Wednesday 25th
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Celebration
o f Birtfiday
of
Robert
Burns
Comes
on
PUBLISHER DEDICATES FORTUNE
TO MAKE YOUTH BETTER CITIZENS
E
CITY SIGHTS AMAZE ESKIMO
TOTS WHO HADN'T SEEN BEAR
POET OF HUMANITY
SI TO BE ELUSIVE
T
fjlis Birthday, On Wednesday
Next, Calls for a Study
of His Works
Neither Use Nor Tolerance
of Liquor Has Any Place
With These
Cobb Declares He Does Not
Know What War Did
! to ! Literature
ROBERT BURNS THE
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UIIUIIUII 1111.111 U LI I U
AND PROHIBITION!
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(The following editorial article,
by .the western editor of the Con
gregatlonalist, Boston and Chica
go, fs -printed In the current Issue
of that Journal, Jan. 19th:)
H. L. Mencken thinks that pro
hibition will not last long if we
can have an exposure of all the
hypocrites who are supporting it.
Apparently he thinks the whole
crowd behind the dry movement is
made up of hypocrites. That
seems to us a slight exaggeration
but undoubtedly, there is some
truth in the remark. Pastors of
large churches sometimes imply
that perhaps some of the church
members are publicly dry. but per
sonally wet. A pastor of a large
church, speaking on prohibition at
a young people's conference a year
or two ago, indicated that there
were people in bis church who pat
ronized bootleggers, who served
broke the law In other ways. Dr.
Albert W. Palmer of First church.
Oak Park, struck at this in his
New Year's sermon, "Ideals for
the New Year." He said:
"Trader Horn, in one of his
quaint observations on life, sug
gests that the most valuable thing
about education is that it gives
one independence and the courage
to part with things. 'You can
stand on your own spear,' he says,
'when you come to the place where
you can say "good-by" and say it
clear!
"One of the things to which I
hope an ever-increasing number of
people will say 'good-by' this year
is the use or tolerance of alcoholic
liquors. There seems to be no
question that prohibition has been
vastly beneficial to the laboring
classes. Professor Feldman of
Dartmouth College, in his recent
study of the economic and indus
trial effects of prohibition, indi
cates htat, even with our present
incomplete enforcement, industrial
life has greatly benefited work
ing men's families are better cared
for and the pay-check which used
to leave a large percentage in the
saloon keeper's till, now goes into
clothing, shoes, radio, automobiles
and better-furnished homes.
' "All this is reinforced and cor
roborated by a conversation which
I .recently held with the industrial
relations manager of one of Chi
cago's largest and most enlight
ened packing plants. In spite of
home-brew, bootleg, and half
hearted enforcement, the working
man and his home are profiting by
prohibition.
-: "The group which is
least is the prosperous,
well-to-do, especially
youth, when supplied
much money which
profiting
successful
gilded,'
with too
it never
earned. I do not know how many
people in this congregation serve
cocktails or other liquors or drink
boose in any form, or joke and
laugh at the prohibition law, but
I make this appeal to you this
morning: For the sake of the
working man and his family and
for the sake of our own youth, I
urge you this New Year's Day to
or. nniioni.iirv gnH ntl
.Kliuuuvo
social indulgence in that which
science and experience have abun
dantly demonstrated to be a racial
and individual poison. If we can
produce a genuinely non-alcohol
ized nation, we can lead civiliza
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good time both by practice and
example to say 'good-by' to alco
hol 'and say it clear!"
Would it not be helpful for the
enforcement of prohibition for all
of our congregations to hear now
and again courageous speaking of
the kind given above?
Good War On Corn-Borer
1 Possible With Wormwood
PARIS (AP) The corn-borer
which threatens disaster to the
. corn belt of the middle west, can
be fought successfully, think
French scientists, by introducing
wormwood into the United States.
: This was given definitely as a
fairly certain solution by Dr. E.
Roubaud, of the Pasteur Institute.
In a paper read before the Acad
emy of Sciences by Dr. Bouvler.
