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PAGE FOUR SnSffiOsßniliiffinies Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY . ' at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered aa Second Class Matter J uly 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... 7.50 Six Months ........... 3.75 Three Months 1 95 Ode Month One Week ...................... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ’ • *' FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Tran Brad Io Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures . THE SINS OF OMISSION. The’jpan on the street often repeats the stereotyped expres sion, he heard some where: “I don’t vote because it is a waste of time, as my vote won’t count.” In that expression and thought lies the strength of the pro fessional politician. In fact it delights his soul to know that the inertia of the voter is his guarantee of perpetuaton in office. If Mr. Voter, who spreads that doctrine by its expression, which is indeed contagious, were a director in a corporation, would he absent himself from its meetings and allow a small minority to vote to spend his money? If he did, could he then object to the result? So be it with the affairs of our Nation, State and City. Each individual voter is charged with the solemn duty of policing the affairs of his government; scrutinizing the actions of the office holders and when the need appears, to go to the ballot box, and speak. No political machine ever has been nor ever will be invested with sufficient power and strength to disobey the mandate of the people and survive, provided that the people have armed themselves with that right and authority which is their right to zote, and the exercise of that right. To'the contrary, no political machine ever has been nor aver will be mindful of the desires of the people, no matter how just or righteous, if and when it is conscious that only a min ority of those who have the right will use it, and vote against its candidates, who are, in the last analysis the tools through which a political machine must control a government, be it Na tional, State or Municipal. If you are a registered voter, and you exercise your franchise, you have the right as a citizen to complain of bad government; and a further right to righteously and indignantly demand of your fellow citizen that he do likewise. If you are not reg istered, or if you do not vote, the consciousness that your sins of omission are responsible for your plight, when and if you complain, justify, or misrule, should arouse in you a desire and resolve to register and vote. The accepted definition of law is: “Law is the will of the people.” The making of the laws, the administration thereof; the obedience of the law is in the hands of the people. You are the people. Register! HARMONY EXISTS. Harmony is to exist in the Court House for the next four yeiars. When a group of public servants so earn the trust and re ipect of a community, their re-election is to be commended. It is with that thought that the Daily Times extends its elicitations to the Chatham,County officers. The fact that this being the year of politics, national and state, and consequently, the minds of the nation turn to scrutinize those office-holders who serve them, for a group of community officials to be re named to their positions without question is ample evidence of their worth. SAVANNAHIANS AND ENTERPRISE. The Blue and White, Savannah High School monthly pub lication, was sold on the streets Saturday to raise funds for the Red Cross flood and tornado quota. Savannahians were generous in their response to the sale, it was reported at the school. The demure high school co-eds made much more efficient news boys than the young gentlemen of the school. They sold out their papers faster than any of the boys had dreamed of selling them. This issue of the Blue and White was put out by the Com mercial Deartment under the supervision of William Eyler, edi torial adviser and Donald Gray, business adviser, it was a special Memorial Day and William ShakesjTeare issue, as the English classes celebrated the birthday of the poet on April 23. A memorial wreath in pencil adorns the front page, and an unusually good likeness of Shakespeare appears as an inside feature. The young and perhaps future editorial workers of this city are to be congratulated for their enterprise. NOT—In the News *•• * « « COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION Jy WORTH CHENEY (Central Press Association) EARLY ONE morning the tele phony buzzed sharply in the home of a neighborhood movie house a.angger. Half-asleep, the manager ansyyred in an irritated voice. “Will you please come right down to the theater?" a voice pleaded anxiously. “I attended your sheyr tonight and left a very val uable article there.” ‘Can’t you wait until tomorrow?" asko the manager, none too polite ly. “No,” sbjd the voice. “The —the article is too valuable to be left over night. You’ll just have to open up." - . Reluctantly agreeing to the re luest, the manager dressed and drove over to the theater, where he found a young woman nervously pacing up and down in front of the build Im. “And what," demanded the man gruffly, as he unlocked the door and motioned for the woman to entyr the dark theater, “is so Valuable that it can’t be left until tpuofrow?’ "It’s—it's my baby. I got so in terested in th© picture that I for got all about him and left him in here.” True enough, an 18-month-old boy was found slumped in one of the seats .fast asleep. "But why didn’t you tell me what the ‘article’ was over the phon©?” asked the manager "My husand was asleep in the next room when I called. He was asleep when I £;ot home. And if he ever found out I had left the baby in a theater there would be the devil to pay!" ♦ * ♦ THE MAN who told us that story Is a theater manager; as a matter of fact, the manager in whose theater the baby was found. He says that babies are seldom lost in theaters, but almost every thing else under the sun is found. Once he found a woman's right shoe. He deduced that it had been left there by some woman who had taken it off because her foot ached, and lost it under the seats. How she ever got out of the theater with only one shoe, he never knew. — No. 1: Early Year*— I,IFF. STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS is® Colonel William Franklin Knox, aspirant to the 1936 Republican presi dential nomination, was born in the Dorchester sec tion of Boston, Mass., New .Years’ day, 1874, the son of William Edwin and Sarah Barr.crd of English extraction. At the tender age of seven, Knox’s fam ily moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., where his career began some years later. Home Town of Representative Wadsworth Believes ‘‘Young Jim” Should Be Given Presidential Nomination—Nothing Less EDITORS NOTE: This life story of Representative Wads worth is considered of unusual interest in view of the fact that he now is mentioned as the prob able running mate for Gov. Alf M. Landon on the Republican presi dential ticket if Governor Landon is nominated. By HENRY CLUNE Central Press Correspondent GENESEO. N. Y., April 25 James W. Wadsworth, representa tive from the thirty-ninth congres sional district, is known to his townsmen in this delightful vil lage as “Young Jim.” He has been “Young Jim" ever since he left Yale, with the class of 1898, soon to manifest a lively interest in politics. His father, the late James W. Wadsworth, Sr., also in his tirfie a representative from the thirty-ninth district, was known as “Old Jim”. The two men were close friends, understanding one another perfectly, the son pat terning his own political career after his fath.r’s. Since the death of "Old Jim”, "Young Jim” has moved into the home of his parents, a great old fashioned house, with deep fire places and wide windows that look to the east over a great sweep of the beautiful Genesee valley. Form erly, the present congressman liv ed in a large country house which sat far back from the Genesee-Mt. Morris road, some six miles south of the village of Geneseo. Four or five years ago this house burned to the ground. "Old Jim” was dead then. Rathen than rebuild, Repre sentative Wadsworth moved into the vacant house of his late par ents. Own Vast Acres The Wadsworths, deeply rooted in the soil of the Genesee valley, own vast acres of farm land. The manor house of the clan, now oc cupied by Mrs. W. Austin Wads worth, rests in the center of a park-like estate in the end of the main street in Geneseo. The late W. Austin Wadsworth was a farm er and a sportsman. For years he was master of the Genesee fox hounds. His son. William, now car ries on in this capacity. James W. Wadsworth has never evidenced more than a mild inter est in hunting horses, which are bred with notable success in the fine pasture lands of the upper Genesee valley. When he was graduated from Yale, he entered the United States army and saw service for three years in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. After the Spanish-American war he took over the management of Wads worth farms and kept steadily at this job for four years. In 1905 he was elected a meifiber, from Liv ingston county, of the New York state assembly, and he has been actively interested in politics, and often an office holder, ever since. They like "Young Jim” in Gen eseo. Handsome, athletic, he wears old tweeds and rides around his farms in a small motor car, stop ping to talk shop with tenant farm- Athletic Days His neighbors like to remember, and relate, the exploits of “Young Jim” when he played first base on the village ball club, bringing the experience he had gained as a member of the Yale nine to this vil lage athletic organization. They think he was a grand ball player, they think he is a smart politician and they consider him a "durned fine neighbor.” He always carries his district by a substantial mar gin. At the political symposiums around the cracker barrels in the village stores, they still talk hope fully of the day when “Young Jim” will come fully into his own and take over the White House. No matt’r what the remainder of the country may believe, the people of Geneseo, and the upper Geneseo valley in general, believe they have a man of presidential caliber. An aristocrat. Representative Wadsworth nevertheless main tains his hold. Ha is a favorite speaker at meetings of the grange, SAVANNAH DAIL'Y TIMES, MONDAY. APRIL 27. 