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[UESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920. -
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STUDY OF LIFE AND HABITS
SHOW MANY INTERESTING
FACTS ABOUT FORBEARS.
gOSTON. This year—l92o—
the tgrceptenary of the com
ing of the Pilgrims. New England is
all agog over the celebrations which
have been planned and ‘merrily help
ing thousands of tourists to spend
{heir money seeing the historic
places founded 300 years ago.
provincetown and Plymouth are
the centers for the celebrations,
which will take place on August 29,
November 11 and’ December 21,
those dates marking respectively the
cailing of the Mayflower Pilgrims
from Leyden, Holland, their landing
at Provincetown and their subse
quent landing at Plymouth.
During trips to Boston and there
abouts this summer I have discov
ered a curious thing.
It is almost impossible to find any
one who admits being a descendant
of the Pilgrims.
It secems that when those interest
ed in the celebration began to un
cover facts concerning the Pilgrims
they unearthed stories about them
that make it a doubtful compliment
to be known as one of their descend
ants.
Perhaps the most interesting of
these stories is “In the Days of the
pilgrim Fathers,” by Mary Carolyn
Davies. Among the other facts the
writer brings out concerning the Pil
orims are these:
“The Pilgrims did not care for
water as a beverage.
Booze and Religion.
“Licenses were given taverns only
when the location of the places was
sufficiently near the meeting house
to make it possible for the liquor
and thesgood fire to be ‘enjoyed be
tween morning and afternoon ser
vices.”
“Why so many crimes of a social
nature were recorded was undoubt
edly because the Pilgrims overdid in
sovernment supervision or private
life. There was no single task to
which the community set itself with
sreater enjoyment than that of
watching one another.
“They had plenty of material for
the stocks and the whipping posts
and even put the inventor of the
<tocks in them because he attempt
ed to charge too much for his la
bor.”
Still further discourses have been
made by Major Rupert Hughes in
commenting on his recent novel,
“What's the World Coming To?”
Major Hughes has made a deep
study of early American history and
says that the Pilgrims were undoubt
edly no better and probably much
worse than the people who inhabit
Broadway.
And still further intéresting mat
ter may be discovered in “The Wo
men Who Came on the Mayflower,”
by Annie Russell Marble, wherein it
may be found that the late Colonel
Roosevelt would have been a pro
phet without a cause had he lived
in the time of the Pilgrims.
John Alden and his famous wife,
Priscilla, were the proud parents of
cleven children; Governor William
Phipps had twenty-one sons and five
daughters; Rev. John Sherman had
<ix children by his first wife and
twenty by his second; and families
of fifieen were the rule, not the ex-
ception.
Learning, it also appears, was not
¢vervthing that it might have been.
Opposition was made to the estab
lishment of a girls’ school because
“it might teach wives how to cor
rect the errors their husbands made
in spelling.”
R e e e
JOY RIDERS MUST USE LESS
GAS; SITUATION SERIOUS
Rationing Plan or Greatly Increased
Price Is Threatened. .
Unless joyriders curtail voluntarily
before Sept. 15 their present im
moderate use of gasoline they will
bring about a steadily rising price
of more than 40 cents a gallon, or
a system of rationing which will be
applied informally but effectively in
every state. Approximately 10,000,
000 owners of automobiles, power
hoats and aeroplanes would be affect
ed by the rationing system.
A ‘tentative proposal of the refin
ers to cut down consumption
through an jnformal systdm of ra
tioning, to be applied entirely by
the refiners themselves, though with
the moral backing of the govern
ment, is being considered.
The gas situation is declared by
covernment officials to be more seri
ous now than it has for months. Con
sumption is reported as between 13,-
000,000 “and 14,000,000 gallons
daily, with production running ap
proximately 2,000,000 gallons below
consumption. The difference repre
sents the amount by which the re
serve supply is being drawn off.
IT IS MONKEY YEAR, AND 4
JAPS KILL THEIR BABIES
Old Superstition Results in Murder
Of Many Infants. i
TOKIO, Jap.—So many cases of
Chiba prefecture that the authori-
Chiba preferture that the authori
ties have been greatly disturbed.
T'his being the monkey year in the
;‘_fthanese calendar, an old supersti
tion makes the mothers. believe that
children born in that year will meet
with misfortune. Special orders have
been issued by the police that all
prospective mothers should be regis
tered and watched, and that the
monkey” superstition should be
cradicated whenever possible.
Mr. J. A. White Says “If You Have
An Automobile, Keep Rat-Snap.”
