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The world <ifsaid to be overâ€" crowded, but when four or five young + people crowd into a single seater _.~___~ mutomobile, they don‘t seem to mind Searched For Facts | roads will begir " ‘Lossing | was â€" the â€" man â€" who | OTi) association searched for his facts where things | _ According to actually happened. _ Take for inâ€" | Elizabeth City, stance, his "Pictorial Fieldâ€"Book of | ganization, it i the Revolution." When he decided | memorial assoc to prepare that famous work be}"'l’o!" from a bought himself a horse and buggy| 2 mile long. and drove to every spot in the thir.) donated by Alle teen original states and Canada !«% M. B‘“'f,_m where anything had happened in the A"d F Tank Sticl War for Independence. Before comâ€" |_ It is proposed pleting his travels he covered more|(*" *dvanced } than nine thousand miles and wore {Wentyâ€"fifth a r out several horses and buggies. He | Wrights‘ fight. talked to the survivors of that great| . s struggle and got firstâ€"hand facts. He: CONGRESS 1 was an artist as well as a writer,) _ FEDERA! and drew thousands of pictures of | 4 people and scenes as they actually | june* existed. When he interviewed an| TP' n;;:p;oo] oldâ€"time he drew a picture of him at| °*‘"R $!5 the same time: He also drew pictures !" T0@d constru of battlefields as they looked at the| years of 1930 . time of his visit. He made a wholeâ€"| ably reported th some contribution to American hisâ€" | post office com: torical literature. His histories oug'htl__‘“_h) es to be in every public school, every gollg(_o_ and every library in the The farmers complain of bad roads, but if so the canvassers and agents won‘t probably get around to take up so much of their time. "A veteran official of the Library of Congress, who knows more about books and things in general than any ran I have ever known, said that in his opinion, the best and most interâ€" esting stories of the Revolutionary War hbad been written by a man named Benson J. Lossing. " ‘You will find, however,‘ he added, ‘that Lossing‘s books are now out of | print. You will also discover that his way of getting facts and writing them is ridiculed by some of our presentâ€"day historians who get their | data out of their heads and write: history to please the soâ€"called intelâ€"| ligentsia who think our national capâ€"| ital ought to be in Europe instead of | Washington. These modern fellows | call themselves ‘interpreters‘ of hisâ€"| tory._ In their attitude of superiority ‘ they take the position that the bulk of American men and women are inâ€"| capable of digesting facts for themâ€"| selves. Some of their histories have | been adopted by public schools and, as m result, children in these schools ; may get the idea that patriotism is out of date, a situation bound to reâ€" sult in great harm for our republic in years to come. necessary by the new school of hisâ€" torians. What is required is a good nose for seandal and a fiippant way of saying things. It is of special interest to note, therefore; that Mr. Quaker O‘Taylor has written in the current issue of the National Republic an interesting account of theâ€"tifeâ€"and work of Ben Lossing, whiin he regards as a real of sneering at the past and the tradiâ€" tions of byâ€"gone days. To do this is regarded as uitraâ€"smart by the modâ€" efn cymies who are too busy or too lazy to reason and whose sensibilities seldom go deeper than any odor of scandal which they can detect near the surface. Research for the writâ€" Says Stories of Revolutionary War Contained> In School Books by This Author; ALBERT LARSON Mother‘s Day _ is on May Thirteenth RSDAY, MAY 3, 1988 Praise by Official and one who went ‘after onkge 80 0o 000|( sls ts _ ~AIntemior Decorations | _ The Phipps‘ Federalâ€"aid bill, authâ€" | orizing $75,000,000 for Federalâ€"aid ‘ in read construction in each of the | years of 1930 and 1931, was favorâ€" 1i ably reported this week by the Senate post office committee. The measure, 1mppofled by the American Motorâ€" |ists association and other national | organizations, is a companion measâ€" 1nre of the Dowell bill in the House, which provided for an annual apâ€" | propriation of $75,000,000 for Fedâ€" |eralâ€"aid. Passage of the Federalâ€"aid l measure is regarded as certain. "% ns back agnir According to W. O. Saunders of Elizabeth City, who heads the orâ€" ganization, it is the purpose of the memorial association to construct an airport from a landing field more than a mile long. The land has been donated by Allen R. §neth andâ€"Charâ€" les M. Bakér_of Asbury Park, N. J., and Frank Stick, of Interlaken, N. J. ~\It is proposed to have Vtrl;:;â€"memori-l far advanced hy Nee 17/ 1992, the twentyâ€"fifth anniversary of the CONGRESS FAVORS BIG FEDERAL AID PROGRAM The association has obtained the support of a number of national figâ€" ures to act as an advisory counsel for the organization, who have given assurance of doing their share in making Kill Devil Hill everything that is proposed. To Build Road North Carolina has agreed to conâ€" struct as many miles of hardâ€"surâ€" faced road as may be necessary to make the spot accessible from all directions to accommodate automoâ€" biles from all sections of the counâ€" try. The actual construction af these roads will begin as soon as the memâ€" orial association decides. It is hoped also to provide an airâ€" port and suitable accommodations at Kill Devil Hill for aviators and aerial tourists, and to hold annually, and cecasionally, as desirable, appropriate exercises commemorating the feat of the Wrights