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t* VOL. FT. COVINGTON. N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 14. 1931. NO, 3 \THE SUN\ ALIVE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Printed and Published at FORT COVINGTON Franklin Co., N. Y, by NELSON S. LYONS Offios on Water Strsst TERMS: •1 JO a Year Within 150 Miles 12.00 a Year Outside 150 Miles Canada, $2.00 General Business Directory BRUCE T. SMITH, M.D., CM. Physician and Surgeon Fort Coving ton, N. Y. Phone M Office Hours 2 to S L W. BLACKETT, B.A., M.D., CM. FORT COVINGTON, N. Y. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. Office Hours: 1 to 4 P. M. and 7 to 8 P. M. GEO. A. WHEELER OPTOMETRI8T Telephone 660-W M East Main St. MALONE, N. Y. LESLIE M. SAUNDERS ATTORNEY AND COUN8ELOR AT LAW Drawing of Legal Papers a Specialty* Collections Real Estate General Practice At Confdon Building on Wednesday of each week Fort Covington, New York a C. ANDERSON — Dentist — Fort Covington, N. Y. Gas Administered Advertis- ing a Sale! «• srOU don't leave r/your rltf In the l^> middle of til* road and go to a fenc** post to read * sal* M* do you? Then 4on*t expect the other fel- low to do It. Put eft sd in«hf»*«psr,tfc*av rc«*rdUM of the weather.. the f«ll« w t to h d M of the weather. l«w you want to ds urr anitouBee* seated si his the f«ll« reach read you while se IfheieeiM 'll h stMis buyer at your Mle. One extra huyer often peys the entire expetue of the ad. end tfs a poor uA that wont pull that buyer. An ad In thte paper reaches the people y«u are after. «pace ta this OneExtraBuyer tttttktftoi MTI tk Get That Buyer Got Something^ Want to Sen? Moet people have a piece of fornltupe, ft futn lnip)s> which they have diacard- ed and whkh they oo loo- ger want Th— Ainf are |mt to tbe\ a>ttiG» or stored Awsy in ^hat bun* or left li •bout, getting of leu iesjg value- each year. WHYNOT SELL THEM? become of no um * JOB. Why not try to ted Art THIS NEWSPAPER? Win Battle on Child Diseases Expectation of Life at Birth U Increased From 48 to 58 Year.. Washington.—Up to the time, according to the United States pjibllc health service, the most sig- nificant advances in public health achievement have been manifested among the low^r age groups. It is true, of course, that the great sanitary re* forms, such as the filtration of water supplies, have remarkably diminished diseases of certain kinds among all ages and classes of persons, but the actual saving of life has been most pronounced among children, and especially little children and infants. It Is for this reason that the expecta- tion of life si Wrttt-thai is, the aver- age length of time that all children born at a given time will live—has Increased from 48 to about 58 years in the last 20 years. 4Thlg it very encouraging, because it shows clearly that much of the disease from which the human race has been suffering, and many early deaths, can be avoided if specialist* pat their best existing sanitary knowledge into prac- tice. But while it is gratifying to know that the nation is on the light track in the battle against disease, it is true that there is another side to the pic- ture—a great wastage of health and life still continues, due to the failure to apply existing knowledge. Avoidance Still la Need. There are some diseases which may be controlled and eventually eradicat- ed by general measures undertaken by the community in which the in- dividual citizen is seldom called upon to take part There are a great many other diseases, however, for which as yet no general measures have been devised, and in the avoidance of which the individual' is called upon to exert his own initiative. Conspicuous among such diseases are those conditions which are prevented by immunization. It may be freely granted that the inoculation of individuals is order to render them immune to one dis- ease or another is not an ideal pro- cedure. Health officials wish as much as any one else does that there were some simpler general measure wbicfi would make this procedure unneces- sary t in fact, for many years they have been attempting control by such means as quarantine, Isolation and disinfection to check the spread of communicable disease. These efforts have met with some measure of success in the case of cer- tain diseases. For example, it has been possible to reduce typhoid fever to the disappearing point by the sanitary control of water and milk supplies, and yellow fever and bubonic plague may readily be controlled in progressive communities by measures against the mosquito and the rat, respectively. On the other hand, smaHpox, diph- theria, scarlet fever and a number of other common infections have never shown much amenability to control by any means other than by actually im- munising each susceptible individual. Disease Unnecessary. According to the public health serv- ice there is really no need for any one nowadays ever to have either small- pox or diphtheria, and those diseases, as is well known, have been in the past among the most deadly of scourges. Vaccination against smallpox, repeated in a few years, will protect against smallpox. Such great improvements have been made since the introduction of this method that no one should hesi- tate to have his children vaccinated during the first year of life. X-Ray May Determine Old Painting Existence, Philadelphia.