Predecessors of “the Finest” Shown in Parade
New York policemen uh they appeared In th« annuiti Safety day parade on Fifth avenue. Left to right—
Citarle* Brunns. uh n watchman under Peter StuyveHMint, HHd ; Loul* L. Prochaaka, u* a tieliman of 1693; Patrick J.
Peterson, aa a member of the constabulary of 1750; Frederick Tlneo, uh a constable of 1850. and Jame* KabbltL an
the first policeman, 1865.
Famous Old Prison Ship Exhibited at Chicago
A* sturdy today a* when *he slid down the ways at Moulmeln, British
Burma, 135 year» ngo, to begin the most eventful career of any ship built for
the British nltrdiant muring, I* the convict ship Sucre**, now on exhibit at
Chicago. For fifty year* she carried convict* from England to Australia. At
the right 1* a young lady inspecting tlie "Iron Malden," used to punish unruly
prisoner*.
alike. The density of the tangled mas*
of vegetation is equaled, probably,
Free that the traffic on them Justifie*,
only In part* of the valley of the Ama­
but no road should be Improved be­
zon. Enormous forest trees grow close
yond It* earning capacity. When this
together, their tops Interlacing nnd
principle is observed the required an­
shutting out the sunlight. Smaller
nual expenditure for any type of road
trees push far up. fighting for a place
Is within the yearly saving* in the
in the sun. while vines wrap them­
cost of operating the vehicle* It has
selves about the trunk* and ferns fill
to carry. In other words, the return
' the remaining space. The observer
to the public In the form of economic
Help Discourage Savage veranda, outside the room», are the from the ground sees little but somber
transportation
Is the sole measure of
Individual fireplace* over which the greens nnd browns. The color, chief­ Government
Give# Fact# cruing from the Improvement, hard- the worth of road
Improvement. To
Custom in Borneo.
treasured head nicks nre placed.
surfacing Is not advisable. It Is pos­
ly orchid* and other parasitic plants,
say that all roads should be hard-sur­
About Highways.
"The fiynk men are »mailer than is far above, topping the sea of foil
sible to make great Improvements In
Washington.—In discouraging the the average Westerner, well propor-
roads without hard-surfacing them and faced, the department points out. Is
savage custom ot head hunting In tloned, and of n ty|»e adapted for ac­ ! nge.
Washington. — Although the exact these Improvement* are quite effective merely another way of urging expen­
"Where clearings have been mnde state of road improvement In the
ditures In excess of Income.
Borneo, the 1 Hitch and British rulers tivity, speed and endurance, which nre
In reducing the cost of travel.
Still another common mistake is the
of the country now bav* the ¡»owerful valuable qualities In jungle Inhab­ Borneo'* soil Is highly productive. Cof­ United States at the present time
fee,
cotton,
rice,
sugar
cane,
tobacco
When
vehicles
using
a
road
are
Idea that there is such a thing as a
cooperation of native priests or itant*. The women affect n queer
Is not known. It Is estimated by the
and numerous fruits nre among the
"medicine men," according to a lute method of adornment, w rnpptng them- cultivated crops, while forest and Department of Agriculture that the to­ comparatively few, an unsurfaced but pertnabent roa<L This delusion, says
report, which states that ut an assem­ selves In bm** corsets made of numer­ orchard products include rubber, gutta tal mileage of surfaced roads at the graded and drained road can be made the department, has been responsible
bly of tbouHundH of the natives, or ous bvops of cane covered with brass ¡lercha, «¡dees. camphor, nuts and end of 1924 wus between 450,OJO and and maintained In satisfactory condi- for much disregard of road mainte­
tlon by dragging at very low cost If nance. • NdBé ef the state highway de­
Dyaka, a terrible curse wus pro­ rings. These metal garments cover | sago. Rich deposits of valuable me- 475,000 mile*.
•
the
traffic Is so great that an unsur- partments. however, any longer har­
Indications
are
that
approximately
nounced by the head priest on all who their bodies from Just below the ami- j taille ores, minerals, petroleum and
i faced road cannot be maintained In bors this error.
re» he tribal quarrel*.
pits to the hlpllne, and even below. I precious stones have hardly been 40,000 miles of surfaced roads of var­
It Is now thoroughly understood by
ious types have been built during continuous good condition, surfacing
"The curious custom of bead hunt­ Heavy necklaces and ear pendants are
' scratched.
with stone, sand-clay or gravel, al- these public agencies that all roads,
ing has been In existence In tunny of 1 also worn, and the costume Is com-
"Fewer than 2,000.000 Inhabitants. each year since 1921. Exact figures as . though more costly than simple grad- regardless of type, gradually depre­
the island* of the East Indies fur pleted by n length of cloth folded Including native*. Immigrant Malays. to how this mileage has been divided
by types or states are not available. . ing, will generally be compensated by ciate and wear out under the wheels
ages," says a bulletin from the Wash around to form a short skirt.
