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With some idea of finding out If, and when, the Ameriena President where the honest men were to be found mons, as has bon anggested, an In an American magazine prently made a ternational Conference to discuss the test on the lines of the straw ballot question of Debts, he may be surprisedged at the last General Election. to learn that the United States is nót ex- clusively a creditor nation.
Trus, it all happened long before Mr. Coolidga's public day, but
the fact remains that worse of the States incurred international liabilities which they have never fulfilled.
A letter with a dollar bill enclosed was went out to 100 men through the United States. The letter explained that the dollar was rutin adjustment of the errer complained of in our account.” Thirty-eight replied to the letter, and 28 returned the money, Some of the re suits are as follows:➡
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This fact, generally unknown to all but the anförtunate" individual bond. halders. is pointed out by Mr. Alec H. Blair, of East Heath Road, Hampstead, who writes to a London paper as follows: It seems very curious that the U.S.A should have been so anxious for this country to pay off its debt so verj shortly after the war when no fewer than eight" of the United States-Alabaron, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi. North and South (aroline- are themselves in default to a sum oṛigi-
A writer in the Tracters' World com ally apoanting to £12,000,000,"
enting on the result, says: "1 am Details of these defaulted debts, so far gratified that journalists and teachers as they can be traced, are contained in should be so high in the list. I can only the last annual report of the Council of account for the strange lapse of the the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, scientists by attributing it to absentmind- There are no reliable data in respectedness. Whether the experiment was of Ainhama, but the other States in ques- really a test of honesty or not is not so tion are in default to the following up- simple a question as it appears to be." proximate amounts:-
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These loans, largely taken Europe, were mainly contracted on Be count of railways and other public ser vices, and do not include "Confederate
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ENGLISH COURTESY.
An American sends from Utica, Now York, to the Times a few words of up preciation of the courtesy show to strangers in London. He says:-
"I spent three happy, months there the past summer and never met with so No doubt, much civility in my life. many of the questions 1 asked were Geediess and crying, but they were' al- In fact, ways pleasantly answered. Co give assistance. Some even hopped any Londoners went out of their way off one omnibus, pointed out the way. Taking 60 years as an average period and jumped on another. Naval officers, of defauls, and reckoning compound mistaken for trainmch about railway interest at 3 per cent., these eight of stations, were very affable, and took the the United States now owe the rest of matter as a joke and were much more the world more than £200,000,000 belpful than the men whose job it was. The bearer bonds representing the de. Guards, ticket agents, omnibus conduc faulted debts are in the hands of people tors-the last, always said "Thank you" scattered all over the world, and it would in a very nice way when a fare was he impossible to trace the proportion paid-were very polite, and as for the held by British subjects,
fine-appearing, amiling constables. became under the impression that they were there to direct trafic and to help. pedestrians, but never to arrest one.
In any event, the striking fact remains that, whilst the U.S.A. is very anxious for the repayment of its own foreign leans, eight of its constituent States have not, apparently, the slightest intention of fulfing liabilities how approximat ing to a fifth of our own debt to America
Responsibility for the public debts of the individual Southern States was dis owned by the Central fibrernment in the settlement following the civil war of the sixties.
"AN ORGY OF HOMICIDE.".
THE HUGE MURDER ROLL OF AMERICA.
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Americans who travel-there really are polite ones at home have any lessons to learn from English courtesy. It is very pleasant indeed to know there is so much kindness in the world as there is in its finest city."
DOOR OF HISTORY.
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The door could tell some wonderful stories. Near it Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer were burned as the stake!
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The oldest caken door in Britain which hung on the side of Balliol College, Oxford, for over five centuries, has been Americans (says Mr. Frederick found in Great Nelmes, in Essex, after Veni," in the 3em Fück dudependent), being lost for a hundred years. live in an orgy, a revel, a carnival, oi
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No one knows exactly how many Antique Dealers'
who has Associatico, people are murdered in the United States placed it in the windows of the Georgian every year. The Bureau of the Census Galleries, in King Street London. keeps necount of the homiciles that occur There were hundreds of coats of in the "registration "arcá,' which con paint on the old door when we found it,' tams eighty-two per cent of the populaaid Mr. Thomas to the Daily News, tion of the country. In the year 1921, there were 7,315 deaths by violence with in this area, a rate of 9,178 for the e- tire population. Each year there are about 8.5 homicides for every hundred thousand people. In a hundred and filty Sears, if we keep up the present rate, we shall have murdered about 1,300,000 human beings more un have fallen in all the wars of the United States,in the years that it has been a nation.
Chicago had 312 homicides in 1921. 331 in 1999, and 369 in 1922. It is keeping up is "murder a day for 1924. Chicago now leads all of our cities in the nuraber of killings. Now York is a relatively gentle place; in 1921, it reported 340 homicides; in 1922, it had 337, and in 1fe23, only 30s. But Chicago, for all its blood, is far from bing the most mur derous ty the death rate is considered instead
of the total number of deaths. In the entire "registration area
in 1922, the death-rate from homicide was, 84 for every hundred thousand inhabitants. Memphis, Tennessey, stood at the head of the list, with a homicide rate of 674- in 1922, and 60 in 1023. Jacksonville, Florida, was only a little behind. with 1 rate of 81.7 in 1923. A large negro population is always accompanied by a high rate in homicide. In the registen- tion area, the homicide rate for whites was 5.6 in 1922, while for coloured; st stood at the startling figure of 34.7.
America is the most murderous country in the world.
AUTHORS AND INNS
Mr. Pett Ridge's suggestion that in order to keep their names before the public, authors should have public- houses named after themselves," has not bees to any great degréc
Bays the barreer. Four Spated,
Inas are mentioned in the London Direc Lary besides two Shakespeare Heads: there is Ben Johnson Tavern in the Harrow Road which can have only one origin. But the names of the Milton Arg. (Bow), the Macaulay Arms (Ken- sington), and the Thackeray Hotel (Bloomsbury), are not in theraseives con- vincing; nor CAD one safely conclude
that any of the four Goldsmith's Armie
was intended as a hernage to poetry
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Vicar of Wakefield). One won-
a
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