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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
An Oklahoma hunter claims he
killed 8,703 crows with two shots. Two
shots of what?
There are certain people who don’t
seem to have tiny special mission In
lift except to be news.
TIUs Is nn enlightened age in spite
of the startling figures n census of
voodoo believers would show.
Some of wlmt goes for flu used to
be “bronlcal trouble," that being
easier to say than •‘bronchial.’*
The peace of the world might be
assured If the great powers could ne
kept from comparing each other.
"Tung oil is now being produced in
this country." We still Ihlnk elbow
grease would be more practical.
“Cornstalks treated by the new
process make an exceptionally strong
paper.” Or would husky be the word;
The politician who claims -lie has
nn ear to the ground better stay In
that position, for he may be due for
a fall.
First-grade pupils in an Eastern
school are put right to work at type
writing. This may explain much of
the spelling.
One reason Shakespeare is nlways
popular is because people like to go
to the theater to hear their favorite
misquotations.
Back In the old home town there
was at lerfst one man who was so
worthless that he wasn’t even asked
to sign petitions.
“A film producer Is planning n build
ing of f>2 stories In New York.” As
with the films, however, they will all
be built on one plot.
It is hoped someone of the pub
licists who use it, constantly, will ex
plain how strange a thing ought to be
before it can be “passing strange.”
What has become of the annual
story about the fellow who pulled a
fair skater out of the water and mar
ried her, after seing her at her worst?
When a young husband is asked
what he would like for dinner, he
habitually says liver, knowing the
chance of mayonnaise on that is slight.
University of California announces
a survey shows it costs $307.20 for n
college girl to dress herself from head
to approximately 10 inches above the
foot
The lives of the people of the United
States are insured for $95,000,000,000,
proving that in this country insur
ance lias become merely a matter of
policy.
There was a woman back home
who always asked for a glass of wa
ter, when calling, and offered to get
it herself, just to see how the kitchen
was kept.
The government reports a decrense
of 5 per cent in the pig crop. The
ham in the sandwich, which has here
tofore been opuque, may become trans
parent.
“An Insatiable desire for change is
rooted in every woman,” says a noted
New York jurist. We’ve heard that
she even goes into her husband’s
pockets after it.
In some circles n marriage is con
sidered a comparative success if in
family differences the unhappy wife
wnits for a divorce instead of reach
ing for a weapon.
In regard to the news that three
fourths of tlie explosives produced in
the country are used in mining, some
one asks if Chicago is in the copper
or bituminous coal belt.
One of the enlightening statistics of
the past year is tiiat we consumed an
average of 100 sticks of chewing gum
per capita. We can name a party in
this office who is far above the
average.
A broom or a rollingpin was once
humorously depicted as the wifely
weapon. At present an offending hus
band Is supposed to be lucky if gun
play is not Introduced into domestic
discipline.
Who can remember the old-fash
ioned winter when a boy could skate
down to the store nlmost any day for
u sack of pastry flour?
Some wives are merely inexperi
enced, and others are like the young
matron who ordered a ton of chestnut
coal, free from worm holes.
Scrapping blue prints if it can be
carried on successfully may make the
waste basket to serve instead of the
bottom of the deep blue sea as a de
pository for disabled Junk.
"Anyway/’ muttered the Old Crab,
“a man may still take n chew now
and then without feeling that he
shonld first offer It to a lady.”
We have wondered whether an en
trant couldn’t get through one of those
talking marathons with a consider
able saving of words by drawling.
Misunderstanding of Jewish Ideals Largely
Responsible for Prejudice
v* By RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE.
*. V ~
THE world’s prejudice toward the Jew is due to a misunderstand
ing of his aims, ideals and racial inter-relation. What is the
matter with us? What is the matter with those who persecute
us, who, in a thousand ways, have afflict-d and troubled us?
Almost anything may he explained but not everything may be vindicat
ed or justified. I could sum up the whole crux of the opposition to
Semitism in one word. That word is “alienism,” not as it is generally
understood in the sense of newcomers who are alien immigrants, but in
the sense that the word really means and in the sense that it is applied
to Jews. We are different and therefore misunderstood.
The Jews are the great creditor nation of the world. Dislike for
its creditors, too, explains the attitude of the world toward us, Rumania
and other countries as well. W'hether we are really different seems to
he less the method of reasoning than the fact that we are believed to be
different.
