New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1920, Page 6

NG UP NEWS T0 HOOL TEXT BOOK aphic Bulletm Recogmzed as Educational -famous scientific body have | igh tribute to the value of more al new ser reading by public | pupils, in making available for | use the Geographic News Bul- | which appear in this paper, and 500 other principal newspapers i country. teachers have written that bulletins of the National phic society would be of per- | ht value if they could be had in jent form for classroom use lermanent filing. Responding to pmand the Bureau of Education. | ment of the Interior, and the ngton, D. C., headquarters of ational Geographic society have ed for the printir nd distri- of the ballletins. They may be bpon written request, through | ureau of Education, WWashinz- p. C. bulletins relate to the geo- fical and historical backgrounds b principal events of the da They will continue to appear this paper. After such appear- fhey Wwill be printed in sets of six, and sent, without charge, hers who request them. theory en which the bulletins' ess to schoals is based, the states, “‘is e time to interest a boy or girl Kurds, or Fiume, or Mexico, is these places or peoples figure daily newspapers.” ts official publication, “School a Bureau of Fducation state- said, “This arrangement has nade by the Bureau and The So- because these bulletins are con- [ one of the most valnable out- ds the teacher and pupil can n the study of geography, his- iterature and the languages. Not } Ho present conditions afford = | ly opportune occasion for teaching of geography, but for ing the teaching of other sub-! mentioned.” gard to the methad of obtain- je bulletins, the statement says: le bulletins prepared by the a] Geographic society for the schools are issued in sets of six, and the set will be sent to schools upon written request Bureau of Education, Washing- k- C. } overnment department and a | hers may apply individually; jpdls may apply for copies nec- for teachers (not for individual ) and for their school library.” fsley’s orchestra at the Elks’ BEGINS HORSE SALE ie Sqguare in German Capital pied Tnto Market As aGthering imals Begins. in, Jan. 22.—Historic which is flanked by the column | tory, the general staff building he monuments of Bismarck, von and von Roon, and the scene week's disordel ted into a horse marKet. will be conducted by the city lin in pursuance to the provi- f the Versailles treaty which or deliveries of horses to France Igium. ers of horses in this city were ened with heavy money fines if failed ta make an appearance jhe result was a gathering of of all breeds, well fed draft Is being ranged up alongside of pit cab horses, while here and were spirited saddle moun cavorted about while awaiting val of the official veterinarians. the seneral average was below rd, most of the 1s were returned to their own- t is not expected Berlin will be to contribute a perceptible er of hor: to the general levy b better of steeds is being back in the rural and farming ts. 000, 000 UNIVERS]TY Koenigs- | jial College Will Be ceted i ghai it Plans of Chincse Tead- Come Through, ghai, Jan sity to cost An 00 industrial will be | 1 the plans of | e cducaters 1dustrial s are attaine he idea was W. Wood- of Caifors Nanking uni- of L e a niversit lecturer With sugar selling at UP—elsewhere, it vou can haul home—for pound western Nebraska. All the sugar a pound. SUGAR CHEAP AND 20 cents— goes—as much as 3 cents the in the sugar beet district of | gar You want at 13 cents | ot and It is In the Platte Valley last tons of beets, being sold {o jobbers at cents the pound. , Nebrask beets were grown on 5 the 540,000 This is the equivalent 60,000,000 pounds of sugar, ,143 acres summer, 2ld being acs ! Brazili Wants Pantheon For above show the beets ght cars standing at the marketing center in the Platte valley field, and the interlor of a hoiling room, with sugar boilers lined up for the camera. intended to American instrietc conduct the with equip 1s from the L on hond nitc ovel sity complete mploy to perform productive s school work. Taree leading ’ of Shanghai have gone to the | States to visit schools and ob- ’ for feature of the will he proposed the incorporation i cotion whic require mill its students and toil as the establishment MON., CHARLIE CHAPLIN TUES., WED. ““ America! America!! In Sad Armenia, Land of Stalking Death Melville Chater, home from Near East, Tells Harrowing Story of Human Misery There—Beetles and Straw for Food. 2 ROUTHING ty herself in a | corner, a little old girl was cracking something be- tween two stones,” says Melville Chater in an article, “The Land of *talking Death,” in the National seographic Magazine, describin, \ongmtms in Armenia. “I looke closer and found the child was eate ing the marrow from a bone.” “Where did she get it?” I asked the interpreter who me. “Yonder in the grave yard” he replied, after questioning the girl. This child, according to Mr. seven-year- &7 accompanied : Chater, was subsisxing solely on a: small dole of rice furnished daily by the Near East Relief represent- : atives in her mnativa city, Igdir. There was not sufficient food in the . town to even give onc meal a day | to all of the children and shortly after they had reccived this bare pittance of food all were searching for any bit on which they might chew to appease