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Show h fiilrtMfrilHl'i 1 yfin' itfifcr WfilYiri ? THE PWSON News Review of Current Events the World 0 er Gtnernor Eandon Accepts Republican Presidential Nomination Organized Labor Schism Widens Spain Torn by Moody Civil War. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ""OV. ALF. M. LANDON now knows officially that he is the that included more than a nundred bands and drum corps, an elephant, hundreds of Indians, cowboys and cowgirls in full regalia, and other hundreds of men and women garbed to illustrate the history of Kansas. 'J Republican nominee for President of the United States. Before more than 100,000 of his fellow citizens he stood at the south and apologies are J Edgar Hoover, head of the federal bure.n1 of investigation. woo was angered bv the revelation that the doings of h s "G men" had been under lmesli-gatioby secret service men of His the Treasury department strenuous protests started an inquiry that at this writing is still going on. Mr. Hoover also heard a rumor that some one was proband ing his "brokerage accounts, this didn't help to calm him. Said he: "Anybody making such an inquiry is wasting his time. I have no brokerage accounts, so any effort to find them will be futile. It is admitted by the Treasury that the secret service has no legal right to investigate the actions of any other government department The inference has been that several slayings by Hoover's men were unwarranted. rillONin.E. PWSON. lTAj Explanations ri By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE other day a gnat croud of people leathered in the little city of Oxford, Ohio. 1 hey were tliue for a double to celeluate purpose y the one hundredth anni of the publication of a bouk but more paiticuhuly to honor the memory of the man who wrote that book by unveiling a statue of him. The man was William Holmes McGuffey a'nd the book which he published in 1836 was the first of the McGuffey Eclectic Headers. Of him it has been said that he was the most popular American of the Nineteenth century, the man who had the largest influence in determining the thoughts and ideals of the American people during that period and the man to whove woik many great Americans of the present day pay tribute as being the fountain of their inspiration to aspire and to achieve. That is why many American notables authors, editors, educators, industrialists, statesmen were present when the statue, the creation of one of Americas leading sculptors, was unveiled at Oxford. But the greater part of the crowd there was made up of just plain folks, members of the numerous McGufTey Societies scattered all over the United States, who still cherish in their hearts the lessons they learned from this Schoolmaster in his Eclectic of a Nation Readers. The memorial at Oxford is the second which has been erected in his honor within the last two years. In 1934 another great rams over limited RATHER COUGHLIN, the De- - SCATTERED only temporary troit "radio priest who in a Kansas caj.tol in relief from the heat and drouth, re- - speech before the recent Townsend-it- e and Tojteka and then warm W'eather started a ceived the formal convention called President new advance over a notification from Roosevelt "great betrayer and the corn belt. The Congressman Snell liar, has realized the impropriety federal crop reportof New York, who of his language. He has published ing board in Washwas p e r m a nent an open letter to the President said ington chairman of olTeririg his "sincere apology." The was as sedrouth also Cleveland convention. Around him priest says: vere as that of 1034 As my President I still respect were grouped a thousand leaders and worse than any of the party, and in front of him you. As a fellow citizen and as a drouths previous were the throngs of his supporters man I still regard you highly, but the westei.i since and admirers who had gathered as an executive, despite your excountry was settled. from far and near to do him hon- cellency's fine intentions, I deem it The serious condior and to witness the ceremonies. best for the welfare of our comtions prevailed over Trains, automobiles, buses and air- mon country that you be supplantnl.L. Cooke practically the enin office. planes had been pouring them into ed tire area from the Rocky mounDispatches from Rome said FaTopeka for several days and the tains in Montana to the Hudson a ther caused was Coughlins speech gaily decorated little city in New York and southward valley at the Vaticrowded to the limit. Everyone "painful impression over western Pennsylvania, central was happy and enthusiastic and ev- can, and Bishop Gallagher, the the Ohio parts of ecclesiastical superior, Maryland, and mostvalley, eryone appeared confident mat priest's of Oklahoma. Arkansas, Landon would be the next chief ex- leaving for a visit to the Vatican, It