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WEDNESDAY. MAY 22, 1029
i Hornsby Is Playing J
“Lone Wolf’’ Role *
M; Rogers Hornsby, the corns >;
gpondentH with tlu> Chicago >;
>J cubs assort, still is .playing the >;
:♦ of “lono wolf." The lta.lah, *
ij: u,py say, does not mingle with :V
!♦; I,ls ciubamtos oil’ the fiohl. &
$ Hornsby hns never been n
;♦! mixer of that,typo of linbe Ituth; $
](. neither Is ho bothered with the
!$' buck-shipping, horseplay or >;
>; pranks indulged In by most of >;
iji the phiyers. It’s all business >
>i with Rogers.; He once said: >1
i play baseball because I
!♦! ni.o it, but Chiefly because u is *
a good business for me. i am >;
iii there to put nil I can into
> it, but also to get the most out >!
$ of it.” 5:
Hornsby did not spare his >:
ij; men whenever he was in a po- J
W sition of authority, neither does '*]
!ji be spare himself. J
, ■ „
Gil Dobie Will Remain
as Cornell Head Coach
[ No sooner bad the students of Cor
nell ventured to express ttie opinion
that football defeats were not the
worst catastrophies that could befall
a university than rumors spread that
Qil Dobie, head coach, would resign
shortly.
Of what use would Dobie be, if
there was no need of his weeping, it
was asked, if defeat on the gridiron
i Were not in fact a serious affair, why
;keep a coach whose tears were tears
of blood?
i 1 But Graduate Manager Romeyn
j Berry spiked the report of Dobie’s
departure as "silly,” so presumably
Gil will be weeping away the autumn
hours, even if tie weeps alone.
One-Armed Pitcher
:., ,f, C : y -'meatm■
Francis “Bunno” Burns of Cb'arlos
jtown, Mass., who, thougli be lias the
use of init one band, the right, is the
mainstay of the pitching staff of the
] Boston university baseball team. De
spite the handicap of his physical dis
| ability (his left hand was amputated
| a number of years ago), he lias al
ready won bis freshman numerals in
football, baseball and track.
Bright Yellow Baseball
Has Been Put on Market
Golf and tennis, which have been
made more colorful by introduction of
orange, red and green balls, have/been
followed by baseball. A bright yellow
baseball is now on the market, mak
ing the old white “horsehide” seem
pale.
Golf has extended the riot of color
to club shafts with green and red pre
dominating in the now spring models.
The orange golf balls have filled a
I long felt need on courses where there
jis a wealth of sand, but they may be
, come as elusive as the white ones
i when the dandelions bloom.
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Sport Notes
i;
1 George Newbiatt of Brooklyn, guard,
, lias been chosen to lead the New York
university basket ball team next sea
son.
* * *
Thomas McCrea, of the Hawthorne
Golf club of Detroit, has been named
pro at the Riverby Hills club, To
ledo.
* *
Eight holes of the Pebble Beach
course in California, where the ama
teurs will play in September, border
on the ocean.
• *
Chapman, University of Florida
heavyweight, stands six feet eight.
Inches and claims the greatest reach
of any college boxer.
* * *
England plans to send a team to the
Olympics in 1932, according to a state
ment made by Lord Rochdale, chair
man of the British Olympic associa
tion.
* * •
Football is rapidly becoming an all
year sport at many of tDo leading
colleges, some schools starting their
spring sessions this year early in Feb
ruary.
* * *
George Levis, long business manager
°f athletics at ‘the University of Wis
consin, and an old Badger athlete, lias
been named coach of the university
golf team.
*' * *
The Marquis of Douglas and Clyes
oole, twenty-two-year-old son and heir
the duke of Hamilton, one of the
oldest Scottish titles. Holds the, nma
teur welterweight boxing champion
ship rtf Scottabd/
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two
'eps
Porcupine Shown to Be
Much Maligned Animal
One of the most unconcerned deni
zens of the woods and one about which
has been woven many a fantastic tale
is (lie porcupine.
It is tlie marksman of the forest,
"? the story goes-the bowman that
shoots barbed arrows at ttiose it sees
fit to attack. One in imagination can
nlmost see a cloud of quills winging
Heir way toward some enemy, ready
to pierce any unprotected skin ami
<•"’<> beneath the skin, presenting the
problem of the fish-hook Imbedded In
a luckless angler’s finger. II has the
reputation of belligerency of the two
gun man, swaggering around, scowl
ing at any luckless person who chances
to get in the way.
