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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
DOCUMENT HELD AS SACRED
Scroll Of the Law, Most Precious Pos
session of the Samaritans, Is
Rarely Exhibited.

The most precious document of the
Samaritans is their Scroll of the Law.
The scroll Is some fifty feet long, and
toward the end its columns are divid-
ed vertically by small gap, often
occurring between the letters of the
same word. The Samaritans assert
that the scroll was written by Abishua.
the sgreat-grandson of Aaron, in the
early days of the entrance into Ca
naan. Although this remote origin is
not allowed the scroll by students, IT
is nevertheless believed to be the most
ancient copy of the Pentateuch.
So jealousy guarded is this scroll
that few nOn-Samaritans have ever
seen 1t, and many Samaritans them
selves have not seen it except as it is
exhibited on rare occasions, at feasts.
rolled up and covered with a silken
cloth and with but one column ex-
posed. The scroll has been photo
graphed and published for the benefit
of Hebrew scholars. The photograph
was made from end to end of the
scroll.
The Samaritans as a rule show
their guests a scroll of a much later
date than the earliest one, it being i'm
practicable to display the fragile
parchment continuously. All the pho
tographs hitherto supposedly taken of
the Abishua scroll have in reality been
of the later copies.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
SOME TALES HARD TO DOWN
Particularly True of the Story of the
Grizzly Bear That Climbs
Up Tree.

The hunter who comes nome with a
tale of how he took refuge from griz-
Ely in a tree, and how the bear
climbed after him, is nature fakir,
pure and simple, as Enos A. Mills re-
minds hunters in the story of the SAD
ventures of Nature Guide" Yet this
curious Misrepresentation of the climb
ing abilities, of the greatest of the
Ursidac persists in many quarters and
Is not always accounted for by men
dacity. 1t seems to be reasonable
explanation that when a grizzly sets
out in pursuit of more or less mex
perienced sportsman. the latter is not
always in the attitude of a calm in
vestigator. Things are not precisely
what they seem when the normal po-
sitions of hunter and hunted are re-
versed.
1t is the task of more than one
generation to put end to nature fax
ing. Colonel Roosevelt, if he were
alive. would take delight in indorsing
the works of Mr.. Mills, who has re-
Gently become famous as national
park guide, who revealed the delight
full possibilities of guiding in the will
derness as a profession for ambitious
young men. The wilderness, says Mr..
Mills, is really the safest place in the
world for defenseless human beings.
Not even the catamount or puma Is
dangerous. Colonel Roosevelt had al
ready assured US on this point, but
the statement will bear repetition
Portland Oregonian.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
MADE THEIR WAY TO FAVOR
Words Banned Fifty Years Ago Are
Now by General Consent Hecog-
nized as Proper.

Most newspapers have an index ex
purgatorious in which are listed all
the tempting words banned at the
time Of its compilation as to bad
usage, remarks a writer In the Home
Sector. It is amusing to read one %
those lists, drawn up for New York
newspaper so years ago, long dis
carded list, frownlng on such words
as aspirant, bogus, collided, com.
menced (for begun, employee, endorse
flor approvaD, humbug, ignore, jeop-
ardize, lengthy, loafer, ovation, post
ed (for informed). predicate, progress.
Ing. reliable (for trustworthy, row
dies, taboo, talented and vicinity (for
neighborhood). Most of these are now
quite respectable and would have the
freedom even of those newspapers
which once spurned them. Thus, as
ever, do the heresies of today become
the gospel Of tomorrow. Thus does
progress march.
1t happens in language, In econo-
mics, in politics. Tomorrow conserva-
tives will be found stoutly defending
the program which yesterdays radicals
drew up. Perhaps an appreciation of
this fact ought to produce philo-
sophie calm, but it is quite as likely to
produce temper. And yet II Is absurd
to swear at the conservative man as
it is to denounce the dam in the stream
and the brake on the engine
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Fidelity Oil Company of New Jersey