The Christian world doesn’t know the truth about us, and, as a re
sult, we have for centuries been the most misunderstood race on the
face of the earth. Except for the few centuries when we had a king, a
country and a national life of our own, we have been forced to go every
where throughout the world in order to exist.
Some of us are rich and for many it would be a better thing if they
were not. We have seen the effects of accumulation in the record of the
past and if there be another century of accumulation by our people,
then woe betide the Jews.
I do not think that there are many deliberate, conscious anti-Sem
ites but there are many who do not understand us. We are a phenom
enon and the world does not want to deal with a phenomenon.
Responsibility of Human Service Constantly
Kept Before Kiwanis Members
By 0. S. CUMMINGS, President Kiwanis International.
No more potent factor in civic leadership and service exists than
the Kiwanis club3 existing in 1,7G0 communities in the United States
and Canada. There is a definite responsibility involved in every require
ment of membership. The prospective Kiwanian must be interested in
his fellowmen, especially those less fortunate than himself. He must
be willing to give liberally of himself and of his substance tc further
the program of service to humanity in which Kiwanis is engaged. He
must measure up to that high standard of personal integrity and con
duct expressed in the true meaning of the word gentleman.
The basic reason for Kiwanis success is the emphasis which the or
ganization places on the individual, on the human and spiritual rather
than the material values of life. In the broad field of service to society
Kiwanis has rendered conspicuous and enduring service to citizenship,
under-privileged children, the effort to create a better understanding be
tween the farmer and the city man, to raise business and professional
standards, and the service of vocational guidance and placement for
young men and women.
Newspaper the Greatest Educator That the
World Has Ever Known
By J. ELMER MORGAN, Editor Journal N. E. A.
The educational value of the newspaper is beyond calculation. It
is built into tlie daily lives of millions of people. It supplies the raw
materials of thought and action with clock-like regularity and with a
speed of manufacture that is one of the marvels of modern times. It
makes the whole world one and helps to raise the standard of living by
encouraging people to dress well, to live in better homes, to drive finer
automobiles, to eat a more wholesome variety of food, to let their inter
ests go out in a wider range of affairs.
Newspapers have been made possible by universal education, and
as the schools improve the press will likewise grow better. Newspapers
have made a significant gain during the past year by refusing to play
up scandals as extensively as formerly. Press associations and newspa
per syndicates are giving more attention to education, health, science,
politics and geography. What eyes are to the individual, the newspaper
is to society. They also teach who follow the reporter’s beat, who write
against time in editorial offices, who know not sleep, nor distance, nor
fear, nor fatigue in their heroic search for news.
Christian Spirit of Sharing, Solution of Prob
lems That Confront World
By REV. PHILIP COOK, Episcopal Bishop of Delaware.
Christ is not a Karl Marx sitting in judgment upon an economic
system, but the Son of God calling to men to live in the spirit of broth
erhood. There is enough for all, if mankind knows how to share—food
for all, money for all, blessings for all, faith for all, hope for all, love
for all, when we know what spiritual brotherhood means and put it into
practice. This is not Communism, nor Socialism, nor any of these
things.
1 am sorry for the man who has nothing to share with his neighbor
but money. We must learn to share our enthusiasms, our faith, our
sympathy in honest service. That is the heart of Christianity.
Christ’s achievement in feeding the multitude was not a miracle
over matter so much a6 it was a miracle over men, inasmuch as He in
duced those in the throng who were hoarding their food to share it with
their neighbors. And that is Christian giving—not out of our super
fluity, but of all we possess. That was what Christ was doing from
the start to the finish of His ministry;
Curricula of Many Educational Institutions
Merely Wasted Expenditure
By DOCTOR TIGERT, President University of Florida.
Education, like legislation, may become too highly detailed for gen
eral use and efficient operation. Curtailment of the curricula of educa
tional institutions is one of the ways to eliminate wasted expenditure.
The need is for earlier entrance and graduation of students and the op
eration of educational machinery on a business basis. American stu
dents are graduated two years later in life than those of Europe.
Democratization of junior education is another feature. We have
as many as sixty or seventy courses in our high schools, and our system
now is articulated with industrial order.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD, Conyers, Ga., Wed., March 20, 1929.
COMB WORLD’S MARTS
FOR MILADY’S FURS
Millions of Foreign Pelts
Are Imported.
