The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 June 1923 — Page 6

New Yorkers Get Chance to See Real Logging Work J 1 * ' " 1 ,uw 2r i ■;'• * 1 ~ 1- . T* - ' r '3 - ».» ./.•>■•, 3 • S* I I _... ■ _ ■ ./g : :■"»•• -■:'■■ § \\ a I \ —J . I Lri *’ A consignment of mahogany logs valued at $400,000 reached New York the other day from Central A “"‘“- .boartX s S Asiatic. The river was turned into a large lumber camp stream as the log. were unloaded, and experieuced loggers rode the wood to Its destination.

Crocodile Hunting Is Thrilling Sport

—— ' • Field Museum Collectors Find | Ample Excitement in the Swamps of Honduras. Chicago.—" Have you ever played bide and seek with a crocodile al night?” asks Karl O. .Schmidt, who. with Leon L. Walters, just returned to the; Field museum after four months In Honduras collecting reptiles. ' “The game is exciting, especially If j played In a swampy forest. And if the j crocodile tags you you’ll certainly realize' you’re It! But In this case," I and be holds up the skin of a vicious I five-footer. “I got him first “This specimen I got In British Honduras. We had caught several smaller , ones tmt wanted a big fellow. They j only >ow to about five feet there — I we l«wt got some eleven-footers in the repul Je of Honduras. But on this j night waiters and I went out with the customary headlights on our forehead, all ready to kill. The headlight d&x ‘ ties the eyes of the animal and gives the hunter the advantage. Pretty soon I saw this brawny chap slavvering around In a puddle about a foot deep. Blinded Creature Good Wrestler. “I shot twice for his ear but missed. I The second bullet scraped his head and j about half-stunned him so that he began to navigate wildly In circles. I thought I’d lose him then, but all at once I found him right near me. I didn't take a chance on shooting, but just poked my fingers into his eyrt and pulled him out like that. The eyw sockets are rather deep and give you * good hold on the chap. Weil, then I grabbed his mouth, but he kept squirming around In ray hands so I cou’d hardly hold him. Walters cnme dp just In time to keep the beast from getting away. “We tied him. but even after that' hla muscles were so strong that he could roll himself around on ths ground Ilka an animated cylinder. He got awny Into the swamp In I no time if we hadn't tied him to a tree. | Well, here he la poor fellow. And there Is the plaster mold Walters made of him. I have a sort of affection for him now. He gave me a good time of It. all right. But I didn’t try f» get , any bigger ones by hand. No. not after that." The collection brought home by

This b Where America May Soon Get Its Meat Supply One of the largest reindeer farms in the world, uud certainly the largest of.lts kind on the Western Hemlspere, Is the farm wned and operated by the Lomen brothers of Nome. Alaska. Reindeer meat, many think, is destined to become the principle source of meat supply for America tn a short span of years, and It vrtll be then that Americans will look towards Alaska for their supply of meat

ONE SYSTEM TO SUPPLY I ' ALL U. S. ELECTRICITY — ‘

' Plan Would Require Investment 1 of $5,000000,000. New York.—Details of the plan to develop a hn * e ’ unlfled - owned electrical, system, capable of supplying power needs of the entire country, are being worked out with the support of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company. Its fulfillment, requiring years, would mean an Investment of $5,000,000,000. and an Increase of probably $1,000,UOO.OOO a year in money spent for electricity. It would bring electric light to millions of farms. It would offer a practical mcthjd of electrify;ng almost al; of the steam railroads of the country. The R|ed for such a system was outlined before the convention of the Nariohai Electric Ught association By Guy fc Tripp wfio is chairman of the West-

; Schmidt and Walters also Includes specimens of a ‘tree-climbing salamander, an animal about four inches long that lives in the tubular leaves of the air plant. These leaves always contain water In their bottoms. It is here that the salamander exists. Heller En Route With Specimens. John T. Zimmer has returned from a year of explorations in Pern. He told 1 of meeting Edmund Heller, another of the Field museum’s collectors. In Peru In April, 1922. For more than a year Heller and his wife have been scouring South American hills and forests in search of specimens of mammals to stuff and bring back to the Field museum. They are also bringing a few live rarities for the Lincoln park zoo. i Among thfc collection to be mounted for the museum are the leaf-nosed bat; the oil bird, or owl that is net an owl, a species of which thousands of specimens were found tn the Lechuza cave And from' fat young the natives make a fine salad oil; a “vampire" animal like a bear with a tooth like the blade of a knife, and others equally odd.

