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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Of course one of tlie neatest alter
nates to cleaning out a desk is to lock
It securely and buy anew desk.
A Judge in Pittsburgh has ruled
that chewing gum Is a drug. We al
ways thought it was on exercise.
There are laws against weapon-car
rying. They do not appear to apply
very rigidly to professional gunmen.
What ever became of the old-fash
ioned girl with nervous spells, who
didn’t have a whole finger nail left?
A highly selective radio set is a great
advantage: You can now get 17 dif
ferent versions of the "correct time."
Something else that covers a multi
tude of sins is the announcement that
it was done "for the good of the serv
ice."
Tl|| merger of a paint company with
a food products concern has created
some mild surmise. Heretofore, we
are told, French pastry makers have
had to buy their shellac.
The average mnn, asking for ad
vice, really wants someone to tell him
what he wants to hear.
It Is surprising what thought can
he given a proposition by statesmen
if one of them denounces it as ‘‘un
thinkable.’’
The letter carriers are not pleased
with the announcement that one mail
order house is printing 15,000,000
catalogues.
A diet fanatic claims to have re
duced so drastically of late that he
lias to wear a coat hanger to keep
Ids suit on.
Tilings are simpler certainly, if not
ns constitutional, in Italy, where tlie
cabinet selector lias seven picked be
fore he begins.
We wish some lexicographer would
explain the rule by which "e” Is
sometimes sounded us long o, as in
“Sweet Ad-o-line.”
Queer Story: "The host at the
party cried, ‘Gentlemen 1 Gentlemen"
and the Wit failed to remark, ‘Did
someone come in?’”
Dorn says one of lior dearest girl
friends crocheted a beautiful doily,
using the details of the new Einstein
theory as directions.
We feel that enough lias been said
of the plot in Doctor Einstein’s little
manuscript and not enough of its lit
erary style.
There used to he Australian wood
choppers with some of the circuses,
mid we often wonder what their time
would be for cutting through a club
sandwich.
Publisher—“ You say you have ap
proaehed tlie life of Washington from
an entirely new and popular angle?"
Author —"Yeh. 1 worked it up into a
detective mystery."
In the Old Days they induced tlie
child to use his imagination by giv
ing him a jackknife with 16 blades
and attachments. Then he had to
wonder what they were.
Price of n seat on the New York
Stock Exchange is such as to make a
stout old "grandfather chair” appear,
in this instance, to lie the most val
uable piece of furniture on record.
There have been influences of gloom
in Great Britain. A determination to
bear up and be cheerful is evidenced
by the fact that London Punch con
tinues to publish some excellent
jokes.
Anew pasteurizing method was in
spired by the slight electric shocks
an inventor received when tasting to
mato soup. It is well it did not imp
pen in Mexico, where 110-volt chili is
general.
It is good that Doctor Einstein
didn’t come out with ids theory dur
ing a war. Someone would suspect
it was signals.
A local gentleman, many years out
of college, says all tie can remember
of Greek is that I’si is the letter that
looks like an oyster fork.
On hearing that a world trust has
been formed in (lie harmonica indus
try, a local dyspeptic said he hoped
any resultant restraint of trade would
be overlooked for a time.
A linguist on one of the Continental
traffic squads is earning considerable
notoriety at this time on account of
an ability tt say “What’s the big
Idea?" in 10 languages.
Success (in tlie American manner):
Being asked for a couple of hundred
words on the “outlook.”
if it is true —about the girls on
Mars having six legs—one child on
roller skates on each cement side
walk would be enough.
According to the new Einstein for
mula, a local mathematician figures
it out that it was a watermelon that
hit Newton, not an apple.
Colleges Now Placing More Emphasis on Boy,
and Loss on Subject
By PR. GEORGE B. CUTT -N, President Colgate University.
NOT for centuries has there been such an upheaval in education
as in the last twenty-five year*. We air putting more emphasis
now upon the bov and less upon the subject, Beys work har< er
in college now than they ever did, despite the observations of
alumni who feel that college is easier new than when they we.e students.
Occasionally, it is true, a loafer gits oolkje, !-v.t lie usually doesn t
stay long. f
' The principal object of the modem college is to make a mans edu
cation worth something to him. The educational program today is not
only changed, but is better.
