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ground" The town had gone, but
the Lincoln associations remained.
In recent years the "Old Salem
Lincoln league" has been formed
at Petersburg for rebuilding and
re-establishing Old Salem, which
will be known as New Old Sa-
lem." Some of the original log
buildings, which had been moved
from New Salem to Petersburg.
have been returned to New Old
Salem and again placed on the
original sites. The first building
restored was the Onsott cooper
shop. Other log homes and stores
have been rebuilt upon the old To-
cations and the buildings are in
every respect to duplicate the orig
inals of Lincoln's day. Old-timers
who have visited the scene and
who recall the region from stories
related by fathers and grandfa-
theirs, when New Salem was
thriving center, testify TO the fidel-
ity Of the reconstruction.
AS the visitor passes along
main Street" markers are seen
telling to whom the homes and
stores belonged. The association
has also built Of native stones
memorial building that houses
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To Ann Rutledge
fBel0ved of Lixcoln(

IRON Sand Ridge farm to Con.
4 cord burial ground,
Along with thee. that fateful
August day,
They also took thy lovers soul
With thee to lay beneath the som.
Der mound.
He hardly heard the dull, depress.
ing sound
Caused by the impact Of the
clods of clay
Upon thy bier; nor could he cry
or pray,
Though all he'd lost to which his
life was bound.
LIE SAW thee land the picture
IL crushed his heart)
Alone out there in rain and
storm and dark;
Thy cornsilk hair, thy mouth.
thy bright blue eyes.
That in his heart to a fame had
famed the spark!
Thy memory. sweet Ann, we
love and prize,
Fate ne'er called one to play sad.
der part.
"A Nicoll Weber.
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shrine will remove the last veStige
of the cloud that for many years
hung over the legitimacy of Lin
coins birth.
The cabin will hc in the center
of the church. In the cabin Will be
an altar and Il Bible.
When Thomas Lincoln, then
twenty-eight years old. ana Nancy
Hanks a twCnty-three- yeHr-0!d
orphan and domestic. were married
in this cabin June H.. 1906 it stood
Oh Beach fork in the adjoining
county of Washington. The cprr-
mony was typical harkWo0'is
wedding. with Rev. Jesse Head. =
Methodist circuit rider. the o!!i-
ciating clergyman. The cabin was
owned by Richard Berry. Nancy's
guardian.
There was Washington county
tradition that Linc0In'S parents
had been married in the "Dirk
Berry cabin" but there were no
records to prove it until 1878.
when William F. Brooker. then
county clerk. discovered the mar
riage bond signed by Thomas Lin
coin and Berry. dated June 10,
1906, and marriage return GER
tifying the wedding by Rev. Mr..
Head.
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Lincoln's Early Years
Long Record of Defeat

Surprising as it may seem, Abra-
ham Lincoln was probably the out
standing failure of American pol
itics of his day until he was past
fifty and almost at the threshold
of the White House. Only indom-
table courage finally carried him
to the peak of success. points out
i. G. Forbes, summarizing the
Emancipator's career in McClure'S
Magazine.
AT twenty-three Lincoln was
defeated as candidate for the IL
linois legislature" notes Forbes.
Before he was thirty he was a
candidate for speaker of the house
in Illinois and was defeated. Two
years later he was defeated sec
ond time for the same office. At
thirty-four he was candidate for
congress and was defeated. At
thirty-tive he was defeated for
Presidential electOr. at forty he
failed to become commissioner OF
the general land office. At forty
three he was again defeated as a
candidate for Presidential eIector.
At fOrty-six he ran for the United
States senate and was defeated.
At forty-seven he was a candidate
for the nomination for the Vice
Presidency and was defeated. AT
forty-nine heswaS defeated sec
Ond time as a candidate for the
senate" .-...,.. .,-.... .,-......-..-,......
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True Type Of
Rugged Men
of Frontier

