The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 September 1930 — Page 7

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There Is a faint suspicion in my mind that I must be advancing in years; because I see things in the newspapers which remind me of other things which certainly happened far away and long ago. There is, for example, the death of that great figure in aviation, Glenn 11, Curtiss. The first time I ever saw Mr. Curtiss was at Brescc'ih. northern Italian city at the foot of the Alps. That was In 1909* • • • These college boys of today, who . hop Into their planes and drive to a polo match, a boat race or a football game, probably don't remember mucli ■ ’about su< !i engines as the Auza.nl or the Gnome, oi* about such aviators as Delargrange, I’aulhan. Bogers SumFOR EARLY FALL . » , s' 1 r ■ K- ■|. a W ; I a* J» An advance style for the fashlonal .•■ wtiiiwn's early fall wear is tiiis ifmnrt town dress of hair-line striped flannel in eland red. The flared skirt Is attractively trimmed with dark red buttons.

Voodoo Collection for Museum

Washington.—From thee interior of Nigeria, original home of the voodoo cult, the National museum has received a large collection of native implements and articles of magic presented by 'C. Roberts of Mai«l<-n. Mass.. an oil operator who has built up aif extensive business in this little known country. The section of Africa, where native culture has reached. Its highest levels, hitherto has been unrepresented in American coU'ectlons. The most .c.>n spictlous ol Jects are the frigiitsyimwooden masks u«ed by the native magiciana. These are elaborately carved heads of animals and grotesque human faces employed In the rain-making and fertility rites. All show a highly developed artistic ability. They are ' used in the weird metamorphosis mttnonies tn which men are supposed to change theniselv«*s into totem animals. The collection also contains many examples of the famous Benin brass work. The Hauser negro tribe. It was explained, apparently progressed directly from copper to Iron without going through the bronze era which iu»s been common to other civilizations. Their extremely artistic Iron statuary

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mer, Lefevbre, Ferber, Latham, and Fernandez. Yet most of that group gave their lives to aviation before man’s wings had grown so strong, other great birdmen of that day are still known; because they eventually associated with big companies to which they lent their names. Among these are the Wrights, Santos Dumont; lieiry Farman, the Voisians, Bierlot and Curtiss. The first real aviation Tneet was held in Frame, at Keims. Nobody went very far to see that one. It was felt that this flying business was Ju-t a stunt; that it never really would be practical. But they did pretty well nt Keims, so, when the second meet Was held in Italy, at Breccia, we decided to go ami see It. Brescia was crowded. We stayed In the same ho tel with Glenn Curtiss and some of the other livers, but arrived so shortly before the meet that we were given the proprietor's own room. I never have forgotten the family photographs on those walls. They certainly were not taken by Hal I’hv fe or ai.y of these fashionable photographic artists. • • • That certainly was a great meet. -Blerlot was therewith the little nionoplftite in which l>e had lately flown the channel on that early morning when Hubert Latham, w ith his-larger Antoinette plane, was waiting for the wind to go down And the Voisins. Henry Farman, Wilbur TV right ’and. I think, Santos Dumont, qjl were on hand. The huge crowd, which ran the scale from royalty tp peasants, caught a sharp breath and then exhaled a united “Alt.:" as th« first plane left the ground. Our 'ah' was ns loud as

any of the rest. None of this present generation ever will get (hut kick out of seeing a man fly. The Wright plane didn't have any wheels then. It had Skid*, and they had to build a tripod and a track to get it Into the air. It couldn’t be got off the ground. Most of the planes had bicyde wheels. Glenn Curtiss won the prize for distance flight. Somebody, probably Latham, broke the altitude record in a Voisin plane. He must have risen almost a thousand feet. Glenn Curtis* prophesied that the day would Come when man would fly the ocean. People laughed gently at his enthusiasm: hut he lived to see that day. What will this present generation live to see? That meet at I'.rescia with those rickety, feeble.

