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Show e Sfii EDITORIAL AUTOMQBILES SPORTS REAL ESTATE FINANCIAL MINES LITHUANIA TROOPS American Actress, to AVedi British Peer ARE IN CONTROL IN MEMEL romes girl of yew ork, is soon Miss JeaJita Bronn, former nod a t'arl of Nortbesk, a Srottish perr, wbd is only officer In the famous Coldstream Guards Mrs Brown is native of Buflalo, The announcement of the engagement mealed for tbe first time that Miss Brow a baa UnorceJ a handaome tipaoiard, whom sbe married scicrat years ago. , , The Free State of MemeK bo declared bv tbs couae.il of the league of nations, did not retain Its independence very long, for Lithuanian volunteers, under General Budry, annexed the district. William Falck has been appointed chief, of the district, backed by tbs troop -V pVAJ-- j! Movement Afoot to Capitalize Publics Pen y t ; i f VV V v & itl , " - , 1 ! ! a for - I v r-! , -- ii ,1 - -- - j yj " By WILLIAM BIRD. Laka-Trihub PARIS, April 7. The proposal to assist in cutting taxes through the establishment of a state lottery is to be pushed The men behind the movement very frankly declare that, inasmuch as people ramble anyhow, the state mlrht just as well ret the f '44, Naturally such an Idea, is repugnant s. But this to many has been popular tn pkanalmays lalln countries. The Latin has a logical mind. He admits our con terrtloet, that gambling ts bad It is a he says. But it exist common human weakness and not The conflped to any one countr. only difference between our attitude and yours is that we accept gambling as a fact and determine to make the best of tt while you think Sr ignoring it you are virtuous, doing something we take away from "Evwv franc the gamblers and debauchers Is a franc saved on the taxes of honest benefUr-e- - 'A V- u4 4 I folk. li V Irttfiua ,matv I ? i i Z'; America More Than Ever Turkey Continuing Efforts L.ta,,' Separate France and England. Land Luxury IT 1 V P A A t Jk r ,: ' m 7j of and Wealth. By ANDRE By NORMAN MATSON. HS. hJ Salt Lake THboaeT A lifTNNA, April 7 How more than ever, Amerka look like the promised land to Kurdpeau If I only had ftie fare to New la being said not only b York unemployed and employed workmen. Hich. VaN J Uncertain S' i stead of organising sporadic lotteries to tide her budget over difficult times and to sell bonds, would really institute facilities for state gambling the revenues would be very ofgreat. the Carlo furnishes all Monte monev to carrv on the affairs of the Monaco. of v principality There are numerous private clubs or In Paris where the eaanotte rakeoff runs Into many thousand of of The advocates francs nightly the state supervision plan argue that if their methods were accepted this of money would reduce taxes muteadWho enriching private gamblers. would be the worse off they ask, except the private individuals who now reap the benefits of this traffic. Genius Displayed g Foundling of Dogs Cause of Disease 1 Universal Service Cable. PARIS, a Home of Real Art. Newr York la the msecs, not only for tho would-b- e dollar chasera. The othcr dav f talked with the editor of a Hungarian magaaine, the organ Devellof art and literature Country Speeds Up The only living occidental culture he hky scraper archisaid, is .American, Resources opment tecture Is to be to the architecture of the world what Greek architecture was An for sculpture was ever a Foreign Commerce. statue more truly beautiful than a Powerful Stations Keep big No need American locomotive? point out tho versatility of American Nor the abstract charm of music. CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April n Country in Touch With advertisements in American 7 (By the Associated press.) ProbThe Viennese actress, who lives ably at no period In the last wenty-fiv- e All of Humanity. next reown door, interrupted her Cara has there been such manimarks on the poet war stage to exclaim that it would be wonderful to fold activity in the development of be in America where such thing Africa s resources as at present. In d as groceries ami nulk are delivered th tr southern PARIS, April 7 (By the subcontinent; the anion Also heard one h She at door, the Lnitcd that if a htundrV or hod Press.) While of Sopth Africa is constructing many a dressmaker inStates haxfbcen earning on an promised delivery in a week, delivery new lines and electrifying tensive campaign in wireless broad- would be made in a week. Whereas severalrailway important existing routes. such in would ienna be a promise casting and th use of radio by ama- delivered in three weeks or two St Projects for new harbor from Cape teurs. France has been hard st work the least My barber explains his Totn to Kosi Bay are under considde eloping Its commercial wireless exultant grin by saying that he Is al eration while the Portuguese are most sure of Jrb with an At hint In spending millions in port and railway business through private enterprise. company and so mav be equipment at flsgos Bay and Beira Today France has the largest, most steamship able to save enough monev Us go to Portuguese capitalist are ntsenssinf efficient and most powerful wireless New. York, he other projects of equal magnitude in Vienna is rotten said in the strange KnwiUvh he has. the Portuguese colonies in conjuncequipment in Europe. Unlike England, learned f can earn onjy tion with American, British and Bel by hirqseff France took the opportunity during 200. DOb kronen (lees than $3 a gian capita) the war of developing this new means here and 1 couldnt buy clothes