The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 September 1930 — Page 6

SCENIC PLAYGROUNDS OF AMERICA By G. M. KILBOLRN '

A Boy Ranger in Alaska TO HAVK been the youngest ranger in the national park service, and to have spent a winter In a patrol cabin in wildest of all the parks—Mt. McKinley park, Alaska, at sixteen years of age, with Ids nearest neighbor forty miles away, was the recent experience of Hill Myers of Lapeer, Mich., now 1 a journalism student at the Michigan state college at Kail lainsirg. He returned In August, 1929. after thirteen months in Alaska. 'i he job of being a ranger included driving dog teutus through snowy, windswept winter waste lands where his only hope of reaching the night s shelter lay |n that unexplainable hut undeniable -sixt.it settee of the, dog leader which enables him to follow a ,trail long burled or a year old ; down Steep ice hillsides, or around ledges where footholds for the dogs and sleds had lo be hacked in solid ice, while great valleys yawned below; or through rivers of wafer which ran on to of rivers of ice—caused by the breaking through of warm springs

■ j jt ' ■ i‘ . ChWHbvP MM “Hanger Dili” Myers. which overflowed the frozen valleys on > ic freest# on top of them. 'lt incluileitmining your own coal f-oin the nearest mountainside vein In zero weather or rescuing mountain sheep that lut'd st randed in a four foot snow fall and would.•otherwise.have starved It included being shaken by an earth quaKe. ..which rocked the cabin and set Ids lantern swinging tike a pendulum; tiu didn't wake the hardworking hoy ranger to share the excitement with a guest, 'who later recounted It. The job included, in fact, peitrly everything, as witness Ids diary's record of January Uni breakfast Slid washed the I dishes; did a months washing ; cooked i|og feed ; talked four loaves of yeast bread; roasted a ham; made two shelves, and rt cover tor the water bucket; sorted and straightened a bunch of old nails; oliwl flie tools; got .stipjicr ready: And they say they . |onf-+m .government Jobs f” claim of tin* Fmr North Ural the dog team is the world's ti|nst efficient means of transportation “Itanger .lii!I” explains’; "Seven dogs, for example, call pull live Imndied pounds (plus the driver l.t wet l> Utiles a day. on a fsdr.lrail. Dogs and driver will consume about ten poditd* of food a «l.iy. ttrt live hundred pound* id food they can travel a Ihoits. ml miles, which is Mippo*ed lo be further than, any other animal or anlttfaia ettn travel, carrying their own ftxkl” - The rescued mountain sheep laid to be forced, in cat at first. hut were soon quite lame, eating Hay. oats, ryeiTlsp. d ied apple-, and potato .peel Inga alike, and nosing into forbidden cupboards. Hue. Bill relate*. “was rest timid the tlrst day alid would eat limbing, but 21 hours later he was eating magazines atid Sleep! ig hags." “Oh. Itartgei. wmtld you he afraid to hunt grizzly bear- with a club?" c-ked a maiden tourist, recently arriv<sj v a the Alaskan railroad “Not If there were enough members In the clilb.' he replied Hack In civilization the l*ov con tides, tie. (elf awkward and shy: "I hadn't bad on a white *h rt. or a suit, for over a year I had rarely svit a mirror, and iity Hair had Ims»m cut twice during the yotr. I was almost run over ill Seattle, for I eowltlu t Ret us, d to fl*e wear and tear of the cities after living 2,7W*l miles from them "There Was ttlsmy a lime when there seemed no *vveeter’thing mi enrllt than a good hot heal of meat and |*olal«ies with a steam radiator to heat It over. Hill how tlml I have these •luxuries,' I Hint myself longing for a go«*d dish of d»g rb? anil gravy, and one of those dll cabin* that we cs HI id til aland up In without humping our heads Linen sheets don’t seem nearly as comfort nb'e as that l«< hv sleeping bag I used f«i roll up In. Nor do white slilrls and It. V I Vs* com (wire With a Filson Itan net sldrt and n suit of Mcndelcott s underwetir—for real comfort !** t® ttl* Wwia* XrvaMtst Intel.) Cairo's Rug Trade Cairo, lieciiuse «»f Its winter tourists has taHsime one of the great rug capitals of the world. Oriental rugs of all desorb.l ions are bought every summer hy the meichants of the city and are taken to Cairo for Hie winter season The nigs of Turkey. I‘ersla. Clilna and other countries are collected there to lie o?r,-rrd t* retail prices to tourists and at wholesale prices to Units of lymtdon. I*srts and New York. Cairo new ranks with Constantinople and Teheran »n this trade. CSaage in Lenten Seaton Tb- l.enien *eas«*n was originally only forty hour*—from Good Friday , oil K stet day tm.ming. Additional days were gradually added until the m. • neml*er. • tawed on the for** days* temptation lo the wilderness, bemate the role. Arctic Temporatnru The maximum record teniperntore wtthfn tlie Arctic circle fc , lin , „f Fort Vuk.m, where an extreme temperature of WO decrees Fahrenheit