Dr. Roubaud Is chief of the Pas
teur Institute's entomological la
boratory. i The devastating corn-corer
tailed here "pyrale." is prevalent
fa France and is said to have been
taken to America by way of Ca
nada. Here, however, it prefers
life in the weed-like plant worm
wood, says Dr. Roubaud and
therefore is -not a menace to agri
culture or horticulture.
; Wormwood, fairly rare in the
' United States, is prcWic her.
where it was used in the manufac
lure of absinthe, the liquor now
prohibited.
t Dr. Roubaud proceeded on the
J,beory that since the corn-borer
never bothered corn In France
,)Jiat it found something else more
" to Its taste. Since "armoise" or
wormwood seems to he its usual
preeaing ana ieeaing grouna, ne
' came to the conclusion that the
wide cultivation of this week In
"Iho corn region : of tho United
States wonld solve the probhem.
I A. small town may be defined as
ne that hasn't at least one traffic
BcM, whether needed or not
t-'S TT m rzait;.
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As cap. .. o.. .i an educational scheme to make good citizens, an academy or arts at tJioomiie.a,
Mich., is planned by the Cranbrook Foundation created by George G. Booth (inset), Detroit news
paper publisher. A model of the projected academy is shown, as well as the main building of the
Cranbrook preparatory school for boys (upper rig it), one of the units of the scheme.
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EXCHANGES
Buoyant Condition of Mar
ket May Be Credited To
Interest Rates .
By Walter Margate
(Attociated Pre Financial Writer)
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (AP)
American capital in unprecedent
ed volume poured into new do
mestic and foreign financing in
1927. While final estimates are
not yet available, it appears cer
tain that 18,500,000,000, more
than a billion and a half more
'nan the total for 1926, was ex
changed for bonds of national
state and municipal governments.
nuu juuusiriai enterprises
throughout the world. It does
not follow that the. amount of
American money Invested in
bonds has increased eight and
one-half billions, since much of
the total was accounted for by ex
tensive refunding operations.
Although bond offerings reach
ed record figures in October, the
weekly average was largest in the
first four months. The Influx of
new bonds from January to May
was so rapid that a period of
acute congestion developed, and
at one time It was estimated that
$1,000,000,000 in new bonds re
mained unsold. Three months
passed, during which the flowof
offerings shrank to a trickle, be
fore the surplus was digested. The
result was a steady lowering of
quotations on listed bonds.
Recovering from Its spell of In
digestion, the market again head
ed upward. Prices advanced,
with a few minor interruptions,
until the average in the last two
months reached the highest level
in all time.
Prices Rise in Waves
The rise of bond prices was in
three distinct waves. Active bid
ding wh'ch started in late 1926
did not subside until the end of
January. A reaction which fol
lowed was checked in March.
when Government financing at
low rates brought renewed stimu
lation. Until the end of April
quotations steadily rose. In the
stagnant period of heavy surplus
of new issues, prices entered a
long slump which continued until
the middle of August. In neither
of the two reactions, however, did
quotations return to the level at
which they began the year.
Despite the unprecendented ad
vance in prices, demand for listed
bonds showed no signs of dimin
ishing. The volume of sales was
close to $3,300,000,000. approxi
mately $300,000,000 morn than in
1926, though failing to rome up
to 1925. when $3,500,000,000 in
bonds changed bands on the Stock
Exchange.
The buoyant condition of the
bond market was indebted almost
entirely to easy money rates pre
vailing throughout the year. A
general slowing up of business left
enormous sums available for in
vestment purposes, and led, in
August to a reduction of the re
discount rate of the Federal Re-
serve Bank to 3 from 4 percent,
at which level it had been held
since August 1926.
-Because of low credit rates, the
U. S. Treasury was able to obtain
huge loans as low as 3H to 3
percent, most of which were un
dertaken to refund more than $3,-
000,000,000 of the Second Lib
erty Loan. Up to the date of call.
November 15, the amount of Sec
ond Liberty bonds outstanding
had been reduced to $732,000.