MACHINE GUNS GUARD NEW CLEVELAND BANK ■ *

Strength and Safety Keynote of Federal Structure. Cleveland. O. —The new Fourth Federal Reserve Bank building here has many details of architecture and Ingenuity that make it one of the most remarkable ta the United States, architects and builders say. with strength and safety the keynote®. The main vault la 30 feet below the street level. Side and rear walls are « feet thick. The front wall Is 7 feet ' thick and baa the heaviest door In the world. The vault Is designed to hold upward of $2,000,000,000 In gold and securities, according to D. C. Wills, chairman of the board. The first floor, for the transaction of public business, is finished In Italian marble. Customers can lock themselves behind iron bars when transacting business with a teller.

" j • Ingbouse company board of directors, j The plan contemplates carefully di- ; reeled extensions, by the efforts of existing private companies, of present! central stations and transmission lines. Within a few years almost all 1 | Important generating stations and ’ transmission lines would be pooled in j half a dozen “supersystems." Later the “supersystems” would be linked up * into one unit. The unified system, selling In one city power it has obtained from a station 1.000 miles away, would be to electricity what thj federal reserve banks are to finance. Boy's Lost Faculties Return at Same Time Coldwater, Miss. —Physicians here are baffled over the case of James Holder, slx-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Valley Holdef of this place, who recovered sight, hearing and apeech at

AFTER DEEP STUFF 11081 jG/ HR 1 Miss Helen Lois, well-known Sai Francisco newspaper writer, is believed to be the only woman who has tried out a deep-sea diving outfit Assisted by the navy recruiting officer at San Francisco, Miss Lois, in order to secure material for some short stories went down Into the briny deep in the outfit.

A gallery of armor plate surrounds 1 the first floor, with loopholes from which guards can see everything occurring below. Truck driveways lead directly Into the mail room. It cannot be “rushed.” 1 The truck first enters a vestibule and the street door must be closed and locked behind before the second door, opening direct into the mailroom, can be opened. Armed guards can look down upon 1 the mailroom and command It with rifles, and statues at each of the entrances to the building will conceal 1 machine guns. Electricity Cost la Lower. Washington.—Electricity Is the only large Item in the daily cost of living ’ which has shown any reduction In i the cost to the consumer since 1917, according to the figures of the bureau of labor statistics gathered from 32 selected cities.

i Cat Guards Chickens | • From Marauding Fox « Greenwich. Conn.— John L. ! i Mend has on his farm here a pet ! • Maltese tomcat One morning • i he looked out of the window J ! • toward his chicken coops and • i there saw the cat jumping * i • through a hole in the wire fence. 1 ‘ ■ Next the cat was seen racing a • over a stone wall into a field be- • a youd and Mr. Mead then spied a • a fox in the lead. The cat ! ; i chased the fox out of sight as ■ J far as Mr. Mead <wild see. the same time after an illness of a yeai. during which time he lost those faculties. These were all restored on the stroke of midßight Autograph Telefirama in Paris. Paris.—A system *or sendlaj: aut< graph telegrams 13 l*ing InsMUed t French telegraph offlcea,

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Unique Feat of Bridge Engineers I I- - * I»TOtfrHnTr# in j i SOW When the bridge across the Mississippi river at Hastings, Minn., was built it was found there was not space for the usual long approach. So the engineers designed a spiral approach, as shown In the photograph.

