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Show 3 17, I'll"").".."". f rrr'r ,eArt "' "' ' ' "If'L' ' " jw Community Houses and Farm Problems tutlon of all the better things which pertrn to the general welfare of the community. Heretofore, the rural communities com-munities have not heen utile to afford the young folks such opportunities for entertainments, enjoyment, reereulion and development which are so essen t In 1 to human progress. "The trend of our population has therefore been toward the large city to an alarming degree. Our large titles linve grown so fust that authorities are unable to cope with law enforce-merit enforce-merit and crime suppression. "Establishment of consolidated schools atid community social centers EMDEN, ILL. Emden Is proud of Its community house. Establishment Estab-lishment of consolidated schools and community social centers, nd making the smaller towns and rural communities so attractive that the youth will prefer them to the large cities, Is one means of cutting down the "alarming Increase In the trek to the cities" and also "a solution solu-tion of our crime problem," declured A. O. Ebcrhart, former governor of Minnesota, speaking before the annual an-nual men s dinner of the Emden Community Com-munity club of Logan county. The Emden Community bouse was built at a cost of $.r)5,(M), and earn year gives a dinner attended by nearly near-ly 400 men. "The organization of a community center sucli as you have here constitutes consti-tutes practically a complete transformation transfor-mation of rural life," Mr. Eberliart aid. "Here you are affording practically all the worth-while privileges of a large city without being compelled to suffer any of the discomforts and unwholesome un-wholesome environments which every affords the only solution of our crime problem and the l.'nlverslty of Illinois Illi-nois is to be congratulated upon having hav-ing pluoed this work la charge of Mr. Hleronymus. Our universities are growing almost beyond our capacity to support and control them but If they could be Instrumental In bringing bring-ing within the reach of sll the people they serve the advantages of the better-community movement and nothing more, they would be worth all they below estimated costs. "The Illinois community movement congested center of population necessarily neces-sarily bus. "The better-cmmunlty movement concerns not only the elimination of those things which lead to poverty, disease and crime, but also the suhstl- ' is now established In 165 communities and by complying with and further developing de-veloping the plan, our rural eommunl ties can be made so attractive the youth will have no desire to leave them." War Shipbuilding Ends in Bis Suits delphla that Mr. Schwab, as director general of the Emergency Fleet corporation cor-poration from April 11 to December 12, 3018, misused his powers In favor of his own companies. The majority of the contracts la controversy art known as "fixed fee, plus percentage of savings contracts," under which the builder was to receive re-ceive the cost of the ship, plus a fixed fee, plus a percentage of any saving effected In the actual cost below the estimated cost of each ship specified In the contract. The percentage of savings item Is the principal polnf of contention. Mr. Grace's statement said that th Bethlehem company. In Its construe NEW YOUK. Figures may not lie, but they evidently disagree at times. Suit for $9,741,800.-04 $9,741,800.-04 has been filed here by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet corporation, claiming that amount as balance due on account of construction of 8(1 vessels ves-sels during and following the war. The filing of the complaint In this suit In the United States District court here was simultaneous with the government's filing of a suit for I approximately $11,000,000 against the I Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation and subsidiaries In Philadelphia, in accordance with an agreement by on- tion of 80 ships for the government effected savings of about $30,000,006 below estimated costs. The government, In Its suit against the Bethlehem steel Interests to recover re-cover "upward of $11,000,000" alleged to have been disbursed In over payments pay-ments on war contracts, averred that the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Corpor-ation, Ltd., Insisted upon contracts from which It was enabled to "derive "de-rive excessive, unreasonable and unconscionable un-conscionable profits." posing counsel. Summons In the Bethlehem company's suit had been filed In the state courts last May, but action Is now transferred to the United States court. Both Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Bethle-hem Steel corporation and