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Show CACIIE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH Collier Trophy Presented to Aircraft Head ginning of a friendship which indured for 30 years and which was destined to be more imto that young legislator ''I'MlIS is the st rj of three portant than either man then realized. A pan laim d J( sc W. ill In 1836 Fell became interested I )a '1 taxis an I I.ionard in real estate and turned his law office over to a young lawyer Sxxctt David Davis Davis was Ierh. ps )oti nexer luar.l of named born at "The Rounds," Sassaif Ih n tin se tm fire lint fras Neik, in Cecil county, Maryhadn't hien for them jou might land, on March 9, 1815. Gradunexer liaxe heard of Ahralum ated from Kenyon college in Ohio Lincoln, eitlnr That is xhy at the age of seventeen, he studied law for two years m an office )on aie he ami" of them, here in Lenox, Mass., and then atand noxx. tended law school in New HaSever jI jnri ago Dr William ven, Conn , for a year. In 1835 E. Baiton, famous as an author- - he moved to Pekin, 111 , and was admitted to the Illinois bar the following year. Evidently the young Marylander wasn t any tot successful in Pekin for he was about to return to his native state when Jesse Fell suggested that he moxe to Bloomington and take over Fells law practice which he was giving up for the real estate business Davis acDy ELMO SCOTT WATSON 1 i l Icipiug, the Capital of Yesterday Reached at Last CHINA. 1 cepted the offer, which also included financial aid About this time he first became acquainted with Lincoln But their clos- v r. , 5 f of Kobe, Japan, iland sea, three hun-(lmiles, strewn with count-k-- s I'Ijnils, emerging at Shi-i- ii miithi, crosiing the Tsushima channel and breasting the ,i olluvv sea, we arrived, about ! ivluiak at the port of Ta-K- VV 'k ( lllll 1 t r mi a flat horizon, 1 ke ome i Id man arising after a hard night, the sun dulled of all luster, strug-pu- d into the sky, mounting slowly the yellow haze that extended '1 e very zenith At six o clock four b ir, is laden with coolie stevedores uipt into the river and t.ed to ourxlirb ard In the art of del borat n these gentlemen of the water- fr nit rivaled anything I had ever That a ship si n in other lands h id arrived and was preparing to Lincoln in 1860 is return home, Fell Upon nted the matter to Lincoln who rather the idea He admitted that he would like to be President but that he was also aware of the many practical difficulties which would pievent its coming to pass. Fell, however, was firm m his conviction that it could be brought about 1 pre- - pooh-poohe- d and, as corresponding secretary state central committee, he industriously promoted the idea everywhere he went in Illinois. Furthermore he prevailed upon Lincoln to write an autobiographical sketch which he sent to a Republican leader in Pennsylvania who gave it wide circulation in the East. Back in Illinois Fell "had convinced David Davis and Leonard S.vett of the feasibility of making Lincoln President, and Lincoln found hinrmelf backed by as loyal and efficient a triumvirate as he could well have They formed a Lincoln club in Bloomington which, while professing to promote the interests of the Republican party, in reality was to boost Lincoln's candidacy They engineered an endorsement of him for President at a Republican mass meeting, of the Republican held in Bloomington on April 2, 18ti0, to choose delegates to the state convention in Decatur on May 9 At this convent on Lincolns cousin, John Hanks, appeared with his famous fence raiK and Lincoln was hailed as the "Rail DeCandidate for Piesident spite some sentiment for William II Seward of New York and Edward Bates of St Louis as Re- publican nominees, Lincolns fi lends bi ought about a unani- t ,, v' 4 X - Vi '' 4 iV g ly Kansas-Nebrask- cargo seemed to make r impression whatever upon anyThe tempo to which body present I h id become accustomed in Japan was null and void at Ta Ku. Brhk Laying Jugglers. Some Chinese masons, evidently pirt of a crew concerned in suspending building operations across tlia way from the landing dock, s luntered into view and took scats on a pile of bricks After careful scrutiny of the lounging dock wal- lop rs and the indolent bricklayers decided that the port was in the grip of a building and shipping dsihirge ht e, through cl association came some twelve years later when Davis, make an issue of the bill and in as a judge, and Lincoln, as a August Douglas returned to his lawyer, weie making the rounds home state to his ellorts of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of in its behalf justify On September 1 Illinois Douglas made a speech in ChiIt was during this period in cago, defending the Kansas NeFELL Lincoln's life that the youngest braska bill and he was scheduled of the trio came on the scene to address a Democratic meeting bean on address in Lincoln, ity He