Angora Plans Islam’s Reform

New Turk Leaders Realize That Modem Economic Existence Makes Changes Necessary. Constantinople.—Five times a day, above the modern tumult of the Grande Rue de Pera, Constantinople’s most Europeanized thoroughfare, there rises in monotonous recitative a shrill, far voice. “Come to prayer.’’ it chants, “Come to prayer, come to prayer! I bear witness that there is no God but God! I bear witness that Mahomet is the prophet of Godl Come to salvation! God is great!” The voice is all but drowned in the clanging of electric cars, the tooting of automobile horns; the crowds that press along the narrow sidewalks — Armenians, Greeks, Jews. Russians, Western soldiers and civilians of all nations —heed it not; and you may pass the place a hundred times without even noticing the minaret of the little old mosque, dwarfed and hidden between tall new houses, whence the muezzin sends forth his exhortation. Between this voice with Its spiritual message and the unheeding multitude bent on the business and pleasures of modern life lies all the depth of the apparently unbridgeable abyss that divides Islam as hallowed by the traditions of centuries from Western civilization. Five times a day the Moslem Is commanded to interrupt his daily work to say his prayers and perform the prescribed ablutions that precede them, losing in the process, at, a moderate estimate, five out of the ten hours of the normal working day. Teachings of Priest. In the mosque the priest will teach him that it is a mortal sin to lend money at Interest, in other words to engage in any kind of banking business. and that all the future events of his life, whether or unfortunate, are preordained by God. thus stifling whatever spirit of enterprise he may possess. It is the realization of the fact that the precepts of lilam in their present form have become irreconcilable with the conditions of modern economic existence which has inspired the leaders of new Turkey with the great plan of religious reform they are at present engaged In carrying out at Angora. Islam still represents a tremendous political force, and • Mustapha Kemal and his associates are keenly alive to the great future possibilities which He open to Turkey as the strongest independent Mohammedan power. They know perfectly well that the extraordinary successes fhey achieved in their struggle against the allies at Mudanla and Lausanne were not due to fear of their Uttle army tn Anatolia, however excellently led and organized it might be. but to the far greater menace exerted by the solidarity of the Moslem world against the colonial Interests of England and France. The British dared not risk war with Turkey because of the effect on India and Egypt, on the Afghans and Arabs. This dread of the European colonial powers, and particularly of Britain, has dominated and will for a long time to come continue to dominate the entire situation in the Near East. «nt the Turkish leaders naturally wish to exploit it to the utmost by infusing fresh blood into the veins of Islam and welding the Moslem world as closely as possible together under Turkey's leadership. The reform they contemplate has therefore a threefold alm: To bring Islam into harmony with modern economic civilization, to intensify its spiritual influence by restoring it to its original purity and to consolidate Its political prestige and power. Reforms Cause Anxiety. It Is not surprising that the European powers with colonial Interests in Africa and Asia are inclined to view this reform of Islam with extreme anxiety and to attempt to discredit It Officially Inspired prophets have darkly predicted that it must infallibly sow incurable dissensions ajnong the Moslem world—as if this were not exactly what European diplomacy is most anxiously hoping will happen! As a matter of fact the modernization of Islam has been authorized yy Mahomet himself. who expressly says in the Koran that the time may come when It will be necessary to modify his precepts in order to suit altered conditions! Furthermore, many of the changes advocated by the reform committee

Chinaman Leaves Will on Laundry Ticket

San Francisco.—One of the strangest legal documents ever presented to the local courts was the will of Gee Chong Wotig, a Chinese laundryman. The will, written on the back of a laundry ticket, was in the Chinese language and read: “I. Gee Chong Wong, also known as Gee Fook Sing, know myself sick in bed; whether or not wll! be recovered ncr do I know that I will live from

