Current Events and Opinions
"Japan does not want war; she is a peaceful nation," declares Kikichi Mensuro, consul-general of Japan. "But if the Jingoes of America get control of the Government and drive America into a war on Japan, then we will fight to a finish. We will fight so long as we have a gun or a dollar or another life to give; let there be no mistake about that." A noble sacrifice is that of two brothers who through a transfusion operation gave up over a pint each of their blood to their sister who was suffering from pellagra. In Georgia, where this instance occurred, the transfusion method of treating pellagra has never been tried before, altho it is declared to have met with remarkable success in Alabama. Despatches say that seven banks in Shanghai, including three of the largest in China, have failed and a financial panic has resulted. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce telegraphed to the prince regent that unless aid were given at once, many manufacturers would cease operations and more than 300,000 men would be out of work. Theosophists declare that Roosevelt is Cæsar reincarnated, and that he may also have lived in the persons of Alexander the Great and Napoleon, and altho they can not give his astral name, these mystical speculators think Roosevelt may have achieved prominence in world's affairs in other generations. The work of educating the Negro, has progressed so steadily that it is said only 45 per cent of the race in the United States at the present time are illiterate against 83 per cent ten years ago.