NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering ON OCTOBER 22 the first definite public step was taken to establish the postal savings banks authorized by the bill passed at the last session of Congress. The Board of...
...The importance of satisfactory tariff relations between the countries, becomes apparent when import and export figures are known...
...Canada made a few concessions to the United States, which had already been granted to France, and in return its goods were accorded the minimum rates of the Payne Bill...
...Professor Edward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin...
...Notable Lecturers Engaged "The Iastitute comprises," according to this bulletin, "1...
...Mayor Seidel, Milwaukee...
...Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" died in her home at Middletown, Rhode Island, on October 17, at the age of 91 years...
...The subjects to be considered include city organization and government, criminology and criminal justice, poverty, the defective classes in a commonwealth, philanthropy in all its phases, dependent children, the problem of unemployment, the city housing problem, municipal health departments...
...The work of the great scientists who have had charge of the Institute since its founding so pleased Mr...
...Rockefeller gave $200,000 to establish the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City...
...The value of the goods purchased by this country from the Dominion for that year was $113,150,778...
...The "old guard" is not showing wild enthusiasm in support of the Republican ticket and the Republican registration, for the election in November, shows a decided falling off in New York City...
...Mo?t of this has been given to various educational institutions and funds, notably to the University of Chicago...
...Altogether the balloon was in the air 70 hours and traveled nearly 1,000 miles, going as far north as Nantucket Island, Mass...
...Postal Banks by January The board of trustees, with the assistance of government experts in the treasury department, is now completing the preliminary work of providing equipment, a method of accounting, etc...
...individuals as they now live and work, those who have been instrumental in establishing this Institute, which has been made possible at this time by the generosity of one of Milwaukee's citizens, seek to learn and to apply more perfectly the laws of SCIENTIFIC PHILANTHROPY to the conduct of public and private affairs in the city...
...Rockefeller...
...After months of negotiations, a compromise between Canada and the United States was arranged and a tariff war averted...
...then had conspired to deadlock the passage of any legislation on the subject in order to give the water power interests a better chance to grab the sites along the route of the proposed waterway, so that when that project is begun, they may profit by the state's work...
...and a serum effective in cerebrospinal meningitis, a children's disease at times becoming epidemic, which until recently was regarded as almost incurable...
...A large part of the orange crop of Florida and the crops of other sections in the storm region were destroyed...
...Tariff Relations with Canada Negotiations are now under way for the purpose of formulating a reciprocal tariff treaty between the United States and Canada...
...It is now probable that a truly reciprocal tariff arrangement will be effected and that each country will give to the other its most favorable tariff terms...
...Famous Libel Suit Called An echo of one of the many bitter controversies which occurred while Theodore Roosevelt was President, was heard on October 21, when the so-caiied "Panama libel suit" of the United States government against the Press Publishing Company of New York was called for argument in the Supreme Court...
...Anna Garlin Spencer, interested in many humanitarian movements...
...ships were wrecked, and many people perished...
...Graham Taylor, and Raymond Robins of Chicago...
...After the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, with its maximum and minimum provisions, was passed, a tariff war with Canada became imminent because of a treaty between France and, the Dominion by which the European republic was given the benefit of lower duties on its exports to Canada...
...management and methods of prisons, reformatories, and children's institutions...
...the liquor tax law enforced as provided in that statute itself, and a systematic effort made tt stop the collection of graft by the police...
...A weekly Friday evening lecture course on Municipal Functions and Problems, beginning in October and ending in March...
...The wind, which at times reached a velocity of eighty miles an hour, caused the ocean to sweep over sea walls, partially inundating many coast cities...
...At the time this agreement was made, Canada was generally regarded as having profited most thereby...
...News Notes Henry George, Jr., son of the famous advocate of the "single tax," has been nominated by the Independence League and endorsed by the Democratic party, as a candidate for Congress iv the 17th New York District, now represented by William S. Bennett...
...During the summer the death rate of infants in the great metropolis is enormous, due to the hot weather, impure milk and bad sanitary conditions which surround the dwellers of the tenements...
...Church organizations have also received subtantial monetary help from Mr...
...This course will include addresses on all lines of municipal government, both of law and of administration, by experts of national reputation and usefulness...
...The newspaper contends that the United States government has no direct interest in the suit and that there is no basis for action in a federal court...
...A civil service law would make impossible the building of a political machine out of incompetent and corrupt officeholders...
...Canada buys more goods from the United States than from England, the "mother country...
...For the year ending March 31 last, exports from the United States to Canada amounted to $223,501,809...
...Congressman Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, several months ago elected from a "rock-ribbed" Republican district of Massachusetts on a platform based on opposition to the...
...citizens treated respectfully...
...In Chicago these conditions are in a measure alleviated by the free distribution of ice to the needy, during the hot weather...
...reaping thereby a profit of $36,000,000.' The publication of this charge aroused President Roosevelt and on the ground that the article was libelous and that it was circulated in the government reservation at West Point, which is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress, action was brought in the federal courts through the Department of Justice...
...Howe began writing when only IT years old and was actively interested is many social and economic movements...
...Exports to Canada were, for the most part, manufactured goods...
...Millions for Medical Research A gift that vrill be of immense practical value was made by John D. Rockefeller on October 17...
...The next year, he gave a million dollars to the Institute in order to extend its power for good, and at various times after that he gave large sums...
...It is said that Mr...
...the source of yellow fever...
...Governor Deneen stated that a company, organized a few days after the adjournment of the extra session of the legislature, had already obtained fifty-year franchises in fourteen Illinois valley cities for heat, light, and power, and is now seeking to get hold of the sites at the five points on the route of the proposed deep waterway where power will be created...
