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PAGE TWO 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?