We are trying to analyze things and see where we are. lor one
thing, we are analyzing the student, "We have learned that to profit by
bis college work a student needs intellect, and we have tried to measure
the intellect of applicants for admission. Then we are trying to analyze
the curriculum. We have learned that discipline does not necessarily
come from study; that a man is not good merely because he had been
working at something. We have berm npplying business methods, jou
might almost say, to our courses ; estimating what their cost is to us, and
whether there is sufficient profit in an educational sense to justify them.
The third thing w< are trying to analyze is the faculty. I his is the
hardest of all, because the analysis must he made by the faculty itself. A
surprising th'ng in this connection is that 1 often find the older men
keenest for the change, and most willing to put themselves out almost to
any extent to further the cause of bettor education.
It has often been said that the main interest in college among
alumni is inspired by athletics.
Athletics jr:vide a rallying point for loyalty and enthusiasm which
nothing e.se cui . hot i college hat • right to expect from it;- alumni,
interest in, in tell g< j; cr frinwm of, and loyalty to. its educational program.
Church Facing Crisis in Shift of Population
in the Great Cities
By REV TV W. PICKETT (Conprepationalist), Detroit.
The present-ck 1 shift ol the city population into the suburbs is a
direct challengf to tin Christian ciiurch to go out and capture these
areas if the church n not t( tie faced with a steady diminution of power
in the city. ‘We art facing an emergency and a crisis. So long as Amer
ican society was dominant!' rural, Christianity was a dominant influ
ence. But with tin movement of population to the large cities, the
church failed to maintain its civic and social influence, and the city is
pagan, with spots of Christianity.
Now there is i. movement equally as important toward the sub
urbs. which will transform the entire texture of city life. Is this gen
eration of the church going to fail to capture the suburbs as the genera
tion of our fathers failed to capture the city? Millions are moving out
to territory where there are no churches. The problem that we must
decide is whether these great sections of the metropolitan area shall
grow up as Christian or non-Christian. The suburbs must have the help
of the established institutions of the city, and unless we take steps to
win the suburban areas we will be faced with a steady diminution of the
church’s power in the city.
Advertising Belittles Piety; Church Not Mutual
Society for Benefit of Good
By BISHOP IRVING PEAKE JOHNSON, Colorado.
Don’t drag your private experiences into the limelight of your
religion, for that is to he as the hypocrites are. Hypocrisy is the besetting
sin of religious folk. Personal religion is the one commodity in life abcut
which it may be said it does not pay to advertise.
Beligion, like science or art, has its technique which is mastered by
those who really desire the end in view. The man who seeks righteous
ness must be willing to undergo the training essential to his vocation.
Christ emphasizes the necessity of almsgiving, prayer and fasting
as exercises essential to religion. They constitute the hard work neces
sary in order to produce the fruits of the spirit which are love, joy and
pieace.
1 lie church is a spiritual hospital for sinners, not a mutual benefit
society for good people.
Man at Age-of Forty by No Means Too Old for
Real Study Courses v
By DR. F. B. KEPPEL, President Carnegie Corporation.
Education used to be like packing a satchel for a long journey—you
had to put into it everything you thought you might need to the very
end of the trip. Now, however, we know that if a man needs a knowledge
of German or English or psychology at the age of forty he can acquire it
at the age of forty.
The trend in education today is to stimulate people to do for them
selves what nobody else can do for them. If they do this they will con
tinually tind increased opportunities for learning and the greatest op
portunity of all is the printed page. That means the public library, for
no one can possibly own all the books he needs.
Experiments made possible by the Carnegie corporation have proved
that, granting normal health and normal balance, a person's capacity to
learn new things reaches its maximum at about the age of twenty-three
or twenty-four. After that it slows up, but only about 1 per cent a year.
Adult education is one of the educational activities largely encouraged
by the Carnegie corporation.
Liberalism of the Modern Woman Designated
as “Almost Reckless”
By REV. DR. R. W. SOCKMAN (Methodist), New York.
Men rather than women must be held chiefly responsible for our
moral standards; the idea is fallacious that men make our money and
women make our morals. It is futile to assume that, with the chanein"
7 O I?
status of womanhood, society will continue to insist on a higher ethical
standard for women than for men.
We have reacted from the old unfair attitude which made women bear
the heavier responsibility for certain sins. There are signs which make
us wonder whether man is not to become the morally conservative factor
in the days just ahead. The almost reckless liberalism of some women is
tending to turn many a man into an old-fashioned conservative.
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CONVICT SCULPTOR
CARVES IN HIS CELL
War Veteran and College
Man Shows Talent.
