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?" JwCAlL TO AMERICAN# , t920 Should &o R?*nembor?d by All M Anniversary of E?Ubll?h mint of Fr?? Inftltutlooo, .^luguislu'tl American*,. Including M> TMft- ^,>?4,,,W4 Huichea and Hf,?l (iihhous. have appealed to Vjr fellow countrymen to ivimuuDir [jJJfcfiOr ??>" celebration* ul any Sable tlmo l?t June 4 (ho ! ^1,1 jslioient of free (pwtlttiflotMi tn L^rlf*. A ?r<,nl iK u>^il Threo feuuifr?*?l )*'"'* a?? beginning tlu* 30 Ui 1 ^ i;t?i July. tlM'iv was being held in |jI}s?5iqwii, colony of Virginia?; tho , , ,*jU)erleaii legislative assembly i |,j n,v Mien of lawful tkf^ and j . ;?M^fal??lVii.u;. Am) during this time, I || : ? . < l IMIM Ml 111 Its birth hour, , pilgrims from Rutland after a years' HojotM'ii In Holland were n- iv.nlv tO e Hlhllsti In jfbe lie W i ^ iwau? el r*Jjgtpu# t ? ? one y?'>n' "u< Virginian* liter, I .inn hum) set sail for Aiiicr Uu iici'iirtUitf from U\v<len, Hollaml, julj 80. HUirtliernjore let It not' forgotten thai Nov. 11 Is not only ,hlMiiinivfr>iU\v ?lay of ftlgnlllff of the May/lower compact, second assump tion "by KukUmIi colonies In America 0( the .unalienable right of self-govern im'.'ii. teW " is ll,s" (lf Hie figging of ihi- hi mi?i ?? i ? I < > ?> 1 1 1 the | ,'reat war tn which, the above representative jpoke#inen point out. the descendant* of (lie IMIgflinf cf New England ?n<i (lit* en vn I lei's of Virginia and their kiiKlrrtl ero>.sed the sea and won lib tu^efhetv A year with au ltu* peniHvt' rluUlenge to renew policies of Aiji'i'loanization and patriotic con*e nuiicM f* 1920. and no community jkpiild be without ltM religious and avio expression In acknowledgment of die past and in dedication to the fu tufo ? ; ' : / ; y ; Landmark to Be Preserved. XIm* M ul l:i 1 1 tree, landmark of the old Mullun (rail, (l?e first highway connect I >i? .Montana and Idaho with 'the coast, will he prcse/rvpd to posteri ty through i I ? * ? creation of a national monument area by the president; On July I. 1S01. Captain John Mullan, leader of t lie party having in charge the survey am! construction of the Mullan trull from Walla Walla, Wash., to Ft. Benton. Mont., closed his work it the connecting point of the roads ! from the east and west, at the head j of the Fourth of July canyon, he- j ween Walla ee, Idaho, and Ooeur | d'Aleuo,' Mh ho. There lie marked up- ; proprhtiely a huge white pine tree, *hicl? since that time has been known vi the Mullan tree. Tourists seeking ? -oiivenirs of their jaunt along the j Yeilnu-stone trail have damaged the I ancicnt tree so" ntueli that forest'serv- ? iir ntHcers have found It necessary ' ?a take steps to protect it, ami lb ae ft?nj]>llsh this have submitted a peti tion proposing that a national monu- ; uieiit area ho created, Which has been I i|i|i!oved -- Kansas City Journal. The Family Knew; A certain thrifty young man often rails on n-eertain young woman, hut" ticker yd has he ever taken her to a picture show or out riding In his iuioiiiohile or even to the corner drug ?tlore. lor ice. cream. The family haw noticed and often commented on what they term his "stinginess,", and all before tin- young wotnaii's ten-year ohl brother. Xuu, ti?~ other night the ten -year* old yon mister was in the living room -rttto Thf voting man was calling. Th?* cilicr. who was sitting close to the firephir,' ami stretching forth his 'IfSinls to j li?? chcrfui blaze, suddenly mid. how 1 do love to sit before your tlrepiaee and think, think " i.ikr :i flash came 4 quick interrup tion from the 1 en-year-older. "Think ?think nf how you are saving money fcysiitiny lii-re." he said. ? Indianapolis News. Wireless txperiments. VmIiiuIiIc experiments in Wireless te ie^rapii \ are l?esng conducted by t If** French war sloop Aldebaran. which ha? In-fit i-ruis<ng in the 1'nctlc .near the Chatham and Bounty islands. LieittHiiHiii < Jnierre. wireless expert, *i!l prohnhlv submit the result of his 'xp*rim?Mits 10 the international wire 1 ? nuft'i-enee In Washington *iiort I * . Hi; states that the wireless "reception" in New Zealand from Frouc I, iiist nnu^Hts is of special In terest .u, continental experts, as New Vilatvl is practically the nntipode of ^ ratn?