1936 - llil? "J While attending grammar school Knox spent his early morning hours and evenings selling papers to help support his family. Determined to become a wage earner and a finan cial help to "his family, Frank left school in 1889 against the protests of his mother to work in a ship ping room at $5 a week. Advancing swiftly, he be came a traveling salesman at 19. political rallies, at the opening of country fairs. He participates in many village social affairs. His of fice is situated in an old-fashioned stone building at one end of the village. Marries Well Representative Wadsworth mar ried Alice Hay of Washington, D. C„ daughter of the late John Hay, secretary of state under President Theodore Roosevelt. The Wads worths have three children: Rever dy, a student at Yale university; James J. Wadsworth, present as semblyman from Livingston coun ty, and the beautiful Mrs. Evelyn Wadsworth Symington who, as Eve Symington, has been success ful as a singer in the most fashion able supper clubs in New York. It is typical of “Young Jim” that he accepted with perfect equanim ity the engagement of his daughter as a night club singer. Eve Sym ington made her debut in one of the smartest night clubs in New York more than a year ago, and the smiling handsome, perfectly ringside table for his daughter’s debut. He seemed, at that time, to take more pride in his daughter’s success than he had in any of his —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— UNEMPLOYMENT STUDY By Machinery and Allied Products Group AIDS MECHANIZATION By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. April 27—“ More Facts on Technology and Employ ment” is the title of a little pam phlet recently issued by the Ma chinery and Allied Products Insti tute —an organization with which lam qiot much acquainted. Ob viously it is very resentful of the charge that industrial mechaniza tion is responsible for unemploy ment here and elsewhere. Nor do I know what were the original “Ten Facts” given to the world by the same institute. The "More Facts”, however, are so intelligent a study of the unem ployment problem that they seem to me to be worth serious consider ation. Their conclusion is that there can be no such thing as over production until everyone has ev erything he would like to have — and we all know that we have not reached the saturation point. • * * SOME IMPROVEMENT Employment, to be sure has not picked up much yet, but there has been some improvement—estimat ed by the National Industrial Con ference Board at 963,000 since Jan uary, 1934. For this improvement the Ma chinery and Allied Products In stitute, quoting labor department al statistics, claims 80.4 per cent of the credit for mechanized in dustry, although mechanized indus try, normally, only one-fourth of the total number of the country’s wage earners. In other words. “Suppose,” says President John W. O’Leary of the i institute, “that machinery had dis placed eve | / factory worker who "was employed in 1929. The total would have been only 8.8 millions —but factory employment today is 7.1 millions, or only 1.7 million be low the 1929 peak. All the rest of the unemployed are of other oc cupations carpenters, masons, clerks, salesmen, waiters, maids, gardners—milions of whom cer tainly have not been displaced by mechanization.” * * ♦ MORE SEEKING JOBS It is not, reasons the institute's pamphlet, that there are. propor tionately. fewer jobs than there us ed to be—but more individuals, proportionately , are seeking them. The pamphlet admits that ac curate figures are unavailable, but it estimates that 270 Americans per 1,000 were in the wage earning class 100 years ago. as against 400 par 1.00 at pesem. “The chief causes of this in- Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist I 5 ■-■ I L I --JIC In the 1893 depression Knox was thrown into the army of the unemployed. He worked on temporary jobs for as little as $2 a week. He continued am bitiously. Thus, at 20, he ente red Alma college, Mich., to work his way through. Knox was ath letically inclined, and in his senior year, he was ap pointed physical instructor of the college. He was graduated in 1898. own political triumphs. Eve Sym ington. brilliant, cultured, lovely to look upon, is the apple of Repre sentative Wadsworth’s eye. The Wadsworths never sell their land. Some people believe they are land poor. Perhaps they are. But they taken an enffable pride in their large holdings. None of the family ever move far out of the Genesee valley and even though they depart for a time, they in variably return. James Walcott Wadsworth, Jr., is a conservative Republican who makes no excuses for being one. He believes thoroughly in conser vatism. He was born at Geneseo on August. 