A movement to bring about a world-wide restriction of armies and navies by international agreement after the European War is ended is announced by the American League to Limit Armaments. The crusade is being organized through conferences and correspondence with leaders of public opinion in several foreign countries, it was stated.
“We are undertaking to solidify the movement and co-ordinate the efforts along this line while the war is still in progress, in order to make the strongest possible presentation of the issue at the earliest opportune moment,” says the league’s announcement. “We are not proposing methods to bring peace to Europe until Europe is ready to stop fighting of its own accord. We stand by what we hold to be the main proposition—that the reduction of all armaments to the least proportions consistent with the demands of normal tranquillity and the use of the money now going into destructive engines of war for the constructive agencies of peace is the true solution of the peace problem.”
To Sell a Pilgrim’s House.
The only remaining house in America which has sheltered persons who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 is to be sold at auction by order of the court.
The house was built in 1666 by a son of John Howland, the last Mayflower survivor. In course of time the building fell into decay, but upon the organization in 1911 of the Society of the Descendants of Pilgrim John Howland of the ship Mayflower, the property was acquired and restored by that body.
Lieutenant Shares Meal with Private.
Some excitement was created in a Piccadilly grill at luncheon time when a private English “Tommy” walked in and sat down at a table with a young lieutenant. The private is the young officer’s father, and before the war held a high position in a London bank. His lunching with the officer caused some discussion, and some said it was too much democracy even for the English army.
After the meal the young officer said: “Should you refuse to let the governor buy you a lunch merely because he is a Tommy?”
Skipper of Six-master at Twenty-one.
Shortly after the E. R. Sterling, the only six-masted barkentine in the world, arrived in San Francisco, Cal., from Nanaimo, B. C., laden with coal, she was boarded by Federal operatives, who made a thorough search of the hold for a high-power wireless apparatus which officials have been informed is destined to be transferred at sea to a foreign warship from some American vessel in the near future. No apparatus was found.