The Syracuse Journal, Volume 17, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 May 1924 — Page 6
“Path of Death” of the Amalfi Landslide
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President With His Cabinet as Now Constituted
. k. l~ a :. Vf’WlKfll ■ I II > I " ‘CSE®3B» 4 ■ 4 * ■' ■ ~- jMfc- ' The first picture to be made of President Coolidge with his cabinet as now constituted. including the recently apfainted secretary of the navy and attorney genera!. Front row, ’eft to right—Postmaster General Harry S. New ; Secretary «f War John W. Weeks. Secretary of State Charles Ev Hughes, President Coolidge. Secretary of the Treas urv Andrew Metlon, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Slone and . retary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur. Back row. left t» right- Secretary of Labor Janie* J. D.-ni*. Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hooter and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work.
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An order has been Issued ihat all the air mail pilots learn how to use the parachute, and thia photograph, taken at Mineola, L. L, shows some of them adjusting the devices before hopping off.
At Work on His Wilson Biography W\ > Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy, at work on his book. •’The Use of Woodrow Wilson,- in Washington, where ne will remain until the bl•frephy baa been completed. —•* - t
MUCH IN LITTLE
Dr. John Bostick, an Englishman, designated bay fever as such in 1839. Nathan 3. Davis. Sr, was the founder ct the American Medical association. It has taken ten years to repair the ravages of a beetle plague in West* minster hall. The new world’s record for motorcycles over dirt tracks for one mile to
About 20,000.000 acres of Alaskan timber is in forest reserves. Pennsylvania motorists are more heavily taxed than those of any other state. A Phllade phis man has invented a vacuum cleaner to be attached to any In one-teacher schools in America. In 1923. the average salary a| taaetaa
MAKES WAY FOR ARIZONA f ? Aliiert Beer, stonecutter tor twenty five years, is seen rearing n hole ir the side of the Washington monumen in the capital to make ready for nn other of the inscribed state slubs j This one will be a slab of petriHet j wood from the state of Arizona. HUNTSMAN AT TEN ' Francis X. Sommer, Jr., of Wash ington. D. C., Is pn*bably the young ■ est huntsman In the United« States | He is only ten years of age. is a member of the Hock Creek Hunt club *»i the national capital and has alreadt led the field as. a “whip.” The pictun sliows hint taking the Jumps. Produce* New Fith Changing fish to water of a different temperature from that to which the? are accustomed will, according to > Danish scientist, after several gener aUons, prodace a new type, modified in form and structure, especially it the rays of the fins and the number m vertebrae. - Money for Art New York city appropriates abou. $300,000 annually to tha K«tropoUt»
THE SYRACUSE JOCRXAL
Washington Sidelights
U. S. Dollar International Trade Unit
WASHINGTON. — The United States has taken on a new responsibility in its relation to world economic affairs, in the opinion of the federal reserve board, which in its annual report indicates u belief that increasingly greater influence in world economic progress will emanate from these shores. The great influx of gold into the United States which now has one-four-teenth of the world monetary stock, the growing use of the American dollar with its gold standard as a trade basis, gradual expansion of American foreign trade, the adoption by maity foreign interests of American trade and commercial policies—are cited by the board as showing the responsibility that must be borne and accounted for by the leaders in the United States. Since the federal reserve system is accepted as charting the business course at home, its correspondingly increased power and responsibility in the larger field is examined by the board In its report, and It has set itself to the task of explaining the peace-time functions of the system. It Indicates a belief that the genera! conception of how the system can give full force and effect to its chartered powers of aiding commerce ami industry is too limited ami makes a definite move toward
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Is British Embassy to Seek New Home?