-<-. |i u claimed that the Al'le i'ai'nn 1- i-nrrying out for the first time truly comprehensive system of "'?m snrl nc tin- strength of "re?-ep !i""s :il:hoi!j?h an American had pi?n-i.r,ii tl?> \\ ? y In this respect. Philippine Sugar Industry. I'm- r 1 i ? ?< 1 1 ? r j 1 sugar mills are pro W!"! :u \. vros. P. I., with a total j ai-acirv ? .f .\000 tons of cane dally, j T*n in i I ' < ? \ i r u h capacity of .'UHlo tons j "? 'n' " '.ii!y are already in opera- ! '?or . 1, ? district. The movement '"!? Ih'Hit <uulpniont and orgaui/.a "Ti !r. ~ 1 r central* I* likely to con- . linn* unfii (Mcry sugsr district capa ' p ?f supporting a central is supplied * 'li ni<n|?-rn mills. The general rate i ^ payment nmde by the centrals to ( * '?rtners for their eane is ft.r> per of 'he value of the sqgsr ob- ? '?ififfl 1- I The Doughnut Band. T*"en*T young Salvation army lsa *jt* who cooked tloughnuts for the in I- r?nce nave organtied a hand in Philadelphia. ~ # In the Game ef Life. nmn plays the deuce It !? ^?quenMy his last card. ? B? Ion nWF SAVAtiKS KHM) K?mUy of Mev?iit<*u WIW Whites Live In Oeorgta Swamp. * l ' ' . . Okefrnokee Swamp, is a 40 mile iu?> rMf* of deuse vegetation its doJiely i*e, ambling the hu|>enetable tp0pl(? Jungle* at, anything in America. !x>? ! rat ml In Southern (ieorgla and North ern Florida, It U remote from all set t lenient* . turpemnm. still* i.> >lng the only sign of life about Its desolate Natives llftd a superstitious fear of its mysterious depWis ami It was said even criminals Ua red not make their way Into It. Storle^ wore told that It wag Inhabited by a witch who devoured nun, and that a famous Srminole I mil. in chUf, Hilly ? llowleg*. had Inade bis last stand against I4?e whites in its interior. So far as was' known, no man had ever e\pi,,red It, byt one who bad made the attempt was reported to have been brought back by 'his native- guide after a half day's struggle to |?enetrntc Its barriers refusing any explanation. When a party of scientists from Cor nell University , turned their attention to the swamp in their search for new fauna and flora and sought to deter mine the expediehcy of having made .Into a national park by the govem meul. UO native could be found who would attempt tu guide theui. In a re ceyt lecture at the University of Ken tucky, I>r. W. It. Funkhouscr. who was one of the party, described how this only inteu, Hilled their curiosity and they pushed In the true spirit of the early explorers to make discoveries that amply repaid them. "We five started in alone, carrying 50 -pound packs, with ,a compass as our guide," I)r. Funkhouser said. "The water was from waist to shoulder deep full of giant cypress trees, and so closely overgrown with underbruah and entangling vines that we literally had to cut our way with. axes at every step, and could only advance a mile n day on the bottom was a Nilck growth of moss, which would support the weight of a umn while moving, hut which would begin to sink with us as soon as we stopped or stood still to begin cutting the brush. "We soon had to discard cameras, provisions and other paraphernalia be cause of 1h<Vdifficulty of travel, and we ate bear meat and alligator tails. The swamp was-fu'll of game of every kind, and the water abounded with fish and alligators. We drank the" swamp water which was coffee-eolored but had nothing to pollute it. as no human inhabitants were near. - "At night- we piled brush as high as we could around the cypress trees to make beds. Of course the brush soon sank below the water, which would wak?