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THE BEE: '. OMAHA. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1921.
The Omaha Bee
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Universal Prayers, for Peace.
j When the conference on armament convenes
if. Washington on Armistice Day, it ii to be
subjected to a telepathic wave of undoubted
tytrength. Efforts are, being made to unite all
organization into one huge demonstration
against armament on that day. Parades will
jpurney the city streets, addresses will be made,
and the entire active force of the nation will be
concentrated on the promotion of peace. To
this the Baptists are planning to add a world
wide supplication, to be sent up to the Most
High, expressive, of the longing of distressed
ifid weary mankind for the cessation every
where of all war. v .
, Such demonstrations undoubtedly will ex
tress the feeling of .many thoughtful people.
War is deplorable, abhorrent in its every aspect,
and by man's ingenuity made so terrible that
almost , any condition seems preferable. And
yet there are worse things than war, just as
there are worse situations than death. Mere
jjicistence is not all that life holds, nor is the
privilege of going; about one's daily affairs the
jltmost boon. When life must be sustained
tinder impositions or exactions that stifle free
dom or restrict liberty, resistance is warranted.
Common consent maVes' certain demands that
mankind may dwell in amity, limiting; the natural
rights of each, and the capacity for foregoing
he small share of these natural rights marks the
individual as capable of self-restraint and there
fore fit ta exercise i elf-government. To be de
prived of this boon sets him beneath himself,
and he will not submit Death is a release
when :ke can not otherwise .be . free. ; , ;
8 Yet it is true. thai' mak alone is. responsible
for all the wars' tMt have. !ursed mankind. .To
yods lew or many, be Has sent up nis supplica
tions tor victory.' ana nas sacrincea nis victims
haidivine favor ... might be.. the more certainly
propitiated. As enlightenment has spread and
dread . of physical violence and consequent
suffering had sprung up, man continues to pray
that war may be averted or; entirely removed,
yhen man has in himself the power to achieve
the result he so ardently- longi 'for. "Agree
with thine ' adversary quickly," .' was ' the advice
given by the man who has done more than any
other to wipe out war, and yet such agreement
is not' easy to attain. 'V' . i ' '" '. . y -
On the other hand, the world, has always
contained men whose lust, avarice, malice, or
other base, attribute has controlled them, and
these breedert of strife and discord are usually
untouched by prayer. A world -without a war
i most devoutly to be sought, and Christian faith
as well: as the hope of 'those who toil is well
turned to that end." Yet faith without works is
of no avail, and the miracle for which men
yearn is to be slowly wrought out in the des
tiny of man through the development of his
liature to that long-hoped-for , time when "all
men's good is each man's aim." Let us pray
that war may never come again, but let us not
insider it as evidence of want of faith to con
tinue to guard our liberties ' as jealousy as we.
always have. .;. rt v. . .v.,- -V
Human Nature and War.
One thing civilization has not brought to
man is peace. While it is flattering to think that
life is not as violent now as in ancient times,
rhis belief is not altogether justified. The. al
leged pugnacity of the ancestors of present-day
European races, men who lived some 6,000 years
ago, has been disproved by scientific investiga
tors Archeologists, digging among the remains
of this primitive period, have found that man
tjken had ; no weapons except mattocks and
hammers. " ' v-- ;
Great progress was made in the new stone
jg, out of which arose the use of metals and a
general advance in culture, which resulted finally
ift the invasions of the Bronze and Iron periods
apd the worship of .the war gods. But the pic
ture of Europe in the Stone age as a great arena
. of roving savages, thirsting for blood and always
at war, seems to be a caricature.
Such is -the judgment of John M. Tyler,
given in his book,' "The New Stone Age." His
pinion is backed up by Wundt, another famous
anthropologist, who. says: . v
So long as he is not obliged to protect him-
ielf against peoples that crowd in upon him,
primitive man is familiar with the weapon
only as an implement of the chase. The old
picture of a war of all with all, as Thomas
Hobbes once sketched the natural state of
man, is the very reverse of what obtained. The
natural condition is one of peace, unless this
Is disturbed by external circumstances, one of
the most important of which is contact with a
higher culture.
Agriculture and settled home life grew up in
this neolithic period; these were the fruits -of
peace. The rise of chiefs who led their people
on long migrations signalized the end. Indi
vidual, instead of tribal ownership appeared, trade
centers began to be established and fortified and
life was revohttionized.
