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^»H«^ W ^ J\''''K'-' '•'''•' '' : f' ' WV\ \•;* THJ5 JOURNAL AND REPUBLICAN, LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, APRIL 17,1924: HOOSIER STATE LAYS CLAIM TO MAHJONC GAME As Indianian as Tarkington or Ade and as Chinese as Forward Pass, According to \Mid-West Review. \Can good come out of Indiana?\ an exasperated literary critic once in- quired of an appreciative and Eastern audience. But that was many years ago and long- before even the elect had heard of the royal and ancient game of Mah-Jong. How the question, which was rhe- torical, anyway, was answered is not of record,, and it doesn't matter parr ticularly. Por, if you read the follow- ing story and believe it you will an- swer the question yourself with an ecstatic \Yes!\ or an explosive \No!\ depending entirely upon whether you play Mah-Jongr or can't get a table of bridge together because everybody else is playing it. The story, which is reproduced In these columns with acknowledgments to an anonymous writer In \The Mid- West Review\ of Aurora, Ind., runs as follows: / There was once a gentleman who braved the perils of a dreaded Tibetan temple, where sounded sepulchral goners and flamed sinister fires, to . swipe for his collection a rare old anhang-kwi . vase of the Bohu-Isi dynasty. Now the foot of white had never trod the sacred precincts of the Tibetan town, let alone the temple. The doom of death had been called down upon all persona and all objects the native Zi-ung-wahi-wahia, or priests, and their so-hung-zl-hiu-hlus,- or assistants. But/ nevertheless, our hero slipped In, disguised as a shipment of bananas, knifed a priest or two, hit a few zi- hung-zi-hiu-hius over the head with less valuable pieces of vaaery and made oft with his life and the vase, stamped! on the bottom with the legend: Made by Tutwiler & Zigholz, South Bend. Ind. Mah-jong—brace yourself—the an- cient Chinese game, as redolent of the yellow kingdom as a cup of rice or a dish of tea or a guttural zung from the lips of the Shanghai himself, waa invented by J. B. Babcock, of Indiana, U. S. A. Do not tell this abruptly to your white-haired aunt who has learn- ed toe speak Mandarin and to eat chow-mein in order to throw mah- jong teas with the proper atmosphere. Let her ease into the tragic truth gently, or you'll have a cold relative on your sofa. Mr. Babcock has been in the mer- chandise business in China and has picked up many dialects there and learned many games. One of these latter was a Chinese game known in the 'MJandarln tongue as ma chlao. It was while playing this comparatively Innocent game one summer's evening that the horrible idea of vengeance en- tered into Mr. Babcock's brain and he invented mah-jong. The name doesn't mean anything in any language. It's sort o' like uneeda or zu-zu. Which probably will bring a flush to the faces of those ladies who have pronounced It in front of a mirror with a Chinese grammar in their hands in order to get the right \ong' sound. The terminology of mah chiao would have been untraslatable, Babcock says,-like \£!!<fcrb()%\ or some thing. so he invented, out of whole cloth, the dragons, the winds, north, east, south and west, the flowers and the seasons, which the lady adherents of the game frequently have pointed out set the game off, in point of subtlety and Oriental charm, from anything a heavy-wltted Anglo-Saxon man ever thought up. POPULAR OPINIONS ABOUT TURKS ARE TERMED WRONG One Writer Finds Them Incorruptible in Some Waya, But Easiest Folk in th« World to Bribe. Those who have seen .the Turk at close quarters are likely to be unusu- ally interested In Mustapha Kemal's present experiment of cutting loose from Europe. For both the vices and the virtues of the real Turk, the peas- ant Turk of Anatolia—and he has plenty of both—are Asiatic, not Euro- pean. The Turk is the most surpris- ing and in some ways the most attrac- tive fellow in the world. And most of the popular opinions about him are wrong, writes Godfrey Elton in \The London Daily News.\ To begin, with, he is amazingly hon- est within certain limits. He is the easiest man to bribe in the world, but as for stealing 1 —an archdeacon would be likelier to steal from a mother's union thaJn a Turk from his fellow vil- lagers. I \* The patience and discipline of the Turkish peasant Is beyond praise. I have' seen the Turkish soldier march day after day on half a loaf of bread a day, without transport, doctors, or boots. After he has been trudging twelve hours, and is nearing the end of the day's march, his subaltern will per- haps go driving by In a horse carriage, with his feet up on the opposite seat. When the private stumbles into camp he finds this officer of his in an evil on the cheek, and the incredible private stands ^strictly to attention throughout the ceremony. That Is the chronic weakness of the Turkish Empire—Its rulers. No Turk can be trusted to rule.; Do but make a Turk a lance corpoital and he be- comes corrupt. Make him the governor of a province and he is capable of— well, I will not sully this page by