NOTED AMERICANS ARE
LACKING IN ANCESTORS
During the recent debate on the bill to
exclude Illiterate immigrants from enti l -
ing the United States. Uncle Joe Cannon
took occasion to cast some gentle ridi
cule on the men most eager to see the
passage of this legislation. In so doing,
incidentally he made a valuable contri
bution to American history though the
production of statistics which ho had
takon pains to secure for the purposes
of his speech.
The general tenor of his remarks was
to the effect that the members advocat
ing the changes in the law were intent
merely on excluding people of a different
stock front that of thir own ancestors;
that practically all of us are of inimi
: grant stock, and not of. ancient origin .it
I that.
I As nil illustration, lie stated Unit lie j
had hud the earliest census taken in this j
country analyzed anil found tin mimes of |
3,171,440 people then resident in the Uni
ted States. By examination he found that
there were 135 members of the present
house of representatives whose family
names did not appear at all In the list
I of names of the Inhabitants of the Uni
ted States immediately after the forma
tion of the union.
Among the missing names, not to be 1
; found In the earliest census, are many ;
I which have been prominent in this conn- j
try. For example, he said: "There were ;
■ ■ 4-a u-.-t."1 . 1 Tzr- i
no McKeunus, Van Devantors or 1'itneys
for the supreme court. No MeAdoos,
Burlesons or Houstons to sii ut tin
cabinet table. 1 can llnd among tin
first families of the time no Agassiz or
Kdlson or Westlnghouse, no Carnegie,
Harriman or Havermayer, no Astor, Bel
mont or Oorillard nor Punston or Persh
ing, no Watterson or Pulitzer, no Qomp
ers or Morrison, no Billy Sunday or
Mary Piekford." He added, amid much
laughter and applause: There Is an
other name which is not on the list.
It Is the name of Roosevelt."—Rennie1
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TUNGSTEN DEVELOPMENT
IN INDIA
In his speech in the city the other
ly Mr. Hughes said: "What stupend
ts folly it was that placed in the hands
Germany the monopoly of tungsten
]. iwdcr essential for hardening our steel.'1
V can only realise the magnitude of
at folly when we consider that a sin
o small district 01 Hunan is capable
»i supplying more than half the world's
annual requirements of tungsten. When
ike war began, we Imd mils very im
perfectly developed the output in (bis
a rca and were blindly handing over tho
' Htlrc quantity produced to German
agents dwelling on the spot or in Lon
don. Tungsten is found in wolfram or. ,
•id is used as an alloy of high speed,
i cel for machine tols. Tungsten steels:
which possess self-hardening properties,
are also used for heavy guns and armor
plate. Deposits containing wolfram are,
und all down the coastal districts at
• o extremity of Southern Burma, but:
peclally in liie district of Tavoy We
vo held tills region for nearly a him-,
,d years, hut only ten yours ago tho;
tire mineral exports of Tavoy eon-!
sted of one ton of ore anually pro
duced by Chinese coolies. Tin first trial
ample of wolfram was shipped from Mils
region so recently as ISOS. By 1914 Bur-'
ma was produring 3,320 tons of tungsten ,
ore out of a total world consumption of
about 9,000 tons. It all went to Ger
many. for the Germans had quietly
stepped in and acquired the whole out -!
put.
On the outbreak, of war the Tavoy
Industry almost collapsed, for the—pro
cesses by which tungsten was extracted
from the ore existed in Germany hut,
not in this country. Although tungsten
laid become practically an essential eh -
nent in the making of munitions, wo
were actually sending the ore to the
Dormans and buying hack th^ finished
product. Steps were gradually taken
here to remedy these deficiencies, and
meanwhile the governmnt of India turn
ed their attention to the wolfram in
tlustry in lUinna. which hfid never 1m «*11
handled with on orgy. Sir Hareourt Bal
er, tho now lieutenant governor of Bur
ma, now has the problem vigorously la
hand. He went to Tavoy early in De
cember, and told tin- local chamber of
mines that he was “determined to gvi
all the wolfram that was wanted some
how." He threatened to revoke Con
cessions which were negligenilx work
ed. and in one Instance did so. lie is
spending money liberally, making m-w
roads, with temporary wooden bridges
in all directions, and doing his utmost
to increase the output. Tavny. it is said,
now “hums with life.” and tin Germans
interlopers have vanished.
ENGLAND TO BAR GERMAN
RHODES STEDENTS I
A hill has been introduced in parlia
ment to change tin* conditions of the
Rhodes scholarship trust so as to elim
inate endowments for German students
at Oxford.
There were 15 of these scholarships j
provided by tin* late (Veil Rhodes, of j
50 pounds (about $1,250) each, nomine.- I
Hons to he made by tin* kaiser. The en
dowments. like those to American stu-j
dents, were made in the belief that “a !
good understanding between England, tie*
United States of American and Germany
would secure the peace of the world,
and that educational relations form the
strongest tie.”
The move to undo Rhodes* work is
a tacit admission that, so fp.r as Ger
many is concerned, his idea generous as.
it was, was mistaken Ex.
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