—The X-ray method of determining whether an old painting is genuine may be utilized to learn if a Gilbert Stuart masterpiece hides un- der the more recent coat of paint ap- plied to the sign of the old king of Prussia tavern. The sign is now owned by the Ger- mantown Historical society. Local traditions say that Stuart painted the original, and many old residents of Germantown believe that the ancient sign, which witnessed the march of the continentals under Washington, was covered with paint during the last 50 years. \Stop\ Sign Halt. Car; Driver Die* Los Angeles.—A •'stop'* sign flashed at a boulevard here and Frank D. Lovett, sixty-one, brought his automobile to a bait When the \go\ sign came the j£ Lovett car failed to move. Other motorists honked horns for a tlme^-aiid then investi- gated. Lovett had died from heart disease. tMMM*MB»M«M«»MMttMMMMII«« Pigeons Coo at Guests, Lose White House Home Washington.—The eaves of the front portico of the White House are be- ing remodeled to dispossess a horde of cooing pigeons that had established themselves there. Across from the White House is La*ayett# pa.rk, which is almost as famous an abode' for pig- eons as St. Mark's square, Venice. The birds found that fresh peanuts were being placed on the White House lawn for native squirrels and moved across the street to dip into the squir- rels' larder. Carpenters were, put to work to place pasteboard across the eaves in order to keep out the unwelcome vis- itors, who at times set up a din of cooing when famous guests and states- men were arriving and departing from the White House. Poor Grades; Kill Prof. Berlin, Germany.—The newspapet Tempo reported from Warsaw that high school boys at the town of Bel- chatoff ambushed and killed their high school instructor, Professor Chodzko, whom they held responsible for their poor report cards. 36 States Use Central Buying Shows Results From This Ne\r Practice. New York.—Centralized purchasing has been adopted in 36 states and in more than 200 cities of the United States and In three prlvinces and 25 cities of Canada, according to a sur- vey Just completed by Dr. Russell Forbes, secretary of the National Mu- nicipal league and associate professor at government at New York university, for the National Association of Pur- chasing Agents. \A sentry at the tax exit gate\ is the phrase with which Doctor Forbes describes this system of governmental buying. It is \the delegation to one office of the authority to purchase sup- plies, materials and equipment needed for use by all the several branches of the organization.\ A billion dollars a year is spent by federal, state, county and municipal governments for this purpose, Doctor This Was Once Considered Fast The oldest horse car in the country as it made Us appearance in New York in a ^celebration marking the fifty-ninth anniversary of a department store. The*car was built in 1857. chasing can save on the average of 10 to 15 per cent of the total, he be- lieves. He cites many Illustrations as proof of this. Under the old system of de- centralized purchasing he found dif- ferent branches of the same govern- ment paying different prices to the same dealers. He found favored deal- ers, rebates to politicians and all sorts, of expensive methods which favored private instead of public interests. Under the new system, in one con- tract for gasoline for the state high- way department, the purchasing de- partment of California saved more than three times the annual cost of operating the purchasing system. Oi a long-term contract, the state secured a base price of 12% cents per gallon of gasoline; at the same time the dealer's price was 16 cents per gallon f, o. b. refinery: and the retail market price was 20 cents per gallon. The saving on this gasoline purchase will approximate $382,500. In Maryland virtually every item used by the state was reduced in cost under centralized purchasing. On mimeograph paper the price was cut 26.6 per cent. Bond paper was cut 24.2 per cent- Bacon was reduced 21i7 per cent Similar savings were revealed by the survey In virtually. every government which had adopted centralized pur- chasing. Savings in the price of goods are only one of the many advantages of this system, Doctor Forbes reports. Others include better delivery service, reduction in overhead cost through re- duction in personnel; reduction In the volume of \paper work\; centralized supervision over deliveries and stock, closer accounting control over penditures, saving of discounts through prompt payment of invoices and the elimination of favoritism in buying. Man Carries Piece of Copper in Head 11 Years Ellington, Conn.—Eleven years aft- er J, B. De Carll, gstrageman, lost an eye in an explosion, he suffered pains in his throat. X-ray pictures 'were taken at Hartford hospital and a large piece of copper was discovered near the root of his tongue. An operation was successful. MOUNT VERNON HOME WAS FURNISHED BY WASHINGTON Old Bills Show George, Not Martha, Was Our First Interior Decorator. Paris.