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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. SUNDAY. FEBRT'ARY f. 2C So Fast We May Go, and No Faster Seen by a New Yorker at Large 33 1 mcrntt SSk tfwnidf AND ROOHK8TKR HKRALD FubllthM by tu Koceitr Printing Company Offlr.rm and Oifctonr rRANTt OANNKTT, KRANK K. TRIPP, rruldui.

vic-preldent. rwr.I.A C. townson, an Trfuwir.r Mostly Boy By William H. Tompkins A PILL How frequently parent how! And gnsh our teeth, and sulk and grov.l Because some snippet a glrj Who mayhe ahake a saury rurl And hides an Imp in her orient eye. A merry tongue that make thine fly, Has caught the fnnry of your iRd Until the boy aeems well nlpl) mad! Or else sfime luhber of a boy WINN KHEO C.

GOODWIN ERBERT J. Editor All CH ItoM, if ft, crops are good, but apparently It has no end. This year the people of Shensl have had not even a chance for life. Never more than a step or two ahead of famine, they have been overtaken this year by the severest winter weather ever known, so cold that once the thermometer fell 30 degrees below the lowest mark ever before recorded. A writer In the Manchester Guardian tells of iaklng a few loaves to a village of 800 people who had not tasted any grain products for three months.

sight of the first real food seen for so long," he writes, "turned the starved, half dazed and dying population Into snarling wolves, whom the soldiers were forced to beat off with whips before any distribution of the food was passible." Yet on this dying and wasted province, some 300,000 soldiers are fastened to continue China's perpetual civil war. Even these are now reduced to a pittance of food barely sufficient to sustain life. "The Irony of it is," says the Man- By Deming Seymour New York A triangle of tiles is) into the sidewalk at the Christopher Street corner of Sheridan Square, in Greenwich Village. It is a small triangle, hardly IS inches on a side, and it bears the inscription; "Property of the Hess estate which has iw-ver been dedicated for public The plot of village ground of which the triangle was once a part belonged to the estate, and when the city condemned a strip of land for the widening of a street it cut off the fragmentary corner in laying a sidewalk. The heirs to the property nagged Entered the Postofftce Hochester, Second riam Mail Mutter Publication Offices: Nol, f8 nd 6t Main Street Elt TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS CITY BATES Year (Mo.

3 Mn. 1 Mo. Daily nd Sunday tt no tfl 2 2H IU.XI Daily (I0 3 00 1 W) It'! Chester Guardian, "that If only conditions Sunday 3.V) 1.75 .60 .39 the city for some time in an effort to prove an invasion of their rights, and. getting no satisfaction, finally had the tile marker imbedded In the sidewalk to perpetuate the story of the wrong done to them. Opera For F.rrant The performance at the Metropolitan Opera House the other of peace prevailed, for a relatively small sum a tunnel could be cut through the MS Yenr Mn.

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Who decorates with earn new toy, But yet who has a taking way And knows about what he should ay, Although he seems to lark horse sens Nor dream the meaning of expense, Ha aomehow snared your lassie' heart And stays each night till told to start Now If but half the facts were known I wonder who'd cast trie first stone? It surely would not he his dad Who thunder loud, outraged and mad! Could we hut Just unlock his psst His boy would stand appalled, aghast To aee the silly stunts his Pa Pulled off when courting that boy' Mai Nor do I think that Ma would cast If wa could glimpse hr girlhood pst, A stone or Just a pebble small At how her daughter kirks the ball, Could but open once the door Of twe: 'v years ahark or more, And see Att'n choicest esrspnde When she was young and unafraid! Before we gray-heads start to preach To every youngster in our reach, This pill I'll offer for advice-You may not think It sweet or nice; But Just unlock your attic door Where your fool stunts you fondly And see the million pranks you played, Before your virtues you pnrade! JOHN KORD, M. mountains to the top of the Yellow River and thus Irrigate million acres of the Wei River valley, banishing forever the-fear of famine." When will China cease blaming nature TELEPHONE CALL Main 7400 All Department for her misfortunes and work out her own salvation as other rations have done? matinee was a benefit for the Florence Crittenden League for Wayward Girls. It was, doubtless, merely by coincidence that the opera of the afternoon was "Don Giovanni," Mozart's version of that legendary profligate nn Juan. Double-Header The new building of the Irving Trust company at 1 Wall Street is being built so that, two elevators can be opetated in a single shaft. New street, the east boundary of Philippine Independence Congress of late has been hearing a renewal of the agitation for the independ MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED TRESS The Associated Pre la exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all new dispatches credited to it or not otherwise rredited In ma Mper and also the Irw al new publuhed herein.