Raleigh, N. C.—Jack Landingham, n
veteran of the Wortd war and a col*
le?e man. convicted in Buncombe coun
ty of forgery and false pretense, and
sentenced to serve a total from ten
to twelve years, is an artist cf merit,
with n leaning toward sculpture.
The youth's first work was a model
of Amelia Earhart made from a news
paper photograph. The figure was
carved out of concrete. The young
sculptor contracted a hone felon on
his hand from working so hard a
surface, but lie created a striking like
ness of the young nviatri'x.
Officials saw the statue of the girl. It
is the policy of the institution to en
courage the prisoners to learn useful
trades. Superintendent George Ross
Pou made I.andingham n present of a
few sacks of plaster of paris, and gave
his permission to continue his artistic
pursuits outside his working hours.
A newspaper likeness of "The Hap
py Warrior," Alfred E. Smith, on his
tour through the South, caught the
eye of the young sculptor. He caught
the Democratic candidate in a charac
teristic pose. It is one of the most
striking figures that the young man
has accomplished to date.
Works in Ce*L
When Lamiiiighani lays down his
pipe wrench at the end of a day of
hard work, he carefully liks a wet
tow sack, be Death which is a muss of
moistened plaster of paris and a hunk
of modeling clay. This material the
youth carries to his cell.
In his cell after supper he takes a
picture aud, using it as a model, adds
the finishing touches to his clay out
line. He places the model above the
lump of piaster and starts on his mas
terpiece. His tools are a blunt pocket
knife, a five-inch piece of steel spring,
a whet stone and a small sponge.
Landingliam's most recent product
Is a lion. At times he sat far into
the night perfecting it. He has the
permission of the prison authorities
to keep late hours.
Landingham has carved a very good
likeness of Edwin Pou, eldest son of
the prison superintendent. He has al
so perfected busts of the other Pou
children, and one of the youngest son
of Dr. J. H. Norman. Another strike
ing example of his work is a copy of
the “Dying Gladiator.”
Jack Landingham was born in Knox
ville, Tenn., thirty-two years ago. He
spent some time as an art student at
the Rice Institute in Texas. Then the
war started, and young Landingham
was sent overseas. He carries
wounds in His Toady as the result of
contact with a German machine gun
nest. His companions on that adven
ture are de§d. . , ••
He 'caiii'fe to this country job
less ami f>?nniless. He accepted a po
sition with an advertising outfit
smart fellows who sold their scheme
to a community and then went their
way. Landingham later began busi
ness for himself.
Overlooked Formality.
He worked various cities in the West
before entering North Curolina. He
invaded Asheville, where there is in
operation an ordinance that requires
each advertising agency to pay a fee
of $Sf). Landingham started business
without attending to this formality.
The Merchants’ association got be
hind him. He had by this lime in
vested all his money in the proposi
tion and had none left with which
to pay his license. An automobile
denier hacked out of his contract and
took ids license off the-car. Half the
merchants declined to pay their part,
while the other half insisted that he
carry out his contract.
The merchants threatened to have
him arrested on a charge of fraud.
Landingham became frightened and
jumped tlie town. The merchants
who had bit oh the scheme swore
out warrants for ids arrest. lie
thought the fact be ran away would
convict him, so be pleaded guilty.
Behind it all is an unrequited love
affair of his college days—a romance
which resulted in tlie other man win
ning the girl while .Tack fought the
Huns. Then came wandering over ttie
world to- forget memories of brown
eyes and laughing lips; to keep his
hands from modeling figures of her
who first inspired him; to forget the
blood-covered fields of France—wan
dering that landed him finally behind
prison walls.
19 Skeletons Dug Up
in Old Berlin Church
Berlin.—ln the course of renovat
ing the Kiosterkirche, the oldest
church of Berlin, the workmen under
their ecclesiastical expert, Doctor
Steinberger, discovered a subterranean
tomb tilled with 18 skeletons of wom
en that were identified as remains of
the Eighteenth century. The skele
tons were exhumed and buried else
where.
Within the last two centuries the
Kiosterkirche, built during the latter
part of the Thirteenth century, has
repeatedly proved a treasure ‘ trove
for historical relics. Only last year
a two-hundred-year-old sepulcher was
unearthed, though neither in that nor
in the present burial place were any
objects of art value found.
Gently Tapping
Rochester, N. V.—There was an in
sistent tapping, as of someone gently
rapping, at Mrs. George Ranker’s win
dow. It was not a black raven, but
a white carrier pigeon, friendly and
an utter stranger.
