The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1936 — Page 8
Ask Me Another • A General Quiz • Bea SyndfcateL—WNU Service. 1. How many times does one round a 220-yard track to make a mile? 2. Why are detectives sometimes called sleuths? 3. What three oceans form part of the boundary of Canada? 4. The son of what famous poet served many years on the United States Supreme court? 5. What is a flageolet? 8. Who were the “grand moguls*'? 7. Os what South American country is Montevideo the capital? 8. What is a marten? 9. Who was Jean Ingelow? 10. What was the “Wilmot Proviso"? Answers 1. Eight. 2. From sleuth, meaning track, as in sleuthhound. 3. Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific. 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 8. A flute-like musical instrument. 6. Emperors of Delhi. 7. Uruguay. 8. A fur-bearing mammal. 9. An English poet and story writer (1820-1897). 10. A proposal to bar slavery from territory obtained from Mexico. — Scrapszt o/ Minted False Alarm •‘I hear you barely escaped from the Are last night." “That’s not true: I had pyjamas on." Light Conversation “Mauser is a man who always weighs his words, isn’t he?" “Yes, but it takes a deuce of a lot of ’em to weigh anything." TUI Next Week Hap—The geologist thinks nothing of a thousand years. Sap—Gosh! I lent one ten dollars last night. Chameleon-Like “I’ve a bookkeeper in my office who has gone gray in my service." "That’s nothing. I’ve a typist to my office who has gone black, brown/ blond, platinum, and Ti- , tian red in my service.” Playing Safe “Am dere anybody in the congregation what wishes prayers for dere failin’s?" asked the negro preacher. “Yassuh," responded Brother | Jones. “Ah*s a spen’trif, and Ah j th’ows mah money round reckless like." "V’y well. We will join in prayer fo’ Brother Jones—jes* after the collection plate has been passed." DISCOVERED IVay to Retteoe Coufflts QUICKLY « n*B BY NtieriagtaAUwimtetodtianMaaftte tb/aM ams temcM IMtet. Osa «•« of inc* dtoota ia FOLEY'S HoXEY A TAB qwSiy j Mttww Uckltc*. baebtas. coogbiag ... wwte aad woUmm irritated throat Uaiag* to kwp ytai I from eoagiklng. Another •ctMtty inter. tba titood* clm afftwtod tub®BL laoaM pUtcn, brim break «» ooagh and tfwato ricwcrj. Otowk • qm to * coid before it wngaß. before otKers cfctoh tU Owek it «nU FMJtY-8 HONEY A TAB. 9 A - 1 —- - nJ.*/ a nw4 U (ival QwML rVUwK Bum WOMEN WHO HOLO THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW XJO natter ho* much your Av back achm and your name •cream. your htatoaad. bacauaa ba la only a man. can never mater ataad why you are ao hard to Bra with one week in every month. Too eftrn the honeymoon asprvat te by the naggta* tongue of a tbrew-q uarter wtfb. Ibe wtaewonan never lata bar button* know fay outward tegn that ahe te a victim of periodic mb. For throe genera Uons one wotnaa baa told another how to so in* through" with Lydia £. Ptakham'a Vegetable Compound. It betee Nature tone up the aytiaa. thMteeeanlag the tesxafcrti than the functional disorders which women mm endure ta the three ordeals of Mb: 1. Turah* ftom Stribood to womanhood. & Proporta* tar motherhood. B Approaching "middle spa." uSTw.frHSMi VBGBTABLB COMPOUN D and Go "Smillas TteotWh.**
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ni 1 """" WAS born just 200 years ago—on December 2, 1736—and the last day of this year—December 31, 1936—marks the one hundred sixty-first anniversary his untimely death. That anniversary is more important, perhaps, than most Americans realize. For when a blast of Quebec snuffed out the life of Richard Montgomery, it did more than end what had already become a brilliant military career. It probably affected vitally the history of a whole nation.
Montgomery was an Irishman, the son of a member of the British parliament. Educated at Trinity college in Dublin, he entered the British army as an ensign at the age of eighteen just in time to take part in the last struggle between France and Great Britain for control of the North American continent. Then he was ordered to the West Indies and fought in the campaigns against Martinique and Havana. Then he returned to New York and a short time later went to England where he became intimate with many of the liberal members of parliament. Friend of the Famous. He numbered among his friends such men as Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox and Isaac Barre but even their influence could not aid his claims for advancement in the army. So he sold his commission in 1772 and returned to America where he settled down as a farmer at King’s Bridge, now a part of New York City. There he met and fell in love with Janet Livingston, the daughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston, a leader in New York colonial affairs, and they were married in 1773. When the dispute between the colonies and the Mother Country had reached an acute stage, Montgomery had become such an active and public-spirited citizen in his adopted land that he was sent as a delegate from Dutchess county to the first provincial congress in New York City in May, 1775. While there he received word that the Continental Congress had decided to raise troops to defend colonial rights and that a commission as brigadier-general was to be offered to him. His name was the second on the list of eight who were given that rank and the only one not from New England. Montgomery was detailed for active duty almost immediately. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, aided ty Benedict Arnold, had captured Ticonderoga and the path to the conquest of Canada seemed open. Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler was to lead the expedition with Montgomery as second in command. His wife accompanied him as far north as Saratoga where she bade him goodbye. She never saw him alive again. a Campaign of Hardships. Soon after the expedition started, Schuyler fell ill and the command devolved upon Montgomery. Despite the mutinous conduct of his militiamen, the shortage c! munitions and the difficulties of travel through the wilderness, Montgomery ’s campaign began as a brilliant success. He won at Isle aux Noix, reduced the fortress at St. John’s won again at Chambly and forced the surrender of Montreat But Quebec still remained in the hands of the British and Montgomery wrote to congress: “Till Quebec is taken, Canada is unconquered."