। Arabs, Chinese and Europeans, occupy
A
considerable part of the work, more­ the greater saving In the cost of op­ of vehicles and the action of the wea­
Ington headquarters of the National
"Borneo Is the second largest Island । Borneo's vast area."
ther. To keep a road in continuously
over,
has consisted of resurfacing. It erating vehicles over It
Geographic society. "It is not con­ In the world outside the Polar regions,
SlmHarly, when the traffic Is greater good order It is necessary to start
therefore cannot be assumed that the
fined to any one people, but Is prac­ having an ares of about 290,000 square
net mileage of surfaced roads has been than a gravel road will carry, a bi- maintaining it the day its construction
ticed by tlie Dyaka In Borneo, other miles- approximately that of Texas U. S. Shoe Sale» Average
i tumlnous macadam surface can be
Malays In the smaller Islands, nnd by anil West Virginia combined. Of this
Same as 25 Year# Ago Increased during the last three years economically applied. It is not neces­ Is completed.
by
the
total
amount
of
the
new
con
­
the Negroid Melanesians In New urea the Netherlands owns more than
Santa Barbara, Cal.—Americans are
sary to use one of the hard-surfaced
Supplant Cats
Guinea. Human heads are the moat 310,000 square miles; the remainder Is wearing no more shoes than they were struction.
The last complete survey of the road type* until the traffic becomes very
Knoxville. Tenn.—'Possums are be­
highly prized possessions of the head- I controlled by Great Britain under wearing 25 years ago, regardless of ex­
hunters, and the women of the tribes I three Jurisdictions. British North Bor- travagances In other directions, John Improvement situation was made In dense. When that point Is reached, ing used In Heu of house cats In Knox­
hard-surfacing Is necessary and eco- ville. The lowly and ofttlmes elu­
help to perpetuate the custom by fa­ 1 neo. Brunel (or Borneo) nnd Sarawak. G. McKeon of Philadelphia, president 1921 when the total surfaced mileage nomicaL
was
reckoned
at
387,760
miles.
New
sive creature of the forest has at last
voring the young men who collect the The latter ba* a romantic history. For of the National Boot and Shoe Manu­
All roads should be Improved, says found a sphere of usefulness In the
moat grim trophies Not only are the three generation* It has been ruled by facturers' association, said in speaking construction and resurfacing since
head* of enemies obtained In major •White rajahs.' members of a British before the annual convention of the 1921 have proceeded at a rate which , the department, to the maximum de- heart of a great city.
warfare, but the young braves of one family named Brooks, who nre the California Shoe lletallers' association. Is believed to justify the estimate that
the net gain since then is well above 1
village will often attack a neighboring hereditary rajah*.
In session here. "People were buying 60,000
miles.
village merely for the purpose of ole
One of World'* Biggest Island*
three pairs of shoes a year a quarter
talnlng head*. The heads are pre­
Good Roads Not a Luxury
"Borneo Is almost completely cov­ of n century ago and they are still
served and dried and hung over the ered by a thick blanket of tropical buying three pairs a year.” be as­
In announcing these facts, the de- ?
owner** fireplace, the collections be­ verdure: valleys, hills nnd mountain* serted.
partaient draws attention to certain
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ing handed down from father to son.
wrong Ideas that are current about
road Improvement. Improved road«. It ‘ Used to Teach Pupils Art of the city manager. They were elected
Hcad-Huntsr* Bacom* Farmer*.
recently In a regular “political" cam­
says,
are not luxuries. For the move- I
Government.
"Under British und Butch rule
paign with 18 nominees for the office
ment
of
every
vehicle
over
a
road
'
many of the I »yaks of Borneo have be- ¡
of city manager, mayor and municipal
there Is a certain cost, which Is
Springfield, Mo.—“Tiny Town,” the judge. William Newberry wears the
come peaceable farmers. Th!« Is es­
les*
If
the
road
be
Improved
than
school
children's
city
here.