12, 1877. Thus he soon will be 59. He is a graduate of Yale. His first office was a member of the New York assembly, 190510. He was speaker—l9o6-10. He was U. S. senator from New York for two terms —1915-27. He went down to defeat in 1926, but has been a representative in congress since 1933. He created a sensation in the Republican party by declaring wet when the party officially was dry. It was a popular declaration. crease,” explains the pamphlet, “are: “1. A rapidly declining birthrate (smaller families) which has brought an increasing concentra tion of the population into the old er age groups—persons of working age. “2. Greater attractiveness of work, because it is pleasanter than formerly. “3. A higher living standard, calling for larger incomes.” * * * IT’S REASONING “There would be no unemploy ment today,’’ asserts the pamphlet, “if no larger percentage of the population sought work than did in 1850 or I 860.” But the institute finds no fault with the increase in the proportion of job-seekers. Specifically it says, “There is little or no evidence that any of today’s unemployment is due to the increased number of wo men in jobs Virtually all jobs which women hold are newly created in connection with new ser vices which have been developed because women are especially adapted to perform them.” The institute surmises that the increase in the supply of workers per 1.000 population is past. Why? Well, wages are not now so in viting as when there was more work than there were workers. Second, more than half the pop illation consists of housewives and school children and not all of the rest seek employment. Therefore there is a limit beyond which the percentage of gainful workers will not rise an assumed limit of about 40 per cent of the popula tion, because this figure has re mained quite constant since 1910. Third, the number of working children is decliing rapidly. Fourth, public and private old age pensioning systems are ab sorbing increasing numbers of the aging. ♦ ♦ * LOWER PRICES URGED As an emergency measure, how ever, the institute argues for sub siding prices, to encourage buying, thus stimulating business activity - making more work not only for railroad men. truck drivers, clerks, salespeople and the service trades generally. And mechanicization does make for subsiding prices. That is the accusation aaginst it. To blame it for that seems to the Machinery and Allied Products In stitute to be suicidal. J wife j Knox became a Rough Rider partly by accident, partly by energetic de sign at the age of 24. When war started, he pedalled a bicycle to the Michigan militia camp, 120 miles over and back, to enlist for the war. He was told to recruit 15 other college men, which he did, but on the day the unit was sworn in, Knox was at a funeral and the unit was filled. They Never Sell . YTQwcy****" - Depressed over this fact, he followed his comrades to Tampa, Fla., as a uni formed camp follower. Nearby the famed Rough Riders were encamped. Knox strolled over to the Rough Riders’ camp to talk to a college friend and it was through this acquaintance that he was able to join the unit, headed by the late Theo dore Roosevelt. He was with Roosevelt at San Juan. More Tomorrow. Here s Another Reason Why Can’t Win” in Crime (Central Press Association) An amazing story that gives am ple proof of the veracity of the state ment that “you can't win’’ in com batting the law is told by a globetrot tin..g friend. Our informant heard the story in Rhodesia, which pro vides the setting for the yarn. A convicted forger was being taken by train to the prison at Salisbury to serve his sentence. His legs in chains and guarded by two officers, the man. no longer entertained any hope cf escaping. But his hopes for freedom was suddenly revived when both guards .apparently believing their prisoner safe enough in his chains, fell asleep. The train was roaring along through the night at a terrific speed, but th eprisoner, in desperation, de cided to take a long chance. He made his way to the door of the coach and without a second’s desita tion, leaped into the darkness. For tunately for him. he landed in soft soil and was unhurt except for a few minor bruises. It was miraculous that he was not killed instantly. That night, despite his heavy chains, he trudged through the wil derness for several miles, and for days afterward he kept moving con stantly to avoid capture. Each night he spent filing his irons with pieces of sharp rock. Living only on wild fruit he soon became weak from the lack of food. But he trudged, onward, and on the fifteenth night he succeeded in get ting rid of his chains. Traveling then was faster, but a little while later he was seized with a fever. Then occurred another stroke cf luck. Unconscious in the heart of the jungle, he was found by a hunt ing expedition and carried to a set tlement. By the time he was found he had walked more than T,OOO miles through lion-infested wilderness with out weapons or equipment! Narrowly averting death from the malady, he eventually was nursed You’re Telling Me? | By WILLIAM RITT Silly Sue says her dad is such an ardent prohibitionist he wears shoes three sizes too large—just so there is no dan ger of them becoming tight. ♦ * ♦ Never laugh at a man because he may wear a little feather in his hat. Remember, Napoleon wore ice cream colored pants and that was real lace dangling from the sleeves of George Washington’s best coat. ♦ ♦ ♦ The world moves on but judg ing from the news from Europe, it appears strictly down hill. Before