The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 February 1924 — Page 6
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For Graves of Lincoln’s Parents I ~ I K ? li||* ' j'K-. . da •■, v. L f I '*-*■’< **» SAfiAH BUSH “K'COI.N F 1770 1851 ’ 1788-5869 FA-niCR 6 xTEPAtTTHf.K w.z\ «QS&n| C* oi’K uartyret PResirarr r 'Qrm :■' ' HUMBtX »VT GAVe TO-ntE worlv , Mho Abraham Ljncoin |||gHEEO I fc^^><U« a^Wawßur ,^ w I -‘ "* —.— _ > > IB * " ’*’’**"" j *~‘*~'~' '• ^ r ?*3» r I A I• ’ r fflaCgSsro ' ■"* '**■ "T ~ ip Monument which has been erected in the little country cemetery near Janesville. 111., over the graves of the father and step-mother of Abraham Lin-, coin. The monument wya erected by the Lions Clubs of Illinois and the graves are being cared for by them. Before this the two head stones over the graves were so chiptved and broken by vandals and souvenir seekers thut it became a really shameful sight. 1 —: *——— * * Chicago Has a School in the Jail wf 'Wwi I V Jag Bi 1 '* Chicago has one school the pupils of which have no opportunity to play hookey. The school Is in the county jail and Is said to be the first of its kind ever established in the United States Lectures and blackboard work form the main features.
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Biack and Indigo are colors of narrow with the Persians. Certain forma of protection against fire losses existed among the Romans. As commander of his fleet, Columbus received about S3OO a year. The amount of quicksilver mined in 1921 was the smallest on record. Experiments are being matte with Mexican hemp as to Its adaptability fbt paper pulp. A
Turkish girls have strong aptitude for musle Fifty per cent of all skull fractures are due to automobile*. Frond has said that a neurotic is made before six years of age. Move slowly In order to .recognize the focdlahnese temptingly in the way. Three American buffaloes have been given to the Mexican government by the United States.
HIS IDENTITY LOST “Albert Etioartte* is Uie name thej < have given this man, who was fount | unconscious at the Broadway station of the Pennsylvania railway in Camden, N. J., January 5. When he re- . vlved next day his memory was a complete blank. He does not know hla own name or any detail of his past life. Given a job in a machine shop, he quickly proved ’ himself a skilled mechanic, although he does not remember ever having worked at- the trade. He appears to be between thirty and forty years of aga CALLED ON COOLIDGE W m Hv ! BUS lw BL To seek more money which they claim is due them from the govern, ment a number of big chiefs of the Cheyenne tribe of Indians are camping on the trail to the White House. Photograph shows a close-up of Chief Beartnan, who was received by the “Great White Father" and who has an important message to take back to his tribal brethren. , A Floatlnfl School. With a cargo of 100 tons of school supplies, the auxiliary power schooner Boxer has sailed from Seattle for southeastern Alaska, equipped as a floating school. Her officers will undertake to teach the natives various trades, including wireless telegraphy and navigation. Keeps Collectors Away. The leaf-butterfly so closely resembles certain leaves that it is almost impossible to distinguish the dlftwence eves at dose quartern. ~ i .
THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL
Washington Sidelights
Nation-Wide Campaign on Illiteracy
WASHINGTON. — That the blot of 5,000,000 illiterate adults may be wiped from the records of the United States, four national organisations held here recently a four-day conference to outline a nation-wide campaign against illiteracy. The National Conference 5 on Illiteracy brought together leaders of the National Education association, the United States Bureau of Education, the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the American Legion, each of these organizations having worked actively in the cause of education by means of its own representative committees. The opening meeting was presided over by Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the Interior. A strong address was delivered by Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, chairman of Illiteracy for the National Education association and for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Stewart, the founder of the “moonlight schools" In the Southern mountains. pointed out that the fight against Illiteracy is no new thing, but that only* concentration of effort on the part of these four organizations could bring the desired results. Combined effort, she said, will reach every
War Surplus Property to Be Sold Out
THE War department makes the announcement that, beginning at once, every effort will be made to clean up the remaining war surplus property before the close of the fiscal year, which ends June 30. Sales at Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco and San Aritonlo will be quartermaster auctions and for the major part consist of textiles, wearing apparel and general merchandise. Sales of an entirely different character are also to be held. During the past year the question of disposing of the remaining surplus In two or three large block sales to the highest bidders and winding up the War department’s liquidation activities at the earliest possible date, has been under consideration. This idea has been dismissed, however, as having too injurious probabilities in its effect on American industry and trade. Such a scheme was attempted by Great Britain last March. War department officials pointed out. when the British government, anxious to wind Up its disposal campaign offered in a single block Its remaining surplus, appraised at approximately $50,000,000. The British government received no
1924 Citizens’ Military Training Camps
WAR department plans for 1924 disclose that 40.000 students between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four will be enrolled throughout the country for instruction at the citizens’ military training camps, which open in all army corps areas August 1. These camps offer a 30-day course In outdoor training to volunteer candidates who can measure up to the moral and physical standards set by the department. All expense is borne by the government. Instruction Is divided into four groups, designated as the basic, red, white and blue courses. In the basic course ouly the elementary drills are taught; athletics and citizenship studies receive the principal attention. But students in the advanced classes may specialize in Infantry, cavalry, engineers or other branches of the service. ‘ < As a result of experiments at the 1923 camps, Important changes to go into effect this year appear In the
How Uncle Sam Assists Automobilists
BELIEVING that the research work of the automotive section of the United States bureau of standards is of greater value to the automobile owners of the country in proportion to the amount of federal money expended than any other activity of the government in behalf of motorists, the American Automobile association urged congress to Increase the appropriations for 1924 from $15,000 allotted in the budSto $50,000. the minimum amount imated as required to carry on the work on a scale equal to that of the last year, i The automotive section in the study made for the motor transport corps on the behavior of brake-lining materials alone made possible the saving of $10,000,000 annually for the motorists of the nation. The annual brake-lin-ing hilt waz $20,000,000. Through experimental work carried on the life of brake linings -was doubled without extra cost to the consumer. Many of the savings for, motorists ha* s * been the result of tests conduct-
For Uniform Marriage and Divorce Law
BEFORE a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, headed by Senator Sterling, arguments were made In support of a uniform federal marriage •nd divorce law and an amendment to the Constitution which would make such * law possible. Senator Capper of Kansas has introduced a proposed amendment to the Constitution on this subject and it also has been Introduced by Representative Fairfield of Indiana in the house. It has the support of the General Federation of Women's Clubs •nd of other women’s organizations. At the hearing Mrs. Florence White of Indiana, chairman of the committee of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, which has been giving special attention to this subject, was leading speaker. Mrs. White is assistant attorney general of Indiana, and drafted the Capper-Fairfield reanlution carrying the proposed amendment to the Constitution. She spoke to the subcommittee chjefiy on the legal phases of the question and
state, avoid duplication, and bring the desired goal many years nearer. She said, among other tilings: “Illiteracy is encamped all about ns, In every city and every state. If we look for a shining example of literacy where shall we find it? In the nation's capital? Not according to .the tale told the census-takers by 10.506 Washingtonians, who declared that they could neither read nor w’rite. “Can we find it in Boston, the center of culture and 'Hub of the Universe?’ No, for 24.524 illiterates are gathered there. “Philadelphia, the Quaker city, old enough and proud enough to be free from Illiteracy, harbors 58,631, more than all the Illiterates in the large and populous state of Indiana. “New York city has more illiterates than Mississippi or Alabama, and the state of New York has one-tenth of the Illiterates in this country. “We must not stop at educating the illiterates, but may this conference and the sentiments and efforts growing out of it so popularize education for young and old as to make going to school the rule for all—in other words to make going to school the fashion.”
offer which could, in the public inter est, be accepted. The policy of the United States government as regards War department liquidation, has from the outset been “one of sympathy toward its manufactories and business firms," stated a War department official, “and to have thrown excessive stocks on the market at any one time would hhve Incurred harsh and just criticism of our government.” “If the comment in English trade publications is to be taken seriously." a War department spokesman remarked, “that policy was less considerate of home manufacturing and mercantile interests than the American government’s policy. Furthermore. It must be remembered that the British government sold its surplus to the wide, wide world, whereas the United States government has Mold to American markets only, except in cases of stock for which no American market existed." War department officials assert that the success of the War department’s liquidation campaign, which has sold in five years’ time materials costing the government nearly $3,000,000.1X10. is due to newspaper and business paper advertising.