According to gossip, one of the first activities which will engage Sir Esme Howard will be to select a suitable location for a new embassy. Taking a cue from the versatile M. Jusserand. who sold a site which the French government had owned for the past fifteen years, at a figure which permitted the purchase of another and more .spacious piece of ground and in a more desirable neighborhood, the British ambassador has been advised that the psychological moment has come to dispose of the fine property in Connecticut avenue already submerged in the rising tide of business. It is a fascinating topic to speculate on the chances of Sixteenth street obtaining another stately establishment or whether the decision will be in favor of Sheridan Circle, or even the remote heights of Massachusetts avenue, where it becomes semi-suburban. Great Britain built her diplomatic establisli-
e ’ I President’s Views as to Porto Rico
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ehtertains some decided views respecting the Insular possession of Porto Rico, it was made known at the White House. A bill now before congress that would give to the people of Porto Rico the power to elect their governor, it is said, has the approval of the President. A delegation recently called ui>on the President to urge a change In the manner of naming the governor of Porto Rico. The President, it is understood, told the Porto Ricans at that time that in his judgment the fundaiA'ntal question involved in the government of Porto Rico is the difficulty of having an elective legislature and a governor who serves by reason of appointment hy the President. Mr. Coolidge,, it is said, takes the view that an arrangement of that kind, even when all parties proceed with the greatest possible tact, has in it necessarily elements that are quite likely to lead to some kind of conflict between the governor on the one hand and the local legislature on the other. At this particular time it appears that affairs are in good shape politically- in the island, but the President believes that some means should be provided whejpeby a governor is elected by
Nine Raw Materials Uncle Sam Lacks
NINE raw material* essential to American industry and agriculture, whose principal production sources are abroad, are controlled in greater or less degree by combinations. Secretary Hoover has written to Senator Capper (Rep.. Kan.). The circumstances affecting each commodity have been determined by special Commerce department investigations. and the secretary asserted that the situation required federal legislation suggesting pnrticularly modification of foreign trade statutes to allow American purchasers to combine In their buying, wilhout regard to existing anti-trust laws. He advocated the extension of the WebbpoHjerene act. which allows American producers to combine for the purpose of selling in. export so ns to penult the setting up of common purchasing agencies by American interests wliich utilize the monopolized foreign raw materials. , “Foreign monopol-es or combinations are jMWefitially or actually in control of prices and distribution of the (ol>
District of Columbia Asks Own Flag
THE District of Colninbiji thinks it should hate of its own. inasmuch as it iwrhe seat of the capital of the nation. Chairman Reetl of the house District committee has introduced such a hill. Senator Bull, ritnirwan of the senate District committee, has reported a bil! providing for a commission to design a flag for the district. The Washington Star has reproduced designs by Charles Dunn rand John Mackaye Dunbar, both of which feature the shield portion of tlie coat of arms of the Washington family—the reputed source of the idea for Old Glory. Mr. Dunbar's design used the national colors. Mr. Dunn’s idea of a District flag Is a white field containing twd red horizontal stripes and three blue stars, both of which features are contained in the Washington shield. Like Mr. Dunbar, Mr. Dunn thinks the use of this design for the flag of the seat of government, named after George Washington, is “an obvious and logical idea.” The author ha* made further draw-
a policy of promulgating such information hereafter. Turning to the question of gold movements, the board says great concern is manifest because of their probable future extent and direction. It says that no future Inflow such as that that has taken place can be expected because of the restrictive measures taken by the European powers which are designed directly to control gold exports from their territorial jurisdictions. Then. too. the board asserts that in international trade gold has nfaintafned its conventional position throughout the decade of currency disorganization and with the growing necessity for a common basis for calculating commodity prices there has been a marked tendency to equalize values on the basts of the American dollar because of the gold that backs it. “Thus,” the report adds, “the American dollar has become the link between countries on a paper currency basis and the gold standard. “In this adjustment the American dollar, not only because of its convertibility into gold but because of its stability and because of the trade position of the United States, has become Increasingly the unit of account it international trade.”
ment when the houses of Connecticut avenue could be counted on one hand, and she erected the finest domicile which Washington had known at that date. Possibly Sir Esme Howard will follow the traditions, but one of the most interesting landmarks of city will disappear if the old brick residence from which the “lion and -unicorn” look down on the passing throngs is to be demolished like its aristocratic neighbor, the former embassy of Aus-tro-Hungary. Italy and France are to erect splendid embassy homes on Sixteenth street, and the Spanish, Mexican and Cuban embassies already are established there, together with the legations of Poland, Persia, Czechoslovakia and Venezuela. It therefore seems probable that Great Britain will seek another locality, possibly near the great cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, where the ground may still be pur chased in acreage.
