North, south, east and wot meets these rials, and in I the fou or nearing completion:-—
St. Lonix.—The construction going on of a memorial plazn and building group that will cost 00,000, Nebraska—The new—capitol 00,000 was expended propre city will group of etruclures shaft ix ped with a bowl, in burn continuous ich fire will Highway," which runs from Seattle to Tacoma, and is lined with 600 beautiful trees, is one of the Washington's principal menoefriends of vet-crans have contracted for a group of buildings, in the Civie Centre, to cost some Utah—An area of several acres in City Creek Canyon, within the shadow of Utah'e state capitol, has been transformed into a memorial park, Tennesxce-—An imposing. memor. ial in the annex building of the state capitol. (Vanderbilt Univer sity has the Alumni Memorial Hall, which stand: in honour of the inst structure, Florida—Florida has appropriate ed $2,500 annually to be added to system, which claims, by ce-edu tions, to ignore nature and giv equal chances to man and woman, industrial or professional Europe, it is an error to be a woman, crime to be a young woman, Masculine jealousy runs high, ani "Feminine trespassers will be prose-uted" is nailed across every opening, but, in the American mart, sex is immaterial. "If she hax" the guts," a woman can get as far as 8 man, and shell be hammered no worse if no less, than her brothers. In fact, she starts one up on man, for she is more subtle. a fund of $35,000 for use in connexion with a Department of Ame canism at the University.
Alabanra—At Montgomery there is a hospital, which cost $500,000, in memory of service men, A new bridge, constructed at a cost of $500,000, spans the Alabama River fon the Birmingham and Montgomery Highway, and will. probably be known as Memorial Bridge.
Comicctient—This state has many memorials, but the latest is a large hospital at Manchester morials, among them buildings at Athol and Lowell.
This is one of the but its two impres-are a million-dollar the city of, a large library at New York.—Many small memoris ave already in existences, and others, estimated to cost about '$16,- 000,000 are in the planning stage. (Binghempton, N, ¥., has erected a bridge over the' Chenango River, while Penn Yan is the site of a soldiers' and sailors' hospital), Penasylemnia.—This state intends to extend its memorials to France, where tributes will be erected five plices ai which troops from the state fell in sction. (Pittsburgh has dedicated its memorial bull ans of al ware, state has also appropriated $5,000,- 600 for a suitable public remem prance).
Equally impressive memorials are in Michigan. Wisconsin and other states of the Midite West, which, of course, was the great pro-German contre of the country at the ime the war, The above ix a list made up si random. There are merous other memorials, of a pubs lic, private and semi-private charac. tet, but the greatest of them all and that upon which centre the thoughts of those who remember America's dead, is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Washingt ional Inconsistency While there can be no doubt that the rising generation will have abundant evidence in these remark. able memorials, that Ameriew hat a good deal todo with the World War, it cannot be denied that the offices! attitude of the United States toward: the World Court has ad= vertised American timidity in inter affairs. Ax the only coun:
in the world that has' place! imitations on itx support of the World Court, the U.S, A, is show. me that Uhre must be something. of a lack of confidence among: Americans as to their own international n. It ix, moreover, veasonable to xappove that the American youth of to-day, when it arrives at the period it will be ab ined what these cost Is stand for, will be led to wonder at the inconsistency of the nation—that will erect all over the country such costly exhibitions of its pride in the part it took in the World War, and yet at the same time refuse wholeheartedly to enter a World Court fas one object and one only, Ir, the mi nee of peace between man wan the world Lowe Willi ysdon's speech at a 1 tifin of the Anglo-American Association is not well received by the Peking Chinese papers.—The "Chen Pao" says that he is still vague about the disposal of the British Boxer Indemnity, while the Huang Pao! and the Shick Huai Pao" eviticize him for his alleged arvulity. The "Shik Chick Jik Pao" sacs no evidence of Sino-Britis cooperation in the resignation of Dry Ting from the Commission to sume the mayoralty of Shanghai, the departure of Dr. Ware ave and the ip ty Manchuria, Tue age old question of why is man fat' is to be answered by scientists working in new labourate being constructed for the medical school of St: Thomas's Uospital, London. Dietetic questions will be specialized in, and the cipal one is why, on a given quant of food, one man will retain his mal "figure, another will lose and a third will become fat.
Hugh Maclean, head of the hospital' medical clinis, will have charge of the investigation,
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