Friday. July 2. 192«
THE BEAVERTON REVIEW
P*I« Two
CAMP:
Father °T
Laying Cornerstone of Harding Memorial
W IDE HOAD DRIVE
PLEDGED SUPPORT
Advocates of the popular hut alow
moving wide road campaign in the Chi
cago highway region have received
unexpected support from two power
fit) road-bulldlng agencies, and cited
renuaylvaula as a precedent In tlir
proposal to use state houd Issue funds
In doubling the width of pavements
on (he existing main highways where
heavy traffic warrants Immediate Im
provement. wrltea J. I. Jenkins lu the
Chicago Trlhune.
Following an official traffic survey
and study o f congestion on stste roads
corresponding to nisln arteries lead
Ing Into Chicago. William II. Connell,
engineering executive of the Pennsyl-
vania highway department and former
president o f the American Road Build
ers' association, announced that the
Lincoln highway pavement will he
widened to a minimum of 40 feet en
tlrely across that state as a depart
mental project.
Over forty thousand [versons paid hntusge to late President Warren Cl. Harding and Ids wife, Floreara, when
Another champion of wide roads ap the cornerstone of the Harding memorial, at Marlon. Ohio was laid. Vico President Charlea tl. Dawes laid the
peared In the person of l>r. 1, 1. cornerstone and made the dedicating speech.
Hewea, deputy chief engineer of the
United Staten bureau o f public roads.
He declareu that narrow pavements
are a consent menace to traus|M>rta-
tlon In the West and that motorists
will not long tolerate the congestion
on terminal gateway highways. Both
authorities made their statements In
connection with progress reports to
the l.lucoln Highway association.
"The present policy o f the Pennsyl
vania department of highways," said
Connell, "Is to plan and hulld new
work to suit the probable future traf-
flee requirements In each Instance. It
would tie absurd to say that all state j
roads require the same width of pave
ment as, for Instance, does the Lincoln
highway near Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh. In 1925 a considerable mileage
o f 40-foot pavement was laid on this
main trunk line west o f Philadelphia
and 40 feet will be the minimum pave
ment width of the road entirely across
the state.”
Dredging Gold From a Washington Highway
IP you read a brief news
Item which r e c « t ly ap
p e a r e d In the p r e s s
throughout the country an
nouncing plans for the
erection o f a national me
morial to the late Walter
Oamp, known wherever
the game la played as the
“ Father o f American Foot
ball” ?
Unlees you know the
story at Walter Camp and
the part he played in making football
what It Is today, and In addition the
story of his ups aud downs during the
many years he had charge of athletics
at Yale— unless you have this back
ground you won’t appreciate fully the
significance of tbla honor and the cli
max it produces In a drama o f foot
ball politics.
Years ago, long before college foot
ball profits ran Into seven figures,
Walter Camp, then known as the
“Caesar o f Football“ at Tale, stood
before a gathering of that university's
athletic beads and announced that be
had contrived to save $135,000 out of
football receipts.
Astounded by the vastness of this
sum, they were further astounded by
Ur. Camp's ambitious plans for a
great footabll arena, the Yale Bowl, a
new boathouse fully equipped, and a
new athletic field.
Questions Immediately formed in
the minds of his listeners. Whence
this secret fund? Where did It come
from, and why? There was the cus
tomary Investigation. He might have
withstood the attack, but the Investi
gation disclosed that Camp, who was
then a member o f the faculty, bad
received some compensation for bis
services.
No Yale coach had ever taken pay
for his services. Camp had not been
paid for coaching, but he bad received
a modest sum, about one-fifth or less
even than tbe -emuneratlon of a pres
ent-day coach, for bis services as
treasurer and manager o f Yale ath
letics and bis job on the faculty.
Bnt they were after Camp. It was
pointed out that he bad written books
and articles for magaxlnes and news
papers. He bad turned his knowl
edge of football into money. The fact
that several hundred other Yale men
were receiving money by this time for
coaching and writing on football was
overlooked.
