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HQNOi) SHOULD BE AMERICA'S Washington Man Really Was the Frsi to Demonstrate Possibilities of Wireless Telegraphy. ^ A flonfist Hvirff In Washington, D. G* Invented, patented and demon atrated wireless telegraphy before 31 arconi was born. Had it not been for the attitude of big newspapers and the stubbornness and lack of vision of congress, this country today would be enjoying the honor, distinction and credit of presenting wireless telegraphy to tti3 world. The name of this coiiinarativel.v unknown inventive gen ius is Mahlon Loomis. Back in the siicties and seventies he eked out a modest living by plugging molars and making "store" teeth for the politicians and social leaders of Washington. Doctor Loomis called bis discovery "aerial telegraphy." His first public demonstration was made in 1866 from the two peaks of the Blue Ridge mountaias in Virginia, some IS miles apart From each peak an ordinary was pWiitpri. ronnecied with an insulated copper wire attached at the lower end to a telegraphing apparatus. The operators of each party Were provided with telescopes, with which they could sight from one station to the other and read the signals. ^Vhen all was in readiness a message was sent by the doctor along riie wirs of his kite, sod-was received at tbe Station on the other mountain top just ts though the two kites had been connected with a wire in the ordinary way. In this manner communications Wfre kept tip until the fact was thoroughly demonstrated that telegraphing could be done as readily without as With connecting wires. > ' DOG RELAYS CAR OF 'PHONE Well-Trained Animal Said Never to j Make a Mistake in Notifying Alt. nis minreM! Not far from Boston lives a dog by tjie name of TImbnctoo, a dog which has never beefi trained but wbich of lii own accord acquired a "trick" which besides being clever is decidedly helpful. His home Is on a farm, which Is served by a seven-party telephone lfbe. The call at Thnbuctoo's house Iff.five bells, or as the toll operator would say, "Ring five." Wherever his distress Is when the Jeleph^ne rings $ve times Timbnctoo will go to her $nd give five short,, sharp barks. He Hs never been kBown to make a mistike either by barking more or less . titan five barks, or by calling his mistiness when the bell rings some other all. . In order to "show off Timbuctoo," bis mistress asks a neighbor to call her in a few minutes, then sbe goes T72Z 1 ?? ? ,r { ; . somewhere oat of range of the telephone, and Tirabuctoo never falls to jgve proof of his trustworthy summoning. ' * t y f, Cadets' Great Ricfe. t Two hundred and fifty senior cndets of Victoria, B. C., have recently competed a l,40d-miie ride on bicycles, feearing dispatches from the state commandant to the minister for defense. ^he small riders averagea more man 14 miles an hour, and they completed tfieir task 6 hours and 23 minutes x fibead of schedule. This fine performance roused public interest in the new system of cadet training, which has taken the place of tbe monotonous drill-yard evolutions." Australia is training its youngest soldiers to camaraderie, self-sacrifice, alertness ?nd a love of athletics. The story of tbe 1,400-mile ride against unex j#?cted obstacles has set a standard which will not be easily forgotten by tbe Australian boy. While tbe dispatch rfde has done much to direct dUtenUon to a happier system of training, it has also served to awaken the ftiterest of fathers and elder brothers. ' ft* * , if".-. Em# From th? Oritnt. ? '. A train of 25 cars, loaded entirely *tlh Japanese and Chinese eggs, lefl ^anoouver, B. C., the other day. bound &f New* York. The train was made mot nine carloads sent over from Seattle to be attached to sixteen caribads of eggs from the steamer Ejn press of Russia. The eggs from Seattle delivered bv Jananese liners The eggs, with the exception of 1,501 tfflfces for London, England, and 1,00C dxses for Montreal, were all consignee to New York. The shipment to th< bitter point consisted df approximate !y 17,500 cases of 30 and 36 dozer eaCh, -or about 6,500,000, more than ar for breakfast for every man, worn tn and child in New York city. Economy Carried to Excess. k tima Qorft nn Kppillf ft HIST A OIWIl .... 0 w *rbo was sitting beside me in a cafe terja "get away" with a large .fcgrger sandwich in three bites, al "mind your own business" policies were cast aside and I remarked. 41Yot must Intend to catth an out-of-towi train; you are in such a hurry." - He came back with, "Oh, no. Yoi see every one's' stomach requires * certain amount of meat and it is knowt that by gulping It it takes longer U digest. As meat is high I eat this wa: and by so doing I have to eat mea but every third day."?Exchange. I Past the Academic Stage. i r "Should women smoke?" asked tin man who likes to theorize. ' ^'hat isn't the question any longer,' said Mr. Gadspur. . ; "No?" "What we've got to decide now i ?i? ?.?,. /?,. nnt tiip additional fire risl n uemci vi .? caused fry u-omon smokers will jnstif. tb? insurance companies in raisinj U?e!r rates."?Birmingham Age-IIerald / O?MB?? wa?ll ! BUWIII ? 11 | ULWMig ; CITY VVAiTS TO BE CLOTHED : Jerusalem Far From Being Restored to the Glory That Has Been Promised Her. The view of Jerusalem as one leaves the Garden of Gethseniane draws the t heart with sympathy. The walls rise coi-orolv ohnva haro clnno: U'llAVP I CV ? VI VIJ UWV ? \/ VM* V ?