The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 13, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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By LIMO SCOTT WATSON
N THE states of Alabama
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Georgia Florida and M-
sissippl Confederate Memo
rial day Is observed on Apr ii
26 In North Carolina and
0 t) South Carolina It is May 10
Iand In Louisiana It Is June
40i4i!' a May SO which was orig
1i' Ina ily the Federal Memorial
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day' has become a 'national
r holiday and in so far as It
honors the memory of both
the men who wore the Blutrand those
who wore the Gray as well as their
khaki-clad sons and grandsons who
fought in all of our wars since '61-'05
It Is observed In all states As these
dates are again approaching It Is In-
teresting to note that there is now a
project under way which in the words
of Its sponsor Is designed "to ohlit
crate the last remnant of ill feeling
between the sections of the North and
thessections of the South as we once
knew ehim"
The'project Is the proposal for a
joint reunion of Union and Cented
erate survivors In WaShington this
year and a bill already has been Intro-
duced Into congress by Representative
Edgar Howard of Nebraska as the
first step toward bringing It about
The bill provides for the appointmeni
of a commission consisting of the gen
ern! In command of the United States
army the governors of the Mates and
such oilier menibers as the President
4 may be pleased to name' to have ten-
eral -zbarge of the reunion and tot
the authorization of an appropriation
of sufficient money from the United
States treasury to pay the expeasee
of the reunion Press comment on the
proposal erpeclaily by 'Southern pti-
pers Indicates that the Idea has Mude
I good 'Impression and the cliaticef
for the passage of the bill are cow
sidered good
In Introducing the bill Congressinan
Howard acknowledged his Indebted-
ness for the Idea to two veterans of
the War Between the States: indite
b' Morley Cain and i D Richards of
Fremont Neb a former commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and In his spee11 advocating the bill
he said: "I feel I have a perfect right
to propose tlds legislation because of
the fact that i am about as for re-
moved from sectionni feeling as 'nny
man might be I recall In recitation
by my elders that in the days of strife
v about one-third of the men of the
blood of iny kinsmen were In the
Union army 'about one-third In the
Confederate army and about one-
third (being ()tinkers) were minister
ing to the sick and wounded on both
sides"
In answering a question of another'
member of congress during the eutirse-
of his speech in regard to the auto
her of old soldiers on either side who
are still living Jr Howard said:
According to the report of the corn
missioner of pensions who has better
knowledge on this score perhaps than
any other I am informed that on th
last day of November of this year there
were still living $4478 men who served
In the Union army Now I take it for
granted that approximately the" same
number survive with reference to the
i Confederate aide How many would be
able to attend such a reunion? I have
talked with many of the old soldiers or
both ldek Ind the general estimate Is
Fearsome Dragons
Aloud Ilex Allen eays: "As known
In Japan the conception of tbe'
dragon Is undoubtedly derived from
the products of the Itnaginatioli of
the early Chinese who were especial
ly fond of evolving supernatural forms
by combining parts of various ant
mats It is essentially a' serpent
with berms of a deer the head of a
horse eyes like a devil neck like a
Snake belly like- that of a red worm
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Confederate battle flags captured In
the Civil war were returned to the
Dixie states of Virginia North Caro
linalandTexaswith Impressive core
monies at the capitol on December 16
1927 The above photograph shows
Gov Ralph Brewster ot Maine (left)
President Coolidge (center) and Gen
4V B Freeman of Richmond (right)
honorary commander of the United
Confederate Veterans with some of
the flags returned
I that the number would be leas than 10
I 000 How do I gather that or ratner
how do they reach that estimate? They
reach it by taking the flgures of the
penelon commissioner which show that
IT round numbers 50000 of the 80000
living Union soldiers are now physical-
ly incapacitated requiring the constant
aid and ettention of some other person
to care for them because of infirmity:
and of the remainder the estimate is
mate by those Nho have taken account
of the attendance at the annual re-
unions of the Grand Army of the Re-
public and of the United Confederate
Veterans
lie then referred to the scene
shown In the picture above as fol-
lows: Out here thismorning on the steps
of the capitol we witnessed the return
of some captured Confederate flags by
the people of the Northern state Itt
Maine to the people of North Carolina