* us, and we then cut more brush and made more Iwds indefinitely until morning. There were myriads of mos quitoes and other insects^ but as there were no other people for them to .bite they could not give us malaria. We were wet all the time and everything that 'could be spoiled by water was rttntnpfl: "" / "Sometimes we came to a 'gator tunnel through the underbrush. where a large" alligator had crushed his way through and we could crawl t'h rough it to save some cutting. The difficul ties were tthat the sides were usually suppled wMh warsps nests and there was always a chance of meeting the al'ligator coming back. "At the end of the twentieth day we came in sight of a low island covered witih pint tre??s. Here we found a fam ily of person* who in many ways can he compared only to animals. It con sisted. of an old woman, her thre<? sons and two daughters, who had in termarried and their eleven children. All of ttheni were degenerate weak lings. undernourished, and had hook worm and bad l>!ood. as the testes we made showed. They had a large grave yard which was about full. "The family had no shelter except a rude lean-to built against a tree, and worp no covering to ?i>eak of. the child ren being entirely naked. While they spoke English, we had much difficulty In understanding them, as their vocab ulary wa<\ CfThucerian, Spenserian and Nhakespfyi rea n. We did' not know this a I tihe time and their speech was- very strange t<> us. hut we made a diction ary of it during our ^umiuer stay on the island, and when we eatne out we learned that many of the word* they used are known to the world only through Ohaucer. while niorc are of the time of Shakespeare and S|>enscr. "They hitd never hoard of reading, writing or any of the things we take for granted, and on learning that we were fp'in New York inquired if it were another island or a turpentine fiT Y11. Only one of them had ever been off the island. He had found the <head waters of tlie Suwannee river, which rises iti-the swamp, and twice n year he floated down it in a flat l*>ttomed HAIJe S A VVVA (1 KS FOUND boat to nhe edge of the swamp, where there \*\ia a tur]>entine still and a small store. He l^id a suit of overalls which he wore at these tfn?es and kept concealed wiffii the lK>at in the brush in the meantime. "(Hi these semi annual trip* ho trad ed boa ? and alligator akins for salt and corn meal at tin* store. hut he dhlu't talk to au.\one t h?- re. |A(t th?-v tuppoyfil li^m to he ptte of t?h.e (ivorifla erackajra of tht* vicinity. Although h<- didn't talk h? listened, a lid tin* classic Mpoeoh Of the ^ family was peculiarly mi\ed with the Georgia cracker dialect, t >i? one of his trip* ho look hack a snuiN acetylene lamp, w^hicii was the most wouderful thing h??t brothers and sis ters. who ha<( never heard of candles, had over seeu. They contended that water would burn mm ha hfed managed tO sonc < ail?ldc. and would pQltV water from the swamp into Wie con tainer and HgVt it, "In *pite of their entire libra nee of t lie world and total inability to u?e derstand anything outside of their is hind, these people wore very religious and one of tihem asked. uie If I believed in the living Qoil ? ??'I'Ik* development *>f titcir senses and their acute powers of observation can be compared only to animals. They could trail by smell like dugs, They could describe birds, insects or animals so accurately thai the scientists in t'he party .could recognize them. They also knew more about nature than anyone in our party. "We could never learn how long the family luid been In'hnhitlng the la* laud', although we were convinced that the old woman knew. She refused to talk about It at all. Our theory was that a convict or some fugitive from justiee made <hls way into the swamp generations ago with one or more com panions and that it had been impressed on the old woman that she must never reveal the facts. "As to one ot'her tradition we learn ed more. On opening an Indian mound .on the island wo disinterred the skele ton of an Indian, undoubtedly bowleg ged. with a tomahawk hole in his skull and his dog* and wives buried In eon centric circles