Militarist taay. claim that through the wars
' that followed civilization came, but there is
ground for speculation as to what progress
would have been possible without the preliminary
epoch of peace. It b encouraging to find, too,
hat through many, generations mankind seemed
t) have lacked- what sometime is called "the
wvbka iastiactA.' What was human nature then
ami different from wfcat became known as
human nature in the following age. A question
worth considering in thaje present timet when
the problem of world pacification is uppermost,
is whether Neolithic thought and feeling has
been detroed, or Is its peaceful tendency like
a river flowing underground, perhaps to rU to
the surface far down thc valley of history
World-Wide Unemployment.
The national conference on unemployment
is to meet Mondsy in Washington. The prob
lems with which it has to deal exitt throughout
the civilized world and the eau themselves
appear alto to be international. Most of the
industrial nations have before this attempted
remedial measures, usually little more than
palliatives designed to esie up the malady with
out curing it. Charity, unemployment insurance,
emergency relief on public works and the
spreading out of work by shorter hour! or rota
tion on the job are among the devices now in use.
In Switzerland, Denmark and Norway
schemes of training unemployed workers are be
ing tried. Metal, wood work and building
courses arc being given Swiss men, and lessons
in hygiene, domestic economy, nursing and the
like arc given' women. While these attend their
classes they receive relief pay from the state.
House building subsidies are being granted in
some cantons. In addition, compulsory unem
ployment insurance., is being considered, and
propaganda for a general reduction in the profits
of manufacturers and traders is under way. In
Denmark freight rates on the state railways
have been reduced.
The employers' associations in Italy have re
solved that costs, prices. and profits must be
reduced, and that former agricultural workers
must be got back on the land. Public works and
shorter hours are expedients generally adopted.
in uenoa, tor instance, crews oi vessels a,re Dcmg
replaced, one-half at a time, by unemployed
sailors.
Both in Belgium and in its African colony,
extensive plans have been prepared for public
works. The development of the Congo is
counted on to encourage emigration; this idea of
reducing the population is favored in many coun
triesin England it is said that several millions
must migrate within the next few years to avoid
an industrial catastrophe. The Belgian labor
party is demanding a reduction in army expendi
tures and the demobilization of army horses for
use on the farms. It also proposes the requisi
tioning by the government of raw material, in
cluding coal, and its distribution to manufactur
ers who would pay a living wage, and the dis
posal of the product through trade commissions.
The manufacture of standard suites of furniture
is mentioned as one useful enterprise for state aid.
A bill providing for compulsory unemploy
ment insurance is being drafted in Belgium, and
Sweden is considering a similar measure. In
Czecho-Slovakia those receiving unemployment
benefits from the state are obliged without fur
ther payment to perform work assigned by the'
authorities. The South African, Industrial; fed
eration proposes the creation of an unemploy
ment fund by a levy on wages, a progressive tax
on profits and a state' iubsidy'The Canadian
government is investigating insurance systems. . '
4 Not even So'tith ATme'rica has escaped the re
sults of the world war. Chile has undertaken a
scheme of employment on public works, includ
ing the preparation in state-owned factories of
material for making locomotives,. Large amount',
likewise are being spent in France and Germany
on public works. A system of short shifts is
being used.. '',':.'. "'" rv1'
I The American conference on unemployment
will have all these examples before.it, and yet
its course will be none the easier for this. Con
siderable suffering from lack of. work may be
avoided through its efforts,,.but no one need
think it will succeed alone in permanently squar
ing the economic circle. .
; Why Read Poetry.
A young professional man whose range of
reading has been rather wide and varied admit
ted his lack of acquaintance - with the poets,"
either" of the modern school or those "who. em
balmed their visions in immortal verse years
ago. He lacked a taste for poetry, he said.
His ! case is typical of a fairly large group,
although we may question if he has ascribed
rightly the cause. What he'really meant to
say is that his taste for poetry has not de
veloped. Keeping abreast of things as they
have gone on for a few years last past is not
calculated to awaken in anyone a sense of the
soul that has lain'dormant; for the aesthetic is;
essentially psychic, and amid the sordidness "of '
worldly experiences is apt to be tive.rcrusted by
the material. ... , ' '..
