The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 October 1931 — Page 3

SUCH IS LIFE—And Such Is Life! *wj»r cj Belize Depends on Mahogany Trade

' It the Least Known Bit of British America. Washington.—A hurricane in British Honduras swept Into the front £**■* of the country the name of Belize, capital of this little-known bit of Brit.ish America. f "Belize,; the city, with a population of, only* 13,000 people, would be * small town elsewhere, but It Is the metropolis .of England's section of the dense tropical Jungles in the southeast sector of the Yucatan peninsula,** says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "Although Belize is unmistakably Britisl In appearance, the houses of two and three stories that line the main residential streets being of accepted British architecture, many of the British leaders of the colony complain that it is becotplng •.Americanized.* Newspapers and; magazines from the United States far outnumber those from England, while the official money uTilt of British Honduras is the American gold .dollar. ’ "The British flavor of the country is as -much diluted by tropical influences. however, ns by American. CoalMack policemen are clothed much like the London ’Bobby,’ and speak with the Mtn* 1 f ■ "The ffmhogaiyr Industry. Justly commemorated onZne tl.ig of British ll<>nduras by the jtoolz of the trade, lured the enrlieft^settiers to Belize In the Eighteenth century, put money In their pockets, furnisher! something for them tend their backer. Great Britain, to fight the Spaniards; and today Is responsible for the main Industry of Belize and British Honduras—lumbering. •’The people of Belize even tell solemnly how* the lowest portions of their city, once a seemingly bottomless swamp, have been filled In and .made usable by the millions of mahogany chips hacked there from logs which must lx* roughly s,;uare<l before are readv. for. market. Assisting the chips In the work of stabilization ■—they relate with equal solemnity—-

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, . - This Fellow Really Wai Waiting for Car Buffalo, N. Y.-!-*rtn not kidding you.* 12 policeman ,«ere told when they doubted a young man’s explanation that he was “Walting for a trolley car** at 3 a. tn. The .policemen, answering a burglar alarm, had found the young man crawling on hia hands and knees over the cellar grating of a store. “Honest. I’rl not kidding you." the young man pleaded. !*l dropped my carfare down the grating and 1 Football Down South Don Zimmerman, star halfback of the Tulane university (New Orleans) football team, gets a good workout despite the warm weather and tosses a few forward passes to gel the arm in shape. The players reported for their tint workout attired in light shorts, and comfort was paramount as the boys went through their paces.

were the thousands of empty rum bottles thrown aside by the axmon. “Belize was settled by British ‘squatters.’ Spain, from the days of the earliest explorers claimed the entire •Main,’ or mainland, but she was interested chiefly In gold and silver, mere trees seemed beneath notice. So the British, cutting trees on the eastern coast of Yucatan, the present British Honduras, and In the mosquito Leader for Fall [ I • OS I MB- i ; r I' Above is pictured the coat dress, a ; ; leader for the autumn season. This |, dress is developed in malaga red wool J crepe, with collar and peplum edged i' j in black Persian lamb. j

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haven’t any more money. I’m only waiting for a trolley car." The policemen helj»ed the young man find his carfare and sent him home. Ancient Indian City Discovered in Nebraska Sweetwater. Neb.—High on a bluff overlooking Beaver creek, the forefathers of the Pawnee Indians of the Nebraska plains built a city. The site of the ancient city of the plains, west of here, was discovered this summer by archeologists seeking to trace the history of some of the plain’s Indian tribes. The old city, buried by a few feet of earth. Is believed to have flourished 600 years ago. Chipped flint bone instruments, bits of pottery, pretty beads and arrow heads have been taken from the ruins From the specimens scientists are piecing together a story of the early Indian of the prairie. Traces of a lost city were first found by workmen for the railroad, for a track was laid over a portion of the city. Woman Wed 53 Years Gets Mexican Divorce » Juarez. Mexico.—For 53 years Fanny Ely was married to Calvin Ely, and then she came to Juarez to obtain a divorce. She charged cruel treatment by her husband and Civil Judge Antonio del Rosai granted her a divorce. She and her husband were married in Mporesville, Indw in 1878. They have one child, a daughter, Mina Ely Edson, forty-four, who is married.