say- Ing what he is capable of. Perhaps Mustapha Kemal has solved this im- memorial problem of his race—the problem of finding rulers worthy of the people they rule. We cannot tell yet. STRAUS, HOME AGAIN, SAYS PALESTINE IS PROSPERING \It is to be the Jewish Land With a Happier, Self-Sacrificing People/' Philanthropist Believes. Aboard the steamship Adriatic, of the White Star Line, which returned yesterday cruise of from a forty -five the Mediterranean, Nlathan Straus, philanthropist, and Mrs. Straus, who visited Palestine for three weeks and established milk sta- tions similar to those Mr. Straus has founded in New York. Mr. Straus said that in Palestine as well as in America he had simply been doing what. Christ preached. At the present time his benefactions N touch 700 Arab children. He said: \Mrs. Straus .and* I; rtetum from Palestine with hearts elated and re- freshed. My physicians tried to per- suade me not to go, but I luckily got t f hi hd \T\ had an idea of commercializing lovelty in America, but breamed it would take on the inspect of the Browning club craze of SM'• .'ihtitfLy '••yearsi atfo,\ said Mr. Babcock. .:&'v\\I did not dream of all the accessories ^v; that Americans would add, the mah- ;£, jong tables, cabinets, counters, etc. I ^/v; • have trouble keeping up with the C4° game. The first edition of the rule •fi v book rapidly became outdated^' ;$•'•• Mr. Babcock, father of the ancient y£ Chinese game, came over on a ship in -^i'lc-'.. whose hold were 17tt tons or so of \jt Mvory and bamboo in the shape of -.?£•. '. man-Jong sets. Many ships have ]:>; come before and many more are com- ••%;' -ing. The game has gone like wild- _•&•?. ~ fire through America, Canada and $•;•••>'England. Mr. Babcock t is In a fair •VJ^ .way to get wealthy, for 1 he receives 0±; royalties, too,. from silks and seeds 4?; /and socks and everything els© that •'!;). manufacturers wish to name \mah- ^,; tJOnisr brand,\ on acount of the popu- $\ laxity of the old Mandarin name. 'j$j.\ Mr. Babcock, dodging irate mah- fe -'Jong widowers and lionizing mah-jong % ladies who have reconciled themselves •;£Vito : the shock of the news that the an- ~p,.'. /clent Ta-Ming game is the work of a *• V youthful Hoosier, says he wants to get fj- back to China, where ttiey play mah- •^••'•/•Jong. .#? Mah-Jong Is as Chinese as the for- v£: ward pass. __£;•' Consumption of Opium. 4> The health commissioner of Chicago '.j^'says that the opium consumed In this •^«\i country is sufficient to keep every j$t\.taaxi? woman and child in America ;••',:* under the influence of dope for 25 •^'inconsecutive days. J- ;: . \People In the United States,\ said ~^v the commissioner, \use nine times as &•?•/. much opium as their nearest compe-thority out of their hands. I feel twenty years younger since I have seen the holy Land again. \When I left America I said, my heart was In Palestine, and now after having seen what has been done by our people I repeat that not only is my heart In Palestine, but I have a firm conviction that Paleetine, is to be the Jewish land; with a happier Jewish people, more devoted and self-sacrific- ing than ever I expected, to aee with my own eyea. The foundations for Uie ;Jewish .homeland are being welt laid. 'T have seen the new Jerusalem. The old city remains undisturbed, except for-the work of the two Institutions headed by Bishop ; Manning, of New York, and Sir Ronald-Storrs, Governor of the Jerusalem district. Both these institutions make necessary repairs and aim at retaining those fine touches of antiquity and original sanc- tity that will ever make Jerusalem the center of attraction for the followers of the three great religions of the world.\ Mr. Straus praised Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization, which has done much to improve sanitary conditions and medical equipment. He spoke with special pride of the work of the Jewish colonists, who have re- deemed thousands of acres of unused lands, make possible a- Jewish agri- cultural life. \I have seen with my own eyes,\ be said, \hundreds of independent, bronz- ed Jewish tillers of the soil and I tell you it is a great satisfaction to know that in Palestine the Jewish farmer once more is the important factor The fine quality of proves their success.\ their products tltors in the illicit drug traffic. Amer--_ -following to say today regarding the ica uses 36 grains of opium per per- son per year. • France, which most people regard as decadent, jjses four England consumes two and Italy •V;. grains per person. En, .$•??'}three grains. Germany one. •%;.'' • Death One Day, Fire the Next. Norwich, April 14.—William Bur- dick, of Earlville died Wednesday night. Thursday the Burdlck home caught fire from an overheated fur- nace, and it was only with difficulty that the body of the dead man was re- moved from the blaze before it had been burned. The Earlville fire department did all possible to save the house, but it was destroyed, together with most of its contents. Mr. Burdick leaves a wife end three small children, alL under six EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT EFFORT TOflMEND NATURE Prof. Frankfurter Declares It is \8aved From Working the Greatsst Mischief Only by Its Absurdity.