—The ancient bills of lading show conclusively that George Wash- ington, not Martha, was the first in- terior decorator in America. It was he wJho furnished Mount Ver- non, planned the type of furnishings to be used, where they should go and even selected the curtains and drap- eries to hang at the many windows of the great house. This information came to light in an interview with Miss Frances Wolfe, wbo is in charge of the interior dec- orating and furnishing of-the French Mount Vernon erected in the Bois de Vtncennes for the French colonial ex- position. \England supplied practically all of the furniture as welt as the clothes iiied by George and Martha,\ said Miss Wolfe, while Grand Rapids has equipped the Mount Vernon of Paris. Fourteen different furniture com- panies have donated fine reproductions of the original Presidential mansion setting. The electric light furnish- ings and all of the mantelpieces have come from Detroit, and many au- thentic bits of silver and accessories have been picked up, or donated, or loaned. \New York has furnished us with all the fabrics to be used in the man- sion here,\ said Miss Wolfe, \and the designs and materials have been copied as nearly as possible from the originals. We have had to search for samples of the originals in mu- seums and private collections, make sketches of them and then have them made up. it has all been terribly in- teresting but w* have had our troubles,\ she added. \Martha may have had a lot to say about what went into the orig. inal Mount Vernon, but it -was George who did the ordering, and in search- ing through old records and docu- ments we found that he did most of the arranging when the furniture ar- rived from England.\ Monument Man Rules City With Undertaker Maquoketa, Iowa,—This is not dead city by any manner of means, despite the fact that it is run by an undertaker and a monument dealer, The city, through Mayor J. B. Har- rison, undertaker, has just hired as its manager P. C. Wray, who has been engaged in the monument business for years. Both men promise to inject new life into the city and cut down its running expenses. C»tch« Big Wolf Thomburg, Ark.—The largest wolf caught in this part of the state was exhibited recently by Bud Woodward, veteran state trooper. The wolf weighed 75 nounda, News Review of Current Events the World Over International Chainber of Commeree Debates Causes and Cures of Economic Depression^—Financiers Scored by M. A. Tmylor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Silas H. Strewn W HAT alls this | eld world? What are the causes of the ailments? What can be done about it? These were the ques- tions asked and in various ways an- swered by scores of the leading men In finance iand industry from 43 nations, assembled In Washington for the sessions of the Inter- national Chamber of Commerce. Silas H. Strawn of Chi- cago, newly elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, formsjly opened the meeting and then Georges Theunis, former Belgian premier and retiring presi- dent of the international body, took the chair. The first address was the speech of President Hoover welcoming the delegates, and the Chief Executive seized the occasion to take another hard wallop at war and armaments. He said he believed the certain way to restore prosperity was to lighten the burden of national defense which is now costing the nations more than $5,000,000,000 a year and keeping near- ly 5,000,000 men actively under arms. He urged the business men of the five continents to mobilize their In- fluence upon their respective govern- ments to Join in the reduction of armament at the international con- ference to be held next year under the auspices of the League of Nations. \Of all proposals for the economic rehabilitation of the world,\ said Mr. Hoover, \I know of none which com- pares in necessity or Importance with the successful result of that confer- ence.\ M. Theunis submitted a long and exhaustive report on world conditions. In the course of which he said: \I am personally convinced that the com- mercial policy and the customs tariff In force in most of the countries of the world constitute one of the fun da mental causes of our actual economic troubles. A liberal customs policy might be expected to lead to better business conditions.\ He thus showed be was in accord with certain prominent members of the United States Chamber of Com- merce who at their meeting in At- lantic City called for a tariff revision downward. Melvin A. Traylor^ prominent Chi- cago banker, electrified his hearers by a scorching attack on commercial leaders and government executives of America. \Ambition* cupidity and greed have dictated policies, and trou- ble has been the result,\ he declared. \It is a tragedy when in a world of plenty there should be so much pov- erty and when, in i. nation that boasts 6f its riches, 5,000,000 or more per- sons willing to work should be un- able to find employment It is a chal- lenge to the world and especially to American business and political lead- ership.