was Leonard Swett, born m Bloomington on the same subfore the Illinois State historical near the village of Turner in Ox- ject later in the month declared society ford county, Maine, on August In the meantime a German "Oregon could have made LinAfter three years at Anti Nebraska state convention 11, 1825 coln a senator, but it is not cerWatuville (now Colby) college, was held in Bloomington and on tain that any other state than he began studying in the office the evening of September 12, LinIllinois could haxe made him of a law film in Portland He coln who was then in town to President. He needed essentialattend court, was invited to adly the conditions which he found dress the delegates On that ocin Illinois to develop the qualicasion he for the fust time in ties which weie inherent m him; his life, publicly and m foith-rigand ho needed a political situawords denounced slavery d in Illinois to tion such os exi and asserted that it was inhim make at the opportune time compatible with American instithe Pres'dent of the United tutions " As a result of tins States. . speech Jesse Fell conceived the Now comes another authority idea of having a discussion of on Lincoln who takes what Barthe subject by Lincoln and Dougton said of Illinois, and narrows las when the latter came to it down to an Illinois city. He Bloomington for the Demon otic is Sherman Day Wakefield, auon September 26 meeting thor of a new book, HOW LINSo Fell arranged to have LinCOLN BECAME PRESIDENT coln be in Bloomington on that The Part Played by Bloomingdate and when Douglas arrived ton, Illinois, and Certain of Its he laid before the two men his Citizens in Preparing Him for plan for a series of joint debates the Presidency and Securing His Lincoln was willing, but DougNomination and Election," publas declined Fell s Although lished recently by Wilson Erickplan failed at the time, he did son, Inc , of New York. In the not give up the idea and for the first chapter of his book Mr. next four years he continued to Wakefield quotes the foregoing urge that the debates be field DAVID DAVIS passage from Barton's speech In the meantime Lincoln, aland adds though defeated in his attempt to "Lincoln did not become Presi- stayed there two years, raveled win a seat m the United States dent merely through Ins own for a ear in the South and final- senate in an election held in Febability. To be sure this was the ly volunteered to serve in the ruary, 1855, had become increasultimate cause of his success, Mexican war, during which ingly prominent in the councils but there were other factors in time he contracted a disease of the Anti Nebraska party m the situation. One of these was which nearly proved fatal. Dis- Illinois. On May 29, 1856 this that he became fitted for office charged from the service at Jef- party held a state convention in through hard experience m asso- ferson Barracks, Mo , before he Bloomington to choose cindi-date- s ciation with men of unusual ca- had fully recovered, Swett startfor state offices and elect pacity, and another, that he won ed for home. En route east he delegates to a national conventhe support of three influential arrived in Bloomington where he tion. At that tune Lincoln demen m Bloomington who devoted settled down to teaching school livered in Major s hall in Bloomthemselves with untiring energy and reading law while regainhis famous Lost ington to his cause the climax of which ing his health. He was adSpeech, Those three men were Jesse mitted to the bar m June, 1849, was his declaration We will say W. Fell, David Davis and Leonand began the active practice of to the Southern disunionists. We ard Sxvett. One of them was a law in Bloomington Through wont go out of the Union, and Quaker from Pennsylvania, one his acquaintance with Judge Da- jou SHAN T'" was born on the eastern shore of vis he met Lincoln, who had just But if 1856 was an important Maryland and the third was a returned from his one term m year m Lincoln s career, 1358 Yankee from Maine. So those congress to take up his work as was even more important He three states can claim some a circuit-ridinand Douglas were rivals m the lawyer again. share with Illinois, through their "Lincoln spent over half of ev- election for United States senathree native sons, in giving Abrator and they were opponents m ery year riding the circuit, ham Lincoln to ther nation and writes Wakefield. "And the in- the famous Lmcoln Douglas deto the world. fluence of the Eighth Circuit bates Douglas won the election Jesse Fell was the Quaker. He upon the career of Lincoln can but popular opinion returned Linwas born m New Garden town- scarcely be overestimated. It coln as the winner of the dewas on this circuit that Lincoln bates Moreover, they made him ship, Chester county, Pennsylvafor the first time a nationally nia, November 10, 1808, just made the friendship of all Until nationally three months before a son ar- sorts