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. ' DIXIE HOYS AT ANNAPOLIS.
The record of Southern students at
the United States naval Academy has
been the occasion of some perplexity
and wonderment in naval circles. While
a Michigan cadet leads the class this
year, five out of the ten leading classmen
hall from Southern States. Two
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York, Ohio, Massachusetts or Illinois.
Only one, a Kansan, halls from the
big WeBt. The New York World soliloquizes
over the situation after this
fashion: "Are Southern boys better
students or do they pursue olderfashioned
ideals? Certainly the test of
scholarship and discipline is as severe
at the Naval Academy as in any academic
course. The fact that the naval
tradition has always been strong at the
South may have something to do with
it. though that assumption does not explain
why Alabama's relatively small
contingent should contribute two honor
men, while many of the great States
of the North and West have none.
Whatever the cause, the South has reason
to plume itself on the fine showing
made by its young officers and gentlemen
to be in the first grade of naval
service."
POSTAL SAVrNGS GROW.
Statistics have been made public by
'Postmaster-General Hichcock showing
the amount of postal savings business
done to April 30 in the 33 cities of the
country having a population of 150,000
or more. It is shown that $7,035,545, or
a little more than two-fifths of the entire
postal savings of the United States
have been made in the 33 citieB. The
total amount of deposits remaining to
the credit of depositors at the 7,866
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unices in uyeittuuii uu niini ou *??D OJJprorimately
$17,200,000. New York
<not Including Brooklyn), and Chicago,
-which rank first and second In population,
occupy the same rank in amount
of deposits. The ten leading offices,
-with the amount on deposit in each,
are: New York, $976,749; Chicago,
$951,642; Portland, Ore., $436,165; St.
Paul, $411,926; San Francisco, $395,904;
Cincinnati, $367,622; Brooklyn, $348,190;
Boston, $322,824; Kansas City,
$300,717; Los Angeles, $255,461. The
deposits have increased in all of the
offices, the total Increase being $59 7,904,
or 9.3 per cent New Orleans,
which was not designated until Decern
ber 15, 1911, shows the greatest relative
gain, 169.2 per cent, and Seattle, the
smallest, 4.6 per cent.
A HYPOTHETICAL CABINET.
Writing in McCall's Magazine for
July, Dr. Anna Shaw, the Unitarian
Woman Preacher, who 1b also head of
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, tells some things she would
do if she were premier of the White
House. Among other things, as Chief
Executive she would make the following
selection for her official staff: Miss
line Addams of Chicago for Secertary
of State; Mrs. Hetty Green for Secretary
of the Treasury; Andrew Carnegie
for Secretary of War; Hauls D. Brandeia
for Attorney-General; Senator
Jonathan Bourne aa Postmaster-Genoral;
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago
for Secretary of the Interior;
Professor Charles Bailey of Cornell for
Secretary of Agriculture; John Mitchell
for Secretary of Commerce and Labor;
Miss Jean Gordon of New Orleans for
Chairman of the Child Welfare Commission;
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for
Chairman of the White Slave Commission
and Dr. Harvey W. Wiley for
Chairman of the Pure Food Commission.
Declaring that the federal constitution
is now being deliberately
THE PRESBYTERIi
>f Currer
violated, and advocating as a woman
the immediate reduction of the tariff.
Dr. Shaw urges that "the guarantee of
the constitution to protect the states
in a republican form of government
presupposes that no state would have
the power to disfranchise any class or
sex of its citizens without due cause, or
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ship the insuperable barrier of sex
which disqualifies one-half of its citi
zens from voting."
POTATO IMPORTATIONS.
America is the original home of the
everywhere-present Irish potato and
could easily produce a sufficient
quantity to supply the whole of civilization,
yet during the last eight months
we have imported of this home vegetable,
5,000,000 bags. Of these about
700,000 bags were received at the harbor
of New York. Portland and Boston
received about 550,000 bags and enough
were received at Philadelphia, Baltimore
and New Orleans to completee the
grand total. Th duties, independent of
the high prices paid for these imputations,
amounted to $3,500,000.
WARD HEELERS TO THE FRONT.
When the political parties gather at
the polls next November, one third of
the ballots will be cast by the cities of
25,000 inhabitants or over, according to
a bulletin showing the number of men
of voting age in the United States, issued
by E. D. Durand, director of the
census bureau. The figures show that
in 1910 the cities had 9,004,422 men of
voting age. For continental United
States, as a whole, men of voting age
numbered 26,999,151, and constituted
29.4 per cent of the entire population,
which was 91,927,266 in 1910. The potential
voting strength of each state and
city is expressed by the number of men
over 21 years, excluding the foreign born
who have not become naturalized. The
figures represent the number of men
who, from the standpoint of age alone,
are eligible to vote.
NOT A "WIRELESS WIZARD."
The field for woman's industry and
talent is steadily expanding. In fact
her activities have now invaded etherial
space which can hardly be called a
field at all. A start has been made in
a department of achievement which
may finally be partially monopolized by
her sleepless vigilance and ac\ite discernment.
It is announced that the
first woman wireless telegraph opera
tor afloat will be Miss Mabelle Kelso,
of Seattle. In passing the examination
she received one of the highest marks
given at the government's naval wireless
training school, at the Pudget
Sound navy yard, and has been assigned
to the steamer Mariposa, sailing for
Alaska on July 1.
THE NEW CHINA.
