The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 February 1928 — Page 2

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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T IS doubtful if any other American—not even excepting George Washington—ever has been or ever will be made the theme of song and story as has been- (and seems certain to continue to be) Abraham Lincoln. And when th«sexpression “song” is used it does not mean a poetic composition set to music, nor does “story” mean a repetition of any of the innumerable anecdotes which have clustered around the name of Lincoln and to

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which, surprising as the fact is, new ones are. constantly being added after all these years since he last walked the earth. Instead the “songs” are the outpourings of tribute to Lincoln by some of America’s best-known poets, who have been inspired by the greatness of their theme to utterances which have become a part of our national literary tradition. As for the “story”—men may repeat anecdotes of Lincoln and then in a little while forget them. But the .story which is told by enduring bronze or stone is one which cannot be forgotten. So each of the great number of statues which have been erected to Lincoln in many parts of the country has its story to tell—of the “Rail Splitter,” the “Emancipator,” the “Man of Sorrows,” and of the great statesman “who belongs to the ages.” So long as men will speak of Lincoln so long will they be impressed by the marvel of his career, accentuated as it is by the contrast between his beginning in life and the place he now holds in world history. As for that beginning, picture the scene on FEBRUARY TWELFTH, 1809 A squalid village set in wintry mud. A hub-deep-ox-cart slowly groans and squeaks. A horseman hails and halts. He shifts his cud And speaks—- “ Well, did you hear? Tom Lincoln’s wife; today. The devil’s luck for folks as poor as they! Poor Tom! Poor Nance! Poor young one! bftrn without a chance! “A baby in that God-forsaken den, That worse than cattle pen! Still, what are they but cattle? Cattle? Tut! A critter is beef, hide and tallow, but • . Who’d swap one for the creatures of that hut? White trash! small fry, Whose only instinct is to multiply! “They’re good at that. And so today, God wot, another brat! A puking, squalling, red-faced good-for-naught Spilled on the world, heaven only knows for what. Better if he were black, For then he’d have a shirt upon his back And something in his belly, as he grows— More than he’s like to have, as I suppose. “Yet there be those Who claim ‘equality’ for this new brat. And that damned Democrat • Who squats today where Washington once eat. He’d have it that this Lincoln cub might be Os even value in the world with you and me! “Yes, Jefferson, Tom Jefferson. Who but he? Who even hints that black men should be free. a That feather-headed fool would tell you, maybe, A President might lie in this new baby! In this new squawker, born without a rag To hide himself! Good God, it makes me gag! This beggar spawn Born for a world to wipe its feet upon A few years hence, but now More helpless than the litter of a sow! And—oh, well! Send the women folks to NancA • ••••• Poor little devil! born without a chance!" —Edmund Vance Cooke in the Chicago Evening Post. Humble the beginning and humble the later years in Illinois where there is an everlasting memorial to him in THE LINCOLN CIRCUIT In Springfield, where his ashes lie, A granite column rises high; To Springfleld, year on year, there wends A caravan, that never ends. Os pilgrims, eager, come to pay Their homage to his sacred clay; And yet methinks the true estate Os Lincoln, humble, simple, great. Is better sensed in village street, Where once he loved to walk and greet In heartiness his fellows all, In mart, in courthouse, tavern halt Methinks his spirit lingers where He lived and wrought. No sepulcher Os stately grandeur, cold and dim. Can hold the human heart of him. The little towns, the county seats. With dreaming squares and idling streets, I Plain homes of plainer pioneers, . , Unsung, yet hallowed through the years ' Because in distant times they saw '

Diplomatic Method of Getting Rid of Bore

A bald Philadelphian, who was reputed to be the greatest bore that visited the White House when Lincoln was President, had a habit of laying too tong and talking too much. Lincoln was talking with him one day when a confidential messenger entered. The President, eager to be rid of him, gave the visitor a pleasant word of dismissal, but he did not go. Then IJneoln went to a wardrobe in

