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WANTS 13-CENT STAMP U. S. MARINES
TEACHHAITMNS
HOW TO SHOOT
College Class Shows How U. S.
History Is Bjunri Up in “13.”
post Office Department Petitioned ti
Issue Stamps of That Denomina*
tion Again—Give* Some
Interesting Facta.
Washington.—Putt.muster Genera!
Work has received from members oi
Hie Amerlcun history class of the Shop- 1
herd college slate uormul school, Shep-
herdatown, W. Va. t a petition that th«
Post Office department again issue
stamps of the 13-cent denomination,
which tVas recently abandoned.
The petition declares Urn entire his
tory of the United States rk bound u(
in the dgure 13 and gives the follow
ing historical reasons why the 13-cenl
stump should be Issued:
America was discovered on the night
of the 13th of the month..
The republic originally consisted ol
13 colonies.
The first official flag had 13 stars and
13 stripes.
The American eagle requires 13 let-
Wonderful Development Is Shown
by Gendarmerie After Two
Years’ Coaching.
F0U6HT FOE WITH WILD YELLS
Natives First Had to Be Taught How
te Wink—Officer la Eager to Bring
• k, Hie-Marksmen-to-Compete in
United States.
Port au Prince, Haiti.—Haiti’s first
national rifle match, held recently on
the rifle range on the capital’s out
skirts, not only settled the individual
and team championships of the Gen
darmerie d’Haltl, but brought out
shooting of an order that amazed thosa
who, two years ago, saw the first «f-
„ .. forts to make a straight-shooting sol-
lers to spell It, as does also the motto,^ (ji e r out of the most unpromising ma-
•11 1’lurlbus tuum. | Serial. To add piquancy to the matches,
The first word to pass over the trans they were shot over a field that, when
nilantic cable was transmitted ou the revolutions were the favorite outdoor
l.tib ot the mouth. | sport of Haiti, served as the scene for
1 lie silver quarter Is written nil ovet t] le i nrtny executions of political prls-
uith 13. Aiouiid the head of Liberty .oners who had gambled on the wrong
are 13 stars; the eagle bears an oliv* 1 tum of the coin
branch with 13 leaves in one claw and I Two yenrs ngo ' lt ls doubtfu i it there
I t thunderbolts In the other. On hi. | wtt8 a gen darme in Haiti who could
breast Is a shield bearing 13 bars and have hit the proverbial barn at 100
in his beak is n ribbon bearing the yards "with a rifle. When the gendarmes
motto with 13 letters, each wing ho
13 feathers hnd it takes 13 letters to
spell quarter dollar.
There are 13 letters in John Paul
Junes’ name.
There were 13 ships in the first
American navy.
Perry’s victory on Lake Erie was
won on the 13th of the month.
The Stars and Stripes were raised
over Fort Sumter on the 13th of the
month,
Gei.i-rnl Pershing arrived In Franct
mi .1 :ne 13, 1017.
.Tii • Thirteenth amendment to tlu
Cons-itution freed the slaves.
It .could Hot cost any more to make
n 13-cent stamp than any other one.
The petition to Postmaster Genera;
Work also suggests several designs foi
tin* stump, all commemorating the If
colonies.
FIND Pr.EHISTORfC BUILDUPS
Ancient Homes on Isle Royale tie
lieved to Have Been Used by
Copper Miners.
Port Arthur, Ont.-s-The remains o:
l ino, believed to have been used bj
preh'storlc copper miners, have been
f ad on Isle ltoyale, ill Lake Stipe
t'it*, says William P. - Ferguson
archaeologist, of Franklin, Pa.
Mining was in progress there at
least l.tXK) years ago; how much long
er we do not know,” says Ferguson
"tV'n found pine trees six feet in di
i -ter growing on the ancient rock
■lumps. There is an area two mile?
long end half a mile wide, over tin
whole nf which we found remains ol
human habitations.
