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...they prayed. A striking fact is that the Mormons did not dig in the ground 'for metallic wealth but concentrated on husbandry. They made a desert bloom. A good Mormon, and the "good" percentage is extraordinarily large, abstains from tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor. He pays a tithe (one-tenth) of his entire income to the Church. He hearkens to the Mormon proverb "the glory of God is intelligence." Thus does the Church seek health, wealth and wisdom...
...tried to bolster up business with optimistic proclamations that conditions are improving, that industry will soon be back to normal (TIME, March 17). Other public men have caught the White House cue. When it was found last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that February employment had risen one-tenth of 1% over January, this headline followed...
...used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor of U. S. egg farmers, supplied about 40% of U. S. consumption of frozen and dried eggs despite the tariff which was raised last year from 6 to 7? per pound. Imports of shell eggs are about one-tenth of 1% and consist mostly of preserved duck eggs for Chinamen...
...cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption of the Illinois Glass Co. last spring further underlined its importance. From its 17 factories pours every conceivable kind of bottle, from one-tenth ounce perfume containers to freaks of 13-gallon capacity. Some 2,000,000 nursing bottles are produced each month...
Races. The territory's total population is now some 350,000. Caucasians, though constituting only one-tenth of the populace, dominate. There is no "race problem," largely because there has been much intermarriage and "the colors have run." Besides 20,000 Hawaiian full-bloods there are some 25,000 half-castes. Largest pure racial group are 135,000 Japanese, of whom 83,000 are U. S. citizens. Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization, but U. S. immigration laws checked that. In Hawaii, the Japanese are called "the Jews of the Pacific" because of their ability, eagerness, tenacity...