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Just above the northwest corner of the U. S., at an editorial desk from which he peers across the Pacific into the Orient, across North America at Europe, and across the years into the Future, an earnest, tireless idealist named Robert James Cromie publishes the Vancouver Sun, dominant daily of western Canada. Publisher Cromie is even more widely known than his newspaper. As a reporter, he takes the world for his beat, traveling all over it frequently, meeting and observing its famed persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding...
...north Pacific section; C. E. Perkins '04 of Santa Barbara, California for the south Pacific section; S. B. Trainer '04 of Toronto, Ontario, for the Canadian section; J. H. Hyde '98 of Paris, France, for the European section; and F. S. Chien '10 of Pieping, China for the Orient...
...same day on Mount Scifarello in Calabria 400 mi. to the south, rangers of the Fascist Forest Militia ended a search for a French Air-Orient liner which disappeared last fortnight en route from Corfu, Greece to Rome. The rangers found two men and a woman, nearly dead of cold, huddled in the snow-covered wreckage of the plane which also sheltered the bodies of the two pilots, three other passengers...
...restrained protestations, Russia, in the last few days has once again attracted world-attention to the aggrandizement activities of the cocky Nipponese in the Orient. The Muscovites claim that Japan is attempting to scuttle away with their Chinese Eastern Railway, and informally Tokio rather complacently admits complicity with such schemes. As this news climbs to more important levels on the front pages of the dailies, militarists are gleefully clapping their hands at the prospects of a first-class imbroglio, although the possibilities of the scare reaching war proportions seem very vague indeed...
...ordinary commodity is silver. To half the world's population (chiefly the Orient) it represents money and wealth. To the other half of the world it is merely a useful metal like copper or nickel. The reason that the price of silver fell from over 50? in 1929 to around 25? at the first of this year is partly that some countries such as Russia and French Indo-China have melted up part of their silver money and sold it; partly it is that less silverware is being made...