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tage Two THE DUNDEE OBSERVER THE DUNDEE OBSERVER, DUNDEE, N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 Issued Every Thursday at Dundee, N. Y. HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at Dundee N. Y., as Second-Class Mail Matter. PRIMER OF ALPHABET TURK’S BEST SELLER Subscription price, $1.50 a year, payable in advance Member of National Editorial Association New York Press Association Western New York Newspaper Publishers Association MOSTLY BOY by WILLIAM H. TOMPKINS BEING FRANK When I observe some eager friend Whose gift is to reform and mend The devious ways of weak mankind, By framing rules that cramp and blind, When I observe this friend of mine Draw her thin lips to a straight line And vow that life would be a blank Without her gift of being frank, Why somehow if I’m on the brink Of peering in some sacred place No stranger eye should e’er disgrace; Then when her scorching words unfold Those holy things till now untold, I shudder at this too frank friend Whose daring knows no bound or end “ Now Doctor Ford, I must be frank”— What have 1 done that she must rank Me with that brood that love to feed On wounded souls that writhe and bleed; Why can’t she that sweet mantle use Which Charity is said to choose, Instead of ripping wide the scar— Broadcasting facts that hurt and mar ? Deliver me 0 Lord, I pray From viper tongues that point my way; From viper tongues that strike and sting— On friend and foe their venom fling; From coward tongues that dare not tell One lie to save a friend from Hell; From tongues that God do daily thank Their choicest gift is being frank! JOHN FORD, M. D. Communication G. A. R. PROPOSITION It seems to us that the Penn Yan Memorial affair should be a county gathering, patronized and attended by the people of all the townships of Yates county. To make it still more so, that each township will contribute towards its maintenance by appropria tion in the future, thereby relieving Milo materially, as it has borne the expense thereof for years. Let it be understood at this time and for years to come that it is a county affair, but not to interfere with other local ex ercises. In this system, Penn Yan is to con tribute as usual for the services of the bands; and the nine towns, the other annual expenses, making prob ably about fifteen dollars each, in this Population Going to School All Over Again. New York.—Dictatorship Is accom plishing in China, Turkey, and Italy in a few years what heretofore has required centuries—the building up and enforcement of new languages. Turkey, in particular, is going to school all over again and everywhere, on the streets, in the stores, in the street cars and trains Turks are por ing over the primer decreed by Presi dent Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who be lieves that adherence to the ancient Arabic script and type has had a re tarding influence upon the country. Everywhere the new primers are being sold by newsboys, news dealers, and in book stores. The Latin alpha bet with the equivalent of each let ter In the Arabic script, also is being displayed and sold for a few pennies on almost every street corner. Signs on the stores and shops are being changed to Latin characters, while the newspapers gradually are printing the news in the new type. Newspapers Help. “ Schools have sprung up In every village,\ says Miss Adelaide McNa mara, director of exhibits in the New York city department of health, who recently returned from touring Eu rope, “and I was amazed to note the progress being made I d Turkey. Not many years ago when 1 was there less than 10 per cent of the popula tion was literate, but now every one pou meet is reading, and the majority of them reading the new primer. “ Every day the newspapers print the picture of some familiar object with the name beneath in the old Arabic and the new Latin characters. In this way the entire population is gradually being taught the new alpha bet One of the most striking things 1 noticed was that the traveler on the railroads for the first time can read the names of the stations he passes. “Mustapha Kemal seems to have won the whole country over to his point of view, and, at any rate, be is forcing the country to enlighten it self, for if the present desire for edu cation continues every man, woman, and child in Turkey will be able to read and write, something many coun tries cannot boast” The new Latin alphabet is not only to come into current use but the Con stantinople dialect is to become the criterion for Turkish pronunciation, according to Miss Elizabeth MacCul- lum, who is in charge of the Near East division of the Foreign Policy association. Miss MacCullum thinks the average Turk Is sure to feel a relief at seeing the exact phonetic value as pictured by the new Latin ized alphabet. The Turkish primer, or alphabet, which President Kemal has sought to enforce upon the Turkish nation,” says Miss MacCullum, “in place of the Arabic characters, imposes a num ber of characters whose phonetic val ues are borrowed mainly from the French and Hungarian alphabets, to gether with a few conventional char acters adopted from the system in use among international orientalists. Turks, Mongolians. A striking feature of the