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MILLION VISIT
THREE SHRINES
Figure Yearly Total In Pilgrim
ages toWashington and Lin
coln Memorials.
MANY CLIMB BIG MONUMENT
Big Share of Quests in National Cap
ital Make Trip to Mount Vernon
Recently Completed Lincoln
Memorial Popular.
Washington.More than 1,000,000
persons make pilgrimages each year to
Washington's home, Mount Vernon,
the beautiful Lincoln memorial and the
Washington monument, the latter be
ing the most popular of the three
shrines among visitors to the national
capital.
Visitors numbering 34,113 went dur
ing July to the top of the Washington
monument, located a few hundred
yards south of the White House. More
than one-fifth of them clambered up
the 808 steps in order to see the me
morial tablets on the various landings
inside the shaft. The remainder rode
to the top In the electric elevator
which has a capacity of 35 persons.
More than 5,250,000 people have vis
ited the top of the monument since it
was opened for observation purposes
October 9, 1888. No entrance fee is
charged.
Lincoln Memorial Popular.
The Lincoln memorial, recently com
pleted and opened to the public, was
visited by 31,388 persons during July.
Located in Potomac park, directly
west of the Washington monument, it
is rather Inaccessible for pedestrians
visitors usually go there by automo
bile. On a recent Sunday 2,000 per
sons were recorded! as entering the
great building. It is rapidly becoming
a shrine for tourists. No entrance fee
is charged.
Washington's old home at Mount
Vernon on the Potomac river in Vir
ginia, 16 miles from Washington, long
has been the mecca of pilgrims from
every part of the world, who go by
steamboat, electric train and automo
bile. Kept as nearly in Its original
state as possible by the Ladies Mount
Vernon association, it is a delight to
all Americans. During July approxi
mately 29,000 persons visited Mount
Vernon and during the year admissions
numbered 236,000. The proceeds of a
25-cent entrance fee help keep the es
tate in first-class condition.
The house where Abraham Lincoln
died, located opposite Ford's theater
at 516 Tenth street, Northwest, this
city, Is another shrine visited by many
tourists. It was bought by the United
States in 1896 for $30,000.
WOMAN ONCE RICH, A VA6
Mrs. Clsette Calzabina Unable to
Find Relatives After Unfortunate
Foreign Marriage.
New York.Mrs. Clsette Calzabina,
thirty-five, once a woman of wealth
and position, according to the report
of a probation officer, was arraigned
in Essex Market court on a charge
of vagrancy.
Patrolman Reilly of the Mercer
street station arrested her when he
found her sleeping in a hallway at 124
Macdougal street.
The probation officer's story was to
the effect that Mrs. Calzabina was
born of wealthy parents in Denver
and that after studying music in New
York and European cities she mar
ried an Italian, who deserted her.
Then she was not able to find her
relatives, the misfortunes of her mar
ried life having weakened her mind,
the officer said.
Magistrate Ryttenberg adjourned
the case and sent the prisoner to the
Waverley home.
'MISSING LINK' HUNTERS SAIL
Captain Salisbury Accompanied by
Daughter and Motion Picture Men
Leave for Malay Peninsula.
San Francisco.Capt. Edward A.
Salisbury, scientist, left San Francisco
on a steamer for the Malay peninsula,
where he will search for what has
been termed in science "the missing
link."
Accompanying Capt. Salisbury were
M. C. Cooper, formerly a lieutenant col
onel in the aviation corps of the Uni
ted States army Duke Zeller, experi
enced explorer Edward Burghard of
Columbia university, New York Miss
Dorothy Salisbury, the explorer's
daughter, and two motion picture men.
Captain Salisbury said rumors had
come across the Pacific ocean from
time to time about a tribe of white
men in the Jungle of the Malay archi
pelago who had short, vestigial tails.
Feed Convicts on 17.7 Cents Daily.
Ossining, N. Y.According to War
den Lewis E. Lawes, the cost of feed
ing prisoners at Sing Sing prison for
August was 17.7 cents a day for each
man, or 5.9 cents a meal. Pastry and
pudding are included in the menu sev
eral times a week.
Catch 7^-Foot Eel.
