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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER ISJggj IdME Tradition Gives Lincoln Three 'Birthplaces' -But Historical Research Establishes the Fact Sallies in Our Alley: Benny Good man and a chap who just signed a Hollywood contract were discussing Movie' Town . . . Hows the weather out there now?" asked the Broad-wayit- e. I'll be leaving for Hollywood shortly. What clothing should I take along? . . . You might take along, said Benny, a knife-proo- f vest! . . . Congressmaid Clare Luce, at a party, -- was seated between play WTight Frederick Lonsdale and producer Gilbert Miller . . . Lonsdale asked her: If you had a choice, kissing me or Miller, whom would you choose? . . . Clare hesitated . . . Ill never," said Lonsdale, forgive you for that pause! There Was Only One; It's Near Hodgenville, Ky. appropriate to the annual observance of Lincolns birthday, was drawn by H. T. Webster while he was on the staff of the old New York World. It has become a Newspaper Classic, i. e., annually it is reprinted by request. It is: on war. apparently, Yes, Indeedy!: In the newsreels from the war fronts our brave commanders are usually photod leading their men to the attack. We saw a closeup like that last night The General facing the camera. A woman in front audibly remarked: Hes certainly brave but how about the unknown photographer who has his back to the enemy? The Magic Lanterns: The Lodger," a classic among (based on the sinful Jack, the Ripper), loses none of its shudders in its transfer to the screen . . . Higher and Higher is a pleasant film. It brings Prof. Sinatra into focus. Hell never get as blood-curdler- s ce many girlish squeals for acting as he gets for paper-dollinbut he gets by okay. J. Haley, Michele Morgan and the Hartmans help considerably . . . The Miracle of Morgans Creek is wild waggery, a direct slap at Pop Dionne. Eduardo Bracken is a pranky parent, and Betty Hutton jumps out of her skin from time to time . . . Where Are Your Children? deals with juvenile delinquency. It skips the preacher angles and assumes its audience is more than eleven. Sallies In Our Alley: Over at The Gamecock a movie actor said that Hollywood is wonderful to everyone except people with smallpox - . . To which a cynic queried: You mean to tell me that a guy with a flat wallet would be welcome . . . No, was the retort, there? in Hollywood a flat wallet is the first sign of smallpox! . . . D. Lowes nifty: When the Yanks take Cassino, theyll have to play with 51 cards as the Duce is missing. Bar Marksmanship: The minutes crawled by like wounded men . . , Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen: Peace without jus tice is like painting rouge on the International cheek . . . J. M. Barrie: In as in the other arts, those do it best who cannot tell how it is done . . . Paschal Boland: Pride is a parade . . . Somerset Maugham: They simply lived in one anothers pockets . . . Joan Eden: She swallowed her tears . . . Anon; It's not the creed; its the deed. Quotation love-makin- n It was first photographed, for "The Campaign Docu- ..... Out MCeC'NCtGMBo?1 nothin a new A TAIL.NUTHin ATAucePT Pet babv DowfiT tom Lincoln's Nothin' even MAPPfNS or HCRC. XHPm rto 8t If you go down into Hardin county, Kentucky, today expecting to see the place where the new baby was born "down t Tom Lincolns, youll be disappointed. For you wont 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 seat, then go 2 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 born within its log walls on February 12, 1809. Why this apparent discrepancy in the geography of Lincolns 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 Lincolns place on Nolin creek, became Larue county. So theres 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, Rev. 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: this cabin has disappeared. The actual birthplace of Abraham Lincoln was a log cabin which, after many removals, now stands not far from its original site on Rock Spring farm on Nolin creek. 2,i miles south from where the village of Hodgenville now is, in what was then Hardm and now is Larue county, Kentucky. A 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 66 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. Hobsons Footprints of Abraham Lincoln as his authority for the statement, Brother tore down the cabin and ysed 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 years 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-teache- r lived 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, Tenn., 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 assoa patriotic organization ciation, formed by American citizens for the purpose of preserving as a national park the farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born. 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 cabin was purchased and rebuilt, it was 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 title 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 Woodrow Wilson journeyed to Hodgenville 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: In August, 1879, I visited the scene of Lincoln's 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 bom 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. , j j I What is believed to be a com plete record of the dwelling places of Abraham Lincoln and the length of time spent at each has been compiled by Dr. Louis A. Warren, director of the Lincoln National Life foundation of Fort Wayne, Ind. Dr. Warren, former Kentucky newspaper editor, has devoted his life to Lincoln research. The residences in succession, according to Dr. Warren, are: Hodgen ville, Ky., February, 1809, to May, 1811; Knob creek, Ky., May, 1811, to November, 1816; Spencer county, Ind., November, 1816, to March, 1830; Macon county. 