Turk ish language, when transcribed into Latin characters, is the new phonetic values which lie hidden behind the garb of Arabic letters, it should be WHY Silver Quarter I* Called ‘T w o Bits.” \Bit” has been applied in England to coins for centuries. It was one time thieves’ slang for money in gen eral. Thomas Dekker so used the term in “A Knight’s Conjuring: Jests to Make You Merie,” which was first printed in 1607. Later “bit” came to be applied to any small silver coin. Even yet the British use it in such phrases as “sixpenny bit.” Our use of the term in “two bits,” meaning a quarter of a dollar, oi’iginated in the West Indies, especially Jamaica, where \bit” was originally applied to small silver coins forming fractions of the Spanish dollar. It was applied spe cifically to the real, which was equal to one-eighth of the dollar then in use. Examples of the term in that sense date back to the Seventeenth century. When the Spanish dollar disappeared from circulation in the United States, a quarter was called two bits, and a half dollar four bits. Twelve cents and a half is never called a bit, al though in some sections of the coun try fifteen cents is called a long bit, and ten cents is a short bit.—Path finder Magazine. W h y Sleeping in Open Promotes Good Health Contrary to old-fashioned ideas sleeping in the open is not harmful and night air is now held to be in vigorating. When the sun sets and night falls night air is the only kind obtainable and it is considered far bet ter have plenty of night air than to breathe foul or stale air. Night air acts as a tonic, says Dr. Harvey Wi ley, authority on health. One of the sins of civilization, he claims, is the invention of the house. If there were no houses there would be no tuber culosis, he asserts. Tuberculosis, how ever, is not the only disease the house is responsible for. Cutting off the proper supply of fresh air reduces the vitality of the body to such an extent that not only tuberculosis germs, but germs of other infectious diseases majr more rapidly take hold. This problem can be best handled, he says, by mak ing use of sleeping porches. Every house, whether in the crowded city or in the country, has one or more porches. These porches can easily and should be fitted out as sleeping porches. way securing the entire county pa tronage and the exercises to be called' borne in mind that whereas the Turks hereafter the “ Yates County Memorial j are a Turanian people and belong to the Mongolian race, the Arabs are Exercises” which we think would more than double the attendance and be of much greater interest to the citizens throughout the entire county of Yates. Semites. When the Turks came in contact with the Arabs and absorbed theii culture, customs, and political heritage they adopted their religion The Legion must fall in and main-|»nd wrote their own langnag, in Ara- , . . , ,, . bic characters. But the two languages, tain sooner or later these exercises, i£ ,j.url..sll belng anrt Arablc maintained, and onr mantle must, of| Semltlc> are Incompatlble linguistieal. necessity, fall on them ere long, per- ly llence a marked difficulty arose, haps sooner than you think for. Can, “Tins difficulty lay mainly in that we interest every township and citi- the Arabic language quite infrequently zen thereof to take part in helping t o ' fails to produce the exact sounds of perpetuate these exercises, which w e ' the Turkish vocables. So that a mnn- value so highly, on Memorial Day,1 *>er of Arabic letters have bad to ac- May 30th, annuaily at Penn Yan, our fl»ire * Dew Pronunciation. For in- county seat, in remembrance of what, “ j ”'°,rd Turk Itself may be ,, t , • m v v , i transcribed into English thus: T, as the Boys m Bine accomplished w i t h . lisb 0 a8 |n flllk R as their lives from 1861 to 1865? |Eng|Isb; r , as ln English. Accord Commemorative and entertaining; |ng to Arabic phonology, It should be exercises may be expected this year j pronounced Toork. But the Turks by the Post in charge. The Legion is pronounce It Teurk, the U as the greatly assisting us also. Let there1 French pronounce it thus creating a be a grand rally at Penn Yan in | new sound to the Arabic U. or Waw. May as never before to gladden the 03 tiie better is called.” hearts of the old boys remaining. We, j who saved the Union, established by our forefathers, the best the world ever saw or knew, and abolished the curse of slavery. The next Memorial is our sixtieth anniversary occasion. All Hail to the flag that has never been beaten. Honor, Uphold and Pro tect it with your lives, if necessary, as we did sixty-five years ago. William H. Long Post No. 486, hav ing surrendered its charter, but one Post remains. These exercises were New Aluminum Soldering Process Has Big Value Stockholm.