The Coalgate Courier (Coalgate, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1923 Page: 3 of 8
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
INCOLN’S memorial In Washington Is
the center where will focus the Ameri-
can people's annual tribute on Febru-
ary 12 to Abraham Lincoln Tills me-
morial is worthy the man and the day
so far as human hands can express the
thoughts of human minds and hearts
In a few generations It will doutbless
have a worthy rival which In time
may surpass it — the Lincoln highway
a nationul road across the continent
lined with memorial trees beautiful
with roadside plnntlng busy with the
traffic and travel of the nation which he saved '
Today- the Lincoln memorial In Washington
stands supreme among memorials to Abraham
Lincoln — perhaps among memorials to any man or
woman In all the world “A thing of beauty is a
"Joy forever” and this Is a thing of beauty To look
from the Washington monument down the long
Mall and see the simple massive white mnrble
Greek temple Its stately Doric columns reflected
In the waters of the quiet lagoon Is a sight to stir
the appreciative to ecstasy What a trinity — the
Capitol Washington’s monument the Lincoln mon-
ument — with Arlington near byl '
Lincoln’s memorial In Washington stands today
a- completed and perfected national shrine for a
people's homage on February 12 It was officially
dedicated last yeaiv— on Memorial day This year
It will be rededlcated on Lincoln's birthday In the
hearts of the American people
In briefest words here is how the Lincoln me-
morial was created and what It is :
February 1 1911 congress authorized the expen-
dlture of (2000000 for a national memorial to
commemorate the life and character of Abraham
Lincoln In 1913 plans were approved Work was
' begun February 12 1914 The cornerstone was
I laid February 12 1915 Henry Bacon of New York
designed a simple and massive Greek temple of
white Colorado marble erected on a granite rect-'’
: angular base The memorial consists of a central
memorial hall containing a colossal seated statue
of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French a’nd two
smaller rooms containing memorials of Lincoln’s
Second Inaugural Address and his Gettysburg Ad-
dress There Is a colonnade of thirty-six Dorlt
- columns symbolic of the United ’States In 1865
Above these are forty-eight festoons In high re-
lief representing the forty-eight states ' '
The memorial has cost almost exactly $3 000004
to date The total height of the structure above
grade Is 122 feet Each column Is 44 feet high
and 7 feet 5 Inches In diameter at the base The
colonnade Is 188 feet long The statue of Lincoln
Is 21 feet high and weighs 21 tons Its height with
pedestal and base Is 30 feet The visitor enters
the memorial to gaze from a distance of seventy
fee at this gigantic L'hcoln represented as the
grwrt war President Oyer his head is Inscribed :
In This Temple
As in The Hearts of the People
For Whom- He Saved the Union
The Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Is Enshrined Forever 7 ' '
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Ai to the spirit of Lincoln’s Birthday In Ameri-
ca bn 1923 no truer words can be said than were
spoken by President Harding when he received In
behalf of the American ' people the Lincoln me-
mortal from the Lincoln memorial oflmmlsslon ap-
pointed by congress In 1911 with William Howard
Taft rbr chairman President Harding said among
other things :
“It Is a supreme satisfaction officially to accept
on behalf of the government this superb monu-'
ment to the savior of the' republic No official
duty could be more welcome no official function
more pleasing This memorial edtfl( Is a noble
tribute gratefully bestowed and In Its offering Is
the reverent heart of America In Its dedication Is
the consciousness of reverence and gratitude
beautifully expressed
‘‘Somehow my emotions Incline me to speak
simply as a reverent and grateful American
rather than one In official responsibility I nm
thus Inclined because the true measure of ' Lin-
coln Is In his place today In the heart of American
citizenship though half a century has pnssed since
bis colossal service and his martyrdom In every
moment of peril In every hour of discouragement
whenever the clouds gnther there la the Image of
Lincoln to rivet our hopes and to renew our faith
Whenever there Is a glow of triumph over nation-
al achievement there comes the reminder that
but for Lincoln's heroic and unalterable faith In
the Union these triumphs could not have been
"Hers was the great purpose here the towering
bops hers the supreme faith lie treasured trie
Inheritance banded down by the founding fu thorn
the ark of the covenant wrought through their
'heroic sacrifices and bullded through their Inspired
genius The Union must be preserved It was the