Poetry in. any form, excepting always "vers
Hbre," appeals in a subtle andyet most direct
fashion to the mind. Whatever the ' mood,
poetry can match it. All the arts are united in
poetry, and music and drama, the twin sisters
of expression, show forth their utmost beautjr
when wedded with pure verse. Majestic truth,
sublime thought, lofty aspirations, dwell in the
simple, lilting lines of many a modest bit of
versification, while the enduring pictures shin
ing through the immortal epics have inspired
the most effective brushes ever dipped in color:
The lyric arouses the drooping spirit, charms
and soothes the weary ; mind, and leads the
thought along pleasant channels into a realm
of rest, . -',-.'" vf '
Even "free verse" occasionally shows' forth
this potency, for it may contain elements essen
tial to the genuine. 'Familiarity. with" the-true;
poets, great or humble, is to possess a certain
resource beyond measure in, price; , an evidence
of gentle Culture on the one hand, a. calm rej
treat where worry vanishes on the other, if
more people read poetry, a lot of the troublous
conditions would disappear, because as man is
imbued by the gentleness that cometh with true
understanding, so is he softened in his' aspect
to others. Poets may also be men take
Rupert Brooks, for example but mostly they
are gentlemen. . -,- . -
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Unless higher education is a failure, there is
no need to fear that Students at the University of
Nebraska will fall for the Ku Klux Klan
How to sell the surplus abroad is no.t so much
a question as how to get something for it that
will buy what is wanted at home. '
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One thing sure, the man who bobbed a girl's
hair on the street and' ran off without waiting
for any pay was not a barber.' ' '
Those University of Nebraska boys will find,
plenty of use for the old cave without going into
the K 1L K. mysteries. . . , .
The Husking Be&
Hi Your Day
Start ItWithaLaufth
LOVE AND LAl'CH.
To love and laughthose are thc things
That count the mo.t in life,
, The happy little bird that sing
Knows naugh of trial or strife;
H' never downcast nor forlorn
But always blithe and gay
As he goes forth to greet thc morn
He signs the blues sway.
Though we may think a thorny road
Is given us to tread,
To frown won't lighten our load
But we should smile instead:
And those we love will love us, too,
The skies will smile above.
And never will day be blue
When we can laugh and love.
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PHILOSOPHY.
Most of today's worry Is csuscd by yssttr
day's blunders.
.
Line o' cheer for boys going to Kearney-
Remember, the mighty Bambino, who recently
wrested a world's home run championship away
from himself, grew up in an industrial school.
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START BUILDING. ' '
Hoover is going to hold an uneployment con
ference. Seems like a good chance to help un
employment and the housing shortage all .it one
fell swoop, so .to speak.
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If women take up smoking seriously, styles
in cigarets will begin to change with the sea
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And with women serving on juries, the so
ciety editor will have to cover the courts.
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HAVE-ANNA.
The girlies of todsy like cigarets
All puffs, ws call them flappers.
The wifies of todsy are like cigsrs,
Because they come in wrappers.
-L. E. C.
A good judge of liquor nowadays is a man
who refuses to drink any of it.i
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The only thing we notice that is coming down
in price is the German mark.
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- Subjects: Hail, hail, the king!
Xing (frostily): How dare you hail while I
reign?
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"' In a treatise on "occupational neurosis." a
learned physician says a man suffering from
writer's cramp has difficulty in holding a coin be
tween his thumb and finger.
Most writers, we believe, to judge from our
own experience, find it impossible even to hold
a coin in their pockets. '
Garlic, 'tis said, is good for the arteries. But
what does it profit a man to gain whole arteries
if he loseth all his friends?
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THE PATH TO FAME.
Oh, Muse, come take my hand in thine
And lead me up to heights divine!
My upward gaze on towering crag,
I must press on I may not lag.
The ground beneath my feet is rough,
I am not striving hard enough, (.
Else would I never know the rocks - '' ,
Have cut my feet. The high peak mocks
My frantic haste; and this I know,
I cannot climb that path, be fast or slow
My stumbling pace nor fame command,
Until, .with heart aglow, the path I understand.
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A. D. G.
'.Of "course you have your $300 credited as be
ing the wealth of each person in Omaha. Neither
have we. - ;
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" Poverty may be a disease and yet one isn't
allowed to take anything for it.
. -. ' ' a a -a
r A"'scientist claims that men who wear mus
taches are more alert. And yet some of them get
married. .:
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Early to bed and early to rise,
' If to wealth and to health we aspire,
Now the rubber concerns are the pnes who ad-
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That we should all early re-tire. ;
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Cartoonist Goldberg has a clever skit that he
calls "The Meeting of the Tuesday Ladies'
club," but the doings he depicts haven't anything
on the Tuesday luncheon of the Lions club.
