The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 March 1929 — Page 6

They Have Gone to Seek a “Dream Island” m wi iypw -' ' 3 M - jEbC P*JSk WjiM * & ' JIBE ' - .: .■ f > < <- • ’■Jr Whim >7 ! MJsga x j ji®J Hr "^wHHIH^ ; B bbbbPjl |B* If Ml **” ~ | M F Bramley wealthy living contractor of Cleveland, Ohio, and his party .-hoard the famous Arctic ship Pean on which they have sailed from Boston in search of a “dream island” off the western coast o'Mexico. Mr. Brumley dreamed of this sunken island and later believed he located it from an airplane. In the photograph he i§ seen wearing a cape coat. < ' * Winner in a Church Building Competition < 7 s .-.sii £z* 'B * -l-.v • ’ "z. -S'S ySgk Wk HI B ■< .fllHsHßir wfe r—llf i >8” IrOili ■ ‘lt r? t ; OB z -.—^*' s ■' ■ * ' ..— “~“ This Methodist Episcopal church at Trainer, Pa., was awarded the first prize of SI,OOO in the nation-wide church building competition conducted by the Christian Herald tor the most beautiful and adequate small church. It was designed by Thoralf Sundt and Bruce C. Wenner, young Philadelphia architects.

Henry Is Fairly Big for Thirteen if • ii ■ * ■ v. VCjTTT y X*t4gS jtf S ss* ' v-- s i WB ; FTf3 * ji ~ Os s& jQOBI Im| 1,. x b -»; IJmIII t tFH ;« Y > * W. ||yj|i> w It jk Jl^hHhß if i | W.. W - xsJY . JI Henry Mullins of Atlanta, (la., is nearly twice the height of the two boys who are trying to reach his outstretched arms; yet, he's the same age as those boys. Henry is thirteen years old and is seven feet tall. Despite his very unusual height he is well proportioned and doesn’t feel the least bit conspicuous. One-Legged Mountain Climber Ih X. A 3 iF ■IB ' XXx > \- ... x -jf ... I ; zL’ I y jM o ' r jL 1 Probably the world s greatest mountain climbing feat of 1928 was achieved by Clyde Cohb. middle-aged taxidermist of Kalispell. Mont’., who. wearing an artificial leg. climbed Mt. Wilbur (9.283 feet) in the Rockies. This peak" had bfeen scaled by only three other men. all professional moun tain climbers. Reaching the summit, where in 1923 Norman Clyde of the Sierra club of California erected a cairn of rocks, the Montana man bared his artificial leg and made a snapshot of himself standing beside the cairn as proof of his ascent. /

OF INTEREST TO EVERYBODY

James Fenimore Cooper wrote seventy books in thirty years. Each of the continents nas one or more towns bearing the name of Home. Moose and caribou are the principal producers among game animals in Canada. Britain claims to be the world s workshop for aircraft, ships and locomotives

Sunflower seeds yield a valuable food for cattle and poultry. Gypsies wander at times to countries as remote as Iceland and Australia. Approximately a 100,000,000 dozen pairs of stockings are sold in this country annually. In Zululand the atmosphere Is so clear that objects can be seen by starlight at a distance of seven miles.

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LEGION’S CHAPLAIN < IB 'A - vU Rabbi Lee J. Levinger. Ph. !>.. of Columbus, Ohio, was elected national chaplain of the American Legion by the national executive committee to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rabbi Herman J. Beck. As an army chaplain. Doctor Levinger served with the Twenty-seventh division at the front, at the Battle of the Selle River. HE WON A DOG DERBY ® ■BBB. *Kk 11 i jbfrW

Fred Printz of Cascade. Idaho, being kissed by his wife and presented with the Marco Hellman silver trophy and a purse of $3,000 immediately after winning the first Sierra Dog derby between Truckee. Calif., and Tahoe Tavern—a three-day race run in daily laps of 32 miles each. Mr. Garnett, -assistant passenger traffic managei of the Southern Pacific, is making the presentation. Well Deserved Fate ■■ “1 don’t wish Jim Judd, the town calamity howler, no hard luck.” says Old Man Munn, “but I wish he’d climb one of the mountains he makes outa mole-hills and fall off.”—Farm and Fireside. \ The Cherokees The Cherokees were the largest and most important Indian tribe originally east of the Alleghenies, perhaps the highest in culture and Intellectual receptivity north of Mexico.

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KIND OF LABORER HE WAS Regg^-“Yes, I’m only a day la-

borer, you know: but haws the time I don’t work.” She—“ Then you’re only an every other day laborer, I’d say. Then the Party Broke Up. The club members were distinctlybored by the unending narratives of the boastful hunter: “Reaching India,” he continued, “1 first met the man-eating tiger—” “Huh! That’s nothing,” said a mildlooking man rising and making for exit. “I once saw a man eating rabbit.”