was announced in Washington intimated he might report on the ecutive of the country. President Roosevelt had creatthat incident. The nominee's speech of accepted a national committee to study ance was the plain spoken, outright measures for remedying conditions kind of talk his hearers expected. IT SEEMS at this time that noth- - in the drouth region through utiing can prevent the great schism lization of natural resources. Asking divine guidance to make The confiin the ranks of American organized committee is headed him worthy of the faith and by Morris L. labor. John L. Lewis, head of the dence shown in him, he said: Cooke, rural electrification admin"This call, coming to one whose United Mine Workers, and his fol- istrator. Other members are Col. union Richard C. Moore of the life has been that of the everyday lowers in the industrial army enAmerican, is proof of the freedom movement, are determined to go gineers; John C. Page, acting comto the of opportunity which belongs ahead with their plans for he or- missioner of the bureau of reclamaganization of steel workers into a tion; Frederick H. Fowler of the people under our government Pledging complete adherence to mass union, and now have expandresources national committee; the party platform, the governor ed their program, proposing to un- Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement the of intended ionize "to thus steel the he approach said employees administrator, and Harry L. HopIssues fairly, as I see them, without fabrication and processing plants. kins, works progress administrator. rancor or passion. If we are to Moreover, Lewis and his assoMr. Roosevelt intends to make a go forward permanently, it must be ciates have declared they will not trip through the drouth area late with a united nation not with peo- appear before the executive counin August. ple torn by appeals to prejudice cil of the American Federation of Labor to stand trial on charges and divided by class feeling. OF AGRICULTURE of "fomenting Insurrection, so it SECRETARY Here, briefly, is what Mr. Lanthe Interaddressing of the on some don had to say appears the council can do nothing national Baby Chick association in but suspend the rebels and their Kansas more vital issues: City, discussed at length The record shows unions, these constituting about one the drouth Recovery situation and the measthat these (New Deal) measures third of the federations memberor contemplated for reures taken did not fit together Into any defi- ship. If this is done, the final delief. He suggested this four-poiMany cision as to expulsion of these unnite program of recovery. program for the protection of both s ions will be made by the national of them worked at farmers and consumers: and defeated themselves . . . convention in Tampa in November. 1. Judicious commodity loans, The members of the Committee The nation has not made the durain years of excessive especially the ble progress, either in reform or for Industrial Organization, supplies. recovery, that we had the right to Lewis group assert the contem2. The ever normal granary. from of freed the council be We mus. proceedings plated expect 3. Crop insurance. intimidaunwarranted the constitution are by Incessant governmental 4. Government purchase of land tion and hostility. We must be of the federation. which definitely never should have freed from excessive expenditures Philip Murray, vice president of been plowed. We must the United Mine Workers, gave out and crippling taxation. be freed from the effects of an ar- the news of the CIO drive to gathA. AND MRS. CHARLES bitrary and uncertain monetary er In the steel fabricators and proc- COL. borm flew a 0 policy, and from private monopo- essors, who number between and 400,000 men. As there are rowed plane from London b Berlistic control. Relief "Let me emphasize that about 440,000 employees in the steel lin, and were given a big reception while we propose to follow a policy mills, the goal of the CIO is now by high Nazi officials, the press the organization of more than and the populace. The colonel was of economy in government expendithe guest of the air ministry at tures, those who need relief will three quarters of a million steel a luncheon attended by Germanys econworkers. our also not disclosedsthat take will We it. Murray get WILLIAM II. McGl'FFEI omies out of the allotments to the the CIO was looking into the feasi- best aviators. It was expected that MinReichsfuehrer Hitler Air and unemployed. We will take them bility of organizing the 49,000 workthrong gathered near Washingout of the hides of the political ers of the aluminum industry. ister Goering would go from southton, Pa., to dedicate a huge granDrives also have been started in ern Germany to Berlin to meet the ite boulder on the site of the exploiters. log the establish We shall rubber, automobile, and rayon Lindberghs before