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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
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contracts by special agreement.
No, Maude dear, instructs the Phil 1 -
adelphia Record, you don’t, have to
go to one of the Prohibition States
for a dry climate.
A valuable university course would
be to teach the young men there what
to do with their education after they
get it, says the New York Press.
Ten years ago, relates the Hartford
Courant, Miss Martha Berry estab
lished her industrial school for the
mountain boys of Georgia. She began
by giving 100 acres of land, which
had been given to her by her father,
and erecting a ten-room building
where she and a friend taught five
boys. Now the Berry school has 150
pupils, 15 teachers, 1,200 acres of land,
three dormitories and a recitation
hall. The boys till the land and they
helped erect the buildings. The only
charge so far as the pupils are con
cerned is for the food they eat. If
they cannot pay for that, Miss Berry
helps them out, and she raises the
money to meet the other expenses of
the institution.
The El Paso Times, approving a
suggestion that children in public
schools along the border be taught
Spanish, says that in the courts and
even in the legislatures in New Mex
ico and Arizona “It is found neces
sary to employ interpreters in order
that one American citizen can under
stand what another American citi
zen is testifying or that one American
lawgiver can understand what are the
provisions of a law which another
American citizen proposes to have
enacted for the government of other
American citizens.” It says that it
seems impossible to teach the Mex
ican children in the schools English.
As soon as they leave the schoolroom
they speak Spanish.
The policy of barring gypsies, which
the new immigration commissioner
at Ellis Island is enforcing, is likely
to meet with general public approv
al, believes the Boston Transcript.
There is no conceivable respect in
which they can be a benefit to our
society. While not likely to be a
charge on our communities in the or
dinary sense, they are suspected of
being so in another. They are hardly
desirable neighbors even for a short
time, and it has become the custom
in most communities to refuse them a
place to fix their camps. Picturesque
no doubt they are, and reminders of
certain phases of the days of ro
mance and chivalry, but we measure
our human accretions these days by
the standard of utility and according
to that they are invariably found
wanting.
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“National Guard’’ is a true phrase
now. Until very recently it was a fic
tion. We shall have a true national
guard—when we have the men, boasts
the New York Mail. But at the present
moment the organized militia, on the
new basis, does not number more
than .110,000 men all told, and per
haps 25,000 of these would not be
found fit for active service. There are
only six states in the Union that have
an organized militia of more than
4,000 men, and those six states are
all in the northeastern part of the
country. All the southern states tak
en together have but a few more or
ganized militia than the state of New
York alone. Militarism? Not in the
least. An organized citizen soldiery is
the opposite of militarism —it is an
insurance against it. Without a na
tional citizen-guard of at least 500,000
men we must have a larger regular
army. With it the regular army need
never be increased, if the population
of the country rose to 150,000,000. It
is plain common sense. Is Switzer
land, where every man is a trained
and ready soldier, and where there is
no regular army at all, a militaris
tic country? And is Switzerland the
only oountry in the world that is ca
pable of defensive common sense.
FAVORS CENTRAL BANK
President Taft Urges Banking
Reforms in Boston Speech.
13,000 MRE TRIP BEGAN
One oi the Features of the President’s
Address Was Repudiation of Any
Attempt to Start Sectional Strife.
Boston, Mass. President Taft’s
first public utterance since congress
adjourned, was made in tnis city be
fore 2,000 men representing the com
bined interests of Boston. The oc
casion was a banquet given in Me
chanics’ hall, the largest auditorium
in Boston, by the Boston chamber of
commerce, recently formed by a
merger of the Boston Merchants' As
sociation and the Associated Board
of Trade with the chamber, and it
marked the beginning of the presi
dent’s 13,000-mile t rip through the
country. *
Tne features of the president’s ad
dress were his endorsement of the
proposition to establish a central
bank in connection with currency re
form, his words of high praise of Sen
ator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Isl
and, head of the national monetary
commission, and his repudiation of
any attempt to start sectional strife
in the country such as that which
he attributed to Governor Johnson
in “calling upon the west to organ
ize against the east.”
Mr. Taft began his speech by con
gratulating Boston on a union in one
organization of all her business men.
“1 am on th,e eve of beginning a
journey of 13,000 miles in length,
which will enable me to see teas and
hundreds of thousands of my fellow
citizens, and enable them, 1 hope, to
see me. Occasionally, 1 hear a query,
‘Why should 1 start off on such a
trip?’ and ‘What particular good does
it do to anybody?’
“Well, it certainly is not going to
be a pleasure trip, although 1 shall
enjoy it. it will involve much hard
work and a great deal of mental ef
fort to think of things to say and
to say them simply and clearly, s
that they eaii be understood. On the
other hand, it will certainly give me
a very much more accurate impres
sion as to the views of the people
in the sections which 1 visit.
