The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 August 1926 — Page 7

Elsinore, Hamlet’s Town, Is 500 Years Old

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Elsinore the Danish city of Hamlet, recently held an elaborate festival to celebrate the five hundredth annc weraary of the grunting of the charter. Pageants recalling the history of the town were acted In, the courtyard of Kronborg castle. where the "Taming of the Shrew" was also presented. This picture shows nuns following the -effigy of a saint which is being carried by mail-clad knights.

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Above la pictured E. R., Armstrong. chief engineer of the Dupont company, with the elaborate model of projtosed seadrome. which he believes would solve the problem of transatlantic aerial travel, lhe dijdock would serve as a midoeean harbor for ships and dirigibles which could land on the dock. In the model he uses a replica of the S. 8. Majestic, showins the relative sixes of the dock and the ship.

Coolidges in the Adirondacks

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President and Mrs. Coolidge with their dogs, Koh Roy and Prudence Prim. going for a walk at White pine camp on Osgood lake, shortly after.their -arrival at the elaborate Adirondack* camp.

Season’s Last Iceberg Is Sighted

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The last iceberg of the season being sighted from the deck of the • United States coast guard cutter Modoc, on duty in the ice lanes of the Atlantic. In order to relieve the possibility of further marine disasters such as the Titanic tragedy, the ice patroUblowa up many of these icebergs. THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW

■arly Italy had a death penalty for those killing storks. Nearly 10.000,<W roses are gathered •very year In Nanking. China The Bible used by Queen Victoria «t her coronation is in Norwich cathedral. The recent smallpox epidemic at Mansfield Woodhouse, Ireland, caused « jump In taxat to provide funds for fighting it.

The human foot contains 26 bones and 38 joints. Queen Helena of Italy la an expert shot and an eothualairtlc mountain climber. Berlin and Stockholm will be connected by airplane service, the schedule calling for six bour flights. Nine-tenths of ait the dried apple# enten in the United Kingdom in the tasi jear were iroia AiUFr «csl

JOHN DREW RETIRES

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John Drew, veteran American actor, here seen at his home In East Hampton. L. ■!.. has retired to private life. Celebrating his seventy-third birth day, he attended the annual dinner of the local volunteer fire department and mentioned the fact that it would be his last public aj»pearance.

MISS LENA PHILLIPS

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Miss Lena Madsden Phillips of New York who was elected president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs at the convention in Des Moines, lowa. She Is a lawyer, was one of the founders of the federation and has been serving as its executive secretary. Hoodoo in Tennis - In tennis circles it is generally reckoned unlucky for a player to wear green, and even a racquet strung with green gut or with green binding oa the frame is looked at askance by many players. Roasted Freak Vermont Paper—Burglars who via ited the house of Mrs. James G. Wilson last night ate the two hind legs of a fresh cooked turkey—Boston Transcript

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

Howe About- 1 ■I ©r ED HOWE ;! | By Th« Bell Syndicate, inc.. In the beginning, a philosopher was a student of the known, trying to im- : [ prove conditions by natural means. Then the foolish habit of 1 “maybe" was so generally introduced j, that Cicero said, “there is nothingpSC absurd it may not, be found in 7tht books of philosophers.” Men demanded answers to their | questions; they quit considering the simple truth, and indulged in argu ment, speculation, lying, meanness fighting and destruction; they gave up sense, and plunged into nonsense Philosophy now stands still, whereas It might have advanced, as has learn Ing. Man made a good start in philoso phy, hut as early as Plato the trouble began. We do not know whether he Is literal or speaks in metaphor. Ht inveighs against poets and their myths and proceeds to .add one to the num ber of poets—hundreds to the num ber of myths (as one writer says 01 him). He complains of priests who gc | about preaching hell, and affering re demption from it for a consideration ' but is himself a mystic and priest. He ackymwledgek that comparison? are slippery, but slips out of one intc another and another; he condemns phrase-mongering sophists, and is him self one.With the result that in what te called philosophy there is as much to say on one side as another; we d< not accept simple truth, and act upor it, but argue about everything and nothing until there is no truth for thf simple man who depends upon teach ers. If you regard Plato as an ancient wonder, you may get rid of the no tiou by studying him more. He rebels against what we call i civilization, and recommends a differ ent plan of living: Plato recommended promiscuous mingling of the sexes oi certain ages, providing they destroyed their offspring; that a well-favored man have several women, and that such a man be not troubled with th* | cure of his children. This is precisely the talk of all radicals in country towns as well as tn cities. Plato had tremendous Intelligence but used it. apparently. ,tc make fun of those who have less: his writings appear to be keen abusive fables. But he says nothing I have not heard smart radicals express all my life, and I was brought up in the country. The most despised government in the world is that of Russia. Much of it is founded on Plato’s “Republic?’ and experience proves it is unjust, non sensical. bruitish, destructive. Aristotle was as smart as Plato certainly. Aristotle declared “The Re public” w'as old nonsense: “Men readily listen to such pro posals,” be said, “and are easily In dueed to believe that tn some won derful manner everybody will becutm everybody’s friend. When everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything. “We must nave regard to life which the majority may share, and to forms of government to which states in gen eral may attain.” Build up your own philosophy, from your own experiences with life. And be sure you make it fair, rea sonable, or some one will say of yout philosophy, as Aristotle said of Plato’s: “These thugs have been Invented times over in the course of ages.” One Is always hearing of the public service he should render, of the help he should afford others. The general idea seems to be we should write great things or deliver great orations and help the masses by envouragiuj them. . . . This Isn’t really the Idea. The best and most effective way I of performing public service Is for a man to avoid Imthering those with whom he comes in contact, and taking such good care of htmself that hi# conduct will reflect good. A man | should be so polite, fair and useful to his community that others will be animated to follow his example. I am entitled to a certain amount ot i liberty ; Just how much the Jury ot the ages must decide. I cannot be | trusted to make the decision. _—♦— People talk too much, and thus dis play Ignorance, waste much valuable time, and express many mean and un fair opinions. The time I should devote to readinj I devote to going through books, tnaga tines and newspapers looking sot 1 something to read that will benefit fcnC interest me. I have noticed that when I bore a man he yawns openly and unafraid But under similar circumstances a woman will yawn behind her hand ot fan . ... God bless the ladies. _—« There la much that is offensive in the grumbling of an Old Fogy, but he Is nearer right than the young hood j lum who calls him a back number, j < . . . You may easily say the Old | Fogy is wrong. Well, you are mis 4aken, he Is really preaching the wls dom of the ages. The Idling, the dis cipation. the impudence, of Che young Is all be says it la I have never fully expressed my old age opinions, remembering the rights of middle age and youth. Voodooinn Still Practiced In the outlying sections of Florida there are still remnants of voodooism. Sickness is treated with a series of incantations and strange practices such as hanging beads, dirty rags and snake rattles about the patient’s body In these communities where the voo doo doctor still works almost eterj other man owns an autemobiU •

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dow.” Husband —“I did it in a moment of abstraction.” Judge—“ Well, be careful in the future. You may do it as somebody happens to be passing by.”—Journal Amusant, Paris. ’ Joke Reversed “What are you laughing at?” snarled the gutter to the banana peel. “Do you think It’s funny to be stepped on and cause people to fall into me?” “Ha, ha. ha!” roared the banann ■ peel. “That last fellow, you see, was one of these joke writers I”

Not at All Said the old lady at the tea party: T beay that your friend kissed that girl over there In public. Did you ever?” “Er—no,” said the young man, nervously. Pasty “My wife gave me a two-tube set for my birthday.” ..“Regenerative?" “Naw. Shaving and tooth.”—American Legion Weekly.