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Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
JEWISH FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Has Been Held for Centuries as Memorial of the Dedication
 of the Altar

Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication, also called Feast of the Maccabees," ," is a Jewish festival beginning on the twenty-ffth day of Kislew Oecem- ber) and continuing for eight days,
 chiefly as a festival of lights. It was instituted by Judas Maccabeus his brothers, and the elders of the congregation of Israel, in the year 165 B. C., to be celebrated annually with mirth and joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar, or the puri- ficatiOn of the sanctuary.
 After having recovered the Holy city and the Temple from the Greeks, Judas ordered a new altar to be built in the place of the one which had been polluted by AntiOchus Epiphanes, who had caused a pagan altar to be set up in the Temple of Jerusalem, and sacrifices to be offered to his idol. When the fire had been kindled anew upon the altar and the lamps of the candlestick lit, the dedication of the altar was celebrated for eight days amid sacrifices and songs.
 In the Talmud the festival is prin- cipaIly known as the Feast of IT. lumination," and it was usual either to display eight lamps on the first night of the festival, and reduce the number on each successive night or to begin with one lamp the first night, the number till the eighth night. The lights are supposed to be symbolical of the liberty obtained by the Jews on the day of which Hanuk- kah is the celebration.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
Fifty Men and One Elephant.

Interesting tests were once made to determine the respective pulling pow CT of horses, men and elephants. Two horses, weighing 1000 pounds each, together pulled 3,75O pounds, or $50 pounds more than their combined weight. One elephant, weighing 12.OOO pounds, pulled S,75O pounds, or 3,250 pounds less than his weight. Fifty men, aggregating about 7,5OO pounds in weight, pulled s,75O pounds, or just as much as the single elephant. But, Ike the horses, they pulled more than their own weight. One hundred men pulled 12,0O0 pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
GOES BACK TO OLD EGYPT
Legend of Cinderella, Almost Uni versaI, Believed to Have Come
 From Ancient Memphis.

Cinderella and the legend surround ing her glass slipper is believed to have originally come from ancient Memphis. In the ruins of this buried city lies the pyramid of RhodOpis, who lived at Naucratis, and was incom- parably beautiful and chaste. One day when RhOdOpis was bathing an eagle flew through the open ceiling of her bathroom and plucked from her maids hands the sandal which she was just about to lace about her mistress foot
 The eagle then flew to Memphis, where the king was administering jus tice in one of the courts of the palace, and, lowering above the king, dropped the sandal, which fell into the folds of the kings garment. He examined the sandal and found it so small and love- ly that he bade his servants search all Egypt till they should find the woman whom it would fit.
 Rhod0pis was found in Naucratis and carried to the king, who married her. She died after a few months happiness and the disconsolate king had one of the costliest pyramids of antiquity built in her memory. In the first century B. c. the priests of Mem phis were wont to exhibit a sandal in a crystal shrine which, they declared, once belonged to RhOdOpis, miraculous ly preserved through many centuries. The sarcophagus and the mummy of Rhodopis have entirely vanished and her pyramid is little more than ruin, but her legend lives in every land.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
Paris of Henri Landru, the modern Bluebeard.

{ Paris of Henri Landru, the modern Bluebeard.
 Although Landru was indicted. tried and promptly convicted of the murder of only about dozen of his , wives, the French police, who spent five years collecting the evidence, feel certain that Landru wooed, won, robbed and murdered most, if not all, of the two hundred and eighty three women whose names they found in his private papers, and who vanished from the face of the earth after Landru made their acquaint- ance.
 The figure of old Bluebeard and his castle has typified for centuries the wholesale wife murder, but the modern Bluebeard. Landru, has eclipsed all records, the police be- lieve, as a destroyer of women.
 Landru is closely guarded in jail under sentence of death, and is hop ing for an appeal and a new trial to save his neck from the guillotine.
 But what every woman-and man, too-wants to know is just how Landru won those 23S wives, this whether he is ultimately convicted of murdering them or not. There is no doubt, though, that he did make scores of marriages and that many women loved him. After consider able hesitation the great French multiple husband has consented to reveal his methods of love making, and in next Sundays New York American he tells how he won these hosts of women's hearts and reveals, besides, some of the hitherto un- known secrets of his extraordinary career.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
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The Storedup Sunshine of Other Ages Is Handed A..~. Down Heritage to Modern
 Civilization
(Told in Eight Sketches) By JOHN RAYMOND
! No. VI
 PREHISTORIC SUNSHINE