Taftville, Conn.A party of local
fishermen at Tadpole pond landed 138
'pounds of bullhead* the other night,
three eels that weighed more than ten
pounds and several perch. At a point
'below Butts bridge they caught a tur
tle weighing 50 pounds and one lam
prey eel seven and one-half feel long,
SEES FORGOTTEN TRIBE
American Bird Specialist Invades
Jungles of Nicaragua.
Gets Large Collection of Rare Birds,
Beasts, Fish and ReptilesPene
trates to Villages of Sumo
Indians.
Philadelphia.Wharton Huber, as
sistant curator of the ornithology sec
tion of the Academy of Natural Sci
ences, returned recently to this city
from hitherto little known regions of
Nicaragua, where he assembled a
large collection of birds, beasts, fish
and reptiles, a number of which he be
lieves have not yet been classified.
He also claims to have penetrated
to the villages of Sumo Indians, who
rarely had seen a white man. The
scientist's specimens include 600 birds,
40 rare mammals and 2,000 fish, rep
tiles and insects, all or which will be
placed on exhibition in the local in
stitution.
"My research work was done about
180 miles inland from the Nicaraguan
coast," said Mr. Huber. "We estab
lished our headquarters at a small
mining camp, whence we made trips
farther into the country. The aver
age annual rainfall here is 147 inches.
From the time I reacned the interior
until I left there never was a dry
article of clothing on me. The coun
try is Infected with red bugs, smaller
than fleas, which burrow under the
skin and inflict serious wounds.
"I went up the Prinza Polka river
for 180 miles in a pitpan, an open
boat made of a hollowed-out mahog
any log. Then in a smaller pitpan I
ascended the Banbana river to Minin
da. The district is hilly and covered
with tropical forests so dense that it
is impossible to enter them until a
way is cut by Indians.
"The only inhabitants are a few
scattered tribes of Indians apparently
of Spanish and Miskito Indian de
scent. With a body of these Indians
as guides, I penetrated to certain vil
lages of the Sumo Indians.
"The Sumo men are very skillful
hunters, but the tribe is rapidly be
coming extinct. Witn all their ability
in hunting and their courage of fac
ing wild animals, they are excessively
timid of strange human beings and
will run away even rrom members of
other Indian tribes. Miskito Indians
sometimes walk into their villages and
take anything they want withgut meet
ing resistance. The Sumos, number
ing about 500 souls all told, have the
slant, almond eyes of the Chinese, and
their skin is about the same color as
that of a Chinaman."
Mr. Huber had with him a number
of dogs, two of which were killed by
jaguars. The scientist believes that
fully 40 per cent of the birds and an
imals he shot were lost, because neith
er dogs nor Indians could make their
way into the jungles to the point where
they fell. He used dynamite to secure
his fish specimens.
QUEEN MOTHER DEFIES TIME
Alexandra of Britain Active in Spite
of Her 77 YearsPuts
In Busy Day.
London, England.Queen Alex
andra, the queen mother, now in her
seventy-eighth year, is far more ac
tive than most women of her age. She
might take life far more easily than
she does, but she evidently is opposed
to the idea of being laid on the shelf.
She likes to show herself among the
people, and she is gratified by the
applause with which her appearance
always Is greeted. Undoubtedly it
acts as a sort of psychological tonic
upon her and helps her to feel as
young as she looks.
She crowds many activities into a
day. One day recently she appeared
in public at the cart-horse parade for
prizes in Regent's park, then at a
concert in aid of workshops for dis
abled soldiers and, finally, at the
Richmond horse show.
She makes, however, two conces
sions to advancing years, She seldom
goes out of an evening, and she goes
to bed early, usually playing a game
of "Patience" before retiring.
Cobbler Finds $100 in a Shoe.
Warsaw, Ind.Thomas Ross, Wi
nona Lake, placed $100 in bills and
several checks inside one of his shoes
for safekeeping. Then he went to
Florida and forgot all about the bills
and checks.
While repairing a pair of shoes for
Ross, a Warsaw cobbler discovered
the greenbacks and checks and turned
them over to the owner.
