Helmets Worn by German War Lords on
Exhibit at Methodist Centenary Celebration
THREE helmets, absolutely guar
teed to have been worn by the
former Kaiser William of Germany,
Von Bethmann-Hollweg and General
Ludendorff, will be on exhibition in
Columbus, 0., as a part of the Metho
dist Centenary Celebration, June 20
to July 13. They were brought, out
of Germany during- the revolution by
Lowell Thomas, world traveler and
explorer, whose travelogues will be
given in Columbus as a feature of
the celebration.
Thomas entered Germany at this
most critical period, without pass
Leading Lady In The Wayfarer' at
Methodist Centenary Celebration
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MME. BLANCHE YIIRKA creates
the role of Understanding, lead
ing female part in "The Wayfarer"
pageant, which will be presented at
the Methodist Centenary celebration
in Columbus, 0., June 20 to July 13.
Henry Herbert, English Shakes
pearean interpreter, will have the
other leading role.
Nearly 1,000 costumed characters
will appear in the majestic religious
pageant which will be presented
every evening during the celebration
in the Coliseum at the exposition
grounds. The Coliseum boasts of the
largest stage in America and seats
8,000 persons. A seated chorus of
1,000 trained voices will augment the
effectiveness of the pageant.
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Soloist in 'The Wayfarer''
at Methodist Celebration
MISS NjESWITT, dramatic
lyric soprano, will be the so
prano soloist in "The Wayfarer," the
great religious pageant which will be
presented as a part of the Methodist
Centenary celebration in Columbus.
0., June 20 to July 13. Henry Her
bert, English Shakespearean interpre
ter, and Mme. Blanche Yurka, will
have the leading speaking parts. Viola
Ellis, contralto, will be a soloist.
The pageant will be presented on
the largest stage in America, in the
Coliseum of the exposition grounds,
which seats 8,000 persons. Nearly
I 00 cost'iiT! 1 characters and a
' ' of 1,000 trained voices
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ports or authority of any kind. To
do this he was forced to hide out for
days on the border. He was turned
back twice, but on his third attempt
succeeded In getting past a Swiss
guard. He made some wonderful pic
tures in Berlin, showing street riots
and the general chaos of the city at
that time.
In addition to these views and in
cidental lectures, Mr. Thomas will
show pictures taken in Palestine at
the time of General Allenby's occupa
tion. Thomas accompanied the Brit
ish troops on this expedition.
METHODISTS SHOULD
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i Centenary an inspiration say*
Or. fisher.
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DT. Fred Fisher of New York, who
! has been assistant executive secre
i tary of the Methodist Centenary
I drive, has turned his entire organiza
tion to the job of mobilizing Method
ism in Columbus, June 20 to July 13
in outlining the campaign he has
placed before 78,000 committeemen of
the Methodist Churcti, he says: "We
must stress four things. First, this
will be a big Victory Celebration.
The Methodists of the United States
have lived more in the past year than
in any 10 previous years of their ex
istence. Now is the time for them
to get together and celebrate their
victory.
"In the second place, this is an op
portunity for Methodists to have vis
ualized the scenes and activities of
I which they have been talking for the
! past year, but of which they have no
personal knowledge. Of these 78,00b
' men. only a negligible per cent has
ever had the opportunity of going
abroad. At the celebration they can
get the trip around the world at their
| convenience
"Third, this is the time to 'finish
the job,' to gather inspiration and in
formation to enable the organized
j workers in the church to carry out
the program which has been mapped
out for the next four years.
"Fourth, and most important of all,
if the Celebration realizes the ideals
which those who are back of it hold,
it must be the inspiration for plan
ning work for the next century. As
we look upon the marvels that have
been accomplished we should gather
new faith and new zeal for enter
prises that can be measured only in
terms of another century. We must,
in a word, weld ourselves together in
a great spiritual purpose to strike
the bull's eye."
Dr Fisher indicated that 150 train
ed executives, in addition to the 78,-
000 volunteer workers, will stimulate
interest in the Centenary Celebration
during the next six weeks.
JULYTNEGRQ DAY
Trips Planned For Visitors to
Methodist Centenary.
Negro Methodists, In Columbus as
Centenary Celebration visitors, will
make a pilgrimage to Upper Sandusky,
birthplace of the Home Missionary
movement, to honor the memory of
its founder, John Stewart, a man of
their own race. The trip is scheduled
for Saturday July 5.
