New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 13

TYPEWRITER AIDED YOUTHFUL PRODIGY Boy, 18, About to Enter College Had Unusual Early Training Mangum, Okla, Aug. 11, (By The Associated Press).—FEleven years ago Mrs. Willmoore Kendall gave her two Yyear old son a typewriter to play with while she read from text books to her blind husband, a student in the Northwestern university, Evanston, IIl. The boy discarded his other toys and sat by the hour picking at the keys with his chubby fingers, Today, at the age of 13, Willmoore Kendall, Jr., is preparing to enter col- ‘lege. His mother declares the early experience with his father's typewrit- | er gave him his start in acquiring his education—a start that swept him into school at the age of four after he had read such books as “The Little Lame Prince” and “Little Lord Faunt- leroy.” Willmoore graduated in June from the Mangum High school. His father {8 pastor of The First Methodist church, of this city. The boy intends fo enter Northwestern as a freshman if rule of the university can be suspend- ed to admit him. Otherwise, he will matriculate with some other institu- tion. Regarding the boy's early training, + Mrs. Kendall said: “It was a matter of necessity, I suppose, which made us without de- eign place him {n a position to ac- quire an early knowledge of letters. ‘When Willmoore was in his second year, his father was studying Northwestern university. Since Kendall was entirely blind, I did all his reading for him and Willmoore often disturbed us by crying to be amused. It occurred to us to give him his father's typewriter. ‘Pecking away at the keys of the PROSPERITY LEGS OF 1922 venuine Fresh PRING LAMB b FRESH KILLED DRY PICKED ROASTING FOWL 39ch (3 to 33 pounds each) 1 “Largest Retailers of Meats in America.” EW YCRK, NEW JERSEY. PRIME CORN-FED NATIVE BEEF 35¢ HAMS 38c™ 0 WEST MAIN STREET machine, Wilimoore gradually learned the entire alphabet and almost before we knew {t, he was putting letters to- gether into words and joining words into sentences. I am sure there was never any consclousness of tiresome mental effort in his early training. It was all a matter of play for the boy and it kept him so amused that his father and I were left free to go on with our reading, stopping only at first to tell him a new letter and later the spelling of words.” Willmoore’'s entry into the public schools at the age of four came as a result of a chance call of the city echool superintendent at Hartshorne, Okla.,, where the Rev. Mr. Kendall was stationed. The lad was reading aloud from Hawthorne's “Tanglewood Tales” when the teacher entered the room. The visitor was attracted by his rapid and expressive pronuncia- tion. “What grade will you be in this year?" he asked the child. Mrs. Kendall explained that her son was but four years old and had not entered school. Upon the insistance of ‘the superintendent the boy started his school work the following fall. ‘Willmoore has not sacrificed his physical welfare for his studies. Five feet three inches tall, he weighs 110 pounds, and takes keen delight in all the open air sports enjoyed by a boy of 13. He {is an expert swimmer, and indulges. regularly in boxing baseball and other athletic competi- tion. He is a member of the local Boy| ' Bcout troop and is greatly interested | in all activittes of the local troop. Last summer, while encamped with the| troop in the mountains near here, he rescued a boy of 12 who had been seized with cramps while swimming. | Young Kendall is still fond of) reading. Dickens, Scott and Stevenson ‘being among his favorite authors. He algo reads much current literature and history. Sclence and mathematics he finds extremely difficult. He is en- thusiastic about music, and although the has never had regular instruction, | = plays the flute well, taking part in his father's church orchestra each Bunday. la ta ne bu he! sui of of or yo to be: pa do ho: to g took part. eral miles long paraded the streets!bride later, followed by a huge folk-picnic materials are more than cn the mountain-side. promise when confronted with ent bullding expenses. A historical pageant sev- In the evening folk-play was presented Ly local lent. WEDDING MARCHES NOT BEING HEARD Young Germans CGontemplating Matrimony Find Costs Too High Berlin, Aug. 11.