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THE McHENRY PLAINDEAU5R, THURSDAY, my. 24,1927 HOME OF AMU8BMBNT "WE CANT PLAT THEM ALL SO WE PLAY THE BEST" SHOWS 7:30-9:00 THVBSDAT - TODAY Not. U-U Thankspving Day " "THE GAY RETREAT" Ted McManara and Sammy Cohen TIm Comedy Team of 'What Price Glory?" ^ One of the Cleverest and Funniest War Comedies of the Year Anil the Fox Comedy "RUSHING BUSINESS" SATURDAY Nov. 26 Art Acord with "Raven" the. Wonder Hone in '•1ULRD FISTS" with VAUDEVILLE Pa the News And the Next Chapter of the Great Adventure Play "BLAKE OF SCOTLAND YARD" SUNDAY Nov. 27 Matinee 2:30 Harry L&ngdon "THREE'S A CROWD" with VAUDEVILLE And the Pathe Comedy "WHISPERING WHISKERS" TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY Nov. 29-30 "SLIGHTLY USED" with May McAvoy Conrad Nagel It's a Real Farce Comedy TUESDAY SILK PILLOW NIGHT Elegant presents for the lucky ones and a real show for alL THURSDAY Dec. FRIDAY 1-2 4 A HIGH SCHOOL HERO" THE WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNB ' 'flftVjDodd! KMdVo>m»iA)' *v Tmmerlane A LAME man, sinister and swarthy ** of face, and magnificent of attire, stood In a chariot, drawn by live other men. Behind the chariot, trandllng along In an iron cage, was a gorgeously attired prisoner. The sinister charioteer had a strong, ugly Mongolian face. He lashed the ILLINOIS PAYS UP ^ ; VETERAN'S BONUS Total of $55,073,438.50 Is Allowed By Service Recognition Board Springfield, 111., Nov. 22.--Illinois has disbursed a total of $55,073,438.50 lo the veterans of the World War in service from this state between April 1917, and November 11, 1918. A total of 286,643 claims were acted upon by the Service' Recognition Board, and of this number 267,537 were allowed as coming under the provisions of the Illinois Bonus Act. Final report of the Service Recognition Board is made public today by Ave luckless men who drew his char- I Governor Len Small, chairman; Gar- [THE LINKS REFEREE J j -- 5 * Interpretations of the Rule*' 0 * 0 0 | (Managing of Golf INN1S BROWN Kiitor, The American t Oclferj J In a four-bail match a dispute came up over whether a player Jiaii the right to replace his ball on the putting green after it had been struck by another ball. In trying to locate the rule on the question it uas found that Rule 82 says the flayer can replace it if he wants to, and that Rule 2, special rules for three-ball and four ball matches, says the ball has to be replaced. Is this a contradiction or notf Also if it is, which one is to apply f The two rules are contradictory so Car as four-ball play Is concerned. In other words, the special rule supersedes Rule 32. The ball must be replaced In three-ball and four-ball matches. It may be explained that the base of golf rules Is the regulatteos governing play In single matches. These are called the Rules of Golf. *et owing to the varying conditions In three-ball and four-ball matches in certain details, and also In medal or •troke play, It has been found neces- Mry to frame certain special rules for these types of play. Naturally these 4PeelfJ rules are at variance with the single matches, and also de the regular rules for the conditions to which they apas a local rule made by a meet peculiar conditions on course prevails over the regular Plainlot, and at every lash his watching army applauded. For he was TImour the Lame, commonly known as Tamerlane, conqueror of the East. And the five men who drew his chariot were kings whom he had captured nnd whose countries he had subdued, the man In the cage was Bajazet, the once mighty sultan of Turkey. Tamerlane was In the full glory of his career. He chose the foregoing way to celebrate his achievements. In 1336 this unprepossessing, ugly son had been born to the petty chief of a Mongol tribe near Samerkand. The lad was brought up more as a student than as a warrior, but before tie was twenty his wild fighting blood, | Inherited from his great ancestor, Genghis Khan, broke out and he threw aside his scrolls and inkhorn for sword and helmet Handicapped by lameness, In a country and age when physical perfection counted for far more than now, he nevertheless, by sheer force of character, won early laurels as general and tribal chief. On his father's death Tamerlane and his brother- in-law, Hussein, were chosen as Joint rulers. Tamerlane, without hesitancy, murdered Hussein and made himself sole chieftain. But this by no means satisfied his boundless ambition. He had laid out a plan of action worthy of Charlemagne or Caesar, and with his scimitar proceeded to carve his name upon the map of the world. He began at home, by changing the semi-savage lawlessness of his own people Into an established, Arm government, worthy of a much later day; then started on his carefully prepared campaign of world conquest. Persia was the first object of his attack. It Is an odd fact that nearly every great conqueror of early times, from Alexander to the Tartar, chose that powerful but 111-dlsclpllned land as a primary goal of his