Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitted for their life as men. And as a result of their training, neither for nor against the war, they will use their judgment, 'which their Boy Scout training has made better, and I am sure the result would be "Peace on Earth and good among men." DAVID F. SELVIN...
...National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is one of 70 men whose names are all known. Such is the efficiency of the grave's registration corps of the War Department-99.9% perfect. The War Department last week announced that for the 77,771 death in the A. E. F., 77,701 burials were now recorded. Of these, 46,284 bodies were returned to the U. S.; 30,812 remained in Europe; 605 were sent elsewhere. At the time of the report, only four more bodies remained to be sent home from Europe in compliance with relatives' requests...
...last week-a publisher's announcement. He had not written a War novel, nor an autobiography, nor even a volume of poems. But the American Battle Monument Commission, of which he is chairman, had completed its official guide to and history of the campaigns of the A. E. F. The book was ready for the public at 75? the copy. Address: Superintendent of Public Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington...
Maryland Jail. Between the bank of the Choptank River and the village green in leisurely, New Englandish Denton, Md., stands the Caroline County Jail. It is a charming place, accommodating some 25 prisoners, 18 of whom are convicted bootleggers. Last week, Sheriff William F. Jackson made comment: "The fellows the Government sends down here are all right and do not cause me a bit of trouble. ... I believe in treating the boys fairly. . . . They are locked in their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river...
Professor Gustavus W. Dyer, Vanderbilt University, broke a bomb in the national veneration for F. F. V.'s.* He said that study of Southern politics proved that Virginia before the Civil War was dominated by the middle class. Seven Governors were "aristocrats by courtesy only." He adduced other statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city...