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The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 35

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34 NEWS SECTION THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1928 tionalism were inculcated in two at the Hotel Gibson roof garden. The products was considerably in excess flsd to set forth the views of their countries on the League of Nation. TWO SPEAKERS I TOO SLOW! to China, where he entered the Chinese Government service. He attended the Universal Postal Conference at Madrid in 1914 and in this way returned to Germany at the outbreak of the World War. Meanwhile de Lanux was studying "mathematics and other things," according to his own words, and became a journalist.

From 1912 to 1914 he was a war correspondent In the Balkans and then he returned to France and entered an ambulance corps. M. de Lanux was on trje staff of Andre Tardieu at the Parts Peace Conference and since then has become a writer of note in Europe. The two speakers are welt quail- permit the Company to lay a track across MUlsdale Avenue, which Is the dividing line between Hartwell and Lockland. The committee Insists lr this ordinance Is passed It la pro- posed to connect the track with that now operated by the railroad and that It will result in serious damage to property.

Mr. Ellis recently suggested that a suit be brought by the residents of Hartwell, but the latter insist that It Is up to the city to take action. The Solicitor yesterday did not Indicate what will be don with reference to the request. INJUNCTION IS FAVORED To FreTent Operation Of Side Track In Hart well Street. Asserting that the operation of a side track in the vicinity of Milldale Avenue.

Hartwell, Is contrary to the zoning law. a committee the Hartwell Business Men's Club yes terday requested City Solicitor John Ellis to enjoin the railroad com pany. An ordinance now Is pending to To Air League Views Before Foreign Policy Association German And Frenchman To Speak January 12. German militarism and French na VI speakers who are to address trie Cincinnati Foreign Policy Association Saturday, January 12, but both outgrew the teachings of their nationals. The German became a scholar and studied the Chinese classics and the Frenchman reached beyond the boundary of his country and became an Internationalist.

Wolf von Dewall. the German, now is foreign editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung, one of the largest newspapers In Germany; Pierre de Lanux, the Frenchman, Is director of the Paris information office of the League of Nations. The meeting will be held at noon two will speak on "France, Germany and the League of Nations," follow-Ing a luncheon, Mrs. Simon Kuhn, Executive Secretary of the Foreign Policy Association, announced. The German was born In Potsdam In 1882, the son of General von De-wall, and became, like his father, an officer in the German army.

Five years later M. de Lanux first saw the light of day In Paris and in time came to be an editor, a writer, an organiser and an internationalist. Von Dewall attended a cadets' school and was appointed Lieutenant in a regiment of grenadiers. In 104 he resigned from the army and went' 1 A 1 ft of the value of the mineral products. Spain quickly transplanted its own system of agriculture and plants to the new world, and the Spanish meth od is still the basis of Latln-Amer lean agriculture, he said.

At the morning session on medieval history Professor Edgar H. McNeal. of Ohio State University, presided, and at the session on the history of the South. Professor Homer C. Hockett, of Ohio State, presided.

Clarence E. Carter, Miami Universi ty, Oxford, Ohio, was one of the speakers at the luncheon conference on colonial and revolutionary American history. Tyler Bennett, of the Division of Publications, Department of State, at the Library Congress luncheon said he sometimes wondered whether many American scholars in their ef fort to divest themselves from all na tionallatic prejudice In writing and speaking upon International affairs have not unconsciously reached the point where they view the policies of foreign Governments with greater sympathy than they approach the for eign policy of their own Govern ment." Obloana on Memorial Board, The new officers of the association named today are: President, James Harvey Robinson. New York City; First Vice President, Evarts B. Greene, Columbia University; Second Vice President, E.

D. Adams, Leland Stanford; Secretary, Dexter Perkins, Uni versity of Rochester; Treasurer, Charles Moore, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer. Patty W. Washington, Washington: Editor, Allen R. Koyd, Library of Congress.

Washington. The Executive Council consists of James T. Adams, William L. Clements, Samuel E. Morrison, Dwight W.

Morrow, Winfred T. Root, Payson J. Treat, Miss Elizabeth Donnan and J. G. Hamilton.

The Executive Committee appointed by the association for the commemoration of the Revolution in the West Includes C. B. Galbreath, of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, of Columbus; Professor W. H. Siebert, Ohio State University, and Mrs.

Emma S. Backus, Cincinnati. The Middle West branch of the American Oriental Society today elected Mrs. Caroline Ransom Williams, of Toledo, President for the next year. Mrs.

Wlllams is a leading American Egyptologist and has been professor at Bryn Mawr and the University of Michigan. She is row doing special work for the Toledo Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York. She la the first woman to hold office in the organization. Other officers elected were: Professor T. J.

Meak, University of Toronto. Vice President; Professor O. R. Sellers, Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago, Secretary; Professor L. E.

Fuller, Garrett Biblical Institute, and Professor W. C. Graham. University of Chicago, members of the Executive Committee. Durham, N.

was selected as the 1929 convention city of the association. Indianapolis, December 29 (AP) Achievements of the public health movement have been factors In making our present civilization, said Dr. Richard H. Shryock, Duke University, who addressed the general assembly of the American Historical Association convention nere lonigni. Dr.

Shryock is the first research scholar under the Beveridge memorial fund of $50,000, founded by Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge In memory of her husband, former United States Senator Indiana. After Btating that the health movement was well under way in the United States as in Europe before the close of the century. Dr.