If ever a more unfair picture of tiie
character of an animal lias been paint
ed, a grave injustice has been done.
The porcupine, as a matter of fact,
is mostly intent on minding its own
business and hopes that other animals
will do the same. It is not particularly
afraid of any others, knowing, as the
skunk does, that it will not be at
tacked by any but the very young,
and the very young soon learn that a
good defense is a wonderful offense,
reversing the usual strategy.
Printers Absolved of
Charge of Irreverence
An average layman, fairly familiar
with his Bible, hastily opened the
Good Book to verify the statement of
llie Literary Digest’s lexicographer
that in tlie Scriptures the personal
pronoun representing our Lord did not
begin with a capital letter. To his
surprise, tlie learned doctor was right.
And if tlie reader turned back to the
Old Testament, lie discovered also
that tlie pronouns referring to God
were in tlie same style. The reason
for this, the lexicographer explains,
is that early-day printshops had inad
equate upper cases (capitals) and that
tlie rule was invoked, not because of
a lack of reverence, hut of necessity.
So far as we know, Bible publishers
are tlie only printers who have re
mained true to this tradition. Cer
tainly there are few, if any, newspa
pers that do not use tlie upper case
first letter in a pronoun referring to
Christ or God. —St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
This Frank Decade
Mary Elizabeth lias just started to
dancing school and on the occasion of
tier second or third lesson tier mother,
sitting by as an interested spectator,
was glad to see that she and her boy
pari tier seemed to be holding a conver
sation. "What were you and Jimmie
talking about?" she asked when the
little girl joined her after tlie dance.
“Oh, just talking,” evaded the young
ster. “Well, what did Jimmie say,”
persisted* the mother. “He said, ‘Gee,
you’re a rotten dancer,’ ” revealed
Mary Elizabeth. “Oh !” cried tlie strick
en parent, thinking her daughter would
be offended. “What did you say to
that, honey?” “I said,” replied the
child, calmly, “ ‘Say, you’re not so good
yourself.’ ”
Catfish Peculiar
Catfishes are called catfishes be
cause they have feelers on the head,
like eats’ “smellers.” They have no
scales, their bodies being naked and
smooth, or mailed with long plates. The
different species vary in size from
dwarfs two inches long to six feet
giants. The stone-cats and tlie mad
toms, seldom more than three inches
long, sting painfully, but not danger
ously. Only a few fossil eatfisheg have
been found. The present scaleless
members of the group evidently come
from scaly ancestors. The peculiari
ties that distinguish them are caused
by specilization of some parts and by
degeneration of other parts.
Swedes Made History
Sweden’s international relations
wore kept, alive by the contact be
tween the home country and Swedish
emigrants and settlers abroad. Thus
in the year 375 Swedes penetrated as
far south as the Black sea and found
ed an Austro-Gothian dominion. Oth
ers settled on tlie British islands and
in Normandy. Headed by the great
statesman and warrior, Rurik, one
group went east across tlie Baltic
and founded the empire of Russia,
named after the coast district of Ros
jagen, near Stockholm, whence came
its founders.
Old American College
Dartmouth college at Hanover, N.
II is an outgrowth of a school found
ed’ at Lebanon, Conn., by
Wlieeloclc for the Christian education
of Indian youth. Funds raised in Eng
land and contributed largely by Lord
Dartmouth enabled Wl.eelock to move
150 miles to the Hanover plain, five
miles north of the junction of the Con
necticut and White rivers, and so al
lowed him to enlarge the scope of h •
W ork. The province of New Hamp
shire gave a charter to the new Dart
mouth college in I™ 9.
History of the Diamond
India was the original home of the
diamond as a jewel For ee. tunes
India remained the so e source> of Eu
r „„e’s diamond supply. About 17JJ
diamonds were discovered in Brasil.
ISG7 diamonds were discovered in
South Africa. South African diamonds
constitute more than 90 Pcr ccnt of
tlm world’s supply. From their ands
'..very . the present time they have
vjeided 90,000,000 carats. The dm
n o ids of the world probably repre-
Zt .l value of $5,000,000,000.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA
Gingko Tree Only One
That Has No. Enemies
Only one species of plant life now
growing iu tlie United States Is with
out an enemy trying to take Its life,
Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of tlie
bureau of plant industry, reported to
tlie house appropriations committee
during hearings in Washington.
