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Show . 'THE WEEKLY NEWS . EXPRESS LAYTON. UTAH . Leaguers aver that Gehrtager was the best American circuit performer In affair with Lou Gehrig the ranking a very close ieconu . . . Eddit Stuart, best of aU lacrosse goalies when he operated Id front' of the Mount Washington and Crescent A. C. nets, has moved from Westchester to a better business proposition in Boston . , . Watch Southern California next fall. The dope is that Howard Jones again has assembled one 'lt 'A of the nation's best footbaU teams jJ . . Its tough preparing fen an Olympic Invasion. A recent letter fron Berlin confides that officials have been working overtime stocking np sixteen different brands of gum for the athletes. chewing e New York Port. WNU Sonic. Unless he takes a salary cut Jimmy Wilson may be looking for a new job next year. Now that the once great catcher no longer is very active on the playing field his boss seems to feel that a $17,000 annual salary is too much for a mere Phlllie manager . . . Van leaning forward Mungo is not surprised st J.e unHE HADonebeen of the padded leathjustified rumors that hq misber game. er chairs in a corner of the Garden haved before the When balhe his hotel on in checked at office. hat Felt carefully boxing anced on one knee, be bad been Monday morning he was assigned to Room 313 and when he aid for lateninr eagerly to the brisk his breakfast he receivca a (3 bill too of watching Marge dispose seekers in change. After that he was prepreonmptuous breathing again the breath e what pared for anything la the way of . had been life to him for almost hard luck. NATIONAL All-St- behind-the-scen- smj? . ar es A, BRISBANE A New Memorial tb THIS WEEK." Parjs: Of Afanjr Newspapers Surprise for Karl-MarMr. Eden Was Tired Quf x By- ELMO SCOTT WATSON , IIE other .daj a gr'ea crowd of. peqfil gathered in the little city' of Oxford, Ohio. They a double ft were there.tofar cojebrato purpose the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of a book but more particularly tq honor the memory of the man who wrote that book by unveiling a statue ef bin). The man was William Holmes McGufTey and the book which he published in 1836 was the first of the McGuffey Eclectic Reader?. O him it has been sa-ithat he was the most pop- A Big Somersault ' . This world is really no bigger, now, than the palm of your hand; T you wherever are, news comes a pouring in Pullman car on the Mohave desert has the "Examiner; flying Fans Last Ovation the Lebrothers hurry to the airfield at Wichita with the latest across, va n d to Humphreys Best Memory to Retain "Beacon; and on the ocean, a appewspaper pears every day; . the fiadio feeds it; in Paris, times as many newspapers a? are ular. American cf the Ninepublished in New York tell' you teenth century, the man whq anything yoil .choose to believe, had the largest influence to from editorials written by men who determining the thoughts and do not know that the reyal apd imideals of the American people perial French families died and 1870 of war were buried after thp during that period and the man ' to fiery-oye- d who think .to whose' 'work many . great Pic Traynor Convinced . moderns they can graft Karl Marx- and Len- Americans of the present day Diz Would Make Pirates in on Jacques Bonhomjne, the founFrench peasant, and produce a pay tribute a? being the of their actain, inspiration .to Fie Traynor will tell you that If French Utopia, with a Russian boots. .of achieve. a and cent . and pair to the Pirates had Dissy Dean they high aspire would win the penThat is why many .American e, Alnant easily They do .not know. Jacques who bought his land in the notables authors, editors, eduthough they do not deny that the big revolution at bargain prices with cators, industrialists; statesmen to rwere present when boy may do It, the inflated assignats, and means small-size- d know do the nor smarter and more keep it, they the creation of one of America's French bourgeois, who thinks honest boxing peofour-cefranc than leading sculptors, was unveiled, ple feel that Joe more of one of our some Louis will need governing geniuses at Oxford. But the greater part of the.crowd there was made up. dollars. more than the ex- think of a