Have you made your application for
stock for shares in the Fidelity Oil
Company? If not, our advice is to do
so at once and mail them to the office
of the Company, 80 Main street, Flem-
ington, N. j., on or before May 18th.
The Executive Committee will leave
for Texas on that day for the purpose
of looking over the holdings of the
Company with the idea of starting
drilling operations. Those who sub
scribe for stock previous to the start
ing of drilling operations are privi-
legged to do so at the present price,
$1.00 per share. AS low as $1,000
may be invested in this Company. If
you have some money that you want
to put to work, with the chance of
earning not only large dividends, but
possibly many dollars for each dollar
invested, now is the time to make the
investment. $4,000 has been known
to have been made on single $4,000
investment in the Texas oil field. You
ask why such fabulous sums are pos
sible to be made on such small in
vestment and why your returns come
in so much more rapidly than in other
lines of business. The reasons are
many. First, because four men can
drill an oil well to completion. There
are no overhead charges, no factories
to build, no transportation facilities
necessary, and the scarcity of help
does not enter in the oil business.
The big companies run the pipe lines
that transport the oil to market They
pay for the oil at the time it is tax
en- into the pipe lines and are compell-
ed to take all oil in the territory
which they pass through when they
obtain their charter from the State
of Texas. The small investor and
the small company have just as good
an opportunity to receive the top price
price for oil as the larger company.
Thus, giving the small CO., first chance
in the history of the oil business to
be on an equal basis with the Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey, or any other
large company maintaining pipe
lines.
In an ordinary investment in an in
dustrial enterprise, it takes from a
year to a year and a half to con-
struct buildings, tracks, etc. With an
oil company in the shallow fields, a
well may be drilled in ninety days,
which gives quick returns on the in
vestment and a year at the very out
set in the deeper fields will ascertain
whether oil is underneath your hold
ings or not. The saying is "quick
return and small profits have their
advantages" In the oil business
"quick returns and large profits" is
the rule.
Adv.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

must be filed by unframed or only
partly trained men.
Solution Of the problem resolves it
self in the last analysis into terms of
money. Unless the churches are pre-
pared to expend more than 81 for
every $40 appropriated for education
by the state solution Of the problem
is indefinitely postponed if not made
impossible. This proportion is caused
by the fact that the churches concen-
trate almost exclusively upon the col
leges and universities, upon the thirty
eight students who enter college from
the 1000 who are received into the ele
mentary schools. And of the thirty
eight only the fourteen who obtain
their degrees receive any prolonged
training.
1t has been demonstrated that what
a people would accomplish in their ma
tional life they must first put in the
minds and hearts of their youth in the
schools. That the first exponent of
this theory was Prussian minister
of education does not alter the fact.
Lie C0lUHldl COllcSCo WClC quitc do
successful in producing men true to
type as were the German educational
institutions prior to 1914. Will the
church colleges and universities of to-
day prove as successful?
The thirty denominations which have
created the Interchurch World Move
ment are going to make a determined
effert to restore the balance Ameri-
can education is represented by $751;
1897, 431 in a total Interchurch budget
Of S336,777,572 which is to be sub
scribed during the week of April %.
Only foreign missions and home mis-
sions are considered more important
by the UNCONVENTIONAL leaders. And
in both departments items fsF educa-
tional purposes bulk large.
Wherever the church of America ex-
tends its educational activities it is
possible to create a civilization that
is Christian just as by her schools
Germany made her civilization mill
tary.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Ten Different Winds