It Was a New Idea Once V Ilf THE r/KST 1 it's!*# 41 m < J U

:: KNOWING HOW :: TO SPELL ” By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK !! Dean of Men, University of .. Illinois. ■I 111 I l-l* 111 11 I l-H I 111 I l"H~ ‘

A group of educated men In New York city—congressmen, senators.

newspaper reporters, public officials of distinction — hold a spelling con- * test not long ago, the words being g t v e n out by a statesman who used an old-fash-lone*! spelling book such as we were familiar with sixty years ago in the district schools of the country. It didn’t take long to

floor Hip whole lot. and they went down like a row of untrained soldiers facing the tire of machine guns. The simple truth Is we don't know how to spell. If a misspelled word creeps Into our correspondence, we blame the error upon our stenographers. It Is rather Interesting to see what common word* floored the statesmen —-“salable.” and “mortise.” and “tranquillity" and “initial." Words which one should expect every Intelligent person to he able to manage were too much for them. In my own experience there are a dozen simple words in common use which more than half the high school graduates who come to college are likely to stumble on. “Sophomore” ami “hiiNiratory" and "athlete" and "truly” and "receive” and "embarrassment" and “Judgment” sire qui’e commonly too much for Hie young student. “Accommodate" and "transferred" are more often misspelled than spelled correctly. Ever) iu railway stations I see "Pullman Aceonj oduthms" done In big gold letters. It seems now to be no disgrace not to know how to spell. “Oh. 1 can't spell.” a healthy. Intelligent sophomore says to me. and that with him seems to end It. He admits the fact and feels no obligation apparently to strengthen his. o thogntphic weaknesses, li had a brief note last week from a high school boy who managed in a short page to misspell seven words. Pretty gm*d. 1 thought, considering the opportunity which lie bad.* In the old days theic were two or three things which we did learu in WINS GOLF TOURNEY Hi . - jgfi Tommy S. Taller who won the threeday Invltatlor golf tourney at the Newport Country club at Newport by defeating Cyril Tolley, former British amateur champion, L. the final match.

SUCH IS LIFE— A Smart Youth & By Charles Sughroe 1’ ° 1 teas? 65 * j JSy u ,.jaT HUftKXHKfHOMe WHty GETS-mERE FIRST, T ' 'sows/ / ||| SPMKME O- y Wrn li-

school—quick arithmetical calculation, the grammatical construction of sentences, and spelling. Not to be nlde to work all the problems In Ray's Third Hart Arithmetic was a disgrace. If one could not diagram, analyze and parse the words In any sentence which came along he was anaihema, and spelling was the cln«-t tn*toc r sport. We drove miles on winter evenings to demonstrate our ability In spelling contests. I was the pride of the community on«e when t was fifteen, for 1 entered a spelling match at the Burrill school house a dozen miles from home and spelled down seven school teachers. It would not be so much of a task today, l suspect, nor so much of an honor. It still gives me n shock to get a letter from a man of standing and to find in it misspelled words. It suggests carelessness, inaccuracy. Inexcusable Ignorance. I had always thought well of Carson. He is a grad-