000. The final "mopping up'
subsequently brought in for re
tirement all but $185,000,000 of
the Issue.
Foreign Financing
The amount of foreign financ
ing In this market exceeded a bil
lion -dollar for the fourth consec
utive year. The International fea
ture of such loans, and the State
(CnlkiW ea yag It)
DETROIT (AP) George G.
Booth, newspaper publisher, has
dedicated the millions he has ac
cumulated through the years to
the task of making "good citi
zens."
Through creation of the Cran
brook Foundation with a trust
fund of $6,500,000, Booth has con
verted virtually his entire person
al fortune to complete development
of a 112,000,000 religious, educa
tional and cultural center on his
picturesque country estate 1 n
Bloomfleld Hills,, a Detroit sub
urb.
The project was begun several
years ago by Booth and his wife,
Ellen Scripps Booth, daughter of
the late James E. Scripps, foun
der of the Detroit News, who con
ceived the idea as a means of dedi
cating their wealth to public ser
vice. They already hare spent more
than $5,000,000 in development.
This includes building the Christ
Church-Cranbrook, considered one
f tQe largest Eplacopa, churches
in America, erection and endow
ment of a school for children of
Cranbrook and in establishing the
Cranbrook school for boys.
To that, Booth has added his per
sonal wealth for building a school
for girls, an academy of arts and
a school of arts and crafts.
The purpose of the donors tb
make good citizens will be achi
eved, Booth believes, by giving
students thorough training, mor
ally, religiously and intellectually.
in the midst of beauty. The build
ings are to be the best available
products of architecture, enhans
ed art work and craftsmanship
drawn from all over the world.
Reserving only their home at
Cranbrook, the Booths have given
property consisting of 225 acres
of rolling hills and dales, watered
by small lakes and branches of
the Rouge River. They expect even
their home eventually to be work
ed into
the educational scheme.
The foundation sets up a boardcomment.
U. S. Makes Shepherds Of Warlike Apaches
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MESCALERO. N. M. -(AP)
The Apache Indians, most warlike
of southwestern tribes, are settl
ing Into the quiet life of herdsmen
on their reservation here.
Under the leadership of Chief
Oeronimo, the Apaches once
spread terror among the border
settlements. They would strike.
scalp and plunder and then escape
across the border Into Mexico.
Troops of many times their num
ber were mobilised In both the
United States and. Mexico before
Geronimo was captured, disguised
as a squaw, and his tribesmen!
were taken back to the reserva
tion. !
Today they are gradually adopt.
Ing an agricultural life. 'Experi-
(Ooatiaaed oa page It)
of trustees to control the property.
The one unalterable feature from
educational and cultural purposes
Booth is president of the De
troit News nd chairman of the
board of the Booth Publishing
company, a separate corporation
which publishes eight dally news
papers in Michigan.
Every Little Bit Added
Makes A Little Bit More
BERLIN (AP) The record
prison sentence here 211 years
is held by Herr Buchmann. 37,
and a vaudeville artist before he
became a first-story man. Recent
ly he was released from his cell
to appear again before the local
court on another robbery charge.
The theft in question was in
19Z1. Tne prisoner could n t re
member it for he had committed
some 500 robberies up to that time
for which he had received senten
ces totaling 208 years.
Under the law, the judge might
have given- Buchmann 15 years
for the robbery. But he decided
three years was enough to add on
to the 208. Buchmann took the1
three years as a Joke.
Cowboy Boots Correct
At Ranch Town Dances
SAN ANGELO. Tex. (AP).
Cowboy boots still are a source of
pride to the men of the range, and
in the ranch towns they still are
"proper" . at dances in even the
most fashionable hotels.
w early every ranenman has a
pair of gaily decorated. 'boots for
such occasions, but frequently an
ordinary pair of boots is seen on a
dance floor. Nearly all dancers
wear shoes or pumps, but the ptes-i
ence of boots does not cause any
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Apache descendants of the
right), who were feared as the
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coming herdsmen near Mesealero, N M. Squaws are shown pre
paring an evening meal. The sheep are part of the herds of
the herds of 21,000 animals on
NEW YORK (AP) Irvin S.
