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Show , , , r CURRENT . EVENTS Simply Told For Boys and Gtrls. By NORIUS W. QUINN. In tiio world today two great series of events ate taking place. One, In America, is leading toward peace and prosperity; the othar, in Europe, toward to-ward discord and possibly war. In our country two strikes which threatened to cripple our industries and leave ua without food or fuel, are nearlng an end. One, the atrike of the coal mlnerfi already has been set'led The other, the strike of tha railway shopmen Is partly settled and a general settlement settle-ment seems near But in Europe a war betwten the Greeks and Turks in Aaia Minor is threatening to eauae fighting between the greater Kuropaan nations. M I VKJOi WORKING AGAIN. All union miners in both hard and aoft coal fields struck April 1, No union mines operated thereafter except ex-cept here and there In scattered districts dis-tricts where strikebreakers or men who did not belong" to the union were employed. Though no coal waa mined, we did not for a time feel tho lack of it. This waa because we needed none to heat our houses during the summer, while factories, railways, steamship lines and other largo coal users had big reserve supplies on hand. But with approach of fall, tho fuel situation began to look serious. Householders House-holders wlahed to lay in winter ayp-pllSi ayp-pllSi Reserve stocks of factories jwero getting low. Some factories hoi to close down and men wore thrown out of work. J Then, at a meeting in Cleveland, the 'union miners ;nd a large number of the soft-coal mine owners reached an agreement and the minora went back to work. shortly afterward a similar agreement agree-ment was r.Nu h ! at Philadelphia Ih -iwecn the union miners and operator OJ hard Or anthracite coal mines. Now cjal Is being mined In both fields, but a shortage of freight cars ifiay bring about a coal famine In Some parts of th I QOUntry, it Is feared KMl w si RJKE i - km ii ED The etrike of the railway shop ( raftsmen has been partly settled. shop workers are railway employes who make repairs on engines and Other railway equipment and see to It that engines and cars are In proper land san- condition to carry pgSB tigers ti-gers and freight. .Mu-t of ill union Chopmen in the it'nited States wenl on -trlke when itholr pay was lowered by order of the I United states railroad labor board When thSSt men m longer were at Iworl;. the railways had no one to re-pair re-pair their equipment except non-union strikebreakers and a few union men jwho had not heeded the atlike order. I This meant In many cases that equipment, lm-king repairs, daily grew tc bo In worse condition. I Now th-- shopmen al meeting I In Chicago, huve reached an agree-'ment agree-'ment with 52 railways to return 1 1 1 work. The other railways have not accepted th agreement and their Shopmen Will remain in strike But the shopmen's leaders l..-li. ve I the other railways, sooner or later, I will accept the agreement. TORE i OPM 1R IN U ILK W S look i' your map ot Km-ope an I ; learn where thS Balkan Peninsula m, .You'll see It is broken up Into many umall OOUntrleS. Trouble among them ha: caused many of the great European Euro-pean wars. There trouole amon them . now land It Is threatening the peace of i the nrcat nations of Europe, j King ('onatnntlne of (ireece vnt an army to Asia Minor to take iBmyrnaf a City there, ami u large part of th? roast, away from Turkey. Now th Greek army has been driven driv-en out by Muatapha Kemal I'asha, I Turkish general and leader Kemal Pasha now la near enough to Constihtlhople to aeire It. If he tries, lit will oause trouble among the ESuro- Ipenn pownrs. beeausc nil of them want t ionstantipopie i 'ther results of Kemal PaSha'fl Vlc-'lory Vlc-'lory are: i King 'onstiintine may be forced to abdicate or resign, and Bleutherlos 1 Wnlr.rloH, former Oreok prime minister, min-ister, may come back lo head the government. Kemal l asha ma place himself at thu head of tbOSS who believe in the Mohammedan religion and who would 'like to drive the Christians from Kgypt. India, Persia, North Africa and other Mohammedan countries There already Is discord between ' France and England, bSOSUSe France ii.s supporting Ine Turku, while England Eng-land Is friendly to tho Greeks. |