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Mrs. Putnam’s Great Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
House Rejects Legalized Beer—Hoover Against
Democratic Relief Plans.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
E'XACTLY five years after diaries
•*-' a. Lindbergh completed his epoch
making flight from New York to Paris,
Amelia Earhart, who is now Mrs. G.
Mrs. G. P.
Putnam
without Injury to herself
or her plane. It was her second cross¬
ing of the ocean by plane, but the
other time, in 1928, she was merely a
passenger with Wilmer Stulz and Lou
Gordon.
“I made this flight just for fun," said
Mrs. Putnam after landing, and she ad¬
mitted her achievement meant nothing
to aviation. Nevertheless, she was
the recipient of innumerable congrat¬
ulatory messages, from President Hoo¬
ver and Prime Minister MacDonald
among others, and when she flew on to
London In a borrowed plane she was
given a great ovation. She was the
guest of Ambassador Mellon who, with
members of his embassy staff, met her
at the Hanworth airdrome.
Besides being the first woman to fly
the Atlantic alone, this young Ameri¬
can girl set a new speed record for the
crossing and also bettered the dis¬
tance record for womeD set by Ruth
Nichols at 1,977.6 miles. Her distance
was 2,026.5 miles.
T EGALIZED beer lost anothei fight,
' and won’t have a chance again
until the national conventions meet
In dune and go into spasms over the
wet and dry planks for their plat¬
forms. Following the example set by
the senate, the house rejected the
O'Connor-Hull resolution legalizing
and taxing 2.75 per cent beer. The
vote was 169 to 228. and technically
was on the motion to discharge the
ways and means committee from fur¬
ther consideration of the bill, which
if carried would have brought the
measure before the house. The two
parties were nearly evenly split in the
vote.
On Wednesday the senate again
swatted beer, rejecting by a vote of
26 to 55 the Bingham amendment to
the pending tax bill which would
legalize beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic
content and tax it at the rate of two
cents a pint. Senator Borah did most
of the talking against the proposed
amendment, which was defended by
Senator Bingham.
OOJIE peculiar things are resulting
'T from the prohibition controversy.
The Democrats of Texas, formerly
very dry, in their state convention
adopted a resolution proposing resub¬
mission of the Eighteenth amendment
to the states. The measure was car¬
ried by a vote of 851 to 564 after
what amounted almost to a riot. Pres¬
ident Hoover, it was reliably reported
in Washington, abandoned his attitude
of aloofness and took an active part in
framing a mildly moist plank for the
Republican national platform, so mild
that it probably would not seriously
offend the drys and probably would
not satisfy the wets. Deets Pickett,
Democrat and dry leader among the
Methodist reformers, announced that
Franklin Roosevelt's moderately wet
pronouncement would he satisfactory
to the dry Democrats because that
probably was as far as he ever would
go.
SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH of
^ Idaho says he is not going to at¬
tend the Republican national conven¬
tion, and there are indications that he
will sulk in his tent throughout the
campaign. His determination to stay
away from the gathering in Chicago
was something of a blow to the drys,
who had counted on him to lead their
forces In the convention and to intro¬
duce their dry plank.
PRESIDENT HOOVER voiced his
U opposition to the Democratic pro¬
posals of big government bond issues
for construction of federal public
works as a measure for relief of un¬
employment. In the same statement
from the White House he further
urged his own plan of legislation to
permit loans by the reconstruction
finance corporation to states for relief
of destitution and to public and pri¬
vate agencies for income-producing
projects. Huge outlays for federal
public buildings and similar works he
said would be wasteful and destructive
of the public confidence essential to
economic recovery.
The Democratic leaders indicated
they would fight the President on this
issue even at the risk of prolonging
the session of congress, which already
appears likely to run on until after
thenationalconventions iiave been held.
