The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1931, Page 10

T e el S Lol o T e Owen Young’s Pet Project—Village School, Giving Neighbors® Children Their Chance This model school, which he built for the children of his home village of Van Hornesville, N. Y., is the pet hobby of Owen D. Young (right) noted financier and possible Presidential candidate. He likes to discuss the school's affairs in boiler-room chats with the principal, Maurice S. Hammond (center) Home Folk l\ ;o . Yo . w Financier As Neighbor Without ° Airs’ ‘What kind of man is Owen D. publication. But as with so many an entree into his life through something close to his h development in his old home town An interview with Hornesville School, in educational ides financier and possible Mr. the which disclosed Democratic By REID MONFORT VAN HORNESVILLE, N. Y., Sept 10.—Over this little farming village of about 180 p overs the personality of a far-famed 1 D. Young riend and s as a generous kindly neighbor than an inter- national personag residents of his home town ew him Many of them e known him all their life. He is “Owen ) nearly everyone, and their first names come easily to his tongue It is here that the financier has centered shining hopes in a mode school he has built, from which the youths of the community may fare forth into the world “without an inferiority complex Here are his chicken and dairy farms, his milk plant, grist mill and fish hatchery—places where most of the villagers find employment Here too, is his modest white home, not unlike others of the community, where his mother lived —a home bright with flowers and green with shrubbery The chief hobby of the one-time agent general of world war repar- ations is the school that he built rising in colonial beauty near the site of the tiny grammar school to which he went a boy. After leaving that little school he began what he terms his “cheese box school days That was when he went to high school not far away, provis- ioned with a week's food supply that his mother had cooked and stored in a cheese box. Each week he returned to his farm home to get a “refill.” At 15 he was ready for college and on borrowed money he through St. Lawrence unive This present-day it of fi nance says it took “10 or 15 y for him to get over an inferiority complex, engendered by his early small school days. Sometimes, he says, he “still fe that comy y; Largely from this mater alized his model school—a place to give | the child confidence to cope with the world. Built to accommodate 45 or 50 | children the school was opened in 1929. The enrollment shot to 168, and work is now under way to give space for 400. He supplements the minimum When Thousan_ds Rallied New York eitizens, smarting under the wanton killing of two babes by gangland gunplay within a ‘month of each other, joined in a huge rally, 20,000 strong, at Madison Square Garden, ~ derworld, which has taken such a toll in human lives, Maurice 8. Young? He does little talking for men of big enterprise, he provides t—a school of Van Hornesville, N. Y. Hammond, principal of the Van Young is developing some of his following intimate picture of the Presidential nominee. school taxes with whatever money | is needed. Last Word in Modernity To the school, more than 12 miles from the nearest railroad, has come modernity. Children from all parts of Herkimer county find here the | latest in equipment—radios, talking | pictures and a libr with the | classics, leading magazines and :J«nl_\' newspapers. In keeping with Mr. Young's plan here is wide choice of studies, all | calculated to give a practical edu- | cation. | On the well-equipped playground are two swimming pools, one for tots and the other for olde children. As a boy, Mr. Young never realized, one of his mos cherished ambitions—learning to swim, Boiler Room Confabs This tall man with the brown eyes often visits the and asks Maurice S. Hammond, the boyish-looking, earnest-eyed prin- cipal: “Got a minute? Let's go down to the boiler room and talk things over.” And to the boiler room they go, where Mr. Young hauls forth an old pipe, lights it and chats about the children and the school. He likes to sit at the side of a swimming pool with a group of pupils about him and watch oth- ers play in the water. He asks the youngsters many questions about their homefolks, how far away they live, how old they are, and other such things. In his home town this 56-year-old man whose brown hair shows little silver, is regarded as a person with lots of faith in humanity. In his face they see character. His lack of “grand airs” draws comment. | As a “family man” he shines in | his neighbors’ eyes. He is great for “staying at home” and would like to have his wife and four children with him all the time, his friends say. > - | ITALIAN ARMY BUYS DIRECT MILTAN, Italy—To aid Italian agriculture and to economize in its own expenditures, the Government | has ordered that purchases of feed | for army horses and mules be made direct from farmers' federations in- stead of through intermediaries. and resolved to against the un- the Marine Corps . | Valles, 43 Against Crime speakers who exhorted the throngs to from their stronghold were Gen. Smedle Secretary of State (center insert); and Edward Mulrooney, Police Commissioner of New York. MEXICOPUSHES WORK ON ROAD T0 TEXAS LINE [Beautiful International Highway will Be Com- pleted in Year MEXICO CITY, Sept. 10.