The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 March 1923 — Page 3

Hoosier Boy and Sister Reap Golden Harvest From "God's Acre”

s HARRY" BELL, JR- AND BERNICE BELL AND QUEEN

IT is a far cry from the Bible lands Os the Near East to the abundant (rain crib of the Indiana farmer but pitiful little voices, weak with hunger, art again calling—calling for our Wholesome, life-giving corn that last winter saved so many young lives. Again the generous agriculturists are asked to duplicate the corn quota of last year—loo,ooo bushels. Many Other states are busy assembling corn at elevators, to be shipped to mills, ground into grits, then hurried on the life-saving errand across the sea. The first Indiana contribution is in the proceeds from a Scott county farm — from “God's Acre.” A boy and girl— Harry Bell. Jr.. and his little sister. Bernice, children of Rev. H. A. Bell, pastor,and farmer of Scottsburg, are the donors. When Harry Bell, 15 years old, was told by his father last spring that he could cultivate an acre of corn to help the children of the Near East, the boy was enthused. They called the ground "God's Acre.” The corn grew and fiourished and produced many bushels of golden ears. Appeal of G. I. Christie In broadcasting the appeal for 100,•00 bushels. Prof. G. I. Christie, chairman of the Near Bast Relief grain committee, has the lAlon that farmers in giving of their abundance of corn will accomplish a two-fold purpose—feed b thousands of hungry mouths and at the same time create a demand for American grain In commercial, centers of the Near East. Well-Known men associated with Mr. Christie in the appeal are W. H. Settle, preaident Indiana farm bureau; C. B. Riley, secretary Grain Dealers' Association: E. G. McCullum, president Farmers' Gram Dealers* Association: C. E. Troyer, president of Corn Growers: I. Newt Brown. William M. Joaos. State Board of Agriculture;

El-HOOSIER RELEASED FROM OHIO PRISON Columbus, Ohio.—Clarence Le-' roy McKinney, ex-Hoosier, knownl as 51,200 behind the gray walls of the Ohio penitentiary, dropped his tools in the looming mill one day and hurried to Warden Thomas' office in answer to an imperative summons. He found a reporter with the warden. "You’re free,” he was told. "The other fellow pleaded guilty ’ "McKinney’s face twitched Slightly and he said with emotion; "Oh, am I?” Thus was ended a case which officials said has been almost without parallel in criminal history of the United States. Five months ago McKinney, whose wife lives in Cincinnati, started to serve a life sentence for murder. A jury at Wilmington,, 0., found him guilty of shooting to death Special Officer Emery McCreight, Feb. 15, 1922. McKinney asserted from the start that he was in a picture show in Cincinnati with his wife at the time McCreight was killed. The case apparently was closed with the sending to prison of 29-year-old McKinney. Then a few months later, Louis Vandervoot, Jamestown, 0., son of a wealthy farmer, was arrested on the suspicion that he was responsible for many burglaries; In Wilmington he pleaded guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree and admitted he killed McCreight. He was sentenced to the peniteniary for life. His accomplice Walter Bangham, Jamestown, admitting manslaughter, received a one-to-twenty year term in the Mansfield reformatory. ‘“McKinney," said Warden Thomas, “is the most philosophical man I have seen in my nineteen yekrs here.” "Sure, ’’said McKinney, “we all hive our troubles; .1 knew this would come out all right” McKinley said his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKinney, reside on a farm near Bluffton, Ind. His brother, he said, is a minister at Franklin, Ind. 1 O"" 1 A few years more and there will be no log cabins for great n»m to be born in.

Geo. C. Bryant, crop report service; Carl W. Sims. Millers* Association; Everett McClure. Aurora; Prof. R. A. Ogg. Greencastle. County grain committees are planned with agricultural agents in charge. At the request of Prof. Christie. Russell G. East. Shelby county agent, will serve as director of the grain appeal. Ocean transportation is furnished tree by American Shipping board from the port of New Orleans. t Railroads will move grain to the mills and seaport without expense. Elevator operators volunteer to handle the grain donations free. Farmers May Give Cash Farmers who desire to give cash instead of corn may do so and the money will be used to buy grain. At headquarters of the grain committee, 528 Peoples Bank building. Indianapolis. cablegrams tell of the need of corn grits in the war-torn Near East. The tragedy of Smyrna, failure of Allies at the Lausanne conference to put hope in the hearts of Christian refugees, have added to the already grave orphan problem of Near East Relief until the task is a staggering, one and the farmer is asked to aid The grain committee says to the farmer: "To snppliment the generous cash gifts chiefly from city residents and to fill out the quota necessary for Indiana to care for 7.000 orphans, we are asking the farmers to duplicate their corn gift of last year. It was a splendid response then and we have faith to believe that understanding the great need they will do it again.” A heart-gripping motion picture drama. “Uncle America Sees it Through." will be shown in as many country districts as possible during February. It is a sermon in three reels that reveals the bleeding soul of Christian Armenia.

