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New Britain herald., 1921-09-06
Brooklyn Lady Suffers Breakdown After
 Husbands Death

Mrs. Anna o'Hara of ASA Evergreen Avenue. Brooklyn. N. Y.. was in q serious condition until she began taking wincarnis.
New Britain herald., 1921-09-06

phasis on the dye industry and chemi- cal warfare.
 More than 5000 scientests are ex- pected to attend the sessions which will continue through September 10.
New Britain herald., 1921-09-06

In England it is unlawful to play billiards in a public place on Sunday, Christmas Day or Good Friday.
New Britain herald., 1921-09-06

New Zealand's highest waterfall, called the Sutherland is 1904 feet high. I
New Britain herald., 1921-09-06

Albert Horn, member of the Reich stag for A years has never made a speech.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

although there are not hundred persons
all told in the county. Public schools
OF the state total $500
School attendance s compulsorv be-
tween the ages of and IA. and in some
cases between IA and II at night schools
where children have been taken from
school at IL Deaf and dumb aud blind
or detective children are required to be
Kept in school until they are 49, Educa-
ton IN the state is handled by a council
on pubic educa ton, headed by the direc-
TOT or education. In order to enforce at
tendance IN sp2rsely settled districts the
state furnishes Conveyance to children
living far from schoolhouses. In other
cases teachers drive through the country
giving short periods Of instruction daily
and assigning lessons for the next dav.
MILITARY DRILL
is COMPULSORY.
Military drill Is compulsory In all
schools, and the teaching of agriculture.
woodwork. domestic science and swim
ming Is encouraged wherever practicable.
1t Is estimated that go 900 children are
IN attendance annually. Eighty per cent
OF them go to the public schools and the
others are distributed among 500 pri-
vate and sectarian schools Religion is
For the benefit of those children who
may desire to go further than the re-
CURED eighth grade the state has pro-
yided nineteen high schools and seven
central schools, at all OF which education
IS free There also are technical schools
under state control Illustrative of the
general high standard Of elementary edu-
cation in the state Is the fact that of
B,l56 couples which were married in one
year only sixteen men and eleven women
were unable to sign their names.
what blessing the ability to read Is
was impressed upon me most deeply dur
ing one Of our journeys By train through
Victoria. although a matter Of fact |
have noticed 1t in other states, too At
frequent intervals your ears are asSailed
by loud shouts and cries from along the
tracks. The hoarser voices Of men min
gled with the treble Of children and al
ways the cry vas the same. Puzzled, I
turned TO one Of my neighbors and asked
him what II meant
ALL OF THEM
ENJOY HEADING.
They are crying. Paper, paper" he
replied. Poor people, they live where
daily papers are not to be bought and
are too far from towns 20 buy other
literature II is a custom in this coun-
try to save the newspapers or maya
zines or books which you have read on
the train and toss them out OF the win
dow when you hear them ask for them"
l was TO learn Later that the craving
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

