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...Prize with the eminent Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt once called her "America's most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer Charles J. Hull had surrendered to the encroaching slums...
Harvard social service workers, to whom much due credit flows continually, should abandon their lines of settlement houses for a moment and consider the plight of the unfortunate children in their own backyard. Not only does Harvard at present do nothing for the urchins of Allston, that part of the city of Boston which lies under the shadow of the stadium, but by her presence Harvard actually hurts them...
Plague & No Prisoners. The cholera scare at Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 27) had grown to a ghastly actuality last week with 1,600 cases in the International Settlement alone. Reputedly thousands of natives were down with the plague in their Chapei section into which Japanese sent occasional shells and bombs...
...Delaware Bay region was colonized by Sweden nearly 40 years before the pious arrival of long-haired William Penn. In 1638 Sweden's Mayflower, the Kalmar Nyckel, put colonists ashore at what is now known as The Rocks, near the site of the present city of Wilmington. The settlement, named Christina in honor of Sweden's young queen, scarcely got started before it was lost to the Dutch and then to the English. As the prelude to a tercentenary celebration of New Sweden next year, an exhibition of Swedish art opened last week at the International Building...
...Stripes or the Union Jack. Such flags, at latest reports, seemed to have saved considerable Chinese property from Japanese bombs, but tempers were fraying. Meanwhile U. S. Marines joined forces with British police and soldiers to break up a riot by 1,000 native workers striking in the International Settlement at the Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino-Japanese battle sector, just across Soochow Creek, the mill hands demanded a month's salary in advance for working in such dangerous quarters, subsided after 25 strikers were admitted to hospitals "suffering from...