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In describing the educational phase of Boy Scout work, the chief scout executive declares: "The Boy Scout movement aims to reinforce all of the agencies which make for right living and character development in the youth of America.
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The bill authorizing the secretary of war to make contracts for the diversion of water from Niagara Falls for fifty-year periods was passed by voice vote in the House of Representatives.
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The United States fish hatchery at Havrede Grace, Md.
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The Spanish Government has enacted a law, published on Dec.
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One of the principla measures taken by the Japanese Government authorities for the improvement of the agricultural returns of Korea has been the work of afforestation.
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In the most sweeping of all decisions upholding prohibition laws, the Supreme Court of the United States has just upheld as constitutional and valid the Webb-Kenyon law prohibiting shipments of liquor from "wet" to "dry" states.
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Lord Carmichael, soon to retire as Governor of Bengal, India, was presented with a farewell address recently by the municipal body of Darjeeling, the beautiful hill station to which official Bengal is accustomed to retire between March and November.
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Abandonment of the conflicting water power bills now before Congress, and the creation of an ex officio commission with power to grant leases for the use of all public lands and streams, is suggested by Secretary of the Interior Lane as a solution of the water power question.
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By the formation of the National Dunes Park Association the first steps have been taken toward preserving a part of the thirty mile stretch of virgin wilderness at the foot of Lake Michigan for a national park.
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In the fiscal year 1916 there became operative twenty new water power projects which utilize national forest land.