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Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the
earth, which have wrought his Judgment;
seek righteousness, seek meekness:
It may be ye shall be hid In the day of
the Lord's anger.
For Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon
a desolation: they shall drive out
Askdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall
be rooted up.
Woe unto the Inhabitants of the sea
coast, the nation of the Cherethltes! the
word of the Lord Is agalnBt you; O
Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will
even destroy thee, that there shall be no
inhabitant?Zephanlah 2:3-G.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.
A SCALON (Ashkelou) is a
desolation?the words df
nH3 the Prop*16* fulfilled
'""'lA long ago. But out of the
Vjppfr , desolation are now coming
relics that shall add much
to the knowledge of the
present concerning the
* day in which the prophet
^ wrote. At Christmas time
everyone has a thought of Jerusalem
and Palestine. And Ascalon is close
to Jerusalem and the birthplace or,?
Herod the Great, who ordered the
"Massacre of the Innocents."
During the World war the activities
of the Palestine Exploration fund were
necessarily suspended. Now they have
been resumed with extraordinary success.
(Archaeologists are uncovering
many splendid buildings of ancient
days, some of them of great informational
value. The greatest finds have
been uncovered in Ascaloo.
The Palestine Exploration fund is
a society founded in London in 1885
lor tne accurate ana sysremarK: investigation
of the archaeology, topog->
raphy, geology and physical geography,
natural history, manners and
? customs of the Holy Land for Biblical
Wustrutlon. A preliminary expedition
was made by Captain Wilson in the
winter of 1865-6. Since then no less
than eight expeditions for varying
purposes have been sent otrt. Since
1869 the society has issued a quarterly
statement and has published several
works and maps. It maintains a
museum at Its London office.
Ascalon is a desolation In the literal
meaning of the word and has been
a desolation for many a year. Vegetation
is scanty. The once splendid
harbor has been filled up. The great
walls and towers that surmounted
the ridge that surrounds the -dty He
In crumbled ruins. The confusion is
extraordinary; the walls and t<rwer?
appear to have been blown asunder by
powder. Yet once the city must have
been a vision of beauty. Here and
there broken columns of marble and
granite tell of the glories of the past.
Probably Ascalon once looked something
like Jaffa, making allowance
for the modernizing of that anelent
city.
Ascalon lies on the shore of ti*e<
Mediterranean, In Judea, 38 miles,
southwest of Jerusalem. It was a
fortified dty In ancient times. How;
old it Is, nobody knows. It passed
from the Egyptians to the Canaanltes
about 1500 B. C.; In those days the
Egyptians were the overlords of Palestine,
which was then called Canaan.
Between 1300 and 1100 B. C. Philistines
and Hebrews struggled for pos-,
session of Canaan. The Hehrews
finally gained control and the Canaanltes
were submerged. In 1050 B. C.
the divided Hebrew tribes were united
into a kingdom under Saul. David,
his successor, completed the establishment
of Israelite supremacy in Palestine.
Under David and Solomon, for
the first and only time in history,
Pulestlne was the home of a united
people under one central government.
Then followed its division into
Israel and Judah. Then followed
conquest by the Assyrians and by the#
Babylonians and by the Persians and '
by the Egyptians and by the Itomnns. j
In 70 A. I>. the struggle against Rome i
was ended by the capture and ruin 1
of Jerusalem. In 131M35 A. D. was the !
; [
Fossils Reveal History.
The fossil shells of the early Invertebrates,
or spineless creatures, are of
great importan :e to geologists, for they
Indicate the geologic period In which
the rock beds containing them were
formed?in otner words, the age of the
rock. Eacli fossillferous rock bed contains
characteristic forms or groups of
forms that determine the period in
which it was mud or sand. Former
Director Powell of the United States
SENSED SOMETHING WRONG.
? ?
Little Miss Polly, age seven, came
over to see us one evening and re
quested that we play the recora on me
phonograph, which wus "Even Thou
Itravest," from Faust, sung by Itelnald
Werrenrath. She listened for a
few minutes and then said, "That's a
religious piece. Isn't it?" On being
told that it was a grand opera selection.
she remarked. "My goodness,
that's terribly quiet for grand opera."