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Michigan Ave. Nw VnrK Offtre 19 West Siren tan rruciaeo Office 457 Market street ence of the Philippines, but the new argu ments presented seem rather more flimsy than usual. The agitation comes down, in D. Roeheeterunii ahroal will find eopln of the rt.mocrnt and Chronicle us Pari office, Rue Osmxin, wliicn I alee in P-nt ntlire ot the Brooklyn fcajie. Abraham Lincoln By William Lyon Phelps fact, not to what is for the best interests of the islands but what is for the best ln terests of certain groups of the United States.

Producers of sugar and other products In which the Philippines are competitors would grant the Islands Independence in SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1930 the building, is some feet lower than Broadway, the west boundary. Engineers have figured out that local elevators, running as hi say, as the twenty-fifth floor, ran be operated from the new street level and that express elevators, making no stops below the twenty-sixth floor, ran be run in the same shaft from the Broadway level. While the express was delivering passengers to the top floors, the order that a duty might be applied against the products which now come into this country free and thus help to keep down the price of the native products. California urges that the United States turn the Islands loose in order to keep out the cheap Filipino labor which now annoys people A Yankee Abroad Tl along the Pacific Coast. Even Senor Osias, the Philippine commissioner, has been so local would make its trip up to the twenty-fifth story with passengers, grting down again before the express elevator returned.

It's a good trick, and elevator engineers say it will work, solvin? a big problem of skyscraper builders: How to get enough elevators into a or 100-story building without using up an inordinate amount of space for elevator shafts. Poor Soldier The cadets who were dropped from the United States military academy the other day for deficiency in thnir ulnlinc tolrn Relativity of Fortune Trite though It may appear to say It, It Is true that every experience and every position In life is relative. If this Is not kept In mind there can be no fair compari-on between two varying forms of experience or between two positions of different rank. The general who has won a battle feels no greater elation than does the boy who has bagged his first rabbit after a long and well conducted hunt. Our solar system in Its Imposing revolution around Its central sur Is a no more perfect example of the rhythm of the universe than is the whirling dance of electrons within the narrow limits of the atom.

The same principle of relativity applies to the ebb and flow of fortune in the experience of human life. A multimillionaire loses all his wealth except what to him deceived by those arguments as to Join in As the Bible says, "Let us now praise famous men." More famous men wet born in the year 1309 than In any other year in human history. Why that particular year produced the bumper crop of genius Is Inexplicable; let us be thankful for the results, even if we cannot discover their cause. The year 109 saw the birth of Alfred Tennyson, of Edgar Allan Poe, of Edward Fitzgerald, of Oliver Wendell Holmes; of William Ewart Gladstone; of the great Russian novelist, Gogol; of Chopin and Mendelssohn; while Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day, Feb. 12, 1S09.

Darwin and Lincoln were twin. Darwin showed the sublime development from a humble origin of the human race; Lincoln, from a humble origin showed In hi own life and character the eublime development of an Individual man. It la a fortunate thing for the United Slate of America that. Lincoln was born In Kentucky. The orator Wendell Phillips, whose hatred of the South was equalled only by his Ignorance of It, made the following public statement about Abraham Lincoln.