Coal may well be described as pre- historic sunshine. Ages before the dawn of our own era vast forests cov- cred large portions of the earth's sur face. In this ancient vegetation were stored up the treasures of nature and after the lapse of ages 1t became the heritage of civilization.
 T For centuries after it came into use coal was looked upon as valuable on'y as fuel Later coke was obtained from it, then sulphur and 1amDblack, and finally gas for purposes of Hltmjnatior. That seemed to be the limit of it's pos abilities a few years ago but today it would be difficult 10 enumeratc al tie articles of commerce extracted from its by-products.
 Coal contains a 1ittle. of everything that goes to make up trees but it would be a mistake to imagine that everything that comes out of coal tar is contained within it. While there are only about a dozen primary products extracted from coal tar, from these the chemist is able to develop hundreds Of thousands of new substances. This is synthetic chemistry, or the process of building up intricate compounds step by step.
 Raw material for the development of these coal tar by-products-wa mate ria1s, fertilizers, colors, drugs and ! host of other things-eXists in abund- ance in this country, but we must be sufficiently interested in Our future
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
No Real Cause for Alarm.

Einstein's theory that space may not be of infinite extent seems to have obtained indorsement by many emil nent physicists. Nevertheless, 1t would not appear that If this idea be ac- cepted, the cosmos Is to be regarded as alarming1y shrunk. For Einstein's own opinion Is that a ray of light travelling 1S6,00O miles a second would require a billion years to make a con- Dlete circuit of its outer limits
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
She Would Know Them.

Seven-year-oId Elizabeth was shop ping with her mother when the fol- lowing conversation took place:
 Mother, why does Santa Claus al- ways wear false face?"
 "He has to wear false face so the children won't recognize him."
 Well he didn't put anything over on<me. I took particular notice of his hands and they're real old hands. I'd know that pair of hands anywhere" Elizabeth asserted.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
All the Symptoms.

"Was Mir. Grabcoin in his office when you called?"
 "No, he must have been playing golf"
 Are you sure about this?"
 Reasonably sure. The office force seemed to think he wouldn't be back soon. Most of the clerks had their feet up on their desks and three stenOgraphers were glued to tele- phones" Age-Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

paper and paint.
 New wonders are constantly being discovered in coal tar Recently a French scientist succeeded in produc- ing several small but perfect diamonds and synthetic rubies have been on the market for some time. Instead of sending traders on perlous quests to the four corners of the world for needed things a man may now stay at home and trust to the chemists to pro- duCe every necessity and most of the luXuries. No longer need we be de- pendent upon the potash deposits of Germany if we make our own fertili- gers. Far off rubber trees are not so important if We manufacture our own rubber in the laboratory.
 Br. .gadier-General Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Ser vice, U. s. A., n recent paper said:
 "What thrill it must have given the German himself when he r6aiized the almost limitless power the control of the dye industry would give him when W2ging. war. He felt that with that control he cold win ir a war against the whole world. And few indeed are they Th0 know just how close Ger may cane to -'innirc that war. The lesson which that bit of history teaches IS is 10 III k" Orrsclves masters of the chem 'o2l 'us'rv 1T all it's ramihca- lions, resting secure in the knowledge that if we do SO no power on earth can ycrcOmc IFS for lack of war materials" D.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Exception to the statement of Gen. Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, that poison gas is humane" is taken by William F. Deegan, head of the American Le- zion of New York. He cites X-ray proof to show that 50 percent of the states tubercular war veterans are victims of gas.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

goes back to the C o Tor in d ustry. This is not a large business in itself but it certainly is a strategic one be- cause American in dustries employing g more than two mil lion workers and producing approXi-
 natcly three billion dollars worth of products every year are directly dcpen- dent upon dyes. Take, for instance
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

1 n d e p endencc to- save 1t. We can not go on indcf- nately wastir g b:l- lions of d ollars s worth of t!,;s inval- uab1e substance if in future years VIC hope 70 st"nd on n eve" footing with those n" tiCns tAot lon g h2vH' :ccoE- niz"d it's vnlne
 IT." develop ueut of these products and co n ? o un;1
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Kings and tinkers and makers of books-all are out of a job. In one week three American Legion post adiutants applied for work at the Municipal Employment Bureau in New York City.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

"Move the house and you can have it." With this injunction, the Car bondale, Pa., post of the American Legion rolled up its sleeves and be- came possessed of a large, commo- dious mansion for it's clubhouse.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

7. ''Down with the stars and stripes, yelled c. E. Swazey at(a meeting of the American Legion post at Marion, o. Just as President Harding's fel- low citizens were rolling up their sleeves they learned he was only mimicking the mating call of the BolshevikJ
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

70 please send me a man" pleaded frenzied voice over the telephone. Rufus Bethea, American Legion's employment manager in Birmingham, Ala, seized baseball bat and went. All he had to rescue was a Persian kitten.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

A light wines and beer bill "so1e1y" to provide revenue for the payment of soldiers bonus is opposed by a Syracuse, N. Y, post of the Ameri- can Legion.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

The right of the Navy department to make notation on sailors official record two years after his discharge has been denied by Assistant Secre- tary Roosevelt on appeal of the American Legion of New York.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
ohlnotIon to Classic Dancing.