Watts the lion tamer been up to now?
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. EFFECTS OF FREEDOM.
' ' "He walks like an emperor," commented one
of our co-workers , . noting ,a recently divorced
man striding along with chin up and chest thrown
out. "Or," he added as a brilliant after-thought,
"like a bachelor." . ;
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- 'Jack Lelivelt brings his total of hits up to
251-i-whfch ' is a world's record in Omaha."
George Phair in Chi. H. & E. -
' But can anyone in Chi. beat it,- Or even tie it?
Now that the festival is over we presume the
weather will drop back to normal. .
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BEEN TRIMMED.
What has become of the old, glad days,
The days of do and dare
When the foot ball men with their smashing
' plays
Wore long and shaggy hair?
TOO LATE.
Ouch: Quite a rain we had Sunday.
Grouch: Yes. I suppose it kept you from
church. ' -",.: ' . . ': ' ,.
"Ouch: Nope. It didn't start .until after we
got there, v -
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i MIGHT COVER ALIMONY,
f- While they-are now taking 'out . insurance
against storms, why couldn't a man contract for
that kind of a policy with his marriage license?
'.i , CHANGE OF VIEWPOINT.
v ' ; The way some fellows figure now,
, -. (To make it brief and short) '
Is not the miles from a gallon ';
' But the smiles from a quart.
. . . L. E. C.
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; , : : J B-R-R-R-R-H! -
The' sleeping porch waits -
- , , With its three little beds ,
AH standing so still in a row, .
'; The screens all around
Are open so wide
' To let in the north winds that blow. '
The awnings are still '
No more they're yanked up, -
Midst thunder and lightning and storm,
We're all in the house -
Where we sleep better now,
' . Because all our tootsies are warm.
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We've shivered so long
Contracted such colds,
.". As we slept in that cool, healthy place
Another few weeks and
" I know that for sure .
They'd be patting the dirt in my face.
. .-.. . K. F.
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" . AFTER-THOUGHT: You can't judge a
man's feet by the size of his carpet slippers. ,
- THILO. -.
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Eight Billion Years
Archaeology in Cuba
JUSTICE FOR TEACHERS.
W. H. A mood, principal of lha Pa.
Witt Clinton High schuol. New VorW
City, protasis that It i jinfalr to tv
a fathar a pour raiins whan a Ursa
proportion of bar pupiU fail to mane
a grade, sine so lata a proportion
f iha failures are du to physical
df!-ia.
In on hool four yr aso a
taarhar sot a good ratine braus all
of her class paai in biolotv and
another taacher a por ratine h.
rauaa 74 per rant of her class failed
In that aiibjact.
Inventteaiion howd that the
pupila In lha (list tlaia had faw phys
t al dafacts. wheraaa In tha second
they had many. In tha first claaa
only II par rant had Impai red teeth
and to per cent Imotrfart eyas. In
the aacond. wlih lha 74 per rant
failure. M pr cant had imperfect
teeth and 71 per cent had imperfect
aa.
Iji the writer's eUsa the Intelll-
(nee la maasured by the Oils tut. I , of 0UP panet at g.000,000,000
iraaai lha Smm Traaaarlal,!
The reaaarvhaa tiy which two Itrli
(h msa of at'lanra have rtarhad lha
i-oneluaion llial lha earth I l.ooo..
(00, SOS years old, inaiaad of lha bas
se rly :. 000,(04 )ear ailowad by
lurwln, era of no mora than Id la
Inttraat 10 lha HMD on lha at rent.
It nialtara Ititla o him whalhar
the aaa of lha pUut I the l.ooo
yars roverad by tha scriptural
i hronolua-y. or lha :0 0O0.S00 yaara
of Uarwm. or tha 1.000,000,000 of
tlresory and RHdinaton. It couis
to vary ninth tha aitm ihins. Al
raady. lo lha man on lha airet, the
civil war and even ilia relsi) of Vic
toils belong to remote aniiiuiiy. A
ihouaand years ara In reality almost
as hard to plctura to the imagination
as a million. What on of u alive
know who or where his ancestors
of a thounu veer ago weraT Or
who can imagine what or where his
daarendanta of a thousand years
hanra will be? We used to slug a
patriotic song with the refrain, "A
Thousand Years. Sty Own Colum
bia." which saaumaJ lo open the
view of lha average mertcn to
tha gloria of a future millennial
iwrlod. Tha song U forrotten now.