"The President la an honest man; that is, he is Kentucky honest, and that Is necessarily a very different thing from Massachusetts or New York honesty. A man cannot get above urging independence for the islands to placate the various groups that now nave By De Witt Mackenzie London Ardent love-making a grievance against them. It Is hardly conceivable that Independ Hyde Park, London's great, piny- ground, has been passed by the I ence will ever be granted to the Philippines censor. The man was down and out, to serve purely selfish interests in this coun Because of widespread criticism! they said; try. It will be granted only when it appears to be for the best Interest of the islands antniL me rnnnuri 01 enamoreu i tt i i i .1 couples In Hyde Park after the "where to lay 111 shades of night have fallen, George' head, Lansbury, the elderly and affable ITe ownril no stocks, no fertile) socialist commissioner of works, lands That time, according to the majority of aeems a paltry hundred thousand dollars and feels he has lost everything, yet what has been doing bit of sleuth ng No f)rp af whjch tQ warm hi, he has left would be considered a great His uu im ijwii in lie evtiiniiK.

hands. verdict is that "considering the fortune by millions of men. To some of observers, has not yet come. To grant independence merely to remove the Philippines as a competitor of American products would be not only a betrayal of our avowedly high motives towards the Islands; it would be the surest way of bringing economic disaster to them. A dream on wlucli lus courage fort from the back that other for-fed, lorn lads have come thus down the A drcant hich cerred him for frf West Point and have i i lived to make themselves morn ea famous than they might have been as soldiers.

And cherishing that dream he! James Whistler, the painter, was found Wst Point cadet from Massa- 1 r. i chusetts. He came from a family A footpath np to firmer of but he rou)d nf)t mJ ground. ter his studies and was dropped I pon the failures of the past i in 1S53. He went abroad and b- lle rose to men's esteem at rama artist- he stayed at j4st West Point he doubtless would have been an army officer in tho Civil War, Life may he bitter, stern and, Edgar Allan Poe went to West cold, Point in 18.11.

He lasted three But o'er and o'er this tale is thrn. his them the loss of a hundred dollars would vast mass of people who use the park, it Is as decent and whole-1 He had no purse, ho had be as severe an affliction as the vanishing some a place as there Is anywhere of millions to the other man, In the He Mr. Lansbury admits the atmosphere in which he was horn." Luck Tut Lincoln In the South It was partly because Lincoln was born in the South, and was all his life familiar with the Southern point of view, that he was able to see both sides of the irreptessihle conflict; even when the war was at its height, he regarded himself not as the representative of the patty that had elected him, nor of the North, but of the whole country. Ttjp Bible tells us that a man's foes are those of his. own household.

Lincoln lived to however, that he is going to pro-' vide more lights. He coat, had no muffler for hU throat. seemed to be a ne'er-do-well lacked all things men buv and sell. In the experience of pain and sorrow we find the same law Working. The little child with a burned finger is as much afflicted for the moment as Is the man I'uhllo Affection The commissioner agrees that who has been critically Injured.

The healthy man who feels he has been cheated couples do loll about, but says that; there is "no need for people to go and look at them," i And Couples ceitairuly jlo "loll" ftbont 1 the winter ret acatnst In Washington told. Nor fate, nor scorn, nor sin can eem To kill the man who keeps his dream. storm out of, a bit of life because a rainy day has deprived him of a game of golf cannot understand how a bedridden invalid counts a day free from pain a rare blessing. For his part the invalid would be astonished in Hyde Park. The love-making is jT(, had vhich of the vigorous tvpe which lsn i mm warm.

