Search

The article presents updates from the U.S., as of October 5,1911. U.S. President William Howard Taft's experiences prove absolutely that there is nothing the matter with the manners of Kansas. His presence in the enemy's country has been everywhere attended by exhibitions of that fierce joy which warriors feel. When Kansas disagreed with U.S. President's speeches, it told him so. On the U.S. educational front, the new Provost of Pennsylvania, Professor Edgar F. Smith, made an inauspicious beginning on Friday of last week by assailing the gilded butterflies that flit through college. How can he hope to be a popular president if he insists that a university is not the place to idle in genteelly for four years? He actually asserted that no loafers should be permitted to come to any college.

The article presents information on the political and social conditions of the U.S. With passage of the President's gold bill events are expected to move rapidly toward definite devaluation and the creation of a machine to handle the government's two-billion dollar stabilization fund. The purpose of the stabilization fund is admittedly to check any appreciation of the dollar on the foreign exchanges, just as the purpose of the British Exchange Equalization Account is to hold down the value of the pound. While 30,000 striking workers picketed collieries in the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, seeking recognition of their independent United Anthracite Miners, the powerful organization which the insurgents have been fighting, the United Mine Workers of America, held its annual meeting at Indianapolis and studiously avoided any mention of the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre difficulties.

Presents several letters to the editor, on social conditions of the U.S. Treatment of Negroes, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Places of worship in schools.

Presents several letters to the editor focusing on various socio-economic activities in the U.S. Argument regarding passing a part of the onus of disposing a substantial amount of bushels to the Community Chests of the U.S.; Collection of a relief fund for the families of prisoners namely Peter Zigarec and Michael Phillipovich who were killed by coal-and-iron police of Pennsylvania; Account of a movement to honor the memory of late social worker Victor L. Berger by perpetuating his service to minority causes.