The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1925 — Page 7

Paine Has Almost No Influence on Thinking in the United States By THOMAS A. EDISON, in New York Times. — *

|OM PAINE has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he b unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps 1 might say right here that this b a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first pro-

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pused and first wrote those impressive words, “The United States of America.” But it is hardly strange. Paine’s teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind. We never had a sounder intelligence in this republic. He was the of Washington in making American liberty possible. Where Washington performed Paine devised and wrote. The deeds of one in the field were matched by the deeds of the other with his pen. Washington himself appreciated Paine at his true worth. Franklin knew him for a great patriot and clear thinker. He was a friend and confidant of Jefferson, and the two must often have debated the academic and practical phases ■of liberty. I Answer Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced. and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. Although the present generation knows little of Paine’s writings, and although he has almost no influence upon contemporary thought, Americans of the future will Justly appraise his work. I am certain of it Truth is governed by natural laws and cannot he denied. Paine spoke truth with a peculiarly dear and forceful ring. Therefore time must balance the scales. Certainly we may believe that Washington had a considerable voire jn the Constitution. • We know that Jefferson had much to do with the document Franklin also had a hand and probably was responsible in *vcn larger measure for the Declaration. But all of there men had communed with Paine. Their views were intimately understood and rlorelv ■correlated. There is no doubt whatever that the two great documenta of American liberty reflect the philosophy of Paine. “You Will Be Given Power of Life and Death Ovbr Fellow Countrymen” By PRESIDENT £OOLIDGE, Address at U. S. Naval Academy. You will be called to places of responsibility and command. You " will be given the power of life and death over fellow countrymen. You will represent the power, the glory and the honor of this nation among foreign peoples, with all the prominence that arises from wearing the uniform and carrying the Flag. What you are the American sailor will be, and what you represent the American navy will reprerent in the ports •of our country and in those of foreign peoples where little will be known of the nature of authority under liberty, save what is learned from you You have been chosen for this high calling. J But while you will serve the nation in this special field of endeavor, you will not forget that the real profession of every American is citizenship. Under Sur institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business ii nerving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service. It is your duty ! in the part you propose to take to make the largest contribution you can I to tiie general citizenship of your country. ■ • — “Prof. Scopes Was Not Arrested for Doing Anything as an Individual” By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Anti-Evolutionist. As an individual, Prof. John T. Scopes is perfectly free to think and apeak as he likes, and the Christians of Tennessee will protect him in the enjoyment of there inalienable rights. But that » not the Tennesree care and has nothing to do with it. Professor Scopes was not arrested for doing anything as an individual. He is arrested for violating a law as a representative of the state and as an employee in a school. As a representative he has no right to misreprerent; as an employee, he is oomtAJled to act under the direction of hZ employers, and has no right to defy instructions and still claim his salary. , The right of free speech cannot be stretched as far as Profereor Scopes is trying to stretch it A man cannot demand a salary for saying what his employers do not want said, and he cannot require his employers to furnish an audience to talk to, especially an audience of children or young people, when he wants to say what the parents do not want said. The duty of a parent to protect his children is more sacred than the right of a teacher to speak, especially to teach what parents do not want taught, when the speaker demands pay for his teaching and insists on being furnished an audiencejto talk to. And I may add that PrdKwor Scopes is doing more harm to teachers j than to anyone else. If he establishes the doctrine that a teacher can say I anything he likes to the students regardless of the wishes of hi& employers, who are the parents and taxpayers, it will become necessary to inquire \ what teachers think before they are employed. The Tennessee Evolution Indictment Is a Step! 1,000 Years Backward By LUTHER BURBANK. Plant Evolutionist. Every nation that does not believe in evolution will disappear from the earth. Indictment of the Tennessee teacher for teaching evolution is a step one thousand yean backward. Evolution is truth, and truth must and will prevail All my work with plants here in Santa Rosa daily demonstrates evolution. All growth—all life, is evolution. , Ignorance always has and always will fight evolution, for evolution b growth. The groups who are combating the theory of evolution have not found the truth and do not believe in it Daily I am working on new plant species which are produced through a knowledge of the laws of evolution and which can be produced in no other way. Evolution is contrary to theology, which may account for some of the animosity it has aroused, but it is not contrary to religicn. Theology is man-made; religion is not Truth b supreme. All life on the planet b one universal life, constantly evolving into higher and better forms—not at first created perfect, as some theologians would have us believe, bat left to man for further evolution and improvement It b much more flattering to me to think that we are evolving int something better, than, as the older theologians would have us believe, that we were created in the garden of Eden and fell into disgrace afterward. Even a man who would construct a machine which would go wrong to quickly and so thoroughly would be called a poor mechanic. The universal force which is creating all things is belied by such an implication. Mbs Adeline Buffington, Salt Lake City Social Worker—l see a menace in the present-day migrants who pack their belongings, including babies, furniture, dogs, cab and canaries, into a worn-out automobile and start out with little money, no idea of where they are going, and with reckless disregard as to how they are going to live on the way. t Dr. Henry Van Dyke—The trout fishing was excellent, although the New Zealanders said it was rather a poor year. At all events I caught • larger rainbow trout than I had ever seen before. No, I will not tel] you how big ho was, for fear that it might make some one envious or snhelievimr.