’ There were larger pits which hnd
been dug for homes. They ranged
from eight to ten feel deep and wert
protected by carefully built stone
walls which kept them free from wa
ter. The people Incidentally used’ com-
tmuiHl dwellings In some Instances, Rf
several of the pits were 20 by 40 feet
*nd one, which may have bees f fort
was 20 by 50 feet.
"These people mined in solid rock
the, whole Island over, but did not dig
their shafts more than 20 or 30 feet
deep. Their tools were black egg
shaped stones of great hardness, such
aa ire found on the north shore ol
I.tkii Superior but not on Isle Royale.”
SMYRNA ARMENIAN LOSS BIG
Twenty Millionaire* Psnnilc**—23,000
Mining or Mad* Priaontra
by Turk*.
At liens.—The losses of the Armenian
community In Smyrna total $118,000,-
•n» according to a tabulation made by
•inimlttee under the direction of the
bidi ,p 0 f Smyrna.
3'ity millions of this,total ls in real
* n 1 personal property, and the remain-
d“ r a Intangible assets like stocks and
h*"i« in Armenian companies operat-
* p r 'i Asia Minor. The annual Income
*' 3 'kW Armenian families in Smyrna
wvi lie’$7,600,000, of which It is de-
rl,r i that 15 per cent was given to
til iri ► jpg an( j jj le c ) iurcb ,
' v 'tna, which was the richest Ar-
*'""'in community in the world before
f f ‘* -uulng of the Turkish army, had
Jl "ii llonairea, hut toduy every on* of
' men is virtually penniless. The
■*t losers are the land owners.
Importers and exporters of
" 1 ereals, carpets and opium,
number of Armenians killed In
'• according to the committee,
""h and the number of persons
< or made prisoners, Is stated to
'”d men nntl 15,000 women. .
‘ most prominent Armenian busl-
"ii killed were Sarkis nnd Kns-
•i land owners, and, Gurunlian
'"'•shin, textile merchants.
"d and Remarried In Five Days,
h,.. „
I’hiine. la. Divorced and then
"'I wlttiin five duys'ls the nn-
'•'‘*i’<l of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer R.
I he Iowa law prohibits di-
I'crsons remarrying within six
the couple crossed into Mis-
the sevoud ceremony.
took the field under Americai^leader
ship In 1017, nnd cuiiie into contact with
a band of Cacos, the procedure wns sim
plicity itself. The two or three marines
with the column or patrol got down to
business with their rifles or a machine
gun. The accompanying gendarmes
shot wildly from the hip, usually aim
ing at the sky, but well content with
the sound ol’ their shots and their yells
of defiance to the Uncos. The Uncos
fought back in the same happy-go-
lucky fashion so far as the rifle was
concerned. It was Maj. James J.
Meade, now assistant chief of the
gendarmerie, who first made a serious
effort to develop the gendarmes of his
department of the north, into riflemen
two years ago.
Would Bring Shots to U. S.
When the last shot of the rerent,
team match had been marked, two
marine oflleers who have captained
teams In the big national matches at
home were seriously championing the
idea of entering the Haitian gendarm
erie in the international matches In
the United States in 1923. That is nn
indication of how far along tlie road
of marksmanship the untutored men
who fought their foes with wild yells
have traveled In the las! I wo years.
All the more remarkable is tills prog
ress, for, outside of tlie isolated effort
of Meade? nothing of an organized na
ture was attempted until less than a
year ago.
When Lieut. Col. Douglas U. Mac-
Dougnl took over the Gendarmerie
d’Huiti a little more than a year ago,
with the rank of major general In
Haiti’s nucleus of an army, he failed
to see the logic of giving a man in uni
form a rifle and not making a shot of
him. MncDougul captained tbp win
ning marine corps rllle team inThe na
tional match In 1911, shot on at least
three others and ls a ride shot of na
tional reputation. At the time he be
gan bis campaign, there was. nml for
four years had been, a strong belief
that the development of good rifle
shots in the Haitian ranks was not
only inadvisable but Impossible. He
indoct Mnated his command, however,
with I Is aims, and then the handicaps
loomed large and unique.
