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Rf RBV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of tho Moody Blblo InetltuU
of Chicago.
O Western Newspaper Union.
ROOSTER OfeoW
TpHE Gooding tavern in Green-
A field, Ind., has long since dis
appeared but it deserves to be re
membered as the birthplace of a
familiar emblem of one of the ma
jor political parties, a symbol that
is still in use after nearly a cen
tury.
Back in the thirties it was owned
by Joseph Chapman, an ardent
Democrat, who had the habit
of imitating a roostfer when exult
ing over victories by his party. So
when his political enemies won, they
taunted him by shouting: “Now
crow, Chapman, crow!”
In 1840 Chapman was a candidate
for the state legislature from Han
cock county. In that year Demo
cratic prospects were far from
bright. The country still remem
bered the panic of 1837 and blamed
President Van Buren for it. More
over, the “singing Whigs” were
making a powerful appeal to .the
voters with their shouts of “Tippe
canoe and Tyler, Too!” and their
log cabin and hard cider symbols.
In the midst of the campaign
George Pattison, editor of the In
dianapolis Constitution, wrote a let
ter to William Sebastian of Green
field in which he said: “I*have
been informed by a Democrat that
in one part of your county 30 Van
Buren men have turned for Har
rison. Please let me know if such
be the fact. I think such a de
plorable state of facts can not ex
ist. If so I will visit Hancock and
address the people relative to the
policy of the Democratic party. I
have not time to spare, but I will
refuse to eat or sleep or rest so
long as anything can be done. f>o,
for heaven's sake, stir up the De
mocracy. See Chapman, tell him
not to do as he did heretofore. He
used to create unnecessary alarms;
he must crow; we have much to
crow over. I will insure this coun
ty to give a Democratic majority
of 200 votes. Spare no pains.”
This letter accidentally fell into
the hands of the Whigs and was
published in an Indianapolis paper
with a view to ridiculing the Dem
ocrats. But it proved to be a
boomerang for the Whigs. *Crow,
Chapman, crow!” became the slo
gan of the Indiana Democrats and
spread all over the country.
When the Indiana Sentinel was
launched in 1841 it earned at the
top of its front page the picture
of a proud rooster and under it
was the slogan “Crow, Chapman,
crow'” Other Democratic newspa
pers began carrying the same pic
ture and slogan and soon the
rooster, crowing proudly whether
in victory or defeat, became the ac
cepted symbol of the Democratic
party. Despite the later popularity
of the donkey, it is still a favorite
symbol—thanks to John Chapman
of Greenfield. Ind . who taught his
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By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
^JpHERE is a quiet but persistent search being made for unattached
islands in the South Pacific by several nations. Air navigation is
thte reason.
In the vast water area lying between the Hawaiian Islands on the
north and New Zealand on the south there are several thousand un
claimed islands, most of them mere dots in a great ocean. They are
coral reefs, fininhabited, and considered valueless until recently. Now
several of them have become the subject of international argument,
and the objective of secret pioneering expeditions.
The nations most interested in<&
acquiring islands in the South Seas
are the United States, England,
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rata how to crow.
WINNING WITH BITREYES
\ HEN Martin Van Buren.
* ~ broom friend and successor to
fie ry Andrew Jackaon. undertook
to succeed himself in the White
House in the race of 1840 some
thing new in political history was
the result.
Van Buren not only was defeat
ed. He insured the election of
Gen. William Henry Harrison
of Ohio and he endowed Ohio with
the name of the Buckeye state,
which flourishes today.
It all came about when the cry
was taken ij by Van Buren s cam
paigners that Harrison was more
perfectly fitted to live in a log
cabin and drink hard cider than to
go to Washington as the nation’s
head.
What a boomerang that proved
to be!
The only background for the at
tack was that when the hero of
Tippecanoe retired from battk he
selected a site overlooking the
Ohio river in the southwestern part
of the state, built a double log
house and finished it with shining
white clapboards.
Ohioans naturally resented the
slur on their habits of living, in
cluding the charge of tippling. Min
iature log cabins, symbolic of pio
neer life and the vigor which
pushed civilization westward from
the more effete east, made their
appearance throughout the state.
These cabins were reproduced
from buckeye logs. So were the
canes carried by thousands of
marchers who participated in pa
rades to advance the candidacy of
Harrison. The cabins were mount-
ed on wagons and within each was
a horny - handed frontiersman,
quaffing hard cider.
Van* Buren was not neglected
while this was going on. He was
attacked by the Ohioans as a snob
with a penchant for Europea' cus
toms.
By the time the “Buckeye” pa
rades popularized and spread east
of the Alleghenies, Van Buren’s
managers realized their mistake
and tried in vain to stem the tide.
It was too late. Gen. Harrison
won the election, hands down, and
Ohio has been known ever since
as the Buckeye State.
