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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
World In a Death Dance
Disaster Certain Unless Farmer is Recognized

Unless some means can be found to
increase the emolutions of the farm
a considerable proportion of our lands
will soon be deserted, and much that
is left will furnish a greatly reduced
yield by reason of lessened labor"
In this connection Dean Davenport
calls attention to the fact that the
great demand for clover seed has sen,
it up to $50, and sometimes more, a
bushel-four times the pre-war price
1.-THE only explanation for the cur
rent price of clover seed is a wide
spread seeding down of land because,
of the impossibility of getting ade-
quate labor. In the mining and fac
tory districts many thousands OF small
farmers have left their farms to the
women folks and the children and
gone into industry or transportation
because of the greatly increased pay
they are liable to get there.
"This will be felt in the amount OF
|
a fraction of what it would yield in
grain. This will raise prices because
of scarcity and tend to adjust mat
ters. But if a farmer must get more
for his labor it would be better all
around if he got it for an adequate
food supply than in the form of high
prices for insufficient amounts of
foodstuffs. Here is an economic
problem calling for settlement. The
farmer cannot strike, in the ordinary
sense of the term, but he can quit
the farm, as thousands are quitting
it, and experience shows that once
off the land the farmer does not go
back"
Considered nationally, Dean Daven-
port contends that agriculture is no
less a public than a private question
He says, we are interested in the far
mer for his own sake, just as we are
interested in the banker, the mer-
chant, the carpenter-as human be-
ings and American citizens. He ad
. mits that perhaps we are even more
interested in agriculture as a great
national industry and as the source
of the food whereby we live, realizing
that we are truly Independent ma.
tionally and safe only so long as we
maintain an agriculture that can fully
support us with all needful food; and
he believes that the farmer as a man
and as an exponent or our great ma
| tional industry, and as a custodian
our lands should figure more in the
/ councils of the nation than he has
heretofore thought possible
"Ecclesiasticus considered that the
men who raised the food of the world
, would never sit in the councils of the
mighty" said Dean Davenport Gle
was mistaken. for there is no larger
question, whether of peace or of prog
ress, than the fate of that industry
= and that portion of our population
: of the people.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
War Memorial
of Long Ago

The coming into existence of so
many memorials of the World Wa5'
calls to mind some of the war me-
MORALS of other days. The monu-
ments of the soldiers of the War of
the Revolution, the Civil War and
other wars are to be found in hun
dreds of our towns and cities. OF
all these memorials none is more
unique than one to be found in the
ancient town of Lexington, Mass, to
which Paul Revere rode when he took
his historic journey on the nineteenth
of April such long years agone. This
war memorial takes the shape of a
cannon carved in stone. 1t marks the
place where Earl Percy met the
harassed British soldiers with re-
endorsements and covered their re.
treat to Boston. The cannon is carved
out of one huge piece or granite, and
is a representation of the type used
during the War of the Revolution.
Beneath the muzzle of the cannon is a
tablet giving full information in re-
gard to it. The storms Of time have
have had little effect on this ancient
war memorial, so unique and at the
same time so suggestive of the rug
ged strength and the fr1 courage of
those poorly equipped patriots who
| fought and died to give us the Ameri-
can independence that is today our
most cherished possession.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Unhappy Emu Family

Because of the cold weather it was
necessary to confine father and chick
to the house for several weeks" says
Lee S. Crandall curator of Birds IN
the New York Geological Park, writing
for the March Boys Life on the pecu-
] liarities of the emu. when spring
| had really come, we turned the pair
out with all confidence, thinking that
happy family reunion was about to
take place. But alas for our hopes!
The mother was utterly Indifferent
to her spouse and their offspring and
looked at them with unseeing eyes.
The father, On his part, was distinctly
hostile. When his wife, actuated by
chance rather than curiosity, hap
pened near them the male rushed at
high in the air, launched a kick
which, if it had reached its mark,
might have been fatal The emus are
practical fighters, and suddenly draw
ing herself erect and making light
ming side twist, she easily eluded the
blow. Mother emu had no desire to
quarrel; she asked only to be al
lowed to live her own life in peace.
But her husband was now aroused
and with rattle of hts war drum
rushed after her in frenzled rage, the
chick trailing after, squealing his pro-
tests.
ut was quite evident that there was
to be no happy emu family, and fear
ing catastrophe, we fastened to let
the female into an adjoining paddock.
Even then the father was not satisfied
and continued to rush mp and down
the fence, in the vain attempt to reach
his now hated mate. 10 save the
feathers of his neck and breast, which
were not made to resist the pressure
of heavy wire, we were forced to place
the unprotesting mother out of his
sight.
Peace and contentment now
reigned. Father and chick addressed
themselves to the business Of reducing
the available grass in the field. Ma
ture never produced more solicitous
parent. The chick was not allowed
to go from the fathers side, and if it
attempted to do so, a rapping signal
Of the snare drum quickly brought 1t
If separated from it's parents, it piped
increasingly in its queer voice and ran
contentedly to it's fathers side when
released"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Tasting and Smelling By Ear

