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...Japanese question, plus the general situation of the rule of the few by the many that has prevented Hawaiians from realizing their dream of becoming the 49th state. Governor Farrington has been accused of insincerity in telling schoolchildren that statehood can be best achieved by their growing up as "good American citizens." To this charge, however, the Governor replies that "the very fact that statehood is absolutely out of the question at the present time is so much more reason why we should aspire to it the harder." As for the race question, the Governor has said: "There is less...
...Alaska and then to California where he died in a hotel, a month after being in the wheat field. . . . Last week, Hutchinson, assisted by some 300 newspaper editors on their way to a convention in Los Angeles, dedicated in the same wheatfield a shaft of granite, bought with schoolchildren's pennies, to record for the granite's lifetime that Hutchinson had well loved Mr. Harding, who had once reaped a fraction of that field...
...Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze at them were told first the fantastic plot of his life, which was, after all, one of the strangest fairy stories he had anything to do with...
Turkey is not yet a Western nation. In spite of the reforms in dress and other customs which have been forced upon that land, it remains true to its tradition, the tradition of the East. Only recently a new proof of this was brought to light when some Turkish schoolchildren put a tack in the teacher's chair. Of course, they had been led by an infiltration of western ideas to believe that such a joke would so pain the teacher as to amuse the class. They reckoned not upon the Oriental influences that were to work upon that tack...
Were the ancestors of Chicago's present schoolchildren a stupid lot? Or have teaching methods and teachers vastly improved in 50 years? These are the comparative results, announced a fortnight ago, of an arithmetic test taken by pupils in Chicago schools 50 years ago and given again last year...