the Bethlehem Bethle-hem Shipbuilding corporation, and Eugene G. Grace, president of the former concern, have Issued statements state-ments In denial of the charge made in the government's suit at I'hllu- Lake Forest Champion "Twins" City? LAKE FOKEST, ILL. Preparations Prepara-tions for a buby contest under the auspices of the infant wel-fure wel-fure department of the Y. W. C. A., In Lake Forest, reveal that it Is a city of twins 1 It has among Its citizens and babies and young men and women more twins proportionately proportion-ately than any other city, town, village, or hamlet In this or any other country. It has twenty sets of them, ranging in age from three months to forty years; ond they are drawn from all Lake Forest walks of life, from stu-deuts stu-deuts to heirs and heiresses to millions. mil-lions. So pronounced, In fact, Is the run In population In Lake Forest to twins that the women In charge of the arrangements ar-rangements for the contest of super-Infants super-Infants have specified a special prize for the most perfect set of twins in Mary Louise and Alice Claire Plerson, four-year-old daughters of 'Mr. and Mrs. Itobert Plerson; Betty Jane and Helen Louise Lnrsen, four; Margaret and William Noble, six. Mary Baldwin, only sir, has been left alone; her twin, Jane, died In Infancy. In the Olcott private school for boys are the two boys, Gordon and Donald Bell, nine years old, sons of the Instructor, Allen C. Bell. There, classmates to the Bell twins, also are the boys of Mr. and Mrs. Volney Foster, Fos-ter, Volney Jr. and Archie, also nine years old. Still others are John and Edward Dugan, eight; Helen and Lillian Schire, thirteen; Anna and George Uensel, thirteen; Jane and Elinore Vercoe, seventeen; Bay and Robert Spellman, eighteen; Albert and Arnold the suburb. Col. and Mrs. Noble Brandon Judah, not having been blessed with twins, have adopted a pair, so that they now point with pride at the charming duo known as Anna and Dorothy, eighteen months old. The youngest twins In Lake Forest are Ann and Mary Redmond, daughters daugh-ters of Mr. and Mrs. John Bedmond. Then come the Judah children; and others under the kindergarten age are fccholz, twenty; Theodore and Thad-deus Thad-deus Haviland, twenty; Earl and Harold Dunn, twenty-five ; William and Nellie Edwards, twenty-seven. Champions of this twin governed suburb are the Barney McGoverns, who hold their heads high, for two sets have been sent them by the good Lord. Bernlce McGovern, whose twin, Alice, died at six months, Is thirteen years old. Her sisters, May and Sarah, are nineteen. Valuable Ford Collection of Vehicles DETROIT. Aa the more active days of his career respond to the Inexorable toll of years, Henry Ford Is making a new claim to distinction and in a new field history. The man who has been quoted as saying "history is bunk" Is quietly gathering from all parts of America what Is regarded by historians his-torians as one of the greatest collections collec-tions of vehicles In existence. In the collection may be found a one. horse chaise "that was built in such a logical way It ran for a hundred hun-dred years nml u day." There is a line old gig of the colonial period and a calash (or culeche) which was thought very stylish by the pilgrims. Then there Is an old mall coach of the type used for passengers, baggage bag-gage and mall, There Is the Conestoga wagon, or prairie schooner, a genuine American product that followed the first mountain moun-tain roads out of the eastern states, threaded the vast plains, crossed the Rockies and brought the first settlers to Oregon and California. The Concord Con-cord coach, which was regarded as the last word In transportation and was capable of sixteen miles an Jiour, also Is represented, as also is the Pennsylvania buckboard, sometimes called the "Adam and Eve wagon," because It was built for two. Other exhibits are the common buck-board, buck-board, which was the first of the American light spring wagons; the phaeton, regarded late in the Eighteenth Eight-eenth century as the apex of style) the victoria, the rnckaway with itl small. Inclosed body; the American buggy often called the "queen" of the horse-drawn passenger vehicles, and on old coupe-sleigh of the early statehood period. A two-horse "sociable" in the collection collec-tion was considered the top of the list of modern carriages In Civil war days. There also Is an American racing rac-ing sulky and several specimens of ancient and modern fire-tlghting apparatus. ap-paratus. The collection also includes the first Ford automobile, with Its four high, solid-rubber tired, steel-spoked wheels, Its dashboard, kerosene headlight, steering rod and conspicuous flywheel of the exposed motor. This vehicle was built In 1894 |
