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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1921)
Ili.! TEACH KIDS HOW TO SWIM, PLAT U S WEATHER IS HUNT CHURCH L00T ,NDIANS MEND SKUU-S ' NÎiï HOME BREW New 4,000 Centers Keep Boys Out of Misckef and Help Them to “ Keep Fit." Icy Blasts and Torrid Zephyrs Are “ Imported” From Other Countries as General Rule WONDERFUL RESULTS SEEN NOT SUBJECT TO REGULATION Summer Activities on Playground* Eliminate Swearing, Cheating and Stealing Among Children— Fair Play Prevails. New York.— More than 1,000 play grounds aud recreatloual centers lu tiie United States are helping to keep boys out ol' mischief, teaching girls swimming and other athletics and showing adults h<Av to bene tit them selves physically aud mentally by play. The effect they have in keeping boys out o f trouble with the police is emphasized in reports which have come to the Playground and Kecrea- tion association from all over the country as one o f the most Important results of the establishment of play grounds In cities. These facts are given In the year book of the associa tion just made public. The chief of police of S hu Fran- cisco believes the establishment of neighborhood recreution centers Is a constructive measure toward sup pressing the crime wave. He asked the community service to extend Us recreation work because he believed that the wrong use o f leisure time had much to do with the Increase in crime. Cure for “ Bad” Boys. Granville Lee, supervisor of the Portland (M e.) recreation commission, says that bad boys behave themselves better during the playground season aud also that there are few er street accidents to children because of. play grounds. The playground directors o f Bay City, Mich., have discovered that sum- mer activities on the plnygrounds have practically eliminated all swear ing, cheating and stealing among the children. They note with satisfaction that tlîe spirit of fair play has helped to put the playground bully where he belongs and boast of an appreciable falling off of delinquents. Cases are reported where mothers have beeD amazed .to note that their children did not catch cold, although they played in the snow ; that the youngsters have gained In weight ami appetite. In one case a father forbade his daughter to play because It made her eat too much. One thonsaud children were taught to swim In one .week at Tacoma. Wash., and ' It Is estimated that 500, the majority of them girls, have learned to swim at Seattle. Pageant In Snowstorm. Pageants, plays and community singing bave ’ been fostered through out the country in the last year, with good results. One pageant was given at Kalumazoo, Mich., in a snowstorm, but It was attended by several thou sands, and the scenes were much en hanced by the snowy setting. Community singing in factories has been helpful in establishing friend ships among tlfe employees, and l>e- tween them and their employers, and In lessening the” popularity of crap Shooting. Many different organizations are promoting this work, with the result that a 42 per cent gain is reported for last year. OFFERS HER BABY FOR $500 Oklahoma City Woman Disappears A fter Her “ Ad” Is Rejected in Newspaper Office, There Is No Way of Suppressing High and Low Disturbances and At mospheric Pressure Is Boss of Its Own Whims. ARSHAG BAGDA3ARIAN TH E SAME BOY as he arrived at the Near East Relist six months later dressed In ciothea Orphanage from America This boy-.is one of the thousands of children wbose parents were massacred by Turks uear the Persian border. He was clever enough to hide out and escape to Develon, but was nearly deed from starvation and exposure when | picked up by a larger boy, who carried him 62 miles to Erlvan. It was thought useless to attempt to save the life of the emaciated little Arshag, but Edith B Hofmann, of the Near East Relief, undertook (he task, nursed him for six mouths, dressed him up in the little sailor suit sent by some American lad and the result is shown in the second picture. Think of Arshag and hlB brave battle against great odds and make up a bundle of clothing and toys for the relief ship to leave the Pacific coast directly for the Near East sometime early In June. Send all you can spare in order that .as many as possible of the ragged little human skeletons like you see In the first picture, may be transformed Into healthy and happy children like the lad shown In the second picture. Every kind of warm clothing la needed for men, women and children. I f a local Bundle Day has been announced for your community, give then; If none is planned for, seud by parcel post to