Special Sunday afternoon services for girls are held in one of the large churches of Colorado Springs. A newspaper re port concerning one of these meetings, says that Miss Aientson, manager of a local beauty parlor, was the speaker of the day and “explained many points in the care of the hair.’’ We will not say that this was not a religious service, for it may be that the speaker took a text from the Bible—such as “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” The Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. have kindly proposed the translation of “The Shorter Bible”- (by Prof. Kent) into the Chinese language for the use of the mis sionaries. This is the bloodless Bible gotten out for those of very refined senses. Missouri medical schools are in a bad fix. The State has always furnished them bodies for their dissection and an atomical work from the prisons and alms houses. The supply has fallen off so that the work is crippled and they are blaming it to the prohibition amendment. This is a very serious matter. Murders and suicides in America rose from 1900 to 1920 from 5 annually in 100,000 population to 9 in that num ber. Milwaukee had only 2y2; Memphis, 55; New York, strangely, only 5, while Washington had 14; Seattle 10; Los An geles, 9%. And the ineffectiveness of law is' shown by about two murderers in a hundred finally caught. John V. Farwell, the noted Chicago merchant, who is also a bank director and on the board of directors of the Chi cago & Northwestern Railway, says: “I would as soon employ a youth who steals sheep as the one who smokes cigarettes. One is no more to be trusted than the other.” Here are the religious 'affiliations of the President, Vice President, and cab inet members: Harding, Hughes and Davis, Baptist; Mellon and Hays, Pres byterian; Coolidge, Congregational; Weeks, Unitarian; Daugherty, Methodist; Denby, Episcopal; Wallace, United Pres byterian; Hoover, Quaker; and Fall, unaffiliated. There are two men in the United States who have incomes above $3,000,-
000 . a year; 28 above $ 2 , 000 ,::? and 13 between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Es timating the population of the United States at 105,000,000 there is one million aire for every 2100 inhabitants, accord ing to the World Almanac. Two statements concerning conditions in France, recently published, harmon ize with the findings of Dr. D. N. Kress, of Washington, D. C., Dr. Brodie of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and other experts on the effect of tobacco upon national life. . Here is the first statement: “It has been estimated that the war increased the number of smok ers in France by 10,000,000.” Here is the second: “The population of France has been reduced by 4,000,000 through the war. This includes losses through infant mortality and the falling of thé birth raté.” As" the actual loss of life in the war was about 1 , 000 , 000 , the loss from infant mortality and decreasing birth rate is nothing short of startling. The physicians above referred to both say that in many instances nicotine- soaked men and women can not become the parents of healthy children, while many such can not become parents at all. Few people realize the power the Vat ican has. No government has jurisdic tion over it and it seeks jurisdiction over every country and is rapidly winning it. The Vatican is immune and “extra-terri torial” in the eyes of the Italian govern ment. All action by Italian authority stops at the gates. The Italian govern ment does not tax, subpoena or exercise any authority over the Vatican or its in habitants. The pope, however, when cases of law-breaking within the confines of his domain come to light, makes it a policy to turn the evil-doers over to the Italian authorities, but he claims to have the power to try and punish them if he so desires. All consignments to the Vatican are duty free, and all letters ad dressed to the pope from anywhere in Italy require no stamps. The many tel egrams to the Vatican authorities are sent gratis to all parts of the world. The Vatican maintains its own protection and police, namely, the Swiss guards, the papal gendarmes and the guardian nobile.
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