The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 May 1927 — Page 6

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President Coolidge with President Gerardo Machado of Cuba and their aides photographed at the Cuban embaaal In Washington where the Chief Executive of the United States paid a return call on Cuba s i residentMachado had previously called on Prudent Coolidge at the White House shortly after his arrival in the national capital . •

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This picture, transmitted by telegraph wires, shows the great plane American Legion as it lay wrecked in a uareh near Newport News, Va. Lieut Com. Noel Davis and UeuL Stanton Wooster, who were testing the machine V>r the Parts flight, were killed.

Taking the Place of the Army Mule

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Infantry organizations in the Philippines are experimenting with native l«ule« as replacement* for the time-honored army mules used as pack animals. Lack of roads in many parts of the Islands makes transportati >n by any other means impossible. This photograph shows one of the doughboys with • typical native pony.

Indian Mounds Are Flood Refuges

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Air view of Indian mound* near Green villa. Miss.. that werefllled with people and cattle which were driven there when the main twee broke.

SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST

Foltowing their queen, a swarm of bees alighted on the bumper of an automobile parked in an Ohio city street. Starting from Silver Springe. Hit, tn 1925. Frank M. Heath rode the to ma horse through thirty-two states, covering MN mile*. A survey shows that 115 Industrie*. Including the manufacture of paper, textiles, leather, glass. soap, butter and steel, uss line la their processes

When Presidents Exchange Formal Calls

Paris Flight Plane Crashes, Killing Two

In the test seventy-five years British Columbia has contributed more than tl 265.000,000 dollars to the mineral , wealth of the world. > Out of one large ptoee of white , pine VUfred Debate of Brunswick. Maine, whittled a w'jedmHl structure carrying eight ornamental fans, the , base and the tower bating wooden • balls whittled within. AU the work , eras done with a jack-knife.

ON TRIAL FOR LIFE

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Here is an ex-ellent picture of Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder as she appeared tn the Queen's county (New York) court daring her trial on charges of having killed her husband.

FOR PARIS FLIGHT a"

Lloyd Wilson Bertaud. who has been dying since 1912, and at present Is a pilot on the New York-Cleveland division, was named by the Columbia aircraft corporation as navigator and copilot of the Wright-Bel lanes plane en the projected nonstop flight from Rew York to Parte. Origin of “Candidate” \ The word “candidate" Is derived from the Latin “candldua.” meaning white. In Rome It was the custom for persons seeking office to appear In the Forum and other public places in white togas. Hence they came to be called “candidatl.” whence are get our ■•candidate.”—Pathfinder Magazine. Modern Variant -The road to the police court." mused the motorist. “Is paved with good pedestrians.”—Boaton Transcript.

THE SYRACUSE JOY RNA.L

| FIX I ! BAYONETS! | *: Th* »G» at Clot* Xaag* llncrM «a 4Re A *s marhablt S*rt*i by •* Ctffurr of th* Marntn : # t | ~ : $ w Capt ;♦; J JOHN W. THOMASON, Jr. x * . (Iltertmtod t» tb« Author from >; Sketehoo Made oo th. BotUlHad] ■ < - i*: '*: (© by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) STORY FROM THE START T>< author describes how the First battalion of the Fifth marines are quartered near Marlgny during the first part of June. ISIS, when they are suddenly sent up north to relieve the First division. bearing the brunt of the German offensive. Part of 1 the Fifth wrest Hill 14J from the enemy and wait there for the German counter offensive they can see forming. A terrific German. attack soon develops, wreaking fearful havoc among the marines. but not dislodging them. ">n the sixth of June the Fifth »uns into bitter fighting in the ficlnity of ChanipUlon and drives | out the Boche. but at great cost. •1 Then came the Bois de Belleau and agatn the marines acquitted themselves marvelously. Replacements arrive to cover the heavy losses. The marines are relieved, but the respite is shortlived. vj they are soon ordered to the v.issons sector, where a gr»gf German offensive Is under -«ay On July 18. after a heavy barrage, the Americans. Senegalese .ind French foreign legion go fee-ward.