another, while some parts of the
lose the finer perceptions of taste.
Prof. H. L. Hollingsworth has re-
Gently been making exhaustive ex-
periments with view to solving the
mystery of taste. He has demon.
strated that the sense of taste reaches
the brain merely through the ear
nerves.
Various nerves in the tongue COM
municate with main nerve, which
acts as a kind of telephone exchange
to ring up the brain. The taste nerves
for the tongue concentrate in the ear
drum nerve. If this nerve is injured
the sense of taste becomes dulled, and
it is well known that deaf persons
lost the finer perceptions of taste
When the drum of the ear is stimu-
lated mechanically, chemically or cleo
trically, at the point where the nerves
meet, taste sensations are aroused.
Sweet, bitter and sour fiavors may be
detected, but strange to say, salt
tastes have never been observed by
the direction on the ear. Many sensa
lions called tastes are merely odors.
Pinch your nose and shut your eyes,
and see if you can distinguish between
an apple and an onion
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Last of Phi1ade1phia's Volunteer Fire
Companies Passed Out of Existence
Had Unique and Honorable History; Furnishings and
Equipment Sold to Highest Bidder

Philadelphia. Active Volunteer
Fire Company, successors to the old
United States Hose Company, at 42S
Buttonwood street, and the last OF
the volunteer companies in this city,
passed out of existence last week
when the building, furnishings and
equipment went under the auctioneer' !;
hammer
In this famous old building are
housed the implements that extin,
guished many a flame of I'VE olde
days" Hose carriages, with their
four-coil spring bells on the front and
their glass rollers for the hose, hand
power engine, bearing the motto
"Semper Paratus," or always pre-
pared" firemens hats of the old type
Leather belts with the names of the
companies form a border for the room
The old-fashioned coal stoves still
stand in their places.
On the second floor is the meeting
room of the present association, where
the original members slept while wal,
ing a call to duty. In this room there
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

is large silk banner, painted by John
A. Woodside and presented to the fire
Company by the Ladies Auxiliary in
1843. 1t pictures two beautiful women
symbolizing fidelity and duty. This
the painter declared to be his master
piece.
Here also are more old-fashioned
colorful Autographs and old leather
capes which fire fighters of those days
wore. There is also framed set OF
resolutions, done on the old-time black
paper and gilt print, expressing regret
at the death of Abraham Lincoln
Over the door is hung two of the noz-
zels used by the Heart to Heart Fire
Company of 1876. Old-time fire axes
stand in the corner.
The third floor contains much the
same things as the second, with one
exception. Arranged around the room
is a row of chairs, on which are the
hats of the deceased members. They
are covered with dust and falling
apart with age.-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Harry Carey Recalls
Frontier Days

Harry Carey, the Universal West
ern film star, and number of his
cowboys were among the main at
fractions at "Tne Stampede" a Wild
West celebration held recently at AS
cot Pork, Los Angeles, where some Of
the best riders in America compete1
for prizes.
Carey dropped work at Universal
City, where he was engaged in film
ing his new feature, Crossed Claims,
and led a band of his star horsemen
in big street parade the day before
the celebration took place.
Thousands of persons from all the
Western States were present to sec
the popular "Ace of the Saddle" per-
form some of the daring feats of
Craftsmanship they had seen on the
screen. He was loudly cheered after
the exhibition.
The enthusiasm 1.-THE Stampede"
dTOuSeu duOuS Tile pSOpIo VI boo
Angeles demonstrated that the West
ern life, as portrayed in Harry Carey's
picture, is still popular with the pub
lie. Automobiles and railroads may
have brought civilization to all of
Americas frontiers, but the romantic
days when men lived mostly in the
saddle and carried their own law on
the hip are still uppermost in the
public mind when the west is men
toned. -,
The Universal screen favorite has
been largely responsible for keeping
alive public interest in life as it was
few years ago on the cattle range,
in mining camps, on the desert, and
in the lumber camps of the great
Northwest. He has known this life
intimately himself, having knocked
around from Alaska to Panama before
entering pictures.
His wide popularity has been at
tributed to his genuineness as West
ern man, no less than his artistry as
an actor.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