111., March, 1830, to July, 1831; New Salem, 111., July, 1831. to April, 1837; Speed's store, Springfield, April, 1837, to January, 1841; William Butler home, Springfield, January, 1841, to November, 1842; Globe tavern, Spring-fielNovember, 1842, to August, 1843; Monroe street borne, Spring- - d, In the first place, diplomats point out that, had the report been published in Izvestia, it would have been much more serious. Izvestia is the organ of the Soviet government, and anything appearing therein can be considered the gospel views of the Kremlin itself. However, Pravda, organ of the Communist party, is one step removed, and anything published in it can be interpreted as close to but not necessarily representing the Views of Stalin. Thus, it was Pravda which dropped a ton of editorial bricks on the unsuspecting, head of Wendell Willkie, hitherto considered Russias best friend. That editorial rebuke came after Willkie had discussed the Polish boundary question in a manner quite sympathetic to Russia. However, the Russians chose to rebuke their best friend as a warning to President Roosevelt and See retary Hull that they did not want the Polish question discussed at all not even by their friends. They could not very well come out and rebuke Hull and Roosevelt, so they chose a prominent American, one step removed, figuring Hull and Roosevelt would take the hint. Therefore, remembering'that Russian diplomatic moves are usually aimed obliquely at something on the other side of the billiard table, here is the diplomatic cores explanation of the latest Pravda thrust against the British. For about two years, it has been no secret that the British have hung back regarding a second front in western Europe. It is also no secret that, right down to the Teheran conference, Churchill pulled for a Balkan front or almost any other front except a western front. field, August, 1843, to May, 1844; Eighth street home, Springfield, May, 1844, to March, 1847; Spriggs boarding house, Washington, March, 1847, to March, 1849; Eighth street home, Springfield, March, 1849, to February, 1861; Chenery house, Springfield, February, 1861; Willards hotel, Washington, February and March, 1861; White House, Washington, March, 1861, to April, 1865; Anderson cottage, Washington, summers of 1861 and 1864. FRONT "'OLOR is important in making harmonious rooms from odds and ends, and nature is the best source for color inspiration. Thr soft golden color of wheat, the of poppies and the blue orange-re- d of cornflowers were worked into the charming applique design you see here over the desk. This 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 an unused picture frame this piece of applique work 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 col- ors were repeated in paint and fabric. The desk accessories also repeat these colors. I- - , : ' i 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. 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Get Penetro Nose Drops ran, plus Churchills long stay in Africa, Stalins suspicions may be boiling again. Therefor, point out the diplomats, Early Prophet what could be more adroit than to Bacon, living in the Roger put the British squarely on the spot century predicted the automobill!', by subtly accusing them of talking and steamship, to the Nazis about a separate peace? In other words, after the Pravda article, the British now have to prove they want no separate peace Relieved in 5 minutes or double money back by pushing ahead with the second When excess stomach acid causes suffocatfront. If they delay it, then the ing gas, sour stomach and heartburn,painful, doctors osuallp the medicines known for Russians can point to the suspicion prescribe symptomatic relief medicines like those in Tablets. No laxative s brings comfort in a no matter how untrue that perJiffy or double your money back oo return of bottle to oa. 25c at ail druggists. the were to British haps talking which, of Ribbentrop after all course, they werent The Pravda publication fits in, especially at this time, when there actually have been some hints in ou official circles that the Russians Applicator LEAF 40' are doing so well that the Nazis will n A ! surrender soon, then we wouldnt MIN IN need a second front. ,1 Its complicated, but the Russian mind is complicated, and Russian diplomacy even more so. V ed 13tf! Gas on Stomach fastest-actin- g Beil-a- i" , , SOFTENING CASUALTY SNAPPY FACTS MESSAGES ABOUT war department has received many letters recently from ministers and private families, suggest.The ing that, instead of sending casualty messages by telegram to bereaved families, they be sent to a committee of pastors in each comIn reply the Star declared it has one of whom would then munity, to on offer the storj no correction deliver the message and seek to published. The log cabin in which soften the blow of the tragic news. Lincoln was born stands on the spot So far, however, the war, departenwhere it was originally built, ment has taken the position that it shrined in an imposing building of should continue delivery of the casuof the of then tells work It granite. messages by Western Union alty the Lincoln Farm association, mentions some of the men who were messenger boy. Army officials argue that delivery by a clergyman trustees and