<V? V I nothing grows, for it is outside of the f city proper that Biblical prophecies of > the desolation of Jerusalem seem to [ be fulfilled. Today the city stands midway bei tvseen the horrors of the Turkish regime and the promised good of the ? British mandatory rule. Nothing has ; been done as yet in a public nay to beautify the city. North and west the houses straggle outside the walls; on the south forbidding slopes border the road to Bethlehem, and on the east lies the terrible Valley of Jehosha; phat?a valley of dry bones, William D. McCracken writes in Asia Magai zine. Seventeen times destroyed?bitterly hated, anxiously sought?how desperate a history since Nebuchadnezzar captured It more than 25 centuries ago! Redeemed today, but in her nakedness, Jerusalem waits to be clothed, She has as yet no grace; no covering for her ugly wounds. Some day her I oirloc trill crliston with the* hriplitnpss of a heavenly radiance; she will he washed and anointed like a bride waiting for the bridegroom NOT REALLY A DEFORMITY Young Housewife Had Something to Learn Concerning the Physical Structure of a Duck. They dined out the other evening with some friends, where roast duck was the principal dish. Husband spAmprt to #>n1ov it so mneh that the little bride decided to surprise hira with a similar treat at their next day's dinner, although she had never cooked one in her life. The next morning when the duck arrived she proceeded to finish the cleaning, when suddenly she stopped and gofng to the telephone, she called up the butcher and told Itfm she wanted some one to come after that duck right away, as she would not if "Why?" asked the butcher. "Because It Is deformed," she replied, "and I could not eat a single mouthful." \ "But," said the perplexed man, "I personally cleaned that duck, and I thought at the time I had never seen a finer one. Just where is It deformed ?" "Why," she said, "on Its windpipe Is a hard growth that looks just like a shell." j As soon as the choking butcher could control his voice he called back: "Heavens, woman, that is the thing It quacks with." 1 <? x <$> ^ THE GREAT PRESIDENT *> <s> i <s> <$><$> ? <$> <$<?><?><$> <$ D. D. Wallace in S. C. Advocate Before another issue of The Advomto Wnndrnw Wilson will have ioin ed the ranks of American ex-presi. dents. He will stand securely among ; the small company of those who coni stitute the world's really great men. ! Like many another great statesman^ he retires under the burden of tem' porary unpopularity of political re, action. In this he is such company as Qrover Cleveland, William- E. Gladstone, Sir Robert Feel, and tne elder Pitt. / Dr. Charles W. Elliott, who, except for his support of Cleveland and Wilson is ranked as a republican, and it is needless to add the highest type of . republican, declared during the reI cent campaign that the democratic > party under Wilson's leadership had i accomplished more for the industrial, ' financial, political, and moral advancement of the American people in seven years than. the ^republican > nartv had in the 'previous thirty f X V -r > yeaiS. The truth of the statement I helps to explain why the party was ; driven so overwhelmingly from power. The ordinary, average citizen can ( stand only a certain amount of moral . uplift and moral stimulus in a given period. President Wilson understood from the first that much of his great work would have to be done quickly i if it were done at all. He did it. with - marvelous quickness. He pays the * temporary penalty; he will receive ' the permanent glory. ? i Accomplishments Under Wilson's ) Leadership The bare list of'the achievements 1 of the democratic party under President Wilson's leadership during his 3 first administration is a catalogue Y whose length is relieved of wcarit someness only by the stirring nature of its items. First, there came the only substantial reform in an iniquitous and out-of-date tariff that the 2 country had seen since 1857, and the ? country will never see any evry de t 1 * -X* X -L _ _ -1 J ciaea or lasting return to uie uiu s 666 quicklj relieves a cold.?Adv. * Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheumatism^ F Neuralgia, Sprains.?Adv. g r" I To prevent a cold take C>66.?Adv. system. Not resting with one great reform that would for the time have < satisfied the average president, he j launched immediately the program '1 for the financial reform that materi I alized in the Federal Reserve System,' the most wonderful achievement in, backing legislation that the world hasj ever seen. In the few years of its j existence it has made possible the; financing of the Great war with a fa- j cility that would have otherwise been ( impossible and has enabled the country to make the transition from the perilous conditions of war with a painful depression instead of a calamitous panic. There followed the Clayton anti-trust act and the Fed-i eral Trade commission designed to enable big business to render its indispensable service to the modern world without becoming a piratical outlaw. The income tax was intro-| duced, so as to adjust the burden of. taxes as they had never been adjusted before to the capacity to pay. The air was cleared of spoils politics by the simple announcement that the inaii WIIU huu^au jjuaiuuii uii LIIC IIICIC recommendation of politicians would be considered to have confessed his unfitness on his merits; and the merit system of appointment was extended to tens of thousands of postmasterships. Rural credits were established by the Federal Farm Loan banks. There is no exaggeration