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...national scope of the shortage makes for the same conclusion?that an emergency has arisen rather than that a nation-wide blunder has been committed. Los Angeles is most hard put, proportionately, with 16% of 164,000 pupils unseated. Chicago needs desks for 12% of 400,000. In Manhattan, where the hue and cry clamors loudly enough about the ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must...
...live anywhere in the U. S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, or northwestern South America, you can see, w. p. (weather permitting), at least part of a total eclipse of the sun. If you are fortunate enough to be within a curvilinear zone about 100 miles wide, which grazes the coast of Southern California and sweeps through the heart of Mexico, you will see the whole face of Old Sol obscured by the moon's shadow for a few brief moments - a sight which has not been visible in the United States since June...
...conference of the Gold and Silver Committee called by Senator Oddie is to consider means of stimulating production, which has fallen off since the Treasury ceased its purchases at the artificial price of one dollar an ounce. The depression in the silver industry is world-wide however. Since the War production has never come within 10% of its pre-war quantity. Senator Oddie points out that since silver is largely a by-product of copper, lead and other mines, the depression of silver prices is likely to increase the prices of most non-ferrous metals...
...father and was brought up by an elder brother, who later became a soldier. Baron Kato's life was identified with the Navy from an early age; at the time of the Russo-Japanese War he was 43. He was known to be a competent officer in a wide sense of the term; his painstaking knowledge gave him an uncanny grasp of naval affairs and won him the position of Chief of Staff to Admiral Togo, famed idol. From then on his success was assured...
...eclipse is 7 minutes, 58 seconds, and this occurs only under very exceptional circumstances. The solar eclipse of September, 1922, observed in Australia, lasted about five minutes, while that of 1918 was only two minutes long. The " belt of totality " of the coming eclipse will be about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points?Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence...