The Polk County post., July 23, 1920, Image 3

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Am erica Feeding Children o f Brest Litovsk
SPEND BILLIONS
FOR LUXURIES
Secretary of the Treasury Shows
How Americans Can Save
$22,700,000.000.
GLEANED FROM TAX RETURNS
Carpets, Furs, Autos and Soap Classed
With Gum, Candy and Rouge—
$750,000,000 Spent for Perfum­
ery and Cosmetics.
The lineup of children for their dully dinner ut the soup kitchen of the Aiuerlcuu Relief association at Brest
Litovsk Poland. The association manages the kitchen for the Joint distribution committee.
SEEKING CAESAR
IN ROMAN RUINS
Ghost Fined and Must
Walk Earth Elsewhere
Seattle.— William W. Aber, ar-
rested by policemen C. C. Fort­
ner and E. Yorls, In his home,
651
West Fifty-fifth street,
while he was appearing as the
“ ghost o f Bessie” before E. C.
Berger, Jack Werner and H.
Winters, who had given the
clairvoyant $2 to materialize a
spirit, pleaded guilty to va­
grancy before Justice o f the
Peace Otis W. Brinker and was
fined $50 and costs.
He paid his fine nnd promised
Judge Brinker to leave the city.
went, Gelligaer, Castell Collen and
Caersws. So far, however, nothing
has been done In the northwest cor­
ner o f the principality, that region of
Gwynnedd which occupies so large a
space In the history o f medlevnl
Wales. The proposed excavation of
Segontium may enable this gap to be
filled with accurate If not extensive
Information.
Results of the Excavation W ill Be
The Roman fort o f Segontium took
Keenly Followed by Archaeolog­
Its name from the river (now the
ists of Both Hemispheres—
Saint) on which It stood, nnd occu­
British History Involved.
pied the higher ground behind the
present town of Carnarvon, where In
Less than half a mile to the south­ a later age was built the church of others will visit the site while excava­
east o f tile ancient castle of Carnar­ Llanbeblig.
It was known to the tions are in progress.
von in North Wales lies the burled Welsh as "Caer Saint” or “ Y Gner
The purchasers o f the areas are
Roman fortress o f Segontium. The yn Arfon.” While inferior In import­ willing thnt all finds shall he depos­
castle is a grim and lordly pile plant­ ance to the legionary stations at Isca ited In a museum at Carnarvon If a
ed by a grim king In token of his and Deva, It was a fortress o f some suitable building can be provided, on
might; erected, so Pennant says, bj* consequence, covering about five and the condition thnt the exhibition, care
the forced labor of Welsh peasants on a half acres and serving, as I have nnd sufe custody o f such finds will be
money wrung from the Welsh chief said, as the terminus o f the military assured In the future. An offer has
tains who had failed In the struggle road which ran through North Wnles.
been received to house the finds In
against King Edward I. It dates back
And I may add that from Aberglas- the National museum of Wales at
some seven hundred years In British l.vn and Gortmadoe, In the neighbor­ Cardiff.
history, but compared with the Roman hood o f Carnarvon, Prince Mador ap
The Prince of Wales.
fortress o f Segontium it is a thing of Owaln Gwynedd is said In Welsh
yesterday, Ernest II. Itann tells the legend to have mustered his forces
First among those who are taking
Boston Transcript. Long before the nnd sailed In ten ships for the coloni­ an Interest In the excavntlon of Se­
Saxon, Dane or Norman trod the soil zation o f North America, toward the gontium may he mentioned the prince
o f Britain the land echoed to the end o f the twelfth century.
o f Wales. Before he left England on
heavy tread o f armed Roman legions
his tour o f Australia and New Zea­
A Belgian Garrison.
as they pushed on toward the setting
An inscription of about 1*00 A. D. land he had explained to him the
sun in their attempt to establish the chronicles the fact that at that time whole scheme, und he expressed his
dominion o f Jhe Caesars over the the water supply o f the place was put warm approval o f the work nnd the
whole of western Europe. They laid in order by the first cohort o f SunlcI, objects which the committee has In
the course o f W atllng street diagonal­ and this auxiliary force, drawn or view. It was only natural that he
ly across the country, through St. A l­ partly drawn from Belgium, may hnve should do so, for Segontium lies
bans (Verolamlum), Dunstable (Duro- furnished the regular garrison o f Se­ within hnlf a mile o f Carnarvon ens
cobrivae)
and
Towcester
(Lacth- gontium.
No nttempt lias hitherto tie, where Ills Investiture as prince of
dorum) to Chester (D eva) on n line been made to examine the site sys­ Wales took place shortly before the
now followed by the London and tematically, nnd, ns was said by the war. In Queen Eleanor’s gateway,
Northwestern
railway.
