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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 35.

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Books and Battle-ships

The delegates at the opening meeting in Reformation Hall
The delegates at the opening meeting in Reformation Hall
More than seventy per cent of all the people in Russia over nine years of age can neither read nor write. Russia spends about six cents per capita for education and about one dollar per capita for battle-ships and naval equipment. If Russia should disband her army and educate her citizenship, she would be much stronger. Japan, by sinking the Russian fleet, has shown to Russia and to the world that it is possible for a nation to get along for a while at least without a navy. The report is that Russia is about to open 143,000 primary schools.—California Christian Advocate.