War department announcement. Advanced students who have attended previous C. M. T. camps will go Into the ranks with the regulars, drilling, hiking and shooting alongside seasoned veterans. These youths, however, will occupy quarters anfl take their meals with the main body of C. M. T candidates. The Military Training Camps association has undertaken to launch a na-tion-wide drive to bring the benefits of a course at the C. M. T. camps to the attention of eligible youths. The purposes of the camps, the War department says. Is to bring together young men of all types, both foreign and native bom, to develop closer national and social unity, to teach the duties and privileges of American citizenship, to show the parents by actual example that camp instructions of the kind contemplated will be to the liking of their sons and that it wijj develop them physically, mentally and morally, and will teach Americanism in Its true sense.
ed for the anny, navy, motor transport corps, Post Office department, and general supply committee on problems involving aircraft and automobile power plants, fuels, lubricants, and accessories. The total expenditure of the association was approximately $125.Q00 annually. Unfortunately a large part of the work for the government departments has been completed, so that the support for the laboratories from other governmental sources Is reduced and the public will be deprived largely of these by-prod-ucts, A project recently undertaken and for which only limited support is as yet available, is the development of methods for testing the braking abil,lty of automobiles. This is a question now actively before the various state and municipal agencies for the control of traffic and has come to be recognized as the most vital element in the securing of safety in highway transportation. The value of this work to the country is represented not tn dollars but in Uvea.
argued for favorable action by the subcommittee. It was said at the bearing that membership in the women's organizations in favor of the amendment and legislation to carry it out amounted to 5,000,000. Senator Capper said to the subcommittee: “I do not believe there are many thinking men and women in this conn try who have not come to see that one of our great social and moral needs Is a federal marriage and divorce law As all those, present here know, divorce has been increasing with alarm lag rapidity until, according to the latest statistics compiled by the fed eral bureau of census, there is on< divorce to fewer than every sevei marriages In this country. “There is only one reason for this aside from the natural and incontro vertlble perversity of human nature and that is the ease with which th« unfit and the immature are pennitte to marry. Divorce, as aa Instttutior in itself is net sc evlL
Importance of Recreation Movement to the Farm and the Small Town By J. W. COVERDALE, American Farm Bureau Federation. WOMEN on fams are slain by drudgery at the average age of forty years. It is economic murder, which can be prevented by giving these women the same modern home comforts made possible by electricity as are enjoyed by city women. Electrified fams will add ten to twenty years to their lives. Electrification of farms is therefore inevitable, and the problem of all interested in rural betterment is to hasten the day when each fam will have its complete electric plant. Impassioned pleas have long been made that the fams of the United States should develop a, brighter, more attractive fom of life and thus end the menacing drift of rural life to the big cities. It has been said the bright lights must be taken to the fam if we are to keep the farmers from coming to the bright lights. That is all correct. But first we must see that the farmer earns the price of the bright lights. This cannot be done by ..legislation, as some believe, but by intelligent co-operation and leadership. '4 The future of the fam in America lies in providing recreation which will keep the boy and girl in the industry. The price of this recreation must be secured by efficiency. In the country recreation and education should go hand in hand. Where this is the case, recreation and efficiency bring each other. The importance of the recreation movement to the fam and small town cannot be overestimated. It is the binder through which the economic education can be given. Its importance is fully recognized by leaders in fam work, and the widespread good which it is already doing is indicated by the fact that 700,000 rural boys and girls are now enrolled in boys’ and girls’ work for education and recreation. Perfect Illustration of What We Have to Expect From Foreign Competition By GLENN GRISWOLD,»in Chicago Journal of Commerce. They tell us that the brick cost but $4 a thousand, f. o. b. Amsterdam, and the freight Charge across the ocean is another $4. This lays the