Cobb finds the trend in letters so
elusive that; he can not place his
finger on it, He is not even con
vinced that there is one.
"No. I don't know the trend, if
any, in literature," said the writer.
"Maybe we won't know for a long
time. i
"This generation, in my opinion,
is not the best judge of tne work
being done now. gThe only safe
critic is posterity. I have an idea
that' when Shakespeare was writ
ing his plays there were a lot of
critics hanging round with their
tongues in their cheeks, saying.
'Why, you can't write: Spencer, is
our ibest writer.' Or some may
have said Beaumont and others
MarlowB.
"We were told that the war
would play a big part in our lit
erature. There were two schools of
thought on this, some viewing with
alarm and some expecting great
things as after-war developments.
What has happened? What has
the war done to literature? I don't
know, and I don't think any one
else does.
"In my opinion we will have to
wait a while to find how good we
are! today, j Neither the current
writers nor readers are competent
critics. They are too close to the
stage or the ring side.
"It has always been so. I can
Imagine Dickens writing his Pick
wick Papers which he had to have
ready and set up before press time
saying: 'This stuff isn't much, but
it will do until I can write an im
mortal novel. Wait until I do Lit
tle Dorrit. There will be a book
fori you.' How did it work out?
Pickwick Papers will propably poll
a bigger vote today than Little Dor
rit.
"I can't find myself In sympathy
with the critics who turn on the
spotlight and arm themselves with
a microscope when they go to a
play or read a book. I have heard
people say after seeing a play or
reading a book, when they were
moved to violent laughter and per
haps shed a tear or two, in effect
that they found it easy to laugh
and had their emotions stirred, but
after all it was not art or liter
ature.
What if it isn't? When we go
to the theater or take up a book
for an evening's reading it is like
joining a club. The price of the
book or the theater ticket is the
initiation tee and the evening is
the dues. If we are bored' we have
suffered a double loss, but if we
enjoy it we reap two dividends on
our investment,
"I am no Isaiah or Eziklel, sif
ting up in the rarlf led atmosphere
and looking down at the plodding
folk below, to say. "This will live.
I can say, however, that I like this
book or this short story. I can
only look at it with the equipment
given me to enjoy or dislike it.
"The book I liked best in the
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warriors of i Chief Geronimo (upper
scourge of the southwest, are be
the reservation.
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from Seattle, Wash.. Eva and Johnny Carbondale had an exciting
time trying to count the stories In a Seattle skyscraper when they
visited the city, where they also saw a polar bear for the first time.
SEATTLE. Wash. (AP) Eva
and Johnny Carbondale can return
to the Far North happy now. They
have seen a live polar bear.
Although born far up in the arc
tic, at East Cape, Siberia, the
youngsters had not seen a real,
live polar bear until they came
here on a visit and saw one in a
park zoo. Back home. In the na
tural habitat of the polar bears,
all they saw was the furs and
carcasses of. the animals brought
GOAL OF 1IBEDS
Many Remedies Being Sug
gested; Commercial Prop
ositions Put Forth
NEW YORK (AP) Twenty
three hundred grandmothers,
housewives, amateur scientists and
novices, scattered through 27
countries, are certain they have a
cure or a preventive for cancer.
They have submitted their rem
edles, ranging from axle grease to
walnut meats, to the American So
ciety for the control of cancer in
competition for the $100,000
prize money offered by William
Lawrence Saunders, of New York,
for asolutlon of the world's deep
est medical mystery.
It is a case of laymen rushing
in where professionals fear to
tread, for very few of the "cures"
offered to date have come from
physicians in good standing or
from competent research workers.
Most of the letters declare that
such homely household doses as
salt, goose-grease, sulphur, iodine,
yolk of egg, raw onions or castor
oil will "positively" cure or pre
vent cancer.