'has been one of the wonders of the anthropological world. The use of brass was Introduced by.the Portuguese during the early explorations of the West African coast. Among the objects Is a model of a 'safari in brass, with' the king being carried through a jungle in a hammock carried by his subjects and with a retinue of attendants. Each little figure Is modeled to life In brass. There are also brass models of bunting scenes, instead of preserving records of notable events in drawing or painting, as did the primitive European, the Nigerian system is to model It in brass. This collection, it was pointed out. is of s|»eeial interest since a great mu- ■ Jorlty of the natives* brought out of Africa in slave trade days came from • this part of the country, although they may have been brought originally from somewhere else by the negro slave i traders. i That the artistic ability of the people has declined little since ancient • times is shown by the apotheosis of i the tin can in two samples collected tyr Mr. Roberta Cigarette tins, lined neatly with leather and fur. become

hand-made planes was only only twenty -one years ago. What about the next twenty-one years? Like the man who never had suffered fronr delirium ■tremens, we haven't seen anything yet. • • • Another thing which takes me back through the years is the earthquake in the . purple Appenniue portion of Italy. They say Vesuvius Is growling again. L climbed Vesuvius once with the last crowd up before it blew its bonnet off. , That old hill has a redhot disposition. But the earthquake Is what brings back memories, and not pleasant ones. It happened we were in Sicily the year of the earthquake, and got into Messina ns soon as they would let us. That was a picture nobody who saw it forgets. Dead, dying and injured; homeless, frightened people.who had. lost all they possessed; mothers who had lost their children; children who had lost their parents; great piles of crushed Stone, j plaster and debris where buildings and . streets had been; walls left standing with fragments of floors sticking out and supporting articles of furniture. The Red Cross did a £f»od job there, but there are some things beyond human aid. > | K (©. 1930. Bell Syndicate.) il c.vylH If machinery is golnS to shorten our Xk'Um work days, we have to i"’l' r ove our 1 - ’ minds so as to enjoy them or we shall soon perish of ennui.

Women W orkers Must Hide Age

Washington.—A woman's proverbial reticence whore age is concerned has economic if not ethical justification in our modern industrial system, according to officials of the United States women s bureau. The woman over twenty-eight who tells her employer the truth about her age is likely to find herself out of a job. says Miss Mary V. Robinson, director of the bureau's division of public information.

objects of considerable value with little likeness to their original state. Among the objects of cultural interest are pottery stoves with grate, tirepan and oven formed out of the same lump' of day. +4.4.4.4.4.4.4‘+**++*+++ I Writing His Own | ❖ By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK ♦ X Dean of Men, University of 4> ♦ Illinois. J »+++++++*>*+4>*+********4"*** I have known Corwin for a half dozen years or so while he was in college and since a he has severed his connection .with our educational institution, or 1 might perhaps better say. since It has been severed for him. He did not do well as an undergraduate. He could apparently find nothing that he liked and he could not quite' bring himself to do what was tv him distasteful. He has not found anything since he left college that either suited him or that he suited. He came In a few days ago to ask roe to write him a letter of recommendation—one of these “to whom It may concerns.’’ a sort of epistolary proprietary medicine which would be a palliative or a curative for all Jobhunting ills. I write a great manyletters of recommendation, and I try to make them truthful. There is almost always something which one may say commendatory of any of om'< acquaintances, but Corwin pretty nearly stumped me. All that came into my mind was that he was extremely good looking and more than ordinarily well dressed and these two characteristics are a trifle inadequate In a man who is expecting to find a place of responsibility and emolument I hesitated before acceding to Corwin's request and I suppose he saw my hesitation. “Can't you do It?” he inquired. “Well. I have been up against some pretty bard propositions in my time.” I said. “I think J can say something. Why don't you try It yourself," I suggested. “What do you mean?” he asked. "You know about your own qual-

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Viking Ship on Old Mississippi ■. - <*. ■ >■ i I it- / // \ i ... 7' I ■A \ ~ _. J_. ; r _j| \ i ,1 ; 7 \ : 1' 7 I\i fM'jiiilx It :- Jll The Viking ship Roald Amundsen, which sailed from Norway iri July, 1929, to follow’ Leif Ericson’s route to America, is here seen in the Mississippi river on its way to St. Paul, Minn. In order'to make trip a tenhorsepower motor was installed. Capt. Gerhard Folgero is in command of the little vessel.