Shows Evolution of American Home

Concord, Mass. —An unusual museum among institutions housing the nation's historic treasures has been established In this picturesque community whose name figure* so prominently in the chronicles of the early American progress. It Is a large red brick building set on an attractively landscaped plot diagonally across tlie street frotmthe old homestead of the famed poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gifts made Inst year in memory of Mr. ami Mrs. Edwin Shepard Barrett of this town enabled the Com-ord Antiquarian society to create the novel repository. Though offering to public view for the first time a host of relics recalling revolutionary days, the museum was not erected primarily for the exhibition of such objects. Its principal purpose is to depict the evolution of the American home during the approx! mntely two centuries from 1650 to 1840. The singular beauty of the iknicture, known as the Concord Antiquarian house, probably lies in the fact that it actually was built around the rooms that it contains. Typical rooms in Concord homesteads known to date hack to a certain period were transferred intact to the new building and Installed in their original, state. Antiques, virtually all of them gath ered from Concord homes and many of them priceless, have heen used in furnishing the house, being divided among the rooms of the iierlods which they represent. A Seventeenth-century chest In the oldest room would easily bring slf>.twn to $20,000 if put on the market according to antique connoisseurs. Possibly the outstanding feature of the Antiquarian house ts the Emerson room. All during the years that this room was a t»art of the poet'« old homestead the public was barred from it. Now It has been transferred Intact to the new museum, where visitors will be permitted to imqiect It from a glass* -d in vestibule. Emerson s study Is exactly the same as it was In those long-ago days when he 881 in th£ curved-back rocking chair at the round table In the middle of the floor and penned his famous

Rejuvenation Cause of Downfall

New York.—Speaking of operations, have you heard what science did for. or to, George Frederick Williams? For 30 years Williams had been a messenger. For 30 years he had earned about S3O a He lived soberly, staidly, brought up a son ami daugh ter and spent all his evenings In the bosai of his family. Then Williams fell HI. He was operated upon last January. Then things

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“Outlived Friends” He Ends Life

Danville, Va. —Frank W. Davis, recluse, whose twenty-eight day hunger strike failed as a means of, suicide, won his tight for death with a gun in his lonely shack near Mountain hill. lie was buried on a neighbor's farm. His body was found by neighbors, and the gun. with a cord attached to the trigger, lay nearby. He bad shot himself in the chest. Asserting he had outlived those he loved, that tie had no friends, that he was too old to tie useful, the farmer started his hunger strike May 2, determined to end his life by starvation. Twenty-eight days later, authorities took him to u hospital and threatened to commit him to an insane asylum. Davis abandoned bis starvation at* proceed! to look daggers at him. So he’ll soon stop. ante of one of the great educational institutions of the country, and he goes into good society. I had a letter Trout him last week In which in three distinct places he aimaks of the “alumnae*’ of an organization to which he beings. Carson doesn’t know how to spell. <® 1530. Western Newspaper Union.) .— : i Sewing Machines Given to Unemployed Women Mexico City.—A group of women, unuble to find employment, took theic troubles to Gen. Manuel Perez Trevino, Mexican secretary of agriculture. He knew of no suitable jobs to offer them, but gave them ten sewing machines and advised them to start a cooperative sewing society. The women thus equipped will apply to clothing manufacturers for piece work which they may do at their homes.

verse and essays. The books on the many shelves that cover the farther wall are just as he left them. Ills favorite pictures decorate the walls and here and there about the room are little ornaments typical of the early Eighteenth century. Emerson’s original portfolio lies on the center fable at which be worked. * Upstairs is ut tiny room dedicated to the memory of Henry Thoreati, essayist. philosopher and naturalist. The crude cot on which he slept during his bavk-to-!iature experiment- at Lake Walden is there. On one wall hang the deer skins that the Indians gave him. The room also contains many of his other belongings, including some of the paraphernalia that he used as a surveyor. HEADS DEVIL DOGS V , : - ;;C -v': : s vW Portrait photograph of Brig. Gen. B. 11. Fuller, who has been appointed by President Hoover as oomroandjtnt of the United States marine corps, succeeding the late Gen. Wendell Neville. His npt*ointment was reenmmer *ed by Secretary of the Navy Adams.