Tha anplratlon .it contained was too
remote for tha popular interest or
eir-n the popular conception.
There is a strong color of proba
bility for lha estimato or the Ens
llfh men of science who put tha
He endorses tha anvurarjr of thase
testa, saying the final results In exam
ination in savei-al year never varied
mora than I per cant from tha pre
dictions based on the results of ths
Otl mental test.
This very striking statement I fol
lowed by another Jum a striking.
There is a close parallel betwan
!h steal defects and the Otl intelli
gence rating, tsking tha clasa as a
unit. Ths better the Otl rating the
better the physical conditions. The
boys making good Otl lating had
an averac of one physical defect.
Those having very poor Otis ratings
had an averse of four.
A questionnaire waa sent out for
each pupil. Tn questions askca
were these:
1. Eye defects, a determined by
teacher with Snellen's test cards.
S. Teeth defect.
S. Hours of sleep.
4. Hours of study.
5. NumbeV of people talking In
room while boy is studying.
(. Number hours of outside em
ployment. .
7. Hour spent In other outside
school.
g. Time spent in . practice of
music.
9. Language heard at home.
1 0. Race and birthplace of parents.
11. Educational training of par
ent. 12. NeiEhborhood, good or bad.
13. Boy's explanation of poor
scholarship, such as deafness, recent
operations, sickness.
Where the Otis rating, the physical
examination, and the scholarship are
not in harmony the explanation gen
erally is found In the answer to some
one of these questions. There were
such illustrations of Mr. Atwood s
main theme as these:
A boy who failed in lour subjects
was found to have poor vision to see
at 20 feet what he should see at 100.
Another boy was nearly deaf, due to
ear abscesses caused by high diving.
Take Qnk-k Kxcrdsc. .
A. reader writes: .."All the doctors
advise people ot the working class
to eat their lunches In thirty minutes
and use the extra thirty minutes left
in exercising and playing in the fresh
sir. That is right and wonderful for
those who have one hour for lunch,
but how about the hundreds who re
ceive only thirty minutes for lunch?'
"what can one do in thiry minutes
except eat? I come-in to work at 8
a. m. and do not go outside of the
building until 4:30 p. m. Then I am
through With my work. All this time
is spent indoors and my lunch nas
to be taken in the company restau
rant, which is here for service and
speed. By the time I p. m. comes
how can I help having that drowsy
feeling: and doing; slipshod work? I
try to overcome this by eating light
lunches, but still it persists. By tha
time evening comes I am. hot air
soaked. Could you devote a column
of your valuable space to advise us
thirty minuters on the best way to
keep awake and in the best physical
condition? I am sure It would be
appreciated."
Reply A thirty minute lunch
period does not leave much time for
picking up pep. Nevertheless a per
son who is determined not to blame
the other fellow can pick up lots of
pep in one minute or thereabouts, if
he can get no more. Run a hundred
yards at speed. Throw a ball ten
time. . Stand In the open air and
breathe deeply ten times. There are
lots of things that will put the pulse
to jumping and flush the face.. That
can be done in five minutes. '
Make Penalty Fit Crime.
F. 8. write: "What possible
remedy besides that of self-control
is there for a girl of 25 who is afflict
ed with the tendency to curl or twist
her side hair into a tight knot, which
will later take a considerable length
of time to unravel or comb straight
again? I am often obliged to cut or
tear the gnarled hair oft altogether,
but that does not seem to deter me
from handling my locks just as soon
as my hands are free. How can I
train myself to self-control or ,tne
fingers when I believe I am more or
less unconscious that I am twisting;
my hair until my attention is called
to It by an onlooker?"
Reply Devise some way of pun
ishing yourself in addition to cutting
out gobs of hair. When ou make the
punishment adequate the crime will
stop. , '
' Obtainable from Washington.
R. W.'M. writes: "Where may I
obtain government pamphlets on the
care and feeding of children 1 to t
years old?"
Reply Children's bureau, depart
ment of labor. Washington. D. C.
Also write to your state and city
health departments for their litera
ture. .
year. In the period or It existence
the land has had to salt the sea,
which at first wn freh. from Us
own exces of sslt. But first the
Isnd had to sslt Itself. At the ratio
of the ordinary procres of such, a
process, 1.000,000,000 vears would
be none too much for it. But
1.000. 000, 000 years! Can you meas
ure It by imagined repetitions of
the known historic perirod? We
have records or traditions of an
epoch of only aome 6.000 year, nnd
for the making even of a million
years It would take 168 such epochs.