—A new method for tin ning and soldering aluminum has just been evolved by two Swedish invent ors, G. M. Eklund and Harry Johans son. Through this process it is pos sible at a very moderate cost to solder aluminum effectively and to plate aluminum with tin, a coating sufficient to resist corrosion in ordinary house hold use. The invention will be of Why Variation in Wind. The weather bureau says that owing to the friction at the surface of the earth, the air near the ground always has less velocity than the air a few hundred feet above it. In the daytime this faster air Is mixed up with the surface air by convection induced by surface heating. In this way the sur face air is given a greater velocity than it would have if not mixed with the upper and faster wind. At night, when there is no surface heating and no convection, the upper wind, except when quite strong, glides over the lower air, which is held relatively quiet by surface friction. When the upper winds are very strong they mix with the lower air by mechanical tur bulence and the surface wind remains as strong by night as by day. Why Anomaly of Frost. Frost forms only when the temper ature of the object on which it oc curs, and the immediately adjacent air, is at or below the freezing point, 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The tempera ture of the grass, for Instance, espe cially in low spots and on still, clear nights, may be 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or lower, while that of the air a little distance away, and 20 to 30 feet high er, may be 40 degrees Fahrenheit, or over. This explains the anomaly of frost at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. It was 40 degrees Fahrenheit, say, where the thermometer was, but not where the frost was. Why We Say “Piping Hot.” \Piping hot” is a relic of the an cient custom of a baker blowing his pipe in the village street as a signal to his customers that his bread was at that moment hot from the oven. The baker was evidently an unpopu lar member of the community in those far-off days, for in the minds of those of a superstitious nature he was synonymous with the devil! So we get the term “baker’s dozen.” The devil’s dozen—13—was the number of witches supposed to gather In evil conclave at set periods, and the spite ful minds of the ill-willed readily sub stituted “baker” for “devil.” . , , , _ , T , i great practical value and has already inaugurated by General Logan’s o r - . attracted considerable attention among ders in 1866 for the “ Boys in Blue j experts in foreign countries. and named “ Grand Army of the Re-1 -------------------------- public.” Perpetuate and maintain j £ u b a P r o h i b i t s M u SiC them. Our next State Encampment is at Utica, June 9 to 14. Auxiliaries and members take notice and our National Encampment at Portland, Me., in September. Bluff Point. N. Y., Feb. 9, 1929. W. W. BARROW, G. A. R., \ , Adjutant and Quartermaster, fifilhk,.. £. B, Sloan Post, No, 93, of Old Spanish Days Havana.—The Cuban government has forbidden the playing of airs reminiscent of colonial days In Ha vana. It was pointed out that many of the tunes were closely associated with the execution of Cuban patriots. The two considered most objection able were La Marcha de Cadiz and El (E&jnboc da Granaderos. . ... a Why Mirage Form*. A mirage is due to conditions ex isting in the atmosphere. As a result of deviation of the rays of light caused by refraction and reflection, objects seen with the eye appear ln nnusual positions and often multiple or are Inverted. One cause of a mirage in the desert Is the diminution of the density of the air near the surface of the earth, often produced by the radiation of heat, the denser stratum being thus placed above instead of, as is usually the case, below the rarer. 1—Three steamships stuck fast ln the ice jam ot tne Hudson river at Newburgh, N. Y. 2—National board of management of the Daughters of the American Revolution inspecting the progress on the society’s $2,000,000 audi torium in Washington. 3—Lieut. Gov. J. E. West of Virginia,who has announced his candidacy to succeed Governor Byrd. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Congress Determines W e Shall Build 15 Cruisers Within Three Years. then left on Saturday for a boat trip around to Naples on the west coast, i He was to be in Fort Myers on Mon- ■ day to help Thomas A. Edison cele- j brate his seventy-seventh birthday, and ' orate the British financial situation. As for the stock market financiers, one authority had this to say: \It is not the fear of an increase In the rediscount rate that alone is caus- then planned more fishing and an ( ing all the uneasiness in Wall Street inspection trip across the everglades and around Lake Okeechobee. —it is the danger of even more dras- tice measures. The financial district is growing more and more convinced '\pHAT $24,000,000 additional appro- ! that the latest ‘gesture’ of the board of By EDWARD W. PICKARD rySREGARDING the wishes U President Coolidge and defiantly 1 rejecting the demands of the powerful lobby of church and peace organiza tions, the senate passed the fifteen- cruiser bill with the time limit clause Included. The senators—with the ex ception of twelve who voted in the , negative—decided that fifteen cruisers ! and one airplane carrier were neces- [ sary to the national defense, and that i those vessels must be built within a set time. The airplane carrier and five cruisers must be begun before I July 1 next, five more cruisers before July 1, 1930, and the remaining five | before the middle of 1931. The Pres- j Ident and the lobby mentioned wished the time limit clause left out, and the lobby made an unsuccessful attempt to have the number of cruisers reduced to nine. The twelve