?Exchange.
^sealc
great rising under Bar-Oochha. The
rebellion was stamped out with much
bloodshed. Emperor Hadrian, In rebuilding
Jerusalem, changed Its name
to Aelia Capitolina add decreed that
no Jew should dwell In It. Never
since thnt day has Jerusalem been a
Jewish city or Palestine a Jewish
land.
Ascalon's history was naturally
troublous In times like these. In 1480
B. C., say the Tel-el-Amarnn tablets,
the native chiefs and Pagon-worshlpers
who ruled the city were paying
tribute to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The
place was captured successively by the
great Barneses II., and by King Assurbanlpul
of Assyria.
It later became one ft the five
towns of the Philistine confederacy.
'Tell It not In Gath, publish it not
In the streets of Ashkelon; lest the
daughters of the Philistines Tejolce"
Is written In II Samuel 1:20. It came
Into the hands of the tribe of Judnh,
but it remained an eoemy uf the
Hebrews to the last
A KalAfKTA^ tfc\ fVlP |
ABLUIUU 1VU^ k'vi<'Uf?vu >w ?...
Romans. In the Seventh oenrtury It
came Into possession of the Snra^ns.
In 1099 was fought the groat buttle
on the plains of Ascalon ha which
the Crusaders under Godfrey -de Iioulb
ion were victorious. The city was
taken and retaken during the wars of
the Crusaders.
The end of Ascalon came in 1270,
when It was destroyed by the Sultan
Blbars. It was then that Its harbor
was filled in. It was then that It became
a desolation.
Herod the Great was the ruler who
beautified Ascalon. Herod is the
family nauie of a group of rulers of
Palestine. The family had Its origin
In Antipater, an Idumean (Edomite).
who in the last century before Christ
was made by the Romans governor of
Edotn, Judea, Samaria and Galilee.
-
His son was Herod the Great, who was
made king of Jutlea and reigned from
39 to 4 B. C. It was Herod Antipas.
son of Herod the Great, tetrarch of
Galilee, who beheaded John the Baptist
and to whom Jesus was sent by
Pilate. The Herods were Jews only
in the sense that the Edoinites were
conquered and compelled to embrace
Judaism about 130 B. C.
Herod the Great ruled the Jews '
with an Iron hand, ruthlessly murdering
all whom he considered enemies,
Including even the brother of his wife
Mnriamne. When he left ids court
on a dangerous mission to Rome he
left word that In the event of his j
death. Mnriamne should be killed also, i
This Jealous decree started a quarrel ,
geological survey once tersely explained
to a congressional committee
the value of paleontology by saying
that It Is "the geologist's clock," by
which he tells the time In the world's
history wlien any rock bed was
formed.
Gave No Promise of Greatness.
If we study the childhood of great
people we shnll find that many eml
nent men and women were voieu umi 1
In their youth, and looked upon as !
mediocrities. The sehool-mlstress of j
Early Color Development;
Colors played a big pnrt In the life |
of ancient peoples, as hits of pottery '
and house furnishings as unearthed
from ruins tPll very plnlnly. The an- I
clents seemed to recognize the fact that
color Is the life of nnture nnd deserves
adaptation to dally surroundings. And
yet, vivid as were the hues they used. ;
there Is a monotony to the colors used
almost exclusively. This Is because '
few variations had been made with [ i
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with his wife, which ended only when j,
he had her put to death. Having n
started his reign In this fashion he
continued In his career of crime and j
lust, not hesitating even to strangle t
his own sons. Religions enemies he
generally preferred to have burued
alive.
He finished his days In the most *
frightful physical and mental torments, ?
3ust after ordering the massacre of
the Innocents In the year of Christ's ! 1
birth. Emperor Augustus, his friend,. said
of him: "It Is better to be I
Herod's pig than Ills son." He had1 f
ten wives in all, and several of these
ui uuc lime. i
Herod the Great had a passion far
building. During the first decade nf
his reign he was too busy establishing
himself to Indulge his passion.
Then he rehabilitated many cities. At
Jerusalem, Jericho and Caesarea, lie
erected theaters, amphitheaters and
hippodromes. He rebuilt the temple
In Jerusalem. He even restored and
beautified cities In Syria, Aslu Minor
and Greece.