and keeping forever alive the fact of America‘s place in acronautical history. Whey peresAppointed Ansemmission | _ . The association‘s program includes the building of a bridge across Curriâ€" tuck Sound between the mainland and Kitty Hawk to Kill Devil Hillâ€"to make the monument and airport at the later place accessible to all Amerâ€" ica by motor, says the Christian Science Monitor. be converted into a nutional area comâ€" memorative of that achievement. A recent donation of 275 acres of land and the promise of the coâ€"operaâ€" tion of the United States Government und the State of North Carolina inâ€" dicate that work will begin soon. Development of the area is in the hands of the Kill Devil Hill Memoria) Association which was formed folâ€" lowing the visit of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, to report on the action of Congress, which had passed a bill authorizing the erection there of a monument in commemoraâ€" scene on Dec. 17, 1903, of Orville Wright‘s pioneer flight in a motorâ€" TO WRIGHT BROS. SUCCESS Desolate Spot in Carolina Where Man First Learned to Fly To Become Shrine; May M eletpn@ietice~~ + o0 Aivprcages The young man‘s heart is supposed turn to thoughts of love at this Kitty Hawk, the desalate spot on ir machine, is to it are not fertile, to say the least. Yet this is the composition of much of the soil in city and suburbs. For this condition professional gardeners and nurserymen recommend specially prepared commercial plant foods. the neighborhood birds. And in disâ€" gust, the novice gardener swears off gardening for life, above all, they must be supplied with nourishing foods. For like human beings, they must eat to live and thrive. He had forgotten that flowers, vegetables and shrubs, require careâ€" ful c_u!tivution. They must be given their heads. Like as not these turn REQUIRE NOURISHMENT Careful Cultivation and Proper Agents Needed The joyful suburbanite corhés fomle as confident as Jack of the Beanstalk fame, his pockets bulging with beauâ€" tifully lithographed seed packages. But what is the fruit of his labor? Maybe a few furtive shoots raise Longâ€"distance flights of birds are common. Many species that spend their summers in the United States and Canada fly almost the length of the Western Hemisphere and spend the northern winter in the summer of Argentina and Chile. Longâ€"distance fights over water may be less comâ€" mon, but the Biological Survey of the United State Department of Agriâ€" culture has conclusive evidence that TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT y kara i O en on e ts Wihiiit," Viso,....., ~,tathes snc other substances that all growing things must have. By selecting a brand of plant food put out by a repâ€" utable concern, one can go abead with any gardening plans and be reasonably sure of success. MADE BY SOME BIRDS Biological Survey Has Evidence That They Have Done Trick These are concentrated mixtures that give plants properly blanced rations and nourish them through quick, vigâ€" orous growth to full maturity. Garden sthorities agree that here is the easiest, most pleasant and ecoâ€" nomical way of supplying the amâ€" _ _â€"QOMAlden Beautiful interior decoraâ€" tionsâ€"fine china and cryâ€" stal-antiquqs with the roâ€" mance of the old world â€"â€" furniture that speaks of the newer modes â€"â€" all these will be shown at the openâ€" ing of our new shop on Saturday, May 5th, at Sheridan Road & Central Avenue, Highland Park. erorig o o0 C 0An Invitation Ralph Barton, fashion artist in Paris, whose duty it is to draw the latest creations that appear in the aâ€"ssetaBiva‘y~renm, Barkedoes, in the British West Indies, and the other on the mainland of Mexico, near Vera Cruz. Two kittiwakes, banded at the Farne Islands, Northumberland, Engâ€" land, were recovered almost directly across the Atlantic at points on the costs of Labrador and Newfoundland. A common term, banded at Eastern Egg Rock, Me., crossed both the Atâ€" lantic Ocean and the Equator and was recovered from the delta of the Niget River, British West Africa. A young Arctic tern, banded in Labrador, was recently found dead near La Rochelle, on the coast of France. PARIS STYLE DRAWINGS Fashion Artist Protests Use of Foreign Backgrounds For His Pictures AMERICAN SCENES IN some birds do fly across the Atlantic. This wimn is the result of birdâ€" banding vities that have proved so useful in the study of the fiight and habits of birds. Two blackâ€"headed gulls banded at Rossiten, Germany, were recaptured, While pouring out the words at such a superb rate of speed, it would be well for many of the politicians to inix a few ideas in with them. Accompanying _ his _ declaration, Barton reproduced a wide variety of the most elaborate growns on view at the spring openings but in the background behind the figures there were no familiar Paris scense. Inâ€" stead there appeared, in unusual conâ€" trast backgrounds showing the Kanâ€" sas City Union Station, the Oakland City Hall, the Bunker Hill Monuâ€" ment, the Denver State Capitol, the Milwaukee City Hall, the Indianapâ€" olis Soldiers‘ Monument, the White House Blue Room, the White House Red Room, the White House entrance and the Akron, Ohio, public library. In the corner of his latest series of ten drawings of Paris gowns for the Woman‘s Home Companion be wrote: "This is a solemn protest against the monopoly of . Parisian monuments, the Eiffel tower, the Are de Triomp‘:e, the Champs Elysees, ect., of fashion backgrounds." & seasonable showings of the great fushion salons, has issued a declaraâ€" tion of independence. PAGE THRRE