the people rather than appointed by the President. Mr. Coolidge, it Is said, believes that a fundamental change of this kind would help largely to remove the political difficulties that arise from time to time in Porto Rico. Governor Towner of Porto Rico, in his first .message to the legislature, estimated the income for the coming year at between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000, and be said he did not deem it wise to make drastic revenue laws for providing increased revenues. With an assessed property valuation of more than $300,000,000, the governor pointed out that the bonded indebtedness of the island is limited <o $30.000,000 and that the present indebtedness is only $11,000,000. Among the projects proposed, and to be paid for by the bond sale, are the completion of the capital building; the building of a new insane asylum, a new penitentiary, and a school for the blind; the development of community centers through the eo-operation of the ■departments of education and agriculture by building in designated districts model consolidated rural schools near model farms, ami the strengthening of the University of Porto Rico by means of more buildings, equipment and faculty.
lowing commodities,” Mr. Hoover's letter said: “Sisal for binding twine Is controlled through a combination of producers reinforced by legislative action of the A’ucatan government. “Nitrates and iodine are controlled through a British selling agency and reinforced by expert duties in Chile. 'Totash is controlled by combination* of German producers. “Crude rubber and gutta jiercha are con.rolled by partly legislative and partly voluntary combinations of producers in the British and Dutch colon’es. 'Quinine is controlled by combination of IVutch producers. “Tin Is controlled by combination of British producers. "Mertury is controlled by common selling agency of Spain and Austrian mint's. • “Coffee Is controlled by the governme it at BradlL “Quebracho (for tanning"purposes) Is portrwlk'<l by combination of producers and foreign manufacturers.
lug*, in which the design .of the ensign is t sed as a union on square banners of blue. red. yellow. white, etc., to be utibzed as regimental flags by the different branches of the local National tlusird, the Naval reserve, police department. etc. These are extremeiy effectfvc. A committee of Our Flag chapter. D. A. R, in urging the need for such a flag, announced itself ns of the belief that the banner should not be of the elaborate, pictorial type, such as any flag bearing the complicated seal of the district necessarily would be, and as pleased with the idea of utilizing the Washington shield. Charles Moore, chairman of the fine arts commission, has voiced the belief that the flag should bn simple in design, and should emphasize in some way that the District is the seat of the central government of ail the states. The suggestion has been made by Dr. William Tindall that the three stars might be construed as indicating the three branches of the governmentexecutive, legislative and judicial *
The treater Hope of Living in a World Completely Organized for Service By WILLIAM E. SWEET, Governor of Colorado. THE thing that interests me is that greed defeats itself. As a social principle it doesn’t work; and to call greed individualism won’t make it work any better. Let the farmers and the workers try to operate on that principle and they will make as big a failure as anybody. -At least, they couldn’t make a big enough success to enlist much human enthusiasm in the cause. The so-called beneficiaries of our acquisitive society have not been successful. They are half blind and only half alive, narrow, suspicious and full of fears. They put their , trust in property, and property is no decent haven for a human sou). There is much more hope for the workers and the farmers, for they haven’t so much property to blind them. To be sure, they have been blinded to a x great extent in the past; for each person in America has hoped some day to win a competence and live without working ever after. But that hope seems to be passing, thank God. They are now beginning to perceive the greater hope of living in a world completely organized for service That is the Farmer-Labor program as it must be worked out. The government may help a little, but such a program cannot be imposed upon a people by the government. It must be worked out by the people themselves. The Kingdom of Heaven is within the people. We have Jesus’ words for that. The new order must come out of them; it can’t descend upon them from the clouds or from the state. The best that the state can hope to do is to serve the interests of this new order as fast as those interests can be ascertained. Heretofore the state has lined up on the side of property instead of on the side of human life. But the capitalistic state did not create property; it grew out of it. The new state cannot create the new order; it must grow out of it, to serve its purposes, day by day, as those purposes may be ascertained“Bogey Man Is Waiting Just Around the Comer to Eat Naughty Boys” By DR. H. E. BUNDESEN, Chicago