Near East R elief Bundle Station, Portland, Oregon. j NEAR EAST IN GREAT NEED OF CLOTHING Vast Throngs W ander From Place to Place Clad Only In Rags. From the Near East comes an ap peal for clothing. Five years of destitution have reduced hundreds of thousands of people there to a most pitiable condition. Many thousands of Armenians, driven from their homes during the war, are still In exile. There has been uo way to secure clothing to replace what they wore when they were driven forth. A ll industry is paralyzed. The peo ple, though willing, cannot earn a live lihood Vast throngs wander from place to place, clad only in bits of rags and strips of burlap bags. The little children are perhaps the severest sufferers. A report from a Near East b e lie f worker, Miss Marla P. Jacobsen, is typical of scores of others. She writes: “ Hundreds of little children in our orphanage at Harpoot, dragged themselves to us, suffering acute rheumatism and pneumonia as a result of lack of clothes. Some were affected by gangrene from frozen feet.” T o relieve— in part, at least— this great distress. Near East Relief, which, under a Congressional charter, oper ates In this field, had undertaken to collect quantities of cast-off or other spare clothing. What is needed is good practicable clothing. Every man, woman and child in America is asked to help. Every gar ment counts. A single coat may save a human lire. A day's delay In sending it* may coat one. It will take only a few minutes to make up a bundle and send it on its way. If a local Bundle Day has been announced, give then: if none is plan ned for, send by pracel post to Near East Relief, Portland, Oregon. Oklahoma City, Okla.— Efforts to find the woman who entered the office of a dally newspaper here and asked the boy at a telephone switchboard If she could Insert an advertisement to sell her slxteen-month-old child for $500 have been unavailing, reporters and police officers said. The boy refused the advertisement, he said, fearing that it would be against the policy of the paper to ac Near East Needs Caat-Aside Clothes. cept it. • ' The clothing cast aside as worthless Her advertisement application, which by our people here in America would be saved, read : provide comfortable covering for every “ Wanted— To sell a 16-month-old unclad one in the Near East, and kahy in good health; mother unable would be an untold blessing to thous to support baby and needing money; ands who have been stripped of all »500.” their possessions. “ H e’s the finest baby in the world, This clothing can be transferred to but I can’t afford to keep him." the them through the agency of the Near hov says the woman told him. East Relief, incorporated by Act of Congress to relieve the suffering in EGG REACHES RIPE AGE OF 61 that country. Perfectly Respectable, Too, Because It’s Hand Decorated and Hard Boiled. CJeveland. O.— An egg's age Is usually carefully concealed. Many o f ancient vintage emerge from cold storage and masquerade as freshly laid hen fruit, hut. as a general thing their advancing years are no more to be boasted of than those o f a woman. Not so with an egg in the posses sion o f Fr*»l B. Gerst, 2054 Evelyn avenue, Lakewood. It's sixty-one years old and perfectly respectable. It’s a hand decorated Easter egg with the date “ April 8. i860," In scribed In white on a reddish-brown background. It Is hard boiled and Is kept by Mr. Gerst carefully wrapped In catton to protect It from break- In Philadelphia last year, they used the slogan: “ The plea that touched the heart o f Philadelphia,” and fourteen carloads of worn clothing was the answer. Such a plea should touch the heart of every county in the country, and bring Its answer clear and strong. ARMENIANS NEED TOYS 0 Children’s Horror-Numbed Minds need Stimulus of Playthings. Thousands of little Armenian chil dren have forgotten how to laugh and play. Many never knçw how. Starva tion, massacre and horrors beyond description have been their lot. In (lie orphanages and at the relief sta tions they sit listless and solemn, never smiling, never laughing, making no attempt to play, for they do not know how. These pitiable little ones need not only food and clothes— they need toys. With toys they may learn to play and smile and laugh. Their horror numbed ’ minds need the stimulus of play-thlngs. The discarded toys of American children are called for by the Near East R elief organization. These may be the means of diverting the minds of the little Armenian war-watts trom the memories of massacre and suf fering too horrible for description. Help these little ones to forget what they have seen and