constituted by the grand national assembly at Angora are not innovations at all, but merely a restoration of the primitive doctrine of Islam, which, like other religions, has suffered in the course of time through the interpretations of zealous theologians. Thus the first important measure taken by the Angora reformers, the election of the Caliph by the representatives of the people after the deposition of the ex-sultan, is entirely in accordance with the democratic conception of the Caliphate as held by Mahomet and bls immediate successors. It has, therefore, completely failed to awaken that storm of protest so eagerly anticipated by the ex-sul-tan’s European protectors and has been accepted and recognized as a legal act by the Moslems of all lands. Similarly, the ban against taking interest for loans, which has paralyzed Turkish business activity in the past, appears to be based on an erroneous Interpretation of the Koran, which in reality only prohibits usury. It is certain that this interdiction will be eliminated by the reform committee, and there are already today three purely Turkish banks operating in Constantinople. When the Turks of all classes realize that it is no longer incompatible with their religion to engage in banking business they will be better able to compete with their Greek and Armenian neighbors, and the chief source of racial strife in Turkey will be gradually removed. Another less vital but equally significant transformation has been effected as regards the Moslem interdiction of representing the human face or figure, which was inspired by Mahomet’s dread of Idolatry, but is absolutely out of date now. Even Turks of the lowest classes no longer evince any dislike of being photographed, and the national assembly has stamped its approval on their tolerance by decreeing the erection of an equestrian statue of Mustapha Kemal in Angora, the first monument of its kind in Turkey, though several already exist in Egypt. May Heal Old Feuds. The measures taken by the Nationalist leaders to restore the primitive austerity of Islam, far from creating dissensions among the Moslem races, are calculated to heal many old feuds. The introduction of prohibition in Turkey, which is entirely in accordance with the teaching of the prophet, has made a deep impression on the Wahabis and Senussls, the two great puritanical and warlike Arab nations, who until now hated and despised the Turks as “bad Mohammedans.” The antiluxury legislation of Angora cannot fail likewise to appeal strongly to these puritans of the desert, who do not even smoke or drink coffee and among whom even the wearing of silk and of gold or silver ornaments is forbidden. A great step toward the reconciliation of Arabs and Turks, whose enmity has so far been the cornerstone of European diplomacy in the Near East, has thus been taken by the Angora government, and ere long Its consequences may become alarmingly apparent. The pan-Islamic movement, inaugurated by the astute Abdul Hamid, has found a new center in Angora, and it is being now conducted by young, ambitious men with modern ideas, who have all the daring courage Inspired by their conviction that their country has emerged victorious out of a ten years’ struggle. The great sheik of the Senussis, whose power is a serious menace to Italy’s colonies in Africa, is the constant guest of Mustapha Kemal, upon whom he conferred a sword of honor after the victory of the Sangarios, and is now on the borders of Mosul, using his- Influence over the Arabs of Mesopotamia to pave the way for a Turkish invasion Ln case of war. Ambassadors from Persia and Afghanistan have been accredited in Angora, and delegations representing the various nationalist parties of India and Egypt have made it their headquarters. The ambition of all these Eastern patriots is to follow Turkey’s example by setting up “national pacts” of their own and forcing their acceptance upon the European powers in the same manner as the successful Turks. Already It is reported that the Arabs of Tripoli have adopted a national pact after the

morning to night This is my will in I case anything happens. I give to ray wife. Gee Wong She, the whole of my property, which is as follows: “Money with Bank of Italy. “Money with the Canton bank. “Also Quong Sing Lee laundry, all of San Francisco. “GEE CHONG WONG." The widow was granted letters of administration and a family allowance of