central thought the unalterable purpose the un-
yielding Intent the foundation of faith It was
worth every sacrifice justified every cost steeled
the heart to sunctlon every crimsoned tide of
blood ’
- “He knew of course before the assassin robbed
him of fuller realization that the end was bring-
ing him out all right He knew 'when swords were
sheathed and guns laid down that the Union he
saved was riveted anew and made forever Indis-
soluble He knew that In the great crucible of
fire and blood the dross had been burned from the
misdirected patriotism of seceding states and the
pure gold restored to shining stars In dear Old
Glory again He knew he had freed a race of
bondmen Rnd hnd given to the world the costly
proof of the perpetuity of the Amerlcnn Union
But I cannot restrain the wish that he might some-
how know of the monuments to his memory
throughout the world and that we are dedicating
today on behnlf of a grateful nation this match-
less memorial whose forty-eight columns repre-
senting forty-eight states In the concord of union
testify that the ‘end brought him out all right’
Washington Inspired belief In the republic In its
heroic beginning Lincoln proved Its quality In the
heroic preservation The old world had wondered
about the new-world experiment and was-quite
ready to proclaim Its futility when the Civil war
was tbreatehlng hut Lincoln left the Union un-
challenged fot all succeeding time’ Not only was
’ our nation given a new birth of freedom but de-
mocracy was given a new sanction by that hand of
divinity Itself which has written the rights' of hu-
mankind and pointed the way to their enjoyment
- ’
"Fifty-seven years ago the people gave from
their ranks sprung from their own fiber this plain
man holding their common Ideals They gave him
first to service of the nntlon In the hour of perils
tjien to’thelr Pantheon of fame ' With them and by
them he Is enshrined and exalted forever
“Today Amerlcnn gratitude love and apprecia-
tion give to Abraham Lincoln this lone white tem-
ple a Pantheon for him nlone”
Herewith Is reproduced a new photograph of
Lincoln cnthcdrnl In faraway England Why—
what Is the connection between Abrnhnm Lincoln
and a cathedral across seas that was hnllt long
before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock?
For one thing this “blood Is thicker than wa-
ter” and “hands across the sea” business is not all
buncombe There’s considerable In It after all
Rnglund gave lor the Lincolns when nil Is said and
done England gave us the Lincoln blood Amer-
ica made It run richer Doubtless It was Provi-
dence rather than England or America that raised
up Abraham Lincoln
For another thing It Is a safe guess that Abra-
ham Lincoln hnd his beginnings beneath the
shadow of Lincoln cathedral “Lincoln” Is a place
name The Lincolns of England and America took
their name from Lincoln the capital of Lincoln-
shire which Is an old old city — Llndum Colonln of
Roman times And the name Is old too Why
Hugh Lincoln Is the subject of the “Prioress’
Tnlo” In Cnnucpr’s "Canterbury Tales”
There were tL’nenlns early In our American hla-
try Ahraliam Lincoln Is descended from Samuel
Lincoln who came to Massachusetts from Eng-
land in 1637 And the Lincolns were a sturdy fam-
ily There was Maj Gen Benjamin Lincoln (1733-
1810) who received Lord Cornwallis’ sword In
surrender" at Yorktown Enoch ' Lincoln (1788-
1829) was governor of Maine 1827-9 Levi Lin-
coln (1749-1820) was United Stntes attorney gen-
eral 1801-5 Another Levi Lincoln (1782-1868) was
governor of Massachusetts 1825-34 and member of
congress 1835-41
Abrnhnm Lincoln’s Immediate ancestors chose
to go pioneering' New England was too settled
for them They were of the type of American pio-
neer who moved on as soon as he saw a neighbor’s
smoke or heard his dog bark In the depths of the
' wilderness ever working westward they became
what the world calls poor and obscure It should
be remembered however that poverty and ob-
' seurlty are one thing In the city and entirely a
different thing In the wilderness A plpneer with a
rifle and ax a roof over Ills head and a crop In
the ground is neither poor nor obscure
Lincoln cathedral Is one of the finest In Eng-
land It was In process of erection from 1075 to
1501 It Is' of early English architecture and Is
624 by 82 feet with a matchless central tower 271
feet high The cathedral’s famous bell “Great
Tom of Lincoln” weighs about 614 tons The north
gatp of Llndum Colonla still stnnds and Is the only
Roman gate In Britain still In use Not fur away
Is Boston the mother of our Boston '
What Lincoln and Lincoln’s ' birthday mean to
the English-speaking nntlons of earth eannot he
better said than was salt) by Elihu Root at the
presentation of the Salnt-Onmlens statue of Lin-
coln 1 lie gift of America to the British people lie
said among other things :