they left the cabin where McGuffey was born. Agriculture country. eroindustries. and effective soil conservation The crumbling remains of that sion control policies in connection cabin were removed to Dearborn, with a national land use and flood SPANISH Fascists and royalists, THROUGH an executive order of Mich., in 1928, rebuilt and added all post- to the Edison institute collection Roosevelt, against the leftist prevention program and keep it all out of politics. Our farmers government, were temporarily in mastership appointments in the fuby Henry Ford, through whose are entitled to all of the home control of most of the northern part ture are to be subject to civil serv- efforts 70 acres of the McGuffey inof the country and ice examination. The order affects farm were market they can suppl without purchased for a per13,730 of We were the consumer. to on prothe postmasterships first, moving justice manent memorial. At that time Madrid from Burgos second and third classes as vacanpose a policy that protects them in Mr. Ford made one of his few and Segovia, threat-- cies occur. Incumbents chosen for , this right . . . We propose to pay addresses. It was this public cash benefits in order to cushion ening to bomb the reappointment must pass a non- laconic statement: "I am glad to our farm families against the discapital from the air competitive examination, as must join you today in giving honor to I if the government employees promoted to postmaster. astrous effects of price fluctuations Doctor McGuffey. He was a In cases other of the did not capitulate. examinations and to protect their standard great American. The McGuffey will be open and competitive. In Barcelona, capiliving. Readers taught industry and moFourth orclass to of laboi tal of "The Labor postmasters already Catalonia, right to America. rality were under civil service. fierce fighting was ganize means to me the right of Tributes From Notables reported, and at the employees to join any type of union IN OLYMPIA, Greece, scene of But Henry Ford is not alone request of they prefer, whether it covers their the first Olympic games, a torch in paying tribute to the Ohio Washington authoriplant, their craft or their Industry. It means that, in the absence of a ties a vessel of the American Ex- was lighted by the rays of the sun schoolmaster. In fact, the list union contract, an employee has an port line was hastening there to and a Greek runner seized it and of those who have acknowledged relax to the their indebtedness to his teachequal right to join a union or to evacuate Americans, whose lives started it on a were in danger. Catalonia had derefuse to join a union. sports field in Berlin where the ings is a veritable American Constitution "It is not my be- clared against the rebels. Olympic flame is to be lighted on Whos Who. The rebels gained possession of August 1. Five thousand distinlief that the constitution is above Herbert Quick in writing of his change. The people have the right, San Sebastian, near the French guished ' persons were selected to childhood in rural Iowa in his border, and the loyalists were said carry the torch, these including by the means they have prescribed, book, One Mans Life, says: to be making a desperate attempt King Boris of Bulgaria, King Peto change their form of governI had a burning thirst for books. ment to fit their wishes . . . But to recover that town. This is the ter of Jugoslavia, and a long list On those farms a boy or girl with of G. statesmen Claude where come and must and Bowers, by sportsprinces, through place change American ambassador, is in sum- men. On the last leg it was to my appetite for literature was a the people and not by usurpation. be borne by S. Loues of Greece, frog in a desert. The thirst was mer residence, and as communi. , , The Republican party, howsatisfied and, more important, were not cations the believe that peocompletely disrupted winner of the marathon in the ever, does was stimulated to aspiration for games of 1896. A hundred thouple wish to abandon the American there was much anxiety In Washsatisfaction by an old to will sand Hitler Bowers Mr. as form of government. youths accompany further ington safety. d volume of McGuffeys, Loues a in workThere has now apState Rights Socialists, Communists and triumphal parade to school readers of standard the the stadium. In ers were numbers a new and in large joining places high peared of the first My my day. to Five mastery thousand of torches the for the defense is the This loyal troops carry dangerous impulse. the flame were donated by the and second readers just the impulse to take away and lodge in Madrid, and also helped In crushopening of the marvels of the the Chief Executive, without the ing the rebellion in several towns, Krupp works, so each oi the bearone will to ers as page was a poignant dea retain printed claims of souvenir. the