CHAPTER V—Continued Then, without being very clear as to how they got there, the lieutenant and bls company and a great many others were at the Vierzy ravine, in the cross-fire of the machine-guns that held it. The ravine was very deep and very precipitous and wooded. A sunken mad led into it and. while the riflemen stalked the place cannily. a tank came up and disappeared down the sunken road. A terrific row of rifles »»nd grenades arose, and a wild yelling. Running forward, the marines observed that the tank was stalled, its guns not working, and a gray, frantic mass of German infantry was swarming over it. prying at its plates with bayonets and firing into such openings as could be found. One beauty of the tank is that, when it is In such a»difficulty, you can fire without fearing for your friends inside. The auto-matic-riflemen especially enjoyed the brief crowded seconds that followed. Then all at once the farther slope of the ravine swarmed with running Bodies, and the Americans knelt or lay down at ease, and fired steadily and without haste. As they passed the tank a greasy, smiling Frenchman emerged head and shoulders and inquired after a cigarette. There were very many dead Germans in the ravine and on its slope when they went forward. Wearily now, the exaltation dying down, they left the stone towers of Vierzy to the right, in the path of the regulars of the Ninth and Twen-ty-third. ' On a line northeast of it they halted and prepared to hold. It was a lonesome place. Very thin indeed were the assault companies; very far away the support columns. . . . “Accordin’ to the map. we’re here. Turn those Boche machine-guns' around —guess we’ll stay. Thank God. we must have grabbed off all their artillery,, ’cept the heavies . . “I.ootenant. come up here, for God’s *eke! *<>ra. wtiat a slew o* Boche* I" Beyoffd rifle-shot a strong gray column war advancing. There were machineg?'os with ft. It was not deployed, »<t its intention was very evident. . . Here were thirty-odd marines ee.c a *ew strays from one of the infantry regiments—nobody tn sight, flanks or rear— But tr the rear a clanging and a clattering, end the thudding of horsehoofs!—“Graves, beat It back an’ flag those guns.” Graves ran frantically, saving his helmet. The guns halted

A Fighs’r.g Swirl of Senegaless. to a cioud of dust, and a gunner lieutenant trotted up. jaunty, immaculate. I’g dismounted, in his beautiful paleSlce uniform and his gleaming boots eno tiny jingling spare, and saluted the sweating unshaven marine officer. He looked with his glasses, and be consulted his map. and then he smiled like a man who has gained his heart’s desire. He dashed back toward his guns, waving a signal. The guns wheeled around: the horses galloped back; there was a whirl and bustle behind each caisson, and two gunners with a field-telephone came running. It all happened in seconds. Tne first 75 barked, clear and incisive. and the shell whined away . . . the next gun. and the next. . . . The little puff-balls, ranging shots. bor«t vwv near the Boche column.