Sunday School A somewhat disquieting admission that "the program of the ordinary Sunday School is inadequate to meel present day requirements for the education of children in morals and religion" appears In a resolution adopted by the Greater New York Federation of Churches calling for a plan of weekday religious education In co-operation with the public schools. Evidence has not been lacking for some time that the Sunday School does not fill the place In the scheme of religious education that It once did, and one wonders why. Even churches that show a consistent growth In parish membership each year are compelled to report a decline in attendance at Sunday School. A recent annual report ot the Rochester Federation of Churches, for example, showed that church after church, prosperous in other ways, is losing ground in Sunday School he regnrded as the Arch Eoe of the whole South, and at the same time, and when the war was in Its darkest hours, to be regarded with equally rancorous hatred by the anti-slavery leaders of the North. In addition to this fierce enmity from both foe and ally, he was regarded by many others with contempt, as an Ignorant buffoon.

Very few supposed he had the qualities of a statesman, and he was the gieatest of his lime: very few supposed he was an orator, (what would Wendell Phillips have thought if he had been told that Lincoln whs a greater orator than himeslf?) and Lincoln made the greatest speech delivered anywhere during the war; very few supposed this roughneck from the wild nd woolly west was a consummate diplomat, and In this capacity he outshone all possible rivals. In the year IStl.t. Wendell Phillip published the following estimate of the President of the United States. "Not an Abolitionist, hardly an to learn that anyone could be made unhappy by a mere day of raiu. Such a list might be prolonged Indefinitely, The lesson It carries is that the greatness of the great and the littleness of the little Is only a relative fact.

Nature recognizes no such thing any more than she recognizes man's arbitrary breaking up of eternity into the units of time. seen in public in America. Therein lies a great difference between the "common" people of England and of America. Over here, the hid and lass of the servant type think no more about kissing und In public than would the average person about smoking a cigaret. Love-making on top of public buses or even on the sidewalk, in daylight, is so common that nobody pays any attention to it.

The motion picture houses are full of rnttple who go there for the express purpose of making love. One of 'the biggest cinemas in England has special seals in Its hupre balcony for lovers. They are built By Klirke L. Simpson Washington-Death of Secretary Good made Walter Newton a seemingly indispensable unit of tho Hoover official family. He is the only member aside from Mr.

Hoover himself ever to have run for election to federal office. Newton did it six times, coming buck to Congress with rising majorities each time. His biggest victory was his last, year ago. He resigned to take Hie secretarial job at the White House. And he did not want to.

Personal loyalty to "the chief moved him. Yet as a whole, the Hoover cabinet now Is not notable for its vote getting experience. Secretary SUm-son once ran for governor of New York and got licked. Secretary Hyde was once governor of Missouri and once mayor of Princeton in that state. Secretary Adams was once mayor of yuincy, Mass.

And that is ail. Better Seeing Although Rochester is already one of the greatest centers of the optical industry in the world, its position seems likely to I attendance. anu-siHvery mtin, ii r. incom consents to rep- Does this mean that the pessimists are resent an anti-slavery idea A pawn on the (Copyright, 1930, Edgar A. Gutsl' a ncnt alter all in a.sserunir mat me vounuer for two.

fcciuutc cci muic iiiiu.j B-t with lair enort may soon change queen, and sweep Kfiieiauuu u. a iiu.uu-u uuu miii ut-guiuM i njm for (nlShl, bishop, lot' Does it mean a wholesale revolt the board Cockney Trouble London's famous Cockney has No A nswer Copyright, been In danger of disappearing, and all because the bells on the ancient By Bruce Barton The traffic light flashed red, and a big car stopped short church of St. Mary-le-Bow. In Good had been through the con- the University of Rochester Institute of Optics is developed. This is made clear In the article contributed to Rochester Commerce by President Edward Buu.seh of the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company.

Ever since the Invention of the first crude lenses, investigators have been striving to perfect better means of seeing the things that are Imperfectly revealed or entirely invisible to unaided eye. Although a great deal had been done In the way of research and lh the perfection of machinery for the manufacture of lenses With Rochester Poets Contributed hy Members of the Rochester Poetry Society, The Secret against religious instruction? Whatever it may mean, it Is a regrettable sign. Twenty years ago almost all children went to Sunday School. They did not all go to recite the Golden Text. Many of them went to throw paper wads and to stuff the teacher's hat down the register.

