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Washington, Feb. 5.
Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the U. S. Army: Service, who paid an extended visit} China last year, spending, most of his time in Shanghai and Peking With Mra, Mitchell on their honeymoon, is once more in the public eye.
General _Bfitchell is known as. The Flying General" because he was one of the very few general officers who actually flew in the world war.
General Mitchell at gue time commanded, in person, 150 Qirplanes in a battle in the clouds, the largest it unit that has ever taken part in actual fighting at] two oF three: ryonrs when nee has be subject in newspaper and congressional discussions General hi taken the spotlight in airplanes for the States ai nd_has conducted ce "propaganda" in favouring of increased air armament. He has also attempted to increase civilian flying and has been a proponent of China from the Philippines, [where he had served on the bench, and during the ensuing years has been on i unate terms with the Southern leader.
In the present volume—so he informed your correspondent when I chatted with him at the ball recently given by the American League of Penwomen ithe New Willard Hotel—he has had the personal assistance of Dr. Sun jin editing the manuscript and the compilation of the material.
The new Italian Ambassador to the United States, M. Gincomo de Martino, is ex to take up the question of Italy's war debts to America soon after his arrival, [cording to dispatches from Rome.
Coincident with the dispatch senator Borah of Idaho, Chairman fof the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote Secretary of the Treasury Mellon requesting all information on the Italian debt.
Italy owes the United States approximately $2,100,000,000 of which '$447,000,000 is interest accrued Bishop Freeman said, in part:
"Our age has witnesses the breaking down of conventions, the dissolution of ties and obligations thi }were once regarded as secure and seered. It has been the revolt of Jyouth against old restrictions and the larger liberty of those who Jrefuse to acknowledge authority, Jwhether in home, classroom or the Hlarger sphere of social action, for pow a time has come to mock at "There is evidently no limit to Jour search for independence and {freedom of action. Even laws imposed by constituted authority are flaunted and disobeyed and this by the so-called best people' of our communities. Is it. little wonder that if this is so when men and women lack deep moral and spiritual conviction? Lightly esteemed and quickly dissolved are sacred marital-ties, where caprice of convenience dictates the desirability of new associations and larger freedom of action.
"Where there are no such things as parental obligations, where love interprets itself in terms of lust, we can hardly expect refinement and tive and imanative youth. and mothers think it clever to evade or disobey wholesome conventions oF Taws, if they make a travesty of religion and disclose no reverence for sacred things and institutions, if there is nothing that is holy, and But since the war they do not seem to have stood so definitely for distinctive qualities as in former days. The spirit of partisanship in regard to blends has weakened. To many people whisky is no longer Glenlivet or Glentacket, but simply homogeneous liquid of impaired vitality, sold at an egregiously high price. To appreciate the home blends, if such they be, one needs to have tasted the anonymous poison furtively dispensed America, or the stern and wild stuff served as whiskey in Continental cafes out of aggressively Caledonlooking bottles bearing names unknown in any Glasgow or Edinburgh bar.
America, Jor the Celts The volume of our history is so jereat, we are so near the scenes fof it, and those scenes have be-
Jcome' so much associated with the trivial happenings of everyday life, that our senses are apt to become blunted and we find it difficult to et a right perspective of our own country. It is only when we have been abroad for some time that the petty foreground of life in the homeland dwindles and the abiding and monumental features stand out jin due prominence and in a proper relation to one another. It is from the shores of Canadian lakes that of the misty ise Tand becomes visible. And it is in America, the land of dollars and But why do the members all look fas if they made their own trous-
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Some little time ago (as I quoted in this "Scottish Letter") a well-known novelist gave it as his considered opinion that no more ludicrfous sight was to be seen than that of a big strong man hitting a small
But the literary critic may be 1n-ball an iron club. terested to learn that this small ball—apart from the big strong ig man and his iron club—bas been giving considerable concern to goltz {ing authorities on both sides of the and that an agreement has ived at for the time being that will prevent international complications. Both countries have agreed to adhere to the present ike of ball, but from what has /happened in Amerien we may take it that the golfing authority there has hopes that sooner or later Great Britain will accept a larger and Tighter ball.
The perfecting of the rubber-corced. ball has in recent years given rise to a serious problem in relution to the power of the ball to the length of the hole. Tt is truism to say that the ball has brought the hole nearer. The extensive experiments that have been ferried out go to show that the present ball could be driven about 10 yards further than the lighter York Po Peking in % eer from New advocated the yyment was made 1919, when a small in
been no disposition on observed, where, in the name hustle and skyscrapers and big new ball contend that in the course disciplines or restraints to be sphere, und the advocates of the Recently he' has fof God and all things decent, are we [business, that we find the most of a round the effect that they de-ultimately to come?" jon of that wond: r= sired would be brought about. So unification of all martial branches t of the United States to ful spiritual history of the Celt far as the authorities on this. side of the government under a Secretary debt question any which to ux has become obscured fare concerned they apparently did for Defence, and in the hearings by Inter and more mundane inter-not think that the results of the now being conducted in Congress on [that Italy,
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