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Any jfarty -to .Prevail Must tie constructive Rather Than Obstructive By CHARLES I. STENGLK, Representative From New York. MEVER has there been a)time in any country when self-interest was so intelligent as heM_and now. The great master minds of finance and commerce understand very clearly that their own eminence and safety depetfd on the well-justified hopefulness of wage earners and farmers .and that they must act broadly and diligently on the teachings of the day and their own observation arid sound judg ment. Therefore, Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the house, reliance for any permanent and extensive political success on class prejudice, envy, and resentment of large achievement has become ridiculous. It is hffrribly, tremendously absurd to be appealing to a proletariat which does not exist. None but demagogues or the "moody beggars, eager for a time of pell-mell, havoc and confusion," described by Shakespeare more than 400 years ago desire to kindle and cater to the basest and most dangerous passions ot human nature. * Any party to prevail in this country must be constructive rather than obstructive and progressive along high, orderly and sane lines. We'are planted lifere on a continent, and our thoughts, to be effective, and our pur poses, to' command respect, must be continent-wide and world-wide. We must cease acting and talking here for parochial popularity and the whimpered plaudits of local newspapers. We need less comedy and attempted comedy and more sturdy, stalwart, courageous, common sense. \\ e need to tear ourselves away from unnatural, immoral, grotesque and repulsive alliances between political dogma and theory long dead and po litical and economic monstrosities spawned stillborn on oyr land—between ,fine idealisms long ago vanished at the touch of hard experience and the fantastic dreams which perhaps may be realized in the far future when mankind has been purified and elevated beyond our present comprehen sion. We need to stand on our own feet and for definite, concrete, ben ficial purposes which are possible of fulfillment and which we can compre hend ourselves and demonstrate to others. " ; The Cultivation of Memory Is Not the Primary Function of Education By PRESIDENT J. G. HIBBEN, Princeton University. Now, of course, it is necessary to cultivate memory. Without it the mind would be helpless. But it is not the primary function, and so it seems to me the system of college education which seeks to make young men slaves to memory is wanting in fundamentally important respects. Yet we have a great deal of that, far too much of it, in American higher education. It is a reproach of our colleges that as a whole they seem to be teach ing what past generations have thought, rather than how the present gen eration is to go about the business of thinking. Fortunately, however, we seem today to have arrived at a point where we realize our tendencies are open to question and where 'we are giving serious consideration to hflw we may better them. We are beginning to J see that our primary function should be to stimulate the reasoning power* of our students, to develop in them the mental powers that will enable them to recognize a problem when they are faced with it an (J to assimilate . it and study it from all sides, and to devise the best way of meeting it "The First Law of the American Public Schools Is' Remember'" ■ * By SCOTT NEARING, in the Modern Quarterly. The mind may be used primarily as a storehouse or as a machine. Teachers who employ storehouse methods of instruction say, "remember!"! Teachers who employ the reasoning method reiterate, "think!" Incredible as it may appear to the uninitiated, it is quite possible for the ordinary teacher to go through the round of daily activity without taxing the reasoning faculties to any appreciable degree. Indeed, the American school system is so constructed that this is the line of least mental resistance. ' The first law of the American public schools is "remember." The mind of the child is regarded as a storehouse, in which are placed the gleanings of the world —of language, of history, of science, of philosophy, i The pupil who can store all of the pedagogical harvest in the assigned compartments receives a perfect mark and becomes the pride of the class. Thus the,mind of the pupil is made more than a warehouse—it ia a cold-storage warehouse, from which commodities are expected to emerge in the same condition as that in which they entered. "We Can Have Almost Any Kind of Race of Human Beings We Want" By A. E. WIGGAM, In "Fruit of thj Family Tree." We can have almost any kind of race of human beings we want. We can have a race that is ugly or beautiful, wise or foolish, strong or weak, moral or immoral. We can breed the race forward or backward, up or down. We can breed long noses or short ones, straight noses or crooked noses. We can breed tb6 lopeared and the lopsided, mentally and phy sically. We can breed a race of bald heads, both inside and out. A race of men who dream of beautiful women and who know them when thejr see them, who thuß select these beautiful