\ Cambridge, Mass., April 16.—Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, an au- on constitutional law, has the LEADERS PUN SCRUTINY OF ELECTORAL LIST Threat of Third Party Throwing Election Into House Gives Unusual Importance to Their Selection. Washington, April 11.—A searching inquiry will be made this year, for the nm time since the early days of the Republic, into the character and views of the men selected as candidates for presidential electors. This sudden in- terest, observable, amongi both the, Re- publican and Democratic leaders, is the direct result of the menace of the LaFollette third party,.with its threat that neither of the major parties re- ceive electoral votes to insure a ma- jority. The possibility that electors this time may take the situation into their own hands, and elect whoever seems best to them as President, regardless of the ballots cast in the regular No- vember election, is being seriously studied. it has never happened, and its possibility^ though recognized by every student of the constitution, has never before been given much thought. \Of course nothing binds a presiden- tial elector to vote for any particular candidate save his honor,\ commented Senator George W. Nprria, a profound authority on the constitution, when this situation was put uft to him. \The cor.stitutia.on only provides, the date\ and the place where he must cast his ballot. There is no other restriction.\ As a result, it is predicted that the HPlection of theae meny—usually—mere automatons to record the majority or plurality sentiments of their states, will tnia year be given aa careful consid- eration as that of delegates to the national, conventions. Big leaders in both parties have, been talking glibly about the possibil- ity pf the election of the president be- ing thrown iu the House for some time. This is based on the idea^that LaFollette, cr some substitute named to head his fUBion, may carry any- where from six to ten states in the northwest, which may easily result in neither President Coolidge nor the Democratic nominee who opposes him having sufficient . electoral votes- based on the election returns—to in- sure his election. Increased interest has been aroused in the situation by the approaching vote of the House next Thursday on the election contest between Sol Bloom and Walter M. Chandler. At present the New York delegation stands twenty-two Democrats and twenty-one Republicans, figuring Bloom as having possession of his seat. If Chandler is seated that would switch the control of the New days' York delegation to the Republicans, were Ordinarily ,it would not make the slightest difference, beyond the one vote in the House, which party had such a majority in the Empire state delegation. This year, however, with the pos- sibility that the election of a president may be dependent upon whether the Republicans or Democrats have a ma- jority of the New York delegation in the House it becomes of tremendous importance. The point is that when a presiden- tial candidate falls to get a majority of the electoral college the election is then thrown into the House, which votes, not normally, but by states. Each delegation is polled and which- ever side has a majority gets the en- tire vote of that state. It is virtually similar to a party convention, Where the delegations are all bound by the unit rule. Another curious point la that it is not the Houae of epreaenta,Uves which was elected at the same* presidential election as the candidate Vho has fill- ed to get a majority Of the electoral college -whign elects ihe President, but l^e retiring House, to that In case the election next Koveml>er faUli&d to; pro- duce^a majority in the electoral col- lege for any candidate tor President, it would be the present House of Rep- resentatives which would select the president. The warning of Governor Preus of Minnesota that the LaFollette can- didacy might win the electoral votes even of Iowa, that stronghold of Re- publicanism, is what has started the politicians thinking about this sltt uation. They had already figured pri- vately that LaFollette would certainly carry Wisconsin, and probably would carry both Dakotas, Minnesota, Mon- tana and Nebraska, with possible ad- ditions of Oregon and Washington. Preus adds Iowa's thirteen electoral votes to this danger list. Next came the thought that the men selected as presidential electors in the various states all would realize, with- in a few days after election, whether the normal course of events would throw the election in the House. If such were obviously the case, it is pointed out, the next logical step would be for the electors to look over the situation in the House as It might be then with considerable care. Deaths of a few members in close delegations, or a few election contests (two other contests are coming along in New York), might easily change the status in the House by that time. It might well be that several of the electors, after