Turkish pattern, by which they pledge themselves to free their country absolutely from Italian domination. Where Diplomacy F*»ile. To meet this menace of rejuvenated, modernized Islam, European diplomacy has so far proved impotent to invent any new method of defense. It is following its antiquated policy of seeking to divide the Moslem world by subterranean intrigues. England, after staging the deposed sultan’s flight from Constantinople to Malta, has sent him on a British warship to Mecca, where it appears that the refugee has been received witL all the honors due to true caliph by Hussein, king of the Hedjaz and guardian of the Holy Places of Islam. Both Hussein and the emir.of Nedj. the ruler of the Wahabis, are recipients of large “subsidies" from the British treasury, which accounts for the ready hospitality they hare afforded to the discredited, half-witted excalipb. It remains to be seen, however, how Vong they will be able to conceal from their ignorant subjects the fact that all the rest of the Moslem world has recognized and pledged allegiance to the new caliph, Abdul Medjid. in Constantinople, elected by the national assembly of Turkey. Most Eastern experts with whom I have spoken are of the opinion that when the truth dawns upon the Arabs of Nedj and the Hedjaz, as it already has upon the Senussis, this astute scheme of setting up a rival caliph will come to naught and the whole of Arabia will once more look toward Constantinople for spiritual, and inevitably also political, guidance. While the Turkish leaders have divested the caliphate of its temporal power, they are making every effort to enhance Its popular prestige as an important factor in the revival of Islam. With Oriental pomp, unseen since Abdul Hamid’s time, the new caliph goes to pray every Friday in a different mosque, driving in an open carriage with four horses and outriders, preceded by his bodyguard in splendid uniforms and followed by a brilliant suite, keeping in the public eye as much as possible in order to revive the religious fanaticism of the multitude. The decrepit ex-sultan, ? hidden among his women In the unapproachable palace of Dolma-Bagt-che, was a tragic-comic figure, held up to ridicule by Turks of all classes. The new caßph, a highly educated, aristocratic prince in the prime of life, and of austere morals, thoroughly in accordance with his elevated religious dignity, is rapidly becoming a really popular spiritual leader. It Is not Impossible that his seat may soon be transferred from Constantinople to Angora, whither the “sacred relics” and other treasures of the seraglio have already been secretly removed, and If so, measures will probably be taken to have his election by the Turkish national assembly ratified by a special congress of delegates from all Moslem countries. Islam a Political System. Islam is not merely a religion, but also a political system, All modern investigators of Eastern unrest agree that Moslems are better fitted to embrace and put into practice the precepts of democracy than other Orientals, because the principles of democratic government are contained in the Koran. It would be difficult Indeed to find, outside of the United States, a more democraticregime than that prevailing in Angora today, where the deputies of the national assembly have refused the ratification of the peace project elaborated by the cabinet after weeks of stormy debate. Under the same circumstances any European parliament. and particularly the British house of commons, would have blindly Indorsed the treaty submitted to it in a few hours. True democracy has its diplomatic drawbacks, but it seems unfair to accuse the Turks of Oriental procrastination because the national assembly of Turkey happens to be acting very much like the American senate. In Scutari, on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus opposite Constantinople, there Is a celebrated “tekke" or monastery of howling dervishes, which in pre-war days used to attract large crowds of foreign tourists. Tourists don’t go there any more now. because they fear their presence may awaken the fanaticism of its devotees —an en- ! tirely groundless apprehension, for the : dervishes, being really ecstatically sincere seekers after the divine spirit, are the most tolerant of all Moslems. Not long ago the writer was a spectator at their weird service. By the constant and ever increasingly violent repetition of the name of God the dervishes had worked themselves up as usual to the highest pitch of religious exaltation, when a nationalist officer in full uniform, who was standing beside me, suddenly rushed into their midst with a wild “Allah-hoo-ooo” and Joined In their exercises, outyelling the loudest, until he collapsed on the floor with the rest, foaming at the mouth, in an autohypnotic trance. The scene was a revelation of the Immense spiritual force yet dwelling in Islam, and of the strange things we may live to see if the nationalist leaders of Turkey succeed In using It to shape the economic and political destinies of the East. —New York Herald. Broken Ankle Is Only Result of Long Fall New York.—Joe Viola, five years old. fell five stories from the roof of his home at 228 East Ninety-seventh street with no more serious results than a fractured ankle. The child lost his balance while playing on the roof. He struck four sets of clotheslines while falling, bounding from one to the next, and landed on his feet.

S2OO monthly for herself and five chi) dren. Free State of Danzig Prospers. Danzig.—Unlimited freedom of trade i and a favorable geographical location are spelling prosperity for the Free State of Danzig, says the first annual report of the Danzig Credit bank. This institution, founded fifteen months ago,. • already records a total turn-over of : 64,500,000.000 German marks and a net ! profit of 48,400.000 out of which a 4€ I per cent dividend has been declared.

