Current Events 
U. S. A. 
f Women voters throughout the United States are expected to exert 
a decisive influence on the fall elections. In the early primaries they 
were credited with securing the nominations of Albert Beveridge for 
Senator from Indiana and Gifford Pinchot for Governor of Pennsyl¬ 
vania against the efforts of the established Republican machines. Both 
of these represent the Roosevelt Progressive wing of the Republican 
party. CJ Tenement House Commissioner Frank Mann declares that 
on April 10 there were under construction in New York City 1,340 
houses, containing 29,952 apartments and 114,454 rooms, costing $ 129 ,- 
312 , 500 . This is an effective answer to the demand for more building 
construction in Manhattan. C| While not taking part actively in 
the adjourned Russian Conference at the Hague the United 
States had an observer present to report carefully the proceedings. 
CJ Awards of the Joseph Pulitzer prizes in American journalism and 
letters for 1921 were as follows: $ 1,000 for the best reportorial 
work, Kirke L. Simpson, the Associated Press for his account 
of the burial of the American Unknown Soldier; $ 1,000 for best Amer¬ 
ican novel, Booth Tarkington for his Alice Adains ; $ 1,000 for the 
best original play, Eugene O’Neill for his Anna Cristie ; $ 1,000 for 
the best biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service, Hamlin 
Garland for A Daughter of the Middle Border ; $2,000 for the best 
historical book on the United States, James Truslow Adams for 
The Founding of New England ; $ 1,000 for best volume of verse, 
Edwin Arlington Robinson. CJA committee of the Senate agri¬ 
cultural bloc has taken under consideration the plan of Thomas 
A. Edison for the issuance of farm currency through a central 
Federal farm bank, to be loaned to farmers for one year, repay¬ 
able at the rate of one per cent a month, with a lien of 50 per 
cent of the farmers’ crops as security. CJIn the first installment 
of the review of the most recent activities of the Rockefeller Founda¬ 
tion it is shown that this Foundation continued its activity at home 
and abroad, with $2,000,000 pledged to Harvard University for a 
School of Health and the promise of $ 1 , 000,000 for the School of 
Medicine at Columbia University, fin a series of articles in the 
New York Evening Post, John Palmer Gavit has graphically de¬ 
scribed the physical aspects and educational influence of such Ameri¬ 
can colleges as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth. CJ The 
arrival in the port of New York of the giant White Star Liner Ma¬ 
jestic was hailed as a maritime event of the first magnitude. The 
Majestic was built in Germany as the Bismarck, and was turned over 
to the British Government as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. 