Other trips planned include a visit
to the grave of Ben Hanby, author of
"Nellie Gray," in Otterbein cemetery;
to Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela
ware; perhaps in smaller numbers to
Wirberforce. and possible to Oberlin,
where so many found, by underground
route, safe haven in Civil war days.
Monday, July 7, has been desig
nated officially as "Negro Day," and
will be observed at the Centenary
Celebration grounds with an elab
orate program of pageantry, ad
dresses. special music and parades.
For this occasion, Dr. W. E. Dubois,
editor of The Crisis, published in New
York, has written a pageant. "The
Star of Ethiopia," which will be pro
duced in the Coliseum by colored par
ticipants. The theme of the pageant
is the evolution of the race traced
through progressive stages of achieve
ment to !': * o; - 'ay A chorus
> "> • es. will pre-
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NEW ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM
Amount of Money Available for Fed
eral Aid Largest Ever Set Aside
by Any Nation.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
With full state co-operation accord
ing to the terras of the federal aid
road act, the United States will have
a total of at least $574,000,000 for co
operative road building during the next
three years. The federal part of this
fund is assured by an extra appropria
tion of $209,000,000 in the post office
appropriation bill just passed by con
gress and signed by the president.
Officials of the bureau of public
roads, United States department of ag
riculture, which administers the pro
visions of the federal aid road act
and co-operates with the state govern
ments in the expenditure of the money,
point out that this amount of funds is
the largest ever appropriated for simi
lar purposes and for a similar period
by any government in the history of
the world, and that it enables the fed
eral and state governments to carry
out a road-building program of a mag
nitude never equaled.
In connection with the great federal
aid program it is also noted that ex
penditures for highway work in the
United States this year are likely to
amount to half a billion »lollars or
more. On reports received from stato
highway departments, the bureau of
public roads estimates the 1919 ex
penditures for roads and bridges at
$385,000,000, or .$110,000,000 more than
the average expenditures for 1916 and
1917.
An important effect of the law con
taining the new appropriation is that
it broadens the definition of a rural
post road, under which class a high
way had to qualify in order to receive
the benefits of the federal aid act.
Under the old act it was required
that mail should actually be carried
on the road or that there should be a
reasonable prospect that mail would be
carried on it within a short time after
improvement. The new act says:
. . the term 'rural post roads' .
. . shall be construed to mean any
public road, a major portion of which
Traction Engine Hauling Material for
Construction of Road.
is now used or can be used, or forms
a connecting link not to exceed ten
miles in length of any road or roads
now or hereafter used, for the trans
portation of the United States mails,
excluding every street and road in a
place having a population, as shown
by the latest available federal census,
of 2,500 or more, except that portion
of any such street or road along which
the houses average more than 200 feet
apart."
The new act also raises the govern
ment limit of contribution from not to
exceed .$lO,OOO a mile to not exceed
$20,000 a mile, taking account of high
er present costs of labor and materials.
The law also authorizes the secre
tary of war to transfer to the secre
tary of agriculture material, equip
ment and supplies suitable for highway
improvement and not needed by the
wot department.
The original federal aid road act,
which became law in July, 1916. appro
priated $75,000,000 to aid in the con
struction of post roads during a five
year period endir* .Tune 30, 1921, and
$10,000,000 to aid in forest-road build
ing during a ten-vear period ending
June 30. 1926. Not over $3,000,000 of
the original $85,000,000 had been ex
pended prior to 1919. so that $82,000-
000, plus $209,000,000, or a total of
$291,000,000 of federal funds, will be
available, of which $287,000,000 will be
available during the next three years.
POOR HIGHWAYS ARE COSTLY
Economic Loss to the United States
Placed at Annual Figure of
$504,000,000.
The congressional report of 1914
placed the economic loss to the United
States through poor roads at an an
nual figure of $504,000,000 for trans
portation costs alone. The heavy in
crease in tonnage since that time
probably makes the loss today close to
fi.000.000.000 a year,
PROPER DRAINAGE FOR ROADS
Tile Drains Are Much Superior to
Open Ditches or Those Filled
With Stone or Gravel.
