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Show 4 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Adopt in Haste and Repent at Leisure Teddy was 4 lx advocates the slow and safe policy. old and homeless, sot Insist upon a year's probation period long, silky hair, large to protect both the baby and the fameyes, and a drooping amlle. ily, says the committee, and refers to CHICAGO. - She was childless. hungry for a baby. Her 'heart vas Teddys tragedy and others Ilka It. , So she cried a The childless couple go Into a nurs- bit as she snatched him to her breast and walked off with him. He wasnt la one of the accredited orphanages or under jurisdiction of a The mother was hysterical agency. and quickly gave her consent The kind lady took the little waif Into a home of wealth and culture. Environment bad every chance. But the other day, after throe years, her linsband walked Into the office of the Illlnola Childrens Home and Aid soIn his arms he carried a ciety. d boy, subject to fits of The foster parents were epilepsy. "through with him." The child had not come from the soeiety; be could not go back there. Adoption annullment proceedings are And Teddy, difficult exceedingly three years ago, the innocent victim of a too zealous sentimentalism,' Is today the- victim, equally innocent, of a too tardy common sense. For ten baby fingers and ten baby toes, a gurgle, and a chubby fist cant defeat science, medicine, end knowledge when It comes to adopting a baby, says the childrens rommlnee of the Connell of Social Agencies, which home-findin- feeble-minde- ery of 50 Infants, varying In ags from one day to two years. Invariably they elect die infant as the most appealing. The reason back of this, baby psychologists tell us, hi sound. At six months the baby'e curve of resistance has not developed. It wOI cuddle Into the arms of a bluecoated poUcdman, or a matron. It has no hobbles,'' fads, or preferences. It likes us, no' matter what we are. And we like it, ho matter who we are. The factors that make the old baby the most attractive to adopt, make It the most dangerous to take into a family efrele. It ta too agree;, defiearly, even the nitely to postulate Its mental future. It Is all right," says C. V. Wiliams, superintendent of the Illinois ? Childrens Home and Aid society! 6 give the child of parent age the privileg?Sro cmg gent Into s family fojr a probation period. But the other class, those whose known antecedents, make the Infant's mental progress uncertain, should be placed In an institution or a private boarding home, where it can be carefully and scientifically watched. slflp-swath- six-mon- th -- Heiress Lost Without Her Limousine PARK, ILL, A poor little to millions, all at sea her chauffeur and her limousine, got lost In the maze of Chicagos streets, gave her parents, wealthy residents of Oak Park, several hours of the deepest anxiety, kept the police department on the run, and completely disrupted business In the bakery shop of James OAK Toman Miss E If there is anything that I can do personally or officially to successfully promote this work, I shall be glad to have you advise me. W. O. Harding. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN jrtvpyss ro au, ' ICTUBES without money and without price I That la the purpose and accomplishment of the Bureau of Commercial Economics of Washington, D. 0. Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma used the phrase In the last days of- - the last congress In Introducing a bill to grant It a United States charter to take the place of a state charter. Then Senator Owen went on to say any number of nice things about the bureau, beginning thus : I This wonderful altruistic bureau ofis a greatofpubthe many lic servant. With the leading nations of the world It has gradually put In free circulation over 60,000 reels of exceeding scen60,000,000 feet of film, showing the cities and their customs, their of countries, ic beauties many Industries and social habits; all kinds of manuand all facturing processes, vocational Instruction, from fishes and birds lifts beast, of man, of forms all parts of the world. These reels come to the bureau from all over the world for free distribuand tion and go to schools, community centers, e localities without easy access to moving-picturtheaters. "These pictures without money and without buprice are being shown all over the world by the reau In every state In the United States, In every state of Europe, In South America, In Africa, In Asia, and the South Sea Islands. And then Senator Owen came to the real human Interest part the fact that the Bureau of Com- -' nierelal Economics Is the living story of a mans gratitude, is the result of a blind mans vow that with the recovery of his sight he would devote his life to the service of mankind. He told how Francis Holley