The Indiana Weekly Messenger from Indiana, Pennsylvania • 7

INDIANA WEEKLY MESSENGER THTTRnAV OCT moq pnf 4 III' I aS MB Ok 9 WWfc ak OM ML ImBSi WL Ul: lim WIMI JOorw DELECTED By ELMO SCOTT WATSON I SOME one suddenly de manded that you name the fourteenth President of the United States could you do it? Or if they said was President just before Millard illmore and who just after could you answer promptly? Jf you were one of those persons who as a school boy or girl had to learn Presi dents in perhaps you could you remember it that long string of couplets which listed the Presidents in order and to which some one added another couplet whenever a new Chief Executive was elected? If you here it is: irst stands tMe lofty Washington That noble giat immortal one The elder Adans next we see And Jefferson comes number three The fourth is Madison you know The fifth on th list Monroe The sixth an Adams comes again And Jackson refenth in the train Van Buren eighth upon the line' And Harrison counts number nine The tenth is Tyler in his turn And Polk the eleventh as we learn The twelfth in Taylor that appears The thirteenth illmore fills his years Then Pierce comes fourteenth into view Buchanan is the fifteenth due Now Lincoln ccmes two terms to fill But God the people's will And Johnson fids the appointed time Cut short by an crime Next Grant aswiraes the lofty seat The man who never knew defeat Two terms to him then Hayes succeeds And quietly the nation leads Garfield comes rext the choice But soon ascends a mourning voice rom every hamlet in the land A brutal wretch with murderous hand Strikes down the chosen chief And anxious mllons mourn in grief The first elected from the trans Mississippi West The first who was a Quaker in re ligion The first secretary of commerce to be elevated to the Presidency The first mining engineer to occupy the White House If Smith is elected President he will be The first bearing the name of Alfred The first who was a Catholic in re ligion The first market man to become Chief Executive Although Hoover If elected will bring more as shown above Smith if elected will be a better ex ample of repeating Hoover as cabinet member becoming President will be the tenth to do that Jefferson Madison Monroe John Quincy Adams Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan all served as secre tary of state before they became Pres ident and Monroe Grant and Taft served terms as secretary of war So the promotion from the cabinet to the White House will be Hoover's only example of following precedent Should Smith be elected he will be the fourth President horn in New York and elected from that state Martin Van Buren Millard illmore and Theodore Roosevelt being the other three He will be the sixth President elected from the Empire state however since Chester A Arthur and Grover Cleveland though born in Vermont and New Jersey re spectively were residents of New York when elected Smith will also be the second President to have been a New York sheriff Cleveland being the first If Smith is elected it will Taft were Unitarians Van Buren and Roosevelt' were of the Reformed Dutch aith Harding was a Baptist and Garfield a Disciple Seventeen of the Presidents were of English ancestry six of Scotch Irish two were mostly Scotch and two of Dutch descent one chiefly Welsh and another Scotch and Dutch ifteen Presidents were sons of farmers and planters four were sons of lawyers three of merchants three of clergymen and one each of a doc tor a constable a tanner and an iron maker Eight Presidents as well as the present nominees were born of fam ilies not blessed with worldly goods Others were born in varied circum stances mostly middle class Although born of poor parents Washington be came one of the rich landowners of his day while none of the others at tained riches If fate should decree the election of Herbert Hoover whose wealth is estimated at several million dollars he will probably enter the White House as the richest President ever to assume office There have been twenty Presidents who went to college some of them by their own efforts Mr Hoover is also a college man but Governor Smith went through the of Experi ifteen Presidents were sol diers in one or more of the wars in which America has participated Neither of the two present nominees saw military service Both of the candidates this year are a little over the average age of their predecessors on inauguration which was fifty four years and four term run then begun Which made the number twenty one Then came the of Honest and strortr in policy Grover Cleveland whose first term Made the politic'e ns squirm But when election day rolled round Harrison was more popular found A man of intellectual mold In action cautious manner cold So when his single term was over There followed lour years more of Grover McKinley then the well beloved A most efficient pi'ot proved A crazed assassin laid him low Again the nation voiced its woe To fill the interrupted term followed staunch and firm A fighting statesman forceful true And brilliant as a scholar too He taught the nat'on strenuous life Yet kept it from Internal strife Next Taft the jurist reached the goal our quiet years he held control Then Woodrow Wilson Princeton man Eight fateful year of rule began or under him our armies brave Went forth a whtrle world's peace to save The war was won but at what cost The nation soon this leader lost In peace was Harding's term begun But death claimed him 'ere It was done Then Calvin Coolidge calm