p. 2 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1916

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Figures recently made public show that more than 1,000 persons were killed and about 8,000 injured in automobile accidents in American cities since January 1.

— An experimental mail-carrying aeroplane service is to be established between Chicago and New York. It is expected that the aeroplane will leave Chicago at 6 A. M. and reach New York at about 4 P. M.—or ten hours, as against twenty-one hours now.

— The increase in wages throughout the country is much greater in dry States than in wet. Government reports covering a recent ten-year period show that in prohibition States wages were increased 103 per cent. in near-prohibition States 77 per cent., in partial license States 75 per cent., and in license States 61 per cent.

— Arrangements have been completed, at New Iberia, La., to operate a factory to make paper out of the refuse sugar cane stalks after the juice has been taken out. These stalks have hitherto been burned. Fine paper is made in Russia out of sunflower stalks. Paper is now so high that the results of the new factory will be eagerly watched.

— The “Gull Foss,” a steamer of 880 tons, owned by the Icelandic Steamship Company, and flying the Danish flag, arrived at New York harbor a few days ago with a cargo of herring. This little steamer is said to be one of the first to come from that country since the time of Lief the Lucky. The prevailing high prices paid for foods of all sorts have brought great prosperity to the island.

— The estimated potato crop of the United States is about 318,000,000 bushels this year. This is nearly 46,000,000 bushels less than the estimate of a month ago, and is hardly enough to supply the needs of the people until potatoes grow again. Unless housewives exert great care in using only what they actually need, they will have to pay excessively high prices, and possibly go without before spring, experts say.

— Bids will be opened in Washington on December 6 for the construction of four battle cruisers for the United States Navy. They are to be modern wonders, greater in every respect than any other vessel now afloat. They are to be 850 feet long, have a displacement of 35,000 tons, a speed of from thirty to thirty-five knots, and are to carry ten fourteen-inch guns as their main batteries. Each vessel will cost at least $20,000,000.

— What is likely to be the world’s greatest proving ground for large ordnance is to be created in the southern part of New Jersey for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. This concern is to purchase from the State of New Jersey 300 acres of timberland which is in the heart of the 20,000-acre tract that the corporation is to use for its testing shop. The site runs for about eighteen miles along the Great Egg Harbor River, and is much larger than the famous proving grounds of the Krupp concern.

— Sunday schools are becoming more and more recognized as an important department of the church. The population of North America is about 109,000,000. Of this number 18,000,000 are enrolled in Sunday schools, leaving 91,000,000 who are not in Sunday schools, and who are probably doing very little in the way of Bible study. In the United States there are about 12,000,000 children of school age in Protestant Sunday schools. The Roman Catholics have 1,310,000 children in 20,000 parochial schools, where they are trained in the religion of that church. It is said that there are 15,000,000 children of school age who are out of the Sunday school, and who are practically receiving no religious training. There are about 35,000,000 people over ten years of age in this country who are not members of any church.