feeling of appointment, although
had known all along that I should find
little, if any, Of the old Ballarat left.
But THEY DO HEAR
TALES OF EARLY DAYS
But we were destined to a treat later
on. 1t had been raining and it was
with faint hope that we would be able
TO get any pictures that we had the mo-
tor car driver take US to what is known
locally as the Lookout" In reality the
pinnacle fan old heap of tailings from
one of the mines which once had pro-
duced tons of gold. And there, huddled
in a corner of the little concrete shelter
from which you may gaze over a wide
ezpanse of country, we found him a lit
tie wizened old man with chiI. whiskers
and weak eyes which he kept wiping
When we surprised him he was peering
through an. ancient telescope toward the
land far below US, acres upon acres of
ground that half century ago had been
turned up by the shovels of the gold mad
thousands who swarmed into Ballarat fol-
lowing the discovery in 1851 Of the first
gold in Victoria. In New South Wales
gold already had been foundry a miner
who had Joined our own rush of 1910
to the California diggings, and, failing
y
nation around his own Australian home
-,was a great deal like the gold fields of
$he Pacific coast and FASTENED back to
90 prospecting.
The discovery OF gold in New South
Wales threatened to depopulate the strug-
Cling colony of Victoria and its officials
offered a reward Of $500 to the first per-
son to find gold in Victoria. 1t was at
Ballarat that the reward was claimed,
for only a few yards from the trail over
which countless numbers of feet had
tranped on the way west from Melbourne
a nugget was picked up and several
others found. Communication was not
easy in those days, but the news spread
like wildfire and within q few months
Ballarat was the scene of a boom that
made it famous.
They came here thousands upon thou
sands" said the little old man when he
was launched upon a story by a few
questions. "On a Saturday night I've
seen the streets so thick with red
shirted miners that you had to fight a
way through them. And the saloons and
the gambling houses and the dance halls
were next door to each other, they were
that thick. I was just coming into me
own then, a buckarOo Of a lad and my
back was as strong as any OF them IN
those days. I shoveled many a ton of
the dirt over down there" he waved a
hand at the view below US, 'and made
me find, too, but it's all gone now"
Had we been willing to listen he
probably could have kept up his tale
for hours without end, tales that com
pared favorably with those of the novels
l recalled. But we pressed a coin into
his hand and came away after taking his
picture and left him as We had found
him-peeping through his absurd tele-
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

Wales as a result of the gold strikes and
the necessity of protecting the shipments
OF gold from the fields to the cities gave
birth to the magnificent Australian po-
lice force and particularly to the mounted
police, who have a record that Is sur
passed only by those of the Royal North
west Mounted Police of Canada and our
own Texas State Rangers. Victoria to-
day has 1900 policemen, OF constables
as they are called, to cover her entire
territory. Two hundred and fifty Of
them travel lonely beats IN the bush
country, many miles from civiliza ton.
and they have varied duties to perform.
the least Of which is the capture Of Grim
mails, for the State is singularly free from
crime, only 200 persons having been con-
victed for serious otfenses during the
last year for which figures are COM
plete
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

scope at the scenes of the glory that had
been Ballarat's.
MANY FROM Z. S. IN
RUSH FOR BALLARAT.
In the boom days of gold mining the
United States furnished hundreds Of the
motley crew of rough and tumble men
who focked to Ballarat in search of for
tune. Many of them quit the California
fields, lured on by the prospect of even
richer finds in Australia. 1t took them
two to three months to cross the sea be-
tween California and Melbourne in the
slow-sailing ships of those days, and
when they reached Port Phillip it was to
fad it virtually deserted Officials,
judges, lawyers, doctors, shopkeepers,
clerks and all of the police force but two
had quit their jobs overnight to join
the rush to Ballarat and later to Bendigo
and Ararat and a score of other less
known places where strikes were made.
S ne idea of the influx of people may be
gathered from the fact that in the year
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
We NewBALLARXT Australia

by erecting a stockade, raising a flag
which they proclaimed as that of the
republic of Victoria and defied the au-
thorities. The troops captured the
stockade in a brilliant assault which cost
some forty lives, and the backbone of
the rebellion was broken. But the min
ers won, because the obnoxious diggers'
license tax was repealed.
Had Ballarat been like many other
cities which began as mining centers and
thereafter depended solely upon mining
for its existence, it would have fallen to
a mere village by now. But 1t is the
center of rich farming district in which
there is much wheat and many cattle and
sheep. so that when mining played out
Ballarat calmly went ahead supplying
the needs Of its agricultural nelghbors.
Today, with a population of 10000, it is
the largest inland town of the common
wealth and correspondingly important.
The bushrangers and outlaws who
swarmed into Victoria and New South
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