achievements. Tamerlane swept Persia, his fiery tribesmen carrying all before them. He captured the Persian king and laid the country waste. Cheered by his easy victory over a country so much stirbnger than his own, the Mongolian Invader next subdued all of Central Asia and carried his conquests from the Great Wall of China to Moscow. Had he been a European his first Idea would doubtless have been to conquer Europe, and he would have left the East for I a later expedition. But, to his Oriental mind, Asia seemed the most lmi portant part of the earth. It was, j perhaps, due to this notion of Tamer- ! lane's that Europe was not overrun j by the Eastern hordes and Western | civilization and character tinged for- ! ever with Orientalism. Europe was probably reserved for subsequent Invasion -- an Invasion which fate averted. Rumors of the wealth of India reached Tamerlane. In 1898 he marched his vast armies thither, plowing a bloody furrow to the Ganges, overcoming all opposition, and looting millions of dollars' worth of native treasure. Here his native barbarity cropped out more strongly j than ever before, and he left behind ! him a name for merdlessness that lives to this day. In one Hindoo district alone he massacred 100,000 prisoners. The Turks, under Sultan Bajaset, were menacing the Eastern empire. Learnln ; of this and Jealous that any other man should emulate himself as an Invader, Tamerlane hurried back from India and marched against the Turkish dominions. Like on army of ants his countless hordes overran Turkey, seizing Syria from the brave Mamelukes, and, on June 30, 140£, meeting Bajaxet's army on the plain of Angorla. After a fiercely contested battle Tamerlane routed the Turks and took Bajazet prisoner. Not content with subduing Turkey, he vented his hate against Bajazet In a unique fashion. He caused a great Iron cage to be built Into this he thrust the beaten sultan and carried him about as a sort of human menagerie exhibit until the broken-hearted prisoner died of shame. The conqueror next planned a mammoth expedition against China. When he should thus have subdued the last Asian power he would be free to turn his attention to Europe. But, In 1406, on the eve of the Chinese campaign, he died, and the "yellow peril" was checked. Had Tamerlane been wholly a barbarian his feats would have been less far-reaching In their, effect on the history of the world. But he was also a patron of science and the arts, a promoter of culture at home and abroad, an author and a man who built up civilisation even while he destroyed nations. By forwarding the cause of learning, as much as by wholesale slaughter, he left an Indelible mark on all the Orient ett De Kinney, treasurer, and Adjutant General Carlos E. Black, secretary of the board. The report is most exhaustive, giving a complete history of the bonus payments in Illinois. Four Years of Laborious Work The Service Recognition Board of Illinois was given the duty of distributing to the Illinois soldiers of the World War compensation totalling $55,000,000, which was apportioned to service at the rate of 50 cents a day for each day's service, with a minimum of sixty days, and the maximum payment of $300. The report is a compilation of four years of laborious work on the part of the members of the Service Recognition Board and office personnel, in a conscientious effort to place in the hands of every Illinois soldier of the World War, or his legal heir, the j amount apportioned from the $55,000,- 000 bond issue as his monetary recogtion of service. The propsition to compensate the World War veterans of Illinois came before the general assembly in 1921. The measure passed both senate and house without a dissenting vote, receiving the signature "Of Governor Len Small on the day the measured was received by him. Referendum is Carried Under the law a referendum of the voters of the state was necessary, and it was submitted to the general election of 1922, receiving a total of 1,- 220.815 affirmative votes, with but 502,372 cast in opposition, or a majority of 718,443, indicating the people of the state were deeply interested and Overwhelmingly favorable to the recognition. To insure effectiveness of the law a test was carried to the / supreme court by the American Legion through proceedings instituted in the circuit court of Sangamon county, which was dismissed on January 15, 1923 for want of equity. Under the appeal, on April 14, 1923, the unanimous decision of the supreme court upheld the law, expressing the opinion that payment of compensation in the form provided was not only a lawful act, but a patriotic duty. Provisions of the Law Under the provisions of the law it was stipulated that each person who entered service between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, who was at the time a resident of Illinois, who had been honorably discharged or was still in service who serve$ for a period of longer than two months, should receive compensation at the rate of fifty cents a"day for each day of active service, with