brick down in New York at SB, a price less than the actual cost of manufacture in the brickyards that line the Hudson river. The American brickmaker receives approximately the same wages for a single day’s work that is paid to the Dutch laborer at the end of a week. This is a perfect, illustration of what we have to expect byway of foreign competition. Furthermore, it demonstrates the paucity of thought on the part of those who hold that labor cannot be deflated. If present conditions continue, brick labor in this country will deflate itself. TJhe same is true of other labor that violates fundamental economic laws in the toll it takes of industry. There is another and even more important lesson to be learned. It costs as much to move this' brick a few miles along the Hudson river as it does to bring it across the Atlantic. Again we prove to ourselves that the great waste of industry is not in the production of the stuff we use, but in its distribution. “Knowing as We Do That Life Without Beauty Is Mutilated Existence” By RALPH ADAMS CRAM, in Arts and Decoration. Beauty is a real test of value, and when it is lost there is nothing that can take its place but a sense of humor —and the two are apt to live and die together. Beauty is also much more a “natural right” of man than is the electoral franchise or the “right” of free speech. It is not an amenity of life, for it is an essential of good living, but it is a great joy and a great compensation. For both these reasons we need it back, knowing as we do that without it life is only mutilated existence, while false gods reign unchallenged on their thrones. Beauty is myriad in its manifestations; art deals with a dish or a doghouse just as it does with a painted canvas, a carved statue or a cathedral. You cannot produce art by intensive use of picture galleries, public lectures and art schools, if beautv is ruled out of common life and ugliness takes its place. By some miracle of reversal, and in'spite of the more flamboyant appearances, this desire for beauty has begun to come back, and in so far as we are able we here in this magazine propose to do what we can to foster this desire and to meet it “When He Was Barely 30, on a Dazzling Height of Irresponsible Power” By FORMER PREMIER ASQUITH, in “Genesis of the War.” The premature and tragic death of his father, the Emperor Frederick, the most blameless and liberal-minded figure in the annals of the Hohenzollem dynasty, placed him, when he was barely thirty, on a dazzling height of irresponsible power. His grandfather, through the agency of Bismarck and Moltke, had secured for the old Kingdom of Prussia the imperial crown of a new and united Germany. The secular enemy, France, had been crushed and mutilated, and was for the time, at any rate, put out of action. The Hapsburg monarchy was no longer a danger; it had become, indeed, a docile if not a subservient friend. With Russia it had been, from first to last, Bismarck’s persistent policy to prevent the possibility of serious quarrel. England sat remote in her sea-girt isolation, almost (it seemed) as far aloof as the United States of .America from the sphere of continental politics. Never in modern times had a young ruler succeeded to so splendid and seemingly so secure an inheritance. Thirty Years Ago-Government Decided to Make the Indian Self-Supporting By SENATOR LAWRENCE C. PHIPPS, of Colorado. It ia appalling to hear that in spite of the great amount of money, which the Indian bureau has expended in all these years for salaries for its officials, who now number 6,000 white men besides 12,000 Indians, the Indian is not advancing to any appreciable extent The amount appropriated by congress for the Indian bureau for 1887 was $5,000,000; the 1920 budget called for $15,000,000. Disinterested authorities are credited with the statement that this lack of advance and increase of expenditure are due to mismanagement and to a system unsuited to the object to be accomplished. It was over thirty years ago, in 1887, that the government decided to make the Indians self-supporting men and women and promised that when they became capable of holding property in the same manner as the white man they should receive individual grants or patents. Must it be all a farce? Alice Paul, National Woman’s Party.—The man who doesn’t smoke or drink or gamble and who is true to his wife is looked upon as a pantgon of virtue. But the woman who doesn’t smoke or drink, who is true to her husband and concentrates upon the home—why, there are so many millions of such women you wouldn’t think of their achievements as anything worth noticing. Edward J. Hess, Assistant United States District Attorney.—lt is a mistaken notion that a citizen has an inherent right to single out any law and assert his right to ignore it Such a course of action is not personal liberty; it is little short of treason