Herod, having been born at Ascalon,
devoted much time and money to Its
Improvement. He benutlfled the city
with "baths and costly fountains, as
also cloisters around a court, that
were admirable both for their workmanship
and largeness," according to
Josephus.
One of the fnds at Ascalon Is a
gigantic statue of Herod the Great.
Another Is the 'Court of Herod and
Its surrounding t:lolsters, mentioned
by Josephus.
A third is a temple with massive
marble columns, u'hlch may date hock
to the days when Ascalon. according
to Herodotus, was famous for the worship
of Astarte lAstoreth), the god
(less or remnty arm iruiuuuit-m,
mentioned In I Samuel 81:10?"rmd j
they put his armor In the house of i
Astoreth. . . .* This was fl?e i
armor of Satil, firs* Wne of Israel. i
In this connection there has heen t
discovered a bas-relief representing I
the goddess with two attendants. 1
Also a statue of Veims has been un- <
covered.
Ascalon was the seat of worship of i
Astarte, more or less Identified with
the Assyrian Ishtftr, the Phoenician |
Astoreth, the Greek Aphrodite nnd r
the Roman Venus. She Is often rep- c
resented as half woman nnd half fish, |
a port of divine mermaid. A deep >
layer of broken pottery has heen dug up
here, which probably marks the a
remains of vessels broken as part of t
the religious rites In her honor. Rut t
so far no trace has been found of the t
lake Into which she plunged, accord- \
lng to one story, being ashamed of her l
misdeeds, and was completely trans- h
formed Into a fish.
The most famous legend concerning 2
her tells of her descent Into the underworld.
In search of the healing waters li
which are to restore to life her bride- v
" ""in Tommn- vmirwr nrwl Imnii. ti
tiful sun pod, slain by the cruel hand n
of Winter. s
c
Oliver Goldsmith proclnlmed him to
be one of her dullest boys, and Harriet
Martlneau was a source of am- s
iety and perplexity to her parents n
during the whole of her young days, b
By reading her autobiography we see u
bow easy It Is for a gifted child, a g
well-lntentloned child, and one anx- t
lous to do right and merit approbation n
to be so wholly misunderstood as to h
be continually in fault and causing g
perpetual trouble to all nrouDd her. to r1
say nothing of making life a burden a
and misery to herself. ji
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the primary color pigments. Excavations
of Greece prove thnt the primitive
Greeks used white, red, blue, yellow
and black In stucco and fresco,
while brown, black, white, maroon and
red were the pottery colors. Itomnn ,.]
coloring wus strictly ndupted from j
the Greek, with the difference that the w
Romans accented the vivid hues of
the Greeks. The Romans used strl'it- h(
Ing color contrast much more than did v(
tho Greeks, and their mosnles have w
become art classics for this very feason.
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IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL ^
iundaySchool
' Lesson' j
ly REV. P. B. F1TZWATER. D. D..
Teacher of English Bible In the Moody
Bib e Institute of Chicago.)
tpytlght, 1921. Western Newspaper Union.
LESSON FOR DECEMBER 11 ^
PAUL WRITES TO A FRIEND. MA
I '
LESSON TEXT?Philemon. Mai
GOLDEN TEXT-Whosoever would be .
lief among you, let him be your aervit-MatL
20:27.
REFERENCE MATERIAL?Deut 15:12;
Jc.hn 13:14. 36; I Cor. 1:26-29; Col. u,
9-11* Jas 2.1-9
PRIMARY TOPIC?The Story of a Run- SO I
way Flave. Cleg
JUNIOR TOPIC?Paul's Kindness to a .
unaway Slave.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC ( sen
Paul Pleading for a Slave. for
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC our
The iloclal Teachings of the Letter to
hilemjn. S,or
T
This Is a private letter. Philefnon for<
as a member of the church at Coins- Ann
?. Oneslmus, his slave, wronged him. tlon
erhapa stoie from hlin, and fled to gnn
;orae. There he came under Paul's
ifluenei! and was converted. Paul r"
snt Oneslmus back to Philemon with
lis letter. This Is one of the most
?nder and beautiful letters ever wilt?n,
and the first anti-slavery petition
ver penned.