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country, farthest south, were not molested at first. •‘When the settlers were seen to be making a good things of their mahogany trade, the Spanish changed their policy and began harassing them. A series of wars and treaties between Spain and England followed. In 1798 the Spaniards, attacking Belize, were driven off by British settlers with cannon mounted on rafts and flatboats. In 1862 the ‘settlement’ was declared a ‘colony,* and was given a lieutenant governor acting under, the governor of Jamaica. In 1884 it became a separate crown colony. "In addition to mahogany and logwood Belize carries on an active trade • with the United States !n bananas, coconuts, citrus fruits, cacao, and thousands of hales of chicle, the latter the raw material of chewing gum. Great Britain and Canada divide the small part of the colony’s trade that does not go to the United States. In addition British Honduras is one of America’s best Central American cus- # tomers. buying nearly $2.UU0.000 worth of our products In 1929. Farmhouse Is Shifty Westport. Mass.—Alice -Borden’s farmhouse has been in ,three towns and two states without ever being moved. The site once was a part of Tiverton. It. 1., later belonged to Fall River, Mass., and now is in Westport. ■ - - ■— :— ——w-

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Offspring to Help Kansas Man Run Waco-Wego. -4 —— Wichita, Kan.—George Washington Winters, well-known Kansas realtor, lias brought the business section of Waco-Wego. near here, so that he can find work for three boys and a daughter. Jobs were diflii ult to find in Wichita this summer. Winters said, so he purcluis<*d the business district of WacoWego so that Billy, ten : George Wood, sixteen; Clifford, nineteen, and Hazel, . twenty, would find something to do. Included in Winter s purchase was a garage, a filling station, grocery store, soda fountain, lunchroom, bulk r -— A. L ... — 11111111 bi n 111 yi i 1111 H-+ COST OF AN EDUCATION :: By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK 1 ** Dean of Men, Univernty of T ~ Illinois. 4j I }l [..1. l-H-l I I I 1 l l-t -H t l l -l -l-b-b-b A magazine of standing publFshed recently an article from a father of three children, all

of whom are In college, in which a strong. protest is made against the increasing cost of education. The writer claimed that wh a t was true of his children could be said of the average young person going to college in the representative institutions of the

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country. Briefly, he complained that to semi his three children to the institutions which they were attending was cost ing him. conservatively speaking. s4,’4Mr a year; and this amount is exclusive of vacations and a number of I atn quite sure that the-average cost of an education in the representative colleges of the country is far less than this man alleges, and should be

fl I I 111 11111 I 1..M..|-|-I-l-i-H I 11 •* • s ” Postcard Travels for Seven Years “ •• Northville. N. ¥.—A postcard •• mailed seven years ago from .. ’■ l-ake George Lo Northville was received recently. It was writ- .. ” ten by Delbert Weaver and ad- ” • • dressed to his son. Walter. The • ■ " card bad been sent to several ” • • wrong villages before it reached •• ” the right one. '* ti 1111 mu mu i-H-i i-i-hH-' > Only True Sportsmen or Perjured Liars to Hunt Washington.—Before hunters can procure a license to shoot deer tn Michigan this fall they mustjtc before a notary and swear they nave nos violated a deer law of the state In the past thrive years nor shot a person while bunting during the past five years. says a bulletin of the American Game association. This requirement was adopted by the 1931 legislature to make the sport safer. Among people who know what’s pretty, gold is-again taking the place of platinum You can t itsteo when another man refutes your argujKflM meat because “you ■ f * have heard all that before." And that may be true, too.