the govpeoples consent, the powers which according and gave me a sort of ecernment light in state govtheir have kept they s Those constiFranIn Gen. where the stasy. rehave south, which or ernments to the they EIGHT signatories tute the most influential volumes cisco Franco commanded the revopost-wa- r served in themselves. In its ultitreaty have in America." mate effect upon the welfare of the lutionaries, there was almost congranted to Turkey the right to re- ever published Newton D. Baker, secretary of militarize the Dardanelles, and whole people, this is the most im- tinuous fighting, and in the engageportant question now before us. ments between rebel planes and they, with Turkey, have signed a war under President Wilson, once Shall we continue to delegate more loyal warships some bombs and convention covering the matter. declared that a certain melanshells struck the Rock of Gibraland more power to the Chief ExecuDuring wartime belligerents will choly poem contained in the Fifth be prohibited from using the straits Reader made an impression on tive or do we desire to preserve tar and others fell close to a British destroyer. The latter fired unless acting for the league or un- him that still remains, and the the American form of governder the obligations of a regional late Justice John H. Clarke said ment? warning shots and the acting govthat the language he used in Preceding the notification cere- ernor of Gibraltar protested to pact of which Turkey was a monies there was a huge parade General Franco. handing down decisions of the entrance of the! j the the rSr f : fWi er.-ar- cross-purpose- ... 300,-00- the y dog-eare- text-book- as the i ceptibly - j grows, p!? nor skill, opporhj P and all the verhei sions ol depraved tjC themselves with tl and grew mg fondues E are swept away1 tim struggles m ,' borne down by current. ; I Vi- Mf SffSpI; -'A a & . r y ' MEMORIAL AT HIS BIRTHDEDICATION OF THE McC.l PLACE NEAR WASHINGTON, PA. (At the left stands Nancy Pardee Newton of Ypsilanti, Mirh., Designer of the Plaque.) America. Alexander grew up to be a scout and Indian fighter, serving in Ohio and western Pennsylvania under Arthur St. Clair and Anthony Wayne. At the end of the campaign of 1794 he married Miss Anna Holmes of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and settled as a farmer in that county. Here, William Holmes McGuffey was born, September 23, 1800. When the lad was two years the McGuffeys removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, where Alexander McGuffey purchased a farm of 165 acres in Cortsville village, Cortsville township, in the Connecticut Western Reold, serve. One day Rev. Thomas Hughes, Presbyterian minister, was riding by the lonely McGuffey cabin. He overheard the mother praying that her young son, William, might have the opportunity to secure an education that would fit him for life and for the ministry. Reverend Hughes arranged to have the boy attend school at the Old Stone academy which he had opened at Darlington, Pa. The tuition was $3 a year and board 75 cents a week. Here William received his academic training and by the time he was eighteen was ready for a collegiate course. He went to the nearest college, Washington college, in Pennsylvania, and there came under the influence of Dr. Andrew Wylie, president of the college. He studied Latin. Greek and Hebrew as well as English and was graduated with honors in 1826, receiving the bachelor of arts degree. A for Reads pounded and rules forp tion are stressed. It remains for the Sa er to begin with pp. Education, which is T under six heads: 1. Ar, the fifth and sixth readers. After some time at Miami, 2. Inflection. 3. Accent Professor McGuffey, whose in4. phasis. terest lay in the field of litera- voice. 6. Reading verst Gesture. ture and philosophy, was tenAll to be remev faults dered a professorship of mental listed. theometiculously on He carried philosophy. in articulation logical studies privately and on March 29, 1829, he received his the second reader, t, ordination into the ministry of emphasis and correct the Presbyterian church, with ation are stressed all tin the degree of doctor of divinity. series. The Sixth Reader the McGuffey recognized dearth of reading material in tained such classics a; the common schools of the time. 51 luiurrftvi ruin He had a keen literary sense and was able to select much that appealed to young minds. It was this selection of lessons from a wide range of authors that caused him to name the readers McGuffey Eclectic Readers. A lioy put cat in 1 To read them is to catch a A hen win in tho box. of the stern reality of glimpse The boy sat ou tie Ed life in the America of the NineTho Cat lit the hen; uj.j teenth century. Humor is abput out tho eye of tie a sent from every one of them The boy got off the HI ( from McGuffeys New First Tlio cat got out and nt i Eclectic