began to happen to the staid oid messenger. Williams stepped out to find out what it was all abouL With him be took the *2.260 pay roll of the Sterling Watch company, for whom he had worked five years. He went to Norfolk. A pretty blond barbei shop manicurist also felt the urge. They went to Washington, D. C, to Greensborough, S.-C, to Chicago.

tempt, said he had a “new outlook on things” and was permitted to return home. He had been heard to say he believed shooting himself would be morally wrong and “messy,” and the gun never had been taken from the house. He bequeathed his ten-acre tobacco

Youthful Stock Farm Owner SUP" ***iißßL The youngest stock farm owner in the West. Richard Melvin Milton, eight, of Oakland, Calif., on one of his eleven pure-blood ponies. Carlo, son of Monte Carlo, first prize Shetland pony at the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915.

Purely historical relics which have been assembled at the museum include one of the two lanterns hung in the belfry of Boston’s Old North church to warn Paul Revere that the British were coming by sea; part of one of the original timbers of the old Concord bridge, and a mirror which was broken by a Tiullet fired during the battle at the bridge. Ruins of Doric Temple Unearthed in Himera Palermo, Italy.—The remains of a fine Doric temple have been brought to light at Himera, near Termini Imerese. Archeologists declare the temple was built by Greeks or by Greek colonists shortly after tlie year 480 B. C., after the victory of the Sicilians against the Carthaginians. In its original form the Himera temple probably was a tine example of Doric architecture. for even its ruins are noble and inspiring. The temple bad a brief life, being destroyed, it is-thought, by the Carthaginians only 70 years after its completion. It is supported on a rectangular basement, about seven feet high, on which the columns rest. About half of the columns remain, the others having been razed by the Carthaginians. Weds Same Man Four Times in Six Months Jersey City. N. J.—Four times within the last six months pretty Mr* Martha l.eneiwr Triohel, twenty-one years old. of this city, has wed the same man. She begun her marrying career last January 19 when site eloped from her home, at Woodcliff, N. J., to become the bride of Ernest Triebel of Brooklyn. N. Y. A month later, at the bride’s request, the minister repeated the ceremony. Some weeks later she decided It might be an even greater thrill to be married iu some distant city, so the pair got "spliced” again In New Haven, Conn. Recently they sampled the type of ceremony performed In New York city's municipal chapeL

“That operation did it aIL It Changed my attitude toward life. I wanted to get out and rais- b —L But it didn't last. The mad feeling began to wear off.” That is the explanation offered by Williams. Williams returned, got forgiveness from his wife, went to Detroit and surrendered. In general sessions court, Judge Donneilan sentenced him to from one to two years in prison.

farm and his funds to Hazel Seay, young granddaughter of Mrs. Josephine Miller, on whose farm lie was buried. Commercial fishermen took approximately 15,000,000 pounds of prawn from Georgia waters last year.

POTPOURRI

Beer The early Egyptians had their beer. Their process for making it is shown definitely on their early monuments. The Greeks “learned how” front the Egyptians and later it spread to other Mediterranean countries. Today there are many different kinds of beer —lager, ale, stout, ginger beer, porter, root beer, etc. (©. 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)

Lost “Grandson” Steals Woman’s Savings of Life Paris.—Mme. Nanette de Livry doesn’t see so well any more. She hadn't beheld Iter only grandson for five years, when a dashing young lad of fifteen or thereabouts rapped at the door of her solitary abode and rushed into her arms with a cry of “Hello, grandma!” “I’ll buy you something nice at the baker s for breakfast,” she beamed. Half an hour later she. was back. The "grandson” had gone. So, a search revealed, had 15,000 francs' worth of bonds and 9,000 francs in cash, the savings of 80 frugal years.

FOR THE MATRON - L^jjjgjjjll An early fail ensemble in chiffon crepe, coin-dotted in white on navy blue, for the mature figure. Drawnwork detail elaborates the white vestee.