Through late Doctor Hnverfleld— than whom King George presented his son to the
Chester they passed on to Carnarvon no greater authority on Roman Brit­ assembled multitude.
(Segontium) and straggled across the ain lived— “ The spade alone can de­
The Cambrian Archaeological as­
Menai straits, over a track now fol­ termine the successive stages which sociation signified its appreciation of
lowed by the “ Wild Irishman,” the Roman Carnarvon may have experi­ the Importance o f the undertaking at
London Northwestern mall train, ns enced. This much is certain. There Its last general meeting, nnd Its ex­
It swirls on to Holyhead.
is no site In North Wales, and only cavation committee has recommended
The Light of the Spade In History.
one or two others In the whole penin­ an Initial grant of $750 to head the
A t Segontium was established the sula, which arc so likely, if properly list o f subscriptions. An nnnunl In­
Inst Roman fort, at the terminus of and systematically explored, to throw terim report of the excavations will
tlieir military road in North Wnles. light on the condition of the country appear in “ Arohaeologia Cambrensls.”
It Is this Roman fort which British In the later Roman nnd earliest post- Active supintrt has also come from the
Society of Antiquaries, and It Is pro­
archaeologists now propose to excn- Roman nges.”
Chance finds that have alrendy been posed to solicit the help and influence
vate if the sufficient sunt o f $10,000
can be raised to defray the expenses made are o f considerable historical of the Smithsonian Institution o f the
value, particularly a talisman or United States o f America. The cotn-
of the work.
There nre few more obscure periods charm In the form o f a thin plate of hlne$ appeal to the pocket and Imag­
In the history o f Wales than flint of gohl-hearing maglcnl characters and a ination of the ’ scientific archaeolo­
the Roman occupation, and It Is not Greek inscription calling on sundry gist ought not to fall on deaf ears.
While archaeologists have been
to he expected that much light will be spirits to protect one Alphlnnos from
thrown upon it by literary records. evtl. It Is probable that It was made ■linking history during the war In the
But the spade may give us wlint we In Alexandria In the second century. nenr East, archneology, like most of
seek in vain front the written or print­ What had been Its wanderings before the more serlons pleasures of life, hns
Now It Is begin­
ed page, and excavation has already It was crushed among the ruins o f been hibernating.
ning to awnke nnd realize how much
yielded valuable results from Caer- Segontium!
The fragment o f a similar charm lost time has to lie made up, and one
may he seen at York, and these make o f the first tasks to hand Is the ex­
STUDYING OAT SMUT
the only two o f their kind to be found cavation o f the Roman fortress of
Segontium, hy which. It Is hoped,
In Britain.
much
light may be thrown on one of
Another find was the famous gold
crossbow brooch o f the fourth century, the darkest pages o f British history,
which Is now preserved In the Carnar­ on the history, indeed, of all races of
British origin.
von town librnry.
In order to secure the land fo r the
purpose o f excavation, a number of
PRIZE W INNING POSTER
people Interested In Welsh’s archeol­
ogy, and with one exception resident
In the counties o f Carnarvon and
Anglesey, purchased the areas near
the "W aterworks” In order thnt they
might he saved from the hands o f the
builders and be systematically ex­
plored. Three acres ore within the |
wall o f the fortress, and half an acre |
lies without It. In addition to these !
two areas, It is probable that permis­
sion will be obtained to excavate
about three and a half acres linme- 1
dlately adjoining the main site, on the j
northwest and northeast, and the '
vicar o f Carnarvon has stated that he ;
will put no difficulty In the way of
ea rn in g out excavation in the vicar-j
age garden, which lies within the wall
o f Segontium and covers about an
acre and a half. The land available j
for excavation Is therefore from three
nnd a half to eight acres In extent, of
which the greater part lies within
the walls o f the fortress. In view o f ,
the Importance and extent o f the ]
Experts of the office of cereal In­ work, the services o f an expert ex- I
vestigations, department of agricul­ cavator will he obtained, and he will | Among the art posters on the pre­
ture, making tests o f different vari­ work under instructions from Prof. II. j vention o f tuberculosis shown In New
The work will be j York by the Art Alliance o f America
eties o f oats In order to determine O. BosanqueL
their susceptibility and resistance to spread over two or more years, and j la this one, made by Florence Rup-
the destructive smut disease. They results will he keenly followed by j precht o f the Buswlck high school.
worL on the government experimental archaeologists In both hemispheres. It It was selected hy prominent judges
Is anticipated that students and many! as the best of the 500 exhibited.
farm at Arlington, Va.
Buried Fortress of Segontium,
Near Castle, to Be Ex­
cavated.