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I Him come and go to practice law. Tell homely tales, crack homely jokes And neighbor with the common folks— The little towns, the country roads. The woods, the prairies, the abodes Os humble men where malice fails And charity for all avails— These are the shrines that still enfold The heart of Lincoln as of old, j, Whose living legend runneth thus: We loved him; he was one of us. ■ <—E. O. Laughlin in the Ladies Home Journal. And it was these people who gave him to the nation for its leader in the greatest struggle it had ever known, and those four years of anguish made Abraham Lincoln * A MAN OF SORROWS They thought him b.ut a clown, a tactless boor Who filled his days and nights with quips and jests; His hours were heedless as his purse was poor; Without ambition, blind to worthy quests. He dragged along his days; a'human clod Who scorned religion, mocked and flouted God. How far they erred! A man of sorrows he, Who .bore within his heart a fatal wound. Bereft of those he loved, the sympathy He craved and hungered for could not be found; The men with whom he walked from day to day Knew not he trod a dark and lonely way. A man of sorrows, born to pain and grief, Yet would he not inflict his woes on men. In jests and jokes he sought to find relief; Thus gaining strength, he walked erect again. Such was the man they called a wag and clown. The byword—and the glory—of his town. —Thomas Curtis Clark. It was in the midst of that struggle that the nation realized the greatness of the man when they listened to the words which came from the lips of LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG tFrom the “Gettysburg Ode.") After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake Here, from the shadows of impending death, Those words of solemn breath. What voice may fitly break The silence, doubly hallowed, left by him? We can but bow the head, with eyes grown dim, And, as a nation’s litany, repeat The phrase his martyrdom hath made complete, Noble as then, but now more sadly sweet; “Let us, the living, rather dedicate Ourselves to the unfinished work, which they Thus far advanced so nobly on its way. And save the periled state! Let us, upon this field where they, the brave, Their last full measure of devotion gave. Highly resolve they had not died in vain!— That, under God, the nation’s later birth Os freedom, and the people’s gain > Os their own sovereignty, shall never wane And perish from the circle of the earth!” From such a perfect text, shall song aspire To light her faded fire, And into wandering music turn Its virtue, simple, sorrowful, and stern? His voice all elegies anticipated; For, whatsoe’er the strain, We hear that one refrain: “We consecrate ourselves to them, the consecrated!" —Bayard Taylor. But before his great work could be finished, an assassin’s bullet plunged a whole nation into mourning for o CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain! my Captain! our feafful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells 1 hear, the people are exulting. While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim .and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my Captain lies. Fallen eold and dead.

a corner of his office, took a bottle, from its shelf and banded it to the bald man, saying: “Did you ever try this stuff on your head?” “No, sir, I never did,” the man replied. “Well, I advise you to try it I will f give you the bottle. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Keep it up. They say it will put hair on a pump-

kin. Come back in eight or ten months and tell me how it works.” The man was still there, however, when a delegation was announced. Then Lincoln said to an attendant: “Take thig gentleman to the East room and show him the paintings.”— Kansas City Star. Cuttom Hat Changed In the days of Good Queen Bess of the British isles swains were somewhat more timid than either their

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O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning. Here, Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You’ve fallen cold and dead! My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has nor pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage - closed and done. From - fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won! Exult, O shores and ring, O bells! But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. —Walt Whitman. And although history records that Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, he lives in the hearts of his countrymen as THE FIRST AMERICAN Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led. With ashes on her head. Wept with the passion of an angry grief; • Forgive me, if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn. And hang my wreath on his world-honored-urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old World molds she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Os the unexhausted West, With stuff; untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed. Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead; One meek flock the people joyed to be. Not lured bar any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth. And braVe old wisdom of sincerity! They knew that outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind’s unfaltering skill. And supple-tempered will That bent? like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind. Thrusting to thin air o’er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark, now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe' fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer ... Could Nature’s equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, ’ And one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face. I praise him not; it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as IS a fate. So always firmly be: He knew to bide his time. And can his fame abide. Still patient in his simple faith sublime. Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums. Disturb our judgment for the hour. But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man. Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. New birth of our new soil, the first American. —James Russell Lowell.