Washington.—“American fur wear
ers force American fur buyers to
search the fur markets of the world to
meet the demand for fur garments, al
though the United States is the
world’s greatest fur producer,” says a
bulletin from the Washington head
quarters of the National Geographic
society.
“Stand for half an hour on a busy
corner of the shopping district of an
American city, and literally watch the
animals go by—animals that roam
dreary Arctic wastes, African jungles,
and all the wild places between.
Then, picture the trappers, and your
imagination conjures a processional of
Eskimo, swarthy Asiatic, bronze Afri
can and Canadian adventurer. The
romance of furs is one of the most
thrilling chapters in all the annals of
trade.
Millions of Pelts Imported.
“Wild squirrels and rabbits cavort
nbout all the forests of the United
States; muskrats infest the marshes
of every state except Florida; for
some reason the raccoon avoids only
Montana; martens, minks, foxes, opos
sums and skunks range over a wide
area of this country. Yet more than
100,000,000 pelts are imported annual
ly to trim women’s dresses, line men’s
gloves and make fur coats for both
sexes.
“China is America’s largest source
of furs, hut only in the supply of dog
nnd goat pelts does China excel other
foreign countries. Karakul comes
from the herds of karakul lambs in
India and Central Asia; most of our
foreign mink pelts are from the traps
of the Japanese. The United King
dom leads the list of sources of squir
rel, fox and mole pelts; Germany sup
plies most of our foreign marten pelts;
Peru, Chile and Bolivia, chinchilla
pelts; Siberia, ermine pelts; Aus
tralia, rabbit pelts, and for our addi
tional supply of beaver and muskrat
pelts, we look to Canada.
“Early fur wearers wore only gen
uine furs. Only the trapper and the
wealthy could afford fur garments.
Then the demand for cheap furs de
veloped. Like actors in a commer
cial drama, dressers of cheap furs ap
peared in the fur world. Experts dis
covered that pelts of rabbits, dogs,
alley cats, goats, ponies and many
other animals could be made Into ex
quisite furs by the deft hands of
trained fur workers. Australia had
been offering a bounty for killing rab
bits which had overrun the continent,
but the new fur trade turned a lia
bility into an asset.
“More than a hundred million cheap
er furs are used annually. With a
little dye and expert workmanship,
bunny pelts are made to imitate those
of the aristocrats of the fur-bearing
animal world. Rabbit furs dyed seal
are known as Arctic seal, bay seal
and Northern seal, sealette and sealine.
Dyed to imitate fox, they grace the
counter of the fur store as Baltic
brown, red and black fox, or fox hair.
A leopard may not be able to change
its spots but leopard spots dyed on
rabbit pelts make Baltic, French and
Russian leopard. These are but a few
of more than fifty aliases by which
rabbit pelts are known, when they
leave the hands of the furriers.
Rival Gold in Exploration.
“Civilization is invading the domain
of the fur-bearing animals in the
United States, yet from $45,000,000 to
$75,000,000 worth of furs were taken
in 1927. The greatest wild fur pro
ducing area in the world lies within a
600-mile ladius of St. Louis. In an
attempl to increase the supply of gen
uine furs, fur farms or ranches have
been established in the United States.
Approximately 99 per cent of the sil
ver fox pelts sold on American mar
kets are ranch bred. Prince Edward
island, norlh of Nova Scotia, where
fox ranching began about 30 years ago,
is literally covered with fox ranches.
Skunk, muskrat and rabbit, ranches
have also been established.
“Furs have played an important
part in exploration. Explorers often
find tlie cabins of fur trappers mark
ing the farthest outposts of civiliza
tion. St. Louis owes its founding to
tlie early French fur traders who es
tablished a station on tlie site in
1764. Trappers and traders from the
St. Louis station and those from
Canadian stations opened up a large
part of northern and western United
States. Long before tlie ‘forty-niners’
crossed tlie plains the Frenchmen
reached what is now the state of Utah
where they learned that Canadian fur
traders had already been in that re
gion.
“Russian trappers crossed the bleak
expanse of Siberia to Kamchatka in
quest of furs and then pushed on to
Alaska. Furs and gold have vied
in opening up ’Seward’s Folly’ or the
'Seven Million Dollar Ice Box,’ as
Alaska formerly was called. But gold
booms have come and gone. Fur trap
ping and trading have continued and
today two little islands of the ITibilof
group in the Bering sea send SSOO.OOO
worth of seal and blue fox furs to
the St. Louis fur market annually.