senators who voted against the bill were: Black (Dem., Ala.), Borah (Rep., Idaho), Brook- hart (Rep., Iowa), Burton (Rep., Ohio), Dill (Dein., Wash.), Frazier (Rep., N. D.), McMaster (Rep., S. D.), Norris (Rep.. Neb.), Nye (Rep., N. D.), Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, Minn.), Thomas (Dem., Okla), and Walsh (Dem., Mont.). The house bill was amended, at the Instance of Senators Borah and Reed of Missouri, by the adoption of a clause declaring “that the congress favors a treaty or treaties with all the principal maritime nations regulating the conduct of belligerents and neu trals in war at sea, including the in violability of private property there on,” and that “such treaties be nego tiated, if practically possible, prior to the meeting of the conference on the limitation of armaments in 1931.” Two days later the house concurred in the senate amendments without sending the measure to conference and thus a plan of the pacifists to filibuster on a conference report was frustrated. The bill went to the President and it was expected he would sign it despite his dislike of the time limit clause. Representative Britten said that if the President failed to act promptly in sending in a budget recommendation for the funds to start on five cruisers, an amendment to the naval bill would be offered appropriating the necessary amount. During the senate debate over the cruiser measure Heflin of Alabama ^ * priation for prohibition enforce- 1 ment, which the house rejected in de- : fiance of orders from the Anti-Saloon league, was the death of the deficiency supply bill to which it was attached as a rider. The conference committee could not reach an agreement on this item and It was admitted that the bill would be allowed to die. House lead ers made plans to include the more urgent appropriations in a second de ficiency bill, and thereupon the drys, mostly those from the South, came for ward with the statement that they would not abandon the fight. Senator Harris of Georgia, author of the $24,- 000,000 amendment, asserted he would offer the same proposal as an amend ment to every appropriation bill still to come before the senate. C OL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, flying a big Sikorsky amphibian plane and accompanied by a mechanic and a radio operator, opened a new international air mail and passenger route last week, between the United States and Panama. He started from Miami and, stopping briefly at Ha vana for refueling, ended the first leg at Belize, Bi’itish Honduras. The sec ond day found him at Managua, Nica ragua, and on the third day he landed at France field in the Canal zone, fin ishing the flight of 2,327 miles. Lindy tried to avoid ovations at his several stopping places but was not very suc cessful in this. When he had checked out his mail at Balboa he was the guest of Admiral Wiley aboard the battleship Texas, and next day wit nessed the aviation part of the tactical fleet exercises. Sunday he started on the return flight to Miami. Capt. Frank Hawks, a veteran air mail and racing pilot, established a new record for a nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York. In a Lockheed Vega monoplane he covered the distance in 18 hours 21 minutes 59 seconds, bettering Art Goebel’s rec ord by about 37 minutes. He encoun tered stormy weather throughout most of the route and lost considerable time by reason of it E LIHU ROOT, former secretary of state, has consented to be Presi dent Coolidge’s unofficial emissary ln an effort to seek an understanding among world powers on America’s res ervations to her adherence to the World court. Last week Mr. Root was in Washington conferring with mem bers of the senate foreign relations committee. President Coolidge still has something big behind it, and Wall Street knows the present speculative situation will not bear too close in vestigation.” C ARDINAL GASPARRI, papal sec retary of state, announced to the diplomatic body accredited to the Vati can that the Holy See and the Italian state had reached an agreement that ends the estrangement between them which has existed since 1870. On Sun day the pact was signed. It is a two fold treaty, one part dealing with con ciliation between church and state and the other part composed of three sec tions, containing a concordat regulat ing the future relations between the Holy See and the Italian kingdom. In the agreement the Vatican has subordinated claims to added temporal power to recognition of its principles of moral law In Italy. Various concessions are made the church by the Italian state relating to the power of the pope in the Vatican area. Regarded^as even more im portant than these, however, is the agreement of the Italian government to do its utmost to secure observance of the church’s canon law throughout Italy. The# canon law, codification of which was completed only in 1927, contains 2,414 canons, or rules, regu lating faith, morals, conduct and discipline of church members. While there is to be only a small addition to the Vatican grounds—the pope having refused the Villa Doria enlargement offered him—the pope is to be ruler supreme within its con fines. His domain is to be known as the “Vatican City” or the “Vatican State.” A monetary indemnity of 2.000,000,- 000 