The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 May 1927 — Page 2

Mayor Walker and a Bunch \of Admirals - —- —«- - Mayor James J. Walker of New York surrounded on the steps of the city hall by the admirals and aides who arrived there with the fleet The largest array of battle cruisers in history entered the Hudson river. The warships in the fleet numbered 116. and they carried more than 30,000 sailors and 2.227 officers. The men had a flue time ashore for some days. They and their vessels were fresh from the war maneuvers In the Carribeun sea. 1 ——————•“ - - . . . Dynamiting the Levee Below New Orleans ix"* 111 .. 1 L ' i ,- 1 ■■■- Lr b r-'.-Av ■ >' > ■ ’ - ■ 1 *1 • ''i.-.** .a u ? * ■ •., *.i: ' A ■ " feW- --jX ' s x! .--'V ' _• a ...■ v' ** * to* 1 'tey“"■ I ... . >t I ~. fc. ~£ - ■ > *''* — ■ -Xjy l ' "7 "♦ * lids photograph, made at the instant of the explosion, shows the actual dynamiting, of the Mississippi levee in St. Bernard parish when that and adjoining parishes were sacrificed to the flood waters of the Mississippi river to save the city of New Orleans. Afterward It was necessary to blast other openings in the dike and the operation was successful so far as New Orleans was concerned, but, of course, the farm and trapping lauds between there and Lake Borgne were Inundated and the loss there was considerable. All the Inhabitants had been evacuated.

Explosion Cripples the Langley I ■ 1 ■ ■WIF HHBF — ■»- | ' ” ,|j The U. S. K Langley. dagship of the fleet'• air forces, being towed into Brooklyn navy yard tor repairs after the explosion off Ambrose light Electric machinery aboard the craft was paralysed, but no one was hurt. 4. —- i r. Apple Blossom Parade Prize Float OU la 1 Lr f ! '‘ir.Wu . a-.'-IkKk £ .?WES| kL' A ts.<r- w n®| “ MeC-j-yc- - ■rtd.L- -> t-. k. j s x' 1 eA.; I & Thia float won first prise in the Apple Blossom parade at Winchester, Va. Beauties of the Shenandoah valley were garbed In old-fashioned dresses In the apple blossom colors, pink, white and green.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

Whale meat tastea very much like beef. Tarantulae eometimee kill young tattle anatrne Chttnpansees are right or left-handed as men are. Distemper In dog* to similar to infiuensa in human beingsF»Us kill more people than batties, according to the National Safety council. ■

Los Angeles contains 391 equate miles. California's farms and industries produce a revenue of about $3,300.000.000. The longest Mt* line to the world shoots oO from Texas to New Jersey. 1.700 miles. There has been a vast Increase In the transportation of freight by rivers since the war. •

PILOT CHAMBERLIN Clarence Chamberlin, selected as pilot of the Wright-Bellanca plane in the projected nonstop flight from New York to Purls, is seen above In the cwkpit of the machine MICHIGAN BEAUTY . i' 5 ■st Z*' I »" I, mM w JRWt IT J f J 9 Miss Lillian Rowett. serenteen-year-old high school girl, cboeen by the Bessemer (Mich.) Chamber of Commerce to represent Bessemer In the International Beauty contest at Galveston, Texas, May 21-23.

Early Education Board The legislature of Massachusetts created a state board of education on April 20, 1837. Horace Mann was the originator of the bill Mann was elected secretary oftbe new board at a salary of SI,OOO a year. ExceUomf Oa&sctcom Mike says: "A pessimist is a man who buries the hatchet of enmity, but carefully oils it to keep ft from getting rusty, and also keeps a spade to dig it up.-—Cincinnati Cynic.

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seafaring life full of perils T' Sailor —“Yes, whenever I get on shore. Diplomacy She—l can only be a— He —Don't say It! It won't do. I have five sisters already and. to tell the truth, they are not favorably disposed towards you. They think a match with you would be the mistake of my life. She—Oh, indeed! ITI show the cats! Well be married Just as soon as I can get ready.

Case Conversation Friendly German (to waiter) —Wie gehts. Waiter—One order es wheat cakes. German —Nein, netn I ■" Walter—Nine? Well, you certainly are hungry!—Forbes Magazine. Protected “But, Bill, what do you want that stick tor when you are going to the unemployed demonstratieti ?" “So I can defend myself if anyom offers me work."—Faun V'emm.

