Notes

The Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs decreed, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, that subscribers who get "huffy" with the operators shall be suspended for two days from use of the service.

A Deputy of Ariege was responsible for starting a hot controversy in Paris by suggesting that the debates in the Chamber of Deputies be broadcast by the Eiffel Tower Wireless Station. The issue seemed to have become confused between the relative value of ragtime concerts and parliamentary debates. Radio fans were in a quandary.

The Government announced some time ago that it would decorate with the Order of Agricultural Merit, disrespectfully termed the "Order of the Leek," all those who could produce documentary evidence proving that their families had farmed the same land continuously for at least three centuries. This brought forth about 750 families with the necessary qualifications, the record being held by the La Fargues of Coutie near Molieres,, who have lived on the same estate since 772, or two years after Charlemagne had succeeded his father as ruler of the entire Prankish monarchy.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture reported that the population of the War areas has increased from 2,000,000 at the time of the Armistice to 4,207,000 at the present time. Of the 8,000,000 acres of devastated land in the area 7,000,000 have been cleared of barbed wire, explosives, trenches, etc.