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Show I The Cache American T'jrn. age Two rche fVMnt Utn 31 Tradition Gives Lincoln Three 'Birthplaces' But Historical Research Establishes the Fact There Was Only One; It's Near Hodgenville, Ky. NT-1- ONE Within Countries Involved. ftanufhMrrf o ww f srkM, vmiv H Kh A TU WUObW ATIO.Vm A ww Bait oohT Tom PnffUi' even 0ut HC e . IW wH.ncrr- - o UwoWy AiwAii If you go down Into Hardin county, Kentucky, today expecting to see the place where the new baby was bom "down t Tom Lincoln's, you'll be disappointed. For you won't find there the log cabin in which that historic event took place. But If you drive east into Larue county to the little town of Hodgenville, the county scat, then go 214 miles south, you will see, enshrined in a temple of stone, this rude little structure and you will be told that it stands on the very spot where it stood when Abraham Lincoln was bora within Its log walls on February 12, 1809. Why this apparent discrepancy in the geography of Lincoln's birthplace? Well, the explanation is simple. When Tom and Nancy Hanks Lincoln became the parents of a son, their home stood within the boundaries of Hardin county. Years later Hardin was divided into two counties and the eastern part of it, including "Tom Lincoln's place" on Nolin creek, became Larue county. So there's some truth in the statement that "Abraham Lincoln was born in two counties," paradoxical though that statement may sound. Nor is that the only apparent inconsistency in regard to the site of Lincolns birth. Several years ago, Kev. William E. Barton, one of the leading biographers of the Great Emancipator and the man who, perhaps more than any other historian, has cleared up many of the mysteries surrounding the name of Abraham Lincoln, wrote an article under the title of "Three Places Claim Honor of Being Birthplace of Lincoln. It reads, in part: Homer had seven birthplaces: Lincoln had at least three according to divergent Kentucky traditions. First ot the houses in which Abraham Lincoln is said to have been born is the Berry bouse at Beechland, Washington county, Kentucky. II we should go to Beechland. we will find the house is not there. It has been moved to Harrodsburg, where it stands as a kind of museum, not very intimately associated with Lincoln, who never In his life was in Harrodsburg. The house today bears little resemblance to its former self. Fortunately, however, it was photographed while on its original site. In this house, the home of Richard Berry, the President's parents. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, were married by Rev. Jesse Head. June 12. 1806. Washington county people have a formidable group of affidavits from old and truthful people who declared that Abraham Lincoln was born there; that his people did not remove to Hardin county till he was a lad several years of age; and certain witnesses affirmed on oath that they saw him as a child playing about the door of the Berry house. My own impression is that these people were truthful and that they may have seen the little lad, Abraham Lincoln, playing about this house. The parents of Abraham Lincoln were married in this house; he doubtless visited it in his early childhood and may have lived several months beneath its roof, but we must look elsewhere for his birthplace. So we go to Elizabethtown. The house we wish to see is not standing, but we can find people who will assure us that Lincoln was born there and who will show us the unattractive location. What they are showing us is the place where Thomas and Nancy Lincoln spent their honeymoon, and lived from June, 1806, till the spring of 1808. Here Abrahams little sister, Sarah, was born. The cabin that stood here was the first house advertised as the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and the picture is still frequently shown as such. This house was standing at the end of the -, Service, Union Trust Building, that a business man would use on it Believe it or not, the men who are Washington, D. C. When the President introduced his figuring out free lunches and the second bill of rights Into his State production programs to make them of the Union message to congress unnecessary hereafter are doing it and skillfully linked the past and scientifically, and even if you don't future with it, he set up old argu- like the word, on a "businesslike ments among the elite of Washing- basis. Little has been said of this perton's cracker-barre- l set food organization of the manent When "Old Dr. New Deal was United Nations. You hear about set aside as