Camping Party Uses
Hearse for Bedroom
Frank Remlinger of Green
Bay, Wis., and four friends, on
a camping jaunt, use a hearse
instead of the usual type of mo
tor caravan. Only a few
changes were necessary. Part
of the glass side was replaced
by board panels and a flooring
was put in, dividing it into
decks. Two of the party sleep
"upstairs," and ^11 supplies are
carried below. Three of the
party sleep in tents.
Rubber tires insure easy rid
ing. No ghosts have been en
countered so far, even when
they camp next to a cemetery,
and no matter how it storms,
the hearse is snug.
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KENTUCKY HILLS
Correspondents Find Quiet Sort
of Men Make "Mountain Dew
With Kick."
SUSPICIOUS OF STRANGERS
Continually on the Alert for Deputy
Sheriffs, Revenue Agents and Prc
hlbltion Officera^sa^,^^
World Magazines.
Catlettsburg, Ky.Typical moun
tain moonshiners of Kentucky are not
always of the gun-toting and trouble
making kind, it is proven to news cor
respondents by visits into the moun
tain region in this area of the state.
The mountaineer type of moonshiner,
however, is continually on the alert
for deputy sheriffs, prohibition officers
and revenue agents.
After a trip of thirty or forty miles
into the mountains the correspondent
was escorted to a moonshiner's log
shack, made from the rough timber of
the hillside and carefully arranged on
a foundation of stone.
"Bill" greeted his visitors with a
keen eye, a bit of suspicion, but with
a friendly note in his shout of "wel
come stranger." Proper inquiries
whether any squirrels Inhabited an
adjacent mountain side, where a new
ly beaten path had been noticed,
brought the answer that squirrels
were scarce and none were found in
the woods.
Mountain Dew Kicks.
When a friendly spirit developed
some "mountain dew," or, in the lan
guage of the cities, "white mule," was
produced from a small hand-made
cupboard within the single room of
the cabin, over which hung a religious
picture and other articles of a reli
gious nature. On the opposite side of
the room over the bed of the moun
taineer was a rifle of heavy caliber, an
automatic pistol and a small-caliber
revolver. The contrast WHS unique.
A small drink of the "mountain
dew" almost brought slumberland a la
Dempsey. Inquiries as to the age of
the liquor brought the answer, "Thet's
today's stuff."
Hospitality of topical southern qual
ity will be found among the mountain
eer residents if you are a "friend"
if an enemybeware, or, as "Bill" ex
plained it, "snakes in the mountain are
killed." "Bill" makes his farm a pay
able proposition for his wife and chil
dren, who were attending church at
the time of the correspondent's visit,
by occasionally cutting some timber.
Reads Magazines of World.
His interest in world affairs is not
limited and weekly trips to the near
est postoffice furnishes him with news
papers from the "outside." These are
read by one member of the family, by
lamp and candle light, to the others
and often last throughout the week.
The moonshiner's home from the
outside has an uninviting appear
ance, but once within the home, while
some inconvenience* are found, the
impression of cleanliness is produced.
The low ceiling forces a man of ordi
nary height to stoop. The board floor
may Teak, but it is solid and hign and
dry. In winter cold winds are shut
out the mud-plaster between the
cracks of logs and by the board and
paper lining of the inner walls. Heat
is furnished by an oil burner and cook
ing is done on a coal range.
Oxen teams haul coal to the home
during the fall months. A yoke of
oxen pulling a load of timber along
the narrow mountain road explains
the manner which enabled the moun
taineer to obtain all the sizable logs
used in constructing his home.
YOUNG JAPAN TAKES TO JAZZ
Less Modernized Nipponese, However,
Frown on Western
Dancing.
Tokyo, Japan.The question wheth
er western dances are immoral is the
subject of a lively debate in the Jap
anese newspapers at present. In the
last few years western dancing has
grown popular among Japanese wom
en, especially those who have lived
abroad, although It is by no means
general as yet. They dance very
gracefully in their native costumes and
heelless slippers, but the older and
less modernized Japanese frown on
the growing custom.
Goat Locked Eight Days
in Car Without Water
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAFOP^jnMJsATUKDAY: NOVEMBEB ll, 1922
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HAS PORCH AUTOS $AN'T HIT
Postmaster Whose Home Is on Sharp
Curve of Road Tires, of Being
Bumped by 8peedera.