'I hoes people up there in Maine whom
the Southeners used to call the cold-
blooded Yankees are now warm and
they come down here bearing their cap-
tured flags to the North Carolinians
and I understand that if North Caro
lina did capture flags from the Maine
regiments she has already or is to re-
turn them to the state of Maine
recall an incident a little while
ago when the state of New Jersey
through its governor returned some
Confederate flags to a Southern state—
I think it was North Carolina
and here I have a little editorial from
the new York Times which say of
that action:
'The decision of the governor of New
ersey to return to North Carolina
nags of that state captured by New
Jersey regiments during the Civil wat
will be approved in the North as well
as in the South Ever since the World
war brought the sons of Northern and
Southern veterans Into blose contact
the last remaining vestige of regional
feeling has disappeared 'The North
has taken Lee to heart as a great
American The South has recognised
the splendor of Lincoln As one marl
of the new spirit many Confederate
flags taken by Northern troops and
Union flags taken by the Southerner
have been returned In following thin
custom New Jersey is contributing her
share to the obliteration of unpleasant
memorite"
I do not think of any better plea
that I might leave with you my
friends as a last remark en thiseub1
Ject than to quote some of the utter
&Aces by the splendid 'ones who have
represented us In high capacity in our
government In peace and in war
I revatt—it may have been at Appo-
mattox I do not know but certainly
soon thereafter—When the great 4en
eral Grant uttered that immortal es-
Pression "Let us have peace" It was
only a little while after that that the
wonderful Lee said "We are all one
now" It was not long after when
dear old General Gordon said The
'American people will forever remain
an unbroken brotherhood from sea to
sea": and It was not long ffer when
the princely McKinley said "Let to
strew flowers alike on the grave of
those who wore the Blue and those
who wore the Gray for American
valor is the common heritage of the
nation"
Living here in Washington today is
a wonderful old soldier of the Confed-
lac Lb be knew what service was
and ha knew what suffering was Ile
was in the war for four and a half
sears and the last part of It be spent
in prison His heart is so full of s de
afro to accomplish a final wiping away
of all thought of bitterness between
the two peoples that he has written a
poem which has been set to music un
'scales like those of a carp ears liko a
cow paws like a tiger and claws like
an eagle It has flamelikeappendages
on shoulders and hips On either foot
are three four or five claws—the Int
pedal dragon or China has five that
of -Japan three' t
Corn in City of London
The interesting fact that gardens hi
St Martin's Lane and at Bethnal
Green were once the scene of Impor-
tant agriroltoral experiments Is re-
called by the exhibition of mann
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der the caption "The Blend of the Btu
and the Gray" I refer to Mal John
Alleine Brown of Washington city I
know that many of you are personalin
acquainted with him and I would like
to leave as my closing plea in behalf
of the proposed joint reunion the in-
spiring lines by Major Brown:
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THE BLEND OF THE BLOB AND
THE GHAT
(Oh J Attains Brown)
Oh swell the song of kindred fame
And blow' ye bugles blow
Nor more dotb burn with heated flame
The passion of the foe:
The battle long bath ceased to rage
There is no battle line
The Nation's pride engraves the Page
Its joy invests the shrine
The blend of blue lights up the gray
The blend of graythe blue
Together now thou color away
With inspiration new
Tie ilatriot hands that sweep the lyre
They chant on high their lay
The blue invokes the Nation's choir
"My country" sings the gray
Then chant the blended blue and gray
Though once they raced each other
Those tattered ensigns furled away
Proclaim the name of brother
We've found at last the vaulted sky
For Us o'erspread alway
Eternally the blue on high
Blends with the morning gray
Other incidents similar to the re-
turn of battle flags which are "oblit-
erating unpleasant memories" and
whichare in keeping with the idea
back of the proposed reunion of Blue
and Gray veterans have been record-
ed In press dispatches recently as
follows:'4 -
Atianta Ga1-Charred by sparks from
eampftres and bearing holes as evi-
dence of Confederate marksmanship a
woolen bedspread taken from the home
of the late Gov Joseph E Brown at
Canton:Ga: in 1814 by one of General
Sherman's lieutenants has been re-
turned to' Atlanta
The aloud taken from the home of
Georgia's war governor when :t was
burned by federal troops was returned
to George M Brown Sr son Of the
former governor by Maj E L Sivey
of Chicago whose father ''borrowed"
It in the War Between the States
Richmond Va—Alfred L Aiken