suffered by send ing them the toys which have been cast aside by your own kiddles. Picture books, post cards, balls, blocks, crayons, cut-outs, paint boxes, dolls, paper dolls, kindergarten ma terial, simple mechanical toys, etc., are asked for by the relief workers In Armenia. When gathering up your bundle of clothing for the relief ship, don’t for get the toys. If a local Bundle Day has been an nounced, give then; If none Is planned for, send by parcel post to Near East R elief Bundle Station, Portland, Ore. Mobs Shouting for Clothes. Mrs. Kate Clough Rambo, of Baker, Oregon, returned Near East Relief worker, tells a graphic story of the distribution of a shipment of old c.'othes received at Batoum In Trans caucasia. She says: " I did up bundles of clothing, each containing a dress, a skirt, a Jacket or coat, intending them for distribution among the women. I took Kappidies (a native assistant) and went In the Ford truck with great bags of these bundles. We drove into the yard at I’etoeva Barracks. W e took out sev eral bags and went upstairs. Kappidies Mood by the bags while I carried the bundles to corners where I saw they were practically without clothing. The first thing I knew, a woman snatched a bundle out of my hand; then came another and another. I called Kap- pidies to come away, as they were turning into a mob. He and another assistant grabbed the bags and we went down another stairs, the mob following W e jumped into the car and had to hold back the mob with sticks. Where the sticks came from I never can tell. "The crowd grabbed, they screamed, they fought. “ They would have pulled me out of the car. but the chauffeur backed into the street and we tore away. A fter wards we returned and gave the clothes to the head man to distribute to his most needy cases, but they broke the window to his room and grabbed the bundles. Still, after all, I have the consolation that the man is said to have had when someone stole | his Bible— it would doubtless do good.” It is such a little thing to dig those cast-off garments out of the clothes box and send them to the Near East Relief, but to at least one, and per haps several human beings in that far- Near East Thousands Need Clothes. off land, it may mean the difference Numberless men, women and little between life, hope, strength- -and al children In the Near East are all but most certain death. destitute of clothing and thousands During a three-inch snow fall in have no rovering whatever save the Kars on October 30. 1920, fifty thous thinnest rags. and Armenian men were stripped of everything by the invading army, to be Irlveu Into the plain unclad. l-ast year America sent 750 tons of clothing. The supply I* exhausted and the clothing worn oqL Washington.— People who complatu about the weather, who kick because It Is too hot, too cold or too windy, as the case might he, are reminded by the National Geographic society that he weather is not home-brewed. Most of it comes sweeping In from other countries, blowing up beyoud the tluee-mlle limit without passport or tariff restrictions. Souie-of it might bear the brand, “ Made in the U. S. A..” but as a general thing it is Im ported. For the most part the Ameri can supply of rain, suows, blizzards, cold waves and hot waves, tornadoes and tempests, come tumbling In from the northwest and the west. A small er percentage, the society reports, coine from the north and southwest, but now and then the wipd In the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlan tic kicks up its heels and there la trouble. But, say the learned men of the so ciety, it is worth noting that none of the weather enters the country through the stretch of the Atlantic coast north of Cape Hatteras, the sec tion into which pours the vast bulk of material imports, and In which oc curs a majority of the malu disasters ou American shores. Alaaka Storm Center. There Is some consolation to en thusiasts for the “ Made In America” movement, the society says, in the fact that the great majority of dis turbances that enter the states origi nate in Alaska, or in the great warm cauldron of the North Pacific, between the Aleutian islands and Hawaii, which Is almost a United States sea. So the weather is not subject to reg ulation. There is no way o f suppress ing high and low disturbances. At mospheric pressure Is boss of its own whims. The groundhog is not nearly so accurate a prophet as a little vane at the edge of the sea. “ The areas of disturbance— ‘lows’ and ‘highs’— made familiar to large numbers of people by the rough circles apd ellipses that Indicate them on the daily weather maps of the weather bureau,” says the society bulletin, “ cross the continent Usually In three or four days. Usually rain or snaw fulls in the ’low*' areas or slightly In advance of them. The rains that oc cur in the arid parts of the West, however, usually follow In the pas sage of the ’lows.’ ” More “ Lew *” Than ’’ High*.’’ The “highs” that traverse the Uni ted Stales have fewer places of origin than the “ lows”— Alberta, North and South Pacific. Rocky mountains and Hudson bay. They usually bring cooler weather. The bitterest cold waves known In the region from the Great Lakes eastward follow “ hlghH” that drift down from the Hudson hay, but judging by the recent winter per formance there was not much drift ing. The bulletin does not explain why i he last winter fell so far below the usual average, or whether this may be taken to mean that the uppronchlug summer will break all records for beat, considering its early start. Party Formed to Seek Treasure of Bandits. Wealth of Gold and Precious Stonas Taken From Church In Peru Dur ing Revolution and Buried. Papeete, Tahiti (Society Islands).— Interest has once more been aroused In the treasure reputed to be burled in the island of Pinuki, one of the coral Islaiuls to the eastwurd of Ta hiti, aud a new- association bus been lormefl In Tahiti to seek for the Treas ure. The story Is that during a revolu tion In Peru tiU years ago a church was looted of a rich treasure of gold aud precious stones by four luen, who succeeded In gettiug It to the coust w liere they burled It In a safe place, afterward making their way to Pana ma. Having secured a schooner there they returned to Peru, recovered the treasure and sailed to the westward, intending to make Australia their destination. Without papers, they could not gain entrance to any port. So they determined to bury the treasure on an uninhabited Island un til such time as they could get a ship with proper papers and return to the Island. They scuttled their schooner on the Australian coast and coming ushore In the guise o f shipwrecked sailors, started for Sidney overland. Tw o only, by name, Klllraiu and Brown, arrived in Sidney; the other two having been killed In a fight with bush natives. Such Is the story af the burial o f Hie treasure. The tale o f the attempts fo r Its re covery beglus In 1M2 or 1913 when one day on the streets o f Sidney a man by the name of Thompson was accosted by an elderly beggar seeking alms. On giving the man a small sum Thompson was surprised by the re quest for his name aud address. Some time later he was summoned to one of the hospitals o f the city. There he discovered that the one who bad asked for him was the beggar whom he had befriended some time before. The old man told him fhat be had seDt for him to disclose to film the resting place of a great treasure. He said that he, KUlraln, behtg the only survivor of the company and about to die, did not wish the secret to perish with him. Thus It was that Thompson came Into the knowledge o f the story and sailing directions to locate fhe Island. Being conviueed that the story was founded on truth, he has spent eight years in search of it— so far without success. Lately, some people lu Tahiti have discovered what they believe to be a new clue and are preparing to fit out an expedition to go to the island. Prehistoric Medicine Men of South America Were Skillful. Scraped the Bone With Knives Stone or Obsidian and Covered Hole With Gourd. af New York.— Prehistoric Indians at South America Imd crude medicine meu who removed splinters of arrow heads and stoue bludgeons from wouuded warriors by cuttiug through the skull with kuives of stoue or ob sidian and other simple Instruments wrought from copper and bronze. Sometimes the patient lived ; frequent ly he went to the happy huntlug grounds. These uncomfortable treatments of serious casualties from tribal sklrm-, Ishes still continue lu remote areas of Bolivia. Evidence of this has been gathered by field workers from the American Museum o f Natural History. O f nearly 1.2U0 skulls collected In South America by the late Dr. Adolph Bandeller for exhibition in the mu seum, about 5 per cent has been oper ated upon. T o surgeous the prucUca Is known as trephining. It consists of removing a disk or button of bone from the skull with a saw called a trephine. Complex fracture of the skull with depression o f the bony plates must have been common occurrences dur ing the undent trlbul wars when clubs headed with stone and copper along with slings, the “ bola” and the “ lliul” were offensive weapons, said the re ports of the museum's investigators. A natural procedure, they