\ Mr. Traylor's attack began with a criticism of manufacturers who took advantage of technological and man- agement improvements to swell their output to a point far in excess of the possibilities of consumption. And be was equally severe in his character- ization of the methods of bankers and of traders on the floors of the stock and grain exchanges. He urged that floor trading and small margin ac- counts be forbidden. M R. STRAWN when he addressed the delegates to the international meeting invited them all to Chicago for the \jubilee\ celebration of May 10 to 20, and he received assurance that many of them would attend. The midwest metropolis bad made most elaborate preparations for this affair, the program including festivals in the brightly decorate^ \loop\ district, big parades, dedication of the replica of Fort Dearborn, firs* of the Century of Progress exposition buildings, and. to wind up with, the elaborate war game of the air force of the army. P REVAILING d e- pression has not affected the Boy Scouts of America. The national council celebrated at a two day meeting in Mem- phis the close of the twenty-first year of the organization and an- nounced it bad been the best and most eventful of all. Presi- dent Walter W. Head of Chicago presided at all the sessions and on the last day Mortimer Schiff, New York banker, was elected president for 1931. At a banquet concluding the first day's session Dan Beard, veteran In- dian fighter and chief commissioner of Boy Scouts, presented the silver buffalo, highest honor In the gift of the organisation, to an English peer add six Americans. Those honored were Lord Hampton, chief, commis- sioner of British Boy Scouts; Griffith Ogden Ellis, editor of The American Boy magazine; Lewis Gawtry, New York banker; George W. Olmstead, Pennsylvania public utilities execs- tive; Victor F. Rldder, Hew York newspaper publisher; Robert P. Snif- fen, Yonkers, N. T n merchandising ex- pert, and Mell R. Wilkinson, Atlanta (Ga.) merchant and manufacturer. Ci- tations praised them for distinguished service to scouting. Lord Hampton, long prominent In English Boy Scout work, served with distinction in the World war. He was awarded the Silver Cross for life sav- ing in 1919^aM the follow»2ear re- ceived the awar^ of the Silver Wolf,' the British Scout decoration for dis- tinguished service to boys. *: LJGRE is something else for cer- ** tain active opponents of the dry law to ponder upon. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in an opin- ion which takes away from Robert de Francis of Washington the jcltfzen- ship granted him in 1927, holds that a violator of the prohibition act can- not be attached to the principles of the Constitution and is not a person of good moral character. The decision reversed the action of the District of Columbia Supreme court which had denied a petition by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover seeking to set aside Francis' natural' ization. and the state of New Tofk wty re- -elve in Inheritance uxea far less et tits amassed wealth than would have been the case had he passed away rwo years ago. His estate Is esti- mated at something tike *500,000,000. IpRENCH opposition to pie proposed F Austro-Oermaa customs accord ms to be effective at least to the extent of keeping the little entente out of line. The foreign ministers of that entente have stated that alt ques- tions concerning the aoeord must find the countries of the little entente Urm- ly united in their attitude, and what that attitude will be is Indicated by the fact that the Rumanian govern- ment has informed Berlin that It does not wish to negotiate with Germany at this time. M. Briand is being warm- ly supported by Czechoslovakia. H\ A. B. Fall IS conviction the charge of ac- cepting a bribe having been upheld by the District of Columbia court of appeals, Al- bert B. Fall says he has decided not to carry the case to the Supreme court of the United States. The former secretary the interior, it seems, must serve the one year term in prison to which he wai sentenced, and pay a fine of $100,000, unless President Hoover intervenes with a pardon—which is the hope of his friends. Fall, interviewed at his ranch In New Mexico, said his attitude towarc a Presidential pardon was rather pas- sive. \I am an old man,\ he said, am not guilty of the crime of which I was accused. I had fought until I am worn out and considerations for my family impel me to carry the figh no further.\ He. said he had no money witl which to pay the fine and explained he had lost ownership of the ranch on which he lives when a mortgage was foreclosed several years ago. M OTHERS an d children and their welfare were the topics of especial con- sideration during the week throughout the nation. To ppomote better maternity care for the women of the United States was the object of a big meet- ing in the Park Lane hotel. New York city, the arrangements for which were in the charge of Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt Prominent physicians and health ol ficers as well as many well known women were among the attendant: the latter including Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. John Sloane, Mrs. Au- gust Belmont, Mrs. E. Marshall Fiel< Mrs. Jeremiah Milband, Mrs. Samm Schiffer, Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, Mrs. John R. Drexel, Miss Mabel Choat and Miss Frances Perkins, New York state industrial commissioner. P ULITZER prize awards for lite] ary excellence In 1930 have been announce^ and there are few if an; surprises In the list The main award! are: Best novel, Mrs. Margaret Ayei Bames, for \Years of Grace\; best book dealing