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...policy of the Church has been consistent in that the teaching of the Gospel must be accompanied always by tangible evidence of what the practice of the Gospel means. This was the reason for the foundation of that great institution known throughout the Orient as St. Luke's International Hospital, which stood in a fine group of buildings which included Holy Trinity Cathedral and the educational institutions...
...recent sale of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad at public auction to Clifford Histed for $3,000,000, recalls the peculiar circumstances under which the line was originally constructed...
Accordingly, the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient was organized in 1901, capitalized at $50,000,000. Its line runs from Wichita, Kan., to Alpine, Tex; then there is a gap of unfinished line to Falomir, whence the road proceeds through Chihuahua to Sanchez; after another gap, it begins again at Fuerte and ends at its Pacific terminal at Topolobampo...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
...Swope is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was formerly vice-president of the Western Electric Company in charge of sales. While touring the Orient recently on sales work for that corporation he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. In the spring of 1922 he was appointed President of the General Electric Company...