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" *;\ >;. r "*<- J. #••«>{ s" •• »-:r * - •**>;" i» -y^ ' %«,v *•• • ',^ft?i' : < V /• , -i \i- • yCH9P£ * * " -* * ' ~ V ";** ? ft*. "* .«<yv-«^nitM - . *• **, 1, L' *' ' " ^ "* * >0 PLAJN^EAXBR, M6HENBI, ILL f " 'FK*?-rir. -,•*%*>•«, .'t V -<*• v| n. aiMte $iv- * A^':* :J3fc&r._ _• wmm (£) l/ncfcrwooct <V- Z/ncL i nxntts HOUSE IS ORGANIZED Speaker Shanahan Appoints Committees; Body Now Read> Businew, ~~ .}*J CHAMPAIGN MAN IS LEADER V By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN iINCOLN'S memorial In Washington I* the center where will focus the American people's annual tribute on February 12 to Abraham Lincoln. This memorial is worthy the man and the day, so far as human hands can express the thoughts of human minds and hearts. In a few generations it will doutbless have a worthy rival, which in tlmte may surpass It--the I^incoln highway, I a national road across the continent ^ [ lined with memorial trees, beautiful with roadside planting, busy "with the fer&ffic nnd travel of the nation which he saved. . Today the Lincoln memorial In Washington jiMtands supreme among memorials to Abraham <jytncoln--perhaps among mefnorials to any man or woman in all the world. "A thing of beauty is a Ijey forever," and this fs a thing of beauty. To look (from the Washington monument down the long ilkfall and see the simple, massive white marble <lreek temple. Its stately Doric columns reflected >tn the waters of the quiet lagoon, la a sight to stir ithe appreciative to ecstasy. What a trinity--the iQapito), Washington's monument, the Lincoln moa- * Mfnent--with Arlington near by! V! Lincoln's memorial in Washington stands today i|l] completed and perfected national shrine for a people's homage on February 12. It was officially dedicated last year--on Memorial day. This year It will be rededlcated on Lincoln's birthday in the r liierts of the American people. ' > " * ' ; In briefest words, here Is how the Lincoln*!#? «||orinl was created and what it is: • ' " ^ V;" February 1, 1911, congress authorized the expenf ture of *2,000,000 for a national memorial to mgpemorate the life and character of Abraham Mnjoln. In 1913 plans were approved. Work was tH'tfun February 12, 1914. The cornerstone was laid February 12, 1915. Henry Bacon of New York designed a simple and massive Greek temple of •white Colorado marble, erected on a granite rectangular base. The memorial consists of a central memorial hall, containing a colossal seated statue Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, and two •mailer rooms containing memorials of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and his Gettysburg Ad- '<dress. There Is a colonnade of thirty-six Doric «H>lumns, symbolic of the Cnited States In 1865. . Jkbove these are forty-eight festoons In high relief representing the forty-eight states. The memorial has cost almost exactly $3,000,000 C date. The total height of the structure above ip-ade is 122 feet. Each column Is 44 feet high and 7 feet 5 inches In diameter at the base. The ^colonnade Is 188 feet long. The statue of Lincoln la 21 feet high and .weighs 21 tons; its height, with - - pedestal and base, is 30 feet. The visitor enters t|ie memorial to gaze from a distance of seventy #i>et at this gienntic T.'ncoln, represented as the ' great war President. ' Over his head Is Inscribed: In This Temple, v As in the Hearts of the People For Whom He Saved the Union, The Memory of Abraham Lincoln t >. Is Enshrined Forever. ^ > As to the spirit of Lincoln's Birthday In Amerl- .4M in 1923, no truer words can be said than were He ,: l5»oken by President Harding when he. received, In fehalf of the American people, the Lincoln memortal from the Llneoln memorial commission apt pointed by congress In J911, with William Howard I' f aft for chairman, -president Harding said, among ; \ ether things: < A, "It Is a supreme satisfaction officially to accept behalf of the government this superb monuenk to the savior of the republic. No official ty coijjd be more welcome, no official function •pore pleasing. This memorial edifice Is a noble tribute, gratefully bestowed, and In its offering Is the reverent heart of America ; In Its dedication Is the consciousness of reverence and gratitude beautifully expressed. i "Somehow my emotions incline me to speak 4|mply as a reverent and grateful American, 'Wither than one In official responsibility. I am thus Inclined because the true measure of Lln- "^Wln is in his place today In the heart of American ' Citizenship, though half a century