“It will bring closely to me the
needs c» particular sections, so far
as national legislation and executive
action are concerned; and I believe
it will make me a wiser and a bet
ter public officer. I ought to be able
to explain to the people some of the
difficulties of government, and some
of the problems for solution from the
st and point of executive and legislator
as distinguished from that of the
honest but irresponsible critic.
President Taft confined himself
closely to his notes, but was follow
ed attentively by his hearers through
out. Among the points which awak
ened the most enthusiasm, was his
statement that there was need of re
form in banking. This statement
was heartily applauded, but there was
not a ripple when he mentioned (he
central bank plan.
It was noticeable that the diners
maintained a grim silence when the
president said he would not discuss
the tariff in his Boston address, but
when he declared with great empha
sis in connection with his discussion
of the control of the corporations
that it must be vindicated by means
ot prompt punishment and that the
law is to be enforced on the most
powerful plan, there was tremendous
applause.
The climax, however, was reached
when Mr. Taft touched upon section
al differences. v With a rising inflec
tidon and forceful gesture, he declar
ed, as president of the United States:
“I may well lift up my voice to
protest against any effort by whomso
ever made to array section against
section and Americans against Ameri
cans.”
Chicago, 111.—In his annual address
to the American Bankers’ Association
in session here. President George M.
Reynolds declared in favor of a cen
tral bank with a capitalization of not
less than $100,000,000 as a means of
avoiding financial disturbances simi
lar to the panic of 1907.
1,000 STRICKEN WITH PELLEGRA.
Disease Spreads at Rapid Rate in
North Carolina.
Durham, N. C. —Pelagra is spread
ing in this state at an alarming rate.
The ninth death in this locality has
just occurred here. One of the two
survivors of the eleven originally af
flicted will probably die within a
week.
There are said to be 1,000 cases of
the disease in North Carolina and but
one county —Onslow —it is. declared, is
without a patient.
NEW GERMAN LABOR RULE.
Labor May Quit and Employer May
Discharge Without Notice.
Washington, D. C. —The right of
the laborer to quit work and of the
employer to discharge without ad
vance notice, is a unique principle
outlined in a recent agreement reach
ed after a 12 weeks strike of car
penters and joiners in Nuremburg,
German.
This introduces a new rule in the
German labor world, declares Ameri
can Consul G. N. lift, at Nuremburg,
as heretofore in every trade, profes
sion. business and employment, due
notice has been required before an
employee could quit work or be dis
charged.
E. H. HARBIMAN DEAD.
Fnd Comes to Noted Railway Magnate
at Arden, N. Y.
EPITOME OF EDWARD H.
HARRIMAN’S CAREER.
Born February 25, 1848. One
of six children of a country
clergyman, whose salary was
s2oo a year.
After two years spent in a
church school poverty cut short
his education.
At the age of fourteen he be
came an errand boy in a Wall
street broker’s office.
Four years later he was ap
pointed a clark, sharing in the
firm’s profits.
At twenty-two he bought a seat
on the New York Stock Exchange
with money he made in specula
tion.
At forty he became vice pres
ident of the Illinois Central.
At fifty he reorganized the
Union Pacific.
Now he has realized his dream
of an ocean-to-ocean railroad sys
tem under his absolute control.
Died September 9, 1909.
Arden, N. Y. —Edward H. Harri
man, the greatest organizer of rail
roads the wot Id has ever known, met
the only lasting defeat of his active
life at the hands of death.
Secluded in his magnificent home
on Tower Hill, surrounded by mem
bers of his family, physicians and
nurses, he succumbed to an intestinal
disorder, after a tight against diseasd®
which will rank for sheer grit witn
ills remarkable struggles in the finan
cial world.
Mr. Hariman died peacefully, and
almost to the end his brilliant mind
retained its integrity.
The announcement of .Mr. Harri
nian’s death caused an immense sen
satic-u throughout New Y'ork city,
particularly in Wall street
With the knowledge that Mr. Har
riman could not long continue his
active career Wall street had prepar-
E. H.HARRIMAN.
fcd itself for his death. There was
no feeling of shock or alarm when
the announcement came, beyond the
sentiment of universal personal sor
row,
It is believed by Mr. Harrimans as
sociates that the railroad system
which he carried forward to such a
degree of success will be continued
with practically no change of policy,
and that plans to that end were per
fected by Mr. Harrimau long before
his death.
Estimates of Mr. Harriman’s estate
vary widely.
There is a consensus of opinion that
it is in excess of $50,000,000, while
one authority places it as high as
$500,000,000. He was president of
sixteen great corporations and a di
rector or trustee of twenty-seven oth
ers.