their hunger. They s ;\ir,ked up beetles, a piece of a horse’s hoof, says Mr. Chater. Root and Grass Diet. straws, and one Conditions at Tgdir are horrible ; almost bevond beliel. People live chiefly on roots and grass, but oc- the diet is varied by the killing of a dog or a cat, Workers sent out by Near East Reliel, the form Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, who are furnish- ing the only sustenance to these people, told Mr. Chater that it was impossible to remove at once the bodies of those who had died.from starvation, and when they were taken out for burial. an ag# or a leg of the body had been eaten by the famished survivors. Mr. Chater tells of a visit to the burying ground when graves were torn open and bod exhumed by the famished inhabitants. *“We had taken a short cut” he says. “to- ward where our car waited and by chance we wvere skirting the ceme- tery. Our guide pointed thither and said: [t is not a plea must understand that the Turks left this country so bare that there were not even spades. ‘Graves must be dug with any available thing even with human bones. Tf the dead has a relative strong eunough a weight—| stones ar the grave: ant sight. You aced on frame my (|\vo‘( on. ‘E exactly whom do you Men Stalk Dogs. mean,” pariah dogs over of nig ,r vourselves.’ I will never forget th accelNor & e caped moun E ¢ \m\'v'(n(*\.wl vealed as empty, sc whose brinks were with remnants of ments, among semblasces of 1 away “mean’ he answered. ‘the hat terrible ow-boulder- a now oped-out holes trewn torn-off hich lay 1 mnammu of a dog. pawing the volley of stones. Then as he . a skeleton-like man spr ind the wall (under cov he had been stalking braining the beast with b, disappeared, carrying i prey) and “U nr farewells and thank ts to the American Committee’s A lome mother vn the desrway ef her empty house-Her husbond was murdered before her eyes by the brutal Zurks.~s (Above starving by the wagside in Igdy: upon reaching our car we found it blocked by a host of humanity, who, having learned Americans were in the town, had hurried in irom every village to piead their cause. Prayer of the Dying. “I shall unever forget lowed. There ar ir thousands of <tancd lips, not a cheer, not a- welcome, not a God- speed, but ing people. through us- to generous hearts: twilight, with overhead, it through the ‘America! Amer Armenian ref last souvenirs c aar that f:n' off |a'1d of and tunder the Ararat gleaming rang .~e.nng the beloved dead an are vividly second 5 “Penctrate "’c t: revolves of purch: and <r11mfl his v toes of broken dear dead one creatures pass ma pose of h he will not man to d clothes, them for bread will together t he will e parts { sot . One myst it cven that one may have tears to weep.” Children Wail with Dead. Other harrowing storiss of this city, the capital of the new Arme- nian republic. are told byt au- thor in his account of bis visit to olated region. “Up goes a il.” savs Mr. Chater, ng to one of those the scene of an hourly ! 1 f a loaf of black vorder scarf : owner’s story seems, the Millions Cry Fallen, rwenia he tion, fe’s burial p STREETS The enly ko; " Armentyg — A dole of b-e’,’z j:cn t.hl:lt’urz:l{ elies. stones, with two babies at her on~ side and\a screaming ten-year-oid at her other, lies a stark, staring- eyed woman, dead among those remnants of the household which e strove to preserve. In time, 1e girl will pick up one child, lead the other, and go forth into the streets to beg. Their best pos- le future is that they may be md and passed t‘lrough starva- tion’s clearing house to some or- thousands of refugees, w hose vvno'c hope of existence lies on the gen- erosity of the American people as ssed through ¢ erganiza- which, in desperate need of to continue the work. treasurer, Cleveland H, 1 enue, New ki ap- 1 continued support by the an peop We spent some few d the American Commit- shops, where men aund women weave cloth from l,emgmn wool”” says the author, “or build e looms for this purpose. Mere rildren of fourteen are en at ps of cloth-cut- braziery and fre- ‘They were but relugees, these workers, whose fami- = massacred, whose homes hzd been burned, and had emerged from such horrors ashave no other nation in the war: vet hsre thev were, already at the h would rehabilitate nation of tomorrow. ! tion in September. | commemorative @@@é@@@@@@@@@E@mifl@@@mm@@@@@@E@@@@@@@@@m@@@@@@@@@@@E@@E@@@@@@@@@@@m HALL OF FAME All Hlus- trious Persons i its History in Time Vor Centenary. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. Proposul made that a national pan- all the illustrious person- 1 should be crected here with the celebratio of of Brazilian independ- has been theon for zes of Br in connection the centen ence in 1 Plans for this which have been chamber 500,000 100th annivy ry submitted to the uties would cost © Include an exposition of fine Arts, ercction of a natienal his- torical m um, wnd composition of orical opera and a drama. ‘heme also provides for the organization” of a’ great university. #ports will be one feature of the cel- cbration. 3 It is proposed 1o hold the celebra- separated iom of Portugal, Sep- This proclamation o Paulo and it is pro- posed to erect there one of the finest monuments in the from the new wor Olcott’s orchestra at the fair—one night.—advt. 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