In 1893, at the age of thirty, after great activity and success, found himself totally blind. He was In for treatment. The German government was holding In Du8seldorf Its biennial exhibition of the manufactures of the empire. This exhibition was also a vocational guide to the youth of Germany nt government expense. Mr. Holley conceived the Idea thnt the exhibition would be even more of a success If token to the homes of the boys by means of motion pictures. He told his Idea to the then kaiser and to the minister cf education. They approved and told him to go ahead. He did so and met with considerable success, despite the Inade-cuac- y of the motion pictures of those days. Complete success awaited only the perfection of the motion-pictur- e camera and projection machine. The rapid development of both gave him his opportunity, said Senator Owen, "and ten years ago he began to organize the Bureau of Commercial Economics with Miss Anita Marls Boggs, whose high Ideals, brond conception of world affairs, and expert economic training and organization ability have contributed to Its present worldwide usefulness and Influence. Senator Owen said a lot more, but the foregoing Is enough to arouse ones Interest. An altruistic enterprise In this age of commercialism I Pictures wtthojt money and without price and without advertising In this age of publicity agents! Educational and vocational pictures taken to remote peoples who cannot go to the pictures ! More detailed Information obtained elsewhere Lows the Bveen f Commercial Economics Is D alntalned by endowment, annuity, memberships contributions. Francis Holley Is director and Anita Maris Boggs Is dean. Its divisions are: "Educational films, research, scholarships, councilors for the American Indians, natural re- sources, lectures, conservation of public moneys. and allied are the United States, France, British empire, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Newfoundland, Argentina, Bolivia, India, Italy, Chile, China, Spain, Japan, Mexico. Nicaragua, Morocco Switzerland, The Netherlands. Guatemala, Dutch East Indies, Denmark, Sweden, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, San Salvador and Cuba; the American Legion, Union and Union; the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America. Mr. Holley, it appears, although an International benefactor. Is also a 100 per cent American. He Is an educator and traveler, is and Is unmarried. He was bom In Cook county, Illinois, in 1863 and began life for himself at the age of thirteen as a messenger in an engineering corps on the Northern Pacific survey. Then he was with the Canadian Pacific engineering corps. Finally he set up for himself as a civil engineer and was also admitted to the bar In Minnesota and Rllnols. Then he traveled for five years In Europe and for four years In the Orient, engaged In study and research. He founded the Bureau of Commercial Economics In 1913. I met Mr. Holley by appointment in a Chicago depot. He was returning to Washington after an heroic operation by the Mayos at Rochester, Minn. He was suffering, but Indomitable, enduring his pain with fortitude as an Indication of returning health and strength. "We want a national charter for the bureau, he said, "because It In effect means the official approval of the United States government of our work and that will be valuable to us In some places. We have no publicity department, being unwilling tb divert funds from the main purpose. And anyway a good thing advertises Itself. Incidentally, I may say that the judiciary committee, to which the bill was referred, has been polled and found to be unanimously favorable. Senator Owen, In Introducing the bill, gave a fair idea of the purpose and scope of .our operations. Our pictures are going pretty much all over the world There Is no censorship. No duties are nowaday Government transportation Is often imposed. available. Senator Owen suggested that the bureau was every day bringing the brotherhood of man a little nearer to reality, said L The brotherhood of man is a large tprm. Suppose you give me two or three specific Instances of good accomplished by your pictures. "Certainly, he replied. The mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee are poor and uneducated and are uninformed as to modern commercial and Industrial methods. The bureau hns prepared films with the purpose of Improving their economic condition. These films are furnished to the missions which In turn get them Into the schools. These films teach the mountaineers better methods of agriculture and how to get bigger crops; how to pack wbat they raise ; how to use the parcels post a ted the C. O. D. system In short, how to raise produce, how to market It and how to get the money. In Georgia our films teach the natives how to drain swamps and build roads. In