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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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STUDY DATA TO CUT ARMIES
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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.
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COUNTS MONEY 41 YEARS
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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.”
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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
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“Desert” That
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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."