the guardian of AmerUNRRA. which Is supposed to take ican welfare, some folks hereabouts of what might be called "stracare Insisted that he had plans for conthat is, taking care feeding tegic latsiderably extending his practice of the peoples in countries the Allies er that his friend, Franklin D., was reoccupy (hungry men and women planning on a "World New Deal. are no help to anyone). The motive Like all smoke, it signalizes a fire is less altruistic than military. somewhere. But you may not have heard of There is no doubt that even though the work of the FAO that's an enthe realistic Mr. Churchill and the tirely unofficial abbreviation of the realistic Mr. Stalin didn't see eye to Food and Agriculture organization eye on everything as they looked at which Gove Hambidge of the agrieach other across the green table at culture administration of the deTeheran, we have reason to believe partment of agriculture made up that both are pretty well sold on himself. He was appointed one of what they each think can be done the secretaries of the commission in the way of a little International appointed at the conference in Hot "welfare work which would raise Springs last May. the decibels which measure the hum Work Going WelV of business in their respective countries. Hambidge says the work of this FAO is going well. It has drawn.up The President presented to conthe plans for this job of permanent gress the various human rights he visualized, as you recall, and feeding. Not free feeding permathere will be more specific data con- nently, but a plan for family of nations buying. Natcerning them which he will submit to the legislators later, either just urally there is plenty of chance for the charming applique design you see here over the desk. Tht needlework picture was made in a few hours with scraps of gingham and bits of embroidery thread. Stretched over a piece of cardboard to fit on unused picture frame this piece of applique work W.NU la thi lug cabin near llodgrnvllle, Ky., Abraham Lincoln February It, 1809. war. It wa first photographed, apparently, for "The Campaign Document, In which William M. Thayer, in 1hC4, told of the "Character and Public of Abraham Lincoln. But Service Thoma Lincoln did not build this cabin, and Abraham was not born there and never lived there. The last vestige of this cabin has disappeared. The actual birthplace of Abraham Lincoln wa a log cabin which, after many removals, now stands not far from its original site on Rock Spring farm on Nolin creek. 2' miles south from where the village of Hodgenville now is. in what was then Hardm and now is Larue county, Kentucky. Civil r Ml WIHMNxiro(N MUt n Mtt VlttfiM lru - By RAUKUAGC Arui Anahtt and Commentator, on Yru MOMl 'ff, . v SLi iko9 Vim pOLOR is important in making harmonious rooms from odds and ends, and nature is the best source for color inspiration. The soft golden color of wheat, the of poppies and the blue orange-re- d of cornflowers were worked into J clay, was drawn by If. T. Webster while he was on the stall of the old New York World. It has become a Newspaper Classic, i. e., annually it Is reprinted by request. It is: iiutmv county, ky., Q; v 'Family of Nations' Buying newspaper cartoons, appropriate to the annual ob- servance of Lincolns birth- - Plans for FAO Draws Up food and Agriculture Organization imsat T Expanded Production, Increased Trade By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Ne HelraK-by pper Vnltm. of the most famous of ON THE Romantic History. This cabin, which was the true birthplace of Lincoln, has a romantic history. It stood on a tract of 300 acres, known as the Sinking Spring farm, which Thomas Lincoln bought in December, 1808, for 604 cents per acre. Here little Abe Lincoln lived until he was four years old. Then his father abandoned the place because of litigation involving a flaw in the title and moved his family 10 miles northeastward to another farm of 30 acres on Knob creek, which he had previously purchased. Several years later (two different dates, 1827 and 1835, are given for this event) a certain Henry Brother bought the Sinking Spring farm and lived in the Lincoln birthplace cabin for several years. Then, according to Beveridge, who quotes J. T. Hobson's "Footprints of Abraham Lincoln as his authority for the statement, Brother tore down the cabin and used the logs for firewood. The accuracy of this statement, however, is doubtful and, as will be seen later in this article, it has been refuted. There seems to be good reason to believe that the cabin was still standing on its original site in 1860 when