formerly governor of the Federal Re
serve bank of Boston has returned to
the tenet of Virginia a gavel that was
carried off from the senate chamber by
a young officer of the Union army on
Apri L 1806 the day of the evacuation
of Richmond
of Then-histocW relic with handle of
walnut and bead at lignum vitae was
presented at special ceremonies recent-
ly And was accepted by Lieut Gov
Junius West presiding officer of the
tenets '
The young officer who carried it
sway'! wale Liout1 Lewis Spaulding
adjutant of the Twenty-ninth Connecti-
cut infantry which was among the
firet Union troops to enter the city af-
ter Richmond fell
Ho gave it to William A Bucking-
ham Mr Likens grandfather then
governor of Connecticut afterward
United States senator whoa home was
at Norwich For more than eletY-twe
years it had remained In possession of
members of the family there
The gavel was used not only by the
Virginia senate but also by the Con-
federate senate which held its ee-
alone In the same chamber
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Washington D C—Maj-Gen John
L Clem retired Union veteran and
Vivian Fleming a Confederate veteran
have been designated by Secretary
Davis of the War department as mem-
bers of the Spottsylvanian county bat-
tlefield memorial commission which al-
so will include Caçt George F Hobson
army quartermaster corps Both 'Gen
Clem and -Fleming served on the pre-
liminary commission and already have
detailed knowledge of the fields which
win be under their Jurisdiction
scripts and printed &inks illustrating
the history of agriculture now on
view at the British museum L'
tt was Sir Hugh Platt who ieems
to have been a sort of Elizabethan
Lord Bledisioe—who practiced the
new and andrable Arte ateetting of
Come" on the site of modern 'Lon
don lie invented Mall the necessai
tooles11'with such success that be wag
knighted in the secOnd year of 'lama
I—London alt-Bitt ' A
&lost folks are boneet:'
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Tbe federal radio commission plans
toInsist on a closer adherence by
broadcasting stations to their assigned
frequencies
! In a letter to station owners and
operaters Of his district Harold A
Latount of Utah representative of the
Far West thesis the intention of the
commission to keep a stricter check on
frequencies
"It Is probable that 'every station
will' be required to purchase such
equipment as will In the opinion of
the commission' eneble it to operate
on Its assigned frequency" Mr La
fount declares 4tticenses will be im
mediately revoked if General Order
No 7 which prohibits a deviation of
more than one-half kilocycle is vie
Wed"
Although the commission has re
eelved many complaints of Interfer-
ence caused by stations wandering
from their 'assigned channels it has
been disposed to treat the offenders
with leniency because of the mechani-
cal difficulty of maintaining frequency
With the recent development of de-
vices for transmitter control and the
inereased necessity of maximum still
gation of the available wave lengths
I enore drastic polity will be adopted
Declaring that he sees no possibility
of broadcasters obtaining licenses for
it longer period than 60 days during
the nest year Commissioner Latount
says be appreciates that in all ordi-
nory businesses merit is usually re
warded and the possibilities for
Try for Olympics
The photo shows Mary Taylor thaw
cot of the Pasadena &le Olympic
team now going through a series of
workouts to prepare them for the
forthcoming Olympic trials Several
Members of the team an expected to
be named as members of the Amer!
can Olympic team
Interesting
Tennis threatens to pass cricket In
popularity in New Zealand
From 187Q to 1889 inclusive Yale
never lost to Harvard at football
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Holy Cross nine has scheduled a
game with Notre Dame June g at
Worcester
On the University of Illinois basket
ball team is a forward named Cann
And another named How
Peek Ward has been appointed um-
pire in chief of the Blue Ridge league
by President J V Jamison
Frank Dougherty was 're-elected to
captain the Fordham basket ball team
through next year at a meeting of the
letter tren
Babe Ruth at thirty-four says be Is
going to have the greatest season of
his baseball career this year
I Jackie Warner regular third base
man on the Detroit team last ear
apparentk has lost his berth to Marty
McManus
Gus Feuer ace of the Florida uni-
cersity tennis team Is considored a
good bet to win the national into"
collegiate singles
George Qualm one-armed wizard at
the handball courts has held 'he
Class A singles chEmplonship of the
Minneapolis Athletic club tor the past'
two tteasont
Olympic Swimmer
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rhe photo shows Ileginald iCelto-t
hamplun Australian awlmnter
has sailed to represent his country a'
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growth and development are virtually
limitlees001
"Unfortunately that ts not the case