When the wind is blowing at an In
dictated velocity of 35 miles an hour
the force in pounds per square foot
would be 1900 This would be known
as a high wind and would travel over
a distance of $3.50 feet every minute.
A perceptible wind travels one mile
an hour; just perceptible, two or three
miles an hour; gentle breeze, four or
five miles an hour; pleasant breeze,
ten to Is miles an hour, brisk wind,
20 to 25 miles an hour; high wind. 30
to 35 miles an hour; very high wind,
40 to As miles an hour; storm at so
miles an hour; great storm, go to 20
miles an hour, and hurricane attains
a velocity of 80 to 100 miles an hour.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

tons, there was stable governme,e.
in Cuba, and American troops were
withdrawn
law, it simply borrowed the phrase
stable government" from the Cuban
history and applied it to the Philip
pines. The history of Philippine leg
fslation shows that in black and white.
With full knowledge of what it meant,
the Filipino people accepted the Jones
law and Immediately began setting up
the stable government required by Con-
gress as prerequisite to independ-
ence. The stable government is now
fact. 1t is indeed more than that; 1t
is an undisputed fact.
The official representative of the
United States in the Philippine Islands,
the Governor General, reported to the
American Congress and the administra-
ton that "the Filipino people have es-
tablished the stable government de-
manded by Congress as prerequisite
for the granting Of independence
namely, government elected by the
suffrage of the people, which is sup
ported by the people, which is capable
of maintaining order and of fulfilling
Its international obligations"
The Philippine question is therefore
no longer question of politics, argu-
ment or superstition. To the Philip
pine mind, at least, 1t is now a ques-
ton of whether the United States is
ready to discharge its own obligations
fully and completely. America went
before the world in the recent war as
the avowed champion Of "self-determi-
nation" and Filipinos cannot see how
America can consistently refuse to act.
The Filipino people, however, have
no grudge or grievance against the
American people Theirs is a message
of friendship and gratitude. They seek
independence as the natural and log
ical outcome of Americas policy in
the islands and of Americas solemn
promise to them. They come willing
to give privileges ar j concessions not
incompatible with their national well
fare
The Filipino people are willing to
accept independence under any of the
following conditions: Under League
of Nations, guaranteeing its territorial
integrity; under the protectorateship
of the United States for the first few
years; under treaty of neutrality be-
tween the United States, England, ia
pan, France and other powers, or even
without any condition whatever-abso
lutte and complete independence. They
have no fear of Japan. Philippine in
dependence, in our opinion, is not inim-
fcal to Japanese interests. The Japa-
nese are now free to come to the Phil
ippines, but at the present time there
are less than 10000 Japanese in the
islands. There are six times as many
Japanese In California as there are in
the entire Philippine Archipelago
The Filipinos are willing to
their chance as nation. SIM
lions beset by graver prob
| dangers have taken a more
chance at freedom, and
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

More than half of the total investment
in higher education in the United
States is in colleges and universities
founded by religious denominations
who found in America that liberty of
theological preferences and academic
learning which had been denied to
them In their native lands overseas.
Today half of the 100000 students of
higher grades in the United States
are in attendance at these denomj-
national colleges and universities.
Upon that tremendous army equally
tremendous demands are to be made
during the next five years, demands
that trend to restore to American col
leges and universities that atmosphere
and purpose which marked their be-
ginnings. A world survey of the
needs Of peoples who are struggling
along without knowledge Of the teach
ings of Christianity and without train
ing in even the most rudimentary
courses Of an academic education has
revealed to America her responsibility
and privilege. Through the Inter
church World Movement the 400 col
leges and universities of the thirty
religious denominations which have
united on a program of cooperative
effort are to be required to furnish
the majority Of the 100000 leaders
and workers needed. They are the
West Points and the Naval Academies
of the greatest religious movement
of all time.
1t is estimated that these denomina-
tional institutions have furnished
ninety per cent of the religious leaders
of the past Are they to be able to
meet the new and larger demands?
No. Unless
Unless the churches return whole
hearfedly to those policies which re
ated and developed the system l.pon
which modern American education Is
based the effort will fail. So ser Gus
is the situation that in 1920 half of
the 5000 places that must be filled in
the United States alone every year
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
uBUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES II
FORTUNES MADE DAILY
Look-S25 in This Kind Of Proposition
Has Brought Returns as High as
100000
100000