and cool Gave to our states a cautious rule But what couplet will be added next? Will it be something like this: Now Herbert Hoover of Belgian fame Adds to the list the thirtieth name Or will it read something like this: And now the roll call here ends with champion Alfred Smith The answer will be written on November But whichever it is some new items will be added to the record of what may be called esting acts About Our irst of all consider the which will be written into the annals of the nation no matter wheth er the next occupant of the White House is Herbert Hoover or Alfred Smith If Hoover is elected President he will be The first bearing the name of Her bert The first who was a native of Iowa The first born west of the Mississippi" The first who was a citizen of Cali fornia be the third time that a governor of New York has gone from the execu tive mansion in Albany to the White House The other two were Van Buren and Roosevelt If Smith is elected it will place New York on almost an even basis with Virginia and Ohio as a training ground for Presidents The Old Dominion still rightfully retains her title of of with seven men born on her soil who be came President They were Washing ton Jefferson Madison Monroe Har rison Tyler ami Wilson although Harrison and Wilson were elected from Ohio and New Jersey respec tively Ohio's record is six native sons elected to the Presidency They were Grant (who was elected from Illinois however) Hayes Garfield McKinley Taft and Harding Since the religious issue has boon so prominent in the present campaign it is interesting to note the variety of religions which have been repre sented in Hie White House There have been eight different sects and whichever way the election goes this year a ninth is due to be added Eight Presidents have been Episco palians seven Presbyterians four Methodists throe Unitarians two of the Reformed Dutch faith one Bap tist one a member of the Disciples President Coolidge is a Congregation al ist Thomas Jefferson was classed as Liberal and a noted biographer de clares that lie was a believer in Christianity although not a sectarian While President Johnson was not a church member he was a Christian believer and his wife was a Metho dist resulting in him being accredited to that faith The Presidents who were Episco palians were Washington Madison Monroe Harrison Tyler Taylor Pierce and Arthur Those claimed as Presbyterians were Jackson Polk Buchanan Lincoln Cleveland Harri son ana Wilson The Methodists were Johnson Grant Hayes and McKinley John Quincy Adams illmore and months Hoover is fifty six and Smith is fifty five The average age of Presidents at their death was sixty eiglit years and seven months Roose velt wa: at forty two tiie youngest President to assume oilice Grant Cleveland Pierce Polk and Garfield were Presidents before they were fifty William Henry Harrison was the olding being sixty eight Gar field died youngest forty nine the vic tim of an assassin's bullet John Adams lived the longest to ninety Three Presidents Lincoln Garfield ami McKinley have been assassinated Jackson was fired at while in office and Roosevelt was wounded by a crank during the campaign in which he was a candidate for a third term Ten of the Presidents have been elected twice They are Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe Jackson Lincoln Grant Cleveland McKinley and Wilson Eight served eight com plete years all of the above except Lincoln and McKinley the victims of assassins' bullets William Henry Harrison had the shortest period of service as President dying after one month in the White House our who served as President were ncer elected being Vice Presidents who served out the terms of their Presidents who had died They were Tyler illmore Johnson and Arthur Two Vice Presidents however who were elevated to tiie Presidency were afterward elected in their own right They were Roosevelt and Coolidge Cleveland was a two term President whose record was unique He served one term 1SS5 1SSD was defeated by Benjamin Harrison in 1888 but was elected again in 181)2 and served from 1803 to 1897 All Presidents were married when elected witli tiie exception of Buchan an Tyler illmore Benjamin Harri son Roosevelt and Wilson married twice Tyler had the most children seven by each marriage Washington Madison Jackson Polk and Harding were childless John Adams was the father of a President and William Henry Harrison the grandfather of one Country Stores Passing The old fashioned country store is passing it is oiiig to join the cov ered wagon tiie town pump and the ox team Thousands' of these stores still keep their old estate but in other thousands glittering showcases ornate fixtures gilt casli registers and steam heat have supplanted the wood stove (set in the inevitable box of sand) nail keg cracker barrel and dry goods box handy for the blade New York Times oe of Crooks Air transport is the latest modern weapon police departments are using against the criminal In recent months Insurance companies after receiving tips on the whereabouts of various suspects accused of driving stolen cars have resorted to air mail to get a de scription of the fugitive and the stolen car to the destination before the car could be driven there In several cases pictures of suspects traveled through rhe air and wnen the criminal reached his objective detectives were able to identify him inger prints of pris oners can be rushed across the conti nent in 31 hours and tiie old trick of demanding a writ of habeas