Items of General Interest
The "Protective Tariff Cyclopedia," prepared and published by the American Protective Tariff League, New York, will be ready for distribution on or about August 1. The cyclopedia will contain the official text of the Underwood law; the Underwood and Payne-Aldrich laws compared, giving every rate of duty on articles in both laws; what one hundred and fifty-two United States senators and congressmen said for and against the Underwood bill; and a copious index of over 8,000 citations. The volume will consist of about 900 pages, and will answer all questions on the tariff question. At its recent session at St. Paul, Minnesota, the National Education Association, without a dissenting vote, elected Dr. David Starr Jordan as president; and Oakland, California, was selected as the meeting place of the association next year. The announcement has been made by Colonel Goethals, that in compliance with orders given by Secretary of War Garrison, the Panama Canal will be thrown open to the world's commerce on August 15. Two hundred and three separate peace societies make up "The Union of International Peace." It is the plan of this vast peace organization to hold a convention in San Francisco, California, in 1915.