and intelligent women ; in marriage, are going to find their dreams literally come true in the ing forms of their children. Heredity does hand down in the living minds and bodies the ideals that animated the marriage selections of past ages. If these ideals of beauty, virtue and intelligence are low, the children will be low and ugly. If their esthetic sense has .been cultivated toward ' right ideals of beauty and character, the children will be the legatees in their souls and bodies of those dreams of human excellence. Appropriations by Congress Likely to Increase Rather Than Decrease - By MARTIN B. MADDEN, House Appropriations Committee. The country is growing in population and in its interests. The busi ness of the nation, both foreign and domestic, is expanding, and with a prosperous future it is not unreasonable to expect that the expenditures of the government will go normally forward. As industry and the individuals in the country prosper, the revenue of the government should increase and keep pace with the normal increase in expenditures, once we have eliminated by tax reduction the surplus which it is now believed will eventuate under present tax laws. In my judgment the appropriations have practically reached the port-war low-water mark and from this year on we are likely to have increases in them rather than further decreases. The present congress has placed upon the statute books several new laws which will require increased outlays to carry them into execution. - *"* THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. LIU ■ u * a***"" WJM I—Frank1 —Frank W. Mondell, director ot War Finance corporation, winning top-spinning contest at bankers' con vention in Hot Springs, Va. 2—Fir~t photograph of crowds In Shanghai demonstrating against foreigners. It— Picture transmitted by A. T. & T. company wires showing State street In Santa Barbara. Cat., after the earth quake. NEWS REVIEW OF. CURRENT EVENTS Earthquake on Pacific Coast Wrecks Business Section of Santa Barbara. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NOT since the great San Francisco earthquake and flre has there been a disaster on the Pacltic coast comparable to that which over whelmed the pretty city of Santa Bar bara on Monday. Two severe shocks early in the morning sufliced to lay In ruins most of the business section, and these were followed by a number of other temblors that added to the destruction. Owing to the hour' at which the worst shocks occurred, coupled with the fact that the resi dence sections practically escaped damage, the loss of life was surpris ingly small. Eleven persons died, most of them under the falling walls of hotels, and scores were Injured. The water and gas mains were broken and the Sheffield reservoir, the main source of the city's water supply, col lapsed, but the walls of the Gibraltar dam up in the hills held and a water famine was prevented by connections made with an old series of malnß. The property loss was estimated at between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000. Some of the buildings wrecked, known to many thousands of Americans who have visited the California coast, were the Arlington and Callfornian hotels, the public library, county courthouse and Jail, hall of records, American Le gion, Knights of Columbus and Elks buildings, Central bank, County Na tional bank. Morning Press building and the Santa Barbara mission. An expert surve> shows that nearly all the structures destroyed were built on fiiled-in land. While the earth was yet trembling the people of Santa Barbara began to lay plans for the city's reconstruction and within three days gangs of build ers were following close on the heels of the wrecking crews. Bankers ar ranged for a revolving fund of $2,500,- 000 Immediately and began negotia tions to borrow $20,000,000 from finan cial Institutions throughout the United States. This coast quake was preceded by several temblors In the mountain re gions of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington. Great landslides oc curred, forming new lakes and in a number of Instances Interrupting rail road communication. Several through trains laden with tourists were stalled, but there was no loss of life. Fur ther avalanches are looked for, espe cially in the Teton National forest, where one side of Chief mouttaln la reported to be cracking. Dr. Paul Goode of the department of geography In the University of Chi cago holds that these earthquakes are explalneo>y a aubsldence of the bed of the Pacific ocean and the settling of the co.dlllera forming the axis of the continent. Other scientists who are experta In aelsmology have'other explanations. But all agree that more quakes along the Pacific coast may be expected. This, however, does not dismay the Callfornlans sny more thsn such predictions ever dlsmsy the people who live In earthquake regions. FRANCE for the first time has for mally acknowledged her debt to the United States and the cabinet haa voted to send s mission to Washington aa soon aa possible to arrange for funding the debt This Is In accord ance with the advice of Foreign Min ister Brland snd Flnsnce Minister Calllaux. Nothing definite la known as to what the French will propoae but It is assumed they will ask a moratorium and credits in America. It la expected the French mission will accompany the Belgian delegation headed by former Premier Theunla There may be some delsy In the French cabinet's program due to the Socialist opposition to Calllaux*a plsnj for flnsndsl renovation, especially hli taxation plan for providing a sinking fund for debt payments. Negotiations for funding Italy's debt are held op for a month or so while Mario Albertl, technical expert goes to Rome for *d *ltioo*l data on hla country's capacity to pay, and .to discuss the debt situa tion fully with Premier Mussolini. WEDNESDAY night, on the first anniversary of the inauguration of through transcontinental air mall service, the overnight air mail service between New York and Chicago was started. From each end of the route a squadron of planes hopped ofT at the same time. Vice President Dawes giv ing the word to go by radio. Assistant Postmaster General Paul Henderson was at the Chicago end, and Postmas ter General New swung tlie first sack of mall onto a plane at Hadley field, New Brunswick, N. J., the eastern end. The rate for the service Is 10 cents an ounce, and the normal time between the two cities IS 1 eight hours and fif teen minutes. The route Is lighted for the pilots by 150 Immense electric beacons, and thirty-two landing fields have been provided (pr emergency, dea- Igifated by intermittent flashes of searchlights. Other flashes tell the pilots the weather conditions. Each pilot carries flare lights of a new type which, attached to parachutes, make forced landlnga comparatively aafe. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE was called hurriedly from the summer White 'House at Swampscott to Plymouth, Vt., because of the serious condition of his father. But the aged colonel submit ted to a surgical operation and the progress of his recovery was so rapid that the physicians told the President he could return to White Court So In a few days he and Mrs. Coolldge start ed back by motor, losing their way sev eral times but ultimately arriving safely. MRS. EDITH NOURSE ROGERS has been elected by the voters of the Fifth congressional dlatrict of Mas sachusetts to fill the vacancy In the house caused by the death of her hus band, John Jacob Rogers. Bhe Is a Republican and defeated her Demo cratic opponent, former Gov. Eugene N. Foss. by more than two and a half to one. Mrs. Rogers will be the firat New England woman to sit In con gress. CHANG TSO-LIN, the Manchurian war lord, has forced the Chinese government to deal first with the strike Incidents at Shanghai and thua at least defer a break with the powers. A Joint commission Is now considering that phase of the troubles. This doesn't suit Gen. Feng Yu-hslang, who has Issued a proclamation calling for a war to abollah the extraterritorial rights and other alleged Injustices. Meanwhile the British have landed a considerable force on Shameen island, the foreign quarter of Canton, In the face of a demand from the government that the Island be evacuated with an apology, that the British and French withdraw their warships from Kwang tung waters and make compensation for Joases of Chinese lives and prop If there were needed any further proof of the part the Russian Soviets are taking In the Chinese dlsturb snces. It was provided by the srrest st Shanghai of Zlnovls Dosser snd his wife. Msny Incriminating documents were found on them, one specifically certifying that Dosser was sent by the "sgitatlon department" of the Com munist party to Hongkong and Canton to organize strike committees. John MscMurray, the new American minister to Chins, hss arrived In Pe king. At Tokyo he aald only a mos» serious emergency should Induce America to make armed Intervention and that this does not exist st pres ent ABD-EL-KRIM made a supreme ef fort to break the French tinea be tween Cheyab and the Algerian fron tier, hoping thna to open hla way to Fex. But the Frssich met him with every arm and repulsed the tribesmen with severe losses sll along a AO mile front. In thla they were aided by many loyal Moroccans. Abd-et-grlm led hla troops in person. AMERICA'S great Pacific fleet, com prising 50 vessels, aalled from Honolulu on Wednesday for Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. When nearlng Australia the fleet will be apllt Into two detachments, and later ths ahlpa will scatter a good deal so aa to visit all pons In that part of the world All are expected to be back at Hono lulu on September 10. The day the fleet sailed 110 repre sentatives of eight countries bordei* Ing on the Pacific met In Honolulu In a Pan-Paclflc conference which they hope will be epochal In the making of peace. Governor Farrlngton welcome*! the delegates and the resident's sre dew ing themselves proud In the way of entertainments. Among those attend. Ing the conference are many eminent scientists, educators,' economists, statesmen and business men. JOHN L. LEWIS, head of the coal miners, addressing a trl-state meet ing at Scranton, Pa., promised to make a fight to the finish in the ap» proachlng negotiations with the