Aus Pan-Pacif- ic d seventeen-year-ol- d daughter of Mr. and Mrs, E. H. Fahrney of 400 North Euclid avenue, Oak Park, Is a junior at the Chicago Latin School for Girls, 59 Scott street Her father Is a secretary of a mllUon-dolla- r proprietary medicine business of Chicago and Joliet and a trustee of the Peter Fahrney estate, the bulk of which she will some day Inherit Myrtle always has been driven to and from school by the family chauffeur, bnt the other day she was to return home alone on the L. She left the scheol at eleven oclock In the When, she had not arrived morning. at six otplock her father notified the Oak Parkpolloe and the detective bureau and descriptions of her were flashed to all stations. At 6:30 Mr. Fahrney received a telephone message ALTRUISTIC WORK the BUREAU Rf CUMMEROAL ECONOMIES WORLD-WID- at 2758 Turner avenue. Myrtle' Fahrney,. tralia our pictures have to do largely with agriculture and cattle and sheep, in the leper colony on Molokai In the Hawaiian islands the films are principally for entertainment And So on. All of our pictures have informative value la that It Is useful In several ways for people to learn hew other people live. Sanitation and decent living and honest craftsmanship are worth while the world over. The language of pictures Is one that all peoples can understand. A phonograph and an amplifier help the Interest "Sometimes it is necessary to use indirect methods to get results. For example, we sent Jllma showing the approved methods of fighting tuberculosis up among the Eskimos. They would not admit that there was tuberculosis among them. So we had to withdraw the films. Later we sent up pictures showing other peoples even In the tropics fighting the dread disease, whereupon the Eskimos took notice and applied the lessons to themselves. Through Dr. Grenfell of Newfoundland these pictures went through the Arctic circle clear to the MacKensle river. India furnished a striking example of what can be done by pictures. From Cashmtr came $125 In small coins and a cry for help. It appeared that 71 per cent of the babies were dying within six months of birth because of the Ignorance of the mothers. Miss Boggs used her own money and had films quickly prepared and sent The result was that In 14 months the Infant mortality waa reduced from 71 per cent to 56 per cent Mr. Holley evidently, has a sincere admiration for the talents and activities of the bureaus dean. Miss Boggs. It transpired In our conversation Ibat she has means and accepts no salary. It was apparent that he took solid comfort In the fact that she had fifty years of life ahead of her In which to carry on the work of the bureau. Asked for details about the young woman, he said, "Look her np In Whos Who; she has more activities than I can keep track of.- Anita Uarda Marls Boggs, according to "Wboi Who, is Indeed a yonng woman of activities. She was born In Philadelphia In 1888. She Is A. B, M. (University of Penn(Bryn Mawr, 1910) and A. sylvania, 1911). She was a founder In 1918 of the bureau and was a special collaborator with the She United States Bureau of Education 1915-1Is the educational representative In the United States of Canada, Australia, Argentine, France, Great Britain, Japan and Bolivia. She Is associate director of the department of public service of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America. She Is councilor for the American Indians; Fellow of the American Gepgraphlcal society ; member of the American Association for the Advancement of And finally she Is the editor of Vision, Science. a quarterly. The transportation of the bureaus films to the ends of the earth nnd the showing of the pictures would make a story In themselves. The films go from pack train to hnllock every Imaginable way cart from dog sled to motor truck Incidentally the artist hns tnken liberty with the truck photoon the screen the picture of a graph and has put at the evening performshown be will crow that In Mongolia the sail of a ance On the Yenisei river screen Is vessel serves as a screen. In Siberia a Some way or poles. telegraph between stretched other the films go everywhere; some way or other , wherever they go. they are shown 9. from hla daughter. She was talking from the Toman bakery. She was so excited she was talking Incoherently and her father asked' her to eall some one else to the phone. Anna Tomans the bakers daughter, took- - the receiver. Her mind seems to bo wandering, she said. She looks as U shed walked and walked until shes all exhausted. Shes so nervous wo can hardly keep her stllll Keep her there and HI come for her, the father directed: But Myrtle refused to be comforted. Her blue eyes were wide with fright sad she rushed out into- the street. , Anna called her younger sister, LIV bie, and her cousin. Antone Knourak. and directed them to