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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1922)
Breaking Ground for General Meade Memorial Seldom Travel; Often Migrate Mennonitcs Ever Seeking Hsven Where They Can Follow Reli gious Beliefs in Peace. MEXICO NOW 'PROMISED LAND’ Interest in the Sect Aroused by Their Exodus From Canada to Mexico, Taking With Them $15,000,000 in Goods and Cash. George Gordon Meade, grandson of General Meade, raising llie flag on He* site of the monument to the genera* durtng the exercises on the grounds of the Botanical Gardens, Washington, where President Harding paid his tribute by turning the first spadeful of earth. The impressive ceremonies were attended by many high government officials wlio stood with bared heads In a pouring ruin. Secretary of War Weeks, chairman of the National Meade Memorial commission. Is shown on the extreme left. President Harding stands In the center. The Meade memorial will be lo cated not far from the Grant memorial. Spend $9,000,000 for Recreation _________ fr Movement Is Growing Rapidly, Says Playground and Rec reation Association. INCREASE IN FAiO LEADERS 458 Cities in the United States Appro- priated Money for Recreation Pur poses During the Last Year, Says Report. À fr T New York.—Nearly $11.000,000 was speut for recreation during the last year by 458 cities in this country. 53 cities having donated playgrounds and 18 of the number placing the value of the property given at $1,1S2,700. The foregoing are a few of the facts and figures contained In the annual report of the Playground and Recrea tion Association of America Just made public througli The Playground. Five hundred and two cities report 4,584 centers under paid leadership, the largest number recorded. Work ers to the number of 11,071) were em ployed to direct play at these centers. Municipal funds were used for the en tire support of the work in 1144 of the cities. In an elTort to obtnln the fullest possible report from the recreation field, a questionnaire was sent out to 2,470 cities and towns in the United States and Canada. Replies were re ceived from 1,170 of the number. Many cities which did not respond In any way to the request for information are known to l>e carrying on public recreational activities In some form. The fact that 502 cities report play grounds and recreation centers main tained under paid leadership during the last year Is considered most en couraging by the association, repre senting as it does a satisfactory in crease over 1020, »lien 465 cities so reported. The total of 4.584 centers also shows satisfactory growth, as compared with the 4,203 reported last year. In ndditlon to the 502 cities which gre carrying on recreational activities >Bnder paid leadership, centers are maintained in many other cities, ns shown by the reports received. Among these are school playgrounds in 101 cities, school playgrounds with special paid loaders in three cities, centers tinder volunteer leadership in six cities and unsupervised centers In 59 cities. Fifty-one cities initiated the work during 1021. 34 of Them wholly or part ly under municipal control. In nddi tlon. 20 cities report ground and equipment purchased with a view to establishing the work, and 22 cities suggest definite plans for work next season. For Colored Children. Of the 502 cities listed in the statis tical tnlde of the report, 68 show 147 centers used exclusively by colored children. Some of the cities report playgrounds used by both colored and white children. A steady Increase In the number of employed leaders is a feature of the work. Tins year’s total, 11,079, ex ceeds the 1920 report by 861. Of the number. 5.181 were men and 5,898 women. As the number of trained workers In this field is growing steadily, train ing classes for them, whether em ployed or volunteer, are being estab lished in a growing number of cities. There were 94 cities conducting such training etassea in 1921. with sn en rollment in 50 of these cities of 1.580. Training classes for volunteer work ers were conducted in CO cities, as compared with nine In 1920, and 35 of them reported sn enrollment of 1st» students. A marked improvement Is shown in the number of cities re quit ' g civil service examinations for recreation |»«*iti"ns In 1021, this being 41. as against 26 in 1920. * --------- ----------------------------- Various forms of municipal admin istration are reported by the 307 cit ies, Hie playground work of which Is supported in whole or part by munici pal funds, tlie managing authority be ing the school board in 128 of the cities, while in 88 of them power is vested In playground and recreation commissions or departments, division boards and bureaus of recreation. In 50 cities the work is under the author ity of park boards, departments nnd bureaus or park and recreation com missions. In the balance of the 307 cities nl- niost every civic organization extant has apparently been called into serv ice to manage and control the recrea tion work, including departments of public welfare, departments of parks and public property, city councils, boards of trustees or selectmen nnd departments or boards of public works. In one town the locnl public safety committee was called upon; in unother the department of