OF GREAT HISTORIC INTEREST
Washington.— Gut out the chewing
(o n , lay off the cigarettes, pull the
sweet tooth, drink only water, do with­
out cosmetics, perfumes, cigars, tobac­
co, snuff, furs, curpets and such cloth­
ing luxuries ns silk shirts; wash your
face with yellow soap, ride the street
cars Instead o f the autos and depend
upon your own cultivated or uncul­
tivated voice for music— and you will
save $22,700,000,000!
That, la effect, is the advice recently
handed out by Secretary o f the Treas­
ury Houston to the 110,000,000 Amer­
icans, in the course o f an economy ar­
ticle. His figures for expenditures up­
on so-called luxuries are compiled
from federal tax returns and are prob­
ably, for that reason, not very far
from the truth. Just how many per­
sons might ngree with Secrotary Hous­
ton concerning his definition o f what
constitutes a luxury— for Instnnce car­
pets, tobacco, automobiles nnd toilet
soaps— Is problematical. It is a defi­
nition similar to thnt famous hy­
pothetical question— never answeerd—
“ when Is a man drunk?” Likewise
the war-time puzzle o f “ what Is an es­
sential industry?”
Here Are Our Luxury Expenditures.
However, the figures are Interesting
from the standoplnt of knowing ap­
proximately what the American peo­
ple do spend on things thnt they could
do without nnd still go on living. The
table o f “ luxury” expenditures ar­
ranged by Secretary Houston from the
reports from the present internal rev­
enue system, federal tnx returns, and
so on, follow s:
C h ew in g gu m ............................. t 50.000,000
I MAKES HIM BULLET PROOF
Dog Showering Her
Mother Love on Lambs
Louisville.— L. S. Downs, re­
siding near Midway, hns a dog
that has taken the custody of
two baby lambs and Is shower­
ing all her mother love on the
wards.
The canine's puppies
were taken away from her,
whereupon she Immediately took
charge o f the lambs and Is with
them almost constantly.
have been specifically enumerated
hero, nearly all could be greatly re­
duced In amount without Inflicting suf­
fering or even Inconvenience upon the
population.
“The fact that the American public
is spending such sums as these for the
purposes mentioned gives point to the
often repeated nnd often disregarded
Injunction to be guided hy the policy
o f thrift at least to a reasonable ex­
tent In both personal nnd business ex­
penditure," says the editorial. “ It nlso
throws a glaring light upon the cur­
rent complaints concerning the cost of
living. I f the nation can spend $22,-
700,000,000 upon articles which In
large part are purely luxuries. It evi­
dently Is not suffering from a de­
pressed standard of living. While, on
the other hnnd, It Is obviously making
things much harder for Itself by draw­
ing off the commodities, services and
cnpltal used In the production of this
great volume of consumable goods
which otherwise would go to mnke
the ‘necessaries o f life ’ more plentiful
and hence cheaper."
Paul Weltkon, Kansas City Police­
man, wltb a bullet proof breast pro­
tector.
having kissed elghteen-yenr-old Fran­
ces Heckler when she went Into his
store to buy some candy kisses.
Magistrate Nolnti fined Weiss $2,
which he paid. The magistrate, In fix­
ing the amount o f the fine, said in a
Judicial aside to the clerk, "Kisses nre
cheaper now since the boys came back
from the war."
,
Miss Heckler was In night court In
REAL KISS IN CANDY STORE a state bordering on hysterics and
testified thnt she had gone hack to
Girl Is Given What She Aaked For in the counter at Weiss’ Invitation to se­
New York, but Owner
lect what she wanted when he put his
Is Fined.
arm around her nnd kissed her vig­
orously upon the mouth.
New York.— Joseph Weiss, thirty-
Italian manufacturers hnve devel­
five and mnrrled, who runs n candy
store at 480 East One Hundred and oped an abrasive method for making
Candy ........................................... 1,000,000,000
C iga re tte s .................................... 800,000,000 Sixty-ninth street, was arraigned be­ corks that wastes only 8 per cent of
S o ft
drinks.
In cluding
Ice
fore Magistrate Nolan In night court material as compnred with 20 per cent
cream and soda .......................
380.000,000 on a charge of disorderly conduct In when they are cut.
P e rfu m e ry and c osm etics....... . 750,000,000
C iga rs ...........................................
610,000,4)00
Tob acco and snu ff ....................
800,000,000
F u rs .............................................. 300,000,000
C arpets and lu x u rio u s cloth ing. 1,600.000,000
A u tom ob iles and p arts ............. 2,000.000,000
T o ile t soaps ...........................
400,000,000
P ian os,
o rga n s and phon o­
graph s ........................................ 250,000,000
Making Costs Still Higher.
According to comment In an editori­
al In the New Y’ ork Journal o f Com­
merce, which prints Secretary Hous­
ton’s table o f figures, “ few persons
would deny that o f those Items which
SWIMS 600 FEET
TO W A R N TR A IN
eight days nnd cost seven lives nnd
did $500,000 dutnnge to the one road.