None the less, something that was said and taught in Sunday School was bound to stick and to add a little stiffening to moral backbones. Certainly, children who went Cheapside, near the Bank of England, have been out of repair. To the untutored, that may seem like a strange statement, but it Is nevertheless true, and is a matter of such grave concern to the cltv The car behind it brushed the front car's fender. Nothing of; any importance. Just a bump.

Instantly, the driver of the first car was on the pavement, No one could bump him with impunity. He'd show the world. I stopped to watch the performance, and the action of the I other driver gave me a smile. Mild and innocent, he sat. He gressional election mill seven times, serving It years In the House.

His practical understanding of vote getting necessities was large. He knew just what problems of fathers that they have appropriated I money to set the bells riminfr atrcin I piaetiral politics face senators and representatives who want to stay on the job. That was what led to dirt mil turn lilo liood la tiBttnr caiH a IVirH iaon wunout its Cockneys and There a little Secret Who came to me one day, He looked too small and tender For me to turn away. far on i.ucKney accent, would De nmu me tunic gicru uu wic gcu i nj, being diafted rather unwlll-soiry place indeed, A lot of i and moved away. His angry accuser had to Climb back into his' ingly for cabinet service.

He might humorists would go out of business driver's seat, and before he could get going angry horns were 1 nev" lllive been called for duty for lack of material to work on. arnimrl him i if Newton had accepted the first But to get down to cases, a blowing all around him. secretarial previous to this century, the advances 10 aunaay ecnooi were none me worse made since 1900 have been such as to showjfor that optics is still capable of Immense Possibly Sunday School today Is too development by men trained not only in dull for children reared In an age when the mechanics, but in the scientific phases there are so many opportunities for enter-of lens manufacture. itainment. Possibly parents are more lndif- Thousands of Rochesterians are ami-! to religious education than they post.

Cockney is one born within the! Jle iilu Jlaa ule JSiiusitituuii ui ma uu.uui.m, uul tue sucni sound of Bow Bells. No one who man Won. The writer was is ushered into the world beyond Years ago I received a very bitter letter. the reach of these, chimes can claim wron? his acUs and unjustjned ill his tone, to be a Cockney. For generations! this has been so.

and the cneknev. I "irled the letter around in my pocket. Several times I are proud of their heritage. (started to dictate a hot reply. Then I would think of something The Bow Bells have rung in and meaner and decide to wait and try again, rung nut so many cockneys through; On the third morning I had an inspiration.

"The most liar with the use of lens grinding machinery But no one concerned with the prob- that appears to be capable of performing lpm4 ot Juvenile delinquency and the In-almost any operation better than human "easing complaints against youthful morals hands can do it. But before such machines liy tnat more and toilet religious could be manufactured, the theory of education Is needed, optics had to be worked out patiently by th character of young people Is of men of scientific training. any real concern to the state, here Is a Other tasks, other and greater or morejma'ter in which the educational authorities refiner! renuire menbi will demand the- snlu-! should CO-Operate by releasing Children inu ih.l urcHiirs mar nnuiiv the I paralyzing answer I can send to this man is no answer at all," said to myself. "What is he doing all this time? Looking works In the picturesque belfry Just pegged out from old afje. The city corporation jumped in and donated funds to put the mutter right.

i eagerly In every mail to find my letter. Planning out in his And so the little Secret By me would softly glide. His leet were shod with moorssins Which whispered by my side. 1 knew thnt he was near Wherever I might go, For every time I looked around His little feet would show. I murmured to him gently To hide his elfin fare, But every time I looked him He made sly grimart, To add to my distresses And tease me thru and thru, It seemed to me each time I looked The little Secret grew.