In 1910, when Fred Daly was cap
tain and Ted Coy was field coach, the
break came. Sharing the fate that
ungrateful republics are pleased to
bestow, Walter Camp and his wizard
ry, which for many years had not only
kept Yale football supreme, but also
dominated the entire football world,
was deposed forever as adviser and
director o f the sport at Yale.
At the time of Camp's death on
March 14, 1925. the New Haven cor
respondent o f the Boston Globe, in
writing a resume of the football wiz
ard'a career, pointed out that two
Making Brick Pavements
Noiseless With Filler
years after Camp left Yale that uni
versity was paying Yale men twice as
much for coaching as Camp ever re
ceived. and that In addition Yale foot
ball was on tbat ''sure and certain
downgrade course It pursued until the
past two seasons.”
Today Yale alumni and nearly 300
American colleges and universities are
raising a fund o f $300.t*JO for a me
morial to take tbe form of a monu
mental gateway to the Yale athletic
fields at New Haven. Carved In stone
over the arched entrance will be an In
scription "W alter Camp F ields” Up
on bronze tablets set Into the walls
flanking the arch will appear by states
the names of all universities, colleges
and prep schools which helped In mak
ing possible this memorial to perhaps
the foremost exponent o f popular ath
letics in American history.
Represented on the committee In
charge are such nationally-known fig
ures In the world of sport as E. K.
Hal! of Dartmouth, chairman, who for
many years headed tbe football rules
committee; Alonzo A. Stagg, Univer
sity of Chicago, and Robert C. Zupp-
ke. University o f Illinois.
Plans for the memorial were de
signed by a Yale man, John W. Cross,
1900, and have been approved by the
Yale corporation. The National Col
legiate Athletic association Is func
tioning the campaign for funds among
tbe colleges of the country, and early
success In the project o f recognition
for the "Father o f American Football"
Is assured.
"Walter Camp took a game that was
so crude that it could not possibly be
recognized as the predecessor o f mod
ern football and made It over into a
game of strategy, scientifically bal
anced as between offense and de
fense," commented Albert Barclay, the
New Haven correspondent o f the Bos
ton Globe, in reviewing Camp's life.
“ Into It he put new Ideas from his
resourceful mind, all the time careful
ly and shrewdly keeping to hlinsefi
tbe whys and wherefores o f these
ideas.
“ For ten years he stood alone as
creator and originator of modem foot
ball, and Yale triumphed. I)eland
conceived the flying wedge. Camp
hurled a single sturdy guard into it,
broke it, and sent a half back through
tbe opening to tackle the runner. He
had solved the defense before the of
fense ever got under way.
“ Away back In the early tlOs, Camp,
who was a good business man. con
ceived the Idea that football, which
attracted the public, could and should
pay the way for other college sport a
that the receipts and disbursements of
Yale sports should be pooled, and that
by running college sports on a busi
ness basis they could he made to pay.
and that the constant passing of the
hat for money to run sports among
both undergraduates and graduates
should be abolished.
"The Idea was too revolutionary to
spring on the happy-go-lucky college
world. Hence Camp created at Yale
the Yale Field association. He be
came Its head and treasurer. He hus
banded Its funds, and for fifteen years
no one. except a chosen few, knew
that Yale athletics were making
money.
"Then Camp began to unfold his
plans, a great football arena, an up-
to-date boathouse, and a new athletic
field, and he told Yale men that he
had saved $135,000 toward carrying
out his plans.”
Soon followed his downfall. You've
already heard that part o f the story.
Thus, briefly, you have the outline of
what Walter Camp did for football at
Yale, and tbe reward he received.
“ Like all men who succeed," con
tlnues the New Haven writer, “ he was
Invulnerable to criticism. But the sad
part o f the attack upon Walter Camp
by hla own college waa that it cairn-
from an lnalgnlflcant minority."
Engineering knowledge and experi
ence have developed the modern brick
pavement from a common clay brick
laid on the natural soil to the vitri
fied brick with an asphalt filler laid
on a concrete foundatloq with a aand
bed between the foundation and brick
surface.
This produces a pavement surface
which can he made as near free from
construction defects as Is poaalbl*.
Every step in the manufacture of the
material and placing It Into the pave
ment is subject to correction before
the next step Is taken and thus In-
snres against defects.