Blue foxes are also successfully
ranched on many of the Aleutian
islands.”
Raise Freak Flowers
London.—A popular craze for flow
ers of freak hues lias led English
horticulturists into an orgy of ex
periment. One grower has succeed
ed in developing green, pink, orange,
flesh-color and electric-blue tulips.
UNEARTH TRICKS
OF COIN FRAUDS
Relic Sleuths Use Microscope
in Work.
Ithaca, N. Y. —Detectives who use
chemicals, X-rays, vacuum tubes and
ultra-violet light apparently ure neces
sary in these days of sythesis, but
here at Cornell university a technique
has been developed that affords some
strong talking points in favor of the
old-fashioned principle of using the
eyes aided by a glass.
The detective work here is done
mostly on rare coins and antiques to
discover whether they are genuine.
The owners have come to the depart
ment of chemistry expecting some
such chemical formula as “x equals
p” as proof of age. They often are
told by Dr. E. H. Chamot, professor
of chemical microscopy:
“Let us look at it first. Perhaps we
can save time and the possibility of
marring this treasure.”
He puts the object under a micro
scope. Now, under the glass nothing
appears natural, and a long training
in the technique is necessary before
the microscope detective may read the
evidence before his eyes.
A coin known as a gold stater from
Lampsacus came here for analysis.
The microscope showed that it had
not been cast. A chemical test proved
that the gold was of a fineness con
sistent with ancient origin. But sus
picion persisted.
As it was desirable not to mar the
coin, the microscope was employed to
get a tiny piece of the “dark gold”
from the coin without leaving a trace
of cutting. Analysis proved that the
apparent aging was an artificial coat
ing of .gum, starch and color matter.
U. S. Autoists Need No
Passports in Mexico
Laredo, Texas. —In order to encour
age American automobile tourists to
visit Mexico, the government has is
sued an order which does away with
the passport requirement. In its
place all that is now necessary is for
the visitor to obtain a credential from
a chamber of commerce anywhere in
the United States certifying as to his
identity and good character. This
certificate will be recognized by im
migration and custom officials at ail
border gateways and the tourist ad
mitted expeditiously. The new high
way between Laredo and Monterey is
now being placed in excellent condi
tion in expectation of heavy tourist
traffic during the coining summer.
Even tourist camps, similar to those
that are found in the United States,
are being built at points along the
highway. This is something new in
the way of accommodations for tour
ists in Mexico. A regular bus line has
also been established between Laredo
and Monterey.
Fangless Snake Able
to Grow New Teeth
Mont Alto, Pa. —Loss or injury of
its fangs does not render a rattle
snake harmless, because it can quick
ly grow anew set, according to T.
C. Evans and H. A. Foreman, stu
dents at the Pennsylvania State For
est school, who have devoted con
siderable time to studies of the pri
vate life of this fearsome reptile.
A compilation of their findings,
prepared by Dr. E. A. Zeigler, direc
tor of the school, discloses that each
rattlesnake is equipped with six or
seven sets of immature fangs, capa
ble of developing quickly to replace
mature fangs that are injured or lost.
The only way to deprive the snake
of its deadly quality is to remove the
poison sac.
Oysters Grow on Trees
and Crabs Eat Fruit
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.—This is
probably the only place in the world
where oysters grow on trees and crabs
eat from the highest branches of the
fruit trees. Nature has played many
pranks in Trinidad, where there are
also a lake of pitch, rivers of tar and
fishes clad in armor.
Both Columbus and Sir Walter Ra
leigh mentioned the oysters which
grew on the mangroves 'here and
which were left high and dry by the
receding tides. The soldier crab
climbs trees with the greatest ease.
The armor-clad fish is called the cas
cadura and has a delicious (lavor.
Anger Is Blamed
on Early Diseases
New York.—Two results of
disease, a tendency to got angry
easily and an inclination toward
fear, were analyzed before the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
George M. Stratton of the Uni
versity of California said that
evidence increases that disease
is connected in after-life with
irascibility. Instead of breeding
patieTice, it appears that “per
sons who have had a greater
number of diseases appear to be
more irascible than do those
who have had few diseases.
“The time when the disease
occurs is important. Persons
who have suffered disease in the
first five years of their lives ap
pear in general to respond more
intensely to anger situations
than do persons whose diseases
came later.”