streets and public improvements; in another the city planning commission, while in various other cities nnd towns the city health department, the depart ment of public affairs, the public rec reation and welfare commission, mu nicipal lengue nnd the public athletic league of the county were called upon to handle the work. Conducted by Private Organizations. In almost 200 cities the managing authority was vested in private or ganizations, these having the widest possible range, from the Red Cross to the Rotary club, nnd covering churches, industrial plants, women's clubs, the Y. W. C. A., the Y. M. C. A., various boys’ organizations, parent- teacher associations, settlements, and even, In some cases, private Individ uals, the last being tlm case in seven cities. In other cities private organi zations and municipal departments combined in tile management of the plnygroinids and recreation centers. More than $5,000.000 voted in bonds for recreation purposes is the report from 20 cities. This figure includes Duluth, Minn., with $50,000 voted for a municipal golf course, nnd Akron, Ohio, which made $2,000,000 available for establishing parks nnd play grounds. Memphis, Tenn., plans to RESCUES SLAVE GIRLS To Pay His Tenants $25 for New Babies Chicago. — Architect Harry I. Dalsey, who Is building a 33 flut building with a perambula tor stall, with lock and key for each tenant, lias announced thnt each tenant who receives a call from Doctor Stork will receive a cash present of $25. Should twins be left lie'll make it $50. “ I want to see lots of children around my building, for they make happy homes," Mr. Dnlsey said. spend $100,000 on a municipal swim ming pool. A total average daily attendance of 1,154,083 is reported by 407 cities, j For attendance at winter centers 585,701 Is reported by 158 cities. A growing use of playground facilities! during the evening hours Is noted ! from year to year. Other features of the report are the closing of streets for play, where city authorities safe guard the lives of thousands of chil dren who lack playground privileges. The number of cities reporting play streets thus established during the year is 38, 25 of them providing play leaders. Ninety-eight cities report safeguard ing streets in w inter for coasting. An Increhslng number of cities report the establishment of bathing facilities for public use, the opening of swimming pools, public baths nnd municipal bathing beaches. Tills year 103 cities report tlie maintenance of 803 com munity buildings, used exclusively for recreational purposes, an increase of 53 over last year. ! STUDY DATA TO CUT ARMIES | i Vital Statistics of Nations Are Being Studied te Pave Way for Reduc tion of Size of Armies. Washington.—Births, mnrrlngos, mor tality nnd health among the peoples of tlie member states of the I.cngue of Nations will figure strongly in studies now in progress in Geneva to pave the way for ultimate reduction of the size of armies. The extraordinary scope of the in quiry contemplated is nowhere more clearly shown than In tlie clinpter on ■‘demographic data." It Hsks first for population statistics for each country as of 1914, and by sex. civil status nnd "large groups of similar age.” Marriage and legitimate birth rate figures covering two decades prior to the European war is sought, with (lota ns to the “fecundity of marriages and its tendency t<> decrease." Effects of the war on the composi tion and movement of population as shown In marriage and birth statistics during and since the war is another point for examination. Still another Is "the probable nnd average length of life” nt birth nnd In five-year interval age for the males, together with the infant mortality among males. Causes of physical rejections for army service in countries where con scription Is practiced to fill tlie ranks is regarded as offering a road to the study of tlie physical rapacity of the people. In ndditlon, the inquiry would bring out results of "revised standards o f rejection during the war." Another phase of the problem is found In the “cost of individual main tenance up to military age," with the cost of such males of the same gen eration as have died before reaching military age, added to the estimated cost of maintaining the survivors. Patriotic Town. White Salmon, Wash.—George, a Miss Dnnaldina Cameron Is Scotch, new town on the Columbia river, will and therefore not much given to con be In a class by itself, for when versation; so the world seldom hears1 coupled with the name of the state It of what she has done and seldom sees is the most patriotic place In the Dixie has long held her name tn the papers. But In the United S&fes. past twenty-seven years, working that distinction in the Northwest. An quietly and efficiently, she has res other new place in this state la Peach, cued 1.500 Chinese slave g*rls from but the latest acquisition of names Is oriental sectioos of Pacific Coast a little e-oat roads village in Klickitat county called Jazz. cities. o COUNTS MONEY 41 YEARS ' they fear translation would detract from the literal iiiqiort of their found ers' works. Their detachment from the world Is shown by their curious use of English. A caller at a Lancas ter home rang the bell many times without answer. Finally a woman ap peared