(.Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Open ditches have been used fre
quently in some of the southern states
for subdraining roads through low,
flat sections. Ordinarily only one
ditch is used, and it is located a few
feet outside of and parallel to the
road. This ditch usually is made
about two feet wide and three to four
feet deep, with vertical banks. The
material excavated from the ditch is
used to build up fhe roadbed, and the
surplus water from the side ditches is
turned into the deep ditch at conven
ient intervals. The use of such ditches
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With a Good Stand of Grass or
Each Side—Very Few Weeds in Ev
idence.
should be decided upon with care
There are ditches in the South, withiE
the coastal plain, where sand clays
and indurated clays occur a feu
Inches underground, that have stood
with vertical sides since the middle
of the last century. They have beer
cleaned repeatedly, and no doubt have
become somewhat enlarged, but con
sidering the cost of maintenance and
the service given, they have been en
tirely satisfactory. In other soils ot
a gravely nature, however, the sides
of such ditches would not stand, and
the cost of keeping them clean would
be excessive. In certain localities the
open ditch soon will become obstruct
ed by the banks breaking away and
by the growth of vegetation, and is
very seldom economical in the long
run.
Ditches filled with broken stone 01
gravel sometimes are used as a sub
stitute for the tile drains. These have
been used in all sections of the coun
try, and when properly constructed
usually have proved satisfactory foi
a considerable period of time. When
such ditches are used It is eommor
practice to place one on each side
the road immediately under the open
ditches. They are excavated to a
depth of two to three feet with ver
tical sides and usually are made about
eighteen inches at the top or just
wide enough for a man to work in
them conveniently. To be effective
they must have a uniform grade and
be carried to a suitable outlet.
Tile drains in general are much su
perior to either open ditches or
ditches filled with stone for subdrain
ing roads, and though generally more
expensive than either open or stone
drains, they usually can be construct
ed at comparatively small cost. As a
rule the tile need never be over six
inches in diameter, while for ordinary
conditions a diameter of four inches
is sufficient.
CHECK ON ROAD ENTHUSIASM
Building of Highways That Will Not
Wear Is Very Discouraging to
Taxpayers.
There Is only one fause that can
check the enthusiasm, now so evident,
for good roads, and prevent a steady
development in cemstruction. This is
Lhe building of roads that will not
wear. It is very discouraging to tax
payers to appropriate money for noad
Duilding and then to have roads con
structed that wear out long before the
)onds are paid off. Yet this has oc
:urred in many instances.
KONEY FOR COLORADO ROADS
Bill Now Pending Before Legislature
Calls for $20,000,000 for Bet
ter Highways.
Colorado business men recently
united in a movement for a $10,000,000
sond issue. After getting well into
he campaign they discovered their
;hief opposition was in a general criti
cism because they asked for too little.
Fhe bill now before the legislature
:alls for $110,000,000.
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Oldtime News Service.
In 1832 James Watson Webb, of the
New York Courier and Enquirer, es
tablished an express-rider service be
tween New York and Washington
which gave his paper valuable pres
tige. In the following year the Jour
nal of Commerce started a rival serv
ice, which enabled it to print Wash
ington news in New York within 48
hours of its occurrence. The most
notable express-mail service of all
i was the "pony express." which carried
messages by relays of riders across
mountains and deserts and through
hostile Indian territory from St. Louis
to San Francisco, covering 1,966 miles
in 10 days.
Orientals Believe in 13.
Thirteen has n« terrors for Orientals.
This was shown in Seattle, Wash.,
when the little Japanese sailinp ves
sel Kashima Mam arrived in port from
the Orient with a crew of exactly 13
men aboard. Officers of the vessel ex
plained that 13 is considered in the
Orient just like an even dozen or a
score when it comes to manning ves
sels or inviting wedding guests.
Great Alexanders.
Alexander Bell was the great Amtt*
can who invented the telephone;
which Is still called the Bell tel©-
phone; and Alexander Humboldt wmm
i German traveler, statesman and tH«
most distinguished naturalist of an
times. One of his most important dis
coveries was the decrease In Intensity
of the earth's magnetic force from tb»
pole to the equator. His most impor
tant hook. "Kosmos," was written in
his seventy-fifth year. He did much in
his long life to further the science of
the world.
Britisher Has Odd Motor.
An English engineer has developed
a novel form of rotary motor havlnj
four cylinders that operate Inside th«
blades of the propeller. The propeller
blades are made of metal and the ex
haust issues from tLt CLds of th«
blades.
Preferred "Motorhouse."
in England during the early days o€
motor vehicles, there was a decided
preference for tli" n.*iine
rather than "garage.'