I. Thfr Saiutation (w. 1-3).
His aim was to touch Philemon's
eart, so refers to himself as a prlsner,
and links Philemon to himself
8 a fellow-luhorer In the Gospel of
iiifh 1 To moires mention of ADPhla,
'hilemon's wife, and Arehlppus, the
on, who hnd already enlisted as a feljw-soldiet..
II. Philemon'* Reputation (vv. 4-7).
Paul paid a fine tribute to Phllejon,
reminding him that he never
rnyed without bearing him up before
Jod. ilils Is a fine example of tact
ft the part of the minister.
1. His faith and love toward the
>>rd and all saints (v. 5). It was
ils hope and desire that this faith
night bear fruit In Christ Jesus.
2. His ministry to the saints (v. 7).
'hlleroon wuu generous in his help to
he poor saints. Nev
HI. Paul'* Request (w. 8-1G).
He requested Philemon to receive
ck Onesimus, the runaway slave, as ^
t brother in Christ.
1. He beseeches instead of com- M
oauds (vv. 8-10). Though conscious of
kls right to enjoin, he pleads as the
>r!soner of Jesus Christ for love's
ake. |
2. He makes his plea on the
'rounds of grace (vv. 11-14). He ^
idinltted that Onesimus had been ua>rofltable?liad
forfeited all claim ^
ipon Philemon, and that on grounds 9er
>f Justice his plea might well he neiected,
and yet Onesimus was begoten
In his bonds fv. 10)?was In a reaJ ^ta
>ense a part of hlR own suffering ua- ToJ1
ure (v. 12)?he ventured to suggest ^01
hat he should be accepted. Though 88
Ineslmus hitherto hnd been unpnetitici't
ible to his master, now was profitable
;o both Paul and Philemon. Puul ^'v:
vould gladly have retained him ?? *
tersonnl attendant, but sought first/ ^
lis friend's permission. bar
8. Paul desired that Onesimus be "a!
received ba-ck inot as a slave, but as ^ol
a brother In Christ (vv. 15, 10). Here mai
-* ?? ??i.,?. ?f 1
IS me real IU^IIIYC biuyc m??. ? ?u.
aever attacked slavery, though It was
contrary to Christianity, and therefore
lateful td him, but emphasized i?rlndples
which destroyed It. The estab- ..
lshment of Christianity changes the
vhole face of human society. The
vise thing to do Is to get men and
ivomen regenerated and thus trans.'orm
society Instead of seeking change
)y revolution. ^
In Paul's request you can hear the ^
headings of Christ for us sinners. All ger,
ren have broken loose?gone astray?
tnd have become unprofitable. We
ire reconciled to God through the inercedlng
of Christ. He has made us
irofitable. We have been begotten In
ils bonds?through His passion, ngm.v
of heart, we shall lie changed.
ill. The Basis Upon Which Onesim- 1
is Is to Be Received (rv. 17-21). *
The debt of guilty Oneslmus Is to
>e put to the account of Paul, and the A
nerlt of Paul is to be put to the ac- I
MMt of Oneslmus. This Is a fine 11- 1
ustration of the atonement of Christ.
Vhatever wrongs we have committed
?debt Incurred?all our shortcomings
ire debited to Him. Jesus Christ, on
lehalf of the whole universe, has said
o God: "Put that to my account; I
lave written with my pierced hand; I
rill repay." Oneslmus was taken
mck, not as a runaway slave, but u m
ieloved brother in Christ. ?
IV. Paul Requests Lodging (vv. 22- ft
He expected a speedy release from Hi
mprlsonment, find purposed to sojourn
rith Philemon. In all probability tlds
ras realized. What a welcome he H
lust have received! Jesus Clirlst Is jE
ornrv nnn nf T41c ohinful Vfl
UJJUfc l? C.V.J vy..c V,. v..
ines, "Prepare me u lodging." *
Understanding Christianity.