lire (about $105,000,000), of which 1,000,0000,000 lire is payable in cash or Italian government bonds immedi ately, is allowed. The remainder will be paid in yearly installments with in terest being paid meanwhile. S TALIN’S determination to deport Leon Trotzky and his followers from Soviet Russia is said to have caused a serious split in the govern ment at Moscow. Commissar Rykov and nineteen other Communist leaders demanded that Stalin drop his severe measures, but the dictator was unwill ing to compromise. It was reported from Latvia that Trotzky was on his way to Moscow to face Stalin’s charges of plotting to overthrow the present regime. Why Bubble Is Round. A soap bubble is round because It has a surface tension which causes equal pressure In all directions. The soap bubble is covered with a film, and the tendency of liquids covered by such a film is to assume a spherical shape. Why Known as “Pirate.** V The Latin word “pirata” means to \attack or assault,” and the Italian “piratare” means to “rob by sea.” The English word is derived from 'theft. precipitated an angry dispute by offer- | hopes and believes the stumbling blocks in the way of this country’s membership ln the court can be re moved. The chief of these is the sen ate reservation denying the right of the court to render an advisory opin ion involving the United States with out the previous consent of this coun try to consideration of the case. U SE of federal reserve credit for speculation, either directly or in directly, must be restrained, declared the federal reserve board Wednesday evening in a statement calling atten tion to the growth of speculative credit during the year, the loss by the country of some $500,000,000 in gold and advances in the cost of credit for commercial uses. Whereupon the stock gamblers—and that includes a considerable part of the population— threw a fit and unloaded a lot of their holdings, bringing prices down with a rush. The bear movement was aided by an Increase of 1 per cent in the Bank of England’s discount rate, checking the flow of gold from Eng land to New York. Some of the lawmakers in Washing ton and various other persons severe ly criticized the federal board, not so much for its action as for its al- ing an amendment forbidding the fly ing of any flag or pennant above the American flag on any navy vessel. He was hitting at the church pennant flown during religious services aboard ship, in the ignorant belief that the St. George’s cross which it bears is the symbol of the Catholic church. Bruce of Maryland, Walsh of Massachusetts and others squelched the Alabaman as completely as he is capable of being squelched and his amendment had only ten affirmative votes. O NE member of the Hoover cabinet is now known to a practical cer tainty, although the information does not come from the President-Elect. Henry L. Stimson, governor general of the Philippines, issued this statement In Manila: “It is true that at the request ot the President-Elect of the United States I am about to leave the Philip pines In order to take up another duty. What the nature of that duty Is I prefer to leave to Mr. Hoover to an nounce. I expect to sail in about two weeks.” It was stated in Manila that Mr. Stimson told Manuel Quezon, presi dent of the island senate, that he had accepted the post of secretary of | leged subserviency to the urgency of state, which accorded with the opinion ot the political correspondents. Mr. Hoover is reported to be much amused by the guesses as to his cab inet, and the only definite Information from nim on the matter was that most of the guesses were wrong. Last week, re c c i n g * ^ innt fishing In the Gtalif stream afcd Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, who had just made a visit in the national capital. He was the guest of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and conferred with several, members of the board, and was said to have advised the board stock M a r i a C h r i s t i n a , queen mother of Spain, is dead, but her long and determined opposition to the dic tatorship of Primo de Rivera may soon bear fruit Through the strict cen sorship creep rumors that de Rivera’s dictatorship is soon to end, to be re placed by a provisional government under General Berenjier, chief of the king’s military household. After the abortive rebellion at Ciudad Real, an other outbreak, in Valencia, was squashed; but the unrest in both the army and navy seemed undiminished. Sanchez Guerra, who was held re sponsible for the Ciudad Real affair, was sent to a military prison on the island of Minorca. D USSIA has promised Rumania It will renounce its claims to Bessa rabia, and In return Rumania was to sign a special protocol to the Kellogg treaty outlaying war between the two nations. Eamon de Valera was arrested for trying to enter northern Ireland in contravention of a seven-year-old order. Bloody battles between Hindus and Pathans took place in Bombay. Baron von Huenefeld, transatlantic flyer, died in Berlin while under an esthetic for an operation. The German relchstag and the diet of Poland ratified the Kellogg anti-war treaty. Vicente Oolindres was inaugurated president of Honduras, and escaped an assassin’s bullet. Severe earthquakes were experi- in Atehaabtem and nortWn
