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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, D...
...proved Mrs. Bailie right in one respect. The "revolution" of the Daughters was not over. In New Haven, Conn., awakening to what Mrs. Bailie meant and what had happened to her, a dozen more Daughters-distinguished ones, too-not only rose in revolt, but marched right out of the D. A. R., resigned...
...D. A. R. "blacklist" protested by Mrs. Bailie and upheld by the Daughters' congress, had included a lengthy assortment of persons and organizations bracketed as socialists, pacifists, "radicals," enemies of national defense. The list was for the "guidance" of local D. A. R. chapters in Massachusetts, to know who could safely be invited to make speeches. The persons proscribed ranged from Ben Gitlow, communist, to that eminent, peace-loving scientist, President-emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University.* The organizations included even such innocuities...
...Governor of Naples, Commander Nicola Sansanelli, stepped down upon Manhattan from the same ship as did the Governor of Rome (see above), but promptly withdrew from public notice to further quietly the work of F. I. D. A. C. (The Interallied Society of War Veterans) of which he is President...
Pipe lines and plumbing do not necessarily produce pure water, warned Dr. Theobald Smith in his presidential address at the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons (15 medical societies) meeting in Washington, D. C., last week. A pioneer of American bacteriology, he is unimpressed by the elaborate transportation facilities which conduct water from source to faucet. Said Bacteriologist Smith: "The sewage problem is unsolved. All we have done is to convert our water courses into open sewers, with occasional explosive outbreaks of intestinal disease as the result. The time is coming when the intimate relation between water supply and sewage...