WHO MAY BECOME A CADET OFFICER One hundred twenty-five members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps in the Chicago high schools have started i course of training preparatory to becoming cadet officers, and to quality them to be officers at Camp Roosevelt for the coming summer. The training is being conducted in one of the large Chicago high schools by officers and non-commissioned officers of the U. S. Army. Classes are .held on Saturday mornings, and will be conducted for a series of twelve weeks. This class instruction is being tried out for the first time in the history of the R. O. T. C. Hitherto boys were trained in their schools and appointed cadet officers without any preliminary specialized training, upon proof of their fitness for such command. This “Intensive Training’’ course will, however, insure a perfect camp organization upon the opening date, July 2. Major F. L. Beals, U. S. A., is directing the course, which is equally divided between theoretical and practical instruction, and will be conducted for a series of twelve weeks. It will cover camp customs and traditions, regulations, administration, infan-

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try drill regulations, recruiting, military policy, camp sanitation, military* courtesy, scouting and patrolling, tactics and map reading. This does not mean that all cadet officers will be selected from Chicago, as boys who come from the various cities where military instruction is given may be equally proficient, and they will be given every chance to qualify upon reaching the camp. The camp is located on Silver Lake, near Rolling Prairie, Ind., and is open to boys. from all parts of the country. It includes three divisions; schools (which include seventh and eighth grade and complete high school divisions), R. O. T. C. or military division for boys, 14 years and over, and the Junior Camp, for boys from 10 to 14. INDIAN HAS ARTISTIC GIFTS Among the exhibitors at the Chicago Art Institute is an American Indian, whose figures of animals carved in wood are deemed to have at least enough merit to warrant their acceptance along with works by the most distinguished American artists. The fact is of interest because of the rarity with which the American Indian appears in the white man’s world as an artist of any kind. The failure of the Indian to manifest such talent cannot be altogether a matter of racial difference, for the red man in pre-Columbian days had developed various arts to a point where they command just admiration. As a general thing, their artistic work was applied to articles of use, such as textiles and pottery, while their music was often for ceremonial employment, but they also understood art for art’s sake, and performed difficult feats of craftsmanship for no other purpose than to show their skill. In that class were the minute arrowheads which some tribes made and on the Pacific coast baskets were woven so small that the white man needs a lens to see the designs on them. In Mexico ancient carvings have been found which clearly show that the worker was inspired by the same motive that moves the European sculptor, and every one knows the beauty of Indian blankets and of their •best ceramic work. Bbt only in a very limited way has the Indian ever used his artistic gifts for the purpose of making a place for himself among the white men. Instead, he has lost to a large extent the arts that he once practiced. Apparently Indian inspiration tends to die with the disappearance of Indian culture. o BOHEMIAN PEARL CULTURE The scientific culture of pearlbearing oysters has been carried on for a number of years in the Otava river, in Southern Bohemia. The oysters are opened once in eight years. The last examination of the oysters, which took place this year, resulted in the finding of five white pearls that may be classed as precious, 25 less valuable ones and 200 colored pearls. o— — THE NURSE IN AFRICA Whin traveling through Africa on every hand you see something contrary to your own ov der of things. A baby is carried not in the arms but on the back or on the hip; not rocked in a cradle but rolled on a mat; not picked up by the body but lifted by the arms. —O T If the wall in your pantry or closet is dark, daub each nail or hook with white paint.-

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JAPAN PRESSED BY GROWTH OF HER POPULACE Tokio, Japan.—Japanese publications and statesmen are debating the population and expansion problem again with all the vigor of old; yet for the most part it is in a newer light and with greater cognizance of the real problem and the place to find the solution. The reason for the new outburst is publication of the vital statistics for, 1921, which show that in twelve months the number of mouths to be fed by the island empire, increased by exactly 724,609. That is a growth of 12.37 to 1,000, an increase of 1.59 td the 1,000 of births over deaths for 1921. The increase over 1920 comes not from the fact that more children were bom last year, but from the fact that total deaths declined most, the birth rate also declining. Births total 2,031,103 — 1.038,250 boys and 992,853 girls—a decline of 1.13 from the 1920 birth rate. Deaths totaled 1,306,494, a decrease from the previous year of 2.72 to 1.000. Since 1897 the average birth rate for Japan is still more than 30 to I,ooo—a nation whose boundaries are limited increasing at the rate of nearly three-quarters of a million annually. Unable longer to send the comparatively few willing to leave Japan to Australia and California and realizing that expansion on a large scale in the Asiatic mainland is impossible because the temperate climes are already teeming with a population which in actual competition underbids and outworks* the Japanese and because the northern districts are too cold to be popular with the warmth loving Nipponese, the press and some public figures are beginning to face the problem squarely and fairly. They are beginning to see the problem in a new light. While not yet generally accepted there is an