billion brotherThe of just plain folks, members tra foot of bandage permitted him by hood in America, by the way, dOeff of the numerous "McCuffey the ever. obliging not understand the inside feelings Societ'fes scattered all over the New York boxing of the U. S. A. citizen, with his commission before bungalow,, automobile, fadiq set, United States, whq still cherish washing machine qnd furniture, all fh their hearts the .lesson's , , . Rabcomeback he makes a . bit Warsticr, obtained frrm the Aa "nearly paid for. learned from this Schoolmaster Send IIM, instead of a bill 'for recently, shouU be of real help of a Nation in his Eclectic to the Bees. He Is one of the his last installment, the statement, 7 . Reader's. and best defensive Infielders In the busi- "No more private property,"does. he and see The what memorial at Oxford Is the says ness and when he is happy, bits second Which lias been erected .300 In the clutch. Ills Philadelphia You take you? choice of dozens in his honor within the last two trouble was that he did not like the of Paris daily newspjapers; the wild years. In 1934 another great way Connie Mack treated him . , , that say anything and lose kind, would he Mack Mr. Incidentally something less than a popula. fa- money; the tame kind, that say vorite In Boston even L he returned nothing and make money, but very aU that dough be has beea taking little of it; the mummified kind, out of the town since he located that still take "Madame La Marthe Yawkey bakery. The fans are quise seriously, and think themaore because he was In a town on a selves back in the days of De DefTand and Lord Bod Sunday for a regularly scheduled . . . contest but would not wait over ingbroke. You have, also,. newspapers from ' affair two days lafor the all the Lilliput countries nekrby ter. Italian, German fend the English, Another hot Boston blast Is diin news is only you must rected at the National league. The know how to them, extract it. They arq so who esteem Wally Berger fans, queer little newspapers, and If that highly that the Bees were afraid be provincialism, make the most to make several very promising of it. All-Sta- goo-al- p, free-tlck- et fifty years. Then the crowd had drifted away. I looked at him again. After all, times change, old friends drop oft quickly. .Vhen a man who baa been out of close touch so long Is shored again Into the spotlight he must wonder If It will be the same, ne I thought that I noted one gnarled hand trembling slightly. We fell to talking, not about the Illness that came three years ago, but about ether brighter days. There were stories about boyhood moments on Oliver street when he used to play marbles with the a gentleman who is "Governor, known more familiarly to most others as A1 Smith. About how Murphy, who seldom went to fights, once sat beside him at a pulse-strummin- g bout and ... Bon-homm- the-statu- Con-jto- rs --naturally, ... Eut-wel- i. all-tim- and. e ever. . In Rome, as in otherplaces'on he earths surface, one city is piledup-o-n another. Dig down through one and the other appears. Invasions, plagues, famines and the grinding ice have wiped therh out. . Those that read this today are the descendants of men such as the of the Stone age village. And still we are worried, looking down at the enemy, poverty, that may climb up and attack us in old age. C King F.ntur. Syndicate, I no. WNU s Srlc. t' i ,- - ; - m: - Vf v'- -?. r': s country from Scotland. Landing qt Philadelphia, they journeyed to the southern-bordeof York County, Pennsylvania, where they settled. This Scotch family, had one son, Alexander, who was six years old when they arrived in ' America. . Alexander grew up. to bo a scout aqd Indian fighter, serving in . Ohio and western Pennsylvania under Arthur St.. Clair and r " Anthony Wayne.. At the end of the campaign of 1794 .he married Miss Anna Holmes of Washington County, Pennsylvania, .and settled sis a farrper in that coun- ty. Here, William Holmes-MGuffey, was bom, September 23, I8.00.t When, thq lad was two, years old, the McGuffeys removed to Trumbull county,. Ohio, where Alexander McGuffey purchased farm of 163 acres in Cortsville village, Cortsville' township, in .the Connecticut. Western Reserve. ' . . . One day Rev.'