Senator Barbour of New Jersey. Re¬
publican, introduced a hill carrying
out Mr. Hoover's ideas. It would pro
P. Putnam, landed In
Ireland after the first
solo flight across the
Atlantic ever made by
a woman. The intre¬
pid young aviator
had started for Paris,
but a burned out ex¬
haust manifold and
other motor trouble led
her to descend at Cul
more near London¬
derry. She had made
the distance from Har¬
bor Grace, N. F„ in 14
hours and 54 minutes,
vide the reconstruction finance cor¬
poration with $1,500,000,000 additional
capital for loans for self-liquidating
projects that would furnish jobs for
the unemployed.
Senator Bronson Cutting, the “pro¬
gressive” Republican from New Mex¬
ico, followed with a bill providing for
Just the kind of relief aid which the
President had opposed, ant in intro¬
ducing it Cutting made a caustic at¬
tack on Mr. Hoover. The Cutting bill
carries three billion dollars for road
construction and two billion* for rivers
and harbors work as well as public
buildings and other federal works.
COMMITTEE hearings on Repre
sentative Fred Britten’s bill to
place the Hawaiian islands under an
army or navy commission began and
attracted a large number of witnesses
and spectators. Among the former
was Mrs. Granville Fortescue, mother
in-law of Lieut. Thomas Massie and
his co-defendant in the recent sensa¬
tional murder trial in Honolulu. Testi¬
mony was heard from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, chief of staff; other army
and navy officers, and Floyd Gibbons,
war correspondent. ^
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LpLEVEN inence men of great national prom
sent to the Republican and
Democratic leaders of the senate and
house an earnest appeal to “lay aside
every form of parti¬
sanship” ~nd, with
their party followers,
to unite to balance
the federal budget.
The signers of this
letter were: Nicholas
Murray Butler, presi¬
dent of Columbia uni¬
versity, Republican;
Alfred E. Smith. Dem¬
ocratic candidate for
the Presidency in
1928; Gov. Albert C.
Ritchie of Maryland,
Democrat; Gov. Wilbur L. Cross of
Connecticut, Democrat; Gov. Joseph
B. Ely of Massachusetts. Democrat;
Alanson B. Houghton of New York,
Republican; Frank O. Lowden of Illi¬
nois, Republican; William H. Crocker
of San Francisco, member of Repub¬
lican national committee; Charles Na¬
gel of St. Louis, Republican; Roland
S. Morris of Philadelphia, Democrat,
and John Grier Hibben. retiring pres¬
ident of Princeton university, Repub¬
lican.
Replies from the party leaders were
prompt but scarcely satisfying. Sen¬
ator Jim Watson, majority leader of
the senate, said: “The letter is three
months too late. We have done every¬
thing they suggest toward a balanced
budget, but we are hindered by special
interests. There have been no signs
of partisanship at any time.’’
Senator Harrison of Mississippi,
Democratic floor leader on the tax bill,
said: “There has been no partisan¬
ship in the house or senate od the
problem of balancing the budget. This
legislation will be achieved without
any spirit of partisanship.”
Other senators took occasion to
praise themselves and their opponents
for nonpartisan and wise action, and
then all went ahead with their scrap¬
ping over the tariff features of the
revenue bill. The fight over these was
sectional if not partisan.
‘Chicago PRESIDENT Board P. of B. Trade CAREY went of down the
to Washington and conferred with Sec¬
retary of Agriculture Hyde, and took
occasion to make the fiercest attack
on the federal farm board and its do¬
ings that has been heard. He called
the board’s record a “ghastly smear”
and said its result had been the almost
complete abotishrm— t of the open, com¬
petitive market which required 75
years to establish. He declared wheat
could and would advance if the board
were forced by congress to desist at
once from its “senseless efforts,” and
said he could appoint a committee of
six members of the Chicago Board of
Trade who “in a short time, and with
absolutely no drain on the taxpayer,
could and would dispose of all the
government wheat for cash at a
steadily advancing price with the In¬
evitable favorable reflection on the
general condition of the country.”
Mr. Carey selected a rather unfa¬
vorable time for his attack, inasmuch
as just then the wheat market showed
a decided tendency toward higher
prices. J. C. Stone, chairman of the
farm board, seized his advantage and
replied sharply to Mr. Carey’s assault.