Now measure the. 8, 00A, 000,000
years of the earth with such
an epoch. Tou are trying to
measure the circumference ' of
the earth with something smaller
than your thumbnail. The Imagina
tion reels and falls before the at
tempt. Yet all this time it has taken
the , development ot the earth to
eventuate in your pygmy under
standing nor would anything else
have sufficed for it, nor would any
other natural accident than the pro
duction of just such a nalt water
pond as our oceans constitute have
availed to breed the. forms of life
that eventuated in your existence..
If we have 8,000,000.000 yars be
hind us, have we as many before us?
We have not. The curtain will fall
upon, our race, the scientists tell us,
in only an eighth part of that time.
Lord Rayleigh, whose judgment on
the subject is as good as that of
any man alive, says that the crust of
the earth will be available for hu
man use only another billion years.
Even at that, there are going to be
some very-cold winters along in the
last hundred thousand ' of those
years. But Bince in only 6.000 years
more, which is but the faintest dawn
of the ages yet to elnpse, our Hard
ings and our Lloyd Georges and our
Millerands and .Mustapha Kemals
will be as ancient and even ns fabu
lous as the Egyptian kings of the
oldest dynasty, whose aslies ren
turies ago were blown-on the wind
of the desert from the tombs of
Abydos, we need not bother particu
larly about the setting- of such i
period, j The curtain will fall on our
speech, our blood, our faiths and.
our science long ages before the egg-
sneii on wnicn we live shall cease
to be inhabitable.
tfram k twt ala faal.l
Recent weeks rive again brought
news of Biltll and Atnrl.n sr.
hseolngUel discoveries In Kgypt.
falrmin and ureace. uui our twn
KiuWpher also offers a wlit field
lo llar. lha fascination of which
in Mexico, Central America and the
acuthweti are wfii knuan: ana nw
addition in our knowledge or It
have just been made by a report of
the Muaaum of the American inoinn
on it rraesrche In Cuba In If IS
snd ll. The . evidence It ha
emBk'il from the rnnaacklng ot
i , the dienitn.'illlng ot hll-ItM-ks.
snd Ilia BlfUiig of inurkbads
is a ruriou jiistltw-ailoiv of the ac
curacy of I he lierolo missionary re
former. I. Caa, a a lilwtorlan.
Ias Csms. who went in th Went In
dies 10 year after Columbus discov
ered th new world, wrote In hi
' lliatorla" Ihst Cuba had bean mmi
laled from Haiti, "though it I triio
that th oldrit and native people of
that Inland (Cuba I were . . .
an exceedingly simple people called
In their language Ciboye. and they
of this Island (llaltll either by per
suasion or fores took possession of
that Inland (Cubs), and hnd them
for their servants." Home lslr writ
ers have supposed that these were
simply two related irihc: but the
American Investigations show them
two distinct peoples, ot two very
unequal culture.
These new Cuban reerche offer
a basis for plausible theory of th
people of the Antilles. Tney sug
gest that originally a wave of primi
tive cave dwellers, the Ciboneys, set
out from South America and passed
through the Leaner Antilles to Haiti
and Cuba. They wer followed by
a wave of Arawak Indian, also to
build house and grow maize and
cafava. The Arawak culture de
veloped to a higher form In Porto
Rico and Hnitl, and finally made a
conquest of nearly all Cuba, but not
of Jamaica. In the third place came
a wave of blood-thirsty Caribs, slay
ing and desolating, who seized the
Lesser Antilles, but made only
piratical raids on Cubs. ' j
Archaeology thus enables tne sci-
President Right
A Change of Method.
"I have noticed," remarked Bill
the Burg, "that wheh a man gets In
lne for the chair he says he's done
with .drink forever." - '
"Naturally," replied the electri
cian. "He's going to take his juice
over a wire instead of through a
straw." Washington Star.
Definition of "Rail."
A good many peoota reading the
comment that the law is oft on
shooting rail will thereby learn that
a rail may be something other than
part of a fence or a railroad.
Hartford Times.
Same Here. - -"
After taking an honest to goodness
look at them the observer has to ad
mit that it is high time for the re
tirement of many of the straw hats
now in evidence Pittsburgh Chron-
lcie-xeiegrapn. '
Where' the Sea Serpent?