Lincoln was patriot given the
country ny the frontier. Ameri
cans of today might have trouble
IN understanding how and from
what hands or conditions the from
tier families received the torch of
natriOtisU which they passed ON
burning from carrier to carrier,
from generation. tn generation.
Iiere was something finer than no.
blesse 0hli@e. fine us that is. These
frOnti"rSmen were not responding
to the AriStOrrat'S principle that
he who has the most from the lanh
sha! return t0 it the greatest Srrv-
ice, that he shall bc the first into
the breach. the last to leave field
and the first to attempt its rocoy-
cry.
That nobility is one Of cOmpen-
satjOns, Of rewards and merits, of
privilege honorHbly paid fer. The
great American pioneer families
did not have the best Of it. Much
of the time they had tha worst of
it. They seemed to get little from
their country. 1t could have been
to them us much Of an abstraction
as it was a reality. 1t frequently
was Indifferent to them and just
as often it was obstructive and
hostile.
Sometimes it failed to protect
them and sometimes it restrained
them from defending themselves.
At times the frontier was restless
and even rebellious when govern
ment seemed hostile or careless,
but it gave the country Jackson, Il
great UniOnist, and Lincoln,
greater. Americans in favored
circumstances now and earlier
have been found pallid in their al
legiance to the country which gave
them opportunity. but at need the
frontier has been stanch.
WashingtOn's devotion to his
country is heightened by the fact
that his natural inclination toward
established order and the allie
glance inherent in his aristOcratic
position could very we'll have at
tached him to the home govern
ment. He gave his complete 10y
atty 10 new concept called his
country. putting at hazard all the
advantages a high place in life
contained for him.
Lincoln in his youth represented
the frontier hOpe!essness of fam
lily which had receded generation
by generation from competence to
what may be regarded as incom
petence, from opportunity to the
lack of it, from good land to poor
Various generations of the family
had found themselves progressive
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Behold! The timbers rough. the lin
tel low,
The homely fireplace where he
sought the light
And warmth that only such place
could know.
The door that opened to world of
might.
Stand here and feel the longing that
could change
This home for thai one highest in
the land.
Look at this hearth. Of circumstances
strange,
Think Of his soul-Gre by ambition
famed.
Remember how his great heart
tllrObbed and beat
Remember how his great brain un.
dersi0Od.
The long. hard road that stretched
before his feet,
The evolution Of his brotherhood.
And bow your head. let quick tears
, flow today.
He. from this dark beginning, found
-Kalfus Kurtz Gushing, in the Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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ly less capable OF getting much
from the country and found 1t Of
fering less and less to them. Then
from the retrogressing stock the
great Unionist came, when he was
most needed. He was a humani-
tartan. He hated slavery. He
wanted to improve the common lot.
but his inspiration was not found
in any of these qualities or in like
emotions and sentiments. They
were all subOrdinated to his devO-
tiOn to the country. He never
considered satisfying his altruistic
desires at the expense of the ma
tion. There were many Ameri-
cans who would have done so. He
had much trouble with them.
Lincoln accepted war not to
free the slaves but to save the ma
ton. He freed the slaves by the
emancipation proclamation, not to
abolish slavery but to preserve the
Union. He answered the hostile
aristocracy of Great Britain by his
appeal to the British commoner. 1t
was the strategy of the statesman
and not the declaration of the
humanitarian. The South had
misunderstood him, thinking that
he would nullify the Constitution
and destroy the nation to attack
slavery. Abolitionists in the North
tried to force him to extreme meas
ures. PacifistS tried to make him
compromise. Traitors tried to de-
strOy confidence in him and to per-
suade the people Of the hopeless
ness of his purpose. Defeatists,
who were timid but not disloyal.
urged the abandonment of the
costly effort to preserve the Union.
There was only one considera-
tiOn which prevailed in LincOln's
intention and that was the inviola-
bility of his country. 1t was i'm
pregnable and could not be mOdi.
fed by pressure ut home or from
abroad. 1t was proof against for
eign diSsension and dislOyalty at
home. 1t resisted altruists, weak
linSs and traitors.
Lincoln was nationalist. Fills
hUmanitHrianiSm was Subordinai ed
to his cOuntry's goOd.-ChicagO
Tribune.
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Lincoln Marriage Home
to Be National Shrine

The rude log cabin at Harrods-
burg, Ky. in which the parents OF
Abraham Lincoln were married. is
to be made a national shrine dedi-
Gated to prayer and marriage.
The building. copy of Ken
tucky Baptist church of 1900. will
be dedicated June II, 1881. the one
hundred and iwenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the marriage of Thomas
Lincoln and Nancy TANKS.
Citizens Ot HarrOdsburg. the
only Colonial town west of the AL
leghenies and the place where
George Rogers Clark conceived his
conquest Of the Northwest. say the
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Rutledge Tavern. Salem.

