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Forty-two years ago a child was born at Hillsboro, Ohio. Fifteen years ago that child, grown to manhood, became editor of the Hillsboro Dispatch. Two years ago last June 11 he was appointed United States Prohibition Commissioner by President Harding. He is Roy Asa Haynes. During the last two years he has, in his own words, " devoted every ounce" of his energy to his official task. Daily he was importuned to make addresses or write articles on his work. Finally he came to believe that the public and the prohibition cause could best be served by writing a "simple...
...therefore, with surprise that Americans read a recent dispatch from London stating that a bill has been introduced in Parliament which "would enable present peers to renounce their titles and would bar heirs and heiresses born after the passage of the bill from . The measure comes from a Laborite member of the House of Commons himself of aristocratic lineage and whether it is passed or defeated, it is at least a significant mark in the trend of British history...
...chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
...occupation of mines and industrial districts; then it was to be operation of the mines and plants; next complete occupation and the entire cutting off of the Ruhr; then the operation of all the railroads temporarily, next their indefinite occupation. On February 9 the 'New York. Times' dispatch read: 'Poincare Says Ruhr Won't Be Exploited', but since March 1 it has been the universal admission that the Ruhr will be exploited...
...second event is an increase of the occupational forces by 15,000 men as a result of violence displayed lately in the Ruhr. Fear of guerrilla warfare is also a reason for the dispatch of these French reinforcements...