Sultan of Morocco Entering the City of Fez i In order to counteract the Influence I JmMK Os Abd-el-Krim, the French high com mand agreed to take the sultan ot Morocco, Muley Yussef, to Fez to exr P tolt the religious tendencies of th« X TSnU Mussulmans. Picture shows the en AWI try of the BU,tan into '' ■ A ’• K I v’ly* i | t J ’ War Trophies Being Sent All Over Country This picture, made at Port Newark, KI ’ N. J., shows captured German cannon being loaded into a few of the 3.000 N freight cars which are being used I T . In Q by the goxernment to dispose of the Jrii b 3 1.000.000 tons of German war mate- M rials. They are being shipped to all I HI parts of the United States. Jl , K St W X. K < ft I m v I T T it i ill 4 4 JI U Ej rr 1 I i f?. U 3

Flood Light for Night Air Mail MT fi V I 1 "'j t y* . i IBBMB ~ ~ " | \ IsSPP — ; »-tSHrw*-? «i * f /.iff -x •** i- B One of the huge R B. T. field flood lights with which the air uuu» ueoh» from New York to San Francisco are equipped. The projected light covers i an area of approximately one half a mile. The Intensity is such Chat a book ! or newspaper may be read within a distance of two to three miles from the j > light. It is visible from the air for a distance of from sixty to seventy-five | mile*. Canada Woman Slays Bank Bandit j _ !■ I ; « K * I 1 'k* ® < ks. ' 9' Here are Mrs. Lillian Rodger, her daughter, and WulUm Ross Rodger, her husband. Mrs. Rodger shot and killed Matthew Kolidee. bank bandit, when he attacked her husband, the manager of the Imperial bank at St. David’s, Ontario

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For the electrification of rural dteI firtcts Soviet Russia recently ordered *8,000,000 worth of equipment. The castle at Ooylton, Scotland, bettered to once have been the home of "Old King Cole," few been offered for Os Oboes made tn this country to be iroa in other part* of the world, those Cor women ewnprtoe one-third and them for men one-fourth.

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AB the railroads between Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, are to be made of uniform cause, st a cost of $17,500,000, so that passengers can make the trip without changing cars. By supplying the toy trade with attractive dolls which she carve* from the roots of cottonwood trees, Mrs. O. L. McCracken, a Montana ranch < woman, has paid all the expanses est her daughter's education.

HIGH POST FOR MILNE r 381 ®?BrR & Ajjfr '5/ jp gsßmKL T *\b3 Gen. Sir George Milne has beet designated by King George to be ctdeJ of the grand general staff of Brit ish army. He succeeds the earl a Cavan at the end of the year. He i» known 'among the soldiers as “Unci* George.” .and, though something of » martinet, be is very popular. ENTERS RIFF WAR / V g — al JO ■ 4 .W P5rw •’*W T*A JhP ■ [ = Cape Reginald Weller, daring young American flyer and World war hero, it ape of • score of American soldier* o< fortune who will fly fw the sultaa of Morocco. France’s ally in the flan war. Early Mail Carrying? Mail was first carried by a steam railway in 1834. but It was not untfl 1838 that a law was passed declaring all railroads to be post routes. Th* traveling railway post office did not come until 1840. Paasson Horta Strength For in the same degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to freedom from eM pnminn, In the same degree aloe M It nearer to strength.—Marcus A* I

