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Health. The League of Nations' Health Committee concluded its sixth session at Paris. The following business was discussed: plan for setting up a permanent health organization, investigation of cancer mortality, epidemilogical intelligence service, plans for fighting malaria on an international scale, Dutch plan to simplify port sanitary regulations, convention for sanitary control of inland waterways...
...Majesty's ship Eiswold sailed into Amsterdam Harbor amid salvos from Dutch cruisers firing a royal salute: King Haakon VII of Norway had come...
After landing at Cherbourg, the group will visit Paris and Versailles, Rome, Perugia, Assissi, Florence, Venice, Milan, Ghent and Bruges, Brussels and Antwerp, the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Haarlem and the Hague, and finally England. The return voyage will be by the "Saxonia", due to arrive in New York, September fourth...
...Prohibition not officially dealt with. Miss Eleanor Rathbone of England stated that " prohibition is not practical politics in England now." Inquiries failed to reveal a single prohibitionist among the French or Italian delegates. All the Dutch delegates were strongly against prohibition. Miss Bertha Lutz of Brazil asserted that the working women of Brazil were " in favor of prohibition on moral grounds, because their husbands spent money on wine...
...town of Repelen, near the Dutch border, decided to impose a tax of 2,000 marks a month upon all bachelors over the age of 18. Young men were to be allowed an abatement of 25% if they were between the ages of 18 and 23. Those with little or no income were to be given immunity. The Federal authorities however, were quick to prick this Repelen bubble. They declared that the question of income tax was a matter for the Federal Finance Ministry in Berlin...