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Japan and Australia, with France
not averse to picking up a few for
possible future use. Each nation is
seeking possible landing places for
planes.
For much more than a century
Hawaii has been considered the
crossroads of the Pacific. It was a
•topping place for the American
clipper ships from Boston around
the Horn and on to China and re
turn. It was the refitting place for
American whalers and traders in
the early years of the last century.
As the commerce of the Pacific
increased, Honolulu grew in im
portance as a port of call, until
today nearly 1,000 ships enter its
harbor each year. Great Pacific
liners from San Francisco and Los
Angeles ply to and from the islands.
Other liners stop on their way from
California ports to Australia, New
Zealand and other South Sea is
lands. as do others from Calif onus
and other mainland ports to the
Philippines, to Japan, to China and
around the world. Ships from Eu
rope and eastern American points,
bound for the Far East through the
Panama Canal, stop at Honolulu.
The islands have been, and are. ]
the crossroads of the Pacific so far
as shipping is concerned. You re
alise all that as you stand atop the
Punch Bowl in Honolulu and follow
the directions of the arrows point- i
mg to the far cities of the nations, |
north, south, east and west, border
ing this greatest of oceans
And now to ships there has been
added airplanes, the clipper ships
of the air, with Hawaii at the cross
roads of the air tines.
Race fer Bases Starts
Because the American flag flew
over two small islands. Midway end
Wake, west of Hawaii an American
air line to the Far East, to the Phil
ippines and China, was made pos-
s'ble.
Last year Japan established an
air service between its mandated
islands in the Pacific, and is seek
ing bases that will make possible a
line between Tokyo and South
America, a line neither England
nor America would wish to see es
tablished.
Within the past few months the
Japs made an effort to secure King-
man Reef, a coral atoll with a har
bor formed by a coral reef, situated
about 900 miles south of the Ha
waiian Islands. It is American
owned, included within the munici
pal boundaries of Honolulu, and the
American owner, a resident of Ho
nolulu, did not sell.
In this race for islands the latest
American pioneers are a group of
Hawaiian school boys led by Dr.
Dana Coman, who colonized Jar
vis, Baker and Howland Islands
and so established American sov
ereignty, which has now been rec
ognized by England.
Establish New Aif Line
The purpose of it all was the es
tablishment of another American
air line from San Francisco to New
Zealand, with Honolulu as the first
port out of San Francisco. That
new line, a contract for which has
been signed between Pan-American
Airways and the government of
New Zealand, is to be in operation
by the end of this year. The route
is from San Francisco to Honolulu,
then to Kingman Reef, which the
Japs did not get, to Pago Pago, the
American island of the Samoas,
and to Auckland. American Sikor
sky clipper ships will be used, and
a maximum requirement is for two
ships each way each week.
Other American air routes in the
South Pacific are being considered.
If it is possible to secure landing
privileges for American plapes in
Australia, a line will be established
between Honolulu and Sydney,
using as bases the islands of Jar
vis, Baker or Howland. Jarvis Is
land is on the equator and is the
geographical center of the Pacific.
These islands are located on the
airplane route to Australia and are
in positions that lend them a value
in relation to flying to that conti
nent that is comparable to Wake
on the road to China which pro
vided a stopping place between
Midway and Guam.
It long has been a recognized
fact that Britain as well as the
United States has laid claim to
these islands. When me conference
on Pacific relations was being set
up in Washington in 1922, the
United States War department
made a map for its use. That map
showed Jarvis, Howland and Baker
and marked them as being claimed
by both Britain and the United
States. The Department of Com
merce now asserts that there is no
question of American ownership,
based on residence on the islands
from time to time by Americans
who were in the guano business. If
there is question of ownership the
present occupation by represents
lives of the United States govern
ment is expected to establish its
claim.
Visits Jarvis Island
William T. Miller. Superintendent
of Airways for the Bureau of Air
Commerce, recently visited these
islands He reports that Jarvis Is
land, 1.900 miles due south from
of triangular shape, with base to
the southward and apex to the
north. Within the 100-fathom line it
Lesson for August 16
SOWING AND REAPING
LESSON TEXT—Galatians 4:1-10.
GOLDEN TEXT—B* not deceived; God
Is not mocked; tor whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.—Gala
tians 6:7.
PRIMARY TOPIC—How to Behave.
JUNIOR TOPIC—When We Choose.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—Sowing and Reaping. (Effects of Alcohol).
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Sowing and Reaping. (Effects of Alcohol).
Satan is “the god of this world.”
And as such he has wrought con
fusion in every realm and particu
larly in the field of moral distinc
tions and responsibility. Instead of
clear-cut lines of right and wrong,
white and black, he has managed
to befuddle the minds of many so
that they see only a twilight gray
of moral indifference. He has lulled
many a man and woman into a
false security that somehow sin
may be yielded to with impunity.
e BMl Sjmdicat* —WXO SVrvtc*.