Too Little Attention Paid to City Building The wanton abuse of beauty by . Americans Id the upbuilding of their cities has created a condition which will take billions of dollars to improve and which cannot be entirely corrected short of razing many cities to the ground, said H. R. Ennis of , Kansas City in an address before the general sessions of the National Association of Real Estate Boards te convention at Detroit. Mr. Ennis last year traveled 50,000 miles about the country as president of the organization and has had an exceptional opportunity to observe conditions in hundreds of cities and towns. “Go to almost any American city and you will find that beauty has been wantonly disregarded and the rights of property owners, children and citizens generally disregarded. The mind of America has been too much turned to money making and the material side of life; it has ignored the demands of the esthetic. “Little by little the demands of beauty are making themselves felt and in obedience to them one can. in many cities, see luxurious stores, stately office buildings and residence districts with distinction and charm. But-the effect of these improvements is marred by glaring billboards, overhead signs, dirty vacant lots, filthy alleys and dilapidated old shacks. “No man has a moral right to let Idle property be used as a dump for garbage or a hothouse for weeds; no man has a moral right to mar the appearance of a. residential district by erecting a bouse which is entirely out of harmony with all others there; no man has a moral right to make an eyesore of the business district by allowing a prehistoric old firetrap to stand between a dignified bank and a stately office building. “To those who have viewed America first and then Europe comes the certain knowledge of the necessity of better and wiser city growth, city planning and steady city housekeeping in America. When all our citizens are convinced of these needs we shall have our great art galleries, cathedrals and mellow loveliness which make the American envious of Europe.** Statesman Sees Value of Home Ownership Encouragement of the extension of private home ownership is a central feature of the housing policy of the present British government, according to an announcement of that policy made recently by Stanley Baldwin, prime minister. “We want the people to own their homes," the premier said, ‘‘and we ! shall devise every fair means we can j to extend the class of occupying own--1 era We want to see more and not less of private property. We want it i more spread. “It is Impossible to exaggerate the value to the citizen, therefore to the state, of a good home There is nothing so intimate, nothing which so completely reveals the personality. The philosophers themselves, I am advised, ’ Justify private property because it is : something in the external world > which is a material representation of human personality." Beautify Grounds Beautifying the home grounds is a problem not unworthy the finest art of the most expert landscape designer. I Small places everywhere are becojning more and more charming as the land- I scape designers meet the demands for better' arranged and more pleasing grounds. The small place, more than the large i Mie. must depend for its individual es- f fectlveness and setting upon the genera! beauty of Its neighborhood, and j for that reason.' communities should enlist the co-operation of Its citizens j tn planning to beautify all the grounds rather than an individual bls own grounds as in the case of large estate*. Grounds Are Important The Interior of the hotae is subjected to the customary housecleaning and its I appearance is a matter depending solely on the taste and neatness of the occupants The exterior of the house and the maintenance of a well-kept lawn, free from rubbish and unsightly articles of various kinds and beautified by shrubs and flowers become a | mailer of interest to the entire neighborhood. and thus a small but Important* factor in the general appearance of the entire city. »Wlth each square registering 100 per cent in mate- | talning the appearance of the yards ! the city would thus achieve a national reputation as another “Spotless Town." Power of Love A farmers boy was walking down a lane one evening when be came upon a friend allting oa a log by the roadaids “What are you sitting there fort" he asked. “Is anything the matter?" j “No,” replied the other. *Tm just waiting for Dolly Smith to come along. Frn going to take her to evening class “But the evening class isn’t until tomorrow night." “I know, but when a fellow’s in love he doesn’t mind waiting." Tertimony That Counts Tt is doubtful if a family can have a better silent testimony for culture tn a community than to possess a neatly mown lawn with a border of wellselected plants blooming throughout the summer. A thousand people pass the house to one who enters the door, but they are all impressed that no ruffians live there—Exchange. Great Britain produces about one half the iron of Europe.