Small amount of money can be
spared by almost everybody when they
know what the possibilities really are.
Small amount of money will make you
a partner in the straightest, fairest
and squarest Swell proposition in
the latest tremendous oil fields in
in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania crude oil is $6.10 a
barrel today, and positively going up
to $40 barrel, the highest in the his
tory of the petroleum market. That
means everything to the wise investor.
We are 100 yards from oil producing
wells. Our derricks are going up
shortly. We are about to drill five
wells. Write today if you want to
share in the best and squarest ire
mendous oil boom in Pennsylvania
and we will show facts and truth only.
Address Symes, Pittsburg Life
Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa.
3-26-5t
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

and white?
Senator Shotgun may think no people
is capable of self-government that does
not establish the judicial recall, or that
has no Billy Sunday. John Smith OF
Somerville may think no people is
capable of elf-government that does
not vote his democratic ticket, or go to
church on Sundays.
Capacity for self-government" Is as
broad and elastic as the world, and If
that should be the criterion for the
granting of Philippine independence,
America might as well say to the Fill
pinos, 81 will give yor Independence
when it pleases me to do So"
Fortunately, the American promise
to the Philippines is not based on such
obscure and abstract conditions. 1t ia
based on a definite seizable thing
When America, through her Congress-,
officially told the Filipino people that
they would be granted their independ-
ence as soon as they could establish a
stable government, no abstract or OBJ
scure condition was meant. Stable
government, according to American
usage, means certain, definite thing
The United States promised the Gu
bans the same thing, that when they
have established a stable government,
then American troops would be with
drawn" AS soon as the Cuban people
elected government suited to them
selves, capable of maintaining order
and fulfilling all international ohli@n-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Ionq-Lived Trees.
Adv.

At Fountain abbey. Yorkshire, Eng
land the yew trees were old when
the abbey was built, in 1882. Cali
fornia has a very ancient tree in Mari
posa grove. This Is a redwood"
which is credited with many hundred
years. Baobab trees of Africa have
been computed TO be more than 5000
years old, and deciduous cypress at
Chapultepec Is considered to be of
still greater age. Humboldt said
that the Dracaena Dracq at Orotova,
on Teneriffe. was one of the Oldest in
habitants Of the earth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
F|L|pIN0S Want
AMERICA TO Give
INDEPENDENCE
Maxine M. KalaW Declares U. S.
Cannot Consistently Refuse
"SeIf- Determination"
BY MAKING M. kALAW,
Secretary of the Philippine Mission, Au-
thor THE Case for the Filipinos."
Self Government in the
Philippines" etc.

"When they show sufficient capaci-
ty," "When they are able to govern
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Death of Goethe.

When the spirit of Johann Won
Goethe passed away, March %, 1882.
all Europe took note of the event and
pondered on his last words: Let the
Light Enter" He was venerable with
age and honors. wise, n9ny-slGel
mind, and the greatest poet of Cor
many. Marck said Of him that what
he lived was more beautiful than What
he wrote; and his life, alA.d all its
weakness and all its sorrows. presents
a picture of certain grandeur Of soul
which cannot be contemplated I'm
moved.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Progress of the Fidelity Oil Com
pany of New Jersey.


Those interested in the Fidelity
Oil Company will be pleased to learn
that there is considerable activity in
acreage. Word has been received
from Texas that besides the big
Matthews well adjoining the Com
pany's lease that has recently come
in, the Ranger Gulf Company is drill
ing in the third well and several other
wells close to the Fidelity's land near
Breckenridge are reported. One OF
the first wells drilled in Stephens
County by the Gulf Production Com
pany is still making thousand bar
rels daily. One of the largest wells
brought in lately was the Dicky well,
one mile north of Breckenridge, which
is making forty-two hundred barrels
daily, while the Feusland Company
thirty-five hundred barrels in the
southern part of Stephens County.
Six hundred wells were completed in
Texas during March. A thousand
barrel well is reported in block seven
ty and another good one in block
sixty-nine, which adjoins the Fidelity's
Burkburnett acreage, which makes
things look good for the Company
The Burkburnett field is producing
over 100000 barrels daily and increas.
ing right along.
The Committee of the Company
consisting of Major Arthur F. Foran
Captain Edward B. Allen, George K
Large, Judah Higgins and Edwin K
Large, Civil Engineer, is planning tc
leave for Texas on the fourteenth OF
this month for the purpose of inspect.
ing the Company's holdings and ar.
ranging for drilling operations. Al
the Company holds leases in five fields
it is the purpose of the Company te
reach a conclusion on the ground il
reference to the places where wells
are to be drilled, and it is important
that all those intending to purchase
stock in the Company, do so before
the committee leaves, so that tht
amount Of money on hand and availa
BILE for operations be definitely known
Subscriptions may be mailed to thu
Fidelity Oil Company, 80 Main stree
(Trewin Building) Pennington, N. J
Those desiring further information
may obtain same by dropping care
or phoning to the Company.
Adv.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14