only ghostly mounds of refuse and earth
and quartz mark the spots where the
mines once were beehives OF activity. At
Bendigo, ninety five miles away. several
mines are operating and a few others are
still plugging along, but the production
Of gold in the tate has slipped to $4,000
ounces a year, according to last avail
able figures There are other minerals
to be obtained in the state, but they total
only 100000 a year in value.
MUST RECALL FAMOUS
BATTLE BACK IN 1854.
No story of Ballarat would be com
plete without Il mention Of the famous
battle OF the Eureka stockade on a Sun
day morning in Decem Der. 1854. The
government had tried to tax the miners
for licenses to dig and had tried to en-
force collection Of the tax by using
troops, who hunted the unlicensed dig
gers down Victoria was on the verge
Of q fair sized rebellion when the min
ers Of Ballarat brought things to a head
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

before gold was found at Ballarat the
population of Victoria was slightly more
than 5000. Six years later it was 49,
600. The problem of feeding this mob
was a serious one because the farmers
had Joined the rush, too, but finally they
found that feeding diggers at fabulous
prices was more profitable than digging
on a chance of striking gold, and bust
ness was resumed.
Before they finally played out, the gold
fields Of Victoria. both alluvial and
quartz, had yielded up treasure valued
at 81. 500, 100000. Several years ago the
cost Of mining had increased so greatly,
the veins no longer ran wide and rich.
and gradually one mine after another be
gan to close down until most OF them
had quit work. Today you will not even
find a shafthouse or a derrick around
Ballarat. They have been torn down and
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

for matter to read extends to the cities
as VOL, for l visited a good many or
the libraries and in each Of them few
OF the seats were empty in the reading
rooms. And those who were engrossed
in paper, magazine or book were Of all
ages and all classes. Book shops and
circulating libraries do q flourtshing
business and the second hand book store,
where old magazines are to be had for
mere pittances usually are thronged.
On the day, on which this is being
written have read in the morning paper
an item that Is significant as indicating
a new spirit IN Australia. 1t was merely
statement that the first shipment of
wheat was to be made from Portland
within few days. Portland has one of
the best natural harbors in all Victoria.
1t is near the South Australian border
and only seventy-five miles from Mt.
Gambler, one of the richest AGRICULTURAL
centers Of South Australia. 1t is 200
miles closer to some of the principal
wheat centers Of Victoria than is Mel
bourne. Yet as a shipping port Portland
has been neglected. Jealousy between
the states Of South Australia and Vic
toria in the past has prevented Portland
from getting shipments from over the
bier products have Travelled 800 miles to
Adelaide rather than seventy-fve miles
to Portland Wheat from Western Vic
toria has been sent all the way to Mel
bourne to be shipped because Melbourne
wished to make as great a showing as
possible in its figures compared to those
Of its big city rival, Sydney, In New
South Wales. Yet Melbourne's harbor
charges are exceedingly high, made so
by the fact that it's harbor is one which
requires constant dredging, deepening
and tinkering.
That spirit is dying in Australia and
Victoria is one Of the leaders In trying to
wipe it out. Melbourne is both the state
capital and the temporary commonwealth
capital and this has helped some.
Next week 1 am going TO give you a
peep at Melbourne and tell you Of some
Of its characteristics as they were re-
vea4ed to me during very pleasant visit
Of sixteen days.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

In Victoria are
to be found the
famous hig h
eucalyptus trees
of Australia,
some of which
attain a height of
800 feet. To fell
one of these for
est mOnarchs is a
strenuous job,
b ut Australian
woodchOppers are
equal to it. They
build a small
footrest to bring
them above the
butt of the tree,
and, standing on
a narrow pole
resting on himsy
crosspieces, they
make every blow
count. Chopping
contests are a
feature of every
a ri c u | { u r al
show. In France
t h e Australian
woodsmen n t =
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
n ELBoURNE, Victoria, Australia