Health Commissioner. Os all the instincts to which huipan beings are heir fear is one of the most common, most compelling, and most disturbing m its results, both mentally and physically. Despite its distressing effects, fear is a weapon commonly invoked by ignorant parents to obtain obedience from their childrep and to make them behave. The fretful child, demanding something that is not good for him or that he should not have, is told the “bogey man” is waiting just around the corner to eat naughty boys who ask for such things. Though the child is terrorized, his crying is hushed and the parent has “some peace.” Many parents do not realize the evil consequences of fear repressed, nor do they suspect they are laying a groundwork for later nervous disturbances far more sinister than could be produced by*a moment’s crying. _ .. It is generally accepted among modern students of psychology that stories about ghosts, goblins and the like, who are supposed to live in the dark and prey upon little children, create a vivid, lasting and harmful impression upon the minds of the young. The practice of telling terrorizing stories to make them mind is all wrong. [t Is Because We Are Aware of Sex That We Wish to Understand It By PROF. JOHN ERSKINE, Columbia University. I explain the large aifiount of recent literature dealing with sex by this conviction of our time that we ought to understand ourselves and our passions. But very little of this literature seeing to me to have much value either for life or for art. The novelists who exploit sex usually fail to explain it; they really exploit the physical aspects of it as though it were a new discovery and needed advertising. Os course it is just because we are all aware of sex, as an externa! aspect of life, that we wish to understand it. to live on better terms with it. The books, therefore, which merely record sexual attitude, whether or not they are considered indecent, become pretty tiresome to a reader who wants to get on in his knowledge of human nature. And these books also offend, for the most part, the finer sensibilities of men. what may fairly be called their poetic sensibilities. They are willing to admit, like the centaur-poet in the novel, that we are half-ani-mal at least, but they know by experience that in moments of love we arc ' also half-god and no discussion of this twofold nature of ours will satisfy which examines only the animal in us. Coffee the Servant Rather Than the Destroyer of Our Civilization By PROF. S. C. PRESCOTT, Mass. Inst. Technology. After weighing the evidence, a dispassionate evalution of the data so comprehensively-suneyed has led to no conclusions that coffee is an injurious beverage for the great mass of human beings, but, on the contrary, that the historv of human experience, as well as the results of scientific experimentation, point to the fact tliat coffee is a beverage which, properly prepared and rightly used, gives comfort and inspiration, augments mental and physical activities, and may be regarded as the servant rather than the destroyer of civilization. Coffee, if properly prepared, has a remarkable stimulating and fa-tigue-relieving effect, due to the action of caffein, which acts on the central nervous system. It promotes heart action mildly, increases the power to do muscular work, and increases the power of concentration of mental effort, and therefore is arr aid to sustained brain-work. It has no depressive after-effect. _ • It is not habit-forming, and does not require continually increasing quantities to give satisfactory stimulation. The action of caffein might be likened for purpose of visualization to lubrication of machines, although the analogy is not perfect. Loyalty Is a Creed, a Duty, a Sentiment; and It Must Be Lived By DAVID KINLEY, President University of Illinois. Lovaltv is a creed, a duty and a sentiment It is a creed because the ’.oval person savs, “I believe in my drganization, what it is, what it stands for. and wliat it does.” The implication is that he will do his best to make it and kebp it in the path of its life. Loyalty is a duty because it implies allegiance. Every member of an organization by the very fact of his membership is bound to obey the laws of the organization. Loyalty is a sentiment. It implies affection, love and enthusiasm. These three are not fully expressed in shouting or “rooting.” Loyalty to your organization must be lived. Thos. A. Edison. —Yes; as Steinmetz says, electricity will eventually reduce the working day to four hours. But will it be a good thing for the nation? It all depends on what people will do with their idle hours. M ill not the young men and women be harmed in the manner in which they dispose of their added leisure rather than be benefited?- It will be a splendid thing for the older people, of course, for they will know how to employ the added leisure hours. We’ve got to have work to keep going. — - - • - > Bev. A. H. Wright, Syracuse, N. Y.—ls the church would take an interest in love affairs of young people there would be more happy homes and better, well-cared-for children. ' . ■ ■ ■ ■<