Improved Uniform International SiundaySchool ' Lesson' (By RKV. P. B. FITZWjOTER. D. D., Member of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of ChtcaKO.) {©. 1930. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for September 14 JEREMIAH, THE PROPHET OF INDIVIDUAL RELIGION LESSON TEXT—Jer. 1:1-10; 14:7-22; 21:27-34. GOLDEN TEXT—So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God." PRIMARY TOPlC—Jeremiah, A Man Who Would Not Give Up. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jeremiah, A Man Who Would Not Give Up. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Being Obedient to God. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —The Responsibility of the Individual. I. Jeremiah’s Call (Ter. 1:1-10). 1. It was prenatal (vv. 4,5). Before Jeremiah was born God ordained him a prophet unto the nation. 2. His diffidence (v. 6). This seems to have grown out of his youth and inexperience. 3. His hesitancy overcome (vv. 7,8).. God graciously appeared to him and made clear that he should: a. Go where sept. b. Speak as commanded. c. Be not afraid of their faces. The servant of God is called upon to face strong enemies. Only the conviction of his divine commission will enable him to tace the foe. d. The divine presence assured. It matters litt’e as to the strength of the foe if the messenger is blest with the presence of God. 4. The divine message given (v. 9). Not merely the thoughts, but the proper words to express the thoughts are put into "the prophet’s mouth. 5. The nature of his ministry (v. 10). It was to be wider than that of prophesying. Six words are given as descriptive thereof. The first four are destructive in their implication—"root out,” “pull down,” “destroy,” and “throw down”; two constructive — “build” and “plant.” 11. Dialogue Between Jeremiah and God (Jer. 14:7-22). The occasion was a most severe famine which had come upon the land, (vv. 1-G) as a result of which many were dying. lj The prophet confesses the people’s sins (vv 7-9). He made no evasion of sin, but plead with God not to abandon his people. Abandonment would be interpreted bj the heathen enemies as God’s inability to help them. No merit could be pleaded for Hie people, so he plead for the sake of God’s name that God would not leave them. 2. Too late for mercy (vv. 10-12). (1) Jeremiah’s prayer declared useless (vv. 10, 11). Because of the gross wickedness ot the people, God informs Jeremiah that punishment is inevitable. (2) Religious services of no avail (v. 12). The disloyal people of Israel hoped to turn aside God’s wrath hy engaging in the services of Jehovah. Such services are an abomination. , 3. The doom of false prophets (vv 13-1(5). Even though false prophets lulled the people to sleep, God held them responsible. God gives sufficient discernment to enable people to know their leaders. No one can plead ignorance in such cases. 4. Waiting upon God (vv. 17-22). (1) Jeremiah wailing the sufferings of his people (vv. 17, 18). (2) Jeremiah pleading for his people (vv. 19, 20). (3) Pleading for forgiveness (v. 21). He based his plea on covenant relatlonfnot upon personal merit. (4) Hope only In God (v. 22). He acknowledges that the nation’s ofily hope was In the living God. HI. The New Covenant (Jer. 31: 27-34). L Promise to build and to plant instead of to break down and pluck up (vv. 27. 28). - 2. Freedom from the power of heredity (vv. 29, 30). No longer shall the children suffer for the sins of their parents. Those who are joined to Jesus Christ, are un-. der a new law of life superior to the law of heredity. 3. The law written within (vv. 31-33). Through regeneration the heart has not only the desire but the power in the Holy Spirit to rise above and to be free from carnal impulses. 4. Teachers no longer needed (v. 34). God shall speak directly to all from the least unto the greatest sd that no longer shall the knowledge of God be dependent upon the human teacher. 5. Sins no more remembered (v 34). When God forgives, offenses are remembered no more. Jesut 1* on the Outlook Somewhere or other in every man’s heart there Is the cry of the Breton fisherman, “O God, thine ocean is so great, and my boat so small!” Life, when we see it clearly, Is really a conspiracy to bring us to God. and Jesus Is on the outlook for people who. because of the burden of life, are being brought to their knees.—James Reid. Satisfaction and Peace The fountains of abiding satisfaction are within. No outside well can give us the waters of satisfaction and peace. They have ail been tried, and men and women are foolish enough to try them aIL No, our well of satisfaction must be one that is not endangered by change of circumstances.— J. H. Jowett Never Fear Never fear to bring the subllmest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest troubles.—Phillips Brooks. Riches Riches are not an evil In themselves; it is the love of money that is the root of all sorts of eviL