Jud Tunkins says he doesn't like amateur classic dancing because 1t reminds him of the way summer boarders act of an evening when the mosquitoes are bad.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

It took 50 American Legion ex- soldiers just "A hours to build four room and bath house in Los Angeles for a disabled buddy whose home was destroyed by fire.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Stephen F.. Tillman, youngest war veteran, enlisted at IA years. His story was reported by the American Legion post at Washington, D. C., and within a week he had received two offers to join the movies and had been elected fire marshall of Rainier, Md, his home town.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Four years behind in his reading, Henry Hustenden, German farmer of Manorville, L. l., has just run onto the battle of Chateau Thierry, and now he's so excited he can't work. In the summer Hustenden raises berries, in the winter he sits and listens to his wife read world events from a chronological collection of ' German newspapers. His wife reads slowly, and Hustenden (unable to read himself) with stolid, Teuton thoroughness has never allowed her to skip.
 "Didn't you know this country was in the war;" member of the Ameri- can Legion asked him. "Ja", said \Hustenden, "but I wasn't interested because I hadn't got to it yet in the papers,"
 sIt's all over now", said the Le- gionnaire, heartily.
 "Ach, not for me!' replied Illus tenden, returning to his wife and the pile of papers.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Forty-eight posts of the American Legion were chartered during the week ending January 20 Missouri led with seven posts, while Illinois and Wisconsin tied for second with six each.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02
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ing pins to two brides of American Legion men at initiation exerclses or the Vinton, Ia, unit of the Auxiliary
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Atlantic City, N. J., as the site for the 1923 national convention of the American Legion is being urged by members of the Legion post there
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

A man who said he was Warren Gamaliel Harding, president of the United States, was recently picked up on the streets of New York, the butt of promiscuous jokes. American Legion men took him aside and found him to be Lawrence Leedy, ex-sol- dier, suffering from mental disorders apparently due to injuries received in service. They placed him under observation at Bellevue hospital.
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

Love Confessions of a
 French "Bluebesrd" The whole civilized world read with considerable interest the brief cabled reports of the recent trial in
Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

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Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

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Connecticut western news., 1922-02-02

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
FEED TREES DYE TO MAKE
HARDWOOD.

Berlin, Oct. II (By mail to United
Press) .-Several acres Of dyed" o.
"vaccinated" trees are growing in the
vicinity of Hanover, their leaves red
and black and other unusual colOrs,
their wood similarly stained.
This is the result of the newest
achievement of German science, which
converts ordinary wood into an imita-
ton hard wood by feeding the tree
dyes while it grows. The process can
be further amplified, so that an actua,
hardwood-mahogany, ebony and so
on-is developed under hydraulic pres
sure.
Holders of patents for the new pro-
cess say that they will make the Ger
man furniture industry Independent of
import of costly foreign woods, while,
with the hardening process it is eX-
pected that a substitute for hard
woods in furniture making and in
bobbin manufacture will be achieved
at low prices.
The Overseas Week IN Hamburg
displayed a number Of samples Of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
IDLE ROASTING

The English oyster season has
opened and the London gOurmetS are
tucking in their napkins with such
a hustle that the news of their JOY
has been put on the cables and
brought lear over to be printed IN
our papers -.
Not only that, but they have been
boasting about the number of oysters
their champions can eat, specific
mention being made of ole enthu-
siast who put away $40 at a sitting.
This sounds prodigious, but we are
not impressed. The average English
oyster is not more than quarter as
biz as a moderate Lynnhaven; the
GENTLEMAN in quest on therefore ate
scant eight dozen, according to our
calculation, which is nothing at all
to spend cable tolls on.
The English will not boast about
that aspect of the feat which makes
it truly remarkable. The English
oyster. even the famous "WhitStablc
native" is about the color of wheat
field at Christmas and tastes exactly
like a dollar watch. To eat $40 OF
such oysters is a feat, but not the
kind that your American Ion vivant
would care to Observation-Disclosures
/ Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
SUPREME COURT POWERS ARE
TO BE DEFENDED.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-The Amcri-
can Security league, in statement
just made public, says:
THE most powerful minority If
the country today, which has a way
of getting what it wants, even at The
risk of the general interest of the
citizens as a whole, and whose whis-
pers ring as shouts in the ears of the
average legislator, announce their de-
termination to obtain amendment Of
the constitution to permit Congress
to override and nullify decisions of
the supreme court This is the most
dangerously destructive doctrine tina;
has been voiced in America since the
birth of bolShevism.
"Such an amendment would con
vert our government overnight into
mobocracy under the leadership OF
the demagogues and destroy by one
blow the inherent rights of ali
minorities against the possible
tyranny of a temporary political
majority.
"The National Security league in
tends to exert every effort in its
power to controvert this movement
and to prevent such an amendmen:
from passage. The fact that the at
tack is by an organized body of hun
dreds of thousands of citizens makes
it essential that broad national cam
paign of opposition be started al
once"
Luckily for the nation, large NAL
ority of legislators in both Houses OF
Congress, regard the proposal to vest
power in Congress to review ST.
preme court decisions as wholly
against the spirit of the scheme Of
government which has made the
United States the nation whic hit is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18