‘‘Put aside superficial difference accidental nnd
unimportant and Ahrnliam Lincoln appears In the
simple greatness of his life his character nnd his
service to mankind n representative of the deep
' and underlying qualities of his rncp — the qualities
’’ that grent emergencies reveal unchangingly the
same In every continent tle qualities to which
Britain owed her life In the terrible years of the
lust decade the qualities tliht have made both
Britain nnd America grent He was of English
blood and he hns brought enduring honor to the
name Every elflbl of English ' sires should learn
the story and think with pride 'Of such stuff as
tills are we English rnndp’
“He was Imbued with the conceptions of Justice
and liberty that the people of Britain hnd been
working out In struggle nnd sacrifice since before
Mngnn Clinrtn — the conceptions for which Chatham
and Burke nnd Franklin and Washington stood to-
gether a century and a hulf ngo w hen the battle
for British liberty was fought and won for Britain
as well ns for America on the other side of the
Atlantic These conceptions of justice and liberty
have been the formative power thnt has brought all
America from the Atlantic to tlfe Pndflc to order
Its life according to the course of the common
law to assert Its popular sovereignty through rep-
resentative government — Britnln’s great gift to the
political science of the world— nnd to establish the
relation of individual citizenship to the state on
the basis of Inallennbte rights which governments
are established to secure It Is the Identity of these
fundamental conceptions In both countries which
makes It Impossible that In any great- world
emergency Britain and America can be on oppos-
ing aides These conceptions of Justice end liberty
ere the breath of Ufa for both”
ADVISE FARMERS
TO CLEAN WHEAT
Cost of Transportation Greatly
Increased by Presence of
Much Foreign Matter
INSECT ENEMIES OF
APPLE ARE HARMFUL
SCREENINGS HAVE NO VALUE
Qraln-Cleaning Devices Can Be At-
tached to Threshing Machines and
Operated at Exceedingly
Small Expense
'Prepared by the United Statee Department
of Agriculture)
Lnrge savings In the cost of trans-
porting grains to terminal markets
vould be effected if farmers and coun-
try elevators would ship only' clean
wheat to market in the opinion of
Robert H Black In churge of grain
leaning Investigations for the United
States Department of Agriculture
The average carload of spring wheat
received at Minneapolis during Octo-
ber last year contained over one and
one-half tons of screenings Mr Black
said These screenings have no mar-
ket value so that the cost' of trans-
porting the materlnl was a total loss
to the shipper The result not only
was a waste of transportation space
but Increased considerably the trans-
portation costs on the good wheat
Dockage Is Large
Minnesota grain Inspection records
for October last year show that Minne-
apolis received 11332 cars of spring
wheat during that month containing
an average of 4 per cent of dockage
The transportation space occupied by
this foreign material lxl the wheat re-
quired 450 cars more than would have
been required had the dockage been
removed before shipment Mr Black
said For the shipping season up to
November 21 last -year nearly 650000
bushels of dockage or foreign material
In the wheat was shipped to market
the records show During the 1920-
21 crop year the quantity of dockage
or foreign material in the wheat
shipped to market was so great that
more than 14000 additional freight
cars were required to haul the wheat
than would have been necessary had
the wheat been cleaned before ship-
ment Mr- BInck Is conducting an educa-
tional campaign among the spring
wheat growers looking toward ' the
cleaning of wheat on thq farms hav-
ing In operation In the field several
grain-cleaning devices attached to
threshing separators that can be oper-
ated at exceedingly small cost com-
pared with the losses sustained by
shippers through shipping dockage In
wheat to market Mr Black Is also
arranging to conduct a grain cleaning
school at Fargo for the purpose of
teaching farmers effective grain clean-
ing methods
Records Show Increase
Minnesota grain Inspection records
for the past 18 years show a marked
increase In the percentage of dockage
in wheat arriving at terminal mar-
kets ranging from 2 per cent in 1903
to more than 5 per cent In 1921 On
this basis the 1921 spring wheat crop
contained more thnn 10000000 bush-
els of dockage the transportation cost
on which wns a total loss to the
shippers Mr Black states that when
the cleaning Is done on the farm or
at the country elevator the cleaned
wheat will bring n better price on the
ninrket the freight on the dockage
will be saved more curs wlllbe avHlI-
uhle for hauling wheat and the screen-
ings will be available for feed When