week) In the Belgian Congo, which since the war. is the most progressive part of communication. of Africa today, the central spine of Todav the French go' eminent has Saving Steamer Fare. the ?ape to Cairo route is still broken four Most stations. by the existing breach from the Congo who American an Anna, manage Americans are familiar with the great to the Nile, but no less than five railnear lb ope ra, and a ho ift Eiffel tower which rears its steel Bar In way routes are being surveyed fog her Han 1911 work in Francisco framework into the Paris skvilne like while a magnifia giant finger and snatches radio vowing neveroto return. In saving up early construction, cent system of equatorial roads Is Hhe talked lyricalfr$. messages from around the world It for ofsteamer to nychroniae with the a trip she once made to Ala- materialising is in continuous contact with Arling- ly motor traffic, connecting ton near Washington, anl ail the meda and aDoeveri that she would growing the numerous profitable mines other great American stations Next trade all of Austria for one look st therehx tropical plantation with the river in important conies the station at th Ferry building A vouug Polish and called, steamers and existing main railroads. Lemberg Nantes, which is allocated to the professor an from illustrated folcwr adver- tn this prosperous Belgian colony. Trench nan, the station at l4ons bringing In the Nile valley from the Delta hit h wav erected during the war and tising s rertaln big New York hotel. H in format on and lisfor to lake Victoria Xyanaa, Is to be asked is uerl bv the postoffice for communications to America. Africa, Eu- tened in still esotasv to details about found Africa's richest Pandora's box, rope and the Krem h colonies, and the numborlees bathroom, m underground which only awaits opening to surprise stems and the world with it telcohone great mlnermJ great Jaifbyett station, near Bor- entrance, To the east, along the treasures. deaux, w huh was built by the Amer- PBhi'tiaJ barber shops He was studyhe said perhap he coast of the Red sea, there are rich ican navy and later acquired by the ing American would go to New No one cou4d oil well ork and huge phosphate deFrench government The Jafaette understand the world without h&v Ing posits In Kenya province there Is tower sends dallv communkations to seen NcW 4ork great Industrial activity both commuby the Madagascar Martin que and Saigon One hears such statements In and the settler The government servhs consist-- - of Gsrmanv England nearly ev- government Ital In Tanganyika territory there news propaganda and official comnity F ranee- - Frencherywhere. except are great fertile plantation areas with munications men never traie-V and nvway, they immense mineral potentialities, and are sure all know New about they American capitalists ar being urged World Station Separate. York without having seen it Women to come there and develop them. The chief wireless installation in sigh for the freedom their sex Is beIndications of coal and tnetaiiferoiHi France is now that of Hte Assise and lieved to enjov in America and for wealth have been found In the Portuconsists of two stations, one for Eu- those magic kitchen tvv o often guese colonies of Nyassaland and Tbcre seems to be a Zambesi a. but there Is no country that ropean traffic and one for world com- read about munication It was necessary to build generaJ belief that every American commands sufficient resources to deif cooks with electrlriiv in a this powe-fstation because of the them except the United States that is bright with nickel piste velop inadequai v of the submarine cables Africa any there Foreign residents Qf and telem-aplines, and the lack of and porcelain - . are fortune to be made here by those capacity of the other wireless stations who are witling to undertake the work for continuous comof development munication The Ste Assise station Russian Government e undertakes rapid and intensive Seeks Foreign Capital Rice Continues to North a.ud bouih America and with the far east and Indo-ChMADfVOSTOK in Increase April To show the progress radio is mak the Press) The government ing in this countrv it mav be men- Associated In search still is of to foreign tioned that the total number of words TOKlD, April 7 fBy the Associriches of capital the Pria-m- ated Pres ) Despite transmuted from France Ho the work the natural last region, and foreigners ma take bumper crop, the price of rice in year's FebUnited fctates increased from 35J 734 on advantageous ruary was ven 30 a koko. up concessions in November 192 to 4$C 979 In having risen terms 1923 The number of daliv mesof 3 the ven the s'nce beginning year A significant fact is that there are Thi compare with an average price sages sent by radio in January was more than tho combined number sent more Japanese coming into this port of yen 19.18 in 1917 and yen 3S 29 tn Home Amerkan 1911 out from France bv the two chief than are leaving miners from Alaska also have come to submarine cable companies The purrhae b the government of ith mone, and Intend a million Commercial radio is operated b the Vladivostok koku of last vears crop, take up gold mining in the Okhostk with a view of stabtlialng the market, a subsidiary to Company where gold is is held bv some to be responsib'e foe of the French Wireless comnam The and other district . the present comparatively high price. parents company, the Compagnie known to exist General de Telegranht Sans Fil, hav a concession for thirty years from the hrenrii