ITEMS OF INTEREST July 30, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The Christian Unity Foundation has just been incorporated by twenty-four men, all members of the Protestant Episcopal church, twelve lay and twelve clerical, with the avowed intention of welding all Christian denominations into one organic religious body. The Foundation is patterned upon the Sage Foundation, purposing to use the same methods that are employed by the Sage and similar foundations. It is unlike the Federal Countil, organized three years ago, which seeks cooperation only. The new scheme would discard all names and sects and make simply one big religious body.

There was an examination this week in all the states and territories for the purpose of recruiting only men stenographers and typists, the demands for whom the civil service commission has been unable to meet. Practically all the various departments of the Government are seeking to replace women stenographers with men, on the ground, as they claim, that the latter are more amenable to discipline, are more easily transferred to places where their services are needed, and can more readily be drafted into other kinds of work.

Despite repeated rumors that the indictments found against James A. Patten and others with regard to the pool in May cotton had been quashed, they still exist, and an inquiry now on is said to relate to the operations of the pool in the futures. The activities of the Government in finding indictments against the recent bull pool on cotton futures and on the cotton leaks of a few years ago, suggest the advisability of ridding the cotton market of the disturbing element of speculation.

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