The Four-Word Test
In this test there are four words
given in each problem. Three of
the four in each case bear a defi
nite relationship to one another;
Cross out the one word that does
not belong in each problem.
1. Holy, sacred, profane, divine.
2. Tall, squat, lofty, high.
3. Lob, double-play, net ball,
ace.
4. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Boston, Connecticut.
5. Vain, humble, modest, sub
missive.
6. Shot put, javelin throw, 100-
yard dash, discus throw.
7. Hot, stolid, fiery, ardent.
8. Harvard, Princeton, Vassar,
Yale.
9. Tallahassee, Sacramento,
Chicago, Baton Rouge.
19. Running, swimming, walking,
trotting.
Answers
1. Profane. 6. 100-yard dash.
2. Squat. 7. Stolid.
4 u i To some he sa Y s there is no God ' I 4 „ Sr
is 9 1-2 miles long east and west by ^ no punishment for sin. To those 3- Double-play. 8. Vassar.
5 miles north and south. It dries | who will not yield to suc h a bold 4. Boston. 9. Chicago.
attack he more subtly suggests that | 5. Vain. 10. Swimming.
God is love and that there will be
at low water on its northeastern,
eastern and southeastern edges; at
the western extreme there is a
patch of 4 fathoms, and possibly less,
on which the sea breaks occasion
ally. The remainder is encircled by
a ridge with depths of 4 to 10 fath
oms, between which are soundings
of 14 to 45 fathoms. Outside this
ridge the bank falls suddenly to
depths of 300 to 400 fathoms.
Jarvis Island
Approximately on the equator
and the 160th meridian; 1,375 sea
miles, 1,575 land miles, slightly,
west-of-south of Honolulu. A “sandy
flat” of coral formation, 1.7 square
miles in area.
The island was supposed to have
been discovered by Capt. Brown in
the English ship Eliza Francis,
1821. Surveyed by officers of
U. S. S. St. Mary’s. 1857. Annexed
to Great Britain, 1889. Leased to
Pacific Phosphate Company of Lon
don and Melbourne, 1906. Occupied
by U. S. colonists from Honolulu,
1935 and American jurisdiction now
sc know led ged.
Hew land Island
Latitude 0 49 north; longitude
176 : 43 west; 36 sea miles (approxi
mately 40 land miles) north of
Baker Island and 1.620 sea miles
(approximately 1,800 land miles)
southwest of Honolulu. About two
miles long north and south and 1-2
mile wide; from IS to 20 feet high;
of coral formation, with a fringing
reef. Water found by digging a few
(eet; it is slightly brackish.
Ths island appears to have been
first reported by Capt. George E
Netcher, of New Bedford, as dis-
no Judgment. Some there are who | SUCCESS PROCESS
think that formal association with
American “Colonists'
Hawaii—which U. S. outpost must
be the primary base of all air routes
in the Pacific—is suitable as an all
way landing field for land planes or
amphibians. A safe seaplane an
chorage can be made on the lee of
the island. Two ar/as on Howland
and others on Baker, which are
1,700 miles southwest of Honolulu,
can be made dsable through the
expenditure of small sums of
money.
These islands offer alternate
routes to the South Pacific. Jarvis
is more directly on the route from
Hawaii to New Zealand, while Ba
ker and Howland point straight to
ward Australia.
As Honolulu is today the princi
pal port in the long flight from San
Francisco to Manila, so Pago Pago,
the beautiful Samoan island and
harbor belonging, to America, will
be the principal port on the long
flight from Honolulu to Auckland.
Its landlocked^ and copamodious
harbor affords an ideal landing
place for the ships of the air, as it
has for the ships of thet water.
When within a few months the
new clipper ships of the air begin
their flights, made possible to a
large extent by the pioneering of a
group of Hawaiian school boys,
they will bring us within hailing
distance of the beauty, the ro
mance, the adventure of our
dreams—the South Seas.
A bpief description of these new
islanci outposts for American air
planes follows:
Kingman Reef
Latitude 6:25 north, longitude
162:, approximately 922 miles south
of Honolulu. It is of atoll character.
In the Equatorial Pacific.
covered September 9, 1842. Alfred
G. Benson, American Guano Com
pany of New York and Charles H.
Judd of Honolulu tobk possession
February 5, 1857 “by erecting a
house and pole, putting up Ameri
can flag and leaving various im
plements of business.”
It was leased by Great Britain to
Pacific Islands Company at one
time but United States sovereignty
was established in 1935.
Baker Island
Latitude 0:13:20 north; longitude
176:33 west, about 1,650 sea miles,
approximately 1,895 land miles,
southwest of Honolulu. Of coral for
mation, about 20 feet high and al
most bare of vegetation, except
patches of grass. About one mile
long east and west, 1500 yards wide,
surrounded by a reef 200 to 400 feet
wide, awash at low water. There is
no fresh water on the island.
