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...charged with entering the country on a foreign passport. Seeing the storms on his horizon, Patriarch Metataxis turned over his ecclesiastical authority to the Holy Synod of Constantinople, and, according to British reports, has left the city. It is impossible for him, therefore, to help his fellow Patriarch in distress, the Most Rev. Tikhon. And if possible, the Turks will prevent Constantinople from becoming the seat of any other Greek Orthodox Patriarch. The Greek Orthodox Church has ancient patriarchates at Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, but these are all cities in foreign hands. The Tzar, who used to have an authority...
...told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were from the far West and were sent off in the midst of a severe winter." And he ends, or rather he begins, by demanding: "What is the aim of Dartmouth...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...attempt has been made this week to raise money for the Relief of European War Distress. A novel method of attracting attention was adopted. Meetings, canvassings, processions and flag-sellers were discarded and a "Silent Appeal" inaugurated. College Railings and Church Railings were borrowed and a succession of posters were displayed on them. These were periodically changed in order to keep up attention. The results have so far been most satisfactory...
Russia alone, says Mr. Hoover, has made no progress toward taking the measures essential for rehabilitation. And Russia today persists not only in refusing to take those measures byt also in sticking to the very measures and practices which have brought distress and ruin upon her. Whether the clique of tyrants who are responsible for her fatuous course with its disastrous results will mend their ways and conform to the economic principles which the world in general is agreed upon as essential to prosperity, and to those moral principles which will permit other nations to enter into confident and friendly...