The bureau finds the term, “older worker," is being applied to all women employees between the ages of twenty-eight and sixty-eight, and that it is "fairly typical" for industrial concerns to employ only women under thirty. ' _ a “With the problem of finding work becoming more acute for women in their thirties, naturally to the women of over forty forced to se<>k a job the situation seems almost hopeless," Miss Robinson said. “Many women in their fifties, despite years of satisfactory and loyal service, are kept through wrong types of efficiency methods in constant dread of losing their positions; and those who have crossed the sixty mark, even though still hale, fit and useful, gen-

ities and characteristics better than anyone else in the world." I answered. “You should he able to evaluate your training, your experience, your dependability. and your own particular strong points. Why don't you write a recommendation for yourself and bring it around to me? If It is true and complimentary. I ll Sign it.” “I've never thought of that.” he said. “I'll try." The local evening paper this evening was full of the announcements of political candidates. who, in next week's primaries, are coming up for party consideration. I was entertained in reading them to see the estimate which each candidate put upon himself ami what qualities he claimed to possess which would particularly fit him to fill the office to which he aspired. Some of them had. little material with which to work and showed little skill in working with what they bad. ; A good many men I meet are dissatisfied with their situation. They feel that they have not gotten on as they should have done. They are out of a job or if they have one, their talents have not been properly recognized. They have not been advanced as they have deserved. I wonder sometimes what they could truthfully say about themselves. It would be a good training for each one of us to sit down and try to write his own letter of recommendation. It might puzzle us to find anything worth while to say. ((B. 1*39.- W.-stem Seir»Mt*r Union.) Salary Too Low Roswell. Ohio.—The post office Is closed here. IL IL Holmes, postmaster, has refusal to work for the government at less than a dollar-a day. ♦ POTPOURRI * X The Beet Industry ♦ The future of the beet sugar ♦ 4. Industry may depend on tlio de- ♦ ♦ velopment of the recent “chew- J ♦ ically discovered* sugar made. ♦ X from cotton seed. However, at T ♦ present the United - States pro- ♦ ♦ duces some seven million tons 4, ♦ of beets annually which is vnl- ♦ X ued at close to $75,000,000. Al- X ♦ most the entire crop goes Into ♦ t sugar. ♦ ♦ ’ (©. 1*39, Western Newspaper Union.) ♦

erally are regarded as hopelessly beyond the dead line of employment.” The women's bureau recently made a survey of women hand workers in the cigar, industry,, where hundreds have been thrown out of work by factory. mergers and installation of recently invented automatic cigar-mak-ing machines. A number of those (Questionedfrankly admitted prevaricating about their age in their effort to find new work. Miss Robinson raises the question if it isn't "a shortsighted civilization" that offers wage standards too low to provide savings that . would insure against unemployment, and age standards too low to provide jobs for capable applicants.

I 1 I I 1 I I-I-I I l It I Illd-I-H 13 Roads to Death Taken by Suicide •• Mexico City —Manuel Hernan- | H des made triply sure that his,” H suicide would he a success. He rented a room in the third ’’ I floor of a hotel, swallowed •• I poison, then sat on the rail of a .. balcony and shot himself in the ■■ head. He then fell to the street. ” i 1 I l i-l-I 1 11111 H-l-1 I i I 1 11 1 Now, If Women Would Learn to Park a Car! Memphis. Tenn.—Only ten women were involved in 400 traffic accidents during the first six months of 1930, Ser st. Hal V. Allen, motorcycle squad chief, announced. "Now. if women could only learn to park a car—” was Alien’s conclusion. . ■ ■ CLAIMS ADVANCED AGE I - '‘ k “H i * 71 I Thomas Kent of near Poplar Bluff, ' Mo., claims that he will be one hundred and nineteen years old on September 10 next, and ht is believed to ; be the oldest person iniMissouri. He 1* in fine health and enjLs long walk* and rabbit hunting. \

