Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — Page 2

SUCH IS LIFE

Reports City Birth Rate in U. S. Low

Peak of Fertility Found in Rural Districts.

New York.--The nation’s intelligence is being nurtured in its metropolitan areas where women are not bearing enough children to reproduce the population while the peak of fertility is in the farming districts, which are least conducive to fostering intelligence. So reported Frederick Osborn, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and secretary of the Galton society of that institution, at the annual meeting of the American Eugenics society. Basing his figures on the 1930 census, he said farm women produced about 50 per cent more children than would suffice for equal reproduction. In the cities with populations of more than 100,000, on the other hand, only about half the number of children necessary for permanent replacement are born. Attacks Fertility Problem. Mr. Osborn has attacked the problem of fertility and intelligence from the tri-fold point of view of the regional distribution of the population, the occupational, and the ethnic. The distribution of intelligence, he finds, is consistent and significant when studied among regional groups. "On the whole,” he concluded, "the index of cultural-intellectual development bears an inverse relation to the index of fertility. But the most important differences in regional groups are to be found between rural and urban districts. Here the results are almost always consistent, the farm

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being below the town, the town below the city.” The city child, said Mr. Osborn, generally speaking, had a higher intelligence quotient than his country cousins, yet fewer metropolitan infants were being brought into the world--not enough, in fact, at the present rate to preserve the city’s population. In support of this statement the speaker said a ratio of 368 children of the ages from birth to four years old to every l,000 women between fifteen and forty-four years of age must be maintained if the population group is to be permanently replaced. On the farms, in 1930, this ratio was 545, or 117 more than needed, he said; in the rural nonfarm group the ratio was 471, in the towns from 2,500 to 100,000 it was 341, while the metropolitan ratio stood at only 293. Advanced Mentality. The high states, said Mr. Osborn, show advanced standings in mental tests among children, a low level of mental deficiency as indicated by the army examination, few mistakes in the census and a high circulation of good magazines. “But it is in the distribution of the population by occupational groups that the widest, the most consistent and the most interesting differences tn intelligence are to be found,” continued the speaker. “Here it has been found that the children of professional men, such as lawyers, doctors, and ministers, have, when considered in large numbers, consistently the highest intelligence quotient “The offspring of business and clerical fathers rank second highest the skilled and semi-unskilled worker next, the unskilled laborer next and the children of the farmer are to be found in the rear of the van.” Mr. Osborn said that Washington came first in intelligence, followed by California, Massachusetts, Oregon and Connecticut. Mississippi stood at the bottom of the list but only .02 points below Louisiana.

Puss Put on Spot by Butcher Birds

Palo Alto, Calif.--The owl and the pussy cat dwell in harmony, as the children’s rhyme says, but a butcher bird and a cat are two other fellas. Otto Schroeder has a cat which chewed up a young butcher bird. That was a long time ago and the cat has since had the toughest period of his ornithological career. The old butcher birds have been camping in a nearby tree, and every time Schroeder’s cat starts into the back yard they zoom at him like a scene from “Hell’s Angels.” Schroeder says that his cat is a house cat in more than name, and that in a couple more weeks a canary could chase him into the hills and make a wildcat of him.

By Lame Bode

WNU Service

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST.

A Dictatorship?

by LEONARD A. BARRETT

In the judgment of a large number of persons, the representative form

of government in our country seems to be breaking down. The unprecedented power which congress has vested in the President makes it appear as though we are now functioning under a dictatorship. Comparing our country with Italy, some persons have loudly and even boasting ly acclaimed

that there is very little difference between the power vested in Mussolini and in our own President, both being that of a dictator. The interesting thing about this criticism is that it is not only very obviously true when judged by only a cursory evaluation of the facts, but when dispassionately studied in the light of the real facts, the criticism is found to be very untrue. The power vested by congress in the President is practically the same as was vested in Woodrow Wilson at the time this country entered the World war. By means of this extraordinary power, the President was able to mobilize an army and get things done more speed Uy; he was able to eliminate all red

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tape by not having to refer details to congress. So, the power now vested in the President is by no means a new or untried experiment. It has been exercised before with great advantage and to the best interests of our country. It also should be remembered that there is a very important difference between the status of this power in Italy and the United States. In the case of our President the power can be returned at any time to congress by a two-thirds vote. There is also no question but that if this invested power were directed toward dangerous ends it would be revoked instantly. The condition in Italy is quite different. Only nominally can it be said that Mussolini is responsible to the king. He is the government with no probability of a recall of that dictatorship, except by force, as might be created by a revolution. In our country it is an emergency measure only, and we can be sure will be voluntarily returned to congress when no longer needed. There is not the slightest possibility that the citizens of our country would ever tolerate, even for a moment, any substitute for our representative form of government. Let no person fear that the Constitution of the United States will ever become impaired. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

POTPOURRI

An Early Taxi-Meter

The old familiar sound of the taxi-meter isn’t anything new. On the crudest kind of a public conveyance, hand drawn, used in China three centuries ago, there was a mechanical register in the form of a drum which was automatically struck by a hammer at the end of each mile. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

