Religion: Cigaret Monastery

North Carolina has a university (Duke ) built by smoking tobacco. Last week it acquired a monastery founded on cigarets.

There are in the U. S. some 500,000 Greeks, colonized chiefly in New York and Chicago. In the county and town of Gastonia. N. C. (pop. 17,000), famed for its gory mill strike three years ago, are some 2,000 Greeks. Gastonia has also a Karyae Park, assembly grounds for the National Karyae (social and athletic organization). Last week 3,000 Greeks, including many prominent churchmen, editors and businessmen, gathered near Karyae Park to see...

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