/AAFt/ GRAHAM BONNER. W UMUH VWWH — ' SEA LIONS’ CHATTER “I hear those baby bears are no proud because they can box and play baseball," said Master Samuel SeaLion. “And I have also heard that boys were very fond of baseball and could play it very well. But we can do tricks and play games, too, and we can catch, which is a most important part of baseball. We don’t waste our tlnje, though, in catching a ball. We wait until it is meal time and then we catch fish. “The keeper says that no matter how quickly he throws fish into our pool we don’t let it reach the water. No, we have caught it first. So I think it is foolish to waste time catching a ball when one can catch fish.” “Os course,” said Sidney Sea-Lion, “some creatures may not care to catch fish. “I cannot understand such creatures but I believe it is so. I’ve sCen boys and girls here in the zoo and they sometimes have had sandwiches with them which they have eaten and bars of chocolate. But they don't have someone throw it up in the air and then jump for it and catch it. Strange it is that they shouldn’t, but such is the case!” “I hear," said Samuel Sea-Lion, "that the Nail-Tail Wallaby is attracting a great deal of attention of late In the zoo because of his tail which has a thorny end as though it were almost a nail-like tail. It is a protection for him. They are also interested in the snake-bird, I hav»» heard. Wbll, he is a queer creature, for he can dive and swim and yet as he swims he holds his head and neck above all the water like a bird and he is quite fond of the big bird house of the zoo where he makes his home. He has a pool to dive down into, of course. “Then the Flamingoes are much admired, with their lovely pink bodies. They really are beautiful. And their “sow for Luncheon." necks and legs are thin and dainty looking and they enjoy warm weather. “There are the Griffon Vultures who were so cross last spring that they fought all the time—even with the mates in their cage—and behaved very badly. They do not receive much admiration. The Secretary Bird is always looked upon with interest because of his long legs and because of the way he can suddenly start to run and before it seems as though you had seen him start he Is away off. “For he can run very quickly without a moment’s thought about it. A Turkey Vulture came the other day from afar to call upon the Turkey Vultures here in the park, which was very exciting for the keepers and the people. They thought it a most Interesting faet. “There is the King Vulture froin South America who dances for the visitors. He does that beautifully, holding his wings somewhat spread out and looking very fine, indeed.” “Yes,” said Sidney Sea-Lion, “all that you say is true. For we hear the keepers talking and we hear the people talking as they stand outside our cage.. • “The South American Condor, a cousin of King Vulture, always looks to me as thougli he were dressed up as some one most important and that he was going into a parade like that. “You know how we’ve seen people ready to go pass by. They were dressed up to look like some old famous person and they looked just as far from fame as possible except in their wonderful get-up of clothes and such grandeur. You know the kind?” “I do,” said Sainuel. “I think the South American Condor is like that. But, dear me. here comes the keepejj. Now for luncheon." “Now for luncheon.” agreed Sidney. And all the other Sea Lions agreed, too! “Let’s call it baseball,’’ said Samuel. “Os course,” said Sidney. “My Catch! I*ve got it! Hl get this one,” shouted Samuel as he caught the first piece of fish the keep- * er threw, and qll the Sea Lions proved that they could catch in Any baseball game where fish and not balls were thrown! At least they liked to have fish thrown best! Cannibala and Other Folks. “Father, what is the difference between cannibals and other folks?" questioned young Albert. “Well, my boy, cannibals eat their enemies; as a rule other people go no further than to live on their friends and relatives.” Wise Willie. Asked what she had learned In Sunday school, Marjorie replied that the teacher had said all our days are numbered. “Huh!” put in her little brother. “Everybody who ever saw a calendar knows that.” Wonderful Coal Field. A recent suneyed coal field in New Mexico has been estimated to contain more coal than all the coal which has been mined and consumed Id the United States to tlatf -