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Meanwhile Benedict Arnold had made the epic journey with his Continentals and Gen. Daniel Morgan’s riflemen through the woods of Maine and were now before Quebec. With winter coming on Montgomery would not have attempted to capture Quebec. But Arnold’s arrival forced his hand. Unless he went to the aid of that leader, the sacrifices of Arnold’s and Morgan’s men would have been in vain. Montgomery’s force was small. Regiments had melted away as men, homesick or dispirited by the hardships they had undergone, deserted his command. He had little confidence in those who remained in the ranks. But despite his forebodings of disaster, he joined Arnold at Pointe aux Tremble, up the river from Quebec. Incidentally, when Montgom-
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ery captured Montreal, on* of his prisoners was a young British officer named John Andre but he had sent Andre south as a prisoner of war before reaching Quebec. So Benedict Arnold and John Andre did not see each other then. That fatal meeting was to take place five years later on the hank* of the Hudson and as a result the name of Benedict Arnold would become synonymous with the word “traitor" in American history forevermore. In th* future that same word would tarnish also th* name of another
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officer serving in this expedition even though a court should declare him innocent of treason. He was Capt. Aaron Burr, who was an aide on Arnold’s staff. Arnold’s army consisted of about 600 men and, although the combined forces of the two American commanders were equal to that of Sir Guy Carleton, the governor of Canada, the British had the advantage of more cannon and supplies and the even greater advantage of a fortified position. On December 9 Montgomery received word that he had been made a major-general for his success in the Canadian campaign. Spurred on by the recognition but even more by the critical situation in which he found himself, Montgomery resolved to attempt the capture of Quebec as soon as possible. The term of enlistment of many of his men was expiring, smallpox was prevalent in the camp and, with winter almost upon them, a prolonged siege of the place was out of the question. The Plan of Attack. So the American commander called a council of war at which it was decided to try to carry the city by assault. False attacks were to be made on the St. John’s gate and other points along the walls of the upper town to divert
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the attention of the defenders while the real attacks were to be launched at two places along the river road. The attack was made early on the morning of December 31 while a snowstorm was raging. Montgomery personally led his men from Wolfe’s Cove along the side of the cliff beneath Cape Di* amend to a point where a blockhouse stood protected in front of a stockade. Montgomery’s men. rashing through the swirling snow easily carried the first barricade easily.
“Men of New York! You wifl not fear to follow where your general leads!" exclaimed Montgomery as he led them toward the second barricade in the narrow street. Suddenly the portholes in the blockhouse guarding the second barricade were thrown open and a storm of artillery and musketry fire swept the close-packed ranks of the Americans. Montgomery, two of his aides and ten soldiers went down under the withering fire. Burr, who had been transferred from Arpold’s division to Montgomery’s, tried in vain to rally the men. But the blast of fire which had killed their leader broke their spirit and they retreated without even trying to recover the body of their commander. If he had survived he might have carried them through to victory. But without his inspiring presence that hope was vain. Meanwhile the British, hearing of the repulse to Montgomery’s attack, concentrated their attention on the column led by Arnold and Morgan, trapped it in the narrow streets, captured 400 men and drove the remainder out of the city. Several hours after the repuls* of Montgomery’s column, a captured American officer was taken to the barricade where the 13 frozen bodies of his comrades were lying half - covered with drifting snow. He identified that of Montgomery and Carleton, who had known the American leader when he was a British captain, ordered that he be given a military funeral. This was done on January 4, 1776, and he was buried at the Gorge of St. Louis bastion with the governor, lieutenant-governor, the council of Quebec and all the principal officers of the garrison in attendance. For 42 years Montgomery’s body, remained in its original burying place. In 1818 it was removed to the city of New York where it was buried beneath the monument erected to his memory in front of St. Paul’s church. Although this monument is not such a well - known patriotic shrine as others in that metropolis, the fame of Richard Montgomery is perpetuated in the names of no less than 18 counties in as many states of the Union—a number exceeded by only a few other Revolutionary heroes. • * a Perhaps it is idle to speculate on “what might have been” but there is good reason to believe that the death of Montgomery on that December morning 161 years ago was a more important event in our history than it is usually credited with being. If he had not been killed but had led his men to the victory, which is not improbable, the capture of Quebec would have brought Canada under the domination of the Patriot cause early in the Revolutionary struggle. If that had come about, the long weary struggle of seven years might have been considerably shortened; Benedict Arnold, sharing with Montgomery the laurels of the capture of Quebec would have been spared the bitterness of being denied the laurels he won at Saratoga, would not have fallen a victim to his disappointment and disillusionment and become a traitor, and his name and that of Richard Montgomery might have been written higher on the scroll <a the heroes of *76. © Wettent Newspaper Union.
