The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 October 1922 — Page 6

RESULT OF CAREFUL CROSSING CAMPAIGN The Careful Crossing Campaign, designed to warn automobile drivers and others to be cautious at railroad grade crossings, which began June Ist and ended September 30th, was a gratifying success so far as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is concerned. Figures are not yet available from all the railroads of the country, which took part in the campaign, and it may be a week or more before the Safety Section of the American Railway Association, which conducted the campaign, has reports from all lines and combines them. If the Baltimore and Ohio’s average of reduction of accidents is maintained on all the railroads, the expense of the drive will have been well spent. Actual collisions between trains and automobiles were reduced on the Baltimore and Ohio 13 per cent, as compared with the accidents in the same four months last year. This in spite of the fact that there was a 12 per cent increase in the number of automobiles registered in the country. It seemed to indicate that drivers had given consideration to the campaign slogan, “Cross Crossings Cautiously” and it is the earnest desire of railroad officials that the lesson will not be forgotten. There was a reduction of 17 per cent in all kinds of accidents at crossings, including those to pedestrians, automobiles, other vehicles, etc. Pedestrians were especially careful when passing over the tracks, for only two persons were killed and three injured. One of the persons killed and two of those injured had impaired hearing. One of these casualties occurred in August, one in July and three in June. The reduction in person killed in crossing accidents of all kinds amounted to 41 per cent and is regarded by Baltimore and Ohio officials as a splendid record# There were 37 fatalities last year, compared to 22 this year. The reduction in injuries amounted to 9 per cent. There were some narrow escapes from casualties on the part of automobilists. Twenty of them ran into gates that were lowered for the passage of trains. These collisions probably saved the lives of these careless drivers. There were ten other machines driven into the sides of trains moving over the crossings or standing on them. In two of these latter accidents nine persons were injured, one machine containing eight persons, all of whom were severely injured because the driver could not stop his car in time to prevent his striking a moving train. There were 37 accidents, out of a total of 123, which had no right to occur at all, or 30 per cent were due to the absolute disregard of gates or the fact that a train already was on the crossing. There seems to be little chance at all of saving drivers of this kind, but the Baltimore and Ohio will still endeavor to convince them that the cautious crossing of tracks is the only safe method. This plan of GEO. L. XANDERS Attorney-at-Law Settlement of Estates, Opinions on Titles Fire and Other Insurance Phone 7 Syracuse, Ind. TOLEDO BLADE America’s Home and Farm Newspaper POPULAR IN EVERY STATE YOU should be a reader of this Greatest of all National Family Weeklies —a true exponent of Americanism and American Ideals. The TOLEDO WEEKLY BLADE is a complete newspaper for the home. All the essential news of the day is boiled down for quick informative reading. It prints the very latest Agricultural news and other matters of interest to the Farmer. A Household page for the housewife and daughters, a Children’s department, the International Sunday School lesson, and an intensely interesting •serial story. A complete survey of the whole world’s activity and thought for the week with wonderful clearness erf vision. Subscription price, 75c a year. Special Combination Offer 1 TOLEDO WEEKLY BLADE and Syracuse Journal _ By mail

education includes the distribution of appeals to the drivers and checking up of operators as they pass over the tracks. When they fail to take precautious they are to be so notified by cards that are sent out to addresses obtained through finding out the owner of the automobile license. G THE SHEEP INDUSTRY Five years will be required to overcome the effects of the recent collapse in the sheep industry, according to a survey made oublic by the National Institute ff Progressive Farming. “How close the sheep industry n this country came to annihilaion during the inflation period is not realized by the general >ublic,” stated the survey. “It vas all but wiped out. Imported •ams were butchered and sold as neat owing to the collapse of the market.” There is a mad scramble to get back into the business now that the market has returned to a stable level, the survey states, and herds which almost disappeared are being revived. The supply of breeding stock, ;heep association officials say, is the lowest in twenty years and he demand for such stock on the Pacific coast is the greatest ;een in double that time. Texas, r daho, Wyoming and Montana, 'lso report a large demand. / * T In the corn belt where the maize crops can be fed to three dollar mutton, the problem is to find the lambs,” declares the survey. “It appears that a higher price for fat lambs will prevail this fall, despite the present altitude. “The institute believes that wool growing should be conduct-, ed as a side line rather than as an essential industry. Sheep men are in the habit of virtually ceasing business when the wool market is against them, and then slowly working back when the tide turns. While the United States cannot compete in the wool markets of the world with Australia and Argentine, yet it is unthinkable that the whole agricultural system should be thrown out of balance by ignoring wool.” Q MUST ATTEND SCHOOL The state board of education recently refused to grant a petition presented by representatives of the old order Amish Mennonite church, asking that its members be exempted from the provisions of the state school attendance law, which required all children between the ages of 7 and 16 years to attend school. The petition declared that the belief of their sect in the ‘‘inspiration of the Bible,” was upset by “higher curriculum, with its theory of evolution and denial of miracles as promulgated in the regular schools.” o About the hardest thing is to get many a man to take the last word and quit talking.

