Foreign News: Fruit Of Frugality

So liberal were U. S. citizens at the time of Japan's great earthquake of 1923, so frugal were Japanese administrators of the relief fund, that last week a great modern hospital was inaugurated in Tokyo—built and permanently endowed entirely from surplus monies of the American relief fund.

Named the New Fraternity Hospital, it is of steel, theoretically quakeproof. It stands beside the park where 32,000 people perished during the earthquake. It cost $1,500,000. The frugal administrators still have two millions of U. S. money with which to endow it permanently as a free...

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