Newton, N. JPostmaster Lester
T. Smith of Layton has] a big front
porch on his house, which is on Bing
man's road at a point where there is
a sharp curve, and for many years he
has sat there in the evenings and
smoked his pipe without anything
happening to him. But the other day
he was having a smoke when an auto
mobile came around the bend and
skidded, smashing into the porch and
wrecking one end of it.
The automobilist paid for the dam
age and went on his wajytnd the post-
"t enter, who
1 worked all night and afffmorning put
ting a new end on the'porch. Late
in the afternoon the postmaster went
out to have another smoke, but he
had hardly tilted his chair back and
lighted his pipe when another auto
mobile came whizzing around the
curve and skidded.
Once more the machine crashed into
the porch and wrecked an end of it,
and, since it was the end on which he
was sitting, he went down with the
wreckage. But he was not hurt, and
he g6t out of the debris in time to col
lect from the automobilist, who paid
and drove on. Then the postmaster
called for the carpenter and gave or
ders, but not for a new front porch.
He told the carpenter to tear down
the front porch and build one on the
rear of the house.
"Maybe I'll have peace there," he
said. "Soon as I get my new porch
done they can skid all they want to,
but to get me they'll have to jump
over the house."
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BUILDING AT H1QH MARK
Reports From 141 Cities, in the Uni
ted States Show Greatest Ac
tivity in Years.
New York.-Building frecords for
June, showing a total construction val
ue of $218,674,499 in 141| cities, set a
new high record for 1922,] Bradstreet's
reports.
The previous high mark for the year
was $208,804,015 in Mayv The June
figure compares with $127,671,278 in
June, 1921.
The total for the second quarter of
1922, $683,568,331, maks a gain of 32
per cent over the high-record first quar
ter of this year and of Jj8.7 per cent
above ***M J^"H^ilnnftwriroitiftci guar
ter of 1921. This second quarter's to
tal, It might be noted, is slightly in
excess of the total for the combined
first and second quarters of 1921. This
total for the half-year, with 23 cities
yet to be heard from as to June, is $1,-
200,998,472, a gain of 75.9 per cent over
the like period last year.
GERMANY EXPELS COUNTESS
Hetta Trauberg, Pacifist, Driven from
Native Land for Her Peace
Propaganda.
Vienna,Countess Hetta Trauberg,
the German pacifist, who was interned
by the Germans during the late war
because she condemned submarine
warfare, the deportation of Belgian
and French women and children and
the treatment of allied prisoners, has
been expelled from Germany because
she still persists in her peace propa
ganda.
She is at present in Vienna, where
she is compiling a book, deriving much
of her material from the archives of
Vienna. She is said to have secured
war letters exchanged between the em
peror of Russia, Emperor William of
Germany and the Austrian emperor,
Francis Joseph.
GREATER NAVY FOR SWEDEN
Parliamentary Commission Urges the
Building of Fast Cruisers and
Destroyers.
Stockholm, Sweden.A parliamen
tary commission, supported by navy
experts, has proposed for the Swedish
navy a building program for the next
ten years of four fast armored cruis
ers, twelve destroyers, six torpedo
boats, three mine layersftwenty-two
submarine chasers and a number of
smaller craft. The armored cruisers
are to be 6,500 tons each, with a
speed of thirty knots, with eight 21-
centlmeter and six 12-centimeter guns.
As the proposal Is based on parlia
mentary consideration, there is a prob
ability of its being passed at the com
ing session.
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Poplar Bluff, Mo.And now
comes the "harmless" billy goat
displaying some of his unique
qualifications.
When a carload of lime was
loaded at Cape Girardeau, Mr.
Goat, unnoticed, made his way
Into the car and was locked
therein. Eight days after, when
the seals of the car were broken
at the destination, Doniphan,
Mo., and when the door was
opened, out jumped Mr. Goat,
spry, but apparently thirsty.
He was quickly treated to a
drink of "Mountain Dew," which
bubbles from a spring near Don
iphan, and was happy. He
seemed none the worse for his
"Volstead feat"
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1 Board Bill Too Heavy,
Prisoner Is Released
Arthur States of Lima, O., lit
erally ate his way out of prison,
where he was serving a term be
cause of his inability to pay a
fine of $1,000 on a liquor charge.