For quick action a pistol holster
has been patented that opens its en-
tire length when a weapon is with
drawn
Dr. Paula Hertwig, who will lecture
on Zoology" is the first woman pro
fessor at the University of Berlin.
Gladstone firmly believed that
Homer was real man describing his
torical events.
Many Paris women of fashion are
wearing diamonds in the heels of
their shoes.
Miss Ada Summers, mayor of Staly.
bridge, Eng, is England's first woman
magistrate.
The christening of a ship with wine
is a survival of the old blood sacri-
fee
1t took from 1775 until 1919 for
Maine to gain separate statehood from
Massachusetts.
Investors say in Russia destruction
has gone as far as it can so, and that
construction now is inevitable.
Worth in proper names, as in
Kenilworth, Edgeworth, etc, signifies
that the town stands on a tongue of
land.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Conservation of Our Village Youth

Community service as planned for
Patchogue is merely organized effort
to care for the boys and girls, the
young people and the young men who
have returned from the war, who are
to be the coming men of affairs If
the village.
As stated before that it was the be.
lief of this paper that the time would
come when communities like ours
would hire directors to look after the
youth of the village just as they now
hire civic engineers to build up and
keep in good condition the streets AMI
sidewalks; and it is morally certain
that the former is far more important
than the latter
Isn't it true that a few years ago
the youth of the average village re-
ceived about as much recognition, as
much thought and care as the stray
dogs? And is it any wonder that
many boys and young men grew Up
with the swapping, snarling DISPOSE
tons of the cur that is kicked about
the streets?
When a community shows a real
interest in its youth there is bound
to be a ready response and appre.
citation and department which will
repay all that may be expended III
money and personal service. The Boy
Scout movement has proven this.
Next to the love and loyalty of
young people for the home there is
nothing so fine as their loyalty TO,
their own home town. But unless
the community shows by a generous
and whole-souled service that it Is
deeply interested in their welfare,
there will be but an Indifferent spirit
of loyalty; there is more apt to he
a sullen opposition and an enmity to
law and order.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
THREE DAYS T oEURoPE

We will soon see a great new trade
route between America and Europe
crowded with freight and passenger
traffic. The nearest port in all Eu-
rope to New York is Vigo, Spain.
America is building a great modern
harbor at this point to cost $20,000,0 900
and the-work is being directed by a
great American engineering firm. The
largest and fastest steamers may soon
be crossing by this shortened route
and we will have three-day boats to
Europe From Vigo fast trains will
carry passengers and the mails to
Paris, saving a day or more of time
in travel between the two continents.
April Boys Life.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Young &c i''S is
SOuSa'S Successor

Los Angeles.-The successor to
John Phillip Sousa has been discov
cred.
He is Raymond Stuart Baird, the
youngest orchestra leader in the
world. Raymond is still n young man,
barely five years old, in fact.
But
For two weeks he directed 40 piece
Orchestra in Los Angeles, impersonat-
ing the famous Sousa
He also has directed orchestras at
Long Beach, Cal, and at Pasadena,
and in Salt Lake City.
Young Baird is now living in Los
Angeles with his mother, Mrs. Mar
garet ]. Baird. Musicians say that
his sense of cadence is marvellous. He
directs any kind of time
Raymond specializes on the saxa
phone for his own musical entertain
ment. He says that this lazzy instru
ment is sort of a relaxation from
strenuous classical pieces.
He has a string of medals on his
jacket, presented to him by various
musical organizations.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

future holds for him at the end of his
years. Life comes and goes. Is it an
asset or a liability? We have mental
pictures of pieces for the righteous
and the wicked, after Judgment, FROM
sources we believe divine, but they
are visions of faith, not actual demon
STATIONS of reality. We say our dead
are in a long sleep, awaiting the
Resurrection. Blessed hope, And
the next moment we imagine them
already in heaven.
A bit of music thrills us. Youth
and spring and love bring us joy
Age and weakness and disease destroy
our capacity for earthly pleasures,
and we turn to the promise of Holy
Writ for consolation. The wind signs
through the trees and our hearts
sink. We grow weaker and weaker
until the finish. What creatures of
circumstance, of physical conditions,
of environment we all are-to the very
end,
We struggle for success, and when
we win it find it not what we sought.
Tangled in the web of mortality, dodg-
ing death daily, we are oppressed by
the knowledge that we are dying, little
by little, every day of our lives. Con.
founded by things we cannot under
stand, we finally come to know there
is no escape from melancholy except
by the cultivation of the spiritual side
of our natures. Then new realm
opens to us. The everlasting joys OF
hope, faith and love beckon. Per-
chance the inspiration of a reasonable
religion takes hold upon us. Happy
are they whom this faith reaches, for
it lightens their hearts, dissipates their
anxieties, and satifies their souls.
They are ushered into the promised
land flowing with the milk and honey
of religious trust in God and a happy
life beyond the grave. The ages have
brought no substitute for the Rock of
Ages.-Omaha Bee.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