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Alfonso's Royal Crest Cut Out "7 .■- IL hJh*—F - ~ z When the Spanish revolution was an accomplished fact the royal arms on the Spanish embassy in Washington was promptly covered with a wooden shield. Now that the republican regime is firmly established, the new coat of arms has been cut. The stone mason is seen doing that Job after having eliminated-the emblem of former King Alfonso.

oil.station and a home. It will be in these business places that his family will be employed. Mr. and Mrs. Winters plan to make the place the busiest spot in this county. Their first .ion has been the thorough cleaning and painting and adding modem conveniences. In addition to being the head of his various mercantile establishments, Winters will carry the title of mayor, city manager and chief of police of Wafo-Wego. Winters has given up his real estate business in Wichita and has resigned as president of the Kansas real estate board so that he can devote more time to his new' business. The little city which Winters virtually owns is located on an arterial highway that is traveled a great deal by transcontinental travelers. Evans has just finished his junior year in the college, with which I am associated. He graduated four years ago from a small high school in a country town. He is .the oldest of j three children, his father having a clerical position which does not pay him as much a ‘year as the complaining father mentioned above spent annually on each of his children. Evans.was out of high school a year working and saving his iqpney before trying to enter college. He got a job at college, which enabled him to earn his board: and during his short vaealions at Christmas and Easter he earned enough to pay his fees. He has held a good position each summer; he has been economical; he has found a position in college for the last tw years which pays him fifty dollars a month. He dresses well because he t takes care of his clothes. He has the social life which one finds in a fraf ternity. He has made scholastic honors every jreqr. He has had a pleasant social life. He has done what other boys do; and he told me not long ago that during his three years in college he had coSt his father but two hundred dollars. Not everyone could : do what he haft done, though scores do; iMit not everyone spends fifteen hundred dollars. A college education costs about what one wants to make it cost 1931. Western Ner-*pat>er t’nion. >

. Oregon City Harvests Walnuts From Streets • Salem, Ore. —It's harvest time on Salem’s city streets;. This city, claimant to the only Eng- ■ lish walnut orchard of comparative ; size within a city limits, is also the possessor of the largest Franquette walnut orchard in the world. And the best part of the arange- . ment i& the orchard is municipally ; owned. Years ago. when Salem became the state capital, hundreds of walnut trees were planted along the roadsides. When pavement supplanted board walks the trees remained in the parking stri]>s. With care and irrigation the trees have expanded into an orchard of 5.000 trees, covering an area of about 360 acres. The harvest • will reach 25 tons, a record production. The average yield is estimated at ten ’pounds a tree, although several of the older ones will produce an individual yield of more than 200 pounds. Film Comedy Blamed as Cause for Divorce Chicago.—Her husband was influenced by the comedy relief afforded by motion pictures, Mrs. Anna WeissI muller, of Chicago, charged in a bill for divorce. Alphonse Weissmuller, the husband, threw a blueberry pie at her in the approrel movie comedy fashion, Mrs. Weissmuller charged in her complaint. Weissmuller flung the pastry while “evidently under the influence of the comic movies,” the bill said. » h

Beauty on Coins I s IgF* JI? « ks JfOreShks Mgr > 19 “ Senvrita Louisa de Ceballos, whose ' bust, representing Liberty, appears on the new Venezuelan bolivar. Senorita de Ceballos is of Spanish ancestry. ‘ She is a well-known figure in interna- “ tional society.

; .nun i ri-1111 m i i-i-i ii h-i-i i I POTPOURRI : :-i- i-i-i- t-i-H' i-1-1-!■ i-d-M i:■ i-d-d-i-H-: ; I The Philippine Islands There are 7.083 islands mak- ** *’ ing up the Philippine group, only •• .. _’,441 of which are named. They I. ’’ are just half way around the ” • ■ world from the West Indies pos- .. , sessions of the United States. ” I •• The islands were named Islas .. ” Pilipinas in honor of the Span- '* ish prince INdlip 11. More than “ ten million Filipinos live on the ’*l , • ■ islands. '’ • ” (®. 1931. Western Newspaper fnion.l '*l 11 1 I I 1 4 I 1 M' l d-1-1 H 1 I 1 I I 1 I I d-

Qabby Qertie 4-® Irma lite* L ’ ' “When a gay blade makes a pointed remark a girl who is sharp generally cuts him dead.” Monument to French Flyers Rouen.—This city has erected a monument commemorating the ParisNew York flight of Costes and Belionte. Bean Ten Inches Long Portland, Maine. —A string bean grown by E. A. Randlett was ten inches long and contained 11 bean*.