. Thomas Hughes, Presbyterian minister., was . rid--, iqg by the lonqly McGuffey-cabinlie overheard the mother praying that her young son,.WiI-- : 11am, might- have the opportunity to secure an education that would fit him fof life and for the ministry. Reverend Hughes arranged to have the' boy attend school at the "Old Stdne ac.ad-emwhich he had opened at Darlington, ;Pa. The tuition was $3 a yeafi and board 75 cents '.a week. Here William received his ' hcademk) - training and by. the time he was eighteen wa? ready for ft 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 pell as English and was graduated with honor's in 1829, receiving the bachelor of arts' degree. ;. y .throng gathered near Washington,.!., to dedicate a huge gran 'Ite boulder on the site of the log cabin where McGuffey was born.' The crumbling' remains of that cabin were removed tq Dearborn! Mich.; in 1938, rebuilt and added tq the Edison institute collection by Henry Ford through whose efforts 70 acres of the McGuffey farm. were purchased for a permanent memorial. At that time Mr. Ford made one of his few ' public addresses. It was this laconic statement: "I am glad to Join you today in giving honor o A Fioneer Teacher, . Doctor - McGuffey. lie was a t. The. American... great McGuffey 'While attending Washington Readers taught Industry' and mo- .college he supported himself in . rality tq America." part by. teaching. He taught q . pioneer school .in Kentucky, his Tributes.;Frem' Notables-But Henry Ford1 is not alone work beihg observed, by the first In paying tribute tq the Ohie president of Miami university founded at Oxford, scho.olmastefl In fact, the lis.t that had been lS0'9. ..This m'an-- , Rev. .in .Ohio, of those whb have .acknowledged Bishop, at once their indebtedness to his 'teachthe and; devo-,tio- n power recognized is veritable American ings of the .j'ouqg undergraduate . "Whos Who.. . student and offered hima posi-- . Herbert Quick in.writing of hfs at Miami, to, begin. in. the. childhood in rural Iowa in his tied of lS26f . autumn . .book, ".One Mans Life, say?: the. board of of miftutes .The "I bad a burning thirst for books. 'was emOn those farms, a boy or girl with trustees show that ha .of. .as languages. professor my appetite for literature was a ployed Miami tradition tells 'that hq rode frog in k desert.. The thirst' was into Oxford with , hrothep satisfied and, more important, his with Alexander copr personal to stimulated ,was aspiration for further satisfaction by an old ies of Levy Horace, MemoraHebrew volume of McGuffeys, bilia and the Greek in-and BiWe his saddle the of texts school the. standard readers of My mastery of the first bags. my day. Soon after coming to Oxford he and ' second readers just the met Harriet Sprning, daughter of 'of the marvels of the .opening a was deJudge Isaao Spining of Dayton printed page poignant who was visiting her uncle in Oxa and me ecsort of gave light s consti- ford! They becaipe engaged and stasy. Those the most influential tute volumes were married April S, 1827. ever published in America." While at , Miami, McGuffey Newton D. Baker, secretary of wTote the first and second of the war under President-Wilson- , once graded set of readers the first declared that a certain melancholy in 1S36 and the second in 1837. poem contained in the Fifth Both the third and fourth readReader made an impression on ers were at Cincinnati in him that still remains, and the 1838. His brother, Alexander, late Justice John H. Clarke said aided Professor McGuffey in the that the language he used in revision of the readers and collected much of the material for handing down decisions of th . " the fifth and sixth readers. After some time at Miami, Professor McGuffey, whose Interest lay in the field of litera-- . ture end philosophy, was .tendered professorship of mental .philosophy.' He carried on thee logical studies privately and on March 29, 1829, he received his ordination into the ministry of the Presbyterian church; with the degree of doctor of divinity. McGuffey recognized . the dearth of. reading material in the common schools. Of the time. He had a keen litprary sense and was able to select much .that appealed to young minds. It ws this' selection ' of lessons From a wide range of authors that caused him to name the readers McGuffey Eclectic Readers. To read them is to catch a glimpse of the sterh. reality of life in the America of .the Nineteenth century. 