of people, and here he known figure rived in the log cabin home of first became famous. But it wras known, his rise to the presidency Tom and Nancy Hanks Lincoln principally his friends in Bloom- - was impossible Just as Jesse W Fell was the first to suggest the debates with the fust Douglas, so was he man seriously to think of Lincoln as a Presidential possibility and to urge Lincoln to become a candidate In giving the circumstances under which this came about, Wakefield quotes Fell's own words as follows "In the fall of 1858, during the discussion between Senator Douglas and Mr Lincoln, I had occasion to visit the Middle and Eastern states, and ashe whole country was then agi'ated by the slavery question, and that discussion cut a prominent figure in the agitation, I was applied to for information in reference to Mr. Lincoln. I felt my state pride flatteied by these inquiries, and still more to find the New York Tribune, The Wigwam in Chicago Where Lincoln Was Nominated and other papers, publishing coextracts from these disdown in Kentucky. Migrating ington, headed by Jesse W. Fell, pious taken from the Chicago cussions, David Leonard West at the age of twenty-threDavis and Judge did what little I could I press. Fell studied law in an attorneys Swett, who created his country- to so laudable a curiosisatisfy office in Steubenville, Ohio, for wide fame, conceived of him as not thinking, at first, that ty, two years, then continued his President, and secured his nomanything further would come of westward-farin- g to the raw little ination." this discussion, in reference to The of first toward this Bloomington, step village goal Mr. Lincoln, than his election to pioneer was taken by Jesse W. Fell in the senate. 111., where he opened its first At length, from the 1854. On May 30 of that year law office m the spring of 1833. frequency of these inquiries and a which The next year legal business the bill, public notices of the Illinois contook Fell to Vandalia, then the had been introduced into con- test, an impression began to state capital, and there he met a gress by Senator Stephen A form, that by judicious efTorts lanky young legislator from San- Douglas, became a law Almost he could be made the Republican candidate for the presidency in gamon county named Abraham immediately the anti slavery eleLincoln. This marked the be- - ments in the North began to 1300. est Marshfield, Ore The life cycle of the pilchard an overgrown sardine is about to be bared to the public, according to M T. Hoy of the Oregon state fish commission. Little is known at present about the habits of pilchards, Hoy said, because they have been caught in Oregon waters only during the past eighteen months. An extensive study of their life cycle is planned to aid fishermen. Funds for the proposed study will be obtained from a reserve built up by a 50 cent per ton tax Vernon E. Brock, on pilchards Stanford university pilchard expert, will conduct the investigation here. DaviCl r s'ri'e Presidmt Roosevelt presents the Robert J. Collier trophy in SWETT mous endorsement of his candit thp II dacy and a pledge nois delegates to tne national convention in Chicago would vote as a unit for him A week before the convention opened m the Wigxm a buildec i especially ing which had built for the rneeti g the Illinois delegation, headed by David Davis, who was abi assisted bv Leonard Swett, opened Lincoln headcuarters in the Tiemont hotel There they phrned their convention strateg and set to th-'- ts -- work to win deleg. from other states for then c ndidate The story of that convention and its result is a familiar one to most Americans Not so familiar is the behind the scenes" story and that is the one which Mr Wakefield has told in his The evidence which new bcok he produces in it lends strength to his declaration that The successful nomination aad later election of Lincoln was beyond question chiefly the work of the three Bloomington men David Davis, Leonard Swett and Jesse T! at is why they W. Fell should be wrnten down as the men v ho gave to their nation one of its greatest men and to history one of its immortals. Wu era esn i er Union. avia-- ' tion for 1936 to Donald D. Douglas, head of the Douglas Aircraft com-tpany of Los Angeles. The trophy is shown on the President's desk, President Roosevelt (seated) is congratulaUng Mr. Douglas. Charles F. Horner, president of the National Aeronautic association is seen at left, u ' Carillons Tom by World War Are Being Rebuilt Melodies ring out homes in Dixmude. Belgium. A new carillon recently aistalled there replaces one destroyed along with practical-y the entire town, during severe fighting in the World war. Made of copper and tin, caril- ons have more than once been seized in war times and melted down into cannon, ays the tional Geographic society, Belgian carillons destroyed or earned away during the last war include those at