Married Man Passes on Hot Hiding Place Tip “I have more respect for American men than I have for the women," said Clarence Darrow. “Men have always performed their masculine tasks. Then, if there was time for anything else, they went in for whatever they fancied. “But too many American women neglect their homes and immemorial domestic duties when they flit into more congenial fields. “A friend of mine had been complaining that he had a hard time keeping a little of his hard-earned money for himself, as his wife usually grabbed it all. “ 'But at last,’ he added triumphantly, ‘I have found a safe hiding place for it.’ “‘And where is that?’ I asked. *'l put it with my socks that need mending,* he replied with a happy laugh.’’ Modern Wife Finds Way to Make Hubby Useful “The woman of today not only has all the privileges of man, in addition to most of those which have always been hers exclusively, but uses the poor boob for a catspaw besides.” declared Governor Allen of Massachusetts at a Boston banquet. “One of these modernists had been indulging In the hospitality of friends far too often to please her husband and he finally ventured to speak to her about it. “ ‘My dear,' he said, *1 think this makes tlie twelfth time you have visited the refreshment buffet.’ “ ‘Oh. that’s nil right,’ she replied carelessly, ‘‘l tell them I’m getting U for you ’ ” Only Two Quart* Billy, age seven, had been very ill.-The doctor had been called. Evidently the cause of the Illness had been too many cherries. A large cherry tree, full of ripe cherries, had been too tempting in spite of mother’s frequent words of caution. The doctor, who was a great friend of Billy’s, said jokingly: “How many cherries do you think you lite. Billy?” “Oh, I lon’t know,” groaned Billy. “Well, bout bow many?" asked the doctor. ••Well,” said Billy, hesitatingly, “1 think that 1 ate about enough for two pies—about two quarts, 1 guess.” World’s Typewriting Record Ont' bundled and thirty-five words a minute is the hew world’s record for typing. This was attained by George L. Hosstield, September 2S, 1929, i’ Toronto, Canada. ’ Mr. Hossfieid also held the record for the following years: 1918, 1920, 1921. 1922, 192 G and 1927. The record was made by plain copying from straight reiidirg matter. Tlie writing time lusted for one hour. Flimsy Alibi “Yesterday you were absent to go to your wife’s funeral and today 1 saw her in the street." “Yes, that’s so. You can never rely on a woman.”—Gutierres, Ma drid.

Flit is sold only _ a | in this yellow Don t Cuss! Here’s the sure, quick, easy way to kill all mosquitoes indoors and keep ’em away outdoors! % I smelling. | - f iris? ■ Ih I lfe s A k/ V \ The World’s AA v Selling Insect 0 1930 Stance In*

Turkish Folklore Drive A gigantic folklore drive soon will be undertaken by the Turks to prove that they are of European and not Oriental descent. The Anatolian interior has been divided into 12 zones which are to be systematically searched for all lore and customs bearing on racial origins. In the midst of all the agitation, one Turkish woman professor has proposed that an official commission be formed at Angora to rewrite the national history in accord with the result of the ethnological researches. Costly Judge Vrlentine stated Jiis opin ion that a vast majority of minor offenses against the law were occasioned by people "trying to keep up a front.” "Too many young chaps," he declared. “just try to be happy-go-lucky fellows and merely turn out to be unhappy-go-brokes."

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Thousands of Women Know This Is True How would you like to lose 15 ounds of fat in a inonth and at the ame time increase your energy and improve your health? How would you like to lose unhealthy fat that you don’t need and don’t want, and at .the same time feel better than you have for years? How would, you like to lose your double chin and your too prominent abdomen and at the satpe time makeyour skin so clean and clear that it will compel admiration? How would you like to get, your weight down to normal and at the same time develop that urge for activity that makes work a pleasure

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Snails Brought by Air Snails travel through the air daily at over 100 miles an hour from Erance to Croydon (England) airdrome in Imperial Airways freighters to meet the demands of epicure* preferring the French variety, specially fed on vine leaves and lettuce. Excused A fire broke out in the barracks At’ rushed out except No. 37. Corporal—lsn’t No. 37 coming out? No. 37—No, I’m on leave.—Rolig tlalv Timma. Couldn’t Get Started Easterly—l thought Jones was go Ing to be a brain worker. Westerly—He forgot his tools! < IJL When a widower begins to discus* matrimony with a widow the result is usually a tie.

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