with the history of th. United States, Prof. Bernadotte Schmitt of University of Chicago, fo; \The Coming of the War\; best play Susan Glaspell, for \Alison's House\ best American biography, Henr James, for \Charles W. Eliot\; best volume of verse, Robert Frost, foi \Collected Poems\; best piece of re- portorial work, A. B. Macdonald o the Kansas City Star; best example o foreign correspondence, H. R. Knicker- bocker of the Philadelphia Ledger best editorial, C S. Ryckman of the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune; best car- toon, Edmund Duffy of the Baltli Sun. A gold medal was awarded the Constitution of Atlanta, Ga* for meri- torious public service in exposing municipal graft Several young men were given traveling scholarships in journalism. G EORGE FISHER BAKER of New York, reputed to be the richest American banker and the third rich man in the country, who died of pneu- monia at the age of ninety-one, burled Tuesday In Tuxedo Park, NY where he resided. Many persons promi- nent in finance and in life generally were present at the funeral. Because Mr. Baker died in a period of price depression, the United Slat Chiang Kai-shek p has virtual- V ly abrogated the extraterritoriality treaties, wlta for- eign powers, the- ab- rogation to take effect January 1 next Chi- nese jurisdiction over legal cases involving foreigners resident in Chink is? to be estabr Iteheay ;but .special courts for such cases wfll be created in cerr tain areas. Including Shanghai, Tientsin, Mukden and Can- The mandate to this effect was promulgated by President Chiang Kai- shek's government after negotiations with Sir Miles Lampson. British min- ister, for abolition of extraterritorial- ity had broken down. Foreign consuls China feared that communists would find In the action excuse for at- tacks on foreigners In the Interior, and the number of protecting warships at various ports was increased. President Chiang Kai-shek is hav- ing his troubles with rebels in Canton and with some members of his own Nationalist party, The former are led by Chen Chl-tang, and both they and the conservative Nationalists declare that Chiang must resign the presi- dency, asserting that he is trying to make himself a dictator. The prov- inces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi de- clared their independence. P RESIDENT DOUMERGUE opened France's international colonial ex- position at VIncennes park on Tues- day, and it Is expected that the big show will attract throngs of visitors until it closes at the end of October. In addition to ail French colonies, , the United States, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Holland, and Por- tugal are represented. Native life of Indo-China, equatorial Africa, and Madagascar has been reproduced even to the extent of importing 3,000 na- tives. The United States Is represented by a copy of Washington's Mount Vernon home, and by pavilions for Hawaiian, Porto Rican, Alaskan,, and Philippine exhibits. ©RESIDENT CARMONA of Portugal * is comparatively happy now, for the rather serious revolt in Madeira island has been suppressed by the government forces under command of Magalheas Correia, minister of marine. The federal troops bombarded the rebels at Funchal by land, sea and air until they ^ave up the fight the leaders taking refuge in the British le- gation. The casualties were not ex- cessive, but the normal life of Madeira had been greatly disturbed for weeks and the government in Lisbon was really worried for a time. M ORE than once Mustapha Kemal Pasha has refused to let the Turks make him President /or life, but they are doing it in effect any- way. The other day they elected him for his third term of four years, that action being taken by the national as- sembly In extraordinary session at Angora, and the vote was unanimous. Ismet Pasha and the cabinet resigned pro forma and the premier and other ministers were promptly reappointed. J APAN'S foremost aviator , young Seiji Yoshihara, start- ed his solo flight from Tokyo to Washington, D. C, under the aus- pices of the Tokyo newspaper Hocbi Shimbun. His route for the long and peril- ous journey was laid out to the northern is- lands of Japan, thence along the Kuriles to Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, with two intermediate landings; from there across the Bering sea and along the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan shore, with stops, to Seward, and then down to Vancouver and Seattle. At the latter city he will change his sea pon- toons for landing gear and proceed to San Francisco, after which he hopes to fly to the National Capital to deliver to President Hoover a message of good will from Japan. Yoshihara's plane is a light all-metal Junkers with open cockpit and no radio. The huge German seaplane DO-X, which started for South America months ago and was laid up by a fire, is OIL Its way again and at last ac- counts had reached Bolanta, Portu- guese Guinea. F ULL recognition has been extended by the United States to the dual kingdom of Hejax and Nejd and its dependencies on the Arabian penin- sula. After years of warfare, the en- tire kingdom is now ruled by Ibn Sasd. It embraces an area of about 700,000 square miles with a population of less than 5,000,000. Yoshihara I