Theo ft.v udttery fired as one gun—a long rafale of fire, wherein no single pin could be heard, but a drumming thunder. Smoke and fire flowered hideously over the Boche column. A cloud hit it for a space. When ths cloud lifted the column had disintegrated: there was only a far-off swarm of fleeing figures, flailetf by shrapnel as they ran. And the glass showed squirming heaps of gray flattened on the ground. The gunner officer looked and saw that his work was good. “Bon. eh, Sioxante-quinze—!” With an all-em-bracing gesture and a white-toothed smile, he went. Already his battery was limbered up and galloping, and when the first retaliatory shell came from an indignant Boche 155. the 75s were h quarter of a mile away. The lieutenant wrote and sent back his final report: “ . . . and final objective reached, position organized at . . .” and stopped and swore in amazement when he looked at his wr.tch—barely noon! Sergeant Cannon's watch corroborated the time — •‘But, by Go-^! The way my laigs feel. It’s day after tomorrow, anyway! —•” “Wake those fellows up—got to finish diggin’ in—No tellln’ what we’ll get here —“ Some of his people were asleep on _ their rifles. Some were searching for iron crosses atpong the dead. A sergeant ctime with hands and mouth full. “Sir, they's a bunch of this here black German bread and some stuff that looks like coffee, only ain’t—in that /dugout—” And the company found that Kriegsbrot ami Kaffee Ersatz will sustain life, and even taste good if you’ve been long enough without food. . . • That afternoon the Boche had the air. He dropped bombs and otherwise did the best he could to make up. xyith planes, for the artillery that he had lost that morning. On the was infinitely annoying. There’s something about being machinegunned from the air that gets a man’s goat, aS the files remarked with pro sane emphasis. Much futile rifle-fire greeted his machines as they came and went, and away over on the right toward Vtrezy the lieutenant saw’ one low-flying fellow crumple and come down like a stricken duck. This plane, alleged to have been brought down by a chaut-chaut automatic rifle, was afterward officially claimed by four infantry regiments and a machine-pin battalion. Late in the afternoon the French brought up anti-aircraft guns on motor-trucks and the terror of the air abated somewhat. As dusk fell, the French cavalry rode forward through the lines. The lieutenant thoughtfully watched a blue squadron pass— “If spirits walk. Murat and Marshal Ney an’ all the Emperor’s cavalry are ridin’ with those fellows. ..." In the early dawn of the next day the cavalry rode back. One squadron went through the company’s position. It was a very small squadron. Indeed, this morning. Half the troopers led horses with empty saddles. A tall young captain was in command. They were drawn and haggard from the night’s work, but the men carried their heads high, and even the horses looked triumphant. They had. It developed. been'having a perfectly wonderful time, riding around behind the German lines. They had shot up a transport, and set fire to ammunition dumps, and added greatly to the discomfort of the Boche. They thought they might go back tonight. . . . They did. The night of the 19th the galleys got up. and the men had hot food. Early in the morning of the 20th the division was relieved and began to withdraw to reserve position, while fresh troops carried the battle on. The First battalion of the Fifth marines marched back, in a misty dawn, across the ground they had fought over two days before. In the trampled fields, where the dead lay i unburied. old French territorials were mowing the ripe wheat and shocking it up. The battle was far away. . . . CHAPTER VI Marines at Blanc Mont. The battalion groped its way through the wet darkness to a wood of scrubby pines, and lay down in the slow autumn rain. North and east the guns made a wall of sound; flashes from hidden batteries and

Curiosity Has Played a Big Part in Progress

From time immemorial women have been branded as being more curious than men. Now we are told by a London clergyman that men far outnumber women tn the inquiries they address to him. during the “Question Hour” he has instituted at his church. One cannot say that one sex is more curious than the other, but they are interested in totally different matters. Feminine curiosity is lighthearted, and less searching than masculine. Few women are ashamed to admit their desire to know the cost of a dress, but the majority would be reluctant to admit their ignorance of some important event in history. The opposite is the case with most men. They feel it is bad to be curious about personal matters, but they rarely mind asking for information about public affairs. Curiosity often becomes a vice with some people. Most of us are familiar with old maids and bachelors who spend all their time probing into the affairs of others. Such people are an abject of terror and dislike to the oth/Vo Scenf of Graft A widely known bsisiness man In Indianapolis had received his dinner check. As is bis custom, he started to go over it to make sure there were no mistakes, explaining to the waiter that be always did this. “Oh. that’s all right, sir! -That’s all right I always likes to have my customers atomize their bills!" was the waiter’s reply. Needed Space Officer—What’s the idea of opening your window and blowing that infernal born of yours out of it? Welch —I have to. It’s a sliding trombone and there isn't room for it in my apartment

flares sent up from uei»«... trenches lighted the low Hoods; w casional shells from the Boche heavies whined overhead, searching the trans port line to the rear. It lacked an hour yet until dawn, and the companies disposed themselves in the mud and slept. They had learned to get all the sleep they could before battle. A few days before, this battalion, the first of the Fifth regiment of marines. a unit of the Second division, had pulled out of a pleasant town below Toul, In the area where the division rested after the Saint-Mihiel drive, and had come north a day and a night by train, to Chalons-sur Marne. Thence, by night marches, the division had gathered in certain bleak and war-torn areas behind the Champagne front, and here general orders announced that the Second was de tached from the American forces and lent by the Generalissimo as a spe cial reserve to Gourard's Fourth French army. The dawn came very reluctantly through the clouds, bringing no sun with it. although the drizzle stopped The battalion rose from its soggy blankets, kneading stiffened muscles to restore circulation, and gathered in disconsolate shivering group< around the galleys. These had come up in the night, and from them, stand ing under the dripping pines, came a promising smell of hot coffee. Some thing hot wys the mam consideration in life just now. But the fires were