THE WORLD’S GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE ?r . , . > . i <(jj by Dodd. Mead & Company.) Von Moltke f «<O IRE,” said Napoleon Ill's minO later of war, “all is in absolute readiness for the Prussian campaign, down to the last button on the last gaiter of the last soldier.” i — Now, this was one of the most monumental Iles ever uttered. Napoleon 111 was well aware that Europe distrusted him. He kn|w the French were naturally restless, that they had had a long era of military glory, aud that a few years of humdrum peace might lead them to weary of him. So he went on the principle that a war every four years j would keep them content, swell France’s martial renown aud make safe His own crown. In the first decade of the Nineteenth century Napoleon the Great had crushed Prussia to the dust and humiliated her king. The son of that king was on the Prussian throne in ' 1870 and the great Napoleon's uephew ruled France. j Bismarck, Von Moltke and other Prussian statesmen . had . foreseen trouble witli France and were well prepared for it, even if they'd!# not (as many think) secretly bring about the conflict. France, on the other hand, was totally unready for any such clash. Prussia’s revenge for the sixty-year-old injuries was at han I. The overt occasion of the Franco-lfrussian war was as follows: • Queen Isabella of Spain was deposed. The Spanish crown (was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, a relative to King William of Prussia. Napoleon 111 at once declared that such selection, would destroy the “balance of power” and leave France exposed to Prussian attack on east and south. He there ore demanded that Leopold's candidature be withdrawn. King William meekly obeyed. Utterly deceive#, by suefi submission. Napoleon went a step further and demanded a pledge from William that no Prussian prince shotld ever sit on the Spanish throne. AVilliam promptly refused to grant 'st' absurd a request and publicly snnbbed tbe ambassador who transmitted it Thij was such an excuse as Napoleon had longed for. France at once Ideelarett war on Prussia (July 19. 187tl) and. rushed a body of troops to The German frontier. So far. so good. But. owing to graft and incompetency, France’s army was in wretched condition. Yet Fram'd went mad with patriotic ztal. The feats of the first Napoleon against Prussia were recalled. Everyone expected a triumphal march to lhe Prussian capital. The cry “On to Berlin!” was on at! lips. In contrast to this. Prussia's troops were in splendid preparation. The north and south German states (on many of which Napoleon 111 had been told he might rely for neutrality or even aid) unanimously joined Prussia, sinking internecine grievances in a common cause; 477,000 men were mustered, as against France's 310,000. The German forces were divided into ' three armies, which at a signal crept unchecked across the Rhine like a huge three-headed snake, pnceded by a cloud of Uhlans, sweeping yll before them and striking at Frances very heart. King William was commander in chief, with Marshal von Moltke, the peerless tactician, as his chief of staff. The French armies, commanded by Napoleon 111 in j>eraon. mkde Meta their headquarters. On August 2, part of Napoleon’s northern army drove a handful of Prussians out of the town of Saarbruck. But thereafter Prussia acted ever on the offensive. The Frem’ii, individually, fought like hr roes., but they were no match lor their stronger foes. In two armies. France s Incompetently commanded. Hl-equipped forces were hurled back and prevented from uniting. One; of theso armies was led by Baziine, former conqueror of Mexico; the other by MacMahon, afterwards president of France. Bazaine was successively beaten at Courcelles, Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte (August 14, 16 and 18) and was penned up in the city of Metz. MacMahon moved forward t > aid him, but on September 1, was surrounded at Sedan, and next day was force# tosurrender with forty geneials. 4,006 lesser officers and 84,000 mejn. Napoleon 111, who was with MacMahon’s army, was also captured and packed off a prisoner to It German fortress. At news of his capture and the disgraceful failure of French arms rage and mortification neized "all France. Napoleon *as dej>osed; hia wife and son were compel ed to fleeaecretly to England: and. September 4, a republic was proclaimed. Q On September 19. the Germans besieged Paris. On September 28 Ba- 1 zaiue surrendered at Metz. The latter city, snatched from Germany in the days of Charles V, once moite was held by Its original masters. [Paris fell after a long and gallant siege; armies sent to relieve it were beaten. France was at Prussia's mercy. On March 1, 1871. the victorious Germans entered Paris; passing through ihe mighty Arc de Triomphe. which,! had been erected to commemorate the martial triumphs of France; thus adding a climax to perhaps the grimmest irony la the annals of warfare. j The provinces of Alsacp and Lorraine and an indemnity of| $1,000,000,000 were exacted by the conquerors—a fairly cheap fee for "curing Franca of Napoleonism! Blood’-Sttcking Spider The huge and hideous bird-eating spider now at the London zoo. which no one dare handle except bis keeper, to venom has earned him tlw nickname of “Sctrplon Bill,” was This spider, which catches Mfio sucks the blood of small birds, not only bites witjh fatal results, but is covered with [red bristlea Which sting far worse tha# nettles. It was found by a Qatford fiuiterer in & bunch of South American banana* h» waa handling