'Humor is- absent .from every one of them' from McGuffeys' New First Eclectic Reader, from which the smallest children learned ' their ABCS and ware fascinated by the quaint woodcuts of birds and animals, to the- New Sixth Eclectic volume of Reader, . a solid and. forbidding, type, deas "Exscribed on the ercises of Rhetorical Reading with .Introductory Rules and Exfly-le- af text-book- t.Ksaoii xxir. . Mi- fa bjr liJ wa u . gof Jut yv A fay put ft cat in a fas, A .fan, wm in tha fail Tli fay t on tha" lid fifa fat Tlio Cat bit the bent fod tb fa put out tli eye of the Cat,.. Tim fay got off. th lid of the fay. Tfa cat gal out fad nut off .ttesos xxt. Jh fan not m T1m lovei. , to get up; fat to. Hi was iD dii w-t- fan wo put fa di fay K tlio nn. Moraf Lessens , 7.' All of the 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 ip verse and this exhortation: With aU ' thy soul . Jove God . . above, . An'd as' thyself-thneighbor ' .. Rack to .the ' .eighties ' every child was told more than (mce by his parents; "If at first-yodont .succeed, try, try. again! Tbey got that- maxim from a poem to McGuffeys New Fourth. Eclectic Reader, as they did the admonition to' Waste not, want not.1 When they taught their. - . A LEAF FROM THE PRIMER. soliloquy aftd "The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, from . Henry. VIII; Scott' 9 Lochinvari and "Marmion and D.ouglas; Gray's Elpgy; Macauley ori "The Im peaqhment of Warren Hastings; "Enoch-- ' Arden; Tennysons Poes "The. "Raven;. Longfellows and "A Evangeline; Psalm of Life.. - . ' ' la 1836 Doctor McGuffey left. . Oxford to accept the presidency 'of Cincinnati coBegq. In .1839 he became president of Ohio univer- sity at Athens. In 1844 ho returned to Cincinnati ahd served as professor at' Woodward college, afterward known as Woodward high school.In 1845 McGuffey weftt to. the' University of Virginfa as profes- - . sor.of philosophy. - He was php-.ulwith his. students and he taught, says one writer, "with the simplicity, of a child, .with the 'precision of a mathematician and with the authority of truth. An qld friend left the following description of Dr. .Mcbuffey: "A - ar man. 'stature .and compact, figure. 'His forehead . was broad and dull; .his eyes dear .and expressive. His dea- tures ' were of the strongly marked rugged Scotch typ.e. .He' Was .a ready speaker, a pbpular lecturer on .education, and an ' fable preacher.. Dr.'- McGuffeys conscientious-- i?ess' was proverbial. was nearly old vjS1 book . a 500-pa- ge beck It wa$ the result of ten years of careful research.. But He was so critical that after the book was already in type he FIRST READER TITLE. EAGE . Children tha,t it was a sin years seventy-thre- e he, prepared-- . Wheft fie ori philosophy. eouir. his-little- d, 24 amples.' - dog-eare- the-Sixt- - n - " 456-pa- - Robert-Hamilto- ' e jwi - fvjLLiAal ii. 'McGuffey L ?; The story; of the McGuffeys goes back to August, 1774 when William and Aflne (McKittrick) McGuffey emigrated to this In Londqn, Driving through Normandy, from Havre, where the ships land, would interest American fa'rmers, especially any whose lands, are "worn out after comparatively few years of cultivation. Oh lands in this part of the world, wheat has been grown for three hundred .year?, and todhy yields better, bigger crops than ' their-tpinds- . e Eden fold Baldwin what the doctor said, and Baldwin, said, "By hll means, my boy, hurry off to a secret destination, .and Eden hur ried. In America, the businessman would say, "Doctor, there are a few things that I must settle first, meaning, perhaps, his Income tax. He would hang on and on,' and. final ly go to really secret destination, in the graveyard'. . ; Supreme court not was colored by the infrequently readers he .had studied 5Q.yars before. ' Lda the late 'Albert J. p.evericTge, and many others, credit McGuffey With having had a lqrge Share in shaping, United-State- - - - ; , - . d ; r DEDICATION OF TUB. MpGUFFE Y MEMORIAL AT 1IIS BIRTHPLACE NEAR WASHINGTON,- PA. (At the left stands Nancy Pardee Newton of Ypsilanti, Mich- - Designer of the