corpus before extradition papers from other states arrive is not so easy to maneu ver when the documents can be sent 100 miles an hour In Morocco tiie face of a bride Is painted white and red and her hands and feet are dyed yellow with henna Electrical Contractor Gives Advice to Others think Milks Emulsion should be advertised all over the world so as to help all of the sick 1912 I had a great deal of trou ble with my stomach and bowels or several years I tried everything that I saw advertised but I kept getting worse all the time I got so bad 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SOLD ON MONEY'BACK GUARAN TElL 75c at your druggist or direct from ua at SlOOdeivered Large size (four cimesaa much) $200 Co Springfield Ohio EO3S Bate' I KILLS RATS ON LY Can Order a Shine She (in bootblack shop) So you studied Greek too? He Enough to acquire a polish Much in Little Miss Plump is 'multum in Johnny in your bath ing suit Proud of Ownership of Historic Bugle Tiie most famous bugle in tiie Unit ed States army is said to Ire found at ort Myer Va just cross tiie Poto mac from Washington the property of Staff Sergeant rank Witcliey the veteran bugler of i lie Third cavalry Witchey blew taps on the horn at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington cemetery and at the funer als of Woodrow Wilson William Jen nings Bryan Maj Gen Leonard Wood Lieut Gens Nelson A Miles and Young and other prominent Americans The bugle was issued originally to Witchey by the army as a part of bis equipment but the day after he blew the taps at the grave of the Unknown Soldier he bought the horn back from the quartermaster for 250 He had the bugle gold plated and now be en graves on it all the important events at which it is blown with the dates Joy of Labor The only things worili having in this old vale of tears and laughter are those you have to work at least a little to get and we suppose a really intelligent mosquito would rather have tiie girls wearing stockings than not Ohio State Journal The average man holds the key to the future because there are so many of him Charles It Brown dean of the Yale Divinity school In politics and courtship a third tarty is usually not desirable The Party Line says to May Ellen when her bean her fell out lots bigger fish in sea than ever was she sniffles 'What thet to folks providence to be like Widow Jones thet throws empty tomato cans right under her sign Board Strictly resh "Kate Ellery was in to ast man ager of Bijou Dream theater not to spray thet perfume in his place no more because her man alius tells her bis coat got thet way from to pitchers she ain't so Kansas City Star Left Gentility in a Safe Emma Calve priraa donna of Car men fame tells this story against herself in her memoirs "I once had an English maid Shewas a thoroughly good girl truthful honest obliging but lacked tact One day when on a long train journey 'she noticed that a rope of pearls I usually wore were missing and panic seizing her exclaimed madam where are your home in the safe I told her fadding that I never wore them when traveling what a she said They make you look like a real Going ishing have my nets and my tackle all tiie might sight a few flying Cathedral Made Dear by Old Association After Canterbury cathedral had been restored from the great Are oC 1174 pious Englishmen so revered the beauty of this stronghold of the Church o' England that they camel from far and near and even those not so religiously Inclined made their or 300 years this was kept up and many am inn sprang from existence to prosper ity in the shadow of the sacred edi fice In time some of these pilgrim ages became less of a religious exer cise than a favorite summer eicur sion and their history Is shadowed in our word which is tha shortened form of gal Another interesting thing associated th this cathedral Is the division of the Bible into two chapters Stephen Langton who died In 1228 was car dinal and archbishop of Canterbury besides being a statesman of no mean foxee This was the age of the beginnings of organized learning and Cardinal Langton after distinguishing himself as a teacher gave his time a standardized text of the Vulgate there being up until then almost as many versions as there were Bibles It was In this wok that he made the vation of dividing the lengthy books into chapters thus making specified passages much easier to find Detroit: News Greatness said Hi iio tiie sage of Chinatown less in deeds than in deft appeal to public imagi Washington Star Tn the Knight enptne two sliding to form a perfectly sealed com always at its best STANDARD COACH IHTVnE patented Willys Knight double fi valve engine is as fresh at the end Al run as at tiie and after thou will finilthiacTHiArlnmint nrnvnn ci uniform compression at all times at all speeds tmd uith any gas Other Willys Knight motlela $995 to $2695 i rn esiob lolcdo Ohio and speci ficationssubject IO change Wllhou notice double sleeve of a hard after thousands of mnecyouwiumiti uiissuperiormotor even smoother and quieter than on the day you took delivery Its simplicity of design insures remarkable freedom from carbon troubles and repairs There are no valves to grind no valve springs to weaken At the lowest price in history the Standard Six is bringing the advantages of Willys sparkling activity sustained brilliance and ease of control to thousands of new and enthusiastic owners I fe' i jtileice (indjnrccb1 a lt WILLYS OVERLAND INC TOLEDO OHIO WllLYSKNICUTc WILLYS OVERLAND Inc TOLEDO OHIO I.