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...Kresge however, stated other reasons. "I gave it," he said, "because I believe the work of the League is going to make a better country. If the so-called good people of this country will stop drinking, the bootlegger, the rumrunner and corollary evils will disappear...
...Observers have spoken of China as the merry-go-round of the world. In this strange land presidents, emperors, and governments fall one day, and rise no more; kings are imprisoned, railways are commandered, and treasuries disappear where no auditor can trace them...
...very dreary. In goes on for hours and hours and then it gets worse. Strange manifestations pile up. Lights flicker, screams resound, bodies pop up everywhere, Hymns are sung off stage, the bodies that have popped up disappear, and then what do you suppose? It all turns out to be a mean fraud staged by the wicked silk smugglers to scare people away from the scene of their activities. Mercy, we were nonplussed...
Casting aside the superficial resemblance of such privacy to that of an opium den, one may wonder at it nevertheless. Smoking, among men atleast, depends for its existence upon its sociability; if it were considered proper to smoke only in absolute privacy the habit would soon disappear. Nor is the masculine smoking room usually a place of retreat from the world: it is usually one of hospitality, if not downright conviviality. To an old story, however, it will now be necessary to make an addition. The Princeton man lights first your cigarette and then his; the Yale man lights first...
...Presbyterian Church of the U. S. suspends its members when they disappear, when no trace of them is found for many years. Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly, announced last week that the church had put the names of 67,060 of its members on the suspended list last year. In spite of this, the number of communicants enrolled was the largest the church has known, the donations per person the most generous yet recorded...