News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1915

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Cigarette users as well as drinking men are to be barred from State employment in Kansas under the rules promulgated by the new State civil service commission.

— The United States submarine F-4, which sank outside the harbor of Honolulu, March 26, was refloated August 29. A thorough investigation will be made to determine the cause of the accident, which cost the lives of twenty-two seamen.

— Encouraged by “the definite assurance of a certain measure of increase in giving,” the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society has authorized the immediate return to the foreign field of fifty-two missionaries now at home on furlough, and has appointed three new missionary families.

— Great Britain has declared cotton an absolute contraband of war, which means that the Allies will take the same step. This action has been a prospective one for some months, owing to the relation of cotton to the manufacture of ammunition in Germany and Austria. The British and French governments, it is expected, will do everything possible to prevent undue depression in this country; nevertheless, the act must affect very seriously the Southern cotton growers.

— In the United States there is one ordained minister for every 600 persons. In the whole non-Christian world there is only one Protestant missionary for every 300,000 persons.

— The coronation of Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, on Nov. 10, 1915, is to be a notable event. He is to be the first ruler of this empire, 2,500 years old, to be coronated in the presence of the representatives of his people.

— Korean Christians are not able to contribute large sums in money, but they gladly give largely of their time to carry the gospel of Christ into communities where he is not known. A recent report shows that these native Christians are now contributing more than 100,000 days yearly for systematic evangelization work in their own country.

— Present indications are that the crops of the United States this year will total $5,300,000,000. The value of the crop of corn is estimated at $1,750,000,000; of the crop of oats at $841,000,000; and the hay crop at $975,000,000; while it is estimated that the wheat harvest alone may be a billion bushels, valued at $1,135,100,000, of which the farmers will get $960,000,000.

— The United States coast guard cutter “Bear” has returned to Nome after carrying the mails to Point Barrow, the most northerly point of Alaska. The captain reports no word had been received at Point Barrow or elsewhere along the coast, of Stefansson, the explorer, who, accompanied by two aids, left Martin Point, west of the mouth of the Mackenzie River, on April 7, 1914, going north over the ice in expectation of reaching new land, or, should that quest fail, of turning east and reaching Banks Land.