DARING ATTEMPT TO
FLEE PRISON FOILED
British Warden Thwarts
Sensational Jailbreak.
Cowes, Isle of Wight.—A prison
warden’s decision to mail a letter at
seven o’clock in the evening probably
frustrated one of the most daring and
most carefuly planned attempts ever
made to get out of Purkhurst prison,
here.
Two men, George Taylor and one
Jackson, were concerned in the at
tempt, which, but for the warden’s
quick action, would almost certainly
have been successful.
Taylor was described in a sensa
tional case at the Old Bailey, London,
in May, 1927, as “a professional black
mailer, an associate of thieves, and
drug addict.” He was sentenced to
penal servitude for life for his part in
what the judge described as “the
worst case of blackmail 1 have ever
known." He comes of a good family,
is well educated, and speaks several
languages.
Breaks Strait Jackets.
Jackson was a housebreaker, a man
continually in trouble within the pri>-
ou, having tried to escape before. As
a result of this attempt and the fact
that he had even broken strait jackets
and caused destruction in padded
cells, lie was under special restric
tions and was watched more than any
other man in the prison.
One of the regulations was that his
clothes had to be placed outside his
cell at 7 p. m. each night, and another
tiiat lie was visited by a special watch
during the night.
At seven o’clock on the night of
their attempt, all the cells were opened
and inspected and the roll taken as
usual. clothes were put
outside his cell and all the cells doubly
locked.
The locks cannot be tampered with
from inside because they are covered
on the inner side by a sheet of steel.
During the next 20 minutes, however,
Jackson was outside his ceil.
It was afterwards found that he had
made a hole through the steel with
smuggled tools, and had then released
the levers, relocking his cell with a
specially made key, one of several
which, by some astute means, had been
smuggled in.
Jackson, wearing his underclothes,
stole along and unlocked the door of
Taylor’s cell, and the two men crept
down to the first floor, despite the
keen watch of the wardens of that
hall. They were then confronted with
the locked door leading to the ward
ers’ hall.
Another key, however, had been
made in readiness, and in a second
they were through, locking the door
behind them, with nothing barring
their way to the inner yard.
About a hundred yards had to be
crossed in the darkness to the last
formidable obstacle to freedom—a
wall some 20 feet high and 20 yards
from the gate. A rope was waiting—
dangling on the other side of the wall
—but attached to it, on the inner side,
was a piece of string, scarcely to be
seen in daylight.
Seen by Officer.
On the other side of this wall was
another yard bounded by a lower
wall. A Shed against this outer wall
would have enabled the men to es
cape. Then they would have had a
fast ear, a change of clothes, and free
dom. Dummies in the beds—no alarm
within the prison for 12 hours.
At 7:20 p. m. an officer crossed the
inner yard to post a letter. He was
passing through the gates when he
saw a shadow thrown from a light
high up on the wall. He acted at
once. The gate man tolled the bell,
and within a few seconds 30 warders
and other officials from the canteen
outside tlie gates were dashing into
the inner yard.
Taylor was within easy reach of the
top of the wall, but he dropped back
and the two fled into the shadows of
the inner yard. They ran behind the
officers’ mess and were lost. But a
few minutes later there was a shout
from inside. Taylor and Jackson had
re-entered the way they had escaped.
Jackson actually got back into his cel!
but Taylor was caught on the landing.
Voltaire’s Geneva Home
Menaced by Expansion
Geneva.—Heroic efforts are being
made to preserve the house at Geneva
occupied by Voltaire, the great French
philosopher and historian.
This house, called Les Delices, and
situated in the heart of old Geneva,
was Voltaire’s home for many years.
Tlie writer had lost favor witli King
Louis XV and had taken refuge in
Prussia. Dissatisfied there, he came
to Geneva in 1754, seeking, as lie said,
a land of liberty.
Later Voltaire abandoned Les De
lices and moved to Ferney, just across
the French border, where he lived for
twenty years. The famous house is
now used for apartments and the own
ers want to replace it with a modern
structure. Voltaire’s friends wish to
buy it and hand it down to posterity
as a historic monument.
Pig for Wife Basis
of Cannibal Trading
London. Primitive tribes which
trade pigs for wives and occasionally
practice cannibalism were described
by John R. Baker in a lecture at the
Royal Geographical society here. The
tribes had never seen a w’hite man
until Baker and his wife visited their
wild country Jd previously unexplored
parts of the northern New Hebride?