an thracite operators to renew the con tract expiring August 81, and then warned the bituminous operators that a nation-wide strike In the soft-coal fields might be ordered unless stepa were taken to enforce the Jackson ville* agreement. He charged there was an "infamous conspiracy" between certain soft-coal operators and cer tain railroads to scuttle the three-year agreement, and scored J. D. Rocke feller, Jr.; Charles M. Bchawb and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for not using their Influence as large stockholders In bituminous companies to prevent violation of the agreement WHEN the general reorganization of the government's prohlbiUon enforcement system goes into full ef fect on August 1, it Is believed Com missioner Roy A. Haynes will resign and run for governor of Ohio aa a Republican. It Is known that he has sought several times to quit his pres ent post but was persuaded to atay on. Last fall he wanted to go after the governorship aa Prohibition can didate. but President Coolldge changed hla mind. Rot P. WILCOX of Eao Claire, Win., president of the Wisconsin Bar association, Is tbe first to an nounce his candidacy for the senate seat made vacant by the death of Mr. LaFollette. His announcement says: "I shall not be a candidate of any group or faction, but shall welcome the support of all those who have In the past supported the things I have stood for, and of all who may wish to support them now. A new deal In Wisconsin politics Is demanded, which shall be In hearty accord with Pres ident Coolldge In his program for re duced taxation and efficient constitu tional government We sre fortunate to have such a leader." Francla E. McGovern of Milwaukee, former governor, also snnounced that he was a'candldate for the senste seat. Others who .have been mentioned for the place tut who have not declared their Intentlona Include Mrs. LaFol lette. Secretary of State Fred Zim merman and Zona Gale, the well known author. ALL but two of the Ice-box manu facturers who, together with s lot of other furniture makers, were In dicted in Chicago for violation of the anti-trust law by atablllzlng and ar tlflcaily raising prices, pleaded guilty and were flned a total of $68,000 by Federal Judge CUfTe. The next bunch to be arraigned comprises the makers of dining room, bedroom and living room furniture. DR. JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, the new American ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President von Hlndenburg and mad* a neat little speech. "It Is the desire of my government" Doctor Bcburmsn ssld, "to cultivate to the futtest extent mutual friend ship between our two countries. Ani mated by cordial sentiments originat ing In my youthful studies In Oer many, I will find special aatlafactlon In carrying out the instructions of my government" ONE hundred American physicians are attending the first interna tional congress of radiology, which opened In London, but Industries llks coal and structural steel are alss deeply Interested, for the radiologists are developing methods of analysis and testa of strength by lie X-ray. Something of thla waa told la the opening paper, which waa read by Dr. Norman Ktmp, an American scientist OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ HOW TO KEEP WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of "HEALTH" OOCOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXJQ (SO. IX6. Weaiero Newspaper Union.) UNNECESSARY NOISES ZOOMING down the boulevard thla morning, I was stopped at the street crossing by a parade. The po lice, of course, baited the traffic on both sides of the crossing. 1B a few minutes, a long line of autos, trucks and busses were standing on each of the cross streets. The procession was a short one and did not require more thun eight or ten minutes to pass. But even this short delay was too much of a strain on the nerves of the automobile drivers. Some of them began honking (heir horns and, at once, like a lot of frogs in a pond, every driver turned loose his syren. The result was that for Ave minutes, every one within hearing had hIQ nerves tortured with an infernal, ear-splitting and entirely unnecessary racket One can understand, even tho-igh he may not entirely sympathize with or enjoy, the noise made by a small boy who urges a stick along a picket fence or lets off cannon crackers under one's window. This Is simply the Irresslst- Ible Impulse of the average boy to make a noise. But why did two or three hundred grown and supposedly sensible men keep up this awful and unnecessary din for full Ave minutest Did they think it would shorten the procession or make It go faster? Not one of the cars could move until the way was clear, and the police were certainly not going to allow them to proceed until the parade had passed. What possible good did It do any of them to keep their horns going? There were probably two reasons: the flrst was the nervous Inability to sit still and keep quiet for a few minutes, and the other was the nerv ous Impulse of each driver to do some thing to show his displeasure. Cer tainly none of these men. If be stopped to think, would have believed for a moment that