declares It is hardly would cause confusion and delay, possible that citizens of their stand- and that a clergyman might not be an in would allow imposition ing available at the time, or he might of Lincolns the matter birthplace. lack and immediate transporThe statements of such a careful tation.proper and conscientious historian as Rev. Also, the army argues that a casuWilliam E. Barton seem to be sufhas a high priority, ficient verification of that assertion alty message which means that its transmission is and Americans who visit this shrine and this might be offset of democracy at Hodgenville today expedited, the receiving end if can feel certain that they are gazing by delay at the message had to pass through of the veritable cabin the logs upon the hands of a clergyman. In which Abraham Lincoln was born.. Here Is a Complete Record of the Homes of Abraham Lincoln bara Nix: one-ma- POWNT vull, $9U0f MOTANJ GONCT'VMWtN'TQN SPfLlCW Ten 4 toTTMtf BONAPARTC FCttA MAS ApruDivorro' Spain, what's ncw T'iCC MADiSor bvwoee M.AN Homer had seven birthplaces; Lincoln had at least three according to divergent Kentucky traditions. First ol the houses in which Abraham Lincoln is said to have been born is the Berry house at Beechland, Washington county, Kentucky. It 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 bis 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 Presidents 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 rouf. but we must look elsewhere for his birthplace. So we go to Elizabethtown. The house we wish to see is not standing, but we ran find people who will assure us that Lincoln was born there and who will What show us the unattractive location. they are showing us is the place where Lincoln Thomas and Nancy spent their honeymoon, and bved from June, 1806. till fhe 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 souse was standing at the end of the Willie Collier is dead. There was a comic. He had wit and showmanship and a style of offhand clowning that you hardly ever find in the days of technique. You remember him best from one of the first Music Box Revues, teamed up with the late Sam Bernard. That was where Willie popularized the word nifty. A couple of seasons later he produced a show for himself and Bernard, called Nifties. It died, but nothing of Colliers deserved to. Another time Collier was a last minute replacement for Lew Fields it seems. On his first entrance he turned to the audience and exhibited his shaking hands and won the house. Later, making an exit, he was asked by the heavy where he was going. Back to the dressing room, retorted Willie, and study my lines. 12, 1809. in which William M. Thayer, m 1864, told of the "Character and Public But Services of Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln did not build this cabin, not and Abraham was born there and never bved there. The last vestige of ment,- ANVNfWt ga-ga- d, In this log cabin near Hodgenville, Ky., Abrabam Lincoln was born February Civil best-selle- Podn the Round Shoulders: Margie Holliday tells of the chap who took out a lovely looker, who was unbelievably dumb. When he delivered her home after an endless eveg he sighed: Youre very beautiful, but so stupid! If you think Im stupid, she you should see my mother. Shes all bent over! p. HARDIN COUNTY, KY., 1809 ... of the rum knowing the brothers in Heaven were waiting for some! BLAST Members of the diplomatic corps who have lived beside Russia and dealt with her diplomats for years point to some significant things about the Pravda report which set the world on its ear about the British negotiating a separate peace with Nazi Foreign Minister Ribben-tro- the most famous of ONE ofnewspaper cartoons, Somerset Maughams first book was Liza of Lambeth . . . Englands great book critic, Edmund Gosse, whose opinions made or broke a writer, wrote an ecstatic notice about it . . . The next day Maugham was on the road to fame . . . Once he had six plays running In London at the same time all walHe followed through loping hits with Of Human Bondage and many . . . And critic other Gosse constantly met Maugham at dinners and parties for twenty years and always said: Mr, Maugham, that wonderful book of yours. How wise you are never to write another line! A legend in Cuba (the home of the famed Bacardi rum) is this. The rum was originally owned by ten brothers. Only two survive. Every time one of the Bacardi brothers passed on he was buried with a case Washington, D. C. SIGNIFICANCE OF RUSSIAN By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. ON THE RUBBER r Tire life on rough gravel roaih 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 factorinmaintaining motor transportation. It has been estimated that 100 million pounds of soap will be required for one years production of synthetic rubber. Camelbaclc, which gets Its name because it originally had a hump in the center, is a growingly Important product of tha rubber industry. Over 20 million pounds of camelbaclc are now being made monthly to recap tires. CAPITAL CnAFF When diplomats run out of liquor, thats a story. Carlos Campbell of the Chilean embassy burst into the office of Chilean Ambassador MichDon Rodolfo, please els, saying, lend me a case of wine for tonight; Im having a party! I cant do it, C. I have replied the ambassador. no wine myself! C. In the Library of Congress, back numbers of Esquire are kept in the Delta Collection, a special collection of sex books and other erotica available to adults, not to adolescents. r;- v ttgiWthltfllnnlfiYMAiriHCiiirtilBttortlliih A' .i ' I |