The Federal government is
showing a disposition to back
away from the Daugherty ruling.
Embassy liquor is not to be inter
ferred with, so as the foreign
gentlemen will notice it. The
President has once more extended
the time for enforcing the new
regulations and may ask for
some notifications by Congress.
The appeal has been made to dry
voters. but after the domestic
political benefits shall have been
garnered. it begins to appear as Ii
foreign interests are to have little
to complain of.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM WILL
NOT DOWN.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-"Big as the
United States is" said a Senator yes
terday, you can't continue to pour
the scum Of Europe into it in
definitely and not in the end fill it
with dregS of humanity. y
Congressman Albert johnson
washington State), quotes some
startling figures in support of this
idea. He says:
New York city has doubled her
population in the last few years. Her
foreign-born population is $50 per
cent. A study of the 1920 census
figures made by Dr.. Walter Laidlaw,
executive secretary Of the New York
city 1920 census committee, shows
that New York city has a foreign
white-stock population as large as the
whole population of Chicago, Detroit.
and Boston; hat the Russian ele-
ment is larger than the population
Of Warsaw, and that there are l0O,-
600 more Italians there than in
! Naples. The leading foreign ele-
ments in New York city in 1920, ac-
cording to Dr.. Laidlaw, are as fol
lows:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18

Russian, 1886; Italian, SO2, 1898;
Irish. 637,744: Austrian and Hun
garian, COZ, 1877; German, 593,199.
"Therc arc 13,92O,692 foreign born
in the United States, according to the
1920 census. Many of them are un-
able to speak English, and still
larger number can not read it
There seems TO escape from the
idea that this nation must do one OF
three things: Initiate an Americana
cation program which will really
make Americans out of our large for
eign-born population, restrict immi-
grafton so drastically that only the
higher type of foreigners can get into
and remain in this country, or be
content gradually to overflow the
melting pot and become a hybrid ma
ton of Q hundred nationalities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
MICHIGAN FUEL LAW SIGNED

Lansing, Mich. Oct. lS.-Michigan's
new fuel control measure, passed at
special session of the Legislature
last week, became law yesterday with
he signing of the bill by Cow Groes-
Deck and was promptly invoked when
he governor certified to the secretary
If state that an emergency exists.
a survey of coal and coke supplies
throughout the State will be under
aiken Immediately to determine where
shortages obtain and where 1t Will
be necessary for the State fuel ad..
ministration to direct shipments OF
uel to avert possible famine.
Under the terms of the law the adj
has authority to fix MAY
mum prices or fair margins Of profit
in any locality,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
MILLER HEADS TRADE BUREAU

Promotion of Walter L. Miller, of
Washington. to be chief of the foreign
service division of the bureau Of for
eign and domestic commerce was ap.
proved yesterday by Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover The task of pro-
noting the growth of American for
ign trades as well as supervising the
activities of government commercial
agents in foreign fields will be under
MS direction.
Mr.. Miller has been assistant chief
If the division, and succeeds II. Dot.
.erer, who has been assigned as chef
If another division. Previous to his
attachment with the bureau Mr.. Mil
er vas in government service abroad
with headquarters in London. lie Is
he author of works on foreign com
mercial service and economics.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-18
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against an ally, but because the
envoy tells what must be done If
war is not yet to result. He con-
cludeS:
"The conference must not be
delayed much longer il peace is
to be maintained, because Renal
Pasha can not withhold in
definitely his victorious army and
leaders who naturally desire their
capital. In regard to Thrace the
Turkish commanders main point
was that unless the allies gave
rigid guarantees that the Greeks
would not burn the towns in
their retreat, the Turks would only
find a shell, with nothing in it
when they actually occupied the
country. The Turkish national
lists were right because have the
actual proof that the Greeks, in
retreating from Anatolia, burned
and pillaged worse than the Ger
mans ever conceived OF doing.
There was not a city or town
in the line OF retreat in Anatolia
that the Greek army did not burn
more savagely and wantonly than
the Germans ever did. The Greeks
made 100000 Turkish men,
women and children homeless by
burning more than 100000
homes.
Once more we are reminded
that this Near East imbroglio is
a good one to keep out Of, save
in so far as our activities may be
inspired by humanitarian consid-
erations. PERHAPS some one in the
Near East will appreciate our Ell
forts in this direction, even il
Europe raS not seemed to do so.