Items of Current Interest
By Editor
THE British government has recently compiled an exhaustive census of India. A staff of about two million persons was employed so as to take the census very quickly. The volume embodying the summary shows that the total population of India, including the native states, is 315,156,396, as against 294,361,056 ten years previously. Of the total population, there are 217,586,892 Hindus, 66,647,299 Mussulmans, 10,721,453 Buddhists, and 3,876,203 professed Christians. THE "bomb industry" in New York began to be a serious menace ten years ago. Only thirteen cases of bomb setting had to be dealt with in 1908. In 1912 the number was fifty-two, and in 1913 it was 145. POPE PIUS has issued a decree forbidding priests to join labor associations. He does this on the ground that these bodies promote class hatred and consequent divisions among Roman Catholics themselves. IT is announced that Mr. Henry Ford, the head of the Ford motor-car company, will devote part of his great fortune to searching for a cure for cancer. FOR a trifling opportunity that "will never come again," it does not pay to sacrifice some great opportunity that is ever present.