making a noise did any good On the contrary, It did harm both to the men who made It and to the help leu bystanders. Sound Is heard In the brain. Loud, long-continued and unnecessary noises are just as tiring to the body as are too-bright or too glaring llghta, or long-continued men tal or physical etertlon. Unnecessary noises are not only a waste of energy, but they are also a needless strain on the nerves. We have enough noise In present-day life tha cannot be avoided. In the city, the rattle and crash of street cars, elevated trains and trucks, in the coun try, the noises of animal life, you can't muffle every cow or dog, or put maxim silencers on all the roosters. Kvery locality has its own necessary noUe and. with few exceptions, they are enough. Don't add to the wear and-tear on your own and others' qerves and brains by making any that are unnecessary. VACATION PRECAUTIONS A 8 800N as warm weather comes all sensible people begin to plan for some kind of a vacation. The vacation habit Is growing every year, and rightly. No matter what one's work may be or how interesting, or how hard It may be to get away from It, the mind and the body need and ahould have a few days or a few weeks of change. i'robably the automobile Is doing more to develop the vacation habit among American people than any other one thing. A vacation always means a change of location. This re quires some kind of transportation. The family flivver makes It possible for a few days, without having to buy railroad tickets or to engage rooms •t a hotel. In the car or on the run ning board can be packed tents, beds, provisions, cooking utensils, guns, Ash ing tackle and all the other things needed for a few days of outdoor life. Most people going on such a trip need no advice as to clothing, bedding or food. Their own desire for comfort will lead them to look after these things. But few think seriously about protecting their health. Living outdoors, there Is not aa much liability to colds or other respir atory diseases as st home. The per-' centage of accidents la probably not aa gr£at aa In driving at home. The principal dangers on a summer camp ing trip are from had water and waste. Water Is, of course, a dally, almost hourly necesalty. You are used to get ting your water from jour own well or hydrant Bat you c»n't take them along with you. Yoa mast use such water aa you can get. On short tripa you can take a suffi cient amount of pure water with yoq. Otherwise, unless you know where It comes from and know that It la pure, the only safe rule la to boll the water. It la not safe to use unboiled water from any spring, well, brook or creek along the way. It may look clear and clean. It may be cold and refreahlng and taste One, but It may be full of typhoid germa The more thickly settled the country the greater the danger. Much of onr typhoid today U RUto ner or vacation typhoid. What shall It profit a man to take two weeka i way from hla bualneaa to get rested «nd then take alx woeks from hla bual- BM to get orer a« attack of typhoid 1 For any water that yon are not ran at there U only OM aafe rale— boil It I Gnard at New York State Penitentiary Suffered Ten Tears From Catarrh PE-RU-NA Mr. Charles S. Many, 12 Water St., Ossining, N. Y, writes"l had catarrh (or ten years, tried a lot of medicines, spent a lot of money, but it did me no good. Instead of getting better. I grew worse. My eyes were bloodshot, my nose smelted bad, and I would get so dizzy I would be forced to catch hold of something to keep from falling. I used about ten bottles of Pe-ra-na and am cured of catarrh, the dizzy feeling has left me and I am not bothered any more. I keep Pe-ra-na in the house and when I feel a cold coming on I take a little. It does me good." Ask for the original and genuine Pe-ru-na the recognized treatment for catarrh and catarrhal condi tions for more than fifty years. Your dealer has Pe-ra-na in both tablet and liquid forms. 'Resinol for burns or cuts. It quickly stops the painful throbbing and hastens healing Resinol I ■/ Greei's Aignst Flowei V T «" Mu ** r \a>A\» / |te and Soe bMIT" ALL DRUQGISTf Lighter Boots tor Minora Miners of Europe have abandoned heavy boots for lighter-weight styles, and makers of the heavy footwear re cently faced the of making light boots or quitting buslnesa. ! CALIFORNIA FIG | CHILD'S BEST LAXATIVE^ / HURRY MOTHER I Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taste of "California Fig Byrup" and It never falls to open the bowels. A teaspoon ful today may prevent a sick child to morrow. Ask yonr druggist for genuine "Cali fornia Fig Byrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on the bottle. Mother! Ton mast say "California" or yon may get an Imitation flg syrup. Homes and Irish Laborer* Holding that laborers have as foil right to own homes as farmers, Btran orlar rural district council of Ireland recently called on the government te formulate a plan to enable workers ts buy the houses In which they live. A Better Heel to Walk On SPRINGTSTEP tii~.l USKIDET irewrfae rnrntm iw SWT United Statu Rubber Company W. M. U~ CHARLOTfe. NO. 2S-IS2&
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