p. 19 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1916

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Bryan Lathrop, a Chicago real estate broker, has bequeathed $700,000 to the establishment of an elaborate school of music in Chicago. The school is to be conducted in connection with the Chicago Orchestral Association.

— The one hundred and twenty-seventh anniversary of the fall of the Bastille was celebrated throughout France on July 14. In Paris English troops made their first parade appearance in the city since the Battle of Waterloo.

— Professor Metchnikoff, celebrated Russian bacteriologist, died recently in his apartments at the Pasteur Institute in Paris at the age of 71 years. Professor Metchnikoff became famous through his advocacy of the sour-milk cure for old age.

— Thomas M. Osborne has been acquitted of the charges of misconduct preferred against him by the State of New York and reappointed warden of the Sing Sing State prison. Mr. Osborne resigned the position some time ago, following his indictment on seven different counts.

— An ocean steamer recently left the United States, carrying more than 800 automobiles of various makes, bound for an Australian port. Australia has heretofore bought few cars, owing to bad roads there. This consignment, however, is said to be the largest that was ever transferred by one ship to a single market.

— Maj.-Gen. George W. Goethals will give up his post of governor of the Panama Canal Zone on December 1. He has urged that his resignation be accepted in order that he might retire to private life. At a conference between President Wilson and Secretary Baker on July 12 it was decided that his wish should be granted.

— The citizens of Bucyrus, Ohio, convinced by the arguments of the women of the town that the profane language which they were in the habit of using was not only lowering to themselves, but also set a bad example to the younger generation, have formed an anti-profanity club, whose membership is said to be steadily increasing.

— Owing to the killing of several bathers on the New Jersey coast by man-eating sharks, the government and local authorities have begun a campaign to kill the dangerous fish. Several already have been caught. The sharks are believed to have strayed from the Gulf Stream, some of them even entering fresh water creeks and rivers along the coast.

— Inasmuch as postage stamps are not always available to soldiers, sailors, and marines when in active service, the United States Post Office Department has arranged to transport unstamped letters sent out by them, provided they are marked “Soldiers’ Letters” and bear the signature of some officer in command. The department requires, however, that persons receiving letters of this kind shall pay an amount equivalent to the postage upon their delivery.

— The International Reconstruction League is the name of a new organization which has grown out of the experiences of the great war. Its three paramount objects are thus defined: “(1) Immediate relief work for the suffering war victims of Europe, this work to be continued so long as the war may last; (2) American aid for the stricken peoples of Europe when they turn from war to the task of rehabilitation of their devastated homelands; (3) A plan to educate public opinion as to the practicability of a world-wide arrangement that will insure a lasting peace, with a view to pledging America to its support.” It has, as this indicates, an ambitious program. It is to be wide reaching in its ramifications. The American committee of the league has for its honorary president Charles W. Eliot, and includes in its membership five State governors, four United States Senators, the consul-general of Serbia, ten heads of American universities and colleges, and editors, bankers, and members of relief organizations.