DOLLAR TRACED TO “PIECES OF EIGHT* American Currency Since Days of 1792. In the Fifteenth century the counts of Schlick. in Bohemia, minted large ' silver coins from metal found in the vivinity of Joachimsthal, in that ' country. These fcoins were known as ‘‘Joachimsthaler,” abbreviated to “thaler.” In the low German this became "daler,** and to the English “dollar.” Before the Nineteenth century coins often circulated with little regard for national boundaries. Some types of coins, because of the quality of their manufacture, came to be especially well known and to be accepted as an international standard. The florin, for instance, first minted in Florence in 1252. was later adopted as an Austrian, a Dutch and an English coin. It is in this same manner that a little valley in the recesses of the Bohemian mountains came to give its name to the monetary unit of Prussia, before the establishment of thef German empire. Other countries adopted dollars in their currency, and the name was next applied to other coins of weight and fineness similar to the dollar. The famous Spanish “piece of eight” —eight reals—came to be called a dollar, and this became the most widely circulated of all the early dollars. ” It is the Spanish “pieces of eight” which gave us our standard coin. In the days of the Spanish colonial em-

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Games Popular Today Known Centuries Ago The fact that some of our modern games are very old was shown recently when the University of Pennsylvania ' museum acquired a die, dating from about 2750 B. C.. which may have been one of a pair used , in backgammon. The backgammon of ancient days was played on a tablet ruled with straight lines, instead of the colored triangles painted on the modern board, which is said to date from about the Tenth century. But the principle on whidh it was played has been preserved, and. like a number of other modern games ba kcommon's ancient origin Is still apparent. The Greeks played a form of backgammon in which the men or counters were moved along a rec- [ tangular board known as the “abacus” ; the players took turns at throwing dice, and advanced their men according to the numbers they threw. The Romans had a similar game known as “Scripta Duodecirn,” or twelve lines, which they probably carried over from the Greeks. That backgammon was also known to other peoples of ancient times is shown by a board, discovered at Ur

How to get enjoyment on both ends of Christmas Cards Though your Christmas cards may bear cheerful greetings, their sending can be a fretful task if left to the. last minute. Shop now. Enjoy choosing from a fresh, full stock. Visit mentally with each friend as you address the envelope. Do that and your Christmas cards will give pleasure at both ends! Burgoyne CHRISTMAS CARDS YOUR LOCAL DEALERS CARRY THEM

plre In America, the “Spanish milled dollar” circulated as freely in the English colonies as in the Spanish, and became the principal medium of exchange throughout the western hemisphere. The United States adopted its dollar currency under the coirage act of 1792. The United States wanted to be independent of Great Britain even in its currency, and it turned to the Spanish example rathei than the British, and a decimal system was decided upon instead of the British calculation of shilling and pence. The Spanish dollar had been divided into eight, but that of the United States was divided into a hundred fractions, “cent” being from Latin and French words for “hundred.” Caring for the Aged Approximately 53.000.00 Uls expected to be distributed annually among some 8.000 persons under Massachusetts’ old-age assistance act. which went into effect in July. All needy citizens seventy years or over, who have been tn the state at least 20 years, arei eligible for assistance, which ranges between $2 and $3 weekly. Big Coast County The county of San Bernardino, Calif., is larger than the combined area of Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sophisticated “How do you like her acting?” “I hardly know. She plays a simple village maid with plucked eyebrows.”

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and dating from about 3000 B. C., which is also in the collection of Pennsylvania university. The die recent I.v acquired by the museum was found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia. Even older than backgammon is the game of dice. Sophocles wrote i that dice w-ere invented during the seige of Troy by one Palamedes, a Greek; Herodotus credited the Lydians with the accomplishment; but the discovery of dice in very early oriental tombs indicates that they were probably of Asiatic origin.— New York Tinies. Great Relief Caller (moralizing)—You know we take nothing with us into the next world. Mrs. Rounds—Thank heaven for that! It will be a novelty to go somewhere without having to pack. —Boston Transcript. Every man buying a motor car, whether he can afford it or not, is part of the never-ceasing struggle toward “equality” in this country.. Three may keep a secret if two are dead. *