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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 5.

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President Taft says of the legal right invested in him by Congress to appoint a commission of five members "to consider the expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for the purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of the world by international agreement, and to consider and report on any other means to diminish the expenditures of government for military purposes and to lessen the probabilities of war," "I have not yet made appointment to this commission, because I have invited and am awaiting the expressions of foreign governments as to their willingness to coöperate with us in the appointment of similar commissions or representatives who would meet with our commissioners and by joint action seek to make their work effective."
A new plaint of Oregon ranchmen is that the moving-picture show is spoiling the cowboys, by inducing them to ride bucking horses, in front of moving-picture cameras, or taking part in an alleged "Western Drama." The old ranchers declare, "The pictures only make ornery cowboys, and give Easterners wrong ideas of life in the cattle country."
In a severe snow-storm, fifty passengers on the Great Northern Railroad were in grave danger of starvation when two trains were stalled for four days, with no dining-coach, in the wilds of Montana.
The government of Bolivia has announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Argentina, and United States is thanked for its part in bringing about a settlement.
"The Chinatown Trunk Mystery," a drama which has been staged in the East and played recently in Portland, Oregon, has been characterizedas "an outrage," "a whirlwind of lust and greed and sin and death." Its managers have been prosecuted.

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The treaty right between China and this country, which provides that citizens of either nation shall be accorded the just treatment that is given citizens of "the most favored nation," may be invoked by the Chinese. Mr. O'Day, the attorney for the Chinese consul, contends that his clients are "warranted in objecting to a drama the central thought of which is hatred for their race, tending to encourage outrages upon them by hoodlums who have seen the play."
Bubonic plague in Manchuria is spreading rapidly. Reports say hundreds of persons are dying daily, and the number of fatalities is increasing. A French plague expert has succumbed to the disease. The Chinese government has appealed to the foreign community for assistance, and four medical missionaries, three British and one an American, have offered their services. It is planned to quarantine the railways and the Great Wall in the hope of arresting the spread of the scourge southward.
No little protest has been aroused in Honolulu by the appointment of a young Japanese lady as teacher of English in the Central Grammar School. While her qualification is not questioned, the reason given is that Honolulu is an American city, and a Christian city as well, and that the mixture of races in the student body does not justify the employment of teachers of an alien race and a different religion.
A most thoro investigation into the financial and administrative management of the thirteen New York State institutions for the insane is being made. Altho the State has been paying for the best supplies, repeated tests have shown the milk and meats furnished have been of inferior quality; and eggs supposed to have been of the "selected" quality, have proved to be scarcely fit for food.
Fifty thousand Orangemen in the Ulster province in Ireland have been enlisted to take arms if home rule is granted to Ireland. According to reports men are being drilled, and preparations are being made to recruit and equip cavalry brigades. The source of the vast amount of money appropriated by the Orangemen's Union for martial preparations is a mystery.
Dr. Edna D. Day of the University of Kansas advocates that connected with colleges and universities there should be a laboratory supplied with babies from orphan asylums, that young women who take domestic science courses may be taught, in advance of matrimony, the science of rearing the baby and the duties of motherhood.
Hon. Charles J. Hughes, Jr., United States Senator from Colorado, died at his home in Denver, Colorado, January 11, after an illness of nearly a year. His death adds importance to the present session of the legislature, which will select a successor.
It is rumored that Japanese in the Philippines are urging their home government to seize the islands before the completion of the Panama Canal, and that the slogan of these radicals is, "War with the United States for the Philippines before 1915 or never."
The introduction of a new bill by Representative Crumpacker of Indiana, chairman of the census committee, provides for a House membership of 435 members, an addition of 44 over the present Congress.
In a special message to the House of Representatives, President Taft asks that $5,000,000 be appropriated at once for the fortification of the Panama Canal.
Eight men met instant death as the result of a boiler explosion aboard the battle-ship Delaware. One other was so badly burned that he will probably die.
Twenty-five passengers were killed in a wreck at Rambouillet, France, caused by a careless employee's leaving a switch open.
James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor last August, has been sentenced to a twelve years' imprisonment.