"a n ELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
M When was a young fellow I re
member seeing-and reading-a
very popular brand OF fiction story in
those days, a yellow backed. hair raising
type Of story which purported to depict
life in the Australian gold mining camps
I remember, too, many stanzaed poem
along the same order, a lifting, thrilling
thing that announced at the very begin
ming that what followed was a tale of
"Ballarat and Bendigo."
l felt something Of the same thrill when
the train from Melbourne slowed down
after a seventy-fve mile journey and /
discovered that l was at last In Ballarat
But such a Ballarat from that which had
been craven on my boyish mind by the
lurld tales Of long ago! I stepped from
the train into a modern station and
through the station into the midst of a
modern town, with wide streets, good
sized stores, electric street cars, arc
lights and automobiles. I confess to
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

just as its long
isolation resulted
in the survival in
Australia of ami
mails which be-
long to long-for-
gotten ages, so 1t
resulted in the
survival of plant
forms that long
since have dis
appeared from
other continents
and are TO be
found there only
in fos siIize d
forms. No other
country is SO rich
in ferns as Aus
tralia and no
other state has,
more and varied
kinds than Vic
toria.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
Tomorrow, Friday, OUR BARGAIN DAY
On Our First Floor

GLORIA WASH SATIN, mercerized, yard
wide, for lingerie, flesh and EO.
white; $1.00 quality, yard ..... OJC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

GABERD!NE, yard wide, for jumper
dresses and middies; rose, reseda, brown
and Copen $1.00 quality, EA
yard Observation-Disclosures. OJC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

IMPORTED DRESS GiNGHAMs, yard
wide, made in Scotland, durable quality
for childreh's school dresses, in the want
ed small, medium and large Or
checks; 69c and Use qualities, yd. DOC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

PRINTED CREPE GEoRGETTE. 40
inches wide, all-silk, fifteen attractive
pieces from which to select; satin stripe
on white grounds, also large multicolor
prints, for blouses or dresses. The fabric
was made to sell at $500 or
a yard ................. COG
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

BLACK TAFFETA, yard wide, all-sill1
Cimit yards to a customer; no mail
Yard Sa phone oraor"o' .$1.OO
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
, West by Southwest
New Zealand, Australia
and South Sea Islands
BY w. d. BOYCE.

BY w. ID. BOECE.-
Organizer and Leader of The Old
Mexico Research and African Big
Game Expeditions, author of illus
trated South America" United States
Colonies and Dependencies" and "The
First Americans-Our Indians of Yes
terday and Today"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

CHIFFON TAFFETA, yard wide, all-silk:
white, pink, gray, ciel, gold, taupe, maize,
henna, pearl, brown, hello, burnt orange,
navy and Copen; $175 GTTN
quality, yard ............O E.IJ
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06
On Our Fifth Floor
GROCERIES

COFFEE, genuine old crop, fresh roast
ed Bourbon Santos Of
g pounds, 79c), pound. ........ EtN
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

BREAKFAST BACON, lean, sweet |
sugar cured. machine sliced GAo |
| q pounds, 45c), pound ....-... E~xS |
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

REMNANTS OF BANDING, FRILLING
AND VESTlNG, from Il to 2-yard lengths.
suitable for trimming, choice at. or
each NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. LOT
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

KAYSER AND lVANHOE WASHABLE
FABRIC GLOVES FOR WOMEN, 2-clasp,
washable; white, black and FO
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

KHAKI LINEN STATIONERY, box Of
60 sheets. 25c TA
quality Observation-Disclosures. &C
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

PURE THREAD SILK HOSE FOR WON
EN-, seamless foot fashioned leg, Isle
garter tops black, white, cordovan and
smoke; 800 quality IN
6 for $4,000, pair ...............O JC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

NOVELTY BEAD NECKLACES, almost
every imaginable color and style In
cluded are the much wanted red beads
in several different ar
shades ZDc
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

WINDOW SHADES, Sc inches wide by
feet long; dark green. heavy grade cloth,
mounted on spring rollers, complete,
ready to hang, with ring pull for bottom
tho phone orders); E0
special, each ..............O JC
COLORED BORDER WOLFE FOR CUR
TAINS, yard wide. hemstitched hens
with colored borders on both edges; pink,
blue and gold, washable; ~
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