Ypres, Louvain, Dinant, Nieuport. Ostende, Roulers and Thourout, while France lost those at St. Quentin and Arras. Many of these have been reconstructed, notably the splendid ones Washington again 0Ver rebuilt At seven oclock, the panorama suddenly came to life, the static spictiue, to all intents set for a of leisure, took on a vitality all its own While the native par- ticip mts did not seem to alter ma- finally, every man jack of them was diawn into the ponderous movement, more amazing because once under way there seemed no st ippillg it The sh.p spewed cargo in a stitam while from the river side, two hundred coolies, with wicker baskets, tossed wet nut coal from barges along a human chain, through gaping side ports, poured a flood of fuel that slithered like rushing water into the bunkers With the accuracy of vaudeville four coolies, pciformers, using smrt - handled wooden shovels, t issed one at a time from ground to second story a gevser of bricks that fell light as feathers into the hands of the workmen above and like magic grew into a wall A company of noiseless jugglers, and every gesture artistic Dust Bowl" of China. Once ofl the lugger and my baggage on the Peiping Mukden train that meets all steamers touching at Ta ku I thought only of rolling into the ancient capital where Marco Polo dropped in to pass the day centuries ago Whilst waiting for all aboard a somber cloud, released from the very dome o heav- Sean Lester is tne League high en, began to settle upon the earth It came fiist like a shadow of commissioner in the free city of brass, darkening as it moved, sti- - DanS- - the lmportant seaPort area hlph m,les, fling, oppressive heavy as the ad- vance guard of a thunder shower: chlpped from Germany by the Hia of the dust storm, first in- - sallIes treaty' re.mpval J13 dicated in the yellow haze that been demanded by Dr Arthur KarlGreiser. president of the Nazi conveiled the morning sky. p0pU: Into tins shifting mass of land- - ;rollpd ,Danzg senate 95 P6f C6nt theJrea Clty 18 pollen thrown up from a million acres of tilled farm soil, drifting 34man and the frea Temams 8 across China pursued by gales out hplomatic sorespot. of the northwest, the train rolled as though it had been waiting for at Ypres and Louvain, for once such a signal. accustomed to a carillon's lively With no mountains between Ta- - music, no town in Europe would Ku and Peipmg to balk the oncom-- 1 willingly be without it. ing cloud, no trees with enough Built Huge Towers foliage to break it up the invading ..Carlllons orlgmated m Belgium, and advancing dust threatened aU Netherlands. and northeastern outdoors Here was I, in despair at France In lowlands stretching m- having turned up exactly at the land from the North sea, towns But I knew not the wrong time built towers that soared above the mysterious moods that control ChiFrom them plains na, where meteorology, natural surrounding could watch for invaders sentinels causes and precedence fail utterly or breaking dikes. At the beginto set the pace ning of the World war a telephone The Temple of Heaven. connected the carillon tower of After three hours by slow train Holland, with coast defenses. through this intolerable cloud, we "As huge clocks were added to split what seemed to be the outer these towers in the Fifteenth cencurtain and broke into an atmos- - tury a large bell was struct to an- phere of crystalline purity that en- nounce the hour Later, small veloped a gli'termg landscape bells were rung to call attention m the garb of spring. to the striking shimmering At their merry The yellow stains faded out of the chiming, townsfolk swarming like sky, soft cool zephyrs took the ants in the marketplace far below, place of hot siroccos and cerulean would pause and- liste.. for the sol mantled the horizon, against which emn booming they knew would foi-- I caught my first glimpse of the low Great Wall, winding like a drunken The small bells usuaUy across the hills that en- - bered four. Cities began to rival circle Peiping, the capital of yes- - each other in adding more and where the pomps and vam- - ter bells until brief melodies could ties flared under the dragoned ban- - be played. In the Seventeenth cenners of the Mongols and the Tar- tury the present form of carillon tars, waned in the face of the ad- was reached, consisting of a numvancing Western world, dippaig at ber of bells attuned to the intervals last their colors to Time, the arch of the chromatic scale, usually covPeiconqueror of all dynasties ering a range of four octaves The ping, sacred to the memories of bells, ranging in weight from a few the past, profaned by the corrodpounds to several tons, are hung in Unlike ing acids of the present, her splen- tiers one above another. dor dimmed Forbidden City a bl!s which are rung by ropes and showroom, the Temple of Heaven swing freely, carillon bells are ususilent but magnificent, the Palace ally hung