GEORGIANS ENACT
OLD GOLD RUSH
See Conquest for Yellow Metal
in Hills.
Dahlonegn, Ga.—They are digging
for gold again in the hills around
Dahlonegn, scene of a famous rusli
earfy in the Nineteenth century.
Men nre swinging picks and shovels,
searching for the metal that lured
5,000 fortune seekers, frenzied miners,
over rugged mountain pnths to tlds
town, sixteen miles from a railroad,
when news of the big strike in ISJ9
went around the world.
Gold mining around Dahlonegn has
been lagging since the W orld war,
when increased wages and operating
costs cut into the profits.
The Civil war resulted in the shut
ting down here of a branch of the
United States mint in IS6I, after it
had coined 1,381,784 pieces, valued at
$6,115,509, in its twenty-four years of
operation. D. 8. TV. McCallie, state
geologist, says while the coinage of
the mint was only slightly above $6,-
000.000, that the mountains around
Dahlonegn have produced at least $lO,-
000,060 in gold. The mint vvas not
established here until 1838, about ten
years after the first gold was found.
Two companies, operating ten or
more mines, have started operations
here on a modest scale. There is
nothing of a frenzy about Dahlonega’s
gold digging this time. Doctor Mc-
Callie says he believes the mines can
be made to pay if the work is carried
on by trained geologists and mining
engineers. He calls attention to the
fact that the profits from the Dah
lonega gold mines had greatly dwin
dled when the first gold was found
in California in 1848.
Dahlonega residents do not antici
pate anew gold rush. William Ben
jamin Franklin Townsend, quaint old
editor of the town’s weekly newspaper,
The Nugget, says he believes there is
gold in the mountains “if you know
where and how to find it.”
When the government abandoned
the Dahlonega mint the buildings and
grounds were given to the state for
the North Georgia Agricultural col
lege. A number of buildings, reminis
cent of gold-mining boom days, still
stand.
Table Salt Substitute
for Ailing Is Discovered
Atlantic City, N. J.—Dr. John C.
Krantz, Jr., chemist and lecturer at
Johns Hopkins hospital, announced at
a joint meeting of the state boards of
pharmacy and delegates from the fac
ulties of colleges of pharmacy of the
East, the discovery of Eka salt, a sub-
Mkj,aLfis MJiS-sl
tnose afflicted with high blood pres
sure, Bright’s disease and dropsy.
Eka salt is a sodium salt of malic
acid. Malic acid is obtained from ap
ples. It satisfies the craving for salt,
according to Doctor 'Krantz, and its
feactmnTn Thepody is quite different
from that "oj common
"The Ordinary table salt,” he said,
"tends to create water iii the body.
The new sodium salt of the acid is
burned up or metabolized in the body
and serves as an alkali-producing food
and tends to counteract acidosis. Be
cause it is burned up or metabolized,
it does not tax the kidneys.”
Old Yankee Clipper
Anchors in Thames
London. —Ancient galleons and Amer
ican clippers vie for honors in an ex
hibition of old ships models now draw
ing crowds of children—and grown
ups, too —to the Friend Ship, a beauti
ful old three-masted vessel which, un
der American auspices, has been an
chored in the Thames as a clubhouse.
Among the most interesting exhibits
is a model, made in 1730, of an Ameri
can clipper of the 16-gun corvette type.
An Elizabethan galleon nearby makes
a striking contrast. Other favorite
models are an Italian felucca such as
used to fight the Moorish pirates, a
two-decker fighting ship of the Nelson
type and a fine model of a Norwegian
fruit carrier.
Folding Cello
New York.—Livingston Welch, lit
terateur and musician, has invented a
folding cello that can be put in a suit
case.
Indian Factions in
Row Over Necklace
Poncha City, Okla. —Charles
H. Burke, Indian commissioner,
has been asked to referee the
controversy between two promi
nent Otoe Indian families over
the ownership of a bear claw
necklace.
The necklace has been an
adornment of the head chief
for several generations. It was
originally the property of Chief
Two Strike in Nebraska and
later adorned Two Killer, Medi
cine Horse and others.
After the tribe had been
moved to its reservation near
here the necklace came into the
possession of Medicine Horse,
the tribal chief but not a lineal
descendant of Chief Two Strike.
Members of the Green family
Chief Two Strike’s descendants,
contend the necklace belongs to
them. The Medicine Horse fac
tion insist the necklace is the
property of the chief and serves
in lieu of a crown.