riaqne.). y for instance, Lord Rothermeres newspaper tells you that Mr. Eden, British foreign, secretary, has gone to "a secret desin the country (ot a tination weeks rest. English statesmen always, go to "a secret destination," for reasons unknown to Mr. James Farley, who relaxes at the- ringside, or President Roosevelt, Who rest, fishing, on a battleship, with fifty reporters on another ship, nearby. You wonder that a man as young as Eden should need a rest. Gladstone, at nearly twice' his age, was talking in the Commons at four in the morning but Gladstones are few, Tim llealys also. Rothermere's writer think? Eden is all tired out after his Geneva speech, telling Just why England lifted the Italian sanctions.' It was he who made a speech recently, just as earnest and much louder, telling why those sanctions must NEVER be lifted. That was turn' ing a big' somersault. The English know how to do tliqt, and you are supposed not to laugh. v, sem 59-ce- ht . - wr Marx-Stalin-Leni- n. 185-oun- eld-tim- r. t, nt AU-St- ' - -- - punched his ribs black and blue in the midst of the excitement. About how Sullivan named him Joe the tfT. title Beaut, which he much preferred to the "Bowery Demosthenes which some news- guy tagged Joe Humphreys paper on hlm years latr. There was the proud oas that, for yeara, he had been able to smoke a cigarette, chew gum and announce a fight at the aame time. How did he come to get into this racket? Well, he was a newsboy Whoa wgs- - ten years old and folks who used to listen to him on the old Produce Exchange corner used to admire the power of his cannot voice even then. After that there deals for him this spring, on the was he understand kept why was a lot of distinction to be In dream bench the game during achieved as master of ceremonies . . . home his Larry Benton, park at balls and parties. a great pitcher when he served the Braves and Giants, soon will Call for Beaut Started be released by the Baltimore club tripleHoyle, Famed Announcers Career threat Rudd star at Hun school in Princeton, is an unreasonable lad. In Then one .pi ght. when Chuck spite of tempting offers from two was meeting Billy Welsh at major colleges nearer home the Malscha Little Casino down on youngster, who is tabbed as Bowery near Pearl, the .egular an- "surefire varsity. plans to enter Harvard this falL nouncer did not appear. A spectator stood up and demanded that The best minor league buy right "Joe the Beau. he given he Job. now Is Cliff Melton, who once had Joe got It. Whether the "Mayor a tryout with the Yankees, lie Is of Chinatown,' that was Connors, a big, young, limber and not too beat the "Little John L., that was smart Southerner possessed of a Welsh, on this occasion Is somevery good fast ball and a sharp thing he could not remember. But breaking cuive. Baltimore la askhe did remember that I, was one ing $50,000 for him and will take of the happiest nights if his life 20 Gs less Don Lash, who possithough. bly is. the best Olympic distance No, those star ever developed in the U. S., The very happiest? were swell times when he and Sam did his first running as a bareFarris. and Terry McGovern were footed boy' of thirteen. That was in the fight business. Best fighter in the cow pasture back of the little red school In his homo ham-- , that ever lived, that Terry. Could Secret of success? Wei, wh?t let of Auburn, . Ind. which It be team the that Penn, 'may you had to have to handle a crowd end Frlncctona football Winning was a voice, personality, and color. It ought to be a deep, bass streak early in October, already voice with lots of vibrations. You has started practice? The New York state athletic shouldn't ought tc antagonize the has dug up an old commission shoulc What do' either. crowd you was use good Judgment and try to rule which decrees thdt all prize fight contracts must be signed at keep them friendly. office. This What? Well, yeah, maybe he was the commissions not vill Improve tie very sometimes misquoted. But what of but" should situation boxing messy It. Suppose he did stand up in the matchmaking state .offthe old Garden that last night there give swell extra chances to icials some and demand silence co be could in the papers their pictures get to the pronounce a "apostrophe