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Peacetime Hero
THE recent petition of the Ameri
can Humane association to Pres
ident Roosevelt and Postmaster
General FYank Walker to issue a
special stamp this year in honor of
Henry Bergh has made many Amer
icans aware, for the first time, of
the services of one of those “peace
time heroes" svho are all-too-often
unhonored and unsung. For Henry
Bergh was the founder of two great
agencies for relieving distress—the
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals and the New
York Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children—both of which
were pioneers in their fields.
Bergh was born in New York city
in 1823, the son of a ship-builder
who died in 1843, leaving the fortune
which he had made in the service
of the government to his three chil
dren. Young Henry Bergh entered
Columbia college but before finish
ing his education there went to Eu
rope where he remained for five
years.
In 1862 President Lincoln and Sec
retary of State Seward appointed
him secretary of the legation at St.
Petersburg and acting vice-consul.
But the severity of the climate
forced him to resign in 1864 and he
■pent the next two years traveling
on the continent and in the Orient.
The cruel treatment of their live
stock by the peasants of many of
the countries which Bergh visited
sickened him and he resolved to de
vote his life to the interests of dumb
animals.
When he returned to his native
land, he discovered that there was
plenty of cruelty to animals here,
too. so he began his crusade—in the
streets, in the court room and be
fore the New York state legislature.
He encountered great difficulty in
rallying the public to his cause but,
alone and in the face of ridicule and
even active opposition from men who
loudly asserted their “right to treat
their property any way they chose,”
he persisted on his course.
Finally the legislature passed a
law, governing the treatment of ani
mals, which he had prepared, and
on April 10, 1866, Bergh organized
and became the first president of the
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals to carry on his
humanitarian work on a nation-wide
scale. In 1871 Louis Bonard, a
wealthy Frenchman, who lived in
great simplicity in New York, died
and left $150,000 to the society which
facilitated its work. Soon afterwards
the attorney general authorized
Bergh to represent him in all cases
pertaining to cruelty to animals and
with this official indorsement of his
society, Bergh started out on a lec
ture tour in the West which resulted
in the organization of similar so
cieties in other states.
In 1874 Bergh’s attention was
drawn to the case of a little girl
who had been inhumanely treated
by her parents and this resulted in
the founding, with the aid of El
bridge T. Gerry and others, of the
New York Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children. This
was the first organization of its kind
in the world and it was the fore
runner of an international move
ment to protect unfortunate chil
dren.
From his crusades have grown the
modern licensing system for pets
which requires owners to care for
them, and dispose of them merci
fully and at the same time provide
revenue for cities and towns having
such a system. He encouraged the
education of children in kindness to
animals and the building of animal
shelters and hospitals, such as are
found in thousands of cities through
out the country.
* * *
Bergh's work also had far-reach
ing results in matters of health. He
was responsible for the first fight for
clean milk, and the society which he
founded still has something to say
about the purity of milk. It also
looks after the transportation of cat
tle intended for market and it fixes
the time and manner of slaughter
ing animals for food. In the matter
of contribution to the health of our
nation alone, it is difficult to esti
mate the importance of the pioneer
work of this “peacetime hero."
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Arsenal of Democracy
J
Of course the entire nation is serving as the “arsenal of democ
racy” in the current struggle against the totalitarian powers. But
the' activities of the federal arsenal at Watervliet, JS. Y.. are typical
of those going on in plants throughout the land. This series of
photos takes you to the arsenal.
At the left a worker is finish-turning a major caliber gun. An
other big barrel hangs from the crane over his head. Right: This
man is inside a major caliber gun hoop, measuring the bore before
the hoop is shrunk on to the gun barrel.
Through thr brcechlock seat of a major caliber gun you arc
looking at a skilled worker using a flexible shaft grinding tool on
another rifle barrel of major caliber.
Coated with a
protective film,
these gun bar
rels are jmrked
in a storage
yard at the arse
nal. Guns do
not stay long
in storage
now.
Thrjir
TAKE IT AWAY! This giant gun barrel is partly assembled.
It is going for'a little trip, swinging from a powerful ox'erhead
crane, to where the next touch will be given.
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The Last Battle
By MEREDITH SCHOLL
(Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.)
