The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 March 1928 — Page 6

Miami to Build Garden of Allah for the Shrinens - i ; ■ *6. x« >®Q-ST/* j’ Jjt#- a L al Here is a drawing of Miami’s waterfront as it will appear in May to the Shriners who will attend the fifty >urth annual session of the Imperia) council there. Bay Front park will become the Garden of Allah, and Bislyne boulevard, which runs parallel to the park, will be the Street of Arabs.

World Prays in Different Ways

Strange Customs Include Praying Wheel of Buddhists and Siam Rockets. Washington.—“ Occasional revision of the prayer books of Western churches is a reminder to the geographer of curiots prayer customs that prevail in certain other parts, of the world,” according to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters ot the National Geographic society. “Central Asia and Tibet have been called the ‘Land of Mechanical Pray ers.’ Wherever the natives congregate, there is a constant muttering •Om Mani Padme HumHO Jewel in the Lotus) while numerous contrivances bearing the same prayer are in use, supplementing the vocal peti tions. Wind and Water Power. “The praying wheel has long been a favorite apparatus among Buddhists of these regions. In the villages and along the highways, the faithful carry the hand model of the wheel consist ing of a revolving cylinder with a malletlike handle. As the holder walks or rides he spins the cylinder upon which the prayelr is written hundreds of times. Each revolution of each prayer is an individual prayer. In this way thousands of prayers can be said in a minute. “The larger wheels, some of which are six feet high and from ten to twelve feet in circumference, are placed under shelters along trails to sacred places, and in the temples When a pilgrim passes the wheel he gives it a vigorous spin “There are lazy Buddhists as well as lazy members of other religious sects. Sometimes the owner of a plot of ground where there is a stream will set up a water-propelled prayer wheel. The pole > which the prayer wheel or cylitider is attached is stuck through a hole in a bohrd which reSts on the banks. Then a sort of mill wheel is attached to the bottom of the pole so that the water of the stream revolves the pole and cylin der, grinding out prayers. Often the traveler sees a public wheel or two. bridging or beside a stream, which resembles, at first glance, a small rural grain mill of this country. “In the land of the Nashi near the Tibetan border the natives, in bright red cloaks, journey to their sacred places, pounding drums and ringing bells. The difficult trails are lined here and there with prayer pyramids or piles of rocks of various heights. “Prayer flags also play an important part in the religious life of the Nashi people. Nearly every village has a prayer flag pole which is seldom without a fluttering piece of cloth or hide. Each flag bears at least one prayer and each flutter is equivalent to a word-of-mouth petition of the villagers. The devout Buddhist often ties hundreds of these flags to a rope which he strings across an open space where the wind will strike them and shower merit upon him. Moslems Use Prayer Brick. “The Moslems are more conservative than their Buddhist neighbors. Prayer rugs, some of which are beautifully designed and colored, are important prayer accessories. Wherever the Moslem may be in the shop, or tn the street, at prayer time he spreads out his carpet, removes his shoes and facing Mecca, goes through the formula of Moslem praye postures. First he holds both hands before his face with palms upward, then bending at the hips he places his bands on his

WOMEN MOST ENTHUSIASTIC OF AIRPLANE PASSENGERS

They Like to Fly and Are Doing It by Hook or Crook. Says Commerce Department Official. Washington.—Hundreds of American women took to the air in 1927 as airplane passengers. Thousands more will do the same in the present year, accordfiag to all signs. As pilots women have recently held a spectacular place in the aviation spotlight But theiy rapid and astounding Increase in n'uihbers and Im portance as passengers has gone by almost unnoticed. Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of the famous flying colonefi Is per baps the nation’s most Interesting and persistent woman air passenger. Her round trip by plane to Mexico, recently completed, adds scores of hours to her already long air record, and th- re is every reason to believe She "leans through flying. / -.4 • •••-..

thighs. His next move is to ki.eet without moving his hands and from this kneeling posture he leans for ward, touching thepalmsof his hands and his forehead to the ground “Some sects of the Moslems use prayer bricks as a part of theii prayer paraphernalia. They are cakes of baked clay from Mecca. Medina or some other sacred place. They are placed so that the head of the pray ing Moslems will touch them instead of the ground. If he loses his prayei bricks, a piece of green paper or leaves of any plant that does noi grow fruit will answer the purpose. “The prayer rocket of the natives of northern Siam bears a crude resemblance to our ‘Fourth of July rocket. When the barrel is tilled with powder, the rocket is placed upon a lofty platform and tired during religious rites. The natives are brave people, but they dread the spirits of their dead. The rocket is used to scare off the evil ones. “When Kei islanders go off to war. “'the women of the tribe place baskets of stone and fruit on a board while they pray that the bullets of the ene mies will rebound from their husbands and brothers as raindrops would rebound from their offerings if the latter were smeared with oil Natives of the Celebes kill a rooster and a pig and. placing them side by side, pray ‘O gods above and gods below, if you have pity on us and will that we eat, give us rain.’ In Malay the rice growers must take a pint of rice to the mosque when prayers are to be said for the success of the rice crop. “Some of the Nebraska Indians used prayer pities. Instead of repeating the Indian prayer, the tribesmen sought a quiet place where they smoked their prayer pipes which accorded them equal merit to spoken words. Some tribes would put soft clay on their faces before seeking a place to pray.”