has passed since ttfs colossal service and his martyrdom. In e^ery •foment of peril, In every hour of discouragement, Whenever the clouds gather, there Is the image of Lincoln to rivet our hopes and to renew our faith. Whenever there is a glow of triumph over national achievement, there comes the reminder that iMit for Lincoln's heroic and unalterable faith in tlie Union, these triumphs could not have been. • • -- • • • • • • • ; ("Here was the great purpose, here the towering j^ope. here the supreme faith. He treasured the Inheritance handed down by the founding tethers. jt&tzl&jy' OiZftZZRAZs, J$rGZA7V> -V. . . . . . . . . . the ark of the covenant wrought through their heroic sacrifices and builded through their inspired genius. The Union must be preserved. It was the central thought, the unalterable purpose, the unyielding intent, the foundation of faith. It was worth every sacrifice, justified every cost, steeled., the heart to sanction every crimsoned tide 0$. Wood. •: * • • * '*• * * "He knew, of course, before the assassin robbed him of fuller realization, that the end was bringing him out all right. He knew when swords were sheathed and guns laid down, that the Union he! saved was riveted anew and made forever indissoluble. He knew that iijf the great crucible of fire and blood the dross had been burned from the misdirected patriotism of seceding states and ttee pure gold restored to shining stars In dear Old ' Glory again. He knew he had freed a race t>f bondmen and had given to the world the costljr proof of the perpetuity of the American UnlOQ. But I cannot restrain the wish that he might soioehow know of the monuments to his memory throughout the world, and that we are dedicating today, on behalf of a grateful nation, this matchless memorial, • whose fort.v-elght columns, representing forty-eight states in the concord of unieifc testify that the 'end brought him out all right." • * • • • • • • Washington inspired belief In the republic In Iti heroic beginning. Lincoln proved Its quality In tiie heroic preservation. The old world had wondered abont the new-world experiment, and was quite ready to proclaim Its futility when the Civil war was threatening, biit Lincoln left the Union unchallenged for all succeeding time. Not only was our nation given a new birth of freedom, but democracy was given a new sanction by that hand of divinity Itself which has written the rights of homankind and pointed the way to their enjoymett.- "Fifty-seven years ago the- people gave frop their ranks, sprung from their own fiber, this plain man, holding tltelr common Ideals. They gave him first to service of ttye nation fn the hour of peri)% then to their Pantheon of fame. With them and by them he Is enshrined and exalted forever. "Today American gratitude, love and appreciation give to Abraham Lincoln this lone white teal* pie, a Pantheon for him alone." Herewith is reproduced a new photograph of Lincoln cathedral in faraway England. Why-- what is the connection between Abraham,Lincoln and a cathedral across seas that was built Ion# before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock? For one thing, this "blood is thicker than xm» tgr" and "hands across the sea" business Is not all buncombe. There's considerable in It, after all. England gave us the Llncolns, when all Is said and - done. England gave us the Lincoln blood. America made it run richer. Doubtless it was Providence, rather than England or America, that raised* up Abraham Lincoln. For another thing. It Is a safe guess that Abi!)^ ' ham Lincoln had his beginnings beneath the shadow of Lincoln cathedral. "Lincoln" is a place name. The Lincolns of England and America took their name from Lincoln, the capital of Lincolnshire, which is an old, old city--LIndum Colonla of Roman times. And the name Is old, too. Why, „ Hugh Lincoln Is the subject of ttfe "Prloreif Tale" in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." There were Llncolns early in our American history. Abraham Lincoln is descended from Samuel Lincoln, who came to Massachusetts from Eng' land In 1637. And the Llncolns were a sturdy family. There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733- 1810), who received Lord Cornwallis' sword In surrender at Yorktown. Enoch Lincoln (1788- 1829) was governor of Maine, 1827-9. Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) was'United States attorney general 1801-5. Another Levi Lincoln (1782-1868) was governor of Massachusetts 1825-34 and member of coifferess 1835-41. Abraham Lincoln's immediate ancestors chose to go pioneering. New England was too settled for them. They were of tl»e type of American pioneer who moved on as soon as he saw a neighbor's smoke or heard his dog bark. In the depths of the wilderness, ever working westward, they became what the world calls poor and obscure. It should be remembered, however, that poverty and obscurity are one thing in the city and entirely a different thing in the wilderness. A pioneer with a rifle and ax, a roof over l^is head and a crop In the ground is neither poor nor obscure. Lincoln cathedral Is one of the finest In England. It was In process of erection from 1075 to 1501. It Is of early English architecture and Is ' 524 by 82 feet, with a matchless central tower 271 feet high. The cathedral's famous bell, "Great >'"Tom of Lincoln," weighs about 5^ tons. The north "gate of LIndum Colonla still stands and Is the only Roman gate In Britain still in use. Not far away Is Boston, the mother of our Boston. < What Lincoln and- Lincoln's birthday mean to the English-speaking nations of earth cannot be .better said than was said by Elihu Root at the presentation of the Salnt-Gaudens statue of Lincoln, the gift of America to the British people. He said, among other things: "Put aside superficial difference, accidental and 'unimportant, and Abraham Lincoln appears, in the simple greatness of his life, his character, and his service to mankind, a representative of the deep and underlying qualities of his race--the qualities that great emergencies reveal, unchangingly the • same In every continent; the qualities to which . Britain owed her life in the terrible years of the last decade; the qualities that have made both Britain and America great. He was of English jblood, and he has brought enduring honor to the , iname. Every child of English sires should learn *h%he story and think with pride, 'Of such stuff as ' this are we English made.' "He was Imbued with the conceptions of Justice nnd liberty ttint 'he people of Britain had been Working out In struggle and sacrifice since before Magna Charta--the conceptions for which Chatham land Burke and Franklin and Washington stoo^! together, a century and a half ago, when the battle for British liberty was fought and won for Britain as well as for America on the other side of the Atlantic. These conceptions of justice and liberty have been the formative power that has brought all America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to order Its life according to the course of the common Saw, to assert Its popular sovereignty through representative government--Britain's great gift to the political science of the world--and to establish the relation of individual citizenship to the state, on the basis of inalienable rights ^hich governments are established to secure. It is the Identity of these fundamental conceptions in both countries which makes it Impossible that In any great world emergency Britain and America can be on opposing sides. These conceptions of justice and liberty are the breath of life for both." APPEALS TO OUR LUST FOR GOLD - "El Dorado" Lur«f Today as It Did When Spaniards Sought Fabulous Wealth. . I'% The same El Dorado is Spanish for ijlthe glided." The term applied first |jjn a South American king said to over his body Annually with gold fiust and bathe in a sacred lake, then 4b a fabled golden city, and finally 4d a fabled counttrryy aabboouunnddiinngg to an ^ >1\% almost Inconceivable degre$ to gold and precious stones. The legend, the origin of which has never been satisfactorily ex plained, took many variant forms, while the fHythical king and hlit equally mythical dominions were,, shifted with the utmost facility from one part of the Continent to another! The story fired the Imagination <»f the gold-hunting Spaniards, who ex^nd- *J > , "5 ' '• ^ ' T ed vast sums in sending out exploring parties, most of which returned Tlechnated by privations, fatigue and disease. The name has since been applied to any place abounding in gold or in opportunities for acquiring sudden wealth, and more to a county in California and a city In Colorado. Queer African Idol* Vofy odd ir appearance la. a'jrvotfp of African idols recently brought to the United States. by a missionary, wer* c&rved by «fttivea of, jji. gerla. One of the group, "Ifa," a qheer-looking Image with a highcrowned hat, was the principal deity of Nigeria when the missionaries began their work there. Bes'des "Ifa." the collection Includes an odd-shaped club, feared by the"natives as the god of thunder and lightning. Another Is a brass Image. "Oshubgo," a mystical fpnilninp deity wl»o rules rfver a society of fanatics. In contrast to these, the missionary, secured several crucifixes carved from ivory by ChristianiM0 - ' ,> • . --wrf" Rofler kittle is Made Head etf the Steering Committee--Chicago Man Heads Appropriations body--- Brundage Wina in Senate. 