Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, insisting that we leave. The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.

While girls are married as soon as they mature, the men marry much later, for custom dictates that a man to be eligible for marriage must have potlached at least once and preferably three times. This rule is gradually breaking down, but even now public opinion frowns on early marriage by young men.

A Missouri man is being charged with second-degree murder after shooting a man from a float group that he claims to have found on his property. . . . Loretta Dart, the victim's wife, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her husband was trying to prevent an altercation between Crocker and one of the river-runners.

I had to keep tabs on who was working with whom, and who had stopped I had to solve personality problems and give out discipline to those who were not doing their job— to both disciplers and trainees.