—An- other year or a little more will see | the opening of a beautiful inter- national highway connecting the United States with Mexico City. Although the highway was visionally “opened” last spring the blasting of the last rock from the trail in the state of San Luis Potosi, tourist officials and others are warning motorists that the road is not yet in condition to be attempted unless hazardous adven- ture is sought The ‘“opeming” in reality permitted the passage of and burro trains, and for a 200- mile stretch the road is still little more than a trail leading up and down mountain precipices, where a slip of a foot or two might mean a drop ef from 1,000 to 5,000 feet The new highway now surfaced from Laredo to mi Grande. It also is finished full- width and hardsurfaced for more than 100 miles nortih of Mexico City. Mexican highway commission en- gineers, however, say that the maining mountain stretch of 225 y pro- merely workers Ciudad mountain road in the world. Probably no highway yet pro- of scenery as this road which climbing from the jungle of the Atlantic coast to mountain snows on the central plateau. The highway is being built en- tirely with dynamite and wheel- barrows. Road-building machinery was not brought in, even for the most difficult stretches, as the gov- ernment desired to create the greatest possible number of jobs. Nevertheless, the work is being pushed rapidly. The new road opens up nearly 300 miles of virgin territory, whose touch with the outside world is almost negative, and where dwell Indians with primative customs. | M Y STATES GET PHONES | SINGAPORE—A joint appropria- nearly $400,000 has been made by the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States Governments to establish a tele- phone line from Singapore to Pe- nang | tion of smash its menace. Among the drive gangs y Butler, of Bainbridge Colby, former (left) ; brings the traveler in three hours’| growth | Group F arming Now Opens Up Idle Lands in Spain MADRID, Sept. 10.—Hundreds of| Under the provisional govern- agricultural syndicates are being | ment's scheme, the new societies | formed in Spain’s rural regions as | include only the workers, who in the result of the republic’s decis- lturn are subject to supervision by re- | jected or built offers such variety | with | is hard- | s south of the Rio miles is the longest, most difficult | ion to lease uncultivated estates to farm workers, The government hopes to im- prove Spain's agricultural status and better the unemployment prob~1 | provided the syndicates are sound- lem The syndicates will work the land on a profit-sharing basis, leas- ing tracts of government and mu- nicipal lands and those unculti- vated estates whose owners wish rent them to the syndicates. Later, if such an agrarian policy approved in the national assem- bly, other tracts will be available for the plan including perhaps, me of the royal estates aban- doned by Alfonso XIII. Syndicates Not New Agricultural syndicates in Spain we not new. Thousands existed before the republic came, but these were mostly sponsored by the wrch and included representa- ives of the landowners, | cultivation the ministry of labor. The Catho- lic organizations therefore are be- ing remodeled along the new lines The government aids the agra- rian groups in leasing the land, ly organized. It leaves the actual and administration of the communities’ affairs largely to the farmers. Big Brother Act However, the government acts as a kind of big brother, giving rt advice, and even going so far as subsidizing societies that need a little financial help. The tremendous hope that the provisional government holds in these farm societies was shown when Nicolau D'Oliver, minister of national economy, said: “Spain economic condition. 'We are sur- viving largely through our fruit and farm exports and any dimin- is living in a precarious | ishing of them means trouble.” A few days later the Spanish Agriculturalist Association, an im- portant body of farm owners, said Spain’s agricultural investments represented 75 per cent of the na- tion’s riches and that agricultural exports formed 65 per cent of all commodities shipped abroad. serious The ndicates are ‘especially numerous in Andalusia and Extre- madura, where the employment problem is most difficult. 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