He served only a few weeks
when the county commissioners
began figuring out results of
the incarceration of States at
a fixed amount a day to apply
on his fine.
The board ordered him par
oled with the understanding
that he pay $7 a month on the
fine. Eleven years will be re
I quired to liquidate it. His board
had already cost the county
$100. Commissioners figured that
it would cost $1,249.50 to collect
$
the fine for the state had he re-
AMERICANS EAGER
TO CO TO LEVEES
Bombard Ambassador George
Harvey for Cards of Admis
sion to Royal Receptions.
OFFER ALL KINDS OF PLEAS
Wife of Washington Diplomat Gives
Interesting Picture of One of These
Court FunctionsFinds
Queen Beautiful.
London.There has been keen
rivalry among Americans in London to
gain entrance to King George and
Queen Mary's court levees, which have
been revived for the first time in eight
years. Colonel Harvey, the American
ambassador, has been inundated with
requests, pleas and prayers from
Americans of all ranks "to see what
the king and queen look like."
Every sort of argument has been
advanced by the petitioners, and the
ambassador has found it difficult to
choose between those legitimately en
titled to a bowing acquaintance with
the king and queen, and mere tourist*
9r "social climbers" who want some
thing to write home about or to put
their diaries.
Described by American Woman.
Among the favored American women
who were permitted to bend their knee,
before George and Mary was the wife
of a Washington diplomat, who has
given the following description of the
function:
"The dominating and most lasting
Impression was the appearance of the
gueen. I had been led to expect from
photographs and published descrip
tions that she was of a severely
matronly type. Instead, she seemed
to be perfectly beautiful In fact,
3uperb in her regalness, and wearing
her magnificent jewels like flowers.
Her face had nothing of the pictured
severity, but radiated the kindliest
f smiles as I passed and courtesied.
"The court was everything I had
Imagined it would be in pomp and
frandeur, but throughout it all there
pas a wonderful human note. The
ting and queen seemed delighted to
welcome us. Of hauteur there was
aone in fact, the manner in
which the queen and Princess Mary
members of the royal family were
enjoying themselves as much as we
were.
"Machinery Is Wonderful."
"The machinery of the ceremonial
*as so wonderful, so perfect in its
apparent effortlessness, that there
really was no reason to be nervous
White-gloved hands were always ready
to arrange our trains, to point the
route we were to go, to hold us for a
moment, or indicate that we should
proceed. It was Impossible to do the
wrong thing. The curtsy before the
king, then a few steps and another
9urtsy before the queen, and the
presentation was over before I re
alized it.
"The difference between the court
jad a presidential reception at Wash
ington is essentially one of background
and size. We lack the brilliance of
uniforms and decorations, but we ex
cel, I think, in the beauty of our wom
en and the elegant simplicity and quiet
dignity of the dress of our men."
FIND INDIAN TRIBAL BOWL
Ancient Custom Revealed by Dis
covery of Stone Treaty Dish in
British Columbia.
Vancouver, B. C.An Indian treaty
bowl, weighing 600 pounds, and said
to be the largest in existence, was
found at Nimish, 100 miles north of
here.
The relic, which is said to be more
than five hundred years old, is fifteen
feet long and was made by Indians
using stones and axes. The bowl,
which was the center of an interest
ing Indian ceremony, was" called by
the aborigines, "The Mother of the
Five Tribes."
These tribes would meet to discuss
hunting laws and tribal boundaries,
and on such occasions the bowl was
filled with some kind of liquor. After
the conference the chiefs would take
a smaller bowl filled with the liquor
back to their councilors. If the terms
agreed on for a treaty were approved,
the liquor was accepted.
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French Baby Is First
to Be Born in Airplane
Madame Georges Breyer, of
Lyons, France, achieved the dis
tinction of being the first woman
to give birth to a child in an
airplane. Madame Breyer was
at a remote seashore resort in
Southern Italy. She chartered
an airplane for Naples, and
whefi 40 miles south of that city,
0,000 feet over the Mediterran
ean, the Child was born.
flteadyihg the plane, the pilot
drifted slowly to earth, landed
near a hotel, and a physician
was, called. Both the boy and
mother are doing nicely. The
child will be christened Gtayne
mer, in favor of the famofet
French war aviator. The mother
has purchased the airplane as a
souvenir.