“This unmolested tree is tlie Jap
anese ginkgo tree,” Doctor Taylor
stated. “So far qs we know tills tree
lias no insect or fungus enemy at the
present time."
On n driveway leading to tlie Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture
buildings the street Is lined on both
sides with tlie ginkgo trees. In tlie
fall they present a striking appear
ance, for ns the yellow leaves fall they
heap up on the sidewalks like piles of
gold.
The ginkgo tree has a fruit, but one
which tlie white man scorns. The nut
Inside Is rather tasty, but as Doctor
Taylor said, “it is surrounded by a
most abominable smelling and tasting
pulp. It smells more like salt-rising
bread in tlie process of fermentation
than any other tiling. Chinese Inun
drymen pick up the fruits, take them
home, clean them and eat tlie ker
nels.”—-Kansas City Star’s Science
Service.
Last British Invasion
French Practical Joke?
The last invasion of England by an
armed enemy force was on February
22, 1797, when a Freneli army of 1,400
men, under General Tate, landed at
Fishguard with an idea apparently of
conquering Wales. The whole affair
proied farcical. Lord Cawdor hastily
gathered together the local militia,
and hundreds of women, dressed in
the national costume, red mantles and
beaver hats, accompanied their men
folk, whereupon tlie invaders, conclud
ing that large reinforcements had
reached Fishguard, hastened to make
unconditional surrender. Tate was an
American, many of his officers were
Irish, and more than half his men
were convicts released to help to
equip the expedition. There were not
wanting cynics, who declared that tlie
French government had planned the
whole affair with the sole idea of get
ting 1,400 incorrigible ruffians board
ed and lodged at the expense of the
British.
Great Forests on Pacific
Nowhere in the world are there such
magnificent forests as those found
alorv the immediate coast north of
San Francisco, says the American
Tree association. West of the Cas
cade and coast ranges tlie mild cli
mate, heavy rainfall and generally
humid atmospheric conditious have re
sulted in the production of a forest
that is more wonderful in the density
of its growth and the majesty of its
development than is to be found any
where else. The sequoias of Califor
nia are the giants of the vegetable
kingdom. The Douglas firs, Sitka
spruces and the giant arbor vitae
(western red cedars) of Oregon and
Washington are second in size only
to the sequoias.
Fi*h-Oil Ice Cream
Ice cream made from fish oil, snow
and sugar recently was an unexpected
winter dish of Eskimos of Alaska. The
odor was strong but the dish is said
to have tasted better than it smelt.
Eskimos caught great numbers of eu
lachon, a species of smelt which is
sometimes called the candlefish be
cause it contains so much oil. These
they placed in holes lined with heated
rocks, and after the fish were cooked
they were placed in covered baskets
on which the women trod with hare
feet to extract the oil. During cold
weather the oil lias much the consist
ency of butter. To make the ice cream,
tlie oil was melted and sugar and snow
were added, then stirred in.
Why Borah Couldn’t Come
Tlie Golden Book recounts the story
of how Mrs. William Borah, wife of
the senator, arrived alone at a diplo
matic breakfast in Washington dur
ing the late days of the Coolidge ad
ministration when the Kellogg anti
war treaty was still in process of
negotiation. Asked by Secretary of
State Kellogg what had become of
her husband, the gentle and literal
Mrs. Borah replied:
“He said that if you asked for
him, Mr. Kellogg, I was to say that
he is at home working on your d—d
treaty.”
One Thing Certain
Some questions will forever remain
unsolved. A back East physician once
told a colored woman who had called
to consult him in regard to an all
goneness, that her vitality was much
run down. “Suppose," said he, bright
ly, using one of Doctor Holmes’ ques
tions for the purpose, ‘you were
packed in a barrel of snow. How
much of it could you melt?” The
l„,]y shivered. “Ah dunno,” she re
plied fervently, “an’ what’s mo’, All
ain’t never goin’ to find out.”—Port
land Oregonian.
Hernandez Found Dahlia
It was in 1570 that Philip II of Spain
sent Francisco Hernandez to Mexico
to compile an official report of the
tree and plant life of New Spain., He
sent seeds to the director of the Roy
al Botanic gardens in Madrid, who,
says Nature Magazine, disseminated
the dahlia throughout Europe. Hernan
dez found the dahlia, not as n wild
flower, but In the cultivated gardens oi
the Aztecft tu Loir*,pm
Trade Board Big Factor
in Chicago’s Progress
Tlie Jobs of 30,000 men and women
are directly dependent on the exist
ence of tlie Chicago Board of Trade;
100,000 are employed Indirectly lie
cause of tlie "world’s largest" com
modity exchange. These figures Indi
cate tiie important part tlie hoard
has taken in building Chicago into
tlie fifth city of the world and tlie
financial and marketing center of the
Middle West.