IT HAPPENED during the so
called “Mexican” war — that
period of time during which the
United States government sent
a flock of troops over the border to
protect honor, life, property and to
catch Villa.
Garfield Nichols, who was then
considered one of the foremost
newspaper correspondents in the
East, despite his lack of considera
tion for expense accounts, his hu
morous viewpoint on things that
newspaper editors regarded as
vitally important (including the
Mexican war), and his frankly ad
mitted weakness for intoxicating
beverages of any description—
despite all these things Garfield
was dispatched posthaste for Mex
ico as representative of the Bos
ton Express to serve in the capacity
of war correspondent.
Old Man Upton, the Express’
managing editor, knew w'hat he was
about. He knew that Garfield, be
cause of his various weaknesses,
couldn’t be depended upon to stay
sober for more than four or five
hours at a time, but he knew also,
that Garfield had the gift of setting
words down on paper in such a
way as to attract and hold the at
tention of New England’s news
thirsty public. Personally Upton
wasn’t so sold on the “war" himself,
but he knew that Garfield Nichols
would send back dispatches that
would fairly seethe and boil with
war news of a convincing nature.
And so Garfield departed for the
Mexican border with a pocket full
of expense money, passports, letters
of Identity and a head full of old
man Upton’s detailed instructions.
He lived in the saloon, alternating
his time between dodging bullets
and writing.
Two weeks later the Express’ man
aging editor received an urgent re
quest from its war correspondent
for additional funds amounting to
$100. Accompanying the wire was
another, several paragraphs in
length, in which Garfield had set
down the latest developments in the
war.
Upton checked the story with the
leased wire dispatches, found that
they tallied in minor details only,
and was a trifle puzzled. Garfield's
story was glamorous and this was
what the public wanted. Hence, the
story was published, under Gar
field's by-line, and the $100 expense
money forwarded.
From that point forward stories
from Garfield concerning the war
began to arrive at the rate of one
every two days. They were excep
tionally fine yarns, and would have
substantiated old man Upton’s rash
ness in engaging the famous Gar
field in every respect, had it not
been for one thing. Each story in
the order of its receipt was found
to be a little further removed from
other stories that were flashed over
the country by the various news
services which had also dispatched
correspondents to Mexico. But to
<jffset this, Garfield’s yarns were, in
j point of literature, new and inter
| esting reading, far ahead of any
other dispatches that came in daily
on the Express’ leased wire service.
Fortunately, the American public
is gullible; they were eager and
; willing to believe that the develop
! ments in Mexico as published by the
Express were correct. They liked
the sound of Garfield’s stuff, hence
circulation figures soared during
the first few weeks of Garfield’s so
journ.
It wasn't until almost a month
had elapsed that old man Upton
really began to get worried. Dur
ing the past four weeks Garfield
had asked for and received three
hundred extra dollars for expenses.
And during the past seven days his
stories had not tallied in a single
instance with leased wire dis
patches.
In order to satisfy a growing sus
picion, old man Upton got together
every wire that had come from Gar
field, dug out a map of Mexico,
brought to hand certain established
facts concerning the war, and set to
work. At the end of an hour he had
discovered that his war correspond
ent had been at one time within 100
miles of the war zone, and this
was as near as he ever got. Put
ting two and six together Managing
Editor Upton arrived at the conclu
sion that Correspondent Nichols had
been on one big bust since the day
he entered Mexico. Employing his
imagination, augmented by frag
mentary bits of information, Gar
t field had doubtlessly set down on
paper a story concerning the war
of a nature that he knew would ap
peal to Upton and the American
public, but which had little if any
regard for actual developments in
the war.
Five hours later Garfield Nichols
received a telegram of dismissal in
his room at Majorca, Mexico, and
promptly went out to drown his
sorrows in the village's only saloon.
At dawn the next day Garfield
was seated beneath a table in the
same saloon singing all four verses
of “America.” His sorrows had
been very completely drowned; he
was in an especially jovial mood.
At the exact moment that the last
word of the last stanza died on Gar
field’s lips, a cannon boomed on the
outskirts of the town, shattering
every window in the saloon.
Garfield crawled from his hide
out and stood erect. Another can
non boomed, and the building shook.