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increasing tendency to admit that this is an internal problem —one that Japanese must solve unaided. Business leaders have attempted since the 'opening v of Japan to prevent this country from becoming a strictly industrial nation. But with half of Japan consisting of poor, mountainous land which will support no one, but yet which contains a world of undeveloped water power, that end is inevitable. Industries here are growing slowly mainly because of general business tactics and lack of world business sense. The faster rice fields are turned into factory grounds economically operated by power from the mountains the more will it aid the nation to feed its fast multiplying mouths. Distasteful as it sounds, Japan has a real need for birth control. Most of the younger, well-edu-cated people are beginning to see this, but they are out numbered by those that don’t. Just recenly a birth promotion organization was formed, its object being to get government assistance to prevent the birth rate from declining. This association advocates that all men whose family includes three or more children be exempt from income tax and that the father be given a subsidy to enable him' to properly rear and educate every child after the fifth. Some other vital figures included in the 1921 census report are interesting. Divorces were practically the only thing that increased, numbering 102.8 to the 1,000, while marriages were 9.14 to 1,000, a decrease of 9.76. This is not as starting as one would think at first, considering the economic depression in Japan, which attained its worst in 1921, and also considering the fact that all one has to do to secure a divorce is to go to the city office and have the records changed, after showing some good reason, which, in practice, is easy to do.

CO-OPERATION OF LIFE , INSURANCE COMPANIES Indianapolis, March 3. —Life insurance companies are among the big interests of the state co-operating with the state highway commission to help make marked roads safe for automotive traffic, according to A. H. Hinkle, maintenance superintendent of the state highway department. Mr. Hinkle’s division in addition to maintaining all roads in the state system and keeping same open to traffic the year around—often under most trying conditions —also keeps a report of all accidents that occur on roads under highway jurisdiction. "Since we started keeping a record of accidents I have received wonderful co-operation from life and accident insurance companies,” Mr. Hinkle said. Illustrative of the close touch in which companies keep on how ,-nd when the commission by improvements reduces the danger at a given spot on a state road, he referred to the following letter from the American Central Life Insurance Company. “The writer passed Dill Hollow, six miles east of Lafayette nn Road No. 29, and was gratified to see that the highway commission has erected posts to support a railing to protect motorists at- this hazardous point, Wish also to advise you that the Burlington Road from Lafayette to Rossville is in the best shape of any portion of the highways between there and Logansport. Dill Hollow, Mr. Hinkle explained, is a very dangerous portion of Road No. 29, and has been the cause of several accidents. Tn 1920 a motorist was killed there, and on January 22 of this year, a Lafayette laundryman lost control of his car, went off the road at this point and was seriously injured. According to the highway com- ' mission program all dangerous I parts of state roads are being

eliminated as fast as possible. This has necessitated widening many miles of highways, easing curves, widening culverts and the like, but in the opinion of highway officiate it is money well spent because it reduces hazards to a minimum. — o • HOMESICK ELEPHANT An elephant in the London zoological garden some time ago went on strike and refused to perform her usual work of carrying children about the place. Some new “riding steps,” Which were made use of by the little passengers to reach the back of the elephant, were replaced by new ones and when was led to it for the first time she refused to enter it was thought that she might be making a protest against the removal of 'the old steps and so these were put in j their old place, but still she refused to enter. Soon after this she refused to leave the pen. All other efforts having failed to induce her to be good, it was decided to send to India for a mahout and he arrived recently. , After talking to her soothingly, in his native language, and you might say hers also, she allowed him to put a rope around her neck which he used as a stirrup and with this he climbed up on her head and led her through her usual stunts. The animal was presented to the garden by the maharajah of Cooch Behar, and was evidently homesick. o ONLY ONE “CAME BACK” It is safe to say that no President was ever otherwise than sorry to leave the White House — a remark which, of course, does not apply to Washingion, inasmuch as he never occupied the mansion. Five men—Van Buren, Fillmore, Grant, Cleveland and Roosevelt —tried hard to get back. Os these Cleveland alone suc- ’ ceeded.