finely ground the screenings can be
substituted for the higher priced feeds
such us outs corn and conunerclul mill
feed Mr Black said
SUITABLE HOUSE FOR SKEEP
Damp Quarters Means 8ickness In
lock and Consequent Loss — Can
Stand Much Cold
Damp ' quarters for sheep means
sickness In the flock and loss for the
owners It Is certu'nly true that sheep
cun stand all sorts of cold but damp-
ness is unotlier tmng If sheep become
(himji In oolclivo-itiier It slmplv means
Annual Loss to Crop Estimated
at $1 8000000
Bulletin Issued by Department of A g
riculture Describee Peculiar Char-
acterletica of Pests and Means
J tf Control
(Prpard bjr the United Statea Department
of Agriculture)
The annual loss to the apple crop
of the United States from Insect rav-
ages is conservatively placed at from
10 to 20 per cent of the crop value
or at least $18000000 according to
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture Tq this should be added the
loss of the trees themselves from such
Insects as apple tree borers and scale
insects and the considerable amount
expended for spraying apparatus in-
secticides and labor
In Farmers’ Bulletin 1270 The More
Important Apple Insects by A L
Quulntance and EX H Slegler ento-
mologists just Issued are described
the general - distribution life history
and type of Injury Inflicted by over
Grub of Codling Moth -
60 Insect pests which attack the buds
leaves fruit bark trunk branches
or roots of apple trees Many Illustra-
tions show the nature of the Injury
and help Identify the different tnsects
Methods of control are given together
with spraying tables for the most com-
mon and destructive Insects
The codling rrtoth Is looked upon as
the most serious Insect enemy of the
apple The pltlig' curcullo probably
ranks next Scale insects aphids tent
caterpillars cunkerworms leaf-rollers
and gipsy and brown-tall moths are
among the many Insects discussed In
the bulletin Frequently the control
measures for one pest will also afford
protection from another The bulle-
tin Is available upon application to
the United States Department of Agri-
culture at Washington D Ct
PAINT ALL BUILDINGS EARLY
Minnesota Specialist Advise to “Get
the Jump” on Pests Detrimental
to Good Job
Do your painting early Is the advice
of H B White of the engineering di-
vision University farm and thus “get
the Jump” on dirt files and other In-
sects that are detrimental to a first-
class job of painting Inter on'
'“The Idea that paint Is used only
for appearance" says Mr White "Is
common In many localities Paint Im-
proves the appearance of buildings and
implements but It Is even more Im-
portant that It be used to prevent de-
terioration Scnrcity of lumber and Its
relatively high price make It clear thnt
the life of the buildings shouid be give-i
more attention thnn when material and
lnbor were less expensive
“A farmer can often do his own
painting If rapid depreciation Is to
he prevented It Is essent'nl that a
building be given a coat of paint every
three years or two coats about every
five -yeurs”
REMOVAL' OF SILAGE ODORS
Flavors May Ba Eradicated by Aara
tion of Milk' Wh-ila It is Warm—
Feed After Milking
Silage odors are absorbed largely
through the body of the cow rather
than from the air aoeordlqg to tests
made by the United Stntes Department
of AgHeiilture However these odors
may be practically or entirely removed
by the aeration of the milk while It la
stilt "worm Rntlier heavy feeds of
silage nmy he given to rows one hour
i after milking without any undesirable
I flavors or odors pussing Into the milk
When green alfnlfa wns fed In relative-
ly large quantities one hour before
milking marked flavors nnd odors were
noticed In the milk but when ns much
ns 80 pounds per cow wns fed after
milking there wns no effect on the
milk from tlie next milking
A Dog-Proof Fenced Lot in Which
Sheep May Be Placed at Night In
Regions Where Animals Running at
Large Ara Ravaging Flock
they are damp for several days and
that means that they will get colds
and the other attendant complications
A good sound mof Is the first re-
quisite to the suitable sheep shelter
Let the sheep hare plenty of fresh
ale
MAKE GARDEN PLAN CN PAPER
Several Things Can Be Done to Pro
vent Delay When Actual Opera-
tions Are Started
When the bluebirds and robins make
their apiiearance It Is time to make
pluns for starting gnrden work but
several things cun be done before the
birds and buds appear that will pre-
vent delay when it Is desired to start
actual operations say specialists of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture Plan the garden on paper Get
the-seed and make sure It Is of the beat
quality Good need will not sleep long
In good garden soli but poor ones may
never wake up All tools should be In
proper order before It Is time to use
them
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