t h e m S e | V e S, !"
" w h e n t h e y
are e d u C a t e d
enough" T h u s
run the answers
of many Ameri>
cans pressed with
the question as to
when the Filipi-
nos S h ould be
granted their in
dependence. Now,
ability" "capaci-
ty" and "sum-
Gent education"
What do they
mean in black
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
SMOKE
the
EVENTUAL
sc.
Straight

Z" Never Knew You Could Keep Rats
Out of Butcher Shop"
What Ralph Watkins says: Gig
ured rats around store had enough to
feed on; wouldn't touch anything sus-
picious. Heard about GAT-SNAP,
gave it trial. Results were wonder
full. Cleaned all rats out in ten days.
Dogs about store night and day never
touch AT-SNAP." Three sizes, 25c,
SOC, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by
John G. Cryer, Estate.
J. Joseph Henry.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-14
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
nuenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure it you must take an
cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one ofsthe best physicians
posed OF some of the best tones known,
combined with some of the best blood
purifiers The perfect combination Of
the ingredients in Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions Send for
testimonials free
F. J, CHENEY e CO.. Props, Toledo, o.
All Druggis J. zoe.
Halls FANNY Pills for constipation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-02
MRS. GOuLD SPEAK
TO MOTHERS

In nice letter to the Or. ]. z
True & Co., Mrs Irving Gould OF
Chester and. Ohio, says: "As my boy
is sick and In much need OF your
Elixir, | ought not to be without IT,
cannot speak too much praise. DR.
Trues Elx'r has done wonderful
Kings for my children, and will
gladly answer any mothers letters in
regard to the medicine and suffering
children"
Mrs Gould is one of thosuands OF
mc theirs who look after the health OF
heir children by giving them DR..
rrue's Elixir the Family Laxative
and Worm Expeller. If your children
have these symptoms give them DR..
rrues Elixir
Symptoms Of Worms; Bad Breath,
swollen upperrliH sour stomach oc.
casional pains, pale face eyes heavy
and dun, twitohing eyelids, itching of
the nose and rqGtm, short dry cough.
red points ON the tongue, starting dur
ne sleep, slow fever Dr. True's
Elixir. The Family Laxative and
Worm Expeller, is sold at al deal.
ers Three sizes. Buy the large
size
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-02
a Deserving Cause.

The Kurn Hattin Homes represent a
cause that appeals to every friend OF
unfortunate children inn Vermont.
KUN hattln work has done a marvel
lous service for a host of boys, who
are brought under wholesome and help
full influences IN the homes at West.
minister and SaXton's River The
boys who are taken into these institl.
tons are not only educated, but they
are also taught to do things that will
help them to earn living and to be.
come useful citizens.
The Hon Guy w. Bailey is president
Of the Kurn Hattin Homes. and Miss
f. Eliza Sessions of East Middlebury.
is the financial representative who is
canyassing the State to secure renew
I'd pledges Of support for this worthy
work The high cost of living and OF
all accessories has affected the Kurn
llattin Homes. and there is pressing
need of generous increase in the sums
which friends Ct these institutions
have hitherto contributed each year.
Ilt is 10 be2hoped Miss Sessions may find
generous response in Burlington and
yieinity.-Burlington Free Press.