Herb and Roots Suggested
Other correspondents depend pa
herbs and roots to win. them the
awards, extolling the merits of vio
let leaves, mustard seed and dry
ginger, red clover tea, sorrel
"cooked in a brass kettle and ap
plied as a paste with a black rib
bon," or fresh cranberry poul
tices. Still other applicants for the
prize have advocated sea water
from North Wales, hypodermic in
jections of pure oxygen, nicotene,
candle grease from a brass holder,
coal oil and hot water, roasted
walnuts, epsom salts, the sting of
insects, the bite of a serpent, or
contact with a toad, mole or crab.
Dr. George A. Soper, managing
director of the society, reads each
letter carefully, files it away in a
scrapbook and sends a?n abstract
to the Board of Reference, com
posed of world cancer specialists.
wmcn win decide whether a real
cure or prevent! tive has been
found. Mr. Saunders' offer expires
next February.
"Most of the, offerings," says
Dr. Soper, "are from persons st!
dently attracted by the mistaken
belief that Mr. Saunders has can
cer, wants to be cured and is will
ing to pay well for the service,
Some even want to go Into busi
ness with him. Others are so com
mercial that although they them
selves haven't a cure to offer they
know of someone who has and are
willing to part with the nam and
address tor a tidy consideration.
Type of Letters Chance
"At nrst most of our letters
were penciled scrawls, written In
one of a dot en languages. Recent
(Oratlait em peg IS)
if
ai iuat K.a.w. oiDeria, z.7oo miles
in by the hunters.
Next to the polar bear the most
wonderful thing Eva and Johnny
saw here was a 42-story building
They rode to the top in an ele
vator to see it any dog teams or
igloos were in sight.
Automobiles and street cars
first frightened, then fascinated
them.
Their parents are taking them
to Canada, having left Siberia be
cause of Soviet rule.
First and Most Sacred Obli
gation of School To
Really Train Youth
By Mrs. Snsan M. Dorsey
(Superintendent of School, Lea AngIe,
LOS ANGELES (AP) The first
and most sacred obligation of the
mblic school is to make the youth
jf the land more "capable of wise,
Just, useful and noble living." To
this end, the various contracts and
experiences of modern school life
are adjusted.
wnne the work is planned to
develop self-help and selfdlrectlon
the group activities in classroom
projects, in dramatics, chorus, or
chestra, in student government
and in sports, are designed to be
a constant training In cooperation
within the group. The result is
that these experiences give a type
of social education that Induces
habits and attitudes that make
for successful homes.
Aside 'from those subjects that
educate for social living in a gen
eral way, tlie public school trains
directly for home making in a
great variety of courses.
In recent years, especial care
is being taken to adapt those
courses to the diversified needs
of the modern home, so that the
so-called domestic arts and sci
ence courses have come to Include
more than the compounding of
recipes, the making of patterns.
and practice in the mechanics of
cooking and sewing. They go fari
afield and give instruction in the
choice and combination of foods
for healthful living. In the art of
heryingto contribute to the en
joyment of the home meal. In
marketing and shopping. In bud
geting the personal and family
funds, in simple home decoration.
as well as personal adornment, in
home nursing, and even in the
art of hospitality.
The varying home needs of
communities, differing widely in
their social standards and finan
cial resources, are not ignored,
since instruction is carefully adap
ted to meet the actual necessities
of those being taught.
The most recent venture of the
public schools In the realm of
home making Is the establishing
of courses In parenthood for the
maturer students and for adults.
Here and there throughout the
country, classes are being opened
in which' the older students of the
schools and the adult graduates
are studying seriously the duties,
responsibilities, and bight prac
tices of parenthood, using day
nurseries as laboratories for the
actual demonstrations of wise
procedure In the rearing of chil
dren.