In the first place the Haitian soldiei
had been the most atrocious of shots.
The machete had always been his fight
ing weapon. Soldiers appeared on pa
rade at the Champ de Mars not so
many, years ago with a man In the
front" rank the proud possessor of a
rifle stock, while his rear rank file was
content to grasp a barrel minus the
stock. The Haitian armies that fought
f or control at the behest of agitators,
politicians and foreign traders were
armed with as mauj} varieties of fire
arms as there are seeds In a Haitian
grapefruit. They fought the marines
in 1015 with American, British. Ger
man, lielglun and Spanish rifles that
ran from muzzle loaders to repeaters;
with sawed-off shotguns and pieces
that the French army abandoned in
1804. Rifle sights were an Impediment
that disappeared under the vigorous
strokes of a stout machete.
Amarican System.
The system determined on was pure
ly American, and among the American
officers and the gendarmerie were
many trained shots and rifle coaches.
The usual trouble* with recruit shots
were discontinued, but up bobbed a
handicap that had never been fore
seen For some reason the average
Haitian Is physically Incapable of dos
ing one eye or openl.g -ne eye «th-
out the other acting In sympathy. The
Haitian can stare into the tropical sun
with the boring glance of an eagle,
though It would blind a white man. He
can sleep standing up with the sun
Mazing Into his fate and never flinch.
s„ it fell to the lot of the rllle instruc-
‘ irs to overcome this peculiar defect
l,v teaching their men literally how to
wink Winking is an unknown lure of
,he Haitian belle. In place of a sly
..overt wink she stares with the direct
K aze of a baby. In a few weeks I he or
der to tench —
progres
tions and
Caserne that flunks the marine bar
racks at the capital, gendarmes were
mustering the art of the flapper.
Once on the range, after the rudi-.
meats bad so far advanced as to per
mit of actuul firing, those who had not
mastered the ancient lure sought the
aid of a khaki-colored puteh to wear
over the left eye when firing. There
were many such used In the recent
matches. Auother quaint turn came
when, either by chance or good hold
ing, the crack of a rifle was rewarded
by the flashing of a white disk signal
ing a bull’s eye op the target.
The Haitian peasant is a simple-
minded person, full of superstitions
and odd beliefs. The gendarnie who
once scored a bull pulled serenely at
| his trigger the next time, confident that
I whether he held at the bottom or the
top of the target, he would score an
other bull. He reasoned that the first
shot had followed a groove in the air
that led to the heart of the black butt’a
eye. The next bullet had only to find
that groove. Time brought disillusion
ment and then the gendnrmes, a corps
full of esprit, settled down to straight
shooting. True, in place of certain
superstitions that the American rifle
man ls prone to, he'was apt to consult
the harmless charms of the witch doc
tor to bring him luck.
Learns Secret of Shooting.
All this time, however, he was learn
ing the secrets of the trade, how to
sight on n mark, to fire without flinch
ing or closing-both eyes, to npply
windage and a change of elevntlon
when a shot Indicated the need, to
hold the rifle like ii vise with the rifle
sling cinched tightly about his upper
arm, to hug the ground nnd exiAl the
air from his lungs and keep them
empty until his shot had gone. He
hnd learned the Joys of competition
and absorbed like a sponge the wis
dom that his white officers imparted to
him in his own native creole.
Slowly, as the jungle recedes before
the patient, unremitting strokes of the
machete, the gendarmes were learn
ing to shoot. It was then that General
MncPougiil sought and won the Inter
est of President Porno In the project
of an individual match to correspond
with the President’s match, and an
eight-inan team match from the four
departments to correspond with the
National team match, the classics of
tlu* American rifle range.
The American high commissioner,
Prig. Gen. John II. Itussell, was thor
oughly in sympathy with the idea, so
MacDougal led up to the tdg matches
with department matches in October.
