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THE ROCKDALE RECORD
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
J. M. TOWNS Editor
W. E. ATKINSON Publisher
Of course one of the 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 an 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."
Tli|> merger of a paint company with
a food products concern lias created
some mild surmise. Heretofore, we
are told, French pastry makers have
had to buy their shellac.
The average man, asking for ad
vice, really wants someone to tell him
what he wants to hear.
It is surprising what thought can
be given a proposition by statesmen
if one of them denounces it as "un
thinkable.”
The letter cnrrlers 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
has to wear a coat hanger to keep
his suit on.
Things are simpler certainly, if not
ns constitutional, in Italy, where the
cabinet selector has seven picked be
fore he begins.
We wish some lexicographer would
explain the rule by which "e" is
sometimes sounded as long o, as in
"Sweet Ad-o-llne.”
Queer Story: “The host at the
party cried, ‘Gentlemen! Gentlemen I’
and the Wit failed to remark, ‘Did
someone come In?’”
Dora says one of her dearest girl
friends crocheted a beautiful dolly,
using the details of the new Einstein
theory as directions.
We feel that enough has been said
of the plot in Doctor Einstein’s little
manuscript and not enough of its lit
erary style.
There used to be Australian wood
choppers with some of the circuses,
and we often wonder what their time
would be for cutting through a club
sandwich.
Publisher—" You say you have ap
proached the 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 the
child to use his imagination by giv
ing him a jackknife with 10 blades
and attachments. Then he had to
wonder what they were.
l’riee of a seat on the New York
Stock Exchange is such as to make a
stout old "grandfather chair” appear,
in this instance, to be 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 uot hap
pen in Mexico, where 110-volt chili is
general.
It Is good that Doctor Einstein
didn’t come out with his theory dur
ing a war. Someone would suspect
it was signals.
A local gentleman, many years out
of college, says all he can remember
of Greek is that Psl is the letter that
looks like an oyster fork.
On hearing that a world trust has
been formed in tlie 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 ft say “Wlmt's the big
ideaV” in 16 languages.
Success (In the 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 lo 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 Less on Subject
Ily DR. GEORGE B. CUTTMN, President Colgate University.
NOT for centuries lias there been such an upheaval in education
as in the last twenty-five years. We are putting more emphasis
now upon the boy and less upon the subject. Boys work harder
in college now than they ever did, despite the observations of
alumni who feel that college is easier now than when they were students.
Occasionally, it is true, a loafer gets into college, but he usually doesn t
stay long.
The principal object of the modern 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, wc are analyzing the student. We have learned that to profit bv
his 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 been applying business methods, you
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 we are trying to analyze is the faculty. This is the
hardest of all, because the analysis must be made by the faculty itself. A
surprising thing in this connection is that I 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 provide a rallying point for loyalty and enthusiasm which
nothing else can do, but a college has a right to expect from its alumni,
interest in, intelligent criticism of, and loyalty to, its educational program.
Church Facing Crisis in Shift of Population
in the Great Cities
By REV. W. W. PICKETT (Congregationalist), Detroit.
The present-day shift of the city population into the suburbs is a
direct challenge to the Christian church to go out and capture these
areas if the church is not to be faced with a steady diminution of power
in the city. We are facing an emergency and a crisis. So long as Amer
ican society was dominantly rural, Christianity was a dominant influ
ence. But with the 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 a 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 he 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.
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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 about
which it may be said it does not pay to advertise.
Religion, 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
peace.
The 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
Beal Study Courses v
By DR. F. B. KEPPEL, President Carnegie Corporation.
Education used to be like packing a satchel for a long journey—you
bad to put into ft 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 find 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.
-Aren rather than women must he 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 changing
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, a
veteran of the World war and a col
lege man, convicted in Buncombe coun
ty of forgery and false pretense, and
sentenced to sorve a total from ten
to twelve years, is an artist cf merit,
with a leaning toward sculpture.
The youth’s first work was a model
of Amelia Karhart made from a news
paper photograph. The ligure was
carved out of concrete. The young
sculptor contracted a bone felon on
his hand from working so hard a
surface, hut he created a striking like
ness of the young aviatrix.
Officials saw the statue of the girl. It
Is the policy of the institution to en
courage ilie prisoners to learn useful
trades. Superintendent George Ross
I’ou made Landingham a present of a
few sacks of plaster of paris, and gave
his permission to continue Ills 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 CeW.