In the broadcasting Oeld because of
the limited number of ether channels
most of whicit are overcrowded now"
Mr Lefount said
"Under the circumstances despite
the tine work broadcasters may do or
ambitious plans they may have for ex-
pansion the commission will be an
able to show its appreciation of the
public by offering them more power
and better wave lengths While some
of the old stations have been given
considerable latitude In the past the
time bay come when they cannot ex-
pand further and some of them may
be restricted'
"I favor a more equitable distribu
eon of stations among states but it
Es a hard problem owing to the lack
6f program talent and' station Will
Iles in 0 number of states For that
reason chain programs are available
to sparsely settled states°
autmonok Starts
Racing PrograTn
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Three-Year-Old Feature to
Be Run at Jamaica Track
The Paumonok handicap will usher
In the racing season of 1928 at the
Jamaica track on Monday April 23
It is for three-year-olds and upward
over the sprinting course of slz fur-
long& It has fifty-eight entries and
speed is represented in such horses
as Happy Argo Draconis Old Dutch
Donne Mot Black Curl Ariel One
Hour Kentucky Second Distraction
Finite Polydor Victorian Sweepstere
Jumbo Foundation Stone Ramoneur
Barmaticus Poly Nausakan Propus
Pennant Queen and Filemaker
Happy Argo was the champion
sprinter of 1921 He will unquestion-
ably be assigned top weight
But weight in reason will not stop
the Irish horse if be is at the top of
his form—and be usually is good in
the spring He Is a fine weight carrier
and anything like 128 or 130 pounds
will not anchor him provided the
track is dry and fast He objects to
racing in a sloppy or muddy track Ile
is poor in soft going
Sweepster Sarmaticus Draconis
Old Dutch Donnez Mot and Nausakan
probably will be in the second divis-
ion Old Dutch hung up a five and a
Sport Squibs
Jim Bottom ley of the St Louts Var
dinals holds the major league record
for the most runs driven to during one
game Against Brooklyn in lira he
sent in 12 men with drives from his
bat
Lloyd Mann America's premier run
ner would like to go abroad two ot
three weeks before the Olympic games
In Amsterdam In July and finish up
his training In England for the 800
and 1500-meter runs
Predict Big Year for Leach
0 N HIS showing at the bat
and in the field during the e e4:ii
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1920 season folks rather ex- C' ilot 7st
pec I ted Fred Leach of the Mintiest 41I a '-4
to make We mark in the league ‘ 111"tV' iltm:
last year He batted 330 his first ' :-
NI big league season and played a
sprtghtly game in the outfield But
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flu got started late and never did i A1 ti '' i:re- 'q
hit his etrlde of the previous year kt t
At that he did not do so badly for
he batted over the 300 mark and t4 414
played a steady helpful game for et J ftte
Isla team
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Ind lie daturally would take his Fred Leach
oasehall tteriously He is a natural
hitter and with his intense desire to excel In his profession be is
pipt to make himself a great player in the genie
Leach used to be a station agent in the little town of tturryville
Ark in the Ozark mountain country and his one grand diversion was
playing ball A born athlete he noon exrellen in the game and niude a
reputation through the mountains and the strawberry country as a
all-around player of parts and rare promise Rivalry between village
bail tearn !! in that countr) ran high In the days of 1914-1S117 and the
e'om m erelal clubs used to join in and help hire imported players to
win match games
And so it was that whet the baseball feud between the little town
of Golden and Blankville flamed to white beat Golden sent to Berry
town for the station agent to pitch for its team against ha WO
rival In the big town Leach thrilled to the call and pie the section
foreman in charge for the afternoon When he got to Golden he found
the most nondescript ball team that ever a setniprd pitcher had laid
eyes on before or since The center fielder was sixty years oltL end
his son age thirteen played shortstop This was a fair sample of the
team that Leach was to lead to victory against a gang of huskies from
a much larger town "I never worked harder In a game in my life
declared Leach "and never got a greater thrill from victory We beat
them 8 to tk and my tame was made In the Ozarks from that day on'"
Leach was bornAn Springt dd Mo in 1900 At the age of seven
teen be got a Sob In Berrytown Ark with the railroad Ile married a
Berrytown girl and two years later moved to Jerome Idaho to take a
lob Is a telegrapher He had only a slow curve as a pitcher but as a
batsman be could bit a fast curve so his playing out West attracted
attention Leach Is a likable fellow and has set his heart on making a
success of his profession His 1920 promise may bloom in 1928 ALy