8pringfteld.--Organization if . the house of representatives was completed by Speaker David E. Shanahan with the election of Representative Roger F. Little of .Champaign county as Republican floor leader. Frank W. McCarthy of Kane county was given the chairmanship of the committee on roads. The chairmanship of the committee on judiciary was given to Representative Castle of Cook county. Representative William L. Pierce of Boone country received the chairmanship of the committee on uniform laws. Representative Charles McMwckin in Marlon county was named as chairman of the insurance committee. Other Committee Chiefs. Other chairmanships 9 as announced by Speaker Shanahan follow: Agriculture^ Tice; appropriations, Sntejkal; banks, banking, etc, Phillips; charities and corrections, Arnold; civil service, Schnackenberg; congresgressional apportionment. West; contingent expenses, Mueller; education, Weiss; efficiency and economy, Byers; elections, Church; enrolling and engrossing, Rentschler; farm drainage Rethmeier; fish and game. Abbey'."industrial affairs, McCabe; judicial apportionment, Baker; judiciary and practice, Tlion ; license and miscellany, Lyon; military affairs. Hart; municipalities, Wllliston; public utilities and transportation, Brinkman; revenue^ Flagg; rules. Speaker; senatorial apportionment, Bancroft; to visit charitable Institutions. C. M. Turner; to visit penal and educational Institutions, Wilson ; unil'orm laws and waterways Sonneman. Woman Is Honored. Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill (Rep., Du Page), the only woman member of the house, was placed.on six committees-- charities and corrections, civil service, education, efficiency and economy. industrial affairs, and visitation of charitable institutions. Brundage Wins Out. Attorney (Jeneral Brundage won a signal victory In the senate when that body voted down three antagonistic amendments to the bill allowing him a $75,000 fund for the prosecutions arising from the Herrln mine massacre. Foreign Insurance Companies Hit. Charging that foreign insurance companies have defrauded the state of Illinois out of *30,000,000 in taxes since 1870, that foreign countries n* clamoring of inability to pay their war debts owing to the United States while their nationals ai^ buying^ up Insurance companies here--business that requires almost as much money as banking--Senator John Dailey, Peoria, Introduced a joint resolution in the senate providing for the naming of a joint committee of five senators and five representatives to make a complete probe of the insurance situation in this state and recommend legislation considered necessary. As the general assembly convened for Its fourth week, persistent rumors continued of the existence of n "farm bloc" formed for the purpose of giving the rural sections a more dominant voice ID legislation. With each legislative week stories grow stronger that it is a fact. Announcement of Senator Henry L Dunlap, Savoy, that he Is going to Introduce a bill giving farm sections a right to vote themselves In or out of community high schools Is in dlruct line with the growing rural sentiment, and so is the bill of Representative Homer J. Tice, Green view, giving onehalf the automobile fees for the lm-* provement of dirt roads other than federal and state aid roads. Tlie farmer pendulum is swinging toward a state police bill. The fanners are not in favor of another bond issue for good roads. This same sentiment is increasing for a law to reduce the weight of loads over hard roads, and another permitting all kinds of farm machinery to travel over them. Senator Ilenry M. Dunlap of Savoy and Representative R. B. Castle of Barrington are carrying state police bills about in their Inside pockets ready for introduction In fhe respective houses of the • fifty-third general assembly whenever what they consider the psychological moment arrives. Introduction of the Shephcrd-Towner act. will again bring to the fore the question of how far the state should go in maternity hygiene education. All Around the State. Kefranee.--S. F. Francis claims ownership of the largest horse in the United States, the weight being 2,640 pounds. This Is 190 pounds greater than the Geneva (N. Y.) equine which has been touted to be the largest. •& Macomb.