Religion: Pigeons & Peace

By a remarkable hookup among churchmen, politicians and pigeon-fanciers, some 3,000 pigeons winged industriously over large parts of the U. S. for several days last week. In Washington Representative Pehr G. Holmes helped Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor attach a little tube to the leg of a pigeon which promptly took off for Manhattan, carrying a message to England's grizzled old George Lansbury, onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to...

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