Early in ISIS a small group of In
fluential leaders, engaged in pulling
Chicago out of the mud that was old
Fort Dearborn, organized the hoard of
trade. Memberships in those days
could he bought for a comparatively
few dollars. Today tlie total value
of memberships, at n conservative es
timate, is $50,000,000.
In tlie old days, toiling wagonloads
of wheat and corn arrived from across
the prairies in Chicago and were
promptly sold at the exchange. Long
before tlie end of the board’s eighty
first year, Chicago was tlie railroad
center of tlie world and farm prod
ucts moved to market in modern style.
It is estimated that one-seventh of nil
the revenue of midwestern railroads
now is derived from the transport of
farm crops to market. A great part
of their shipments go to Chicago for
sale on the exchange.
Thinks He Has Special
Reason for Complaint
The driver of a small car, parked
iu a crowded downtown section,
stopped short and stared at tiie appar
ent nakedness of the machine. The
spare tire was missing.
With a nonchalant shrug, lie mut
tered something about “thieves will he
thieves” and began to climb into the
machine. But lie stopped short again
and stooped to pick up a wrench from
the running board. IBs face grew
crimson, and (he tilings lie said were
terms not generally employed by fre
quenters of social teas.
“What’s Die trouble?” asked tlie
Stroller.
“A lot!” he snapped. “I don’t mind
these crooks stealing my tire, hut
when they open my car and take my
tools to do it with, that’s too much*!”
—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Protect Guano Bird*
Shipmasters carelessly blowing (heir
foghorns, disturbing tlie guano birds
nesting on the islands off the coast of
Peru, are punished with a fine; and if
it is discovered that 1 hoir vessels ap
proached within two miles of the is
lands, their boats are confiscated!
Tills new law was passed by the
Peruvian government in a drastic cam
paign to protect tlie birds, which, as
described in Popular Science Monthly,
produce large quantities of guano, an
excellent fertilizer. While guano is
found in various places, the most val
uable variety—containing from 13 to
14 per cent nitrogen and a like propor
tion of phospnorie acid—is exported
from the Cliincha and other islands
near the Peruvian coast. These is
lands produce $1,000,000 worth of tlie
fertilizer a year.
Gem* Hi* Playthings
Many, varied, and strange are the
belongings kept in safe deposits. Dur
ing the recent visit to England of the
ruler of a semi-independent Indian
state a score or more of gorgeously ap
parelled retainers visited the prem
ises of one company every day to col
lect three heavy chests filled with cut
and uncut precious stones. These were
taken away for tlie dusky potentate to
play with, and returned to (lie vaults
when he tired of his daily amusement.
The jewels were said to lie worth over
£10,000,000 and were probably the most
valuable collection ever stored at one
time.
Cable Insulation
One can hardly see any connection
between hoop skirts and the electrical
Industry, but one may he traced,
strangely enough, which took place in
the early days of tlie electrical devel
opment. The first cables were not in
sulated satisfactorily till Walter T.
Glover, an Englishman who braided
steel hoops with cotton, had an in
spiration. Crinolines were going out,
so was his business. So lie used his
machinery for insulating copper wire
with cotton braid, and lie soon had
no cause to regret Die passing of tiie
crinoline.
Turkey* Bred by Aztecs
Although the earliest authentic rec
ord of the turkey refers to its intro
duction into Spain in 1524, a French
writer says turkeys were first brought
to France In 1518. When the Span
iards conquered Mexico they found
semi-domesticated turkeys in the zoo
logical parks of the Aztecs, he writes.
Among the Pueblo Indians of the
Southwest turkeys were raised before
the coining of the Spaniards and these
fowls had reached about the same de
gree of domestication that pigeons
have today.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Help!
Young Tiling (at the library)—l want
a copy of Liver.
Librarian —My dear, this Isn’t the
butcher shop.
Young Thing—Maybe not, but I was
told to get a copy of some kind of
meat here.
Librarian—Maybe you mean Bacon.
Young Thing —You guessed right
first time, so let me have Bacon for
my little boy friend. —Cincinnati En
quirer.