rf/[ Tales W) — Traditions jtoa Asttricsn ITufj ■ rvusicai rustocy frank e. haoin Wbill li,r BMP SCOTT WATSON DEMONSTRATIONS /"CONVENTION “demonstrations” —those amazing exhibitions of hysterical enthusiasm, usually manufactured rather than spontaneous—had their origin in the Republican convention of 1860 in Chicago. The two leading candidates were William H. Seward of New York and Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. The New York delegation brought along a prize fighter named Tom Hyer and a band which marched about the streets playing martial music. To match these noise-makers, supporters of “Old Abe" hired a Chicagoan “whose shout could be heard above the most violent tempest on Lake Michigan" and a leather-lunged Dr. Ames, who, though a Democrat, also consented to whoop it up for Lincoln. But the real “blow-off" came when Lincoln was nominated on the fourth ballot. An eye-witness has described the scene as follows: “The immense multitude rose, and gave round after round of applause; ten thousand voices swelled into a roar so deafening that, for several minutes, every attempt to restore order was hopelessly vain ... A man appeared in the hall bringing a large painting of Mr. Lincoln. The cannon sent forth roar after roar in quick succession. Delegates tore up the sticks and boards bearing the names of several states, and waved them aloft over their heads, and the vast multitude before the platform were waving hats and handkerchiefs." Another chapter in convention “demonstrations" was added by the. Republican convention, also in Chi- ' cago, in 1880. Roscoe Conkling of New York led the forces that had determined to nominate Grant for a third term. At the first mention of Grant’s name, a demonstration began which lasted nearly half an hour. Conkling, noted for his “aristocratic coldness," unbent enough to stimulate enthusiasm in the galleries and among the delegates by waving his handkerchief. Then Robert G. Ingersoll started wave after wave of frantic cheering when he grabbed a woman’s red shawl and waved it aloft. Men tore off their coats and used them for flags. Then the Grant delegates seized the standards of their states and started a parade around the hall—thus starting a custom which has been perpetuated to this day. KEYNOTERS HOW many of us recall the keynote speech of Senator Steiwer at the Republican national convention in Cleveland this year? Or that of Senator Barkley at the Philadelphia gathering of Democrats? The answers to that one fortify the fact that keynote speeches fade rapidly, then die as completely as an ancient mackerel. The only one which persevered through a campaign was delivered at the Democratic convention of 1916 and later events made a farce out of it That keynote was delivered in favor of Woodrow Wilson; the man who voiced it was Martin H. Glynn of New York. Like the “Three Long Years" which Republicans emphasized in 1936, Glynn’s keynote beat the tomtoms for Wilson’s achievements in avoiding war in 1914, 1915 and 1916, ending each recital with the assertion: “But we didn’t go to war." Seizing upon the then catchy phrase, which set convention delegates on their ears, the Democratic national committee made the race on the slogan of: “He » -pt us out of war." It barely lasted to re-elect Wilson, for two months after beginning his second term the United States was in the war. Success of a keynote in this particular instance was made at least partially possible by the pussyfooting tactics of the rival party. They didn’t want to discuss the war. But the American voters were talking about nothing else! One other keynote has found a place in our permanent political history. It was delivered by imposing Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana at the Bull Moose convention of 1912 which brought Theodore Roosevelt back into the spotlight. Said Beveridge: “The people’s government has been usurped by the invisible government, and the people’s government must be given back to the people again." Even today, with history recording a Bull Moose defeat, there is something about this well-turned phrase which accounts for the perpetuity which has fallen to it. • Wariar* Navapapar Unioa. Destroyed Indian Population The prehistoric Indian population of northern Arizona was destroyed by “tenement” conditions nearly 1,000 years ago. Tracing the habits of the Indian population, an authority said that from the time they moved from single-family pit houses to multi-family apartment houses, or pueblos, similar to modern tenements, the population of these tribes dropped f m 23,000 to 2,000.
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Thursday, December 3, 1936
Simple Crochet Can Be Family Heirloom
Pattern 5658
A bedspread, indeed, to call forth “Oh’s" and “Ah’s" is this one, crocheted from humble strung. See not one, but two charming patterns, one a basket, the other floral, are included in pattern 5658. One is as easy to learn as the other; when combined they make any number of useful linens—tea cloth, scarf, buffet set or pillow. In pattern 5658 you will find complete instructions for making the square shown; an illustration of it, of the stitches needed; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 West Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your name, address and pattern number. Making Progress Are you richer today than you were yesterday? No? Then you are a little poorer. Are you better today than you were yesterday? No? Then you are. a little worse. Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes—you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment; the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause until you come into port.—Van Dyke.
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