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HAS LARGEST INCOME
New York State Gets Eighth of
Total for the Nation.
Analysis of Distribution of Income
by States Shows Diversity in Per
Capita Income in Different
States.
New York.New York leads every
state in the Union with an annual in
come of $9,074,859,000, or more than
one-eighth of the total national in
come, according to figures announced
by the National Bureau of Economic
Research, Inc. Nevada brings up the
rear of the procession of states with
$65,791,000 as the total income re
ceived by its inhabitants.
These figures form part of an ex
haustive investigation of incomes in
the United States, made by the re
search staff of the National Bureau
of Economic Research, led by Dr.
Wesley C. Mitchell The bureau's re
port on "Distribution of Income by
States," prepared by Oswald W.
Knauth, shows the extraordinary di
versity in the per capita income of
people In different parts of the coun
try.
While per capita Income in the
United States as a whole in 1919 was
$627, the per capita Income in the re
gion embracing the Pacific states was
$796 and in the middle Atlantic states
$783. In the south central and east
south central states the rate sank to
$463 and $364, respectively.
New York State also heads the list
of per capita incomes, striking an
average of $874. Nevada, California,
Wyoming, Massachusetts and Wash
ington are next with per cap'ta in
comes around $800. The people of
the middle Atlantic states alone re
ceived more than one-fourth of the
entire income of the country in 1919,
and with the east north central states
received nearly one-half of it. On
the other hand, the people of the
twelve Southern states, comprising
more than 21 per cent of the popula
tion, received less than 15 per cent of
the total national income.
Farmers in the Pacific states in 1919
had an average income of more than
$2,800 in the west north central states
their average was $2,300. These fig
ures are in excess of the average of
$1,160 for farmers in New England,
$1,340 in south Atlantic states and less
than $1,000 in the east south central
states. __
The total income of the south is de
rived largely from farming. The south
of their income from this source, and
the south central states about one
third. The only other group of states
that is equally dependent on farming
is the west north central states, which
draw about one-third of their income
from this source. New England and
the middle states draw less than 4 per
cent of the Income from agriculture.
WILL OPEN SCHOOLS TO ALL
Social Barriers to Be Removed in Re
organization of Educational Sys
tem of Sweden.
Stockholm.Sweden's educational
system faces reorganization the pur
pose of which is to place full educa
tional advantages within close reach
of every child In the land Irrespective
of social standing.
Under the new plan all of Sweden's
public schools, from the elementary
grades to the universities, will be co
educational. At present only the ele
mentary schools and the universities
receive1
both sexes. The Svedish
school commission purposes open
the "realskola" and the "gymnasium"
to girls as well as boys.
An important change will be the
elimination of several subjects as com
pulsory and the concentration of in
dividual students on a smaller group
of subjects logically related to the oc
cupation or profession which most in
terests them. Students will be per
mitted to start specializing much
earlier than at present.
It is now proposed that virtually the
whole educational work of the coun
try, with the exception of a few pri
vate schools, be taken over by the
state. Tuition fees will be practically
eliminated, and students will not be
incumbered by the study of nonessen
tial subjects. The estimated cost will
be about $1,000,000 a year more than
at present.
It is proposed also to establish a
school, new to the Swedish system of
education, to be known as "lyceum"
which in seven years will take a pupil
directly from the elementary school to
matriculation for the universities.
Among the languages offered under
the new plan will be Latin and Greek
and three modern languages In addi
tion to Swedishnamely, English,
French and German.
$450 BUYS RR DUTCH ART
C. J. Fitzgerald Refuses $25,000 for
Painting of Horses Purchased
at Auction.
New York.Christopher J. Fitzger
ald has' loved horses all his life. His
affection goes so far that he wants
pictures of horses around him. Re
cently he saw in an auction room a
painted study of several horses. He
bid $450 and got it.
When he took the painting home
and bad it cleaned he discovered he
had purchased a work of Isaac Van
Astade, a Dutch master of the Seven
teenth century.
