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The article presents information on practical politics. In Czecho-Slovakia oil leaves a slimy trail. M. Tucny, Minister of Public Works, has been forced to resign because of revelations which concern him in two scandals. More than 8.5 percent of the owner-farmers in fifteen corn and wheat-producing States lost their farms with or without legal process between January, 1920 and March, 1923, it is learnt from an inquiry made by the Department of Agriculture in the upper Mississippi Valley. Syracuse, New York, established a new record in zero percent Americanism when its Board of Aldermen adopted with but one dissenting vote Alderman Haley's ordinance that any persons who congregate for the purpose of disseminating information about the subject of birth control shall be guilty of misdemeanor.