At lust I rould'nt hide him He wsxed so bold and stout. And while first ha whispered ort, He now began to shout. So then I bid my blushes And let him run away, To you if you'd surely be My Valentine today. GERTRUDE M. JONKS.

Country-Wide rdfforent presidents have viewed from a different angle the essential qualifications for a cabinet officer. All have sought to mak their cabinets geographically representative, of all sections of th country. By way of example, however, President Wilson's original cabinet slate showed a painstaking effort to weld discordant elements of th party's laige majority "on th hill" into a working machine by giving all factions cabinet representation. And it seemed to work well at first. The record of the first.

Wilson administration in speedy enactment of a definite legislative program was rather striking. Mr. Wilson put the influence "on the hill" first in weighing cabinet qualifications. Fitness for administrative duties seems to have been the Hoover watchword. And the President ha clung to that notion, eyen In th face of "coalition" development la the Senate.

from the schools far fixed periods each week and permitting them to gain religious instruction in such form as they or their parents may desire. tion of still more problems. As Mr. Bausch points out, the greatest handicap to continued development In optics is a lack of scientific training. Once men are trained to develop theories an apply them in processes, such limitations are dispelled.

mind the things he will say in reply. Mentally lashing me to the mast. "And I am going to disappoint him. I'm going to leave him there, all bottled up, stewing in his own Juice." Peace came over me. I never thought of the man again.

It's not an original idea. John D. Rockefeller, in his younger days, was working away at his desk one afternoon when a man rushed Into the office and began to denounce him in violent terms. Mr. Rockefeller loaned back and listened as if to a story of KNGI.IS1I AKT SM ALI.F It Changed conditions in modern society aie reflected in smaller canvasses of English artists.

At a recent exhibit at the Royal Academy in London small pictures predominated. It was explained that modern home are much smaller, than In the. spacious age of Queen Victoria when mansions A captain in the Hungarian army says he has not slept for 15 years. What a splendid audience he would make In the United States Senate. were in vogue, nd that artist fascinating interest.

He did not utter a word. must consider the limited space i China's Familiar Story Always there are two kinds of news that come out of China war and famine. First one predominates, then the other; sometimes both come at once. Just now the wolf of famine has outrun the dogs of on wall ss well a in motor caravsna and yachtg. Exchange.

"Contentment conslsteth not In heaping more fuel, but In taking away some fire" -Thomas Fuller. We always thought Fuller was a preacher but this reads like the innermost thought of a Janitor. Presently the man exhausted himself, and walked out, looking rather foolish. Mr. Rockefeller quietly picked up his pen and went on with his work.

There is a very wise old verse which reads! "The meek shall Inherit the earth." It true? Look around you. The meek do not make a spectacular showing. They lose many opportunities to announce their rights, and defend their honor, and show what tough fellows they are. But they certainly do Inherit. Copyright, 19'JI St.

Valentine's Day Cupid darts re flying, Don't go out today, Unless you want the God of Love To tarry you away. Cupid is an Archer With a perfect score. And St. Valentin will get you; So you'd better ty Indoor CHARU3TTE UIUBSROCK, war, and 2,000,000 persons in Shensl Province will go down before the great killer before next June, following 2,000,000 others who have starved to death in the last 12 months. BABY HAS OSTRK'H DIET When an eight-months-old baby was operated on at Wanganul, N.

recently, after it was reported to have wallowed a button, 26 pins, needles, safety pin and buttons were found In It stomach. The littl one I recovering. An older child had fed the unusual A Question War Secretary Pat Hurlsy' cabinet assignment hardly could have been expected to change values in. favor of the administration In Con-giess. Whether any other selection could have accomplished that must always remain open nuestion.

The Duke of Norfolk is now incorporated. We'll hazard a guess the Duchess is the board of directors, there is any The ghastly procession pauses occa- tionally when the weather is riht and such lady. mixed diet to the baby,.