at the door to apologize: ‘Oh. did you bell? It didn’t make.' The women wear poke bonnets, resembling those of the Dunkers. Men, women and children avoid colors. Jewels or any grace of dress that might betoken vanity. “ Most rigid of all the groups, how ever, is the Bruederhof, or llutterlan j Brethren, dating buck to Jacob lluter. a martyr of the Sixteenth century, who insisted upon n complete communal or ganization of congregations. It was this group that had to leave Russia about the time of our Civil war for 1 evolving n communism which antici Mrs. M. A. Browne of tlie redemption pated that of tlie soviet government in division of the United States treaa- ninny respects. Today they are settled j ury has counted more money than any along tlie James river. In South Da one In the world. For forty-one years kota, declining to cast a vote or hold she has been counting money In tlie office or patronize a store. They Treasury department. The picture was forswear dancing, play-going and to taken on her forty-first anniversary as bacco. They are of German descent, a money counter. entne here directly from southern Rus On Chain Gang for Lifs. sia, and form n law-abiding, prosper Greenville, S. C.—Because he was ous, self sufficient community. "There are more than 60,000 Menno- unable to obtain work, Robert Mend nites in the United States. Tliolr com of New York voluntarily offered him. munities are to be found in odd cor self six times for arrest and finally ners of the world where they may fol made out a case against himself be low the simple teaching of their cause. be said, lie would rather work founder, Menno Simons, a Dutch re on tlie chain guiig than to tie doing former, born tlie year that Columbus nothing nt all. He was sentenced for life, with power to pardon himself. discovered America.” 4 \S Washington.—“ Invited to Russia and exempted from taxes and military service because they could farm, then banished because come of them estab lished a communistic colony; obeying the laws of many lands, but refusing to take part in making or enforcing them; frowning upon science, buttous, life lusurunce nnd tobacco—such are various branches of the Mennonitcs, whose exodus from Canada to Mexico adds another chapter in tlie centuries- old tinabusis of tills quaint and goodly people. “ While geographers nre^tudylng hu man migrations on tlie basis of eco nomic determinism, here is a consider able group who defy nny such chart ing, and move about solely ii|»on the basis of the best opportunity to follow their religious beliefs." says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "From Holland to Germany, thence to Moravia, Hungary, Rumania nnd In to Russia—so runs the earlier course of Mennonlte wanderings. From tlie steppes of Crimea nnd the treeless banks of the Molnchnaln to Bonhomme county In South Dakota wns not too long n trull for the most honie-stnytng | people In the world—so long ns ttiey are not disturbed. They seldom travel individually, .lust before the war a trip to Washington was offered ns nn agricultural prize to 12 young men of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, one of the oldest American Mennonlte strong holds, and of tlie 12 winners not one Irrigation Has Rescued Millions had been outside ids own county be of Acres of Once Waste Land fore 1 “ Now about 1,500 Mennonitcs are in Patagonia. leaving Manitoba nnd Saskatchewan, Cnnndn, for Durango, Mexico, and the productive loss their going will mean is only slightly Indicated by tlie esti mate thnt they tnke along with them some $15,000,000 worth of goods, farm Little Known Country Brought to Pub- Implements nnd cash. lie Attention by Report That Land Schooling Begins at Three Years. May Harbor Prehistoric "Compulsory education requirements, Monste rs. including tlie teaching of English, which could easily be adjusted by n Washington. — Patagonia hns long more compromising people, caused tlie migration from Canada. In some been ticketed in many minds with brunches of their church every Menno- Kamchatka and Timbuktu us repre nite child must begin Ids schooling senting the ends of tlie earth. Now when he is three years old. From it lias Its supposed strangeness furth that time until lie Is six the Bible nnd er emphasized by tlie reported discov tlie Mennonlte catechism are used for ery there oi a plesiosaurus, u huge his instruction. After three years he lizard like creature thought to have takes up the ‘three R’s,’ but In Hie been extinct for many thousands of more orthodox branches of tlie church years. Something of tills land which nil science, ns such, is frowned upon. may harbor pro historic monsters is In farming, however, the Mennonitcs told in a bulletin issued from the are efficient nnd practical scientists. Washington headquarters of the Na European countries have profited by tional Geographic society. “ If tlie ideas of Patagonia general their example, and to them western Pennsylvania owes much of Its pros ly held are a bit hazy," says the bul letin, “there is good reason for It, for perity. "There nre vnrlons gradations of pol the region did not really begin to l»e icy among tlie various groups, such ns well known until n generation ago, Ilutterians, the Amish, the Wlslar, the and even now there nre sizeable areas Defenseless nnd other branches. All that huve not been explored. The first hold against taking oaths nnd to non- fact that needs to be understood about reslstnnee, which led to their exemp Patagonia Is that It is not uii official tion from the draft without nny such division. Like the Northwest terri stigma ns nttnehed to many types of tory of the early duys of the United 'conscientious objectors.’ Their like Stutes, It hns been carved up into ness to tlie (Junkers led William Penn states or provinces. But even If tlie to Invite thorn to bis colony where they name, Pntngonln, lias been pushed off first established themselves nt Ger many official tin tiers. It has clung in mantown, spreading thence to Lancas popular usage nnd probubly will re ter, Berks and Bucks counties In Penn main for a long time. sylvania, nnd later into Ohio, Indiana Twice Area of California. and Illinois. "The extreme southern tip of Ar Have Quaint Dialect. gentina would probably lie given as “ In Tlllle,’ Mrs. Flske disclosed tlie off hand location of Patagonia in n some of tlie peculiarities of custom large number of cases. But the region and dlnleft of the Pennsylvania Men- given tills designation really covers nonites. Their adherence to teaching one-half tlie north-anil south extension German in schools Is not so much that I of the republic, stretching from cen- they love that language as bccuuse ' tral Argentina for more than 1,000 ft n S V X V T N s.\ L ' ^ \ \ . 1 ! 4 1 ' 1 “Desert” That Is Blossoming HOME OF THE "PLESIOSAURUS" Half-Breed Huskies Win a Dog Race Crossing the finish line a winner, Arthur T. Walden, farmer of W'nnalan- ret, N. H., with tils husky—or rather half-breed husky—tenm of five huge dogs at the end of the 120-mlle dog derby at Berlin, N. H. Walden Is a veteran of the Yukon gold rush, where for years he "mushed" the Alaskan traits sod his dogs are descended from a husky which he brought East when he settled down to the quiet life of a New Hampshire farm. miles south almost to the tip of the continent. Its width varies from about 150 miles in tlie south to 450 In the north, and its urea is nearly twice Hint of California. "An idea of the physical condition and economic development of this vast area can lie conveyed best perhaps by the statement that Patagonia is to Argentina what the great West and tlie Southwest were to tlie United States Just after the Civil war. Thera was tiie myth of tlie ‘great American desert’ then—a dry, cheerless country that could never lie reclaimed. But with tlie extension of railroads, farms, ranchos and irrigation systems tills North American ’desert' Is disap* penrlng "Just so Patagonia vas labeled n desert for many years; but farms anil Irrigation works huve already rescued great enclaves from the region and millions of head of cattle and a scora of million sheep are supported today on only portions of tlie area. After a few thousand more miles of railway shall have been constructed, a few hundred steam shovels shall have been set to work, and a few million yards of wire fencing ahull have been stretched in place, tlie Patagonian ‘desert’ will probably go the way of its North American precursor. Darwin Gave Region Black Eye. "It is nil interesting fuct Hint tha statement of a careful scientist— Charles Darwin—did much to give Patagonia an undeservedly hud repu tation before tlie world. Darwin studied clileliy Hie forbidding desert const of Hie lower portion of tlie coun try, and ids discouraging report was interpreted ns applying to tlie entlro country. For decades no one thought it worth while even to explore tha hinterland. “ It is westward beyond tlie semi- arid pampas or plains that tin* most interesting and least thoroughly known portions of Putngunla ure found. Along the eastern slopes of Hie Andes and in some of Hie valleys between its parallel ranges is a scenic and climatic paradise. Grassy meadows and forest-clad slopes alternate with sheer cliffs and towering, stiow-inun- tied [leaks, and scattered everywhere are innumerable sparkling streams and sky-blue lakes. Tills is, in fact, one of the most extensive and most won derful lake regions in the world. A number of these bodies of water are comparable In size to Luke Cham plain. Only a relatively few of tha smaller lakes have been named nnd some have been numbered. Many of them, however, have not been ex plored. It Is in Hiis Inter mountain lake region that scientific exi*ed!tions will search for the strange creatures reported to have been seen there. “One of the best known of the Andean Lakes of Argentina la Naliuel llunpl. This take Is In the edge of Patagonia, but Is still nearly 1,000 miles north of Cape Horn. The area of this many-branched body of water is probably In the neighborhood of 250 square miles. Its latitude In the southern hemisphere almost exactly corresponds to thnt in the northern hemisphere of the Rock Mountain Na tional park. Just north of Denver; nnd It is shout 800 miles from Buenos Aires, the same distance ss that which separates Denver from Chicago, Much territory will tie made Into one of Argentina's principal national play grounds. It la planned to harness the outlet river and to build at the eastern margin of the lake, In s re gion of delightful climate, a great In dustrial city."