A man may say he does not undertand
over half of Christianity. What
re you doing with the half you do she
elteve? Never mind the half you don't pen
nderstand, but take the half you have clas
ot and say you do believe and try <j.(
o work that out in your life. The f
stonishlng thing is that as you try won
o work It out you will find your faith mar
rowing and growing and getting qqq
Ichor and richer and fuller and fuller; la8t'
nd you will go on front faith to faith. I)ORf
list because you have used what chjj(
lod gives you.?Rt. Rev. Charles
Iske, D. D.
"I
God Never Changes.
We talk of a "cloudy sky", but In . ,
?allty there Is no such thing. The
ky Is always blue, the sun Is always
lining. The clouds are not the sky ^ ^
ny more than the curtain Is the
liidnw. So Ood Is always the same. ^
[e never changes. Clouds may sweep
ftween us and Him and obscure our jp
Islon, hut lie Is where He always is. pgi,,
aiting to he gracious and ready to ^url
rctch forth a helping hand.?Can- gt
linn Churchman. lD m
?The ?.
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LEGION
py for Thia Department Supplied bj
the American Legion Newa Service.)
lCNIDER, new legion head
ion City (la.) Man Is Chosen National
Commander of the American
Legion.
We must build this Legion of ours
ilg and fine and strong, keep It so
in and straight and?AmerIcan, that
in we ask for things for the ex
rice man, ior uie uisuuieu man unu
those who are financially disabled
communities will say, 'If the Le1
Is for It, we are for It'"
his was the first message of Han1
MacNider to members of the
erlcan Legion, following his eleei
as national commander of the orizatlon.
Mr. MacNider Is the
HANFORD MACNIDER.
viy Elected National Commander
of the American Legion.
ngest national commander the Lea
has ever had. He Is thirty-four
rs old.
He Is a natural leader of men,"
his friends, who have watched
1 plug his way through Harvard
verslty and who later saw him
?e out of the World war a lleuten/olonel
with three citations and
own 1 /^AArvMiftAna
ci u i uccvi aui/uai
lis military record begins with his
lice oo the Mexican border In 1916
a first lieutenant with the Second
a infantry. When the United
tes entered the World war he ened
at the officers' training camp at
t Snelllng and was sent to France
a provisional second lieutenant in
regular army. In France he was
h tihe Klnth Infantry of the Second
Iskm. He was wounded at St.
del.
Ir. MacNlder Is an Investment
iker at Mason City, la., where he
i horn. He has been an active Leanalre
apd has served as eoronder
of the Iowa state department
11k Legion.
:ad of legion auxiliary
i
i. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati
Is the New President of the
Women's Organization.
Ira. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati
first national president of the
erican Legion Women's auxiliary,
one of those "war mothers" who
red in the great "second^ army."
en her son Joined the colors and
i sent to Camp Zachary Taylor,
ituckv. she went with him. There
MRS. LOWELL F. HOBART,
i President of the American Legion
Women's Auxiliary.
worked dally as a Red Cross su isor
and nt night she Instructed a
s In Red Cross work,
oda.v Mrs. Hobart is at the head
ine of the largest organizations of
len In the world. The Legion auxy
has a membership of about 125,havlng
grown from 3,000 In the
year. The organization Is com>d
of mothers, wives, sisters and
Iren of ex-service men.
Solved.
'apa," called Willie excitedly;
re's a big black bug on the cell- ,
til right," replied the parent en- !
sed In his newspaper, "Just step |
t and don't bother me."?American ,
ion Weekly. 1
Practice Makes Perfect
urns?1That grocer certainly gives ,
t weight. I bet he was u protiteei
ng the war. * (
ern?Oh, no, he was mess sergeant ,
y outfit.?American Legion Weekly
,
:??gW3$3$S3$53$3SSSSS33^^
iji Carrying On With the ||
American Legion
Lemuel Holies of Seattle, Wash., has ^
been elected national adjutant of the l
American Lesion for his third term. ^
Yellow Medicine is the tenth coun- ,
ty In Minnesota to make "American
Legion Day" a regular event of its (Cot
county fair.