way the Jerome telegrapher will make s desperate try for stardom
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The photograph ithou's a bead-on view of the luxurious meter car
recently built for the king of the Betties end which will be used chiefly for
tripsacross the African deserts The tar resembles a fort on -wheels and
Is equipped with two stands for armed sentries There are eve powerful
searchlights and two horns to warn camel drivers of the king's approach
The machine was built at Bromley at an estituated cost of $15000
half
furlong 1track record at Jamaica
last fall That shows that he likes
the course Draconis one of the feet-
est Juveniles two seasons back but
lame for a long period is In training
again Be too showed well at Jamaica
as a two-yearold
In the long history of the Paumonok
handicap which had its Inaugural In
1906 It has furnished some stirring
equine battles When Tryster won In
1922 four horses finished like the fin-
gers of your band an Inch or two
only separating each of the quartet
In the Hat of winners one can find
Red River which won It two years
in succession in 1907-08 Restigouche
Coquette Flags Dunboyne On Watch
Zev St James Worthmore and Silver
Pox
New Power Tube Added
Another power tube has been add
ed to those requiring less filament
current It Is the 2I0A Except for
the lower filament drain its charac-
teristics are the same as the 210
Breaking in the
New Automobile
First SOO Miles Has Impor
tent Bearing on Kind of
Future Service
"The first 500 miles or so la the
most important period la the life of
a new automobile and the manner In
which the ear la driven at that stage
determines to a large extent the kind
of future service it will give
"The parts of a new car are care-
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gA AUTOMOBILE ITEMS
When a womon occasionally does
take a beck seat she drives the auto-
mobile from it
As soon as this automobile war le
over we're going to try ' to get a
pension for our old veteran
e
If all these new can get the mile-
age promised by their makers It will
be a tough break for the gas Industry
A pneumatic automobile bumper has
just been placed on the market and
the wily thing now needed to make
the Joys of motoring complete la a
pneumatic telephone pole
A motorist doesn't have to be a
financial expert to realize that it Is
better to pay out good money for a
n entli tr te
me:aitagtioTetwiltin a paper
which will only take him to court
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Carbon deposits chould be removed
from the cylinder heads valves 'and
pistons of every automobile engine at
regular mileage Intervals Carbon
'knocks" are one common cause of
unpleasant and damaging engine
noises '
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HI pair of new shoes intuit Om
'broken In before fitting coinfortniii"
P40 these new parts must also he sol-
' lusted in order to function properly
"High !mints on the bearing must
be smoothed out' tool ' am) grinding
flouts gradually Worn away high
polish acquired" --
! This Is the statement of David
tiregg research engineer who pro-
ceeds to give sonie expert edvire about
breaking In new automobile
To quote tlregg In part:
"First follow explicitly the muM1-
(adorer's directions for the 'break-
Ing in' period which gauntly t '"00
Annex After this period and a hen
the engine is warm occusioually ac-
celerate up to In tot 45 miles ow low
lintuedintely the speedometer regimen
40 or CI slow down to around 35
miles an hour This nobles he oil
to circulate freely among the Thriving
parts
"The chort bursts of speed permit'
the parts to liewittie eceomodatett to
full Itmd operation without deriver
of burning OP Pticking which- mlrhr
our with eontinited high towed run
ning
"At the end of the firs! 100 tlitteW
the enr should he driven back to the-
dealer for a complete check See Oar
the valve adjustment Is correct the
compression even In ell cylinders the
distributor mutate points checked
TIIP operation ilt the steering geer and
alignnient of the front WtIPPIR
be checked and he mire the nuts
which bold the wheels on the renr
axie lire tight and without sign of
lotoseness
'A cur property broken In and retro-
tarty checked ot at good service sta
thin should OW' 1111011 M1)&11114104 of
miles of carefree opertition at a mini-
mum Of expense
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Inspection of Cars
Motorists aro finding it a
'lost ly proposition le assume
that it is not worth while to Wet
qut of the car and look for Pott
ihie damage after a minor col
tision Many have driven away
in such cases only to find rel
'lively severe damage that
hey were certain could not hate
'vaulted A recent ease thus
mites this A motorist who
NMI stopped to allow cross
traffic to pass was hacked Into
ity another Vat Re started
'way 082111111Ing that the Mho
car had struck only his hamper
When later he inspected thy
tiamage he 4fount a tend'
crumpled sinioatboyond ref
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