Senator Capper Helps a War Hero A I r ' ■ %z\ 4 - I .AM W~ ■ ! MMBwk rJk ills Mwß'* IHm ' ® Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas with the bill now under consideration by the house military affairs committee by which Sergt. Mike Donaldson (right), outstanding World war hero, would receive a bonus of SIO,OOO and a monthly pension of S2OO a month.

Nor is she by herself. Her examine is being followed by members of her sex Inanifold. “Women simply like to fly and they are doing it by hook or crook,’’ Donald E. Kephoe of the Department of Commerce said in explanation of this surprising situation. He ought to know, because he is an aviation expert and was In the commerce plane that escorted Colonel Lindbergh in the recent swing around the country. “Women will do anything to get a ride,", he said. “They will beg it, steal It, or pay for it, according to the circumstances. Half or more of the country’s air passengers today are women. “There were throngs of women at every field where we landed on the Lindbergh swing. Most of the people who begged us for a ride were women, many of them older women It was noticeable that the older women who

| Blind, Testifies He « g Can Judge Car’s Speed « New Haven. Conn.—Although it 4 Henry Istas, totally blind stu dent at the Yale law school, tes ;■ it titled that his friend George A ~ H Lewis, a student at the graduate •* -Zc school, was driving at a mod ft ?? erate speed when his ear was £ :: involved in a collision with an jj other machine in Huntington t? street. Lewis was fined s2s> on It ” a charge of reckless driving. S ** Istas said despite his affile * j; tion he was able to gauge the ** approximate speed of an auto “ mobile by the sound of the en jj ♦? gine and swaying of the ma £ ii chine. ij Istas, who has won many Imn ?£ # ors in his academic work, fur :: *• ther related that when Levels £ ♦♦ went around the corner of Hunt £ jj ington street the swaying of the * car was barely noticeable aim II the purr of the engine Indi jj cated a medium rate of sfu-ed jh The court was noncommittal on “ H Istas’ testimony.

Passengers Determine Time of Train by Vote Berlin. —A vote of the passengers decided the service schedule of the night train on the Marburg-Franken berg route. After months of heated controversy between the federated railways ano many of the local inhabitants, who. by word of mouth and in writing, had in dignqntly protested against “tlte un timely departure” of the lasi train out of Marburg, the federated t’.iil ways hit upon the unique idea ot un expectedly putting the’ matter to a vote by the passengers on the train several minutes before it steamed out of the station. Under the supervision of the train s personnel the passengers were asked to answer with “yes” or “no” if the present schedule should continue. The “noes” had it. Thereupon the rail way company agreed to alter the time table and fix the departure of the night train from Marburg for a later time in conformity with the wishes of the majority of commuters.

wanted to go up outnumbered the older men. ’ “Statistics show that a large percentage of passengers on the commercial lines, like the line between Detroit and Grand Rapids, are women. They patronized extensively the comcereial line between Washington and Philadelphia during the Sesquicentennlal exposition, and not infrequently do they ride in mail planes.” Then fie told a secret. At, the army fields, it seems, officers’ wives are disgruntled because regulations limit their “planing” to one trip a year. So. wherever they can manage it. they sneak a ride. There’s such a thing as a plane’s landing in a meadow somewhere to take on a passenger. • Cheap Enough Philadelphia.—Automobiles, 5 cents apiece! Two were knocked down at that price by the police In an auction of lost, strayed or stolen. Tiebuyers were junk dealers. It’s no4r>uble to find tr< ’

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TIME HE RETIRED IIBI& ' x \. L s *r w \' •■$ ' %. ■\ u> \ \ ArC* —•« Xi iff America’s champion postman, Otto E. Meissner of Toledo, Ohio, who has been retired on a pension by Uncle S'am after walking 155,000 miles and currying 760 tons of mail during his 42 years of service. The distance he traveled is equal to six times around rhe earth—and still he played golf for exercise after his 12-mile trip, uach afternoon during the summer. ENVOY FROM BOLIVIA ■ B ?:|oLv WV b * \ jpK lb 0 :■• / jO w„ Jil ' Especially posed portrait of Eduardo Dies de Medina, the appointed Bolivian minister to Washington. He Doesn’t Know The gentleman who insists that “all Buffering Is in the mind” never ran his toe into the end of the chair rocker as he galloped from bed to answer the telephone call for a wrong number.— Philadelphia Bulletin. Window Planta Never water window plants unless the soil looks dry. Then put enough water on them to wet the soil thoroughly. Too much water will quickly rot house plants.

He’s Planning a Flight to Venus If —h| j** ■ A vX < ; i - ||f / J B < 1- tr J 1 ■ t f f vy < f j I >/ /Jf J : 1 W I Vfh R;-„ WfciF " 11 W" Z- I ' I Robert Condit of Miami, Fla., is the inventor of a special airplane in which he hopes to fly to the planet Venus. He is building the machine but guards it frftm all observers. Oil Well Turns Into Roaring Volcano |BHB" 'v" * 1 twKIiB . - rfM f i ■■• W : \ /i Giant flames shooting 300 feet above a great gas crater in a spectacular tire at Sinton, Texas. Forty million cubic feet of gas were consumed by the tire in twenty-four hours.

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It is said there are 3,000,000 human beings still held in slavery. Almost all tlie world’s supply of camphor comes from Formosa.. Development of hydroelectric power in Trance is rapid’y progressing. A rubberized bathing suit recently perfected weighs only >fcix ounces. The average Englishman of the working class is found to be five few five inches tall.

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