Between Crooks “Why did you that fine bulldog of yours to the banked at such a low price?” , “S-sh! don’t you see? I’m going to visit that old guy sometime next week at abbut one o’clock in the morning.” Home, Sweet Home “Do you take a cold bath before breakfast?” asked the health sadist. “No,” replied Henry Pack, “I merely suggest something at breakfast and get cold water thrown on me.”

..mnmiimiinimiiiiißiiiiiiinininmiii., f. * MY FAVORITE *T N STORIES cobb _ _ _ _ The Oriental Viewpoint i r | 'HIS story, it seems to me. Is more , **or less illustrative ot a cardinal .point of difference between the Ori- ■ entai philosophy and the Occidental | viewpoint as it is reflected in some ■Of the larger American citiesi Morejover it has the added advantage ot ibeing the recital of an actual occur- ! rence. • ! A distinguished Japanese sociologist, ( who spoke good English, was touriug i the country a few years ago with* a , view to studying our ways and ins'tiI tutions. He reached New York, bring;ing letters of introduction to a well(known native scientist. The New | Yorker arranged a day of sightseeing ' for the distinguished visitor. | The tattei was quite anxious to j study traffic conditions. He had 'beard of the Brooklyn bridge rush. ISo the American began the forenoon ;by taking his guest to «Park row, • where the Jap sfteht an interested I half-hour observing the Jam of human- ' tty. The next event on the program • was to be a study of. uptown conI gestion. 1 When the two observers were ready ito leave the bridge no taxicab was [ available, so the guide stee: >d the (Japanese aboard a subway local at ‘ City Hail station. At the Bridge staj tion he hurried the foreigner out of ! the car. dragged him through the [crush on the platform, and jammed j him forcibly aboard a northbound express At Grand Central the same thing was repeated The Oriental was hurried across another platform, led at ■a trot through a long and winding • tunnel, up one flight of stairs and [down another and shoved in at the i door ot a second train from which, eventually, they emerged and climbed , to the street. ■ The American ted the way to the tlobby of a nearby hotel \yliere. by apjpointraent. the two of them were ta meet an official of the police departement who had agreed to escort them through Fifth avenue ’and upper I Broadway. They sat down to await his 'arrival. He was not due for perhaps a half-hour yet. The Japanese, like most ot bis counI trymen, was a man. In the journey tie had beeli sorely buffeted about. A careless elbow had jammed his hat down over his eyes, his morning coat was rumpled and his stepder . toes had been trodden upon A"S he .rearranged his disordered wurdrpbe, be said to his companion: “Would it not have been possible for us to have made the entire jourI ney from where we started to this point where we are now by remaining I upon the train which we originally boarded?” “Oh. yes,” said the American, “but, you see, by changing from the first ilocal to the express and then back again to another local, we saved three minutes.” ! “Ah.” said the Japanese, “and now I (What are you going to do with the three minutes?” • • •. Practically No Reason for It THERE once was a clerk ot the ho»el in a small Maine town who . had a unique way of keeping a diary. ' Each evening he wrote on the bottom j lines of she page of rhe register for i the current date brief account of; the principal daily doings in the community. usually coupled with a summary of his own personal reactions to them. Sometimes his phraseology. I was unusual hut always it was amply ! descriptive. , A friend of rnln« was stoppine at' the botel. having gone up to Maine jpn a fishing trip He felt into the! babif of glancing through rhe back pages of the register, more from rhei he got from rhe quaint language ot the entries than because he was interested in bygone neighborhood history. pn succeeding pages ot the book for a week of rhe early spring ot the year previous he found these pro) gressive records of a local tragedy: 1 Tuesday—“ While fishing through the ice yesterday, Henry Whippet tell, in the Sac river "p to his nock He was 'hawed out and took home.’’ Wednesday—“ Henry Whippet is in, bed with a iiowerful bad cold His! (folks are thinking some about calling) in a doctor ” I Thursday—“ Henry Whippet rapidly continuing to get no better It now looks like he is fixing to break out' with the pneumonia ’’ i*. Friday—“ Henry Whippet is sinking rapidly.” Saturday—“At nine o'clock this| morning out esteemed fellow citizen, Henry J Whippet. Esq., went to hial Maker entirely uncalled for” <(EI bv the MeNauKht Syndicate lnc.> ; Transportation Costs The cost?,of receiving, checking, weighing and handling all cargo at terminals, together with the mainte-■ fiance of covered terminals and the : (loading and discharging of a ship! I 'totals more than 50 per cent of the? i cost of water transportation. Mostly Wheels : Uncle Ez remarks: “Some folks; talks about deir train of thought when it ain’t nothin* mo’ dan a handcar.”— t Boston Transcript. . Long African River The Orange river, which rises less! ! than 200 miles from the east coast of, Africa, flows across the continent into | the Atlantic ocean. It is the longest;, river in South Africa, being about 1,300 miles in length. . "Do Bor Cods” The common cold must oe taken says one of the experts, in., which case, it may be added, it willi probably l>e -taken-, less frequently.— [ Boston Evening Transcript. •