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...Brookwood Military Cemetery in London, where 428 U. S. soldiers lie buried, was officially handed over to the U. S. Government by its British owners. The Channel Tunnel question, recently revived, is shortly to be brought up in the House of Commons. The approximate cost of building the sub-channel tunnel from Dover to Calais was computed at about $130,000,000. Although Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes is to go to England this month in a strictly private capacity, as a guest of the English Bar, much political significance has been attached to his visit, which will coincide...
...contrast to the Kansas method of settling labor problems, Labor has established an educational institution by which it hopes to work out its own salvation. Brookwood College at Katonah, N. Y., the first labor college in this country, held its first Commencement two weeks ago and in spite of the modest size of its graduating class, it has received unusual notice from the country at large. Its curriculum is reduced to the bare bones of utility. In a two year course sociology, psychology, labor statistics, and labor problems are taught, and two hours of manual labor daily are required...
...stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...
Last week a graduating class of 15 completed the two years course at Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N. Y. This is the first class of educated labor leaders to be graduated...
...know the history of labor, its past experiences and achievements, until we came to Brookwood," said one of the new graduates...