STUDENTS TO
PICK UP STUDY
LOSTBY WAR
LONDON, Jan. 2 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—The prob
lem of how young students are to
“pick up the lost years of war” after
having served with the colors, so that
they shall not suffer for having
obeyed the call of duty, is being
solved by universities, colleges, pro
fessional institutions and the appoint
ments branch of the ministry of la
bor, in different ways.
The University of London is allow
ing such students to pass a simple ex
amination of a personal character in
stead of matriculation, while the In
terval between the intermediate ex
aminations and the prescribed courses
of study will be shortened. “War de
grees” will also be granted to stu
dents who joined the forces just be
fore their final examination in a fac
ulty other than medicine. These de
grees will be placed on a special list
with the word “war” after the short
titles “M. A.,” “B. A.,” or others.
Twelve British prisoners while in
Ituhleben camp, in Germany, passed
the London University’s matriculation
examination, and others took immedi
ate examinations for degrees in sci
ence. engineering and economics.
The Law Institute is caring for its
young legal students by having passed
the “solicitors’ articled clerks act,”
whereby students who have been ar
ticled may count the period of war
service as part time under articles.
The Institute of Chartered Account
ants already has planned similar re
duction of time for serving while the
Royal Institute of British Architects
has decided to allow “war” students
to forego final examination, provided
they pass the intermediate one.
Orders have been introduced into
the by-laws of the Institution of Civil
Engineers which will allow students’
war service to count as having ful
filled a similar time in study, appren
ticeship or other practical engineering
service.
The appointments branch of the
ministry of labor has obtained grants
from public funds toward thOj training
expenses of demobilized officers and
men who desire financial aid to pre
pare for a particular vocation.
COTTON SPINNING IS
PROFITABLE IN ENGLAND
MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 21
(by mail).—Cotton spinning has been
a profitable industry during the year
ending November 30. An analysis ol
the returns of forty companies shows
a total profit of £576,134 on the year's
working, or an average of £14,403,
against £5,085 per company in 1917.
At er allowing for depreciation and
interest, the profit works out at over
3-1 pci cent on the capital stock, com
pared wit h 13 per cent last year.
The hr ight of prosperity is said to
have bee. reached in July and August,
when the profit for spinners was ab
normally wide. Since then there has
been a reduction in earnings.
PRETTY PRESS
AGENT DOING
GOOD WORK
JUAREZ, Mexico, Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mexico is as modern
as she is ancient.' General JeBus Au
gustin Castro, the new commander-in
chief of the Northeastern military
zone, not only has a woman press
agent, but a pretty one, to see that
the general's campaign against the
Villa forces receives proper attention
from the Mexican and American bor
der newspapers.
She is Senorita Teresa Rodriguez,
daughter of a prominent Mexican pol
itician of Mexco City, who came north
soon after General Castro was re
lieved from active duties as sub-sec
retary of war to conduct a campaign
against the bandits in the north. Se
norita Rodriguez does not speak ,a
word of English, yet she succeeded
in having her photograph and a
sketch of General Castro printed in
all the American border papers as
soon as she arrived in Chihuahua City,
to begin her publicity campaign for
the Mexican commander.
Yet Senorita Rodriguez said, in her
most liquid Spanish, she did not wish
to exert what the Americans callel
“petticoat influence” to get her stories
printed.
‘ Why should not the Mexican adopt
the best the Americans have origi
nated?” she said at military head
quarters to the Associated Press cor
respondent.
“The much-abused press agent has
served a very useful purpose in pre
senting to the public the good fea
tures of every worthy movement, ev
ery campaign conducted by military
or political leaders, and even your
President Wilson recognized this when
he appointed a director of publicity.
“General Castro does not order me
to have his deeds and pictures pub
lished, although he has done many
brave deeds and is a striking military
man. What he instructs me to do,
especially on the American side of the
border, is to correct many false im
pressions subsidized Mexican papers
have given the American public about
Mexican and the internal conditions.
In doing this I feel I am serving my
coqjitry gjid, besides, 1 enjoy the
work.”
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TO DIVIDE LANDS OF
MEXICO AMONG RANCHERS
—
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A project for the di
vision of national lands of Mexico
among small farmers and ranchers is
expected to be presented by President
Carranza to the present session of
the Mexican congress. It is proposed
to organize agricultural colonies with
state support and supervision in the
states of Coahuila, Nueva Leon, Chia
pas and Chihuahua. The plan involves
the development of irrigation pro
jects which already have been pro
posed by the department of develop
ment and to comprise conservation of
natural resources.
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HUN LANGUAGE
IN SCHOOLS
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The teaching of the
German language in Milwaukee grade
schools may disappear entirely when
the new semester begins this month.
In only one school in the city now
is German being taught, and, under
the resolution of the school board
abolishing foreign language instruc
tion, it would be discoi^rmed at the
end of the term in June.i
In 1916 two hundred jjpchers were
employed to give instfitttion in the
German language to 30,oSLpupils, and
at the end of 1918 only ftie teacher
was employed to instruct 400 pupils
in the German language.
One of the final instances in connec
tion with the elimination of German
instruction came with the recent an
nouncement that Leo Stein, assistant
superintendent of schools in charge
of the foreign language "department,
had resigned. The school board last
August voted to abolish: the foreign
language department at the end of
the present year. Mr. Stern’s term
expires June 30. Mr. Sti^i in his let
ter to the school board said that
after a service of thirty-five years in
the Milwaukee schools he felt that he
was “entitled to a rest.’’
Mr. Stern was president of the Wis
consin branch of the German-Ameri
can Alliance from the time of its or
ganization, in 1906, until it was dis
banded in 1917. He was also at one
time a vice president of the national
organization.
WOMAN FINDS CURE
FOR SLEEPLESSNESS
A woman writer in a London paper
says she has found a cure for sleep
lessness. She calls it “Ay-zed,” be
cause it has to do with the letters of
the alphabet. The title may puzzle
Americans who are not aware that
“ay” is the sound a cockney gives to
the first letter of the Alphabet and
that “zmT^is^jpjv^ Ujj^^g^iob pro
“Tonight, say, you are wakeful. Re
view your friends: How many men
or women you have known or do you
know whose Christian names begin
with A? I prescribe Christian names
because they are more lovable and
listable than surnames. You will find
that it is like what we are told of
drowning—all your life will pass be
fore you in a vision till you sink bliss
fully beneath the waves of sleep be
fore one letter is disposed of.”
WILL REBUILD ROAD
DESTROYED BY BANDITS
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Rails and ties are en
route to Mexico City for the recon
struction of the railway between the
capital and Cuernavaca, which lias
been virtually destroyed during the
last few years as the result of bandii
depredations.
LARGE FOREST RESERVE
SET ASIDE IN HAWAII
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HONOLULU, Jan. 8 (by mail).— j:
Governor C. J. McCarthy has issued a :•
series of proclamations setting aside •:
as forest reserves 40,000 acres of :•
land in this vicinity, more than half •:
of which is on the island of Hawaii. :i
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