government, granted in October 1920 Mut dating from January I, 1924. The public interests and state requirements lr time of war are safeguarded The parent company in alliance with the Marconi company, the Amerin Radio corporaHugienic-Peopf- e tion, the German Teiefunken company ana the Missni Bussan Kaisha of is It comassociated with Japan panies in Belgium ItaJy Poland Rumania. Switzerland Svria, South By BASIL WOON, Universal Scrvtca Staff Corraapondant. America and other countries FARTS, prll 7 If rlattpliness la wish himself from head to foot and drink ooplocs draughts of water also next to godliness, then Mahommedan he must clean his teeth before and ism la a healthier fa'th than Chris- after every meal or drink Dr Dinsfuish inNot only does the if oran adjure tianity. . . K i. absolute 'ln cleanliness as an essential formed Medithe French of Academy V tuSgl seen that the principle of the True Belief, but it Vr French radio svstem Covers th world, cine methodical prescribes to The average church conception of keen and a large radio manufacturing inthe body supple. gymnastics "dirty heathen" is severely criticise! "This latter rule is dustry has been built up In France by for responsible who saye Christiana do the characteristic by private enterprise which has free not Dinguizlil, obeisance with wash themselves nearly as often which a! believers accompany their scope for development abroad. The aa followers of Mahomet. does not aspire to rnpke a profit The Koran nays they must state ' The Mussulman prayer is tljr' most pcaver. be on their knees, make three move-meon its radio serv ice, which la indeed, important part of our religion," he s back and forward with their heavily eubeldized told the academv, "but there are four member farms), three furThe giant bte Assise station, which other superior to all true observances necessary Is thirty miles from Paris, is designed ther movements with their body from the prev hel. , the un. to transmit 2f0 words a minute For followers of hips finally a round move"These are. fire, the Vhahsds, or ment of the and head to loosen the neck transmission and reception the station formulae, which all believes must reIs capable of a total of lOO.Ouft words a certain age' secan hour, compared with an average peat on coming to feetival pursued the doctor, of Rama- are the most of 3etvHK) words a day by the beet ond, the hunger people on earth lasts which a dan. month;, third, tbe and live the hvgiento A submarine cable to America, The is longest 'sakkat or tax on revenues for the comparatively an ordinary century rates charged are approximately a benefit life for a of the church, foufth, the pil- true believer and many live to third less than the cable tolls see Mecca. their llSth year, he asserted grimage toare five principal prayer There he told of one strict follower f WILL COIN LEVA. which must be said first, between of Finally Mohamet who had at the age of VIENNA, April 7 By the Assodawn and sunrise, second, immediate110 Just completed his eighteenth ciated trees.) The Austrian mint has ly after noon third, between noon and to Mecca Thia man has received an order from the Bulgarian sunset, fourth between sunset and journeyohafoot i dren and more than 100 sixty for the coining on Its be Bight, and fifth, during the night. government has been married nine grandchildren, a and jo.noy,-00ha,f of AO 000 000 These pra era must be said oniy times His last baby born when he a pieces The execution of when the worshipper is 'In a wae 94 years of age. this prdrr will keep the mint fuliv em v! a to of cleanliness. insde andperfect All this Dlnguixlil attributes to the out. Before every prayer the believer must enforced hygiene of the Korkn. ployed for the space of nine montha of In Addition to Reasonable Prices for Both Necessaries and Luxuries, Climate Is Good and There' Is No Income Tax; and magw-sine- By FORBES W. FA1RBAIRN, Universal Service .SUff Correspondent JaONDON, April 7 To live where have never shown' any overmastering moo me taxes are almost negligible is desire for representation in the imparliament. tbe hope of every JjigUshman That perial The whole history oj the laws of the Channel island would be paradise. consisting as thr almost exclusively of ancient Northe middle clawi do, In the British man customs, been has reviewed from citizens pay six ehfltinga In the pound the time of Hollo, thf first duke, to or in the language of dollars one the constitution of King John th Magna (harta of the inlands), down dollar and fifty cents goes to the gov- to ernment out of every five dollars tury.the middle of the nineteenth cencamed-The privy council considered 'Hhe boavy tax it question at length 4a Therefore, overburdened taxpayers whole shown under of Lngbtnd, gootlund and Wales wen-do- r V Jhat t he Island, and duke ' at and envy the people of the of Ulfthn t. heciv granted extYiannel islands and the Isle of Man, Narmaqdv, who are almost, exempt from paying ceptional pHviTegGa in perpetuity, so the Income tax privy council advised Queen Victaxes of any kind Their toria not to insist on the islands pa-in- g amounts to sixpence in tbe pound the eamo taxes as the British twelve cents in every flse dollars they Tho Channel islands and the Isles. earn 8he therefor was "ple-aseIsle of Man belong to Great Britain tK deand so the average Briton is asking clare her approval of the six at is shy should not the government of passed by the States of Jersey, and this country impose taxation on the to this day the Channel islands