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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. .. i. ■ 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. THE HOTKIMI.K RECORD. Conyers, fia.. WcJ.._AprlM<> :- W9| 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.