Since the erection of the Republic of
China a few months ago, the new government
haR been critically embarrassed
by the lack of funds to meet pressing
financial obligations. Russia and Japan
have stood by like hungry wolves ready
to pounce down on the helpless young
republic at the first opportunity and de
vour without mercy. It will be welcome
news to all lovers of constitutional liberty
to learn that the completed reorganization
of the Chinese government
It be accomplished by the agreement
of bankers representing the six great
powers, the United FMat.es, Great
Britain, Germany, France, Russia and
Japan, to loan China $300,000,000. Russia
Joined the five other powers in acquiescing
in the agreement, but stipulated
a slight change in the original
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Formula. This was quickly accepted by
all the powers, including the Uttlted
States. Although the official Rt*tompnt
given out by the groups does not mention
the Tact, It is understood that Russia
and Japan specifically reserve the
right to withdraw from participation in
the loan at any time, should they decide
that their special political interests in
China have become Jeopardized. Russia
and Japan tried to exact an agreement
that the loan should not be applied
in any way likely to compromise
their interests. The four other powers
refused to agree to this, and it is understood
that final agreement was restricted
to the financing of China, all political
questions as such being left to the
powers. The loan is to meet the urgent
needs of China, such as the disbanding
of the troops, the discharge of current
obligations and the setting up of the
new administration.
PREHISTORIC HISTORY.
The International Congress of Americanists
recently convened In London
devoted itself to the study of the two
Americas, and the questions discussed
related to points connected with the
anthropology of the native American
races, the native monuments and the
acheolagy of the Americas, and the
history of the discovery and European
occupation of tHe new world. An exhibition
was held In connection with the
congress, among the objects, exhibited
being weaving and other appliances for
home industries of the Mazatecas; a
representative collection of stone and
other Instruments, from ancient sites,
various photographs and water colors
of the principal ruins In Yucatan and
Guatemala; and fac simile reproductions
of the frescoes in pre-Columbian buildings.
A recent change In the channel
of the Colorado river contributes a new
chapter to the interesting study of the
Americanists. Turning back to its channel
of ages ago, the river has swept the
surface soil from what TITQ G AMT?r? AWAia
flow land and has opened to the sun numerous
stone dwellings, the homes of
aborigines, which have been burled for
centuries.
A GERMAN TRIBUTE.
The admiration of the old world and
the orient for the character of Washington
is practically universal. Some
months ago a delegation of high officials
and commissioners of the Chinese
government visited Mount Vernon and
with bared heads reverently laid a floral
offering on the tomb of the father of
his country. More recently while a
group of German battleships were in
our waters on a mission of cordial
friendship and official courtesy, Admiral
von Rebeur-Paschwltz and the delegation
of officers from the visiting warships
paid tribute to the memory of
"'"ashlngton by laying a wreath on his
tomb at Mount Vernon.
HOW THE TURKS FIOnT.
"Fights like a Turk" can no longer be
eplgramatlc of dauntless courage and
desperate endurance. With the modern
Turk discretion is the better part of
valor. While the storm center of the
struggle in the near east has apparently
shifted, for the moment fT-r?m
African littoral to the rugged coast of
Asia Minor, yet the change was and
could only be for the moment. As far
as Italy, at any rate, is concerned, the
matter must be settled in Tripoli, and
not In the Islands of the Aegean.
Turkey's serene imperturablllty, her
apparent unshakable determination to
find her strength and salvation In the
masterly and unhesitating use of her
natural resources, rather than in any
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appeal to the more showy and valiatit
methodB of warfare, is not without its
influence on European opinion, tn
Italy the ardor-damping effect ot thlb
patient fcetslstent ''stohe-walling" is
evet-ywhhre in evidence, and again and
again, zae ltanan press returns to the
attack, Btrivlng by many cries of
"coward and poltroon," and by many a
blow in the face with its journalistic
gauntlet, to goad their stolid immov*
able enemy into a more "BOldierly" activity.
All to no purpose, however.
Turkey knowB her busineBB.
CENTENNIAL OF PEACE.
With Sir Edmund Walker as presb
dent, an association has been formed by
leading public men of Cdhadk With the
object of arranging celebrations of the
100 yearB of peace between Oreat feritalh
and the United Stat Ob. The organizers
adopted fts the name of the society, the
Canadian Peace Centenary Association,
and the membership is oqien to everybody
who is in sympathy with ltB object.
The Hon. T. W. White, minister
r% P finance In oonnnrlln cr fVin rnanliiHrtn
for organizing the society, said: "Since
the signing of the treaty of Ghent, while
there have been minor causes of irritation
between the two nations, nothing
has eventuated of sufficient Importance
to constitute a cause for wat. On the
contrary there has been an increasing
sentiment of good feeling. So far as I
can see no serious cause for conflict can
possibly arise between Great Britain
and the United States. On the contrary,
there Is everything to draw them together
in conjunction to bring about
the peace of the world. I venture to say
without disrespect to other great nations
that the United States and England
together could keep the peace of th?
world." . ^
TO ELIMINATE POVERTY.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his
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live red at Canterbury cathedral, said
that In a couple of generations poverty
should be abolished altogether from
Great Britain. That it must be so In a
Christian land like ours, he said, Is inevitable.
As far as he was concerned
himself, he saw no simple or obvious
road which led to this result. Such an
end is not reached by a short cut, but
that there is a road, and a Christian
road, which might be found 'by pains
and perseverance he has no doubt at all.
To talk carelessly of the residuum of
unemployables, and to deduce from that
the permanence of unrelievahle poverty
does not solve the problem. We are
here to-day, he said, may ourselves be
quite unfitted to hammer out the solution,
but it is the task of the workers
in the church of God to foster the
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growth or such a spirit as snaii ni??
those results certain, and to promote
such a sense of responsible brotherhood
on earth, that men shall see that
the solution by whatever pathway
reached, is Imperative and Inevitable.
Be that their resolve and prayer. B
was by a better understanding of what
their problems were that they would
place themselves In a more favorable
position for solving them.
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