make islanders In the ratio to whleli the and abide by their own laws They are not obliged to contribute average taxpajer ia Great Britain anything but a nominal sum to the proper has become accustomed? national exchequer and tive in prosperity with comparatively little fiscal Request Turned Down. The only logical objection Is the suggestion that governments have a profits inpositive genius for turningundertake to to kwees Whether they nr and salt tobacco railroads manage monopolies they seem onto be unable the side of to keep the balance the people. And there are many who if the government should argue that decide to manage gambling it would not succeed, but would only create another liability for the taxpayers With the lottery scheme there also has been suggested that a isw be pawned authorising gold to be accepted la pavment of taxee at twice Such a plan it is its face value said, would bring out much gold that and' during the before was hoarded war The advantage of the scheme would be that the of the government The Hrttiph treasury has investigatloss through depreciated foreign exed the matter It has sent the home would be offset. As a matchange ter of fact the government oould af- secretary in the guise of a determined a with ford to make such an offer and still beggar grievance to make a make mone on It request to the states of tbe islands of Jersey and Guernsey to make a contribution to the national exchequer, PROPOSE FRENCH but the islanders hae fallen back on their ancient rights and prerogatives PREMIUM ON GOLD and refuse to be omo involved in tbe finances of the empire. The maintain that neither the Sill Introduced to Hare Governnor parliament has any clear ment Accept Metal Colne at crown authority to impose taxation on the islands Twice Their Face Value. Theoretically the king, by order in council, or the king in parstatute, may make laws liament, by 7 PAWS. April (By the Associated for and tax them without their conGold popularly supposed to sent. Pros) be hoarded by the French in their traTo do so, however, would not be ditional woolen sock would ba drawn a violation of what the islanders out of hiding to aid the government onlv their constitutional rights regard through a bill introduced in parlia- and prh lieges, but would be. in fact, He pro- a char breath of what is now a uni- ment by Deputy Meunier poses that gold, which on the world accepted maxim of the Britersaly market is worth more than three times ish constitution-nameithat there the French paper money, should be shali be no taxation without repretaken by the government at twice its sentation The people of the islands nominal value This, he thinks, would have alwais regarded this as an additional sound money give France Tall and. as a Tssult privilege to stop (he of the franc and the countrys credit. strengthen France called in all gold early In the war and more than a bUllon and a half francs were obtained in this way Many ftnarv iaJ experts think, how ever, that the French who have al was preferred hard money to paper, must hv kept meet of their France bc-pavings for a rainy dav Jongs to th Iatln monetary union, With Belgium, Hrjy and .tsertand. and their moneys were interchangeable until differences in the exchange during the war naturally caused each countrys money to travel homeward. After the war, France and Switzerland withdrew their silver from cirou- London Medical Ution' i the other country. How muh gold the French still hoard seems to be a matter of specuStresses Need of Greatlation. for gold of other countries that strculatsd here before the wrar mav very likely still be her. Traffie in Use in Great Britain. gold coins Is a penal offense, yet the trade goes on, and from time to time offenders are caught buying or selling It for smuggling out of the country in LONDON. April 7 (By the Associorder to benefit by the exchange. ated Press ) Sunlight and milk, shy a medical writer in the Times, constitutes the greatest panacea for the ills of the human race of the present day. HV declares that the next Important task f public health authorities is to arouse and apply a public opinion and 7 HONOIJLXU. April an effective public demand for the (By the Frees ) Complete dislocation adequate restoration of sunlight and of the calendar, at least so far as milk to thexvrban population of the holidays In Hawaii ar concerned, is world. These two mighty agents of nutrisought tn s bill introduced Into the house of tha territorial legislature by tion, he says, sre closely related Our national 9 illiam J. Coelho. and complementary. The bill provide that each holiday supply of both, as Compared to the r observed In the territory, Christman, United State for instance, is deThanks (riving, Fourth of July, New plorable, quantitatively and qualitaTears and all others, shall be cele- tively. In some degree this may be brated on Mondav, and that It be de- due to inevitable geographical necesclared on The Mondav nearest the sity but in a large degree it is due dale upon which it ordinarily would to our own negligence and ignorance. fall We must drink more milk, enjoins The purpose, Coelho explained, Is this writer He says the people of to provide two' days of leaating.and England are Impossibly handicapped, rest every time a holiday comes industrially and otherwise, by the fact a lenf that the per capita consumption of In another bill, Coelho suggests that miik Is that in the United certain dates be designated as the States. Monstrous machinery exists. time at which historical events