we go to war to get it far them let's stop and consider whether the Chinese would know what to io about peace if they got it. ♦ • Another miracle we never ex pected will happen is a psycho logical novel which anyone be sides the author and the liter ary critics can understand. Just because an employe isn’t a clock watcher is no sign he is good. He may be so dumb he doesn't even know the time of day. * * w Crown Prince Michael of Ru mania is learning to be a javelin thrower. But he’ll nsver equal the prowess of his dad, King Carol, who once tossed a throne away. * * * Etiquette hint: Always light your companion's cigarette before you do your own. In that way he. and not y-u, will inhale the obnoxious sul phur fumes. PRESIDENTIAL CLOSEUPS The birthplace of Abraham Lin coln, near Hodgenville. Ky„ is a na tional shrine, with the Emancipa tor's log cabin home inclosed in a tragnificent marble structure. In 1901, the farm, then owned by David Grear, a New York millionaire, was s tight, through purchase, by the St. Luke's Society of Chicago, whose members proposed to convert it into a site for a sanitarium for inebriates —a sort of a Keeley cure, so to say. ‘Wifi* •• • y illi i z ’ M J fc naffMM— Bu- Colonel Knox “out west.” back to health. Once recovered he worked his way to Europe. There are those who would say that he had earned his freedom, but such was not his fate. In a Euro pean city he was recognized by a detective, and sent back to prison. A short time later he was seized with another attack of malaria, and within a few days he died in the prison he had risked his life a hun dred times to stay out of! My New York By James Aswell NEW YORK. April 27—Hhe manner in which New Yorkers are taking to games is at once surpris ing and disturbing. Games featur ing big business deals and the handling of vast sums of play money; games which involve elec tions, racing odds and the stock market. The American Toy Fair advises me that games for adults trebled in sales this spring—most of them along the lines just men tioned. Eventually the theater, the places and the movies will suffer if people continue to stay at home and exchange bales of symbolic SI,OOO bi Ils. This might be a healthy sign, a return to the old diversions of the parlor when the parchesi board was a means of huge family congeniality. But now adays the “finance” games are played with grim intensisty When Young Alphonse from Yale goes to the wall, unable to pay his $2,000 “rental” for “The $2,000 “rental” for “The Board walk” in one of the real estate games, he pales and perspires; his fingers clutch convlusively and he hates Pop and Aunt Susie vigor ously for having driven him to bankruptcy. There is too much ser ious acting out of real emotions to make -ost of these games ideal family get-togethers. You will notice too that the self styled “liberals” plunge into these stage money games with the most profuond intensity. The “pink-o”, who in his everyday conversation is quickest to denounce those who toil to put aside a comptence, and has the greatest scorn for “ the profit motive” demonstrates that he can be the most ruthless of Shy locks once he gets ahead of one of the phoney-money games. He looses at that should be play, all the pent-up fixation upon currency which his own character is too weak to assuage in life and which his radical pholospohpy attemps to conceal while alibi-ing failure. A generation ago people would have b bored and amused at the idea of tossing fortunes, however fictional they were, around in a parlor game. It was too far from reality; at too great a variance with the principles of thrift and slow accumulation through self denial then widely held. But today extravagance is a sort of virtue and grownups, like children, adore in th ir games to re-enact the drama going on around them. And speaking of the ‘ that children now play with, it inter ested me to learn that less than one per cent of 1936 playthings are concerned with machine guns, “pineapples,” nightsticks and “G- Men” appurtenances. Interest in crime among the tots is decreas ing. Manhattan sidelight: The Erie Canal boats had about them a tra dition of rich, fervid life almost comparable to that of the Missis sippi side-wheelers. Some of the flavor of that life is still to be discovered, by the curious, who are willing to prowd Coentiea Slip, in the neighborhood of the Seamens Institute. There are a dozen or more an cient barges ,oncv proud queens of the Erie, rot at the wharf. The owners live in them the year round and are to be seen cross-legged pipe-smoking on deck every sum mer afternoon, as crusty and salty as any character out of a sea novel. