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James Ramsay MacDonald may not know his Byron but he knows his Bible. To this God-fearing Scot the present obstreperous Assyrian minority in the Kingdom of Irak are precious remnants of early Christian tribes. Hundreds of them were being butchered last week by the Irak soldiers and Kurdish mercenaries of lean, falcon-eyed King Feisal...
...being massacred last week Britain was obviously bound to try to save as many of them as possible. Unfortunately the British Minister to Irak, Sir Francis Humphrys, was on vacation in Norway last week, had to be recalled to London and then despatched post haste to Irak by agitated Scot MacDonald. Meanwhile in Bagdad, King Feisal who as a Mohammedan does not greatly object to the massacre of Assyrians or other Christians, tried to dodge all responsibility by insisting that his health is poor, that he must fly to Switzerland "to complete my cure...
Engineer William Gilbertson and Stoker John Jackson of Britain's crack train, "Royal Scot," now on exhibition at the World's Fair, said the train ride from Chicago to Manhattan was the longest they ever had. But they reminded newshawks that the "Royal Scot's" 300-mi. trip between London and Carlisle (80 mi. from Edinburgh) is the longest non-stop train-trip in the world, with the train averaging 60 m.p.h. Bragged Stoker Jackson: "But she can do a bit more than that. We've had her up to 100." "Better say 90," cautioned Engineer...
...Farm. It starts off with middle-aged Colonel MacDougal who, planning a Paradise patterned after Rousseau, came West from Maryland in the spring of 1815, cleared the woods, raised a family with his fat young wife. One of his daughters married Jamie Ferguson, a huge, serious red-haired Scot, who settled at the Farm because it seemed to suit him, lived on there for the rest of a long and violent life. Jamie Ferguson's daughter Ellen married a great-grandson of the Pennsylvania Dutch van Essens who settled in Midland County and started a sawmill at about...
...begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite M. P. and friend of Scot MacDonald. Whenever the Prime Minister grows excited about tithes, George Middleton is wont to declare firmly "Queen Anne's Bounty never prosecutes in cases of genuine hardship...