Foreign News: Ireland on the Make

Smiddy Reports. "The inferior types of Irish bulls are being rapidly eliminated under the Livestock Breeding Act." Thus, at Chicago last week spoke Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister from the Irish Free State to the U. S.

Of Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is...

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