Hope That Beams Will
Divulge Historic Dates
With saws and drills and micro
scopes, tlie specialists engaged in the
beam studies are digging from tlie
heart of ancient logs and beams a
more accurate calendar of happenings
in the southwestern United States than
that which we possess for the civiliza
tions of the Egyptians or tlie Mayas.
The work is built on tlie fact that
every growing tree letlves In Its trunk
a ring for each year; and on tlie fur
tlier fact that each one of these rings
lias an individuality of its own—a dif
ferent width, definiteness, or charac
ter resulting from different climntlc or
seasonal differences.
Furthermore, all trees In a given re
gion show tlie same ring sequence;
and some of tlie rings, deposited in
an especially characteristic season of
drought or moisture, stand out so
plainly that it, is almost as if Nature
had rubber-stamped tlie ring: "This
is tlie year 1398 A. D."
The work was undertaken after ex
peditions of tlie National Geographic
society had uncovered tlie ruins of
Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, one of
America’s earliest “apartment houses.”
Mirny interesting tilings were learned
about tlie customs and culture of tlie
2,500 people who once occupied tlie
great structure; but tlie date at which
they flourished remained ’a secret
Some of the old beams used in sup
porting the roof were well preserved,
niul when sawed showed characteris
tic rings. Tlie idea was conceived of
tracing a tree-ring calendar hack from
the present to the days when Pueblo
Bonito’s beams were growing.
Wisest Men Have Ever
Been Slow of Speech
People are likely to set too much
store by “conversation.” Avery large
proportion of it isn’t worth 2 cents.
It must bo conceded that there is a
kind of exhilaration In talking. One
can even got headache by it; showing
that (it lias a direct offset on tlie tem
po of the heart and on tlie nervous
system. The popular notion that one
must talk “for tlie sake of relief” is
probably bogus; because silence, once
it is learned and practiced, gives a
greater relief.
Keeping still Is an interesting game,
to tlie point of being, nt times, de
lightful ; especially when employed to
keep out of a furious row under full
headway. It is a difficult game, there
fore the more inviting to play. One
may suffer from the invidious impli
cation that it is timidity instead of
good sense that keeps him from par
ticipation, but let him remember that
many of the wisest men within hu
man knowledge were tactiturn —“mind-
ed their own business,” and we don’t
know but that tlie slow to speech get
along about as well as the wordy and
impassiouate; some think, better. —St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Washington’* Cherry Tree*
Mrs. Taft shortly after going Into
the White House oj-dered 80 Japanese
cherry trees to tye sent to Washing
ton and planted. She had seen and ad
mired these trees while traveling in
the East. A Japanese resident of New
York made tier a gift of 2,000 of these
trees. When they reached America
they contained an insect that was in
jurious to American plants. For that
reason they were tiirown overboard.
Tlie city of Tokio then gave tlie United
States 3,000 of these trees. The water
side around Die Speedway and tlie
Tidal basin in Washington have these
trees iu blossom during tlie early
spring.
Honoring tlie Dead
Annual Decoration day is most, en
thusiastically observed by tlie Lower
Yukon River Indians. Late last au
tumn fifteen families of Indians from
Nulato and other villages met together
to fulfill the custom of erecting houses
over the graves of those who died dur
ing the year. The shelters of tlie old
graves were given a fresh coat of bril
liant paint.
Many of the unique mausoleums
have windows and floors and contain
rugs and other articles that were used
by tiie departed ones.
Every western Alaska Indian tribe
lias a different method of protecting
the spirit of departed ones.
Cumbersome Old Vessel*
Galleon was a name formerly given
to a large kind of vessel with three
masts and three or four decks, such
as those used by the Spaniards in
their commerce with South America
to transport precious metals. They
were large, clumsy, square-sterned ves
sels, having bulwarks three or four
feet thick, all of which were so en
cumbered with topiiamper and so over
weighted in proportion to their draft of
water that they could bear little can
vas, even with smooth seas and light
winds.
More Howler*
“A schoolboy’s essay on Henry VIII
included in the sentence: ‘At this time
King Henry walked with great diffi
culty, having an abbess on his knee.’”
A business man says that n short
age in any commodity automatically
raises its value. —This is doubtless the
reason for the high price of evening
gowns.
No Standing Still
Progress Is essential in this life.
But whether it shall he forward or
backward is for you to decide. You
cannot stand still. This is impossible.
Tlie world Is only a stairway on which
men go either up or down. —Grit.