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Typical Leathernecks.

feeble, and something hot was long in coming. This matter finally being disposed of, however, the men cast incurious eyes about them. North from the edge of the pines the battalion looked out on desolation where the once grassy, rolling slopes of the Champagne stretched away like a great white sea that had hejen dead and accursed through all time. Near at hand was Souain. a town of the dead, a shattered skeleton of a place, with shells breaking over it. Beyond and northward was Somme-Fy, nearly blotted out by four years of war From there to the horizon, east and west and north and south, was all a stricken land. The second-in-command. peering rfrom the p.ues with other officers of the battalion, could see nothing that moved in all the desolation. Men were there, thousands of them, but they wqce burrowed like animals in the earth. North of Somme-Py. even then, Gourard’s hard-fighting Frenchmen were blasting their way through «tl:e lines that led up to the last stronr holds of the Roche toward Blanc Mont ridge, and over this mangled terrain could be seen the smoke and fury of bursting shrapnel shells and high explosives. The sustained roar of artillery and the infernal clattering of ma chine-guns and musketry beat upon the ears of the watchers. Through glasses one could make out bits of blue and bits of green-gray, flung ca«ually about between the trenches. These, the only touches of color in the waste, were the unburied bodies of French and German dead. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

er inhabitants, and the originators of countless petty scandals and quarrels Lack of any real occupation drives them slowly, is they grow older, into indecent pryii g into their neighbors concerns. We are apt to condemn curiosity as an unpleasant quality, and few of us will acknowledge that we are led and tempted by iL We forget that it is an instinct which Is one of the most valuable and beneficial assets of humanity in the battle of life. It is the driving force behind the work of all scientists, doctors, and explorers. Without it the world would still be in a state of barbarism.—Vancouver Province. Explaining Law Term Barratry is an old term of English law. derived from an Italian word signifying to cheat Common barraty consists in habitually stirring up or maintaining quarrels or lawsuits, or in continually disturbing the peace by brawls, or in taking or detaining possession of property the right to which is in dispute. Habitually breeding discord between neighbors is also barratry. In marine insurance and In contracts relating to shipping generally. the term barratry means any fraud or knavery or willful wrongdoing on the part of the master of the ship or the crew, by wblch the interests of the owner are Injured. • “ Breaking ft Gently Sfikipson was on his deathbed and the doctor had been detailed to tell him there was no hope. “I hope you broke the news to him gently,” sobbed the tearful wife. “Oh, yes,” replied the physician, briskly. “I told him if he had any bills to pay he’d better not wait till the first ot the month.”— Pathfinder Magazine.

| THE WORLD’S} GREAT EVENTS ! ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE | .............