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EARTH’S AGE ESTIMATED | AT EIGHT BILLION YEARS 1 The researches by which two British men of science have reached the conclusion that the earth is eight billion years old, instead of the beggarly twenty million years allowed by Darwin, are of no more than idle interest to the man on the street. It mattered little to him whether the age of the planet is the six thousand years covered by the scriptural chronology, or the twenty million years of Darwin, >r the eight billion of Gregory and Eddington. It comes to very much the same thing. Already to the man on the street, the Civil war and even the reign of Victoria belong to remote antiquity. / A thousand years are in reality almost as hard to picture to the imagination as a million. What one of us alive knows who or where his ancestors of a thousand years ago were? Or who can imagine what or where his descendants of a thousand years hence will be? We used to sing a patriotic song with the refrain, “A Thousand Years, My Own Columbia,” which assumed to open the view of the average American to the glories of a future millenial period. The song is forgotten now. The aspiration it contained was too remote for the popular interest or even the popular conception. There is a strong color of probability for the estimate of the English men of science who put the age of our planet at 8,000,000,000 years. In the period of its existence the land has had to salt the sea, which at first was fresh, from its own excess of salt. But first the land had to salt itself. At the ratio of the ordinary progress of such a process, 8,000,000,000 years would be none too much for it. But eight billion years! Can you measure it imagined repetitions of the known historic period? We have records, or traditions of an epoch of only some 6000 years, and for the making even of a million years it would take one hundred and sixty-six such epochs. Now measure the 8,000,000,000 years of the earth with such -an epoch. You are trying to measure the circumference of the earth with something smaller than your thumbnail. The imagination reels and falls before the attempt. Yet all this time it has taken the development of the earth to eventuate in your pigmy understanding—nor would anything else have sufficed for it, nor would any other natural accident than the production of just such a salt water pond as our oceans constitute have availed to breed the Get your FREIGHT via the SYRACUSE-FORT WAYNE TRUCK LINE J. E. Rippey Phone 10-3 Syracuse, Ind. “If I don’t haul your freight we both lose.”

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j forms of life that eventuated in 1 your existence. If we have eight billion years behind us, have we as many before us? We have not. The curtain will fall upon our race, the scientists tell us, in only an eighth part of that time. Lord Rayleigh, whose judgment on the subject is as good as that of any man alive, says that the crust of the earth will be available for human use only another billion years. Even at that, there are going to be some very cold winters along in the last hundred thousand of those years. But since in only six thousand years more, which is but the faintest dawn of the ages yet to elapse, our Hardings and our Lloyd Georges and our Millerands and Mustapha Kemals will be as ancient and even as fabulous as the Egyptian kings of the oldest dynasty, whose ashes centuries ago were blown on the wind of the desert from the tombs of Abydos, we need not bother particularly about the setting of such a period. The i curtain will fall on our speech, our blood, our faiths and our science long ages before the eggshell on which we live shall cease to be inhabitable.

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ARABS OPPOSE JEWS’ RETURN TO PALESTINE The Arab delegation which was sent from Jerusalem to London a year ago to protest against the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine has returned to the Eternal City and given out a summary of its achievements. Musa Kazin Pasha Husseine, chairman of the delegation, says in his report that whereas they did not accomplish all that they had hoped for, nevertheless they had aroused public sentiment in England and had, won the sympathy of many leading persons connected with the British government. The report was made to the Fifth Moslem Christian Congress, which was brought together at Nablus for the purpose of hearing what the delegation had to say. At the same time the congress outlined its future plans. It decided to boycott the new constitution, which it considers inimical to the cause of the Aiabs; to take no part in the . elections, and to dissuade all Mohammedans and Christians from serving on the legislative council. I

It urged upon the Arabs the necessity of standing together and refusing to sell lands to the Jews. A manifesto was sent out from the congress to all Mohammedans and Christians of the country in the following words: “We the delegates of the Arab people of Palestine in the fifth congress held at Nablus, pledge ourselves to God, history and to the nation to continue our endeavors looking toward the' independence of our country, to bring about Arab

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