr-. eral and compulsory. "These are but ln5'.ar.cs r.f x being done. IIorevpr c?.-." cevices may oe. tr.n- v. -r,. i,. -" J--'--'' 'T1 hjj been attacked. To tr ""PPaiitl European News and Views England Surrender's the Trident "Brlttania Rules the Waves" will have to be discarded as an English na tional song if the statement ot Lord Rothmere in the London Pictorial 'is correct. Commenting upon his doctrine that "it Is no longer possible for any na tion to possess the. command, of the sea." It says: . "The formula rests upoa.;. the argu ment that the battlesnlp has b"eeri"oust ed by the submarine, and the gun has been knocked out by the torpedo. Mon ster surface ships have been robbed of their enormous power Ty sma.ll sub merged vessels. "For a hundred years no one has ventured to dispute the theory that the nation which can build and main tain the largest number of big ships, end whose seamen know how to use them effectively, is supreme at sea. But that fundamental theory is now ques tioned, for a few submarines can com pel the roost powerful battle fleet In the world to turn tail, and any.Httle, nation can build submarines. "Out of the mists of the North sea, out of the masses of technical records which are accumulating, the clear and simple fact emerges that both the British ' and the German battle fleets were dominated by the fear of subma rines and repeatedly turitfed away to evade them. "We are about to be skedtb build, out of our impoverished resources, - a new fleet of giant battleships, because the United States and Japan are build ing such ships. If Lord Rothmere's doctrine is correct, It.doea not matter to us what these great nations, do, for battleships no longer grve command or furnish the standard of power. "There is no real stanflard of power left. The talk of first, second, apd third naval powers has no meaning when ex pressed In " terms of obsolete " instru ments of warfare. The contest In heavy naval armaments is over, though people do not yet realise it, "But the revolution wrought in sea fighting- does not essentially weaken Great Britain. Henceforth, we can de fend our shores with, greater ease, and there is no reason at all why we should not be able to protect our interests on the high seas, as Jn the past. "We mustbuild no more big battle ships. Not only are they as archaic as knights in ponderous armour, but for us bankruptcyv lies tnat way." POPULATION PROBLEM The French, jmblic was recently startled (by the announcement made by M. Louis Mourier, the new director of the Assistance Publlque (Poor Law) hat the population of France had lost during the war as many as four mI1 lion units, writes Philippe Millet In the London Observer. In what way M. iMourier had been reaching such an :amazing total is not Quite clear. One. .thing, however, is certain, and that is 'that the population problem Is still very alarming, though it Is, of course, by no means desperate. . k- : "The figures show that, in those seventy-seven departments ''which were n fnvn.Hed tho niimTer-nf Heaths in t .1919 was 217,181 in excess over the number or ojruis. in. other words, De cides her war losses, France has lost in 1919--at;.any-raTe - ror - the' partof the country. -consldered-rHaother - two hundred thousand people. " . ' l- "Compared wlth.-the last year tefore the great war, that ' Is with 1918, : it aTDearn that- the sit im tin- m mrisfe partments in 1913. Moreover, the change in, the situation is less due to an increase in the number of deaths (which was 620.6S3 in 1919 as against 587,445 in 1913) than to a reduced num ber of births, which fell from 608.900 in 19.13 to 403,o02 in 1919. This is obvi ously a most disturbing symptom. Improve-vent Since 1914 "So much for the pessimists. Let us now look more closely at the facts and see whether things are exactly as bad as they look, and ao whether there is no hope that this national disease may be cured. "Going -back to 1919, one notices in the first place that, though the situa tion is by no means satisfactory it is nevertheless steadily smprovXng. The increase in the number of births at the end of 1919 can be -explained by the fact that a good many men were de mobilized by the end of 1918. It took, however, several months to complete the demobilization and to give to most people "the time to go back to normal conditions of life. Hence the sudden enormous increase or weddings yhe end of the, year. The improvement will certainly be much more marked for 1920. Xw Pr.pOnaI "It remains, nevertheless, true that the situation will be critical as long jas np.end will. have been put to the depopulatiop. No doubt there Is a bright side to ,an otherwise dark state of things. The losses incurred during the war have been partly compen sated by the return to France of tfvo provinces- where the birthrate is. aid always has been, particularly high. But unless vigorous measures are taken to encourage the development of large families, there is much to - be feared that such a compensation will not do. "Fotrunately there are many proofs that the nation Is at last awakening .it i . ii.ospiia.is, in wnicn a cr .oral.v n ber of children are sttn arJ , ' The second must be of an e, ture, for the only reason vhich M the average French peasant 'n vj money difficulties. Th- ti.inl. whcJ less congenial to an oii country France, but" may nvrtht ie st tion of immigration In Frp.rtc. T'. one acquainted with tr; r st v;'.a; problems, as well a? r i h- fWA there is little doutt tra: ins -Hi sary effort may be and v. . A r accr piisaeu oeiore long. BARGAINS 1 B(TF.RU There is a microbe facrry ;n heart of London, and sorr ir,tn5i facts concerning it are uivri in a port just issued by th" m.-"::ra searcn council relative to thir for. last year. Since January. 192 wnt a 1 Chronicle representative ov?r yon cultures oi microbes rr. m to bacteriologists at bom- aiid ntrn. in response to re(juept. and much sistance has been render y identification of microbes s-r.t in f examination The history of this nati.-na! tion of microbes is intrrfstirig j years the Lister institute in this to:: try assisted scientific- workrrs s: bacteriologists used to borrow pH mens from one another perhaps ti changing a measle microbe for a but of beri-beri. M. Binot at the Pasteur institute Paris was very kind to British nrk and microbes could also he )mf from Prague and the instiun, off enna. In America the museum of ul ural history in New York lias a n. c: menagerie eight years old. whilo English . collection contains nvrr different cultures. Internationa! -I crcbe exchanjel have b-en arrng Most tit the strains are of m-di. and veterinary importance, aitiioueh beginning has been made wiih a (o!!f tion ofstrains having an econo-r. industrial interest. SAYS AMERICA WANTS KAMCHATKA AS BAS Lenine Tells of Millionaire Pipe Dreary LOXDOX, Feb. 9 The Russian wrH authorities were told by an America multi-millionaire that th- Inu States wanted Kamchatka as an Asia tic base in case of war between t. United States and Japan. aoc nliiiei an utterance made recently In speech by Nikolai Lenine, the bolst-i viki premier. Asserting that the proposal tm conceding Kamchatka is nan M scheme to utilize the bourgoise oapHI to accelerate the country? indusni development, Lenine is quoted as Ml ine said. "An American multi-millionaire has been here spoke ver yfran. n Kmit tv, mntivpo of tbe treav. nain-l ly, that America has desires to have I base in Asia in case of war with JaP?1 This millionaire said that if we wot give Kamchatka to the United Sta j be would nromise sui h enthusiasm '1 the part of the people of the I'n"'! States that the" American ko enimtj nrnnM immMi tolv reCOCniZt IiUSSUI RACING SEASON EMW w-o-rm-r ATI T TT- 4 X'C? IT n ik i Tile wi,in nn at the fair grnuKi'i 1. n an nrl tOtlliV Willi The Mardi Gras handicap at six I longs was won by Mythology. 1 Thurber up, asainst whicii t n to '1 nnno1 TVio rarmvai iianui woo wuci tu. . u iT tho Aav at l'-b went to Romany, also ridden iy Jol rri . 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Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Feb. 10, 1921, edition 1
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