Lincoln was elected President. Soon afterwards it was purchased from the man who then owned the farm by George Rodman who moved it to another farm about a mile and a half from the Sinking Spring farm. There it remained during the turmoil of the Civil war and after being used a number of yeats as a shelter for Negro families and as a tenant house, it was used as a school house in 1872 and 1873. A certain John Davenport marand they ried the school-teachlived in the cabin from 1875 to 1894, when it was bought by A. W. Dennett and moved back to its original site on the Sinking Spring farm. The cabin was not destined to remain on its original site long, however. Soon afterwards it was bought by Rev. J. W. Bingham who took it down and shipped the 143 logs in it to Nashville, Term., for a centennial celebration there.' Next it was moved to Central park in New York city where it was on exhibition for a time and in 1901 it was exhibited at the Buffalo exposition. The next owner was David Greer, who stored it in the old Poffenhausen mansion in Long Island City, N. Y. Bought by Collier. In 1906 Robert J. Collier bought the Sinking Spring farm and presented it to the Lincoln Farm association, "a patriotic organization formed by American citizens for the purpose of preserving as a national park the farm on which Abraham Lincoln was bom. The president of this association was Joseph W. Folk, governor of Missouri, and its trustees were a group of distinguished citizens, including Mr. Collier, who also bought the Lincoln cabin. The logs were shipped to Kentucky, accompanied by a guard of honor sent by the state, for a homecoming celebration in Louisville and then taken to the Lincoln farm. The cabin, I am reliably informed, originally stood near to the After its spring, writes Barton. first removal, it was reerected on the top of the slope leading up from the spring. When it was taken down for exhibition purposes, this site was marked by a post; and when the A waa born cabin was purchased and rebuilt. It wa erected around the post which still stands in the middle of the cabin floor, The Lincoln Farm association, by popular subscription, not only raised an endowment of $50,000 to maintain the homestead but provided an impressive memorial at a cost of nearly $225,000 to house the little log cabin. In 1916 the tiUe to the farm was transferred to the United States government which, in accepting the property and the administration of the endowment, agreed to maintain the farm, preserve the cabin and never charge an entrance fee to the public. Thus the farm became a national park. In September, 1916, President e Woodrow Wilson journeyed to to accept the new national shrine on behalf of the nation and on that occasion declared that it was "an altar upon which we may forever keep alive the vestal fire of democracy as upon a shrine at which some of the deepest and most sacred hopes of mankind may from age to age be rekindled. Unfortunately, however, the government did not keep its promise so far as maintaining the farm properly was concerned. During the next 10 years the place was permitted to fall Into disrepair, owing to a lack of maintenance funds. Then in 1928 Rep. M. H. Thatcher of Kentucky reported as a "national disgrace the fact that "the Lincoln memorial farm is now grown up in bushes and briars, gullies are being washed across the land and at times the approach to the memorial is covered with several inches of silt. The spring where Lincoln drank as a boy and which supplied water for the household is flooded in rainy weather so as to foul the water . . . Yet, this is one of the greatest shrines in the country, and the government of the United States, having taken over this property, is under at least a moral obligation to provide for its maintenance. As a result of this disclosure congress passed a bill providing $100,-00- 0 for the rehabilitation of the farm and authorizing future appropriations as may become necessary for its preservation. One of President Coolidges last official acts before leaving the White House was to sign this bill. The Legend Lives On. In the meantime the legend that the logs in the rebuilt cabin in the stately memorial were not the original logs, would not die down. In 1920 the Kansas City Star published a story about the Lincoln memorial at Hodgenville which brought from Judson S. West, justice of the Supreme court of Kansas, this statement: Hodg-cnvill- In August, 1879, I visited the scene of Lincolns birthplace a few miles from Hodgenville, Ky., and drank from the beautiful stream which flows off the ledge of rocks. The cabin in which Mr. Lincoln was born had then been burned for some time and from the ashes of the debris where the fire occurred, I gathered up some relics to take home. No one has seen and no one will ever see the original cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born. . .jPr August, 1843, May, MRS. lU'Til Bedford Hills Enclose pattern. Name IS WYETH SPEARS New York Drawer 1 cents for applique design ... Old Testament in Hebrew (DAILY CALORIC CONTENT) The Old Testament is now being published in Hebrew in Palestine, the first time in history that a complete edition of this book has been produced in its original language-iits native country. 