Shryock reviewed the outstanding accomplishments, such as the "practical elimination of infectious fevers in temperate climes, the advance of sanitation in the tropics, the gradual mastery of endemic diseases, like hook worm and tuberculosis, and the depressing effects of child hygiene upon our mortality statistics." "However," Dr. Shryock said, "It is well to guard against exaggeration of the degree of success already attained In the old warfare against disease. Little headway has been made." Swinging back into history Professor F. H. Hodder, of the University of Kansas, visiting.

professor in Cornell University, discussed the famous Dred Scott case. The speaker said the evidence showed that the case was begun with no other purpose than to secure Scott's freedom, but later got Into politics. The final decision, Hodder said, "destroyed Douglas and divided the Democratic party. It revived the Republican pnrty, elected Lincoln and precipitated the Civil War." KNAUFF GIVES BOND. SrKCUL D1RPATCH TO TBS ENQUIRES.

West Union, Ohio, December 29 Roy A. Knauff, clerk of Adams County Board of Elections, Indicted yesterday on two counts, appeared In Court today to give bond of $1,600 on each count. His bond was signed by 10 West Union business men. The indictment charges Knauff with having issued false election returns and with having forged the name of the election board. His arraignment is set for Friday.

I New Ideas Missed In Parts Of Country By Two Generations. Tennessee At Point Of Yale In 1860, Says History Speaker In Discussing Progress. Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge And Dwight Morrow Among Donors To Fund Ohio Scholars Honored.

CPXCUL DISPATCH TO THJ SSQCMES. Indianapolis, December 29 "The cast-off intellectual garments of one age are found, soiled and tattered, on the backs of the Ignorant many in the next." Professor Dixon Ryan Fox. of Columbia University, declared at the dinner of the American Historical Association tonight Professor Fox spoke on "The Disposal of Refuse Ideas." He showed how when many current beliefs prova false they descend to other elements of society. He spoke of the stages of Intellect in America and called attention to the fact. In referring to evolution, that the intellectual garments once cast off In New Haven are now worn by prominent people In Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.

"Fundamentalism" was natural to scholarly minds not yet instructed the Rosetta Stone or by Agasslz, Lyell and Darwin, he said. The world was much smaller when the foremost American astronomer knew of but 3.000 stars, whereas today are actually recorded on photographic plates. He declared that known species of mammal have Increased twenty-fold, insects fivefold, birds eisht-fold and fishes at kasts fifteen-fold. "At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were 200 minerals; now there are nearly 1,500. The elements themselves have more than doubled, as the series is constantly filled In by new discoveries.

Evidence for the theory of evolution seems steadily to increase. Genesis seems less a book of science, whatever truth It may contain as a splendid poem." Other speakers at the night session which followed the dinner were "Frank Hodder, University of Kansas; Albert T. Volwiler, Wittenberg College, and Richard H. Shryock. Duke University.

Indiana Tops Fund Quota. Professor Harry J. Carman, of Co lumbia. University, Secretary1 of the Endowment Committee, spoke at the business session, taking the place of Lee, of New York, Chairman, who was unable to he present. He de- dared that $224, 017.42 of the endowment fund has been sub- scribed.

Indiana leads every state In the Union with a total subscribed fund of more than $85,000, which exceeds its quota by $36,000. The original Indiana quota of $50,000 was subscribed in full by lrB. J. Albert Beveridge In memory of the late Senator Beveridge, first Chairman of the endowment fund. Professor Carman said that Indiana plans to make Its total fund $100,000, double the quota originally set.

In addition to Mrs. Beveridge there have been several large contributors, among them Dwight Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico; Solomon R. Guggenheim and William Evarts Benjamin, of New York; Mrs. Frank T. Griswold, Radnor.

and Logan Hay. Springfield, 111. In addition to the general endowment fund there are several special funds to which publishing houses have contributed, among them Charles Scribner Sons, Houghton Mifflin, A. A. Knopf and Glnn Co.

Four Buckeye Scholars Speak. "The Spanish Contribution to American Agriculture" was discussed by Arthur P. Whitaker, of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, at the session of the Agricultural History Society. He declared that the Spanish colonies were far from being a mere string of gold and silver mines and sugar plantations worked by miserably oppressed natives. Just before the.

end of the colonial conquest the value of the agricultural PT7 3, I Were expecting a lot from you for never was a Year born with so favorable a fairy godmother to wave her wand over its cradle! On this, your birthday, we wish you 365 days of joyous, prosperous life days which will fulfill the promise of your auspicious birth! Hail, 1929! And Farewell, 1928 We of Cincinnati hate to see you go, for you have been good to us. It was you who gave us the Canal Boulevard, the greatly improved streets throughout the city you who are responsible for the successful subscription of the Taft Foundation fund you who saw completed those much needed alterations in Music Hall you who watched the towering buildings rise, a new monu' ment to Cincinnati's greatness! On the Bright Page of History, where Good Years go when they die, we gratefully enroll your name. Farewell, 1928! it mm mm Jfrientrs; antr -patrons 3appj anb prosperous Jeto J9ear Read Our Sensational Offer in Tuesday's Enquirer PRESIDENT, THE POTTER SHOE COMPANY 213 VEST FIFTH STREET I'honet Main .2847. Secon4 Door West of Elm. 3T:.

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