He said: “Wheat is the only great
major commodity which for the last
five months has shown a definite up¬
ward tendency. Its influence under
the present favorable statistical posi¬
tion may well lead other commodities
to higher ground. That opportunity
will pot be risked in the hands of the
people in a group representing those
who have grown rich from the profits
gained by market manipulation.’’
Mr. Stone challenged the Chicago
“grain gamblers,” as he called them,
to explain how it is that wheat has
been held from 5 to 15 cents a bushel
above the world market; this, he
averred, is the result of the farm
board policies.
N. M. Butler
CLEVELAND COURIER
LET CHILD LEARN
PICTURE OF LIFE
Newspaper’s Great Value
in Education.
No child’s education is complete
without the newspaper, for through
it the child con secure a vivid, realis¬
tic picture of life, the world and its
affairs. Children pass over the news
of crime and the sordid phases of
life, because they are outside their
realm of experience; only when they
are admonished not to read crime
news do they take an active interest
in it.
Until he is about twelve years of
age, the child needs no special direc¬
tion in his newspaper reading, but
after that age the parent should aim
to stimulate the interest of the child
in current affairs. Through discus¬
sions of news at the dinner table, the
making of scrap hooks and files of
clippings on certain subjects, the
child’s interest can be directed into
constructive channels. Children
should early learn the technique of
digesting news articles accurately
and quickly. They should never
dawdle over a paper. But accuracy
is by all means the first requisite.
And parents can stimulate accurate
reading and recall by indulging in
current information tests disguised
as games.
That children do not learn how to
read a newspaper intelligently is evi¬
denced by tiie appalling ignorance of
high school students in current
events. I recently studied the results
of a simple test in current informa¬
tion taken by several thousand high
school students. Ninety per cent of
them failed miserably and ignobly.
Another 5 per cent did passably well.
Not more than 5 per cent of the en¬
tire group had even a reasonable
grasp of ordinary news events.
The children identified George F.
Baker, philanthropist, as everything
from a prize fighter to the secretary of
war. They were sure that the mayor
of Chicago was variously a thug, an
outlaw, a famous bootlegger and a
European statesman. Of a thousand
high school students in a southern
city only fifteen knew the name of
their mayor.
Teachers and parents have only
themselves to blame for such shoddy
intellectual equipment. Allowed to
do hit-or-miss reading, unsupervised
and undirected, never drilled to con¬
centrate, never trained to be accurate,
children early acquire these slipshod
habits and spend the rest of their
lives trying to overcome them.
Intelligent parents have a magnifi¬
cent opportunity to supplement school
training with informal and thereby
doubly valuable discussion and study
of today’s important news. It would
be an immensely interesting project
for parent and child. It remains for
intelligent parents to make the most
of the educational possibilities of
American newspapers. No one ever
has. Perhaps you will.—Prof. Walter
B. Pitkin, in Parents' Magazine.
t your
watch the progrss you make
5-month-old daughter Mrs. W. Gevekoth, This husky 1 for mi Courier
Pictured here is Bobbie Holcombe, 1841 Howell This of
Mill Rd., Atlanta, Ga., riding “horse.’* He has 3 Prospect St., New Rochelle, N. Y., was “small Edson R. T
always been an Eagle Brand baby, has never been and thin when born, and no formula would agree. wood, N.J.
sick, and at seven months weighs 21 pounds* On Eagle Brand,” her mother writes, “she has years old — Tide
gained steadily and is now the picture of health.’*
Judge a baby food j by . the r , j
babies it builds
Look at them—three of the hundreds
of thousands of babies that are raised,
each year, on Eagle Brand. Their
mothers sent their pictures to The
Borden Company—as countless moth¬
ers do each year—because they are
Points scientists look for in
judging a baby
★ Well-shaped head; sound teeth
in well-formed jaw.
★ Strong back. * Firm flesh.
* Straight legs.