opined, with victims who survived skull frac tures must have been attempts to re move the splinters of bone that pricked the brain, or to cut out frag ments pressing upon It. Warlike clans fight Intermittently even today lu the wilds of Bolivia and skull fractures are common. Other heads ure perforated now and then in the bacchanals and festivals whooped up occasionally with great quanti ties of intoxicants, the Investigators reported. When the laughter and the free-for- alls quiet down, the medicine men get out their sharp pocket knives und make Incisions Into the injured skulls of the sufferers, frequently covering the apperture with gourd. Durtug tha operation they scrape around th* wound with a chisel. Modern anesthetics are uuknown to the medicine men. They put their pa tient Into Insensibility by constant use o f the “ coca” plunt. This also is employed for healing purposes and la commonly applied to wounds, bruise* aud contusions. TRACES TB. TO BAD TEETH IS CHAMPION TYPIST BRIDE IN DANCE OF DEATH Young Lady Entertains Friends Poison She Had Taken Ends Her Life. aa Kalamazoo, Mich.— While the poison she had swallowed slowly drove life from her body. Mrs. Neva Fraser, eighteen, a bride of a few weeks, per formed a veritable dance of death In the midst of a party o f guests. She walked over to the phonograph and started playing “ Till We Meet Again,” explaining it was the piece played at the dance at which she mat her husband. Her friends were ignorant of the tragedy taking place when she began duncing, but before the last -drains died away they saw her fan In a crumpled heap. Death sealed her lips before she could explain her motive. Winter's Discipline. H e who marvels ac the beauty o f th* world In summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration In winter It la true the pomp and pageantry are swept away, but the essential element* remain— the day gad the night, the mountain and the valley, the elemen tal play and auccesr-ou, and the p er petual presence o f the Infinite sky. In winter the stars aeeut to have rekin dled their Urea, the moon achlevee a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of more exalted simplicity. Bummer la more wooing. . . . more versatile and human, appeals to th* affection* and the sentiments, and fce tera inquiry and th* art Impulse. Win ter la o f a more heroic cast, and ad- d. esses the Intellect The severe studies and disciplines come easier tc winter. One imposes larger tasks upoa Miss Wilifred Wheaton o f New Haven, Conn., wou first prize In the New England typists’ contest at Bos ton recently. Miss Wheaton broke all previous New England novice rec ords, writing 71 words a minute for 15 consecutive minutes. Breaks Wooden Arm as He Punches Man’s Nose Martinsburg, W. Va.— W. B. Welty, an alleged doorkeeper of a suspected gambling joint, broke his wooden arm over the head o f Philip Hack, a Taren- tuin (Pa.) business man. who Is reported to have tried to enter by force the room which Welty guards. The blow seriously damaged Hack's nose. Mayor Seibert fined W elty *12.00 on . a charge of assault and battery. •why Oetrleh gerappy. Ysacwuver Canada.—Jonathan, the drat ostrich chick hatrhad In Canada, la progressing under th* car* o f Zoo Manager F. Oraen In Stanley park, ft was at fl/*t cellared that th « rare and val«nbl* bird would not live, and It was taken from Its parents sod placed tn 0k* Green home. Appear ance af weakness proved deceptive, far Jonathan quickly whipped the none* •■at and won a decision over the ' fa arm n m u p. Dr. Thomas J. Ryan, noted dental scientist and writer on dental topics, declares In his latest book, “ Teeth and Health,” that he has traced tuber culosis to decayed teeth aud fou; mouths. His experiments also show that Bright’s disease and epllep can be the result of Infected tee'li Doctor Ityan urges the establlshmen o f municipal dental X-ray clinics t check these perils. Taking Precautions. Cambridge, O.— “ Don’t Shoot 1 We Are Not Bootleggers.” This Is tl sign showing on many automobiles as a resalt of the recent shooting of Thomas McNIece, Barnesvllle, O., who was wounded by city officials when hts car was pursued In the belief tha' It contained whisky. Operation Failed to Cure Boy of Mania for Thievtry Surgery lost s point In Hous ton. Tex., In Its fight against crime. Six weeks ago an op eratlon was ordered for a four teen-year-old boy who had a mania for small thievery. The •»Iteration was attended by a score of Important physicians and was declared a success. However, the lad Is In Jail again with a *30 watch which he neither purchased nor re- • wived as a gift.