Another summer has passed with
out a sea serpent story. It must be
thst the once popular reptile has
gone forever. Albany Journal.
Expected Dally.
The sea serpent is apt to arrive off
tha roast slmosfany day now to as
sist in bolstering up waning sum
mer season. Salem News. - .-
(From tha Cincinnati Enquirer.)
President Hardin? is coming In
for some rather sharp criticism from
a number of distinguished editors
who interpret f his epeech recently
aeiivereo. at the war college to 'mean
that thip executive 5s "weakening"
with reference to the scope of the
uiearinanieni. conierence.
rvothing could be more ' remote
rrom tne truth.. Ths president rec
ornizes conditions as they exist. He
no more than any other student of
numan affairs believes that the mil
lennium is at hand. He knows the
story of humankind, story which
emphasizes certain essential char
acteristics. Therefore i he knows
tnat tne nest that can be done in
this age is possibly to limit arma
menta and, to some extent, minimize
me eviis ot war. nence ne was
quite consistent In declaring, as he
did, that "no matter where the best
aspirations of the world lead us,
there never may be a time without
tne necessity for armed force."
We are' not yet so far from the
primal jungles as to be able to claim
freedom from the influence of the
jungieiiaw ana the iun a hahit.
Back of the president's declaration
are all the thousands, yes, millions.
i years oi oar: struggling which
prove him to be right. When we
cease - to be' savages, perhaps in a
few thousand or a few million years,
We may dispense with the npcessitv
'for armed forces, v
But. as matters stand, jealousy;
hatred, greed, avarice and ambitions
are a much alive in - the hearts of
men as In the days of the aurOch
arid' the mastodon; perhaps more
virulently alive. So long as man is
man, the agencies of force will -be
necessary, despite the fond wishes
of the idealist.
The president feels, and so said,
that the time for partial disarma
ment is at hand. He has promised
to do everything in his power to
contribute to that desired consum
mation. He already has done much.
He has not "back stepped" In any
sense whatsoever. His words ad
dress themselves to the normal in
telligence; They are sincere, though
tinged with an immemorial sadness.
"I wish with all my heart that there
will be less of armies snd navies.
But it is perfectly futile to think
there never may be armed conflict."
He is right.
r, , i
ITsually Pays Dividends.
The rush of young men snd
women to New England college
continues. . Education Is a line of
business which Isn't suffering from
any paralysis. Manchester Union.
. , THE. ROADS. .
At jtha tlma tha cool of aveninf drore
wajr th heat
I cam to tha placa whara four road
meot;
I leokM ta tha auttiri, f looked ta tha
. wt. -
t ponartd and wondared which road was
hut.
A long- road led up tha hill, with power
at tha4oB
Who nnderUke ta climb it mart never
wieh to atop!
A pleaaant road ted down -tha tain and
through tha deep grata
It la ey to loiter when that way yea
. paai! - -
A fair read ted aeaward oh. ahip call
tha heart! -Bat
you leave love at home when y that
road you itart!
alao upon a thousand roads were going ta
a town v
Ther looked behind them sadly whefl tha
aua went daw,
Oh, aome pawed that way. aad some
passed this.
And for each thing they' gained there waa
omethirg to mt&p.
A stranae mool waa me and I longer
t turn anl .
But whlrtt road was tha road for me I did
. .. sot kaow.
-Bgn the .Ooea Sue. -
iitit io reconstruct ilia history ef
peoples who were ignotsnt not
merely ot ih wriitan word, but f
aery tiiliiin. Work uch a tha
aluseuin of .the American Indian ha
begun lo do In Cuba h barii don
by the American Museum of
American History liiirtted in
both aicliaeulocy and snthroiMilna
-In various Amerii'tin fields, nioxt
nolNbly in lha eniilliwest. Showing
llist lha new world it In soma w
an exceedingly old world, it iwrsl
vlats of Amcrli-an hinoiy thai mi
loo much Ignored,
More I'UUil-l'rni ilt Xcnlctl.
Th experience of lha ntotfiia
author It lea l that robber tear
loaded pistol In the huiuii of nu n
who have been -liilned lo lmot
them. Itlihiitoiid Times-Uiti alt h.
to
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Therefore wisdom coun
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step which, unfortunately,
. is too frequently delayed.
True, the man who delays
never realizes his error.
His family eventually
does.
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let and a conference with
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