etudylng the ' -1/\ (Jet a Glenwood now and pay for it later AN old range that has to be coaxed JCIL to cook isn't worth giving kitchen apace. If putting off buying a Glenwood means that you're puttingupwithan un- satisfactory range, come in and see us. Whatever your old range is worth will be allowed in exchange for a mod- ern labor-saving Glenwood that you can be enjoying now. Model ^C 9 for Coal or Wood Finifihed in pearl>gray par* retain eiiamd or pkinbjfock* Its M* mtp$t* oven >Ukes s * mtp$ > food exactly HghV-top, bottom and clear, through, W IL:;., , -A ••%• '•\yfi •'$ Salisbury Brothers, Lowville NATIONAL GLENWOOD WEEK, April 1219. Come in and see new models j?i';i^vt-li^.4^ proposed so-called equal rights amendment: \The amendment urged by the wo- man's party is saved from the danger of working the greatest mischief only by its absurdity. For It is inconceiv- able that this proposal will ever be submitted by Congress by ratification. The legal position of women cannot be stated in a single, simple formula, be- cause her life cannot be expressed In a single relation. Woman's legal status necessarily involves compli- cated formulation, because a woman occupies many relations. The law must have regard for woman in her manifonr aspects\ as individual, as a wage earner, as a wife, as uai, a m other .years of age. Insured. The house, was partly | Ford Breaks Record. Detroit, April 15.—-Retail deliveries cf Ford cars and trucks in the United States during the month of March reached the record breaking total of two hundred and five thousand, seven fiundred thirty-five, it was announced by the Ford Motor Company here to- day. Nothing in the history of the auto- mobile industry compares with this remarkable record. A significant feature developed dur- ing the last ten days of the month when sales averaged ten thousand, eight hundred and four cars and trucks a day, indicating- fHat ffie\ spring buying rush has begun and that under this enormous demand produc- . tion of the company will be taxed to the limit in an endeavor to meet the heavy flood of orders. Has Had No Pain Since. North Lawrence, N. Y., MaT. 9, 1903. A. J. Phillips, Norwood, N. Y., Dear Sir:—Two years ago this month I was so bad with rheumatism that I could not put my left hand to my head. I couldn't open my right hand—I couldn't-dress myself. I was •In terrible pain. My druggist recom- mended your famous A. J. P. Rheu- matic Cure. I purchased only one bot- tle and after taking It I can cheerfully «?ay that I have had \Why should any one no pain since, hesitate trying Willis Fefee. It Is guaranteed and your druggist' and as a citizen. Only those who are Ignorant of the nature of law and of its enforcement, or Indifferent to the exacting and varied demands on a woman's life can have the nativette or the recklessness to sum up wo- man's whole legal position in a mean- ingless and mischievous phrase about 'equal rights,' . . \Nature made man and woman dif- ferent; the woman's party cannot make them the same. The law must accommodate itself to the Immutable differences of nature. For,some pur- poses men and women are persons, and the law should for these purposes, treat them as persons, subjecting them td the same duties and confer- ring upon them the same 'right.' But for other, and vital purposes, men and women are men and women—and the law must treat them as men and _wojneji 1 _an4_LjtJaerfifQre, subject them Co different and not to the same rules of legal conduct. \In a blind effort to remove remain- ing differences in the law, in the treat- ment of women as compared with men, which do not rest on necessary policy based, on inherent differences of sex, the woman's party would do away with all differences which arise from the stern fact that 'male'and female created he them.\ The woman's party cannot amend nature, but it can add considerably to the burdens already weighing heaviest upon the backs of thousands upon thousands of women least able to bear them.\ looks of \it at all. Then arises the perfectly logical, al- though unprecedented, possibility of the electors of the various states get- ting: together and picking a president of the United States themselves, In- stead of turning this task over to a House of Representatives, which at a present moment probably has a small- er measure of confidence throughout the country than any House for some years. This meeting of minds of the elec- tors, it is pointed out, could occur In several ways. They could correspond' with each other—there would be plenty of time^—or they could decide ta meet in a sort of convention and thresh the thing out. The formal selection of a president could not be made at such a conven- tion, but the electors could agree at such a meeting what they would do. FARMERS OPPOSE BONUS AND GIVE GOOD REASONS Shall the national bonus bill be en- acted? A canvas of New York state farmers resulted in negative answers from considerably more than half, ac- cording to the figures collected by the American Agriculturist. Thoee who were against a general bonus Invariably specified that all care should be