1400 600 CALORIES PRESENT EUROPEAN RATION JO C 2,000 CALORIES UNITED NATIONS RELIEF MEALS JO You breathe freer al- most instantly as just 3 drops Penetro Nose Drops open your nose to give your head cold air. Caution: Use only ea directed. 25c, 2H times as much for 60c. Get ed WOO CALORIES AVERAGE AMERICAN DIET to keep his band In in case he contemplates, as the cracker-barrel-er- s suggest, further personal activity later, or merely wants to keep Americans thinking about all these things, come the ides of November. About Relief No matter how you look at it (unless you are a 100 per cent you have a sort of vague feeling that we ought to do what we can to help out people who are starving or freezing no matter I say that adwhere they are. visably and 'for proof turn to the record. One of the earliest memories of my childhood is tagging up Main Street on my mothers hand and seeing a dishpan in front of the "Silver Dollar (not the original) filled with dollar bills. My mother dropped in a quarter and hurried past the sinister abode. Passersby tossed in their currency for the sufferers of some Chinese famine or Italian earthquake (perhaps Pompeii and Herculaneum, I dont recall). America is always willing to go down deep in its pockets for "relief. But it doesnt seem to like it if government runs the show. Nobody on Main Street knew how much of the dishpans contents reached the quaku and ing Italians or how much never got past the "Silver back room, but nobody Dollar's cared. On the other hand, even when the d by the govmoney is ernment and investigated by the opposition, if it is taken out of the general kitty, Americans dont like it. Thats playing Santa Claus. When they can shell out individually, its all right which may be perfectly logical from a psychological viewpoint. However this may be, your government is going right ahead and preparing a program for taking out the wrinkles and concealing the ribs of a starving world just the same it is also doing something more, helping the starvers raise more of what-have-yo- triple-checke- field, NOTE Now is the time to start a really Interesting piece of hand work that will fit into that room that you expect to remodel next spring. A stamping pattern, color guide and dlrectlona for all thw stitches In the graceful applique design shown here may be obtained for IS centa. Address: Address UNITED NATIONS PLAN RELIEF MEALS FOR EUROPE In reply the Star declared it "has no correction to offer on the storj published. The log cabin in which Lincoln was born stands on the spot where it was originally built, enshrined in an imposing building of granite. It then tells of the work of the Lincoln Farm association, mentions some of the men who were trustees and declares "It is hardly possible that citizens of their standing would allow an imposition in the matter of Lincolns birthplace. The statements of such a careful and conscientious historian as Rev. William E. Barton seem to be sufficient verification of that assertion and Americans who visit this "shrine at Hodgenville today their own food. of democracy can feel certain that they are gazing They are trying to organize the upon the veritable logs of the cabin job with the same business acumen in which Abraham Lincoln was born. Here Is a Complete Record of the Homes of Abraham Lincoln to comto What is believed to be a May, ville, Ky., February, 1809, plete record of the dwelling places of 1811; Knob creek, Ky., May, 1811, Abraham Lincoln and the length of to November, 1816; Spencer county, Ind., November, 1816, to March, time spent at each has been com1830; Macon county. 