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD » Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press Association Monday, April 27, 117th day of the year; 38th day of spring. Iyar 5, 5696 in J. C. Zodiac sign: Tauruis. Birthstone: Diamond. The big city folks are “saving daylight” now but it's the farmers who aren’t wasting any. Scanning the skies: Now that it’s possible to talk about cold weather without causing aprehensive shivers, it can be stated that in Oi-Mekon, Siberia, water thrown from a bucket freezes before hitting the ground, and instead of splashing, breaks. It rates as the coldest spot in the world, with temperatures going below minus 102 degrees Fahrenheit. * * * Charles Townsend “Copey” Cope land, b. 1860, famed Harvard profes sor. . . . Frank R. McNinch, b. 1873, chairman of Federal Power Commis sion. Dr. John H. Randall, b. 1871, director of World Unity Foundation. TODAY’S YESTERDAY April 27, 1778—Americans were the last foreign enemy force to in vade the British Isles. From the frigate Ranger, the first to fly the Stars and Stripes, Capt. John Paul Jones led a force ashore at White haven, England, held the town for a while, spiked 38 cannon, and threw a scare into the whole countryside. Napoleon was never able to land forces in the British isles, nor were Germans, though the latter did bom bard English cities from ship and airship. April 27, 1805—Another great day in the history of the Stars and Stripes. Lieut. P. N. O’Bannon, rais ed it for the first time over foreign conquered territory, over the Tripoli tan fortress which the Marines had captured at Deme, on the north coast of Africa. It happened in the war with the Barbary states over tribute exacted from shipping in the Medi terranean. Again, American arms had done what other Europeans couldn’t. Pope Pius XI declared the Americans did more for Christendom against these pirate states than all the powers of Europe combined. Probably, however, the ancestors of the Britons and Frenchmen who did all the boasting in 1919 probably claimed the Americans weren’t of any use in the conflict except as money-lenders. April 27 , 1822 —Hiram Ulysses Grant was born at Point Pleasant. Ohio, of Scottish ancestry, the eldest of six children. He rose from bank rupt farmer to commanding general and president within eight years. The South observes the birthday of the leader of its losing forces, but the North doesn’t celebrate the natal day of its victorious commander! April 27, 1865—At 1 a.m. at a point on the Misissippi river about eight miles above Memphis, Tenn., the northern-bound Sultana began to rock violently. She was topheavy with her load of 2,142 Union soldiers returning from Confederate captiv ity, for her hold was empty. The rocking motion agitated the water in the boilers, already enduring pres sure far beyond their stated strength. In midstream, the strained metal gave away with a roar heard for miles, and the U. S. had the biggest ship disaster in its history. The loss of life —1,739 —was greater than in the sinking of the Titanic or the Lusitania. « * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Martial law was proclaimed throughout Ireland. The 17th Iniantry Brigade arrived from England to re-enforce the 7tn Battalion Sherwood Foresters and other units of the king’s army be leagueed rby the few hundred rebe’s fighting as the Republican Army. Rebels had entrenched in schools and houses near the bridge over the ca nal at Dublin’s ,'ower Mount street and barred the way of the re-enforce ments, and the Foresters were order ed to take the position at all costs. They did take it, the cost was 235 casualties. Several fire§ broke out in Sackville street; the fire brigade couldn’t get to work bej<H<e it was fired on by rebels; and in the end a considerable part of the area, includ ing the General Post Ofice was in ruins. The underworld seized its oppor tunity. and poured out into the shop ping' district to loot and rob. Thts Dublin was hotter than any hellish sector of the battlefront in France that day. Whatever the success of the co horts of Patrick Pearse, “President of the Irish Republic,” in Dublin, the revolution was doomed by the fail ure of the provinces to rise. In Kerry, which was to have been the focus of the revolt, capture of the consignment of German arms brought by Karl Spindler in the Li bau, nipped the insurrection there in the bud, and only in Dublin, Wex ford. Galway and Louth did the Vol unteers spring to arms. Incidentally, in these notes for April 22, it was intimated that Sir Roger Casement returned to Ireland in Spindler’s disguised freighter. This was untrue. Casement was landed by a German submarine which Spin dler accompanied. (To be continued) * » • IT’S TRUE The largest ransom in history— sls,ooo,ooo—did not save a king from being killed by kidnapers. He was Atahaulpa, Inca of Peru. The camel family of animals had its origin in North America. •?J sre , al ' 2 40 ’ 000 acres of idle land within the five boroughs cf New York, the largest city in the world. In some species of fireflies, the eggs are also luminous. * * * Queries, reproofs, etc., are we’, corned by Clark Kinnaird. THE GUN WENT OFF /tpV°?” IINGT 2 n ’ lil ’ April 27 (TPI-K-year-dd Craig Braden loaded an ancient flintlock gun with loose powder. Then he jam med a wad of paper against the charge as he thought pioneers used to do. Braden found the firing flint was out of order He touched a match th D», fu t e ; The gun gurst into bits. Physicians say Craig's skull ml? n t Pi TH ed ? y u a flying P iece of metal. They doubt whether he will recover. ONE MINUTE PULPIT thu re n t<? » 10V€ ?ath no m -’ n than J” 8,11 lay down bis lift for his friends.—St. John 15:13.