"The Pajama Gazette" Is the name
of a publication edited by the disabled
soldiers of Asbury nospital at Minneapolis,
Minn. T
Is o
"Say It with Jobs" Is the slogan the
adopted by the American Legion In the
Chicago In Its campaign to aid un- thai
employed ex-service men. rePJ
* * Ami
The bodies of Gunmar Dahl and Da- t,es
vld Thor, "pals," killed in France by visl
the same shell, were burled In the t0 '
? no r
same grave In their native Illinois
town. lar!
* aQd
New Orleans will be the scene of v'tfi
the 1922 national convention of the ^as
Americun Legion. The Southern city av
guaranteed $100,000 for defraying ex- nat
penses of the meeting. ,
* vict
Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, Wis., ch?
has vetoed a resolution of th? city
council Indorsing the work of the """
American Legion In finding positions y
for Jobless ex-service men. ma<
. Roc
A monumental building to be erected t,l's
In Washington In memory of the Na- ? (
tlonal Guardsmen who gave their lives
In the World war, has been suggested
by MaJ. Gen. George C. Rlckards,
chief of the militia bureau of the War ^
department. \ .,e
olg
The growth of the American Legion
Is shown by the organization of 1,050
new posts In 1920-21. Many new posts
were organized by American ex-service
men In foreign countries and today
the sun never sets on the Amer-'
lean Legion.
The daisy has been adopted by the
American Legion as Its official flower. |||
The poppy, which has been popular
with Legionnaires because of its association
with Flanders, was voted out be- H
cause It was not an American flower
and could not be 'obtained in large M
quantities.
?
The employment of Jobless ex-serv- 3
Ice qien to assist the police in > combating
the holdup men has been ber jSj
gun In Lincoln, Neb. The plan was jj&
evolved following a series of robberies ||
In the residential district of the city. K
The mayor and chief of police of Lin- I
colh have Indorsed the plan. .
' ^
Following a reception for hlra at I
Kansas City, staged by 50,000 mem- fl
bers of the American Legion, Marshal |f
Foch, who came to America as the |?
Legion's guest, declared that although
Washington and New York were the
head of the United States he was cer- JJ
tain Kansas City was the heart. '
. J <
The original post of the American H
Legion, George Washington Post No. I
1. lost no time in signing Marshal I
Foch as a member. The generalis- jS
slmo was met at the station at WaSTl- M
Ington, D. C., on tlie day of his ar
rival In America and presented with a M
membership card and a ceremonial T
hadge of the Legion.
Marshal Foch is now a devotee of |g
the corn-cob pipe. When his special
train was stopped at Washington, Mo.,
on Its way to Kansas City, he was Yo
presented with a box of the Missouri
product. Later, while he was attend- '
Ing the American Legion convention, ?
he was offered a cigar, but he declined -|
In favor of the corn-cob "furnace.",
O c
More than 30,000 bodies of Araerl- 8co
cans who died In France during the at i
World war will rest forever In the nol
sacred soli near the battlefields, Sec- ans
retary of War \Veeks declared In a iea
recent letter to the American Legion He
at Washington. A total of 43.870 gr0
bodies have been returned to the Unl- abl
ctnfoo nnrnrdlne to the war secrer tha
tary. v ( Lai
Ital
"If you will walk down Main street,
U. S. A.." writes George F. Kearny In
a widely published magazine article, tnx
"you will corjie to a building which tro<
houses the American Legion post of
the town. It Is the most democratic
Institution that can be found and the
discussions of the post are worthy of ^
the closest study as an Index of the |
future." ^ # ( con
hea
A survey recently conducted by the ^ist
American Legion shows that between suir
000,000 and 700,000 service men are am(
out of employment In the United ^jg
States. The East has a greater per- not
centage of Jobless men than any oth- vnu
er section of the country, with lf>0,000 ^,01
former soldiers, sailors and marines Yar
In New York alone, without regular wjj.j
employment, many In actual want. war
* * * wer
Police officials of Iowa are Investigating
the writing of threatening let- gC
ters to several members of the American
Legion In Iowa. The letters are yj
believed to be the work of I. W. W's. iayj.