When Landingham lays down his
pipe wrench at the end of a day of
hard work, he carefully lifts a wet
tow sack, beneath which is a mass of
moistened plaster of paris and a hunk
of modeling clay. This material the
youth carries to ids cell.
In his cell after supper he takes a
picture and, 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.
Landingham’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 strik
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 Ilice Institute in Texas. Then the
war started, and young Landingham
was sent overseas. He carries seven
* -w- -rt -sUS- rxt-'
wounds in his body as the result of
contact with a German machine gun
inest. His companions on that adven
ture are dead.
Me eaiii’ft |acT: to this country job
less amTT?hniless. 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 1
He worked various cities in the West
before entering North Carolina. He
invaded Asheville, where there is in
operation an ordinance that requires
each advertising agency to pay a fee
of SBO. Landingham started business
without attending to this formality.
The Merchants’ association got be
hind him. lie had by tins lime in
vested ail his money in the proposi
tion and had none left with which
lo pay his license. An automobile
dealer hacked out of his contract and
took his license oIT the-far. Half the
merchants declined to pay their part,
while the other half insisted that lie
carry out his contract.
The merchants threatened to have
him arrested on a charge of fraud.
Landingham became frightened and
jumped the town. The merchants
who had hit on the scheme swore
out warrants for his arrest. He
thought the fact he ran away would
convict him, so he pleaded guilty.
Behind it all is an unrequited love
affair of his college days—a romance
which resulted in the other man win
ning the girl while Jack fought the
Huns. Then came wandering over the
world t*>- 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. —In the course of renovat
ing the Kiosterkirche, the oldest
church of Berlin, the workmen under
their ecclesiastical expert, Doctor
Steinberger, discovered a subterranean
tomb filled 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. Y.—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.
Dablonega, Ga.—They are digging
for gold again in the bills around
Dulilonegn, scene of u famous rush
earfy in the Nineteenth century.
Men are swinging picks and shovels,
searching for the metal that lured
5,000 fortune seekers, frenzied miners,
over rugged mountain paths to this
town, sixteen miles from a railroad,
when news of the big strike in 1829
went around the world.
Gold mining around Dablonega has
been lagging since the World 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 1861, after it
had coined 1,381,784 pieces, valued at
$6,115,509, in its twenty-four years of
operation. D. S. W. McCallie, state
geologist, says while the coinage of
the mint was only slightly above $6,-
000,000, that the mountains around
Dahlonega have produced at least $lO,-
000,000 in gold. The mint was 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.
ICrantz, 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
jfejug-si.
those afflicted with high blood pres
sureT Bright’s disease and dropsy.
Eka salt, is a sodium salt of malic
acid. Mali? acid is obtained from ap
ples. It satisfies the craving for salt,
according to Doctor TCrantz, and its
Reaction in the body is quite different
from that o? common
“The brdlnary "table salt,” he said,
"tends to create water in 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 ttie Moorish pirates, a
two-decker fighting ship of the Nelson
type and a tine 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, Okia.—Charles
H. Burke, Indian commissioner,
lias 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 ,nto 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.
NashvlHe, Tenn.—This is another f
story about a man without a country ’
—but This one will end uapplly.
Bnck in 1914, when the German
armies struck at France through Bel. ]
glum, a Belgian soldier was killed by *
the Invaders and his family scattered,
The soldier’s son, Albert, Ihen 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 i'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 mu
rines for America.
Albert—by this time known as Al
bert Vaughan —clamored to be taken
to America with his protector. But
army regulations forbade taking the
boy on hoard the transport ship, so
Vaughan paid a French woman in
Brest to keep the lad until money
could be sent to bring him to Amer
ica.
<sne day Albert 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 Vaughan's 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 adopt the boy,
-
Falls in Love.” —-—.
From 1919 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
rnb'ans of making him an American
avgilablS ~ ~
j£hen Hie inevitable happened. Al
bert, now twenty-one years otd, fell
tft love —with an American girt. They
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. Welt,
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 be done. Albert
will go outside the boundaries of the
United States. His 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 tlie 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 ownC' ->*
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 rndia and
Supreme Lady of Jamaica.”
Holds Blood Record
New York.—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. Bis record is 99 transfu
sions.