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...League's secretary-general that controlling the world's supply of opium, from raw material to derived product, was one of the things the U. S. thinks the League does not do very successfully. The U. S. declined to join in the appointment of a central board under the Geneva opium convention of 1925, considering it no improvement upon the Hague convention...
...Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued...
Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, from whose drawing-board in Des Moines, Iowa, comes much that is memorable in pictorial politics, considers that the cartoonist's status is that of a court jester. If "Ding" ever crusades, it is always in the lighter vein. He serves a nationwide syndicate which contains a wide variety of political sympathies. He tries to be non-partisan but is clearly classifiable as Dry and anti-Tammany...
Illinois--Application for registration may be made by mail on a blank furnished by the election commissioners. Applicant must execute this blank before a notary public and return it to the board of election commissioners to be received by the board after the first registration day and not later than noon of the day before the second registration day. The regular registration days are the Saturday immediately preceding the Tuesday four weeks before the congressional election and the Tuesday three weeks before that election...
Missouri--In cities having from 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants, the elector may have his name placed on the registration list at any time before the board of revision meets, by filing with the registrar of the precinct in which he is a voter his affidavit made before some officer authorized by the laws of the state to administer oaths, setting forth the fact that he is a legal voter in that precinct, stating his place of residence, and that he was prevented from registering on the registration days because of absence from the city...