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...telephones are especially advantageous for long distance talking. Efficient long distance telephoning is far ahead in America. Telephone people are so busy giving us the best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE...
...British-Japanese Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) continued static and unfruitful last week despite the holding of a public session at which the position of each of the three delegations was restated unchanged but with polemic fervor. Reduced to elementals, the deadlock could be stated in two stages...
...Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was haggled over in terms of cruisers, last week, because the cruiser is the strongest naval arm which the Parley was called to consider. Because negotiations proceeded wholly in private, last week, it was necessary to piece together from unofficial sources the guiding concepts which each delegation was striving to round...
Future of Nation. In the teachers' trust lies the perpetuity of the U. S. They keep alive George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et aL, for rising generations. So said President Francis G. Blair...
...Born in 1810, she read Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere at the ase of 8 ; attended Groton School; taught in Bronson Alcott's school; became a feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...