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...American force was made up of about 100 members, and of these about 50 remained in Moscow. But aside from this organization there were perhaps 30,000 or 40,000 Russians assisting in the work, many of them volunteers in their local communities and many of them attendants paid by the Government. Though there were other nations participating in the relief work, the American organization, Mr. Coolidge said, carried on about nine-tenths of the foreign work. He added that the Soviet Government itself was doing extensive work of their own in the way of relief, and that...
...great man college graduates feel that they can not afford to give the time necessary to taking an active interest in politics. This, however, is an excuse which is usually made n honest ignorance of the amount of time involved. Any man can join a local political club and take part in the conferences of the party and in the formulation of its principles without in any way sacrificing his private affairs. More than ninety percent of the man engaged at the present time in active politics in this country are professional or business men. This is true...
...Such functions as these are the responsibility of the man's own community, working through the local chapter or branch. These local organizations assume the responsibility which has been placed upon them by the Government, to give men in the military and contract hospitals certain forms of service which are not supplied by the Government." Mr. Rotch went on to enumerate the many other services which the Red Cross took into its hands. In finishing he said that "aside from its other duties, the Red Cross is recognized as the agency equipped and ready to meet any great disasters that...
...with Dartmouth on May 20 and with Amherst on May 26 will both be played on neighboring links but the next day the team will go to providence to face Brown. The regular season will close on May 30 when the team will meet Yale at one of the local links, but its final test will be the Intercollegiates, which are to be held on June 20 at Garden City, Long Island...
...province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs of the silk worm have been distributed to the local farmers, and an entirely new method of reeling the skeins has been adopted, so that within the last two years 80 percent of the silk production of this province has been revolutionized to the great satisfaction of the American mills, and to the profit of the Cantonese producers...