follow her and call the first policeman they saw. Mr. Fahrney arrived and made more Iran-ti- c calls to the police. In the meantime, Llbble and Antone stuck to their jobu For twe hours they followed the bewildered girl, who went down one street and then another without sense of direction. Finally, at Twenty-secon- d street and Sacramento boulevard, they got dose enough to Mrytle and a policeman at the Rape time and Sergt George Garry took the girl to the Lawndale station. -- r' - Memories of Ellsworth and His Zouaves ILL. Advept of this year day SPRINGFIELD, veterans memories of the man who, perhaps, did, more than any other person to lay the foundation of Illinois military record Cull Elmer E. Ellsworth, first Union officer to' fall In the Civil war. Ellsworth came from New York state to Chicago and organized the Ellzworth Zouaves, an organization that wrote Its mark Indelibly on the history of Ctvll war times, He came te Springfield, on the tavlr tattoo. of Gem. John Cook, who at that time was captain of a company known as tike Springfield Grays. Ellsworth waa engaged to drill the Grays to the Zouave tactics. The parade ground, was on Sixth street, to whet wathea Mr. Bee pee tore Llncetm It la related, stood under a cottonwood tree and watched the Zouaves drill. Ellsworth, though a small mam was a bora soldier and His bearing attracted drill master. Ltaeetm end be took him Into his law office, thea the firm of Lincoln A Hendon. This company which Ellsworth drilled went on duty the first day men of the North were' called to the col-orThey guarded the state house. a. which la now the Sangamon county courthouse. When Lincoln went to Washington as' President, Ellsworth accompanied him. and was made a lieutenant to the army. At the outbreak of the war ha formed a regiment of Zouaves and be came colonel. His tragic death occurred la a dramatic manner at Alexandria, Va. On the evening of May 23, 1861 he received order to lead his regiment on the extreme left of the Union lines In the advance Into Virginia. He was to occupy Alexandria. Alexandria was occupied without resistance. White Ellsworth and a few of his seen made toward the telegraph station, he saw a Confederate flag floating from the summit of the With four of his Marshall house. men, he rushed Into the house and pulled down thelSag. As he waa descending the stairs, toe Innkeeper rushed forth and toot Ellsworth deed. which Ellsworth The company drilled waa reorganised after the war and later became the famous governors guard. This guard eventually formed the nucleus of the present Illinois National Guard. Veterans of the old governors guard are now planning too erection of a monument to the memory of their dead comrades. ' Diana Hunts Best Who Travels Alone n. y. with lions and elephants and tasted the lions already to Jangle life to the fall. She was the aa a modern Diana, first white woman to go among native Mrs Della A. Akeley la on her tribes of British East Africa after " way to British East Africa and Ugan- they were subdued by the British. da to fulfill a commission given her by She speaks Swahell, the trade lanthe Brooklyn museum. Her two pre- guage of the country. , Mrs. Akeley will travel with a caravious expeditions were made with her husband, Carl Akeley. This time she van of 50 natives. In British Bast Will go into the wilds with a caravan Africa mnlea are available, or one of natives, but no white companion; may he carried. In Uganda It la more usual to hunt elephants on bicycles. she has divorced her husband. Mrs. Akeley Is the first woman Mrs. Akeley recalls many blcycle-rld-ln- g commissioned expeditions after elephants, which by a museum to go alone after big game specimens. Her she considers more dangerous than mission is twofold. Antelope will be any other jungle beast Mrs. Akeley wears riding breeches, her chief aim. The other phase of her trip Is an Investigation of life khaki shirt and helmet on the trips. In native villages. She expects to Her rifle la always ready for action. I hate the actual killing," said Mrs. penetrate to regions beyond the fringe of the white mans domination, live In Akeley. I would never think of donative huts and make a study of the ing It except "for scientific purposes. The strain on these trips Is great too, domestic life of about thirty tribes. In spite of her white hair, Mrs. Ake- tot yon mast be on the alert every ley starts on the venture fearlessly mlnnte of the time. Yon need to take and with enthusiasm. When one has good care of yourself and I have been once hunted big game the fascination fortunate never to have had fever. She will not work from any definite holds through years, she says, and she recalls with pleasure her expedi- headquarters on this trip-- Her carations In 1905 andt19O0 whsn she shot van will take ell prevtriona with It Brooklyn, , ' |