--Citisena of Macomb, through various civic organizations, are planning to improve what Is known as Waterworks park, as a community and tourist playground. Construclion of a swimming pool i£ included in the plans, Springfield.--In tbe l&st of the millions of dollars coming Into the state treasury from many sources Is one very humble notation. It is for the le of waste paper. In the last two years the income from that source wa* $3,02i>.74. Great quantities of waste paper are carted away from the statehouse every day. Springfield.--There are 20,000,000 hens in Illinois cities and on the stale's farms, and the value of the poultry and eggs prodseed yearly ie the state is estimated at $75,000,OUf by an expert. TEACHER PAYS IT GLOWING TRIBUTE Declares Tanlac Ended Indigestion, Chest Pains and Palpitflfflon-- Lost Strength f Restored. "Tanlac has Improved my general condition ten times more than I anticipated," recently stated Herbert A. Guptlil, a well-known school teacher of Kezar Falls, Maine. "My trouble began with a sudden loss of strength. Almost everything I ate disagreed with me and caused a sickening sensation that remained with me for hours. For months I found breathing difficult on account of Indigestion, and had such chest pains and palpitation I thought my heart was afTected. I also suffered greatly from headaches and nervousness, seldom 6lept well, and felt tired and wornout all the time. "Since taking Tanlac no kind of food hurts me and I have a wonderful appetite. I have gained ten pounds, breathe freely, sleep perfectly, and feel as strong and well as ever In, my lffe. Tanlac is certainly a superior medicine." Tanlac ts for sale by fill good druggists. Over 35 million bottles sold.-- Advertisement. fir*. EU*a Temimr .r •f &M1 yVorking in Reverse. "Gpsh, old man, you actually are getting fat! What have you been doing to get all that flesh on your bones?" exclaimed the friend. "Oh," said the former thin man, "I began taking the reduction dope, diet and exercises they prescribed for my wife and I began to pick up right away. And she started In on the tonics and diets I had been falling for to make me fat and she has already lost 20 pound 8."--Cincinnati Enquirer. WHY DRU86ISTS RECOMMEND I SWAMP-ROOT For many years druggists have watched with igiuch interest the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer'* Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine. It is a physician's prescrlptiou. Swamp-Root is a strengthening medicine. 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Llpplncott, American writer and journalist who became well known under the pen-name of "Grace Greenwood." and Marlette Albonl, a famous representative of the old Italian school of singing. HAVE YOU A COUGH? What Tin Woman Sap it «f W > • >M Interest to Ton Goshen, Ind --"I had coughed night indnadi alinns ekeleton. Two of mv sisters had diea and dav for a whole year and liad lost so much flesh I began to look like a walkini from tuberculosis and I felt certain that my time had come. Finally, a friend recommended Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to my husband, and it made me feel new strength and vitality right from the start and in a year's time I was J'ust as strong and hardy aa ever. I tave never suffered with a deep, hacking cough since (that was about 20 years ago) and have always felt very grateful to Dr. Pierce."--Mrs. Eliza Teeter, 413 Middlebury St. Whenever you feel the need of good confidential medical advice, address Dr. Pierce, president Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo N. 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There music la looked on as immoral. Half an hour la too short for a sermon that has won the interest of Its hearers. Funny if He Couldnt. A band that had attained some repu- 't tation In Its locality accepted an en- ' gagement that involved a train trip. Following the concert certain meme- V? bers of the organization gained afrs. cess to a jug that had a kick in its ^ contents. The drummer was one of 't % the members. ' When, on the return by train, the ^conductor was collecting tickets, the; jdrummer could not find his ticket. He ransacked every part of his uniform. ' v' without results. Wishing to be sympathetic, the . ductor said: "But. my friend, surely yen eo«td not have lost your ti<Jtet." "Huh," came the reply, "funny If r couldn't. I lost my big bass drum."-- Cxchange. * Playing Safe. "Ala yon going to have • praaMa ttal boom next year?** # "Not if I can avoid It," repelled Sena t o r S o r g h u m . 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