His home at Arden represents an
outlay of over $2,000,000.
The great achievement of Mr. Harri
man’s career as a financier and rail
road manager was the rehabilitation
of the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific railway systems.
It was his policy to keep his rail
roads in the best workable condition,
confident that sooner or later the
question of dividends would take care
of itself.
With the simplicity which marked
him as a living man, even while he
held the reins of the greatest rail
road system in the world and was
hailed as “king,” the funeral of E. H.
Harriman was held from the Harri
man home, and interment was made
in the little, unpretentious cemetery
at Arden. Mr. Harriman was
to rest beside the grave of his eldest
son.
Mr. Harriman is survived by a wid
ow, two sous, Avery and Roland Har
riman, and three daughters, Mrs. Rob
ert L. Gerry, Miss Mary and Miss
Carol Harriman.
Curtiss Wins Grand Prize.
Brescia. Glenn H. Curtiss, th 6
American aviator who won the inter
national cup at Rheims, captured the
grand prize in the aviation meet here.
Curtiss made his flight for the grand
prize covering 50 kilometers (31.05
miles), in 49 minutes 24 seconds. His
share of the SIO,OOO prize is $6,000.
Lindsay Leaves R. F. D. Carriers.
Atlanta, Ga. —Paul L. Lindsay of
Tucker, Ga., president of the Nation
al Association of Rural Letter Car
riers, has announced that he will not
•stand for re-election to that office at
the forthcoming convention of that
body in Rochester, N. Y., on the 21st
of this month.
NORTH POLE CONTROVERSY
Dr. Cook and Commander Peary Are Hurrying Home to
Place Claims Before Authorities —Peary’s Report
Substantiation of Cook’s Speed Claims.
New York City.—Details of Mr.
Robert E. Peary s journey to the
North Pole, as gleaned from the ex
pedition now at Battle Harbor, Labra
dor, on its return, and cabled here,
show that Mr. Peary had one man
less at the highest point north on his
journey than Dr. Frederick Cook had.
Dr. Cook reports that he had two Es
kimos with him when he discovered
the pole. The only man to reach
the pole with Mr. Peary was a lone
Eskimo, Eging Wah, by name.
St. Johns, N. F. —Alien Whitten,
who was boatswain of the Peary aux
iliary steamer Erik in 1905 and again
in 1908, adds his quota to the polar
controversy. On his expeditions he
naturally saw much of Peary and
knew of Peary’s plans. He was also
on the Erik in the summer of 1907
when she lay for a week in Sydney,
alongside the schooner John R. Brad
ley, in which Dr. Cook was starting
for the Pole, the Erik that year go
ing to Hudson Bay for the Canadian
government.
Whitten says that the Bradley was
abundantly equipped for Cook’s expe
dition, having supplies for at least
three years. He confirms the charge
made by Ur. Cook at Copenha
that Peary’s people took Cook’s pro
visions, adding that not only did the
crew of the ship take Cook's stores
that were at Etah, but that boats
were sent to Annotook, 30 miles dis
tant, to remove Cook's provisions
there.
London, England.—The latest in
stallment of Commander Peary’s sto
ry, as published here in The Times,
coincides in many important partic
ulars with Dr. Cook’s story.
it is evident from Peary’s story that
there will be no doubt cast on his
own claim as to reaching the pole.
He took observations with great
care; made soundings, but failed to
touch bottom and made a careful de
tour of the immediate polar circle.
A most important item of the ac
count is Peary’s statement that in 12
hours he once covered 40 miles.
Fault had been found by critics
with Dr. Cook's claims of averaging
fifteen miles a day on his dash north.
Scientists declared that Dr. Cook’s
story is both corroborated and dis-:
credited by Commander Robert E.
Peary’s account.
A striking similarity in the descrip
tion of the Arctic fields beyond the
88th parallel of latitude and within
the very shadow of the pole in the]
narratives of the two explorers—a j
vividly similar description of the
smooth, glacial surfaces and the rap
id time these conditions enabled both
men to make, went far to shatter
the skepticism concerning Cook’s ex
ploit and yet in the matter of tem
perature the figures are different, Mr.
Peary giving the temperature at 40
degrees below zero, while Dr. Cook
placed it at 83 degrees below —a vast
discrepancy.
Beyond the 89th latitude the tem
perature rose 15 degrees, according
to Peary. Cook made no mention of
warmer weather. So identically do
certain details bear out the state
ments of Dr. Cook that scientists and
geographers who had held aloof from
the controversy declared their faith
in the physician-explorer’s story,while
of course crediting Commander Pea
ry’s story and using it as a basis of
comparison.