E “If T knew about RAT-SNAP last
Vinter would have saved $l2O. My
¢ar was in the garage for a few
{f',"eks during bad weather; when I
had eaten great holes in +two new
LiTes Got them later with RAT-i
vont to take it out, found that rats
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Holder Says Howell Shall
Not “Handpick’” a Governor
In an open letter to Editor Clark
Howell of the Atlanta Constitution,
replying to the editorial published
by that paper Friday, calling upon
him to withdraw from the race and
asking, “What Say You, Mr. Hold
er?” Speaker John N, Holder of the
House of Representatives says the
one condition upon which he .will
withdraw is that Mr. Howell will at
once withdraw from the race his
candidate for the United States sen
ate. Otherwise Mr. Holder declares
he is in the race for governor to
the finish, and proposes to prosecute
his campaign more vigorously than
ever,
Declaring that.he was first in the
race for governor, having come in as
a loyal democrat to save the situa
tion in Georgia, following a confer
ence of his friends from all parts of
the state, Mr. Holder says he does
not propose to be eliminated now,
when the reports which ‘he quotes
from all sections of the state show
that he is the strongest candidate,
and that there is every indicatjon
that he will win,
Mr. Holder asserts that there is
no ground or right upon which Mr.
Howell and Mr. Anderson of the
Macon Telegraph can assume to
BUSINESS MEN USE PLANES;
Demand for Aircraft of Commercial
Type Increasing, But Demand
Doesn’t Equal the Supply. |
There are about 100 business meni
in the United States who more or|
less regularly fly in aeroplanes be-|
tween their homes in the country,l
at the mountains or the shore to
their city offices, according to an
estimate of the Manufacturers’ Air
craft association. The number of
aerial “taxi drivers” who carry pas
sengers on short but remunerative
flights is placed at some 300.
“There is a steadily increasing de
mand for aircraft of the commercial,
type,” says a report made to the
association, “but contrary to some
published reports the demand “does
not equal the supply. Factories now
in operation in the United States
could construct ten times the num
ber of aircraft which optimists es
timated would be required this
year.”’
“In Seattle during the tourist
season,” an investigator reports, “a
passenger aeroplane makes daily
runs over and around Mt. Rainier,
flying at 20,000 feet.”
OIL SELLS AT THIRTY-EIGHT
THOUSAND PER BARREL
The most expensive oil in the
world, retailing at the rate of $38,-
400 a barrel, is made by a concern
at Franklin, Pa. It is a wrist watch
oil that sells_at 75 cents for a bot
tle containing an eighth of an ounce.
ernor and U. S, senator. Asserting
“handpick” the candidates for gov
that they forced the present situa
tion by attempting to “handpick” a
senator, and are now seeking to deal
similarly with the governor’s of
fice, Mr. Holder concludes as fol
lows:
‘“Now, Mr. Howell, I am ready,
willing and anxious to do anything
in my power for my, party, and I
stand ready to relieve the embar
rassing situation in Georgia; but my
withdrawal would accomplish noth
ing unless the situation in the sen
atorial race was also relieved at the
same time.
“Since you, my political enemy,
have seen fit to advise me what to
do, now you advise your friend and
candidate to withdraw from the race
for the senate, leaving only two in
that race, and I stand ready to meet
your demand and withdraw instanter
from the governor’s race,
“Unless, however, this is done,
and done promptly, I am unable to
see why I should be sacrificed for
no purpose except to help your can
didate for governor, and not the
democracy of Georgia, and I shall
be in the race to the finish, confi
dently believing I shall be elected.”
—adyv, *
Once Ruler of Country, He Now
Has Eighty Acres in His Empire,
With Following of 40 Servants.
The former German emperor, Wil
liam, while professing to lead at
Doorn, Holland, the life of a coun
try gentlemaq, has, nevertheless,‘
created a little court around him,
somewhat larger than that which he
had at Amerongen, Dutch newspa
pers have already: begun calling
Dotdrn “The Little Potsdam.” |
Strict military order prevails ouf
side the house of Doorn, where pass
ersby must not be too curious, With
in, the discipline is Prussian. Wil
liam’s only associates are Germans.
His entire retinue of servants are
German with one exception, the vil
lage barber, a Dutchman, who is
called in occasionally to trim the
hair or beard of the former German
ruler.
When at Amerongen William
went frequently to Doorn by autb
mobile, but now he is seldom seen
outside the wire fence of his estate,
which villagers call his “forty-hec
tare cage.” Forty hectares are about
80 acres. The few times he has been
out he has paid visits to his former
host, Count Bentinck. _
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