Ug) by Dodd, Mead A Company.) The Sepoy Mutiny A FEW pots of grease cost many thousand lives and nearly $200,OOOJW in India, about half a century ago, besides Inaugurating one of the bloodiest tragedies ever enacted. India’s history, down tb the Seventeenth century, is largely a chronicle of barbarism, internecine wars, invasions and Oriental intrigue, with a growing European influence in most accessible districts. The vast country was teeming with wealth of a sort that attracted Europe’s covetous eye. The Portuguese won a commercial foothold there, only to be driven from power by the Dutch, who in time were crowded out by English and French. Last of all, the French were routed by the English, until, by 17(X», England practically ruled India. Clive, i Warren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis and other governors brought the whole territory either directly or indirectly under British sway. The natives were untrustworthy. I 1 The Indian potentates whose power .« was checked and a horde of fanatics whose religious rites had been curtailed by the foreign rule were ever stirring up revolt against their new masters. Hence it was necessary to maintain a large army in India. England could not spare a sufficient force of white men for the purpose, so organized native regiments, under British officers, and trained them along European lines. These native troops were called Sepoys tfrotn the Pend tn word ‘‘sipahi,’’ signifying ‘‘soldier "), and proved splendidly efficient in repeated campaigns. Thus, by 1856. ail India seemed safe and moderately content under British domination. True, there were countless fanatics and un- » scrupulous native rulers who waited!' only the opportunity to rebel; but fpr a long time they lacked the chance. That same “chance” came about ip an unforeseen fashion. Like most misfortunes of this sort, it was brought about and then augmented by blunders on the part of the British government. Several English regiments had been withdrawn from northern and centra! India to serve in the Crimean war. Others were away in Burmah. These departures left barely eighteen white regiments available for action. Several of the most important arsenals ■ and garrisons were in charge of the j Sepoys. At about this time the Enfield rifle was adopted for use among the Sepoys. In loading the rifle it was s ■_ necessary to bite off the end of the cartridges. These cartridges were- • coated with grease. They were also -■ packed in glazed paper. The foregoing facts seem mere trifles, yet they brought on a bloody insurrection. The Sepoy regiments were made up [ of Mahometans and Buddhists. As tiie • 1 English very well knew, the Buddhists and Mahometans alike are forbidden* by the most sacred laws of their religion from eating or even handling pork. At once it was claimed by native rulers, agitators and fanatics that the fat of swine was used in greasing the cartridges and glazing the paper. To this was added ttfe rumor that-the government was seeking to force the. native troops to embrace Christianity, by making them violate their <>wh creed. At once fanaticism blazed into furious revolt. A devout Christian could not be more indignant at beihg commanded to stamp on the crucifix than were these Moslem and Hindu devotees at the order to defile ti eir souls by handling and tasting pork-fat. Several Sepoy regiments refused to receive the cartridges, and even rebelled. They were disbanded, and the government tardily “called in"- the hated articles of ammunition. On May 2, 1857. a cavalry regimAit' was ordered, by error, to bite the greased cartridges, in loading their guns. They refused and were forcibly disarmed. This was the signal ff»r general revolt. At Meerut, a few miles northeast of Delhi,.the Sepoys and townsfolk rose together, masj • sacred the British garrison and wfiitd residents and marched to Delhi. They captured the latter city and made ii: the headquarters of the mutiny. The whole Bengal presidency revolted and Europeans were massacred wholesale amid the most unspeakable outrages. Nana Sahib, maharajah of Bithui, loudly proclaimed his loyalty to th»government, but at the first opportunity went over to the mutineers. He besieged Cawnpore. On his,soernn promise of safe-conduct the garrison at last surrendered. As soon as they were at his mercy he murderei them, massacring 210 English worn? a . and children who had sought refuge th ' the town. Lucknow and other cities garrisoned by the English were besieged, and throughout northern aril central India British rule was nearly extinct. The government at last awoke to the peril. Armies under Havelock, outran, Campbell and other generals we|e sent to atamp out the mutiny. uc r" now was relieved when at the last gasp, and within a year the finhl sparks of Insurrection were quenched. I Then the British wreaked fearful veto--1 geance - on their beaten foes. The mutiny brought about a radical change in England’s mode of ruling her East Indian possessions, ‘fln 1876 Benjamin Disraeli, premier of Great Britain, framed the “Royal Titles Act" making Queen Victoria empress of India, and, incidentally, securing for himself the title of earl of Beaconsfield byway of reward. Acceptance of Office There is no law in this country <x repelling a man to accept an office, ret under the common law all citizens in peace, as well as In war, owe tleir services to the state when requiied, hence, after being duly elected, may be required to take oath and qua ify themselves as public officers. Tie only defenses are Illegal election or ‘ appointment legal disqualification to | hold office or proof that the offi< y is I Incompatible. There are few refwtala I an record, however.