In the matter of temperature, the
biggest discrepancy exists. Peary
speaks of the temperature ranging
from 33 degrees to 12 on April 7, tha
day he left the pole. Dr. Cook’s fig-
DR. COOK MAKES FIRST i
CRITICISM OF PEARY’S TRIP
Copenhagen, Denmark. Astonish
ing speed of 26.7 miles for nine days
made by Commander Peary on his
dash over the ice plains to the pole,
according to the figures which he has
cabled to America and Europe, was
pointed out by Dr. Frederick A. Cook
and his supporters as the first link in
the chain of corroborative evidence
by which Cook hopes to reinstate his
claim to the world
Commander Peary’s summary of his
trip shows that he made the final two
hundred and thirty-nine miles to tht
pole in thirteen days. Cook claims
he made two hundred and twenty-six
miles over the ice in fifteen days and
his claim met with ridicule.
ures ranged fully 50 degrees lower
After leaving the 88th parallel, Peary
set out alone in his dog sledge, leav
ing the other members of the party
to break camp and follow him.
Peary’s description of the ice fields
beyond the 88th parallel bears out
Cook’s description. The surface, says
The Times account, was smooth and
level as a glacial fringe, broken only
occasionally with ridges and with
very little open water. The dogs
were able to proceed at a gallop ami
in one run of ten hours immediately
after passing the 88th parallel Peary
made 20 miles.
At the 89th parallel the tempera
ture was 40 degrees below zero. Pass
ing the 89tn parallel Peary made 25
miles in a single dash in a bitter
wind so cold that the flesh cracked
and even the Eskimos complained.
Beyond the 89th the scene was som
ber, the horizon smoky and gray, the
desolation indescribable.
Not a living thing in sight and the
solitude broken only by the groaning
of the greenish ice floes over which
the sledge sped. Cook had called it
a desola'te spot—the solitude unbrok
en and the silence and loneliness op
pressive. As Peary proceeded the
going grew better and faster time
was made —another important feature
completely vindicating Dr. Cook and
bearing out, apparently, his narra
tive completely.
In 12 hours the Peary party was
able to make 40 miles. There was
not a single stretch of open water
to hinder the march. The goal was
almost in sight.
Commander Peary took observa
tions at frequent intervals, until he
had established his feat. The com
mander had realized the ambition of
his life: lie was at th.e North Pole.
A detour of some eighteen miles
was made about the pole, observa
tions being taken almost continuous
ly to establish not only proof of the
discovery bu.t for scientific values sub
sequently.
On the afternoon of April 7, the
day after the pole had been discov
ered, a sounding was made five miles
from the North Pole. The plummet
dropped 9,000 feet into the sea, and
still did not touch bottom.
Then started the race home. A
gale sprang up with giting winds
and blinding snow. Luck favored
Peary just as it had favored Cook the
year before,
DEGREE CONFERRED ON COOK
BY COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY
Copenhagen, Denmark. —The Uni
versity of Copenhagen conferred upon
Dr. Cook the degree of Sc. D. (Doctor
of Science), thereby recognizing, it
was pointed out by his friends, in an
important official manner, his claim
to the discovery of the pole.
Dr. Cook has cancelled his engage
ment to lecture before the Geograph-
ROBERT E. PEARY.
ical Society of Brussels, and will
reach New York about September 20
o; 21. Captain Roald Amund'sen will
probably accompany him.
Dr. Cook’s plan to send a ship from.
Copenhagen to Greenland to bring
back to civilization his two Eskimo
companions on his expedition trip will
not be carried out until next year as
Danish officials have informed him
that it is now too late in the season,
for a trip to Etah. The expedition, it
is stated, will be started early next
spring.
In scientific circles, both in Ameri
ca and abroad, the prevailing inclina
tion seems to be to await direct word
from both explorers before arriving
at a conclusion as to their respective
achievements, and although a beliger
ent attitude was still preserved in the
two camps, open hostilities were
largely suspended.
PEARY’S RAPID TRAVELING ~~
SUBSTANTIATES COOK’S CLAIMS
New York City.-Scientists and ex
plorers here comparing the latest dis
patches regarding Commander Pearv’s
achievement with the reports which
Dr. Cook has sent out, were very
generally agreed that Peary’s find
ings seem to confirm Dr. Cook’s story
in several significant particulars, and
thus far raise no points of disagree
ment. The scientists were more pos
itive than ever that the controversy
doSbt hv bey ° nd reasonable
doubt bj an inquiry before a recog
nized scientific bodv. Their almost
undivided opinion was that Dr Cook
should not be condemned until his
storyhas been proved false by unmis
takable evidence. *