Several days after the flood the sec­
tion foreman wns looked up by a news­
paper tnnn from the city. He found
him directing a gnng of laborers re­
pairing the washout.
Williams related how It had been
Prize Snake Yarn of Year
raining through the previous week *
Comes From Brazil Wilds
and the April blizzard hnd left the
ground soaked, so that when the lust
A fter Setting the Danger Signals
The Brazilian state of Mnt-
storm came on It rnn off ns If from a
to Grosso hns produced n snake
Foreman Remembers His Negligee
duck’s hnck “ and old Hut creek start*
story which tnkes first prize
and Swim* Back Across 600
ed on n rnmpnge."
right out o f the hands of the
Feet of Swirling Current.
Decided to Swim.
stinkiest community o f Indiana
“ I kept watching the new bridge
or Arkansas.
Omnhn.--In the recent South Da- over the creek nil afternoon,” W il­
A traveler was Journeying by
kotn floods John Williams, n section liams told his visitor, “ nnd the water
mule-back along a jungle trail
foreman, swam a swollen creek at kept cornin’ up nnd cornin’ up until It
when he catne upon a saddle
night In a hailstorm to warn a pas­ reached the ties. Then I got worried
horse without a rider. The trav­
senger train that n bridge had gone for fear thnt the bridge would go out,
eler halted, shotgun In hand, to
out. He stripped himself nnd tied the nnd I went hnck to town and reported
Investigate.
dnnger signals to his hnck. A fter he It to the operator.
He told the dis­
He heard a noise In the trop­
had set thetif he approached a nenr-by patcher at Alliance nbout It. The tele­
ical thicket nnd peering under
house, then remembered Ills negligee phone nnd telegraph wires rtinnln’
the foliage he saw a huge snake
and swam hnck across the 000 feet of west had nil gone down nnd we
o f the species ophUlio In the
swirling current.
couldn’t get Edgemont or nnyone west
throes o f indigestion. The trav­
The passenger trnln, It developed o f the creek.
Jack Welch, the dis­
eler took advantage o f the Ill­
Inter,.was stnpjierl farther up the road patcher nt Alliance, tnlked to tpe over
ness of the monster to kill It.
at n point where the railroad men had the rnllrond phone nnd asked me If I
The snake was cut open and
little hope o f halting It. Williams’ her­ couhl get to the west end o f the bridge,
within wns found the owner of
oism, however, wns not overlooked hy across the creek, nnd put out a rod
the horse, fully attired In som­
the railroad officials.
light nnd some stop signals so ns to
brero, boots, spurs and rain­
The bridge was the Burlington's hold the night passenger train. No. 32,
coat.
over Hat creek, near Ardmore, R. D. which wns due at nine .o'clock.
I
The Hat creek flood tied up traffic for told hint I'd try, nnd went hnck to the
bridge.
“ When I got there agnln the water
wns clear over the top of the bridge,
and It looked to mo like one o f the
steel spans had gone out. W e tried to
phone the government farm on the
other side to ask them to go out and
put out a red light, hut their phone
wns gone and we couldn’t reach any-
body.
"W ell, I Just flggorcd the chances
, was probably ngnlnst me gtttln’ across,
hut It wns only my life ngnlnst 150
' passengers on No. 42, and I flggered
| thnt the train would be running pretty
j fast when they came tip to the bridge,
and they might he Into It before they
| saw It, so I walked up the creek a
hnlf-ndle, stripped off my clothes, tied
my red lantern, red flag nnd tontedoea
! to my hnck, nnd swain across.
Swam Back for Clothes.
"There wnsn't so many trees out
there, nnd she wns only about 000 feet
wide, but the water wns full o f hall-
' stones and cold ns h— . It wns
¡ rainin’ to heat the hand and dark as
I blazes.
I sure felt good when I hit
that fence on the other side and drug
; myself on the bank."
“ How did you get back to Ard-
i more?** Williams wns asked, after he
; liad related how he placed the slg-
i nals.
“ Well, I wnlked up to the govern-
j merit house, hut w hen I got close to
the office anil saw the bright lights
there, I retncmliered I didn’t have no
F ifty thousand baby chicks are shipped every day via parcel pom from clothes on and I thought I’d make a
Petaluma, Cal. The chicks are packed 100 In a box and ran go to any point pretty lookin’ sight huntin' In on ’em
within 60 hours of Kan Francisco. High school girls helped Uncle Sain handle like that, so I walked hack up tht
tha extra large shipments during the rail strike.
stream and swum back.”
Section Foreman Braves Raging
Icy Waters to Save 150
Passengers.
SOUTH DAKOTA FLOOD HERO
Shipping 50,000 Baby Chicks a Day