Modem heavy truck traffic haa In '
troduced an Increased demand on pave
ments due to the enormoua shock which
It carries under Its wheels. Tbe vltrl- |
Bed brick pavement, made up of small
units which are cushioned by the as-
phait filler In the Joints, absorb* this
shock In summer as well as In win- !
ter weather. Furthermore, a smooth
surface lessen- the am<-tnt of shock
and here again the vitrified brick
pavement aland- in the foreground,
as Its method of construction assures
a smooth surface. The asphalt filler
in the Joints and a alight film of tt
oo the surfnre creates a pavement
which la noiseless.
esting to note that there followed
these discoveries a germ theory of
disease no whit less far reaching. If
The first recorded observation of less accurate, than that which exists
the bodies w p now recognize as bac at the present day.
teria was made about the middle of
The Neu) T ype o f Inn
the Seventeenth century by Anthony
Van Leeuwenhoek, a Holland lens'
'There I* nothing," wrote Mr. Sam
grinder, who reported hi* discoveries uel Johnson, "which has yet been con
to the Royal society o f London In trlved hy man by which so much hap
1683.
Continuing his Investigations, piness is produced as by a good tavern
Leeuwenhoek discovered the presence or Inn.” The modern god Economics,
o f bacteria In the mouth and In the slew the old Inn. Hundreds nowadays
Intestinal evacuations, and It la Inter can afford to travel, can afford Inna,
Bush B eeom et a Vine
Real Mushroom Town
to the dozens of Inn patrons a century
and a half ago. Rut the years have
brought compensations for the loss of
Intimacy and exclusiveness. The great
modem American hotels, with their
hundred* o f room* and thousands of
dally visitors, offer a variety of life,
a richness of contact, which the amall
tavern never gsve. The Imagination
must grasp thl* to appreciate It. Look
around you and you will see that It
I* only the background of Doctor John-
aon’s statement thot has changed. Its
feeling still holds true.
ing, umbrellas. Jewelry, foodstuffs
and household utensils. There Is n
hospital, a police station and a court
house there aa well. All this pros
perity lasts only as long as the pearl
fishery Is being conducted. A day or
two after It Is over, like a figment
o f a dream, the town disappears and
only Its few natives are left.
Plants do not need the ultraviolet
ray* o f the sun. as d<i animals. Nor
Marlrhrhuknddl, or Pearl Town,
mal plants were grown where the rays
near Ceylon, holds the record prob
were completely shut out. But when ably, for "mushroom towns."
The
glass excluded the sun's blue rays as greater part o f tbe year Its popula
well, then the plants became spindling, tion consists o f a few natives living
and when the green rays also were cut In straw huts. A day before the
out the plants became still taller and pearl fishery starts, It has, as If by
thinner, with cupped leaves.
The magic, become a busy town o f some
Dr. C. I>. Miller o f
bushy soy bean became a twining vine 80,000 or 40,000, says the Boston technic Institute has
aa a result o f losing tbe violet, blue Poet. Cadjan huts line the "streets" method of reclaiming
sad green rsys of the sun.
displaying wars* o f all types; cloth old oil at less than 0
Alabama Poly
worked out a
or laundering
cents a gallon.
Getting Ready for Atlantic Flight
HEROINE OF WAR
Save Tire Expense
'T h e concrete highways of the Salt
River valley cost close to $ 10 , 000 , 000 ,
but that amount haa been about
saved already by auto owners," ac
cording to a local tire dealer. "The
good roads have about doubled tire
life, records of eve« 20,000 miles not
being uncommon." he said, with ad
dltlon that the tire man's salvation la
the Individual who will Insist on start
ing and stopping with a Jerk.
■H I H - t + l I I I I I H '4-H 44-1 I I I I I
Rene Fonck, noted French aviator, at Roosevelt field, lon g laluml, N.
T., Inspecting Ids uncompleted plana In which hs will try the New York-
Parl* flight.
Summer Brings Seals to Avalon Bay
Good Roads Notes
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A movement has been organised In
Fort Wayne, Ind., to build a model
highway from Ltmberlost cabin, on
Sylva lake, to Luberlost cabin, near
l-ake Geneva, aa a memorial to Mrs
Gene Stratton-Porter.