Is
on
pecially true along the counts and near
star of chief of police of Tiny Town,
if It be left in a state of nature.
hlbltion.
the navigable river*. But from time
while
Naomi Sherwood sits on the
Logically,
therefore,
the
only
limit
;
This Lilliputian city, built, run and bench as municipal Judge. Following
to time the more savage natives of the .
thnt
should
be
placed
on
expenditure
governed by the city manager—com­
interior revert to head bunting, nnd
for road Improvement Is the amount mission form of government, and by the election Hazel and Gordon went to
they have found the semi civilized ag­
that can be saved in vehicular operat­ the school children themselves, is re­ " ashington, called upon President
ricultural native* a source for head*
Coolidge and Invited him to attend the
ing costs. This amount, of course, de- I
It is to protect this farming people Receive# Twice as Much a#
Thnt stability continues to be the ■»ends upon the number ot vehicles ceiving the attention of educator#, busi­ opening of Tiny Town to the public.
ness
men
and
ail
Interested
In
youth.
outstanding clement in business and using the road.
and to extend civilization more wide­
The President took the matter under
It is not a facsimile of a modern city, consideration.
British Cousin.
industrial conditions of the United
ly through the Island thnt the aid of
It
is
pointed
out
that
the
country
but Just Tiny Town. It Is unlike any
States Is reflected In the monthly cost
the 'medicine men' has been enlisted.
On a plot of ground. 250 feet by 1,000
Washington.—American labor la to of living figures Just Issued by the loses more, In Increased cost of operat- ! other city in the country.
“The Dyaka live In 'long houses'
feet, in Grant Beach park, is located
Ing
vehicles,
by
not
improving
roads
I
day
the
best
paid
In
the
world,
the
Here
tn
Tiny
Town
the
children
of
board, with little change from the pre­
each of which shelters many families
this town that belongs to tlie tots of
than It costs to Improve them. In
nnd 1* In effect n village In Itself ' National Industrial Confer.... . board ceding month's figures. Clothing re­ other words. It pays for Improved Springfield are learning the duties of Springfield. There is a community
Some of the horizontal ridge-poles of reporteil, following a survey of condl- tail prices In April were nearly 1 per roads whether It has them or not, and citizenship, and when they complete center tvlth its city hnll, high school,
these structures, raised 30 or 40 feet ! tion* prevailing both with respect to cent lower nnd fuel was 2.4 per cent It pays less by having them than by their work and future stu lies they will library and chamber of commerce. The
be able to take an intelligent Interest walks total 7,500 lineal feet.
In the nlr, extend for several hun­ wages paid uud the purchasing power lower than March, bringing the gen­ not having them.
of
such
wages.
Philadelphia
was
in politics and government. The city's
eral
cost
of
living
Index
number
down
dred feet. From the ridge-poles the
The blocks are large, enclosing spa­
Another common error, says the de­ ' schools have used this plan. In an edu-
thatched roof sweeps down nt a steep chosen as the typical American In three-tenths of one per cent for the
partment, is that all roads should be cational way, to teach the boys and cious commons that represent play­
dustrlal
city
for
the
purpose#
of
com-
month.
angle to within six or eight feet of the
grounds, but which really are Intended
hard-surfaced. Hard-surfncing with girls how to govern.
ground. This Is the floor level, the parlson • with leading cities In other
for working space, so that the repair
concrete, brick, asphalt, stone or wood
Hazel
Wilbert,
fourteen
years
old
countries.
houses being constructed on n plat­
blocks Is an expensive process. When ) and an orphan. Is mayor of the pigmy and care of abutting properties may be
Remaining
Vacant
Tribal
Statistician*
compiled
a
table
of
form supported by ¡dies. Outside the
Its cost is greater than the saving ac­ 1 city, and Gordon Cummings, fifteen. Is carried on from the rear of each lot.
roof Is an open veranda, nn uncovered "real" earnings, and give each city nn
Indian Lands to Be Sold
By day and by night faithful patrol­
extension of the floor pintform. Un­ Index number. Philadelphia Is given
Washington.— For the purpose of
men guard Tiny Town, while a flre-
an
index
number
of
100
ns
par,
the
der the roof on one side of the center
concluding the tribal affairs of the
fighting brigade Is always on watch.