restaurant A features Boston famed statue of Diana. The point a Bill on its "Cehot plate Terry about that was that hed anmenu. The dish is "Freshnounced fights in this state under lebrity corned beef hash w.th made ly three boxing laws since 1899. egg. . . . Jimmy dropped Besides, what if some people did who came back from the laugh at that crack. It made them World war to continue his career happy and so kept them satisfied, as one of the great jockdidn't it? Well, that was the real eys, now is a patrol judge. Job of an announcer and if some of Jersey City hopes to get the Tothose birds who ronto, International league, franThe ebb and flow of a boxing eve- chise next year. Mayor Hague's ning had brought the crowd back new stadium, which will sea 38,000 Into the little office again. Jimmy for baseball and 65,000 for fights, Johnston was waiting to go dow- being the reason fpr revived sports nstairs with his old friend. I rose interest across the river . ,' . Even nod shook a band that no longer though the Giants are slipping trembled. there is no danger of Eddie Bran-nic- k "Se long, he said. "Ill be hey, losing his title as the best I tell yone what. Youre always us- dressed secretary in baseball. On pictures on tuose the club's last Western trip he ing gperta pages of yours. Why dont packed 4$ brightly striped and dotyoe eome out some day? Ive got ted necktiea . . . Aside from winlet ef them and we could alt ning prise fights lightweight conarocmd soma more tender Leonard Del Genii likes Along with so many others I am nothing better than to read Charles Dickens. grdaj to miM Joe Humphreys. 1 tn perhaps more oftenthan any Oth. er fin, with 'an imperceptible inv . fluence on its victim- - It's first pretext if inconsiderable, ar.$ falsely te.rrped ipnacent play, with no more than the gentle ex. cit&ment necessary to amusement. The pla, onga indulged. Is btit too often as the letting cUt of water. The kitepest imperceptibly' grows. Pride of superior skill, .opportunity, avarice, and &11 the overwhelming passions of depraved natures, ally themselves 'wih the incipient and growing fondness; Darn afuj 'dike pre swept away. The Vic ,tim struggles in vain, and is borne down by the uncontrolled . current. . The Bible the Best of Classics, "Religion the Only Basis f Society, "The Intemperate Hus band, are.the titles of other les sons, and many of these articles-ar- ' honored by the name, of the author in the index. . That familiar poem, "The Spider and the Fly, is given in this reader, "Directions for Reading are ex pounded and rules for proper die tion are stressed. ReadII remains for er to begin with "Principles of Education, which Is considered under six heads: 1. Articulation, 2. .Inflection. 3. Accent and Em phasls, .4. Reading verse, 5. The voice, fi. Gesture. All faults, to be remedied are meticulously listed. Indeed, les Sons to articulation start with the second reader, and proper emphasis and correct pronunci ation are stressed ail through the . series. .. The Sixth Readef: also contained such classics as Hamlet? tef ab- decided that iV.w.as not worthy of publication jand ordered it withheld. . He remained fet the stain frarn "licktog the plate Virginia, institution until 'hi? . clean they were repeating the death on May 4, title of a little drama in McGu- , But he had lived to see his ffeys Fourth Reader.. "Lazy Ned, "Meddlesome Matty, "A Mothers Gift, the Bible, "Extract from the Sermon on the .Mount are some of the other titles. The Fifth Reader has the title: "McGuffeys New Fifth Eclectic Reader: Selected and Original Exercises for Schools. Here we find old friends: '"Maud Muller, "Shylock, or the Pound of Flesh. "Effects of Gambling, which begins: The love of gambling steals, well-remember-ed readers, selling into the millions . and extending their influence into opier lands by being translated into many foreign languages. How great that influence was is impossible to estimate. But there is no doubt that their serious purpose, their kindly spirit and their high moral tone made children of an earlier generation better men and women today. At least, that is the unanimous testimony of the devoted members of the McGuffey Societies thousands of Americans in all walks of life. C WwUrm Newp4r Ualon. |