the maximum of $3.00 Distribution to legal heirs was provided in case of death, with the maximum to be paid where death occurred in service. Applicants were given choice of cash payment or compensation bonds issued under the act. Drawing of First Claim Public assurance had been given by the board that each applicant would be given a claim number in the order of receipt. Mail sacks received each day were dated and kept in order and the rules of priority were strictly adhered to in all of the work of the board. To give a proper public understanding of the method of procedure, on January 24, 1923, there was held a j public ceremony for the drawing by | lot of the first ten claim numbers.! This ceremony was attended by mem-; bers of the board, officials of the state members of the general assembly and the interested public. Contents of several hundred mail sacks were made available, and from the thousands of j applications received the first ten! claims to be numbered and filed were! drawn in order by the following named , persons: Governor Len Small; Lieutenant- Governor Fred E. Stirling; Senator' Richard J. Barr, president pro tem of the senate; David E. Shanahan, speaker of the house of representatives; Mrs. Alice Vollentine, gold star mother; Lieut. -Commander Charles W. Schick, state commander of the American Legion; Oscar Nelson, state treasurer; Adjutant General Carlos E. Black; Samuel H. Meyers, state commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Master Donald Heter, son of a deceased veteran. . Bonds Sell At Premium Under the rules of the board, bonds were sold only as needed to pay the bonus to claimants, thus keeping interest charges at a minimum. The average interest carried by the bonds was 4.46 per cent. In the six sales the net premium resulting totaled $201,686, this amount being made available for the payment of claims. The action of the board in insisting on par or better in connection with the sales, resulted in the payment of at least 1,000 additional claims. Total of 286,643 Claims Received In its work the Service Recognition Board received 286,643 claims. After the most exhaustive inquiry, made | necessary in the establishment of the legality of the claim. 267,537 were allowed, with 19,106 rejected as illegal under the law or rules of the board. The great mass of claims came from living veterans, but over 15,000 claims were filed by the heirs of deceased, veterans. These latter presented d'f ; ficulties all their own, involving not only all of the legal technicalities met | with in the case of living veterans ; showing service qualifications, but : also individual difficulties and technicalities involving proof of heirship. In addition, a considerable number of cases were encountered where the living veterans had filed, but died before" payment had been made. Seldom was notice of death filed with tlje board, with the result the claim was allowed and warrant drawn, but as one was qualified to cash this warrant, it was necessary that the proper heir be ascertained and allowed to file a supplemental claim under a new number. One hundred and sixteen cases alleged forgery were reported, but m all cases the money was recovered without legal prosecution and paid to the rightful claimant. Administrative Costs Nominal Report of the Service Recognition Board shows the administrative costs were nominal. Premium of $201,686 was received on the sale of the $55,- 000,000 in bonds authorized, making a total of $55,201,686 received from all sources. Claims totaling $55,073,- 438.50 were paid to claimants, leaving a balance of $128,247.50 on hand. But for the fact the bonds were sold at a premium it would have been, impossible to meet all claims. There was appropriated by the legislature a total of $633,090, to meet the cost of administering the act, which proved more than ample by reason of the guarding of expenditures. Thi3 cost is placed at $602,397.48, leaving a balance of fSO,692.52. The total cost of bonus paid to claimants and the expense of administration is $55,675,- 835.98. The average cost of handling each claim was $2.10, as shown by the official audit of the books. Under the act of the Fifty-fifth General Assembly providing for the termination of the Service Recognition Board, all of the books, records and documents of the board are transferred to the office of Adjutant General Carlos E. Black for safe keeping and for the further administration of the act. Under section 10 of the termination act it is provided that after all payments have been made, any money remaining in the soldiers' compensation fund in the state treasury, may be expended for any form of relief for veterans in the war with Germany, or their families that the general assembly may specify and direct. Mrs. Green: And whom does this statue represent?" Mrs. Hill: "That i? Diana, executed in terra cotta." Mrs. Green: "Oh, the poor thing! How cruel they are in those outlandish countries."--Wall Street Journal. 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