Romance Rides
With Silver Fleet
LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 10
Tanned to u tropical brown by des
ert sun and wind, the pilot cavaliers
of the Goodrich Silver Fleet escorted
romance In their silvered caravan to
that famous colony in California
where romance works harder and
longer than in any other spot on
earth. Hollywood fittingly celebrat'd
the arrival of this silvered gypsy cav
alcade after its 11,000 mile treck. Ani
ta Page, most recently featured in
“Broadway Melody" was hostess to
Commander Schaeffer and his li9 col
lege athlete pilots. Racquet Torres,
Julia Faye and Fay Webb added their
graces to a luncheon to the pilot per
sonnel and helped to otherwise en
tertain the travel weary cavaliers.
At the Pacific Goodrich factory,
here, Mayor Cryer was presented with
tin' good-will greetings of Mayor “Jim
mie” Walker of New York, signed by
tlie dtip|K‘r Gotham mayor when the
fleet was launched January 23. During
the months that the fleet zig-zagged
around the shore line of the Atlantic
and the Gulf of Mexico, with occa
sional excursions inland, hundreds of
names of mayors, governors, congress
men, senators and other civic and po
litical dignitaries were added to tiie
fleet scroll. A most unusual document
of good will greetings was presented
to Mayor Cryer here.
The week of the fleet’s sojourn here
was marked with luncheons and other
varied entertainment, including dem
onstrations at tlie places of various
Goodrich dealers with the tires that
had borne the fleet to its western mec
ea showing hut little wear.
... • •
Ancients Excelled in
Art of Glass Staining
The medieval artists in stained glass
toiled like jewelers selting diamonds
nnd rubies. Their ideal was not a
pretty picture made transparent, but a
window made beautiful. Years of ex
perimenting with various combinations
of glass taught thorn secrets of de
sign which resulted In windows that
have never been surpassed.
Glass staining and glass painting
are (wo quite different tilings. One
method is lo build up a mosaic of
pieces of glass, colored not only on
its surface but its very substance.
Tlie other is to paint tlie design upon
white or colored glass.
It was In glass making Hint (he an
cients excelled. The blue of one school
was so vibrant Hint the workers ground
down sapphires to obtain their magic
color. The fancy, although popular, is
probably fallacious. Nevertheless, tlie
colors of the ancients were so expert
ly compounded that they blended into
a uniform whole in a completed win
dow and never appeared fiat, or “raw.”
Tlie greens, for example, were not a
straight mixture of blue and yellow,
but a combination of blue and red and
yellow in such proportions that (hey
did not fust* into adjoining blues at a
distance as do modern blue-and-yellpw
greens. The reds likewise were dis
tinctive, as they contained alternating
layers of red, nnd green-white gave a
mellow softness to light before it
reached the eye of tlie beholder.
Mendelssohn Hailed as i
Master of Philosophy
Asa Jewish philosopher acting tlio
part of a pioneer, Mendelssohn brought
about the understanding of tlie beauty;
nnd humanism of tlie Bible, says n
writer in tlie Boston Herald. He pre
pared a basis for the development of
science and Judaism. liis translation
of Hie Pentatech lind Inaugurated a
new era In tlie education of tlie Ger
man Jews.
He gave to ids brethren the German
Bible, by which means lie introduced
them to the intellectual life of Ger
many, and thus through it once more
into the civilization of tlie world at
large. Mendelssohn has united Jewish
nnd Hellenic life. He was tlie first to
advocate the emancipation of tlie
Jews. By his writings he contributed
to a great degree to the removal of
the brutal prejudices against tlie Ger
man .Tews.
Mendelssohn died on January 4,
1780, and was deeply mourned, not on
ly by his coreligionists, hut also by
all the learned world. His memory
was celebrated as that of a “Sage like
Socrates." The greatest philosophers
of tlie day exclaimed: “There was but
one Mendelssohn.”
May-Day Customs
As far back as tlie Medieval pe
riod in England, Chaucer says, it was
customary to go out early on the
morning of the first of May, "to
fetch the flowers fresh.” Hawthorne
branches were carried home about
sunset amid much merry-making. The
name, The May, was given to the
hawthorne, and tlie ceremony was
called “the bringing home the May.”
A relic of the Roman custom when on
May day the goddess Flora was espe
cially honored is seen in the selection
of a beautiful village maid to be
crowned as queen of the May.
Total fuel consumption of tiie Rouge
plant of the Ford Motor company dur
ing the past year was 12,700 carloads,
enough to make a coal train 100 miles
long.