Daddy/Evening Fairy Tal(£&i? THE THREE CRANES "I hate to appear boastful." said the Crowned Crane to his companions. “You don’t have = a i jre, to be boastful." — = said the Paradise an b ‘Trt* C rune - = fl “There is no law that makes W 5 J—- y° u «” said tho I ; Asiatic White i Crane, j L “No school rules to insist upon it," said the Paradise 3 tSwjL Crane. “No punishment for you If you aren’t." said the Asiatic White ■ Crane. “I Hate to Appear “Dear me," said Boastful." the Crowned Crane, "I hadn’t I finished what I started to say." “Go ahead,” said the Paradise Crane. I “By all means finish." “Don’t leave what you were going ; to say unfinished. It would be unkind : to leave a sentence stranded In that fashion.” the Asiatic Crane said. “Well," the Crowned Crane continued. “as I said 1 hate to appear boastful, but I don’t believe there is another crane as beautiful as I am. “There, there,” he added, shaking his head. “I did not mean to say just • that.” “Weil, why did you say tt then?” ; asked the Paradise Crane. “Yes, why did you?" asked the Asl- | atic White Crane. “1 certainly would like to ent»r the conversation at this ‘ point and ask that question also.” “My dea- Asiatic White Crane,” said the Crowned Crane, “you don’t speak I of entering talks. You speak of enteri ing races." “But*! did speak of entering talks. I and I didn’t speak of entering races,” said the Asiatic White Crane, looking very much puzzled. “I meant to say.” the Crowned Crane i remarked, “that you shouldn’t speak of I 'entering talks, but that you should only speak of entering races.” “I wouldn’t correct creatures ts I couldn’t do better than you do,” said the Asiatic White Crane, standing very straight and looking quite, quite haughty and proud. “And you said something at first that you didn’t mean to say," the Paradise i Crane added. I Now the Asiatic White Crane came from Asia as it is quite easy to guess, wliHe the Paradise Crane and the Crowned Crane came from Africa. i “I meant to say.” the Crowned Crane answered, “that my family was the most beautiful family of crane*. ’ “I didn’t mean to say that I was the most beautiful. j “I belong to a family of beautiful birds. We have such glorious, royal ! coloring and we wear such handsome crowns of beautiful feathers. “But you’re a pretty Crane, young Asiatic, and so are you. Paradise I Crane, with your blue feathers.” “Thank you, thank you,” the other cranes said, “but we will have to ad- > mit that though you do some very : foolish talking and have to stop to correct yourself while you are correct- » ing us, you do belong to the family known as the most beautiful of all the cranes in the zoo or In the world.” “Thank you;’’ said the Crowned Crane, smiling a crane’s smile. “And were it * . not quite Impossi- |J [j j ble to take off my "F” ” crown I would do y~ “ i so and bow to you -jiff's » as gentlemen take MgjjA y | off their bats and * bow. = J* 1 “But that is s 1 out of the ques- - — I 11 on, so, once I I < again, I thank s== 1 Y » yon ” TriL I~ ts “Y o u’r e we Icome. That man- ' nerly wish is fine,” the Paradise Crane murmured. “A grand, man nerly wish," the The Asiatic White Asiatic Crane said. Crane. “Really you’re a gallant young crane. You really are." “Just what be Is." agreed the Paradise Crane. And the Crowned Crane looked most extremely proud and pleased. . What He Would Give Johnny, aged five, and his little cousin Ray, aged six, had several little altercations, in which Johnny invariably got the worst of It One day bls mother said to him. “Johnny, tomorrow Is Ray,’s birthday; wouldn't you like to give him something?" “You better believe I would." was the reply, “but, you see. he’s bigger than 1 am and I can’t." When They Grow Up “Mamma.” said four-year-old Jack, “when I grow up I’ll be a man. won’t I?" “Yes, dear,” replied the mother, “but you must , remember to be neither selfish nor lazy." “Why.” queried the little fellow tn astonishment, “do boys who are selfish and lazy become women when they grow up?" Explaining the Bow Little Walter—Did our new baby come right down from heaven, mamma? Mother—Yes. dear, right straight down. Walter—l guess he must have lit on his feet and that’s what makes hlaa ao bow-legged. Did You? Did you ever see a stone step? Or a sardine box? Or «d apple turn over? Or a peanut stand?