BELGIAN ORPHAN TO
GET U. S. CITIZENSHIP
Wins Out in Long Struggle
to Become Yankee.
NnshviHe, Tenn. —This is another
story uhout a man without n country
—but This one will end •tapplly.
Back in 1914, when the German
armies struck at Frunee through Bel.
glum, a Belgian soldier was killed by
the invaders and his family scattered.
The soldier’s son, Albert, then aged
nine, found himself suddenly an
orphan, fleeing with other refugees
into France.
Through the first three years of the
war, Albert lived as a waif behind
the allied lines, picking up food where
he could, and sleeping any place
where a shell was not likely to strike.
Then in 1918 came the Americans
to aid the French and English and
Albert’s stricken countrymen.
The boy liked the new soldiers, par
ticularly the Fifth regiment of ma
rines. So he followed the Fifth
through the final victorious days of
the war, as mascot.
Befriended by Sergeant.
With the marines was Sergeant Ted
Vaughan of Nashville, who befriend
ed the waif, and soon became the
boy’s idol. Albert’s objectives in life
narrowed down to three:'To lick the
Germans, to be near Vaughan, and to
become an American, like the soldiers
of the Fifth.
Then came the armistice, and the
first of Albert’s desires was attained.
But after the armistice it was time
for Vaughan to embark with the ma
rines for America.
Albert—by this time known ns Al
bert Vaughan—clamored to be taken
to America with his protector. But
army regulations forbade taking the
boy on board the transport ship, so
Vaughan paid a Frencli woman in
Brest to keep the lad until money
could be sent to bring him to Amer
ica.
(sne day xYlbert disappeared. A
week later Vaughan, in Nashville, re
ceived a wire from a sailor on an
American freighter saying that Albert
had stowed away aboard the ship,
and had landed at Norfolk, Va.
Albert was brought to the Vaughan
home here and became to all outward
appearances Vaugharfis adopted son.
He attended American schools, and
learned to speak the American tongue
with but a trace of accent.
But, for reasons inexplicable to
him, the American government would
not allow him to become a citizen.
It also refused to let Sergeant
Vaughan adqj>t the boy.
Falls in Lov?X -
From 1019 to 1928 Albert, and his
foster father tried every means to
secure citizenship for him. The hoy
grew to be a young man, with his
status still in doubt, and no legal
in&ans of making him an American
available -• ~
J£hen flbe Inevitable happened Al
bert, now twenty-one years old, feli
tft love —with an American girt. Thej
were married.
Albert went again to the American
government. He had everything now
that goes to make an American, he
told the officials, excepting citizenship
papers.
The government pondered. Well,
it finally agreed, if Albert were to
leave the country, and his American
wife were to ask the government to
make her husband an American too
—then maybe . . .
• And so it is to he done. Albert
will go outside the boundaries of the
United States. Ilis wife will peti
tion the government, and after ten
years of waiting and hoping, the Bel
gian war orphan will become a citi
zen of the United States.
Wild Rose Leads the Poll
for the National Flower
Washington.—The wild rose has
passed all other flowers in the vot
ing on the most popular wild flower.
Of 83,023 votes cast received in a
nation-wide campaign the wild rose
leads with 31,309 votes.
The columbine is next with 14.000
votes and the goldenrod third with
10,400.
Campaigns are on in 21 states
through women’s clubs and schools.
In all the campaigns the wild flowers
are studied over a period of weeks
before the day set for the votes. -*
The American Nature association,
which is conducting the poll for the
most popular wild flower, reports that
phlox, violet and daisy are running
strong, while dogwood and mountain
laurel are holding their owni '
" Niy,
King’s Title in Jamaica
Is That of “Supreme Lord”
Kingston, Jamaica.—This is the
only British colony in the world
where George V'is not the king. Here
he is the “Supreme Lord of Jamaica.”
When the agents of Cromwell broke
the Spanish power in the West Indies
in 1655, Jamaica took the arms of
Cromwell and retains them to this
day. “Supreme Lord of Jamaica” was
the title assumed by Cromwell. The
statue of Queen Victoria in Kingston
is inscribed “Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, Empress of India and
Supreme Lady of Jamaica.”
Holds Blood Record
New \ ork.—Thomas Kane, forty
three years old, ferry deck hand and
father of three children, believes he
has given away more blood than any
body else. His record is 99 transfu
sions.