predecessors or their successors in the realm of sentiment. And Valentine's day was marked by the sending of anonymous love letters and tokens of affection and regard that bone no name. The young ladies of the Victorian era, it seems, were made? to guess who their admirers might be. But nowadays there’s no secret about it. Your lady or gentleman friend simply purchases a flagrant advertisement of love —scrawls his or her name across the top and slips it into the nearest mail box - •

VIVID COLOR IN EARLY HATS; FORECASTS STYLES FOR SPRING

THE statement that “first hats” from Paris, for between-seasons wear, are trimmed with feathers is not to be interpreted as referring to elaborate plumage. There is nothing formal or overornate about the new feather novelties as exploited by French modistes at the present time. There is, rather, something intriguingly pert and cunning about these feather trims, even amusing one might say of many of the pasted fantasies. Imagine a colorful little parrot all of tiny pasted feathers, appliqued to

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the side of a nobby felt which has printed chiffon stretched over its entire surface —the new trend is toward just such unique effects. 'And that reminds one of the fact that parrot colors are said to be very smart for millinery not only in combination but In monotone. Parrot green, for instance, is one of the colors registered for a successful vogue during the coming months Soft wings are tucked under the flap of the first hat in the feather embellished collection of chic chapeaux in the illustration. Pads of hackle are flattened against the crown of the toque shown at the top to the right. They are arranged in clusters forming . a huge flower design. Several handsome col ors are featured in this feather-cov-ered crown. Snug-fitting black felt caps and toques continue to flourish in Paris. The one centered to the left in the group places a brush of black feath

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ers over one ear, balancing it on the opposite side with a similar brush in white. The brush felt pictured to the cen ter-right tucks a fan-shaped brush of feathers under each end of a flap which extends across the back of the hat. The very clever little felt toque shown last tn the group works in a feather band across the front as if it were a very part of the hat. Not only to the elect who are blissfully whiling away the wintry months under the palms amid flowers and sunshine do the so-called styles for the Southland bear a message of importance. These selfsame itHHies are as vital a theme to those who linger about the home hearth-

Patent Leather Trimming Narrow bands of colored, as well as black, patent leather, trim some of the new dress models created by Lenief. Rows of the bright trimming, in contrasting colors wit’ occasional combinations of red and yellow, give a youthful, neat effect. Cire Satin Hats Quite new is the hat of cire satin, black of course, trimmed with feit or a touch of fur.

stone, and why? Because these very fashions which are having a “try-out” among winter resorjers forespeak fashions “on the way” for the approaching spring and summer. Especially does it behoove the home dressmaker who is doing her spring sewing in the months of January and February to “read the future” in the new of Southland fashions. To illustrate the point—the attractive gown tn this picture is especially designed for winter wear at smart

... - - Group of the Latest Hats. Southland resorts. Its fitness for spring and summer, and the fact of its being such awearable type recommends it as a model which the home seamstress might wisely copy either in silk or perhaps in washable striped broadcloth. It need nor necessarily be sleeveless, although “they say” that sleeveless frocks are to be quite fashionable for midsummer. However, the practical thing to do for early spring wear is to add neat snugfitting long sleeves. Just to make it look genuinely smart one could wear

over one sleeve one of the stunning new gold-finished bracelets. The plaited flounce in the picture is handled very uniquely where it is joined to the skirt in 8 point Another style item is the pretty tie-col-lar. Scarf effects are to be “all the go" on summer frocks, which should be kept in mind by the home dressmaker when choosing patterns for forthcoming frocks and blouses. The use of solid color with patterned prints registers prominently in advance styles. These are so interworked as [p trim each other, especially in ensemble costume for which a continued vogue is assured for the season. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. : (©. 1928. Western Newspaper ITnion.)

For Winter Days The smart new costume for sportswear during the winter consists of a pull-over sweater and a tweed skirt plaited to allow freedom of action. Over the sweater is worn a coat of bright colored leather. Napoleon Blue Is New One of the newest as well as one of the smartest colors is a very brilliant tone of blue, which has been designated as Napoleon blue.