BUSTER BROWN GAUZE COTTON
HOSE FOR WOMEN, seamless foot, fash
Toned leg, fully reinforced; black, white
and brown; 25c quality, 81
pair .................... Oc
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

NAVY STORM SERGE, yard wide, all
wool, S1.00 quality, co
yard .................. .UJC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

SATIN MESsALINE, yard wide, all
silk; Copen. Burgundy, rose, delft blue.
taupe, tan, jade. maize, hello, reseda and
brown; S1.75 quality, NTTN
yard .,................. l.lJ
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

COLLARS, VEsTEEs AND COLLAR
AND CUFF SETS FOR WOMEN AND
MISSES, organdy and gingham white
and colors, a few net and lace On
collars; up to s1.25 qualities .......OJC
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

COTTON UNION SUITS FOR WOMEN.
fine ribbed, low neck, sleeveless, loose or
tight knee narrow shoulder straps or
bodice tops; pink or white; 55c On
quality Friday special suit OJc
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

BLACK CANTON CREPE, 40 inches
wide, all-silk; $500 90 en-
quality, yard ...............G L.OJ
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

Next week 1 am going TO give you a
peep at Melbourne and tell you Of some
vealed to nae during q very pleasant visit
Of sixteen days.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

NAVY STORM SERGE, 81 inches wide,
all wool, desirable shade of navy blue,
$1.75 quality. Friday special G910
yard Observation-Disclosures. 10
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

BUSTER BROWN STOCKINGS FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS, fine or heavy ribhed
fully reinforced. the fine ribbed are in
black, white and brown; sizes to 9Ib
the heavy ribbed black only, sizes 10
liz (6 pairs. S1,25), ar
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

UNDERSTANDS AND DRAW
Frs FOR MEN, heavy ribbed,
ecru. long sleeve shirts, ankle
length drawers. Drawers sizes
80 to "A; shirts, 80 to 46, strict
ly first quality, each -. .65C
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

REMNANTS BLEAC HE'D.
MUSLIN, good deSirablei
lengths accumulated during a
recent sale; up to "a
25c qualities, yard $500. .l4c
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-06

UNBLEACHED MUSLIN. ward
wide, good heavy quality for
sheets, holsters and cases;
(limit 10 yards to 1E
custOmer), yard .........lOC
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-01
MADE IN America"


During the period of the war, peO-
pie when buying, turned their prefer
ence to merchandise marked ''Made in
America" The attitude of the great
est incentives to the upbuilding and
advancement of American industry
and labor that a nation could adopt.
What has happened to that slogan to-
day? The buying public now finds it
self facing counters and shelves filed
with merchandise bearing the stamp
-"made in Germany" made in
JAPAN" or some other foreign coun-
try. The inducement which leads the
public to buy these products, despite
the foreign stamp, is cheapness in
price. Quality appears to be only
minor consideration. The war is only
a memory to most of US now, while to
many it will continue to be an ever
present thought. The majority, how
ever, have lost to a great extent that
marked feeling of patriotism which
was so noticeable during the war. The
patriotic fervor is there still, but it
has not the surroundings now to keep
it uppermost in our minds.
More consideration of the slogan
made in America" is what is needed
now in this country. We have been
benefactors to the world for a long
time, so much so that European and
other countries owe us collectively
some $4,000, 1000, a debt on
which We are not even receiving the
payment of interest. Our debtors
plead inability to pay. In spite of this
plea, nearly all of the European coun-
tries indebted to America are able to
support standing armies greatly out
numbering any we are able to main
tain here. No one has yet undertaken
the task of explaining this incOnsist-
ency.
1t is about time we had an "Amer-
lea First" campaign-One that would
impress upon the buying public the
fact that their power to buy is de-
pendent upon their ability to secure
decent employment, and that every
time they purchase a foreign competl-
tive product, they are reducing the
demand for its American equivalent,
and thereby are lowering the demand
for labor in the manufacture Of that
product here in America.-New York
American Cutler, 10, 9, p.