taken of the disabled sol- diers and also many spoke of old age pensions, insurance payments and protection of dependents. The opinion of a Civil war veteran is quoted by the American Agricul- turist among J.he -anti-bonus letters : and. could carry out that agreement next January when they meet at their state capitals in accordance with the \In reply to your question, 'Are you in favor of a bonus?' No. I am a veteran of the Civil war, 85 years old. I enlisted for three years and during the war I was in four hard-fought battles and a half dozen skirmishes. I was wounded twice, the last time so severely that I lay in a field hos- pital three months before I could walk with crutches. It was several years before I fully recovered. Twenty years after the war I applied for a pension and received six dollars a month for a number of years. Now, a little over four years after the World war, strong young men are demanding a pension. I say give' a liberal pension to all sick and disabled soldiers. Strong able bodied young men ought to be ashamed to ask for a pension. I be- lieve the great majority of faxrners feel as I do if they express tfielr hon- est opinions.\ brings up the pos- sibility of fraud: \I am opposed to the bonus propo- ld i p p constitutional provisions and cast-Action, as in it there is already evi- their ballots for president and vice- president. No party deader, of course, is openly admitting that he such a possibility. is worried about Publicly they are all busy claiming that their party is going to sweep the country, and even to publicly discuss a stalemate brought about by a third party is bad form. But electors this year are going to be selected a great deal more carefully than hae been the practice. Christian Science. The; Christian Science Society of Lowville hold services every Sunday at 11 a. m., at No. 22 Elm street. A cordial invitation, is extended Slow Earth Movement Swallows Up Houses. Granada, Spain, April 15.^—Spain's greatest scientists have been attracted to the situation at the village of Con- achil, where the earth still is moving, carrying everything in its path, and in some Instances swallowing up in their entirety olive groves and houses. The center of the disturbance Js about 1,500 meters in length and 500 meters wide. The movement of the earth Is gradual, but hardly perceptible to the eye. Thus: far there has been great loss to crops In the affected district. In one instance a cottage has been slid along by the earth's movembnt with- dence of the possibilities of a repeti- tion of gigantic fraud similar to the pension frauds that followed the Civil war. A pension bureau and lobby was established in Washington that was known to be making, raids upon the United States Treasury to the extent of millions of dollars. An investiga- tion committee discovered that this lobby was procuring pensions for des- cendents of the old Mexican war, be- sides the other pension frauds of large extent which were known by con- gressmen who were notified at every election that they must not interfere with the pension work In Congress. \Already the charge has been made public pf fraud against some of the active members of the Legion, and a bonus lobby, is quite certain to be established in Washington along the same line as the Civil war lobby. Many soldiers enlisted In the late war from patriotic motivea and are opposed to receiving money for their services, knowing well that our country was in- cluded In the final plan of world domi- nation in the German war policy.\ A woman reader comes out whole- heartedly for prompt and full pay- ment^ of \adjusted compensation\: 'Tain in favor of the soldiers' bonus bill being passed. Why should it not be? Have they not earned, it many times over? Yes—and yea again. Is a deeper Hudson or a many million dollar post-office or any one of the many things that money is Being ap- propriated for more Important, more necessary than that the men who came back from Over There after go- ing through a veritable hell, for the ones who stayed at home, should have a little to start ^themselves on again? The boys that could not come back with the others, but who were brought back later, covered with the American flag-, paid with their lives, but so did the one who came back pay—not so dearly, but in lost health, Btrength and lost opportunities, good reasons why There are many the returned sol- ders should get their bonus—but are there any reasons why they should not?\ _^ The magazine finds that its readers unanimously favor drastic tax reduc- tion and retrenchment, although not all feel that the Mellon plan will aid the farmers. Damage claims against railroads on account of fruit and vegetables run- as high as S14,OQO,000 a year. One western woman offered to sell her husband for $1,000. She was ac- cused of profiteering. Another west- ern woman offers to sell her body at death In order to get money to sup- port her children. • out damage meters. a distance of about 200 BILLS BY PROTECT YOURSELF from the errors of others by paying bills by check. 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