—"Feathering one's st” is a formidable propoeition for the young German of today who con- templates matrimony. Furniture and ilding costs have risen to such ights and wages relatively have nk, to such depths that the strains wedding marches fafl to have much a siren appeal for either “Hans" “‘Gretchen.” Must Furnish House. Tradition has long decreed that the ung man in Germany is expected provide a house for his bride-to-be fore marriage. The latter, for her rt, should approach the altar with a wry sufficient to furnish her new me with everything from broom bedstead. Sflverware and special comforts for the household ordinarily are contributed by relatives ests attending the wedding or by cere- money. Tough On Brides. However, there is little prospect of a German girl in the middle or lower! Friendship through classes living up to this custom today Depending on earnings of a few hun-:hrough Augus dred marks a week, she finds little to | {opics will be limitation save up for her dowry. hand, the man of her choice—despair- ' ing in his search for a place to rent, On the other breach of pres- After deciding forced to consider is [to erect a brand new home for his he finds the prices of building 81 times jwhat they were before the war. It costs 1,584.50 marks on July 1, 1914 to build a one-story cottage cov- ering 70 square meters. On June 1 this year, building circles claim, erec- Ition of such a dwelling entailed an expenditure of 120,290 marks. The costs rose 13.8 per cent. In May |alone. High Costs. The stone required for a house of this sort in the summer of 1914 cost 700 marks, while now it demands an ‘outlay of 60,784 marks. Cement and !lime for it now cost 3,8306.25 and 5,- 413.10, respectively, as against 60 and before. Its roofing-tile costs have risen from 243.50 to 17,919.90 and those for beams from 264 to 24,- 859, while its flooring today would come to 4,169.75 as compared with 55.50 marks in 1915, RELIGIONISTS TO MEET IN SWEDEN Copenhagen Will Be Scene of Great Activity Next Month } | Copenhagen, Aug. 11. — Clergymen land religions workers from all parts | of the world will gather here early inext month to attend 'the meeting of lthe International Committee of the {World Alliance for International the Churches, {which opened August 7 and continue 11. of arma- ment, and it is expected that the con- ! ference will adopt resolutions appeal- ing to the nations of the world and recommending to the churches meth- ods of co-operative work toward this end. SMALL COTTAGE One of the main | EXTRAORDINARY SPECIAL 5 c Ib—Large Loins of Fresh Pork—z 5 c b (Whole or Half) 29c¢ Prominent Preachers There. Among the more than one hundred delegates representing the 29 na-| tional councils of the World Alliance who are coming will be a large num- ber of prominent American ministers, including Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, for- merly Moderator of the Congrega- tional Council and pastor of the Ciln- | ton avenue Congregational church of Brooklyn; Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York; -Dr. Willlam P. Merrill, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church, New York, and chairmw of | the World Alliance and the Church of Peace Union; Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, general secretary of the two last named organizations; Dr. Charles § Macfarland, general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ; Dr. Arthur J. Brown, secre- tary of the Presbyterian Missionary society; President W. H. P. Faunge of Brown University; Professor Wil- llam I Hull of Swarthmore college; Hamilton Holt, of New York: Dr TFrederick Lynch, Mr. George A. Plimpton, the Rev. A. Z. Conrad, the Rev. Lauritz Larsen, Dr. Samuel A Eliot, Dr. Anson P. Atterbury and John Harvey. Dr. Boynton, who {s chairman of the International Committee, will pre- side. A report on the Washington conference for Limitation of Arma- ments will be presented by Professor Hull, and the meeting will consider resolutions adopted at the Seventh Annual meeting of the World Alliance, held last May in Cleveland, Ohio, which urged the United States gov- B W W G is] S/Q/emml PorInfants, Invalidsand Growing Children | Richmilk, malted grain extract in Powder The Original Food-Drink For All Ages [No Cooking = Nourishing ~ Digestible FRESH KILLED CHICKENS b ernment to participate in the Court of International Justice; progressive reduction of armaments, and called upon the American people to cultivate and practice the art of thinking in terms of peace and inter- national good will and to “find and | apply the peaceful methods of settling ' international and credit to the nations.” ditions in the | Hungary, Austria, Holland and Serbia i appointed last January for this pur- pose, lyzed will be brought to the attention of the cerned. mendations