is nn enclosed vernndn extending the second most prosperous city proving Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, nnd
During the 14 days that Tiny Town
full lengtli of the communal house. On to he Sydney. Australia, with 70 ns Its Creek Indian nations of Oklahoma the
। Is on exhibition, there will be after­
the other side of the center the space Index number, and Ottawa, Canada, Secretary of the Interior has uuth
noon and night programs and concerts
Is divided by partitions Intel rooms for third, witli (J!) for Its Index number. orlzed the sale of the remaining va
featured by the high school orchestra
the various families. In the enclosed The results were mnde public at the cant tribal lands nnd town lots be
and the boy scout band of 300 pieces,
conference board headquarters, 247 longing to these Indians.
the latter said to be the largest of Its
Park avenue.
kind In the world.
There nre 438 tracts of unallotted
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Figures accepted by the board were timber nnd segregated land and 95
those prepared at the Internntionnl la­ town lots to be offered for sale. Most
Eclipse Led to
Old Commission# for U. S.
bor office at Geneva. The results nre of them have been sold previously, but
Discovery of New Gay : graphically shown in a detailed chart the purchasers have forfeited them
Federal Officers Found
Middletown, Conn.—A new ; A supplementary study of the condi­ through failure to make payments.
Norfolk, Va.—Two commissions en­
The secretary authorized the super
’ gas Im* been discovered by 1 tion of industry proves that in the
graved on sheepskin parchment, the
; scientists ns n result of the oh- ; United States prosperity rules, as It Intendent of the Five Civilized Tribes
first signed by President John Adams
with headquarters nt Muskogee to con
nervations made during the re- ; does In wage earning powers.
and the second by. President Thomas
Twice A* Much As British.
duct auction sales for the disposition
; cent total eclipse of the sun, ac-
Jefferson, making Jonathan Cowdery
; cording to Professor Frederick
The American wage earner, on the of tlie tracts of lands and town lots
' a-surgeon's mate and a full surgeon In
Slocum, head of Ilie Van Vleck
They
nre
to
be
sold
without
regard
to
basis of what Ids pay will buy for him,
the United States navy, have been un-
observatory at Wesleyan uni­
Is |>ald more than twice as well as his valuation to the highest bidder.
I covered by Dr. John C. Sleet ot this
versity.
The sale will be held at certain rail
British colleague In London, nearly
I city. Doctor Sleet will make an at-
Professor Slocum says thnt ; three times as well ns the wage earn rond points In eastern Oklahoma from
j tempt to have the documents restored
; the only time the scientists can : er In Amsterdam, Holland; more than July 13 to July 18, 1925. Terms of the
i to their rightful owners. The first com­
study the gases about the sun ; three times better than the worker In sale will be 25 per cent cnsh, the bal
mission bears the date of 1800 and tlie
<s when the sun Is In total
Berlin, and nearly live times as tuuch nnce In three equal annual Install­
I second 1808.
eclipse. In January their brief
ments
payable
In
one,
two.
nnd
three
ns the Industrial worker In Italy.
observations determined thnt
The cities, with their corresponding years with interest nt 5 per cent per
School Innovation
there Is a gas there whose pres­
Index numbers, nre:
Philadelphia, year. No limitations ns to the number
Detroit.—Use of a picture-story
ence they had not recognized
100; Sydney, 70; Ottawa. Oil; London, of acres nnd lots nny one person may
method of teaching reading has been
before.
45; Copenhagen, 41; Oslo (Christi­ purchase has been made.
tried with 10,000 children In the
Professor Slocutn said sclen
Receipt* from the sale of the 438
ania), 38; Amsterdam, 37; Stockholm,
schools here. It is hoped that by tills
lists tire not prepared ns yet to : 30; Paris, 33; Berlin, 20; Prague, 29; tracts of land nnd 95 town lots will
purposeful self-teaching children will
name the gns or to discuss Its
Brussels, 28; Lodz, Poland, 27; Home, lie placed In the tribal funds of these
probable properties.
Ite. rult* In the regular army, enlisted at Fort Slocum, are here seen In one make as much progress In five months
23; Vienna, 23; Warsaw, 23; Milan, Indians to be distributed to them with
of their calistbenlc drills.
as Is ordinarily made in a year.
the tlnal settlement of their affairs.
21
Native Priests War
on Head-Hunting
Road Improvement
CHILDREN BUILD AND RUN
MODEL CITY IN MISSOURI
U. S. Labor Best
Paid in World
Exercising the Army Recruits