The Household

By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER

The time to remove a spot or stain is just as soon as It is made. Then it comes out easiest. It does not set and the extraneous substance get ingrained, with the fibers of the weave. Another thing that helps in the ef-

fective removal of spots and stains is the knowledge of what made them, for one agent will be required for one substance, and a different one will be needed for another. This is why when taking a spotted or stained garment to a cleaners, the question is always asked, “Can you tell what made the discoloration?” One can see its importance. Here are some simple things to remember. Spots caused by egg, meat juices and blood, or gravy respond to cold water. Hot water sets the albumen and increases the difficulty of the work. To under-

stand this, one has only to realize the ease with which egg dishes are washed if cold water is first used, and how bothersome it is to get them clean quickly if, by accident, the hot water runs over them. If the substance is a textile fibre, the difficulty of removal is increased, for the same hardening of the albumen occurs. Gravy stains will require two treatments, but the cold water application should come first. The reason why two different processes are needed is that gravy consists of both meat juices and fat. The cold water takes out the blood, but it hardens the fat. So a second process to remove the grease is needed. Hot water will take out grease stains. Double and Triple Agents. Ice cream spots on textiles usually require two processes for removal, one for the fat in the cream, the other for the coloring and when eggs are an ingredient, the cold water treatment may make a third. Use cold water first for it will take out whatever responds to it. Then for fruit pour boiling water through the spot. Having done these things, wash the places with white laundry soap and warm water. The various remedies given are applicable to wash goods and those in which colors are fast. The textiles may be wool, cotton, linen, silk--any kinds which are not impaired by hot and cold water and white laundry soap. Encouraging Friendship. “All my friends like you,” I heard young woman say to another. “You say such nice things about

“Pete” and “Pat” on Aerial Honeymoon

Reginald Langhorne Brooks, nephew of Lady Astor, with his bride, the former Aline Rhonie, at the Long Island Aviation club in Hicksville, L. I., where they were spending part of their aerial honeymoon. Despite his connection with high British nobility, Brooks prefers the moniker of “Pete” among the aviation set. Mrs. Brooks is known to the flying clan as “Pat.”

By Charles Sughroe

me,” was the reply. “Everyone is looking for the nice qualities you tell them I have.” This was all I heard, but it was enough to set me thinking of the influence on others that our remarks about people make. We can set the minds working to make friends or to break them, to make persons wish to know those of whom we speak, or to hesitate to meet them. We can light a torch of friendship and hand it to another, and it will lighten her mind to see the good points in those we love. We can dim the brightness of friendships by uttering comments derogatory of others. In such little ways as passing comments can we render persons agreeable or disagreeable to know. There is more said about the strife which unkindly remarks cause than about the harmony which kind words create. It is a mistake not to accent the good as much as the bad when the good is equally potent, and good words are as powerful as unkind ones. The nice things we say have as strong an influence as the disagreeable ones. ©, 1933, Bell Syndicate.--WNU Service.

Seven-Year Chess Game at Last Comes to End

Portland, Ore.--Walter J. Dodge, of Portland, recently completed a chass game that started in 1926, seven years ago, and believes that he holds a record of some kind. His opponent was George S. Dodge, of Montebello, Calif., a brother. The two men played a game, which was one of three chess contests started by mail in 1922 between three Stanford university chums. The three pals decided chess games by mail were at least one way of keeping alive their college friendship. Alan E. Payne was third member of the chess clique. He plays one of the Dodges while the other “rests.” The brothers compete in the third tilt First contests were completed in 1926, after a mere four years of cogitation and planning of moves. The next series, which was just completed, took seven years. An average of ten moves a year was made in the last game, Dodge reported.

Has Big Federal Job

A striking photograph of Mrs. Lucile McMillin of Tennessee, who recently took the oath of office as a member- of the United States civil service commission.

TRUTH OF SALUTE TO FRENCH HERO

“Lafayette, We Are Here!" Said by Col. Stanton.

The late Col. Charles E. Stanton, who said “Lafayette, we are here!” had the strange experience of coining a probably immortal phrase and of hearing it credited almost as often as it was quoted to another man. Even President Wilson and Marshal Foch in formal addresses attributed to General Pershing the famous saying at the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus cemetery on July 4, 1917. It was a natural error, for General Pershing did speak extemporaneously on that occasion and it was easy for those not present to confuse his remarks with the preceding speech of Colonel Stanton that ended in the supremely appropriate salute to the French hero. The fact of Colonel Stanton’s authorship was never in doubt; it was early asserted in this newspaper and elsewhere in direct rebuttal of the Pershing fiction. But when a legend gains momentum it rolls on and on. It seemed doubtful that a disclaimer by General Pershing himself could rigfit the popular mistake. Colonel Stanton, for his part, sealed his lips and with the most soldierly conception of duty permitted the world-re-nowned saying to be given constantly to his friend and commander. If General Pershing for 13 years made no emphatic effort publicly to dispel the myth he demolished it handsomely when he came to publish his memoirs in 1931 in these words: “It was on this occasion that utterance was given to an expression that could be born only of inspiration, one that will live long in history; ‘Lafayette. we are here!’ Many have attributed this striking utterance to me and I have often wished it could have been mine. But I have no recollection of saying anything so splendid. I am sure those words were spoken by Colonel Stanton and to him must go the credit for so happy and felicitous a phrase.” It was only after this declaration that Colonel Stanton said he had “remained quiescent during all these years, having a firm belief that torical accuracy would eventually prevail.” The gallant and modest colonel had the final assurance that his contribution to the golden treasury of quotations would bear his name.--New York Herald-Tribune.

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