the churches of the world vill | constructing the industrial order. cussion of racial and religious minori- ties, and how the churches may help in preserving the rights and liberties of such minorities. delegates will present adopted at the vhich b investigating atrocities practiced Christians in the Near East in English, French, German and Dan- ference will four languages. FRESH CHOPPED BEEF 2 r 25¢ favored the GHINESE REPORT | PORTUGAL CLASH, differences with honor Government Issues Statement of Recent Conflict Between Forces Labor Study Results, The results of a study of labor con- United States, Great ritain, France, Germany, Denmark, Shanghal, Aug. 11, (By Associated Press)—In a formal statement issued by the Portuguese government of Macao a report is presented of the recent conflict between Chinese and Portuguese forces, which for days gave promise of resulting in' open warfare. The government's statement as- serts the disturbance developed on May 28 when an African soldier of the Mocambique expeditionary force | was assaulted after having an alter- jcation with several Chinese. The soldier, the report says, was so badly injured that he was taken to a hos- pital and one of his assallants was arrested, being taken to the police sta- tion at Chip-seng. A mob then assembled at the po- lice station and attempted to storm it, the report sets forth, to obtain the release of the Chinese held prisoner, and it was when the gathering grew into thousands it was deemed neces- sary to send for reinforcements and an infantry company was sent to the scene. ill be reported by nine committees and the conditions thus ana- national governments con- On the basis of thes recom- be asked to do their part in re- One session will be devoted to a dis- American a resolution, Cleveland meeting urges the government of the nited States to co-operate with reat Britain, or any other nations, {n on The The discussions will be carried on h, and the proceedings of the con- be published {n these Soldiers Stoned. The Chinese mob fired upon and stoned the infantrymen, according to the report, and refusing to disperse barricaded the streets near the police station in the night and called a gen- eral strike the following morning, menacing all who attempted to open their shops or got to work. It was made known that the pris- oner had been handed over to the court authorities and bail was offered NFANTS and INVALIDS ASK.FOP. Horlick’s the Original Avoid Imitations and Substituies TN, = o Y] and the mob then prevented steam launches from mooring at the wharf Business Prosperity Depends Largely Upon the Merchant's Ability to Satisfactorily Supply the Demands of the Buying Public. The Prosperity of the “National” Organization Has Been Attained By Selling Better Merchandise At Lower Prices. FRESH CALVES’ LIVER 45c ™ NATIONAL MEAT STORES CO. » PENNSYLVANIA, CONNECTICUT and MASS.—The above SPECIALS at all Our Stores for Friday and Saturday. and drove away those who desired to embark for Hong Kong. - The report says that at noon on May 29 a Por- tuguese officer who sought to execute an order at the Macao Steamboat company’s wharf was set upon, dis- armed and narrowly escaped being thrown into the sea. While this in- cident was taking place, the report says ,the mob began to fire and an African soldler of the Mocambique expeditionary force was killed instant- ly. It was then that the troops fir« ed at the mob killing several and wounding others. When the gather. ing took flight orders to cease firing were issued. Martial Law. The government established martial law after the outbreak and elaborate precautions were taken to preserve order. A news report issued from Chinese sources in connection with the trouble said that the outbreak developed originally after a negro sol- dier had made an attack upon a Chin- ese woman. 1ced~it ives new zest tohot weather menus pra Putham Coffee ~ g Javes the day Willmoore admuts that he is too lght to try for the freshman [oot- ball team when he enters college, but declares he will “'go in for debating.™| e was a membe+ of the Mangum High school J:batiag team, always as- suming the task of rebuttal over the older members of the team. CITY 1,000 YEARS OLD Mark Occasion. | Goslar, Germany, Aug. 11.—Drowsy | old Goslar, Methuselah of the Harz | has tripped lightly into the limelight to anpounce to the world it has reached its thousandth birthday. A gala ‘celebration, attended by prom- inent meén from many parts of the country, marked the occasion. 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