Garfield looked around. The place
was deserted. He looked into the
street, and found it empty, too. But
as he watched he saw little puffs of
smoke emerge from the windows of
buildings close by, and heard the
sharp reports of rifle fire.
Partly sobered, entirely discon- !
certed, Garfield scurried into the
saloon’s back room and found there
a dozen fierce looking Mexicans,
lined up at barricaded windows and
doors.
After some difficulty the corre
spondent learned that a sudden turn
of events had carried the fighting
out of the hills and into the desert
country. The deciding battle of the
fracas was being fought then and
there in the little town of Majorca.
Gaifield groaned and sat down.
For more than a month he had at
tempted, and with no little success
to escape the war, and now it had
come to him. As far as he knew he ■
was the only white man in the
place, to be sure the only news
paper correspondent.
The battle lasted three days. And,
strangely enough, Garfield remained
sober during that time. He re
mained sober in the midst of hun
dreds of bottles of every kind of
liquor he had ever tasted, at hand
for the taking. He lived in the
saloon, alternating his time be
tween dodging bullets and writing
the story of the most famous battle
of the war.
As fate would have it he sur
vived without a scratch. Hardly
had the last shot been fired when
he was riding hell bent to the near
est town and an intact telegraph
wire. The manuscript that he car
ried was long and beautifully done.
Every fact was accurate; every
word gospel truth. It was, thought
Garfield, about the best war story
ever written for a newspaper, sim
ply because its author had been on
hand during the fighting, had writ
ten down detailed descriptions of
every charge and sally and retreat
as it actually happened. Moreover,
it was a scoop!
Back in Boston old man Upton
read over the long and carefully
worded wire that had come to him,
charges collect, from his corre
spondent in Majorca, Mexico, and
sadly shook his head.
“Hal,” he called, addressing a
copy boy. "Hal, what’s on the wire
service about the Mexican scrap?”
Hal wrinkled his nose to iudicate
that news from Mexico was nil.
“Nothin’, Boss. Same old stuff.
And if you ask me, that can’t be
much of a war. What we oughter
do is run some more of Nichols’
stuff. That’s what folks like to
read. Good live news!”
But old man Upton only shook his
head and picked up a copy of the
wire he had just sent Garfield. It
read: “Just received your last ‘Fic
tion’ story. And I mean last.
You’re fired. Suggest you sell your
imaginary ‘news' to a magazine.”
—
Wood as Livestock Feed
In Many Foreign Lands
Judging from reports received
over a number of months in the
Office of Foreign Agricultural Rela
tions, wood as a source of livestock
feed is gradually passing from an
experimental stage into that of
practical utilization in some Euro
pean countries.
It is interesting to note that in
this development—the result of
many years of research and experi
mental work—wood is the basic
material not only for a new type of
carbohydrate feed, but also for pro
tein feed. The former is the so
called feed cellulose produced from
wood; the latter is feed yeast ob
tained from wood sugar and nitro
genous materials by biological proc
esses.
Feed cellulose as a pure carbo
hydrate fodder is being produced on
a fairly extensive scale in Sweden,
Norway and Finland. It is estimat
ed that upward of 100,000 metric
tons of feed cellulose will actually
be fed in Norway during the cur
rent year and that the quantity pro
duced and fed in Sweden will be
even larger. In Finland the output
of feed cellulose per day is esti
mated at 700 metric tons, which on
an annual basis would be around
200,000 metric tons. Yet, in spite
of this large output, the new feed
is popular enough to have called
forth a demand on the part of feed
ers that cannot be fully satisfied.
PA TTEPNS.
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Truth Only Is Safe
All truth is safe and nothing else
is safe; and he who keeps back
the truth, or withholds it from
men, from motives of expediency,
is either a coward or a criminal,
or both.—Max Muller.
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Famous Romance
The romance of Paolo and
Francesca da Rimini in Thir
teenth-century Italy has been the
subject of more famous music, lit
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Debussey; symphonic poems in
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include those by Dante and Leigh
Hunt; paintings include those by
Dore, Watts, Rossetti and Cabanel;
and plays include those by d*An
nunzio, Pellico, Echegaray and
Maeterlinck.
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I never have any pity for con
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