many articles that belonged to Lin
coin and his immediate associates
the piano that was used at the
wedding of Lincoln and Mary
Todd, the side saddle used by Ann
Rutledge, Lincoln'S surveying in
struments and numerous manu-
scripts.
Thus it is that New Old Salem
has become a second Mount Ver-
non. 1t lacks the grandeur of
WashingtOn's dwelling, but it is
shrine of logs. perpetuating the
simplicity and the poverty of the
Lincolns. To many it makes an
appeal far greater than any other,
since it exempIifies the old Amer
ican teaching that the poor and
the lowly may rise to honor.
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Humble Cabin
Was Lincoln's
Home College

Modern universities cover many
scres of land. boast towering struc-
lures valued at millions and en-
paoy small army Of instructors.
Yet, in the crude little One-room
log hut at Salem. ILL.,. now pre-
served as one of Americas shrineS
to the memory of Abraham Lincoln,
we may look upon the now world
famous "fire-lit home college" of
century ago, Fart w. Gays writes,
in the Philadelphia Ledger.
Here in this Illinois cabin was
tsoru that mastery of English that
later thrilled nation into action
and contributed nObly to our lit
eTature.
The Henry Onsott cabin is we'll
preserved, and nearby at hand is
the famous Rutledge cabin. where
in resided the family with whom
young Lincoln boarded for five
years. between 1882 and 1897. and
where he became the lover of beau
tifuI Ann Rutledge.
Then, at the left of the hill. we
may see the old McNamer store,
leading mercantile establishment"
back in 1888. The right room was
gIsed by the firm Of Berry and Lin
cOlu, grocers and general mer-
chants, and here Abe told some of
those famous yarns.
Although these structures in "Oid
Salem" rebuilt to become New
Salem. may appear us barnlike
buildings. all are in good state of
preservation. They rise from his
eoric ground. These "clearings"
were continually the scene of In
dian warfare and many modern
structure would soon fall before the
terrible onsiaughts these cabins
= withStOOd.
Inn Community Center.
The Rutiedge log cabin, for ex-
ample, was superior to the average
American home of the pioneer set
Elements of the Middle West Of u
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though no attention had been given
to the old structures for half q
century, save ny passing tramps,
who sought shelter under the ieaky
roofs. the cabins were found in a
fair State of preservation.
SO much so that the committee
found it possible to rebuild the
structures. a shrine to the memory
of Lincoln and Salem. Decayed
logs have been replaced, the roofs
patched, the grass cut in the front
yard. so that present and future
generations may look upon the
scene as young Lincoln saw it.
Town Of Salem.
Beside the Rutledge cabin there
is the Onsott cabin, where Lincoln
tOued in Henry OnsOtt's cooper
shop by day and saved plentiful
heaps of shavingS to burn in the
fireplace at night. Serving both as
a place Of industry and home,
and substantially constructed, this
cabin was found in a good state,
even the crude stone chimney and
fireplace standing.
The location of New Old Salem,"
to which multitude of modern
tourists now wend their way each
year, is at point where the San
Canon river. winding its way from
the southeast, turns sharply west
ward in its course, and, striking
high bluff, turns abruptly north.
The high bluff extends north and
south for about q third of mile,
with ridge extending westward
from a center, giving the impress
sion Of the letter CT" On either
side of the bluff is small brook
that empties into the Sangam0n.
On this location John Cameron
and James Rutledge in 1928 and
1929 had r. S. Harrison lay out
the town of New Salem.
Cameron from Georgia and Rut-
ledge from South Carolina were
millwrights. They threw dam
across the SangamOn and settlers
soon began to arrive from Ken
lucky, Georgia and the CarOlinaS.
During February. 1880, when Lin
coin was twenty-one, his father,
| Thomas; his stepmother, and the
family of Dennis Hanks settled on
the north fork of the Sangamon,
some ten miles southwest of De-
catur. Ill.
Where Lincoln Studied.
LincOln's arrival in New Salem
was about August, 1881. and he
boarded at the Rutledge inn. Dur
ing the years before he went to
Springfield he worked as grOcer's
clerk and in the Onsott cooper
shop. where he studied at night
by the light Of the fireplace. and
at various odd jobs as surveyor.
1t was here that Lincoln gained
his reputation for wrestling, or
''rassling." as he would have called
| it then. Wrestling matches were
to the young men of the West
what football, baseball and other
sports are to the youth of today.
The clerk in that country store be-
came the undisputed champion in
that part Of Illinois.
1t was from New Salem that
Lincoln enlisted in the Black
Hawk war and came back some
thing of hero. Then, after lit
tie electiOneering for elective offices
he settled down to storekeeping
with IAN idle fellow named Berry"
/ and soon obtained the undisputed
control of the trade of the village.
About the time he left New Sa-
lem for Springfield the town Of
Petersburg was planned and the
entire village Of New Salem-resi-
dents, homes and stores-was
moved to Petersburg, and New
Salem again was back as farming
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Appeal for Friendship

