News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1916

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Almost every year Uncle Sam adds more land to the national forest reserves. So far this year more than 313,000 acres have been purchased, most of it in the Eastern and Southern States. The great bulk of this land, 300,000 acres, lies in the White Mountain districts of Maine and New Hampshire. It is said that this is the first time land has ever been purchased in the State of Maine for national forest purposes.

— A peculiar and interesting ceremony was performed at Yankton, S. Dak., recently. This was nothing less than the conferring of American citizenship on a body of Indians of the Sioux tribe. The Sioux are, or have been, perhaps the most warlike of the tribes of North American Indians, and this ceremony would indicate that they have at length abandoned their warlike habits and are adopting the customs of civilization.

— The circulation managers of native newspapers in China apparently do not have as hard a time of it as their American brethren. In and about Shanghai, for instance, papers are sold two or three times over. Collectors go about gathering up copies of the previous day's issue, redistributing them among the lower-class population. It is said that they are then further distributed by being sent to the villages and country sections, where they are sold for a fraction of a cent apiece.

— For twelve hours a few days ago in New York City a great civic and military parade of 150,000 men and women emphasized their eagerness and solemn earnestness in their demand for national “preparedness” for national defense. The vast throng which comprised this great uprising of the people was not confined to a single walk of life. In one division were the street sweepers in their uniforms of white, while in another were the dignified justices of the supreme court of New York. There also were the clergy—nearly 200, representing every denomination in the nation's greatest city. Lawyers, physicians, trained nurses, veterans of the Spanish-American War,—all were in line. The great civil army began marching at 9:30 A. M., and the last of them had not passed the reviewing stand in Madison Square until 9:30 P. M.