Widespread Belief in
Unicorn Through Ages
Front very remote antiquity down
to tlie present time, China and Japan
have preserved a belief in a powerful
one horned wild animal, in tiie va¬
ried form of a horse, an ass or an ox.
The encyclopedias tell us that
Ctesias, a learned Greek physician
and writer, who died about 390 B. C.,
in one of liis treatises speaks of
white or red wild asses of beautiful
shape, with single, long white horns
upon their heads, which existed in
India. He goes on gravely to inform
us that drinking cups made from
the horn of a unicorn rendered safe¬
ly innocuous any poison poured into
them, a belief which persisted into
and past the Middle ages.
1'lie origin of these stories it is
difficult to find. No remains of any
such animal have ever been discov¬
ered, nor do writers claim to have
actually seen a specimen of them.
And yet the belief in their existence
is so widespread in several parts of
tiie world that it might be made to
appear foolish to deny that any such
I creature ever existed. A glance at
' the heraldic presentation of a uni
j corn in the Britisli royal coat-of
arms should serve to show the ab¬
surdity of attempting to identify tiie
ancient unicorn with so ungainly a
one-horned animal as tiie rhinoceros,
ns would some writers.
Sees Napoleon as One
of Nature’s Supermen
Napoleon believed in no religion;
he advocated companionate marriage;
lie suffered terribly from defeat, but
never from remorse; he regarded
friends, family and women without
any affection (barring his early in¬
fatuation for Josephine)—in short, he
was a superman. He had enough en¬
ergy for 100 men.
How difficult it is even now to es
I cape from the glamor of his name!
( | Although I know he scoundrels was one of that the
most cold-blooded
ever lived, and all Europe had to
i choose between peace and him, that
i no country, no people and no eom
j munitv were safe while he was at
large—although I am aware of ail
| this, if he should appear on earth
now and say “It is tiie emperor!” I
might leave all and follow him.—
William Lyon Phelps in Scribner’s.
Many Races in America
Of tiie 122,775,046 total population
in the United States on April 1. 1930.
white persons numbered 108.864,207
and negroes 11,891.143, with Mexi¬
cans, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Fii !
ipinos, Hindoos and Koreans follow¬
ing in order and 7S0 of other races
lumped together.
Stronger
Waitress—Have you given your or¬
der?
Diner—Yes, but please change it to
an entreaty.
Four or five men together, casually,
talk foolishly, hut two are wiser in
what they say.
proud of the look of these babies—
eager to have us show other mothers
what Eagle Brand does in building a
fine physique, a happy disposition, a
good foundation for health through
the years.
Look at the way their bones are
shaping—strong and sturdy. See how
their healthy, normal growth is mak¬
ing them fine-looking,“well-favored”
And then consider this: In the 7 5
years since Gail Borden put Eagle
Brand on the market, three genera¬
tions—millions—have been raised on
this wonderfully digestible food. No
other food, except mother’s milk,
has such long-continued, practical ev¬
idence of its success in baby building.
Recently, in a famous baby clinic,
this practical evidence was scientifi¬
cally verified—in a feeding test with
50 average infants. Judged by blood X-ray
pictures of bone structure,
counts, weight and height records,
There is something vibrant and magnetic
about tiie truly healthy man or woman,
who is satisfied and contented with life.
That "something" attracts people. Wins
confidence. Arouses and holds affection.
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The results will amaze and
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Here’* One Hone»t Man
A Berlin cabinet marker's wife
Lad nothing to offer a beggar but a
pair of her husband's old shoes,
which, unknown to her, contained
his entire savings, 1,500 marks
($380). Tiie beggar did not inspect
them; sold them to a second-hand
dealer. The dealer read tiie owner's
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story in tiie newspaper, turned over
the shoes and tiie money to the po¬
lice, who returned them to the right
owner.
No Problem at All
Wife—Little Freddy has drunk the
ink. What shall I do?
Hubby—Write in pencil.
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lie held in Ills band was burned to a
crisp, and the soles of both his slices
j were neatly ripped away.
We don't know what would reform
Wall Street besides a few iron-clad
laws, unles- it is prayer.