Show dodele amu za V ye A 0 r colye 4 F by ELMO SCOTT WATSON UE other day two news items appeared la in dally papers all oer the united states this was one edinburgh pa sept 28 edward R n mcdon t ald 0 I 1 d sixty six who vibo dashed through the tha valley on horseback to 0 warn thousands res 0 f residents 0 of I 1 the approach of 0 the flood that thai wiped out johnstown in 1889 died today and this was the other yugoslavia yugo slavia sept 28 the death ocre nere today of milan cleano took ook away the last of 0 the con 0 pira tors involved in the assassination ot f francis ferdinand at Saraj evo in 1914 which precipitated the world wa war r Cigan held a position on the bosna frontier grentier ren tier he arranged tor for the entrance of I 1 the 1 e three assassins to Saraj evo by f forging org ing p passports ss ports and supplied them with bombs and revolvers lils his name appeared in the austrian ultimatum which precipitated the war as s one of the conspirators whom hom serb serbia was ordered to deliver to the A austrian u s t ria n i tor for execution T the h e th three r ee assassins who actually committed committe d the murder died in jail in Saraj evo during the war while a serbian colonel also involved in the plot was executed by the in 19 1917 1 7 for high treason johnstown and Saraj evo I 1 ever hear bear those names before pro probably ab cut but youve almost forgotten wh what t they stand for fop now yo you I 1 thirty eight years ago the newspapers go in for big streamer headlines a as much as aa they do today but the name mame ot of John johnstown was on every blodys lips because there occurred one ot the great disasters that have lived in american history it if before june 1914 1014 you had bad askea the average american where and what hat Saraj evo was not one in a hundred could have told you cut but a few months later he could tor for it was the assassination ot of an austrian archduke duke there which proved to ile be just tile the mec necessary essary bpark to set oft off the greatest conflagration in the history ot of the world important as were the names of johnstown and Saraj evo once they are almost forgotten now and it was a curious coincidence that the names of both should be recalled tor for an instant on the panic day recently it illustrates also the curious fact of how bow small towns may become famous overnight and almost as rapidly relapse into ob obscurity durity war and disasters seem to le be the commonest agents for bringing one cue brief moment of fame to what had bad heretofore been out of the way and obscure places As long ago as 1000 a little town on the coast of england witnessed a battle which was to be a turning point in world affairs and the name of hastings was added to the roll of 0 historic places who ever iward heard of tile hie town of waterloo lit in B belgium el before napoleons Kapo leons dream if becoming another alexander the great was shattered at the gigantic battle which took place there it la Is doubtful if the name of thermopylae would ever have meant much to anyone except the ancient greeks if it had not been for the battle which took place in tile the mountain pass of that name in a the year B C and ami ten years lai ter another great battle was raging near the ancient town of Ila marathon in greece a battle which was wag destined to give that name came immortal fame cut but when we moderns speak of a marathon notice that we dont even capitalize it were thinking of a foot race and not the name of a famous domn tow D cut but to get tile the thing nearer home before the revolution saratoga in the province nce of new york was somewhat noted as a place where there were springs which the In indian dianse told their white brothers had health giving properties then in the year 1777 general burgoyne blundering along through the wilderness on an impossible campaign suffered defeat after defeat and finally made what was destined to be his last stand at saratoga when he finally was forced to surrender to general gates cates and his bis continentals Continent als saratoga entered the select list of tile the fifteen Dec decisive isie catties of the world incidental to the burgoyne campaign might be mentioned tion fold the name of the little new york town of in new york ever hear of it probably not ever hear beat of bennington vt sure you fay eny where gen jolin john stark said to his men there sic are the red redcoats coals boys we beat them or tonight molly stark sleeps a widow As a matter of fact the battle of bennington was fought at sue sac but this particular engagement goes under tile the name of cattle battle of bennington because that vermont town was stalks headquarters when virginia was waa a colony jamestown to was much hotter better cnown than yorktown but when cornwallis wallis was up in the latter atter place by washington and lafayette and virtually ended tile revolution by surrendering there yorktown became a most important place take the sleepy little pennsylvania town of gettysburg in tile the year isal i no one livid there then would have believed that it was dertl deEll ned to fame yet when the clue blue and the gray became lockel locked in desperate combat there eaily in july gettysburg was very definitely put on the map and two years later the little town in virginia with the indian name of appomattox Appa mattox became almost as famous twenty years ago americans knew of chateau thierry only by rending reading tile the guidebooks then in 1913 1919 a bunch of hard bard fighting marines made bilat place forcer famous in american amerl history even though it Is on french sol soil up in belgium there here was a little town named ypres cypres barely known outside the borders of its wan own country cou but french who called it beep and tommy who called it wipers made it famous ove overnight biebl disaster Is a high price to pay for brief fame but such Is often the case johnstown pa can testify to that fact as can lorain L 0 rain ohio murphys 1 boro III ch chatsworth alsworth ats worth remember that old ballad with the line the bridge was burned at chatsworth one oce hundred lives live were lost and a host of towns in arkansas mississippi and louisiana where the raging mississippi put them in the headlines of the newspapers but almost wiped them oft off of the map this year jason and the original argonauts failed to make any particular town famous but the latter day argonaut argon aute have done that well enough thirty years ago nome and skagway and daw dawson dawod od away up in alaska were very much in the news then their tame fame faded until two years ago ft hen the name of nome was revived again but it another gold strike this time that did it remember gunnar cassons Kas sons dog race to nome with the antitoxin tor for the diphtheria stricken populace when the klondike excite merit ment died down some of the sour our boughs began wandering again in el dorado they found it or thought they did in nevada a few years year later and goldfields Gold fields and tono pah broke into the headlines TI then I 1 e n their fame died and nevada appear in the news dews so much until one day Wee weepah Gold goldfields fields and tonopah Tonci pah revived their languishing tame fame tor for a brief time by staging certain pugilistic enterprises and once upon a time two heavyweights heavy weights fought lo in shelby jhc aby mont ilont there are strikes sad aud strike gold strikes and labor troubles the latter made Homb homstead tead pa famous in pullman ill III well known in 1894 and in 1914 1014 ludlow colo was on newspaper front pages tor for weeks oil end do these name Q mean anything special pedal to you now cave care city ky dayton tenn and paull paul smiths N ya Y no and add let it gasn wasn t so BO long ago that you were thrilled over the attempts to rescue floyd collins from sand cave and you were reading nhat ilat urban and darrow were saying in tile the scopes trial and wondering how low ninny fish president coolidge caught yesterday ver sur mer bler la is a tiny french village kortbus Kott bus germany much larger jarger along came some Ameri american cne aviators commander byrd landed near ver vernur sur sacr and chamberlain landed near kortbus Kott bus so two mort moio ton boutis us become became famous overnight anil and their fame diet died just about as a quickly lui cUy sic transit gloria indeed 1 |