We are not enemies but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though
passion may have strained, 1t must
not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield
and patriots grave to every living
heart and heartlstone all over this
broad land. will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again
touched, as surely they will be, by
the better angels of our natures.-
From Lincolns inaugural address,
March 4, 1861.
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Home of Conspirators
National Capital Sight

At G04 Fl street. n. W.. Washing
ton. still stands the house where
cOnSpilai0rS in the assassination
of President Lincoln met. Mrs.
Mary L. Surratt here conducted IL
boarding house. With three other
pIOttprs, she was hanged in the old
Washington arsenal in July, 1869.
The house was built long before
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century ago. Besides providing a
comfortable habitation for the large
family, it became popular center
and inn to those who followed the
wilderness trail. Beside it's hos
pitable fireplace were entertained
many famous trail-blazers, whose
names are now inscribed in bold
letters in the story of the winning
OF the West" Under Lincoln's
youthful humOr, with AIMS maid
eniy calmness and sweetness, it,
was the community center Of many
an evening OF pioneer entertain
znent.
Nearly a century later, when low
ers Of Lincoln discovered the ,aban-
doRed community going to ruin,
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Favored Woman Suffrage

AS early as 1886 Lincoln made
speech in which he said: Il go for
all sharing the privilege of the
government who assist in bearing
it's burdens. Consequently, 1 go
for admitting all whites to the
rights Of suffrage who pay taxes
or bear arms, by no means exclud-
ing females" -.............-..
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Last Witness of Tragedy

Henry {. Harris. ninety-year-old
Union veteran of the Civil war and
believed to have been the last sur
viving witness of the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln, died at his
home at Berryville. Ark, last year,
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ANY BABY

WE can never be sure just what
w makes an infant restless, but
the remedy can always be the same.
Good old Castorial There's comfort in
every drop of this pure vegetable prep
aration, and not the slightest harm in its
frequent use. AS often as Baby has a
fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can't
sleep, let Castoria soothe and quiet him.
Sometimes it's touch of colic. Some
times constipation. Or diarrhea
condition that should always be checked
without delay. Just keep Castoria handy
and give it promptly. Relief will follow
very promptly; if it doesn't you should
call physician.
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Surratt House.

the Civil war. The lower floor now
sells apparatus to home brewers.
The Ford theater, scene OF the
shooting Of Lincoln, is not so far
away. The latter is now used as
an army recruiting station and
storehouse for government records.
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Faith in Public Opinion

Public opinion though often
formed on a wrong basis, yet gem
orally has strong underlying
sense of justice.--Lincoln.
The Washington times., 1931-02-27
Y. w. G.. A. Sponsors
NeighbOrhOOd Fete

The feature of a family COM
munity night" TO be held at the
Y. w. C. A., Seventeenth and K
Sts., Saturday evening, will be
an illustrated lecture by DR.. Hat-
old c. Bryant. of the National
Park Service, Department of Ag-
riculture, on Movies of Our Ma
tional Parks.
A community sing under the d.
rection of Mrs. Wilson Compton
will precede the lecture.
The Washington times., 1931-02-27
Girl Scouts to Plan
Nations Fete TODAY

An organization meeting in
preparation for the annual spring
festival, ''The Festival of Nations, e"
which is held here during cherry
blossom time under the auspices
Of the Girl Scouts of the Dis
trict of Columbia from April q
to May 2. will be held tonight
at the Carleton Hotel at Z
O'Clock.
The Washington times., 1931-02-27
INDIA TEA IS
A MANS TEA!

