News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 22, 1913

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— The steel exports of the United States, Mr. O. P. Austin, assistant chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, announces, now amount to the enormous total of $1,000,000 a day.

— In Sweden, street-car conductors are furnished with rubber hat-pin protectors. When a lady with a hat pin protruding enters a car, she is required to buy one or to get off. The price of them is a halfpenny.

— A serum for the cure of pneumonia has been developed at the Rockefeller Research Institute in New York City, which will soon be given to the public.

— We have in the United States 1,700,000 children under fifteen years of age working in factories, fields, mines, and workshops. What it would mean for the future of our American civilization if this vast army could be in school no one can measure.

— By a vote of 3,665 to 1,552 the city of Colorado Springs, Colo., has adopted a one-day-in-seven rest ordinance. This includes all employees except those caring for the sick, domestic help, and managers of departments when their continuous supervision is necessary. It forbids, also, bolder forms of labor and traffic on the streets and in the stores on Sunday.

A FEW OF THE CAMP-CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, PREPARING TO LIFT THE POLES FOR THE LARGE PAVILION

— Statistics show that in India the number of Christians is steadily increasing, and the knowledge of the Bible is spreading rapidly. Even Hindu and Mohammedan writers are making use of Scripture texts in their writings.