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Tests to Find Noises in Radio Receivers The Radio Manufacturers' Association Manual on interference, recently issued, goes into detail concerning the proper method of isolating disturbances.- The survey was concerned especially with noises originating outside the receiving set, but it was realized by engineers that such noises could not properly be located until after the receiver had proved to have an alibi. To that end the manual, christened “Better Radio Reception,” lists a series of tests tor receiving equipment as follows : It should be borne in mind that the noise in the loudspeaker does not necessarily imply a plot on the part of the power company supplying the light current for the district Radio instruments are made to deal with minute energies and conseqquently are of delicate construction. Mhny an investigating fist thrust inside a receiver cabinet has bent the plates of a variable condenser, and a variable condenser with vanes that touch anrt spark is quite as potent a source of tiouble as any spark, that> ever wandered off a trolley line. Batteries likewise have been known to produce noises of their own. Corroded terminals in jacks and battery clips, corroded socket contacts and tube prongs are likely to become vocal if neglected. An open circuit tn the audio circuit will produce a fine imitation of a 60-cycle hum. A defective grid teak will fry energetically. Loose connections in the auxiliary equipment of o receiving set may prove quite as obnoxious as loose connections in the house wiring. The best radio receiver ever produced is not proof against the homeguard experimenter, rough handling or neglect. Therefore, in the search for the cause of interference, one might as well begin by making sure that the noise is not of local origin. Which leads to the first step tn any survey. • Disconnect aerial and ground. Connect the input terminals of the set with a piece of bare wire. If when this is done the noise ceases, there is safe evidence that rhe interference is being picked up by either aerial or ground and it becomes reasonable to suppose that the source of interference is-outside the house. The corollary is not entirely true. An inductive pick-up through wiring in the walls or through a “B” supply system is still possible. But in any event the field is narrowed.. Test the batteries. “B” batteries that have lost a third of their rated voltage are as a general rule interesting replies. If the “A” battery crackles, two courses are open:, Give it a charge; consult a battery man. Look for corrosion and acid creepage. Test plate supply devices by elimination, substituting “B” batteries for them temporarily. (Such units cannot be tested by means of ordinary meters inasmuch as their output Is too small.) Check the connecting cable or wires for shorts, open and bad connections. Check binding posts. Replace aerial and ground and rearrange tubes in test for microphonic noises. Examine , socket prongs for corrosion. Touch jack springs and soldered connections with glass rod or strip ofj bakelite. If a grating noise there is a Loose joint. Take out tubes, connect 22 volts of “Bi’ battery across, terminals of variable condensers. If sparks result took for defective insulation or scraping plates. Test Loudspeaker cords by twisting or shaking. If noises result replace cords. I These tests briefly cover most of the difficulties to be encountered in an ordinary receiver.

Should Be Careful When Cleaning “B” Eliminator Radio listeners should be extremely careful when cleaning or examining the “B” eliminator. Included in the eliminator are banks of filter condensers. When the eliminator is turned off these condensers are left with a high charge of direct current which will give a very severe shock to anyone coming tn contact with them. It is best before touching the eliminator (after it is turned off), to take a screwdriver and short these condensers, thereby ridding them of their high charge. After this is done the eliminator may be cleaned or repaired with perfect safety. Aerial Receives, Transmits A wireless invention enabling messages co be received and transmitted simultaneously on the same aerial has been perfected by Dr. Gabriel Veyre of Casablanca, Morocco. The Invention already has been tested with extraordinarily satisfactory Recharging “A” Battery An easy and cheap method of recharging a radio “A” uattery is revealed by Asa F. Miller in Capper’s Farmer. Mr. Miller writes: “1 take the six-volt battery that is used in my * car, and switch it to the radio, putting the radio battery In the car. By the time the battery on the radio Is run down the one in the car is recharged. This eliminates the cost of a charger and also the expense and trouble of taking it to a battery station.” Tuning to Short Waves When the set will not tune to the short wavelengths, try disconnecting the aerial at the point where it enters the house and using as an antenna the piece remaining. This cuts the fundamental wavelength of rhe antenna system, which also includes the ground. Automatic SOS Automatic alarm receivers, for SOS « signals from ships at sea, have been designed by the Marconi company and are ready to be placed on all ships and broadcasting stations. i