INDIA TEA has won men! They like it's
A"hcft'' . it's (MlI-bOdied favor. II is by
no means q weak beverage. =. NOT ''waIery
excuse for tea II has . why richness and
. satisfying substs niiality that men have
lalways wished for in tea. That is why
American men are giving India Tea The pref
ference. That is why they are drinking it
daily. :. at home, ~ clubs, restaurants and
hotels. every where that men gather.
india Tea or blends Of tea containing India
Tea are available IN over one hundred diff
ferent brands. All these brands bear the
Map Of India on their labels. Choose one
for Your home tea service.
The Washington times., 1931-03-30
AD MEN MEET
IN BOSTON

Herbert v. Prochnow, Of the
advertising department of the
First National Bank of Chicago,
has been appointed general pro-
gram chairman for the Financial
Advertisers Association Conven-
ton in Boston, September 14-17.
Mr.. Prochnow will have gen.
eral charge of making arrange
ments for the various depart
mentals such as trust develop
ment, business development, in
vestment and savings. His plans
are to invite many prominent
speakers whose authority on
these various subjects is recog-
nized.
The Financial Advertisers AS
sociation has chosen for its
theme at the Boston convention,
THE Creative Force in Finance"
The Washington times., 1931-03-30
MAY STORE NET.
S4,080,953

Net income Of the May Depart
ment Stores Company for the
year ended January 81, 1881, was
$4,0s0,953, equivalent to 5000
share on 1,345,244 shares capital
stock outstanding. This com.
pares with net income of $6,174s
925 in the preceding year. equal
to $4.75 a share on 100000
shares outstanding at the close Of
that year.
Net sales for year ended jan
uary 81, 1881, totaled SOL, 1885,.
228. against $112,724,225 a year
previously, a decrease Of $11,087,-
997, or 9.84 per cent.
Balance sheet shows the com.
pany to be in particularly
strong position. with current as
sets of $36,615,475 opposed to cur
rent liabilities of only $5,759,4 ,436,
ratio of 6.3 to /.
The company's cash at $9,623.-
$40 was alone considerably in eX.
cess Of all liabilities other than
capital and surplus. At the pre-
ceding year end Mays ratio Of
current assets to current liabilities
was As to /.
Inventories of merchandise on
hand and in transit January 81,
1881, totaled $14,974,294, against
$17,405,471 a year before, a de-
crease Of $2,431,177, or 1897 per
cent. Inventories have been
valued conservatively on the basis
of cost or market, whichever was
lower
The Washington times., 1931-03-30
STOCK KREBOUND.
SEEN AFTER
DECLINE
May Go to New Low, Though,
Before Permanent Upturn
Starts, Asserts Spectator
BY THE SPECTATOR

NEW YORK, March 3O.-The
decline in the stock market has
assumed so rapid a pace of late
that indications ~point to some
technical rebound as in order
from these levels, regardless of
the underlying trend of prices
over the longer pull.
AS measured by the Dow-Jones
industrial averages, the market
has fallen close 10 IA points
within the past seven sessions,
and it is possible that the heavy
selling in effect at Saturdays
abbreviated session may have
been in the nature of a temper
ary elimination.
May Go Lower
However, now that the lower
limits of the 178-187 trading
range have been definitely
pierced, the next set of resist
ance points are placed quite some
distance below, namely at the
166-172 level. The current stand
ing of the averages at the l74
mark cannot, therefore, be taken
to indicate a solid base, unless
an unexpected turn in the mar.
ket current can be negotiated.
It is unfortunate from the bull
standpoint that the market was
unable to have the sustaining
influence of improving business
news to tide it through the
period of dividend curtailments
and poor earnings reports.
It has been the theory through.
out the early stages of the spring
advance that anything in the
way of bad news to come to
light was water over the DAM"
with stocks intent solely upon
discounting future business i'm
provement.
Broker Loans Static
It is we'll to remember at this
time, that the same underlying
factor which precluded the prob
ability of heavy liquidation at the
end of last year still applies,
namely the current low total of
brokers' loans, which reflects the
absence of large speculative
public. The total of borrowings
now stands at $1,908, 100000 or
only 100000 above the total
of the first week in January.
In a survey of the tobacco
industry, Standard Statistics is
of the opinion that cigarette
shares will show considerable
appreciation from current levels
during periods of general market
strength. Should wholesale
cigarette prices be advanced, a
relatively sharp rise in stock
prices would unquestionably be
forthcoming.
American Tobacco is believed
to offer the best possibilities for
appreciation through the current
year in this section.