Seven nationalities were repre
sented on a New Tork boxing
card. And some people still Be
lieve u world paacat
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HI STUDENTS
M I OF HOME
(John Moore, writer of the fol
lowing article, is a native of Great
Britain, but he is pastor of
the Main Street Congregational
church of Amesbury, Mass., and
a man whose writings are sought
for by the great magazine editors
of the country. The contribution
below is taken from the current
issue of The Congregationalist,
Boston and Chicago, and is espe
cially appropriate on account of
the fact that the birthday of
Robert Burns will be celebrated
on Wednesday next in Salem and
most places throughout the Eng
lish speaking world:)
Robert Burns possesses a popu
larity that is unique In the f eld
of literature. He has fashioned
and polished a pedestal of his
own. His Parnassus is in scot-
land; but from ft he holds sway
In the hearts of the nations of the
world. If one should seek a vital
mnd fruitful example of national
ism and universalism combined,
one might run and hold speech
with men of every tongue and
race and clime, and then find no
finer embodiment of that synthe
sis than the great Scottish bard.
He I3 "Scotland expressed in per
sonality," yet from Ayr to Syd
ney, from Chicago to Calcutta, his
birthday, January 25, will be re
membered, and his songs will go
echoing round the woVld.
This uniq-ue place that the poet
occupies, and this supreme power
hat he wields over the hearts of
mankind, are exceedingly difficult
o account for. What Is the se
cret of that power by which he
lives in the hearts of his fellow
men, and unites mankind Into a
?reat league? What Is the secret
of his enduring fame? With the
object of endeavoring to discover
that, I have lived for weeks with
'.he poetry of Burns at my elbow,
ind have reread most of his col
'ected poems. I have been struck
ifresh with the poet's quick sense
of wonder, the strange and solemn
beauty of the world that flashed
Into his consciousness and filled
him with awe; his passion for
Mberty that welled in his heart
Mke a scorching fire; bis grand
ifflrmatlojis. of his kind, that
spiritual penetration to the innatn
nobility and royalty of man ai
man; his awakened and height
ened sense of the dignity of hu
man toll; his authentic and poetic
'ove of the simple pieties of JUr
people all these qualities have
'mpressed me anew in the reread
'ng of his wonderful lyrics and
Iramatic descriptions. His secret,
-o far as this experience of mino
can discover it, resides in certain
qualities that I will try to point
out as clearly and distinctly as
possible.
Th Magic That Creates
First of all. Burns had to a
wonderful degree THE MAGIC
THAT CREATES. Not out o:
nothing, of course, for every poet
must have materials to batter into
shape and mold after his' own
heart's desire. Burns devoured
books and assimilated them; he
lived with a book of songs, carry
ing it around with him until It
was all tattered and until its trea
sures had passed into the deposi
tory of his mind, to be exhaled
anew like the drop of dew that,
trembling on the flower, la caught
up and refined In the alembic of
heaven and falls In the thunder
showers of summer. Burns creates
poetry spontaneously, intuitively.
For me. an aim I never fash
I rhyme for fun.
There you have his pure creatlvo
and instinctive quality! It makes
ttself felt in. those lyric outbursts
of his that sound like the song of
i bird in an April dawn, or like
the lark at heaven's gate, ne
seems to have had little leisure
to cultivate his art, and it wonli
be true to say that his best li
brary was the open sky and field,
but what he lacked In leisure be
made u for In frqphness. spon
taneity, originality. He moved in
no conventional groove, but sans
with such perfect naturalness a
to make his lyrics imperishable.
They Issued hot from his heart,
when wrapt In poetic mood, when
he could steal a few hours fron
the night or his daily toil. Effort
less naturalness reveals that
"touch o nature's fire" which he
craved above all learning. Sav
Stopford Brooke: "He bubbled no
Into poetry like a springing we'l
into an arid plain, and the plaH
grew fertile as the well mat'"
itself into a stream and watera.1
the desert." His poetry did wate'
the desert of his own days. Ther
lies his magic. No poet catcher
the world as it flies past !n all ft .
mutable moods more magically
than Burns.
Na man can tether time or tide
yet he seems to tether both In hi
lyric outbursts and his descrip
tions the one being the mood ar
moment, transcripts of an ex
perience, the other being kaleido
scople snapshots of the natural
world,
Aft hae I rovd by bonnte Daon.
To see the toso and woodbine
twin:
4nd nic fctrd sang o' Its lure.
And fondly sae did I o' mint.
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