fixed, bemg bolted to a of Ancestors an entrance and an framework of steel, or wood and exit where strangers arrive and de- iron. part for fees paid to guardians of "Carillons are played either autoglories gone or by a carillonneu. The matically Color ht W NL S.rx ico few clear notes that sprinkle down Na-da- y pan-shipe- d ' LEONARD 1 Sardines Life I to Be an Open Book Bri-ell- e, num-serpe- from a carillon at the hour, half hour, and quarter houi. are usually played automatically by a clockwork mechanism something like a gigantic music box. Hundreds of pegs set in a huge revolving cylinder trip levers which in turn pull wires that make hammers strike the bells. Lange Jan in Middel-burHolland, is one of the busiest of this type, playing a few notes e.ery seven and a half minutes. Plays Like an Organ. When keys and pedal keys controlling the bells are gathered together in a keyboard, thev form part of an instrument winch a plays like an organist, using both hands and feet So strenuous is the art that many carillon-neur- s play in track suits and sandals and protect their hands with leather pads. In the Low Countries, carillon concerts are frequently given on market days, Sundays, holidays and certain evenings in summer. On warm nights one is apt to find traffic in cities diverted while thousands congregate in a public square, watching a glowing window far up in a tower. From it an unseen player floods the air with music. The vantage point from which to enjoy a carillon concert to its fullest is a quiet place about 500 feet away. "Carillon towers are a delight to the eye as well as the ear, many of them being of matchless architectural beauty, 200 to 300 feet At Amersfoort, Holland, high. stands one popularly called The Mother and Child because of a little spire springing from the main tower as if carried in arms. "Carillons have long adorned and public buildings. churches Smce the World war they have also been chosen for soldiers' memorials. Between 1924 and 1933 the United States Installed over 30 carillons and Canada over half a dozen. Noted carillons in the United States mclude those of the Riverside church in New York City, the University of Chicago, and the Bok Singing Tower in Florida. "St Rombolds in Malines, Belgium, is the finest of the ancient carillons. At Malines also is located the famous School o Carillon Instruction which has tramed many of the worlds master caril-lonneu- Flower With Past Medford, Ore Oregon has considerable reasons for believing that its state flower, the "Oregon is of native ongi. Dr. grape, G A. Arnold, paleobotamst at the State university, has established the fact that it has been growing for the past 30,000 000 years. Ancient Burial Customs of French Protestants Like India's Poiters, France. s towers of silence, where the place their dead before they are removed to their ultima'e burial place, so have the farming districts around Poitou and Samtonge in central France a strange burial custom. The attention of a traveler in these regions is attracted by the clumps of four Cyprus trees set out in a square some twenty five to thirty feet apart which dot the landscape. Few know that here are the priof the vate family cemeteries The French Protestant farmer districts of Poitou and Samtonge always have been the strongholds of Protestantism in France and ever since the days of Catholic persecution the Protestants have buried their dead on their farms. The people of Poitou are affable and readily permit strangers to pass through the farms to little family cemeteries which usuaUy are situated some fifty yards behind the house A space about the size of a large room, enclosed within a thick hedge, a Cyprus tree at each corner, is the last resting place of those who have labored on the farm. On passing the hedge the traveler finds half a dozen humble graves, a wooden cross here and there. Tombstones are rare. The cemeteries never grow in size, for the newest grave is dug in the dust of the oldest Par-see- VAR VETS QUEEN A" 4 4 Shapeliness and charm were the two principal attributes which won the title of "Miss American Legion for Betty Fulkerson of San Diego, (shown above) when war veterans recently gathered at the California-Pacific International exposition. She will be an honored guest of the Legionnaires durmg the state convention in Hollywood in August She is shown holding the trophy she won. M. P.s Urged to Quilt Ottawa, Ont Canadian women are trying hard to get members of parliament to take up the art of quilting. Secretaries Rattlers Plentiful of members report the lawmakLamar, Col It is reported that ers receive letters every day there are a large number of rattle- asking them to jom quilting parsnakes on the prairies this year. ties. German Field Battery Roars Into Action v w A ..w "Bi a J i $ - J In recent military maneuvers near Potsdam, Germany, artillery units of the Rech s army were tested out. new field i |