...University Arranges Social Conference A novel extension of the work of the University of Wisconsin was begun in Milwaukee on the night of October 17, in the form of an "Institute of Municipal and Social Service...
...George, who is supported by both the Independence and Democratic parties...
...Political Miscellany The voters of Illinois will have an opportunity to register their opinion, for the purpose of guiding the next legislature, on an initiative and referendum let and a state-wide civil service law...
...Douglas Robinson, as brother-in-law of Mr...
...The Board of trustees appointed by the President to superintend the installation of a banking institution which has been a substantial benefit to the people of most European nations, certified a list of 48 second-class postoffices where the banks will first be opened...
...In all probability postal banks will begin operation in the 48 designated cities late in December or early in January...
...In these places the actual operation of the system will be watched, and when it begins to work smoothly other postoffices will be designated for the opening of banking departments...
...For several months it has been known that Mayor Gaynor intends to reorganize the police force of New York City, and so the resignation of the police commissioner of the city, on the 20th, at the mayor's request, occasioned little surprise...
...Physicians and nurses will be kept in constant attendance at these places, to instruct mothers in the proper cue of their children...
...The research made possible by these gifts has resulted in the discovery of the hookworm, a parasite which has done much to prevent the rapid industrial, social, and moral advance of the Southern States...
...Already several meetings have been held, and the size of the audiences present is sure proof of the need of, and popular interest in, such an Institute...
...Pure Milk for New York The budget committee of the board of estimate of New York City decided in a meeting on October 18, to establish pasteurization stations for milk throughout the city next summer...
...That a parcels post can be secured against the opposition of the great express companies is a matter of doubt, at the present time...
...He declared that the police force itself must be made law-abiding...
...The list of speakers includes many notable names—Mayor Brand Whitlock, Toledo...
...Hitchcock opposes action at this time because the postal savings bank is just being introduced and he believes that the establishment cf a parcels post at the same time, would hopelessly swamp the post-office department with work, endangering the success of both institutions...
...and a special course for visiting and instructing nurses...
...Roosevelt, then President, and Charles Taft as brother of William Taft, then Secretary of War, and now President, were asserted by the paper to have exercised sufficient influence with these officials to effect the sale of the property to the United States for $40,000,000...
...Rockefeller's gifts is increased by this latent benefaction to slightly over $125,000,000...
...Postmaster General Hitchcock is now preparing his annual report, and, according to a Washington dispatch of October 18, he will make no recommendation in it for the establishment of the parcels post...
...While none of the large cities of the country are included in the list, the communities designated are regarded by the trustees as good ground for the development of postal savings banks, because many of them are industrial centers where workers must have absolute safety for their savings, and also because there is a lack of adequate banking facilities, of any kind, at the present time...
...Rockefeller that on October 17 he endowed it again—this time with a gift of $3,820,000, bringing the total amount bestowed upon the institute to $8,240,000...
...Although Theodore Roosevelt and the progressives of New York State are laboring hard to insure a Republican victory in the fall elections, there is much uncertainty as to the result...
...The brewers, railroad interests and standpatters of Kansas are said to have combined to fight against the reelection of Governor Stubbs, and the progressive Congressmen of the state...
...These measures are regarded by many progressives in Illinois as the only cure for the corruption in state government...
...Believing that the need ia great for expert service with respect to the above purpose, particularly in the care of the unfortunate and defective, in the prevention of crime and vice, and in the lessening of" poverty, not only through the change of economic conditions but also by raising the power of...
...The list includes one postoffice in each state and territory...
...In 1901, Mr...
...2. An afternoon and evening course, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of each week from October to March, which will include lectures, class conferences, supervised readings, obser-Tational visits to institutions and societies, together with field study, and for those so electing, an examination and efficial statement of standing...
...A hurricane which began on the 16th devastated Cuba, Key West, part of Florida, and worked havoc in many seaport towns of the southern states...
...The case grew out of the publication by the Xew York World of a story to the effect that Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson, William Nelson Cromwell, J. Pierpont Morgan, and others, acting through an American syndicate obtained control of the securities of the French company which owned the Panama Canal route and its properties, for the approximate sum of $3,000,000...
...He declared that the state must conserve its resources in this instance, by buying for its own use the sites now so eagerly sought by the great water power combine...
...The dirigible balloon America, manned by Walter Wellman and a crew of five, which left Atlantic City on the 15th in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean was blown about by the winds until October 18, when the steamer Trent rescued the party from their disabled craft, near Cape Hatteras...
...Payne tariff law, has been nominated by his party for governor...
...a reduction made in the number of petty and needless rests...
...The total amount of Mr...
...The purpose of the Institute, as set forth in a bulletin of the University, "is to establish in Milwaukee a center of study, information, and training in social reform, social welfare, and municipal efficiency...
...Parcels Post Agitation Renewed Now that a postal banking system has been secured, advocates of a parcels post are displaying great activity...
...Deneen Farors State Power Sites Governor Deneen of Illinois at Jacksonville on October 22 charged that the bi-partisan gang which controlled the last session of the legislature had carried on a newspaper campaign of miffrepresentation of his deep waterway project...
...The Institute is intended not only for those professionally engaged in charitable, reformatory, institutional and municipal work, but "Public spirited citizens in general who are bettering political and educational conditions and wish to know how they may help individuals more wisely, and improve social environment more radically...
...In appointing a new commissioner the mayor outlined his plans for the re-organization of what is said to be one of the most corrupt police forces of American cities...
...The district is normally standpat Republican, but the progressives of the district hope to elect Mr...
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