111., March, piled by Dr. Louis A. Warren, direc1830, to July, 1831; New Salem, 111., founNational Lincoln Life tor of the July, 1831, to April, 1837; Speed's dation of Fort Wayne, Ind. Dr. Warstore, Springfield, April, 1837, to ren, former Kentucky newspaper ed- January, 1841; William Butler home, itor, has devoted his life to Lincoln Springfield, January, 1841, to Noresearch. vember, 1842; Globe tavern, Spring-fielThe residences in succession, acNovember, 1842, to August, cording to Dr. Warren, are: Hodgen 1843; Monroe street home. Spring- - TELEFACT became the keynote for the interesting furniture group you see here. The top of the old desk was cut away and it was boxed in between book shelves. The padded stool was made of a box. The sketch shows how the applique colors were repeated in paint and fabric. The desk accessories also repeat these colors. BRIEFS I differences of opinion but Hambidge puts it this way: "Pa wants a certain kind of engine. May has her eye on the upholstery. Sis prefers a certain body color. Junior hes thinking about the gadgets on the instrument panel. But the main thing is they all want a car. They end up by getting one that isnt quite what anybody expected but one thats durable, and a good buy, and gets them where they want to go. "In other words, they compromise. Each one gives up his own pet ideas to get a car that will be serviceable for the whole family. "And thats what will happen, says Hambidge, "with the Food and Agriculture organization. The Interim commission has been working out a constitution a broad plan of operation, showing what the organization will do and how it will do it, and a general budget, so well know what the work will cost. Along about March, probably, they will have these plans ready to submit formally to the d governments. If theres the organization quick approval should be set up and ready to go not too long after that. Two things FAO is aiming at: expanded production within the countries involved, and increased trade between the countries involved. Some countries, for instance, just cant produce enough of the right kinds of foods to feed their people properly; others can produce certain foods like wheat, for instance only at very great cost. The FAO, its members say, aims to get away from the old isolationist idea that prevailed almost everywhere before the war with every country trying to meet all its own needs which ended up with a smashing big depression and a whopping big war. What the FAO can do to prevent such world catastrophes, according to Hambidge, remains to be seen. That is what this very silent committee, or commission or whatever you want to call it, is doing making an attempt at prophylaxis an at- tempt to cure the disease instead of the symptoms. fey Penetro Nose Drops Early Prophet Roger Bacon, living in the 13th century, predicted the automobile and steamship. Gas on Stomach Relieved In 5 minutes or double money beck Wheo wcmi stomach sdd csqm painful, suf foest gss, sour stomach ind heartburn, doctors usually mttiinnes known for prescribe ths faatest-ectin- g relief media nee like those in iivmptomatic TfthietB s No laxative brings comfort in or double vour money back oo return of bottie ntfj to ns. J&c st aii druggists. hifr i JUST A DASH IN FEATHERS.? EZ2222E2SEZ2ZE SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Tire life on rough gravel roads Is about 40 per cent less than on smooth concrete pavements. This was proved by tests conducted by the Iowa State College. Soap, it develops, is to be a growing factor inmaintaining motor transportation. If has been estimated that 100 million pounds of soap will be required for one years produc- tion of synthetic rubber. Camelback, which gets Its name because it originally had a hump in the center is a growingly important prod- uct of the rubber industry. Over 20 million pounds of camelback are now being made monthly to rocap tires. Baukhage 1844; Eighth street home, Springfield, Prewar model baby carriages, May, 1844, to March, 1847; Spriggs strollers, walkers, and pushcarts will boarding house, Washington, March, reappear on the market in about 1847, to March, 1849; Eighth street six weeks, according to the WPB. home, Springfield, March, 1849, to 1361; Chenery house, February, Net cash farm income for the Springfield, February, 1861; Wi- three years 1941 through 1943 was llard's hotel, Washington, February over 214 times such average net inand March, 1861; White House, come for the five years preceding Washington, March, 1861, to April, the outbreak of war. The People's 1863; Anderson cottage, WashingLobby. ton, summers of 1861 and 1864. War Food administration has announced it will soon release about 440,000 cases of canned pork and beans to civilian consumers. ... The Japanese explanation of the main points of their taxation law revision bills, when translated by U. 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