The island was discovered by
Captain H. Foster, barque Jamaica.
Taken by U. S. 1857. Capt. John
Paty, Hawaiian schooner Liholiho,
reported to R. C. Wyllie, minister
of interior, Hawaiian kingdom, vi
siting island February 12, 1857, and
that it had been “taken possession
of under American flag by A. Ben
son, agent of American Guano
Company.” David L. Gregg, U. S.
commissioner to Hawaii, reported
to state department, 1857, that Al
fred J. Benson of American Guano
Company of New York, and Charles
H. Judd of Honolulu sailed with
Capt. Paty in that year and that
formal notice of possession was
left at Jarvis, Howland and Baker
islands.
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religious organizations will some
how atone for all their carelessness
of life. How great is the need to
emphasize the truth of this lesson
that “God is not mocked, for what
soever a man soweth that shall he
also reap” (v. 7). These are eternal
and immutable principles
The epistle to the Galatians ex
pounds Christian liberty as based
on justification by faith. This life
of liberty is a life in the Spirit, and
this 'means walking in the Spirit.
I. The Christian’s Attitude Toward
Others (w. 1, 2).
The spiritual concerns of life are
far more important than the mate
rial, therefore the writer points out
that the believer is
I. Considerate in spiritual matters
(v.l).
Sin is in the world Men, even
Christian men, fall. Who is to help
thegri? and how? Fellow sinners snd
spiritual weaklings cannot help.
Sanctimonious and "holier than
thou” folk will only criticize and
hinder. The spiritually strong must
help the weak, doing it gently, not
Judging severely.
But not all the problems of the
world ere spiritual and the Chrie-
tians will be
2 Helpful in bearing the burdens
of life (v. 2).
The Christ spirit leads a men to
bear hie neighbor’s burden.
II. The Christlas’s Attitude To
ward His Own Life (w. 34).
The true believer is character
ized by
1. Humility (v. 3). The men who
is wrapped up in himself is always
e very small bundle.
2. Self-judgment (v. 4). Compare
I Cor. 3:10-15. God will one day
judge our lives. We do well to judge
them now in the light of eternity.
3. Self-reliance (v. 5). The one
who is quick to bear another’s bur
dens is slow to ask others to bear
his.
4. A sacrificial spirit (v. 6). The
true disciple will honor his teacher
and will share with him not only
his material things, but also the
gpod things she finds In God’s Word.
III. Ae Eternal Law of Ufa and
Conduct (w.7-9).
1. The law stated (v. 7). “Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap.” We never question
Ibis law in the realm of nature. We
expect no wheat when we sow wild
oats. But, fools that we are, we
think God is less exacting, less true
to his perfect holiness and right
eousness in the realm of the moral
and spiritual. Let us awake before
it is too late!
2. The law illustrated (v. 8). The
Resh stands for self, self-will, or
Selfishness. The man who lives for
himself and his own pleasures reaps
“corruption” even in the present
world.
3. Its obedience rewarded (v. 9).
God is gracious. Well doing is not
only its own reward, but in future
Prospect there is a reward at his
hand for those who are not “weary
In well doing.”
IV. A Summary and Conclusion
(v. 10). This gathers up the truth
of the entire context, reminding us
that “as we have opportunity” (and
sometimes it really knocks only
once) we are to “work that which
Is good” (and it may take effort and
sacrifice) “toward all men” (even
if we don’t like their nationality, or
color, or creed, or lack of creed),
“and especially” (and now we come
into the intimate family circle) “to
ward them that are of the household
of laith.”
TOO COMPLICATED
TO BE GIVEN OUT
Few processes are so delicats
or complicated as those of suc
cess. Who would venture to say
that he has mastered them so
thoroughly that he can venture
to tell another human being how
to make a success of this indi
vidual life. Some people who suc
ceeded never seek counsel. They
have instincts which guide them
aright in the most difficult moves
of the game. They make mis
takes, of course. It is often nec
essary to make mistakes once, so
that one need not make them s
second time.
William Watson, in one of his
poems, has spoken of “that still
ness on a base of power.” There
is fine counsel, as well as truth.
In the phrase; for true power
goes as quietly about its work as
gravitation.
Failure Is usually a nervous,
fidgety creature, perpetually agi
tating itself as to whether or not
it Is succeeding ; whether or not
it la winning acceptance. Suc
cess. on the other hand, does its
work, does it with all its might,
knows for certain that It has done
it well, and, come, praise or
blame, passes quickly on to its
next job; or If It be not always
so scientifically sure of itself as
this, it practices what I have
called an “optimistic fatalism.**
—Richard Le Galltenne.
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