in giving r\ 1 a TTT'l 1 __ 1_ _ i-V . I I rresiaent wiison a iarge-parx 01 xne credit for these measures; for many if not most of them would have been impossible without his leadership. He belongs frankly to the school of publicists who believe in the necessity of vigorous executive leadership. Not only the history of England, France, Germany and Italy demonstrates the correctness of this view, but a glance over our own past tells the same story. It is the administrations of, the great and insistent personalities | that stand out in our history: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson. The forces that swirl and storm around the government of a great modern nation are so mighty, so divergent, so multitudinous, that the necessity of vigorous responsible executive leadership is greater than ever be- j fore. President Wilson immediately elevated the presidency to a'riew position of influence when he revived the ? custom of Washington in .delivering his great messages in person. It is safe to say that the world has never hung with such attention on the \ words of any other ruler as upon the | utterances of President Wilson when : addressing in person the two houses ! of congress: He has added dignity!' and influence to the great office he ! has held. As a War President The early months of his administration seemed to indicate that Presi-1 dent Wilson, like Mr. Gladstone, was; destined to be a great executive only; \ J in domestic reforms.- By a complex] fate he was led to the highest fame ^ as an international statesman. Abso-j lx+n nrno ctrilfilf fVj? lfPV IUIC III 4VJ w uo ovi UC1* v?w vmv note of his international policy when he demanded and secured from an unwilling congress the repeal of the act j of the previous administration ex-' empting American ships from tolls in j the Panama canal. We had promised, equality of treatment to the ships of, all nations; President Wilson held the ' nation to the ideal that American I F. B. Shad Smart I For Women The Fash At Pair Pr ty t< prom .. ion i 1921 I n 1 1 ^oiumDia selec March 28, bsyha; to April 2 raod? Yc row festa invit< Shac! youx; rrt? r* - I* 1 he Store ot Lou 1513 Main St. i good faith can not be permitted to' suffer even the suspicion of dishonor.' Wilson's part in securing the adop-'. tion of necessary war legislation was far greater than has ever before been the case with a president. While it is true that the common patriotism of the country rallied magnificently to the national cause, it is nonetheless true that the guiding hand of competent leadership alone could turn this enthusiasm and these forces to the most effective co-ordinated results. Among the most difficult problems j that had to be faced were those concerned with settling disputes involving labor. Certainly no other man could have met these difficult problems with such success. When a calamitous strike seemed inevitable, an address to the men in the president's wonderful style or a conference with the leaders or a firm refusal to permit any man to rock the boat would keep the wheels moving that could not stop if we were to win the war. The public's memory is so short that probably most have already forgotten how in those trying days it was the regular thing to say of any difficulty that appeared insolvable, "Le>; the president settle it." A WoHd Lead?r The president's trip to Europe was simply an act of a great man who refused to permit evenvs to take the wrong course while he in obedience to precedent remained in Washington and sought to do through ambassadors what he was oarely able to accomplish by his powerful personality and irre^j sistible personal prestige on the spot, i It is not too much to s:iy that Europe j has already been spared a second calamity of .war because Woodrow Wilson went to Paris. As the president reached th= p:n-j nacle of his gi'ea.'.ncss in 'connection I with the Great war, both in the mar- j velous effectiveness of his leadership of our national forces during the conflict and in his unique moral and intellectual leadership* in the Peace Conference, so that he was destined in the same connection to make his most unhappy blunder and meet his most serious defeat. Whether he should have carried serveral strong Republican leaders with him to Paris may prehaps be open to discussion. The future, though visiting the merit ed scorn upon ccrtain senatorial leaders, will entertain onj$one opinion as to his tragic mistake in failing to come to an agreement, even to the extent of accepting the whole program of the Foreign Relations committee's reservations, as the only pos-; sible means of enab^ng America to serve her own interests and serve the world through the League of Nations. His blunder in that ,is responsible more than all else combined for his vprmtp rf autocracv. imDracticality, and willfulness, and will result either in the fruits of his labors being lost or being gathered by others who little deserve the honor. The foundations of the president's! power are laid in both intellect and cKaracter. These two essentials of greatness he possessed in a great degree and combination that mark the epochal man. The fervor of his religious convictions, the fearlessness of his pursuit of what he conceives to be right, the prophetic vision of his idealism, and the power of intellect with which he marshals his forces are raised to the utmost effectiveness by a gift of expression that carries his . kleford Co. 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