From thosg competitions came full as
surance that the big matches would be
highly creditable in their standard of
skill, and from them the eight best
shots of each department were formed
into a team and placed under exjiert
training. One of them, the department
of the south, for instance, was coached
by (’apt. 11. L. Smith, whose team of
leathernecks won the national match
at Camp Perry In 1921 from the best
field In the United Stales.
The matches began with the 40 best
shots in tiie gendarmes competing for
(lie President's match. Sergt. Astrale
Holland of Jeremie, a keen, soldierly
gendarme. Smith's best bet, won it In
spirited competition with the total of
227 points out of a possible 250.
Prizes for Winners.
At the conclusion of the match,
which was witnessed by President nnd
Mine. Porno, members of the Hnltlun
cabinet and council of state, High Com
missioner Itussell nnd Brigade Com
mander Theodore I*. Kane and their
staffs, and the ranking officers of the
gendarmerie, the President presented
Holland with a handsome gold watch,
a medal, an autographed letter and the
equivalent of a month’s puy to take
back to admiring Jeremie. Incident
ally, Rutland ls now learning to read
time.
On the following day the national
team match got under way with the
four teams firing In relays, one target
to each team. Slowly the department
of the south began to forge ahead and
won out with the score of 1,738, or an
average of 217 points out of 250. The
other teams finished with the respec
tive scores of 1,568, 1,041 nnd 1,590.
Again Astrale Holland demonstrated
his right to the crown with the high
gun of 234 out of 250, closely pressed
as he was. In a special match for the
benefit of President Borno, now a con
firmed rifle enthusiast, and whose right
shoulder ls no stranger to^the Impact
of a Springfield, Rolland met Fadael of
the President's own Palace guard.
Fadael triumphed In the ten-shot
match prone, scoring 49 to Holland's
48.
At the conclusion of this match
President Borno, in a happy little
speech complimenting the men on
their application and skill, presentAl
each with a medal and cash prize
equal to a month’s pay and ordered
that all be given ten days’ leave to
visit their families. To the south went
the national trophy, a plaque of pol
ished mahogany with silver medallions
to mark the victors of the yearly
matches.
JANUARY FIRST DRAWS NEAR.
The light and airy manner
He had some weeks ago
Has passed from him comptat*!?.
His heart Is filled with wo*.
For that day Is approaching
He great dreads to sec.
When Friend Wife will remind him
Of promise* that ho
Has- made—those resolutions
That will be hard to keep,
Requiring such an effort,
'TwnnM —-l-- -- - -ol o-,. n
F hLl t
Plunge* Over Edge of Roof of New
Building Into Alloy
Bolow.
Detrolt.^John Hancock, eighteen
years old, of 510 Abbott street, push
ing a wheelbarrow Into a hoist shaft
on the roof of the eight-story building
at Third and Baltimore avenues, sought
t- . Imeelf by lei ting the wheel-
harrow hurtle down the shaft, but was
drugged forward, and plunged over the
pd-p of the roof and InOo the alley bo
low. i
The wheelbarrow the bottom of
the shaft was a total wreck, but after
the surgeons had looked John all over
very carefully, they could not find any
thing wrong with Mm.
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Driving Rain
winking was showing
iflul all through the hill sta-
ut the big Partlguennve
Woman Oil Inspector.
- Pontiac, 111.—Livingston county for
the first time has a woman engaged In
the task of officially Inspecting oil be
fore It passes Into the hands of the
retuiler. County Judge Ray Sesler
the other day named Mrs. Lulu <i
Reed as oil Inspector of Reading
township, near here, to succeed her
father, the late William Burrell. Th.
city of Streator Is located In the town
ship.
Shot Fox Worth $2,000.
Bruce, Wls.—The black fox Ilia
raped from’the pens of-Pea si
llama in the Town of (’row >
weeks ago wns shot by a P>rn<v
or wlm failed to recognize tlu* . :
Th*; fox was valued at ueurly $2,000.
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