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I tame Kachel I'rowdy o f England,
who waa swarded the Mona Star, tha
Royal Red Croas and waa mads •
Dame of tha British Empira for tha
heroic work she performed aa a nurse
on the hut Hi* front during lha World
war, came to the United Slates to
visit In Washington and (o attend tha
National Conferm e» o f Modal Work
In Cleveland, Ohio.
WINS YALE PRIZE
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Rough road* cause considerable
damage to the working parts o f an
automobile. Uneven roads are often
unnoticed while driving as the body
o f the car does not shake with the
axles and differential.
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All roads are well signposted In
France. Each hears a distinctive
number preceded by a letter Indicat
ing Its class- N*for the main roads,
D and GO for the secondary roads,
and 1C for the bypaths
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Discovery of Bacteria
Motorists who use the Yellowstone Trail highway, fourteen miles north of t'ls Flutti. In the stala of Wash
ington, are forced to tuaka a detour when they find a huge gold drrdxrr at work In the middle of the road.
The highway runs over what was the heil of the old Swauk creek
The gold hearing gravel was worked by
white and Chinese miner* many years ago, who stopped work there when the big atrlkee were made In the Klon
dike. Recently a group o f men In eastern Washington Incorporated and pul the dredger to work, as they hold lha
mining rights to the land the highway runs over. The dredge Is taking nut over a thousand dollars a day.
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Secretary of Agriculture Jardlne an
nounces the apportionment o f $73.125,-
000 to the various states for use In the
construction of federal aid roads
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A total of $50,000,000 will he ex
pended on highways In Florida In 1920
and the state will soon rank among
the first of the Union In good roads.
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A federal road to the top of Mount
Halenkala, Hawaii, will enable tour
ists to drive cars to 10,<KS) feet shove
sea level to view the famous crater.
Secretary o f Agriculture Jardine an
nounces the apportionment of $73,125,-
000 to the various states for use In
the construction of federal aid roads.
This sum was authorised hy the post-
office spproprlstlon set of Fehrusry
12, 1925, an dit for the fiscal year be
ginning July 1, n a i.
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More than $50,000,000 haa been ex
pended by tha state and towns of
Maine since 1913 for the construction
and maintenance of state highways,
state aid highways and bridges.
Ilere'a a sure sigh of summer. The world famous seals of Manta
Catalina Island, off the southern California coast, have migrated to the
matera o f Avalon bay ready for tbe handouts from the thousands of summer
ilsllora. No one knows what they uae for a calendar, but they're punctual to
the day, when tbe summer season opens. Mauy of tha seals are known by
líame.
OF INTEREST T O E V E R Y B O D Y
Eagles on United States hills were
Temples o f India are usually found
copied from birds In the National zoo. near rivers or springs.
The huarlzo la a recently developed
A musician In England has Invented
animal, a cross between the llama And a portable piano which, when folded,
la only three feet In length.
the alps-*a of Peru.
Bad charactera of children often re
In the making o f bricks, day and
sult from Improper feeding, according other mixtures are handled 73 times
to government dietitians.
before the product la complete.
Soma astronomers believe that the
Home savages of Mouth America
moon la made of material that was treat their wounds hy the scientific
ooce part of the earth's crust.
process o f exposing (ham to sunlight.
Paul Mellon, son of tha secret
of the treasury, who waa awarded
Mcl.auglilln prlze for excellence
Kngllah composition, for whlch m
bers o f tha Yala freahman rlass
ellglhle to compote Toung Moll,
essay was entltled "Donn Byrne,
Place In Llteruturs.”
Too Late With Invention
Francis Macemnl. an English In
ventor and soldier of fortune of Ital
ian descent. Just missed lasting fame.
11« Invented nn Improved typ« 0f
steam coach for ordinary roads, but
the Introduction o f railways made It
valueless
Snake Really Innocuoue
The «»-called coach whip anako,
which mnny suppose to ho capable of
whipping a man to death, la In reality
quite harmless.