An offer of $25,000 has been made
for the painting, hot Mr. Fitzgerald
save It is not for
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U.S.UNIVERSITY IN
CENTRAL EUROPE
Suggested by Dr. Stepanek as
Promoting World
Peace.
SPREAD AMERICAN CULTURE
World Union of Engineers Also Advo
cated in Line With Marconi's Sug
gestion of Promoting Peace
Through Science.
Washington.Establishment in cen
tral Europe of a great American uni
versity and library is urged by Dr. B.
Stepanek, minister to the United
States from Czechoslovakia, Who, to
advance international peace, calls
upon the engineers of this and other
countries for united participation in
world affairs. Doctor Stepanek makes
an appeal for the formation of a world
federation of engineers, and for an in
ternational engineering conference to
deal constructively with the problems
of civilization.
Doctor Stepanek's views, made pub
lic by the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers, which, through Its
official journal, stresses the need of
engineering solidarity among the lead
ing nations, are regarded by engineers
as a significant diplomatic utterance
supporting the efforts now being made
In America, Great Britian, France and
Italy to bring about closer relations
among engineers.
Closer Relations Among Engineers.
Award of the John Fritz medal to
Senator Guglielmo Marconi has
aroused fresh interest in the idea of
a world union of engineers. Marconi's
expressed hope of promoting peace
through science coincides, it was said,
with action to devise a working plan
of International co-operation between
the engineers of America and Italy.
John W. Lieb, vice president of the
New York Edison company, has re
ported, after a trip to Italy, that Ital
ian engineers are ready to form such
an alliance. "Herbert Hoover, Prof.
Comfort A. Adams of Harvard univer
sity, Eugene Schneider of Paris and
Sir Robert A. Hadfield of London are
others who favored advancement of
world peace through the united action
of men of science. Actively backing
the project also are the presidents of
the American Society of Civil Engin
eers, American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers and the
Federated American Engineering So
cieties.
Alfred D. Flinn, secretary of the
engineering foundation and chairman
of the engineering division of the Na
tional Research council, Indorses Doc
tor Stepanek's suggestions "that at an
early date there should be an Inter
national conference of engineers,
rather than of politicians and states
men, bound by tradition and self-seek
ing nationalisma conference of con
structively minded men who could
take fresh views of the world's con
dition, deal scientifically with funda
mental causes and suggest impartial,
far-sighted plans for continuing prog-
ress."
Mr. Flinn advocated a joint conven
tion of the great national engineer
ing societies in Europe in the sum
mer of 1923 to meet the engineers of
all the countries of Europe for dis
cussion of such of the world problems
as may be the most vulnerable to en
gineering attack.
For an American University.
In appealing for the establishment
of an American university in central
Europe, Minister Stepanek said that
it would constitute a center from
which could be given out the best
products of American culture, a source
of correct information about America
and American ideas. Through a world
alliance of engineers, the minister
thought, a constructive type of mind
could be brought more effectively into
the service of the nations.
Professor Adams predicted that ar
tificial distinctions between nations
would be removed by engineering
science. Removal of the barrier of
distance, he said, is bringing nations
so close together, and making them so
interdependent, that intelligent co-op
eration will make war impossible.
Racial and national antagonism, Pro
fessor Adams asserted, will give way
to the progress of engineering science.
NOT SO MANY DEAF AND DUMB
United States Census Count Shows
That the Rate per 1,000,000 Popu
lation Has Decreased.
Washington. Although the 44,885
deaf and dumb persons enumerated in
the 1920 census was a slight-increase
above the 1910 figure, the rate per mil
lion of population decreased from 486
to 425, the census bureau announced.
This decline, which also is reported in
European countries, was attributed to
advanced treatment for certain chil
dren's diseases which frequently cause
deafness.
Rat Attacks Sleeping Baby.
Kansas City, Mo.The screams of
her six-months-old daughter, Alice,
aroused Mrs. William T. Elledge short
ly after one o'clock in the morning.
Rushing to the child's bed, she found
a large gray rat clinging to the baby's
right foot Mrs. Elledge shook the
rat loose. With the child In their
arms, Mr. and Mrs. Elledge ran to a
hospital. Emergency treatment was
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