There are lots of things your ear
is capable of doing besides hearing.
1t can taste and smell when those
senses have been lost. Mr.. Henry
Fawcett, England's blind postmaster.
general declared that the sense OF
sound enabled him to see, in modi-
fled form, shap and color He could
tell, for instance, by the sharpness of
the sound, a lifeguardsman in scarlet
blowing a trumpet from. a horse
guardsman in blue playing on the
same instrument.
The report of bursting tire in the
street suggests different impression
altogether to the report of revolver
shot and so on indefinitely throughout
the whole gamut of sound and smells.
What is termed seeing, hearing,
tasting, smelling and feeling may be
ascribed as perturbation on the brain.
performed through the instrumentality
of the eyes. nose, ears, mouth and the
body generally.
Most persons are unaware that in
many cases they recognize things by
their smell when they think they know
their flavor. Again, they do not know
that they taste some things with one
part of the tongue only and some with
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
Mining for Tree Sap


The gum or rosin of the Kauri
pine in New Zealand is much sought
in the manufacture OF varnishes,
paints, oils and turpentines, and just
as the visible supply seemed to be fail
ing there has been discovered great
quantity of this material under the
ground and it is now being mined in
much the same manner as coal is
mined, except that it is hot necessary
to go so deep. The explanation is that
a forest of these trees was over
whelmed and buried at some remote
time, and while the tree structure
has largely disappeared the gum re-
manned in the soil. There are several
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
How Can the Mystery of Existence b
Solved? is the Eternal Question of Man
Man Studies Many Lines But Learns Little Life an Asset
or Liability
or a Liability

Who shall reveal the mysteries OF
this old world and of the life on it?
We take pride in human achievements
and imagine vain things The won
ders of science, art and nature en-
thrall us. One moment we reveal in
the thought of the volume of knowl
edge we possess; the next are cha
grined by our narrow limitations. In
all our accumulated truths, painfully
acquired during thousands of years
we have not yet attained perfection
in any direction Our learning has
never yet reached to the beginning
of things nor to their endings. We
delve into geology, astronomy and
theology; into philosophy and science
and human experience; and with all
of it we do not yet know why blade
of grass exists, or tree, or an ami
NAL or anything else on earth, under
the earth, or above it. We look into
the sky at night and are abashed
We see the ocean pounding the rock,
bound shore, or thistledown floating
in summer air, and cannot tell why or
for what either exists.
We do not know why we are here
nor where we are going. Brought
into a world of contending forces and
beliefs, of hardships, Injuries, pains,
pleasures, joys, sorrows, vanities, hui
Mutations, achievements and failures,
we try to get what we want and to
evade what we dislike, until the pass
ing years lead us to a hole IN the
ground and that greatest of all mys-
teries-death.
Never are we able to tell the why
or the what for of this world. We
but nibble at the edge of things, with
no definite, accurate, scientific com.
prehension whittier our loves, hatreds
and strivings are leading us. Nc
father has yet been able to tell his
son why he exists; no son has evci
been able to tell his father what the
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

With the youth of village happy
in the recognition of their right to
the pursuit of happiness and all united
in civic patriotism and pulling strong
for everything that makes for a better
hometown, what a wonderful COM
munity they would make-Patchogue
IL. II Advance.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
plants now in operation engaged in
recovering the gum from the soil.
Source of Anecdote

three Greek words meaning mot
given out" In other words, an anec-
dote meant something not to be told,
instead of the opposite meaning now
current.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

A two million dollar fire destroyed
a section of pier owned by the Nor.
gan Steamship Line at Galveston.
Texas, last week.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

Thomas E. Mitten, President of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
has just become naturalized citizen
of the United States.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

Declaring that "the Lord command
ed me to-" Clarence Murphy, of Kan
sas City, Mo, ran amuck in the dining
room of the Southern Hotel al Balti-
more, wounding the house detective
a traffic policeman. Murphy said he
saw the devil in waiter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

T. Ellert Hodgskin, New York law
yer was sentenced to two years in the
Federal Penitentary at Atlanta for
violation of the rade-with-enemy act.
Miss Maria Tucci, New York, faces
a penalty of ten to twenty years i'm
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

A gang of auto bandits murdered d
Philadelphia one day last week.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11
NEWS FLASHES
Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

prisonment. She was convicted OF
the murder of her sister in an Easi
Side apartment.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

Three stores and apartments were
destroyed by flames last week a:
Wyncote, Pa, at a loss of $4,000.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-06-11

Feathers are believed to have
evolved from the reptilian scale.