One of them demanding "$200 or
we'll hlow you to h?" was received t0 ]
by John R Wallace, son of the secre- ma(]
tary of agriculture. Young Wallace sen
Is vice commander of the Argonne jj0y
t rk^o \fnlnna
posr or me LiC^iuii ni ito Kimiiw.
Harry H. Polk, another Des Moines |njf
Legion member, received a letter avja
threatening to blow up his house be- p0rt
cause he "led the boys to death In mar
battle." Ian(]
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Carl Rrlnkmnn, horn In Germany,
who died fighting with the American 01
forces In Frnnce, was burled with
military honors at Fairmont, Minn.,
where he Joined the colors of his L*
adopted country early In the war. He natl<
was hurled by the American Legion Scou
with full military honors. Frar
? scou
"I am convinced tlint the American hag
r.eplon Is an established power In the tionf
Cnited States?a power for truth and cjay
quality," declared Marshal Foch at 0f jj
die close of the American Legion's rec0j
aatlopni cnnventloa at Kansas Cltr I jjj ,
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BOYSCOUTS
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iducted by National Council of the Boy
Scouts of America.)
ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHDAY.
v" ft# ThonRnre Rnnsevell
lie ua muaj ui amvwv** .?
ibserved by boy scouts throughout
country at the Instigation of
national council who feel
t the late Colonel specifically
resented perhaps better than any
erlcan of recent years those quallof
sturdy manhood, clean, high
oned, loyal, virile, which they like
emphasize and keep before scouts
i living Ideal. There was a partlcuy
close relation between Hoosevelt
boy scouts Inasmuch as he was
illy Interested in the movement and
i at the time of his death said to
e been conAderlng becoming
ional leader of the organization in
ch he was already an honorary
^president and held the title of
it scout citizen.
ast year, under the leadership of
ional Scout Commissioner Beard,
scouts of New York and vicinity
le a memorial pilgrimage to
tsevelt's grave, an event repeated
i year on an even larger scale. In
ir parts of the country the celebrai
took the form of tree planting, (
is patriotic Meetings, father and son
quets, etc., all devoted to the pure
of keeping alive the memory of
great American who played so
a port in our national life and
jse spirit still "goes marching on"
?ng us.
8COUT8 AS FIRE FIQHTERS.
wStssBsx ^ mUHRI
mom HM|
ungsters Are Trained in Some Cities,
Jndergoing Same Drill Probationary
-Iremen Are Given.
TAKES OVER BOSTON TROOP.
Sa'ld Dabbus who served as Chief
ut of Syria and Is now a student
the Massachusetts Institute of Techogy
was one of the young men who
iwered the recent call for scout
ders Issued by the Boston council.
will act as scoutmaster for a
up of Syrian boys. Another valu- x
e addition to the scoutmaster ranks
t the appeal gained was Joseph A.
igone, organizer of the Sons of
ly, the largest Italian organization
the country. Mr. Langone will
ve as a scoutmaster of his own
3p and supervise other Italian
.ips In the city.
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GAVE HIS THREE PENNIES.
'roops In wany places have been
ting contributions to the "Scout |
irades In Pueblo who lost so
vlly and acted so heroically In the
ister which overcome the city last
iraer." Orange (N. J.) scouts are
>ng thone who have been helping
i work and recently a little chap
more thau nine years old?too
ng to te a scout but brim full of
it spirit?stopped Scoutmaster
rles of that city and presented him
i three pennies which he said he
ited added to the fund the scouts
e collecting for Pueblo boys.
OUTS TO HELP AIR SERVICE.
ashington acouts had the honor of
ng the first marker "p. C. I." for
new air route from Balling field
Dayton, O., and plans are being
e at the request of the federal air
ice for definite co-operation of
scouts with the service. Some of
work which it is contemplated havscouts
do will consist of helping
tors making forced landings, re
Ing adverse weather conditions,
king airways, guarding planes
ed or broken, night signaling.
RECTOR RETURNS FROM
FRANCE,
>rne W. Barclay, director of the
jnal department of education, Boy
its of America, who has been In
ice for six months directing the
t camps In the devastated regions,
returned to his work at the nail
council headquarters. Mr. Barwas
made a knight of the Legion
onor by the French government In
fnltlon of his tireless and splea
service to the youth of France.
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