around him. There were also in the mottud other art usually found in Indian burial places. "After learning about the outlet by way of the Suwanee we floated down it. sot provisions cameras and other "scientific equipment for obtaining and preserving specimens, which we shipped north by the same route. AV^ found i many, many s|X?cies new to science : adult specimens, eggs ,U1(| nests of the ivory-billed woodpecker^ supposed to have been extinct half a century i n? w -and rare insects, animals and plants; and much evidence tR.il crocodile#, sup |h?smI never to have lived in th*> I'UittHl Stales are to be found in 1 1*%? water* of the swmpp "Tli*.' |?cnph\ wi'i'c very hclpfuMn ob (hIiiIu^ s|?eolu\ens, and when they once saw what ?<" wanted, couUl gel as many more i ha u we could, and I ell us farts rthunt them which were unknown to science. They .had trail* from Hie island out Into tin* mviuui?, going by way of fallen log*, shallow pools of water and tufts of nevss which mad*' It mui'li easier for u* There were m'Vi'imI oihe-r small i-dnmK or small pieces of land two or three inches under wal?r. in the vicinity. The people had nancd . i ' I oilier islands hut the one wto ich they lived oil. One of lhes<\ whh-h they called Many Kike Island, we had much difficulty in reaching, as- they refused for a long time tY? guide Us I here, because Miey said 'tl)-?re be longed to the merry wings there,' "They would H"t 14*11 us what "merry wlnm* were, hut I found nut. When we wore finally taken to the inland, where we spent one night, some hfscct which we never sjjw, slung us *o (hit! my ey< s were swollen almost who! and *jn.v fingers so that tOtey stood stiffly from my paWns for several days, What ever the insect was. i( was entirely un known to science. "To the islanders we were ak some higher hoi ug, and they stood around us. watching oi\? every action, as long a* We were tliere. As beings higher than I hey it was ijpt fitting that they question any of ?>ur actions. The first thing we saw in the morning was Mia I ring of 17 persons standing ahont us, and it was our last sight at night. "The women on the island did not ask one question about \Vomen in the outside world, and none of the family had any conception of life off tihe Is land. Their family name was Lee and. their Christian names were all IMblcal." FACTS FOR YOI\ Sonic Things Von Know and Sopu' you * Don't Know. Dr. ( Jray.?on, I be president -* .physi cian. ?*:?s signed Mil order for a bicycle for the president , l>ut denies thai it will lie used by the president. Slxfe-n ni'l"s of pipe were required 1?? convert the ofejin I '.nor Aipiitaula Into an oil burner. .lapaireso fishermen arc s.'id I" be I s?,v!:iiisl v depleting the fish supply on : Hie California coast^ bv the ns? of U;:tm ic-'s h.'trtug a ,,r Torty [ Ions of fish. 5+ ca package ' before the war - ?' " <J- v ? ?' , ' , ' . t . ' ? ; \ .? f V *? ' . ? ? ' 5*J a packaae ' during the war and 5*"""" NOW 0 ? , ? ..lj The Flavor Lasts So Does the Price! A-151 r < ?ii<* hundred suits f'l.V (HHi.OOil nl?'?l in SrptCMiilx'r lty I In tli'I >rt t'tini'iit of jnsi lc?? nyalnst war com tractors accusal of defrauding tb?r ir- >vor'mu?'!>t. This uinkt's the total- of such suits fih'd i\yo, . . % ?? You can buy Goodrichllres today at an average of 25% less than in 1910 Goodrich Tires today are sold by good deaka i everywhere at a lower jjrice than m 1910 ? ap/d what is more to the point in this comparison, Goodrich Tires in 1920 give on the average neatly double the number of miles per tire* The Goodrich adjustment basis of 8,000 miles for Silvertowns and 6,000 miles for -Fabrics ft today's prices give motorists twice the mileage rife less cost per tire. FABRIC TIRE PRICES SIZE 30*3 30*3& 32*4 34*4% 35*5 19IO 25.45 33.85 46.65 65.35 TODAI 19. XO 23.26 36L80 53.15 Goodrich Tires ? SOocrtoum Cords * $000 MiUt t Ffkrig J$r& frqflgjjffg Serf in the Long Run 4f|MQ (ZIIO JKnXHDKVIfnU f/v Geo. T. Little, Gamden, 8. G. - *? -