Reader, from which the smallest children learned their ill ItSSOK ABCs and were fascinated by the quaint woodcuts of birds and animals, to the New Sixth Eclectic Reader, a volume of solid and forbidding type, de- ia 456-pa- scribed on the as Exercises of Rhetorical Reading with Introductory Rules and Exfly-le- af amples. Moral Lessons stories in this volume ended with a moral and some of the poems were set to music for singing. At the end of the book were the Ten Commandments in verse and this exAll of the hortation: With all thy soul love God above, And as thyself thy neighbor love. Back in the eighties every child was told more than once by his parents: If at first you dont succeed, try, try again! They got that maxim from a poem in McGuffeys New Fourth Eclectic Reader, as they did the admonition to Waste not want not. When they taught their UEIUTTETS Pioneer Teacher While attending Washington college he supported himself in part by teaching. He taught a pioneer school in Kentucky, his work being observed by the first president of Miami university that had been founded at Oxford, Ohio, in 1809. This man. Rev. Robert Hamilton Bishop, at once recognized the power and devotion of the young undergraduate student and offered him a position at Miami, to begin in the autumn of 1826. The minutes of the board of trustees show that he was employed as professor of languages. Miami tradition tells that he rode into Oxford with his little brother Alexander with his personal copies of Levy, Horace, Memorabilia and the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible in his saddle lv JIC I I '?,eI,theBKlCre Directions H-E- United States Supreme court not infrequently was colored by the readers he had studied 50 years before. Ida M. Tuibell, the late Albert J. Beveridge, and many others credit McGuffey with having had a large share in shaping their minds. The story of the McGuffeys goes back to August, 1774, when William and Anne (McKittrick) McGuffey emigrated to this country from Scotland. Landing at Philadelphia, they journeyed to the southern border of York county, Pennsylvania, where they settled. This Scotch family had one son, Alexander, who was six years old when they arrived in ! I lh ics, Religion the )(J Society, "The Intejl band, are the titles sons, and many of are honored by the Huthor in the index, iar poem, The Spit Fly, is given in thj n: - '' "fa IN' The hen was toe not so ill as to Tho hen was put the sun. A LEAF FROM soliloquy and dinal Wolsey, 21 H t 1 die. on fl THE The FaHtl from 1 VIII; Scotts "Lochinvr Marmion and Douglas",! "ft Elegy; Macauley on Easa Warren of peachment "Enoch Tennysons The Raven" Evangeline," Psalm of Life. In 1836 Doctor McGuf Oxford to accept the P of Cincinnati college. In became president of Ohio sity at Athens. In and turned to Cincinnati as professor at Woodw Poes lows ;rg) Play on c it 1 as lege, afterward known ward high school. In 1845 McGuffey as University of Virginia sor of philosophy. He ular with his students taught, says one writer, child, simplicity of a matheiM precision of a and with the authority n An old friend left description of Dr. -- the man of medium sta Hm compact figure. and was broad and expressive, tures were of the marked rugged Scotch was a ready speaker, lecturer on education, able Dr.McGulTey's.consgl ness was proverbialwas nearly eventL,na old he prepared a wa r j - first reader title page children that it was a sin to stain frm licking the bags. Soon after coming to Oxford he clean they were repeating the met Harriet Spining, daughter of title of a little drama in Judge Isaac Spining of Dayton feys Fourth Reader. Meddlesome Matty who was visiting her uncle in Ox- Ned, A Mothers Gift, the Bible ford. They became engaged and tract from were married April 3, 1827. the Sermon . Mount are some of the other While at Miami, McGuffey titles. wrote the first and second of the Reader has the title: graded set of readers the firct McGuffey s New Fifth Eclectic in 1836 and the second in 1837 Both the third and fourth read' Header: Selected and Original ers were written at Cincinnati in Exercises for Schools. Here we find old friends: "Maud 18f His brother, Alexander ler, Shylock, or the Professor MeGuffev in the of Flesh. "Effects of revision of the readers and colGambling which begins: lected much of the material for The love of gambling steals, ab-pla- te " on philosophy. It careful of ten years of J critical so But he was the book was already f n decided that it was of publication and withheld. He rema Virginia instltu.tl01nR73 ' 4. death on May lived But he had readers selling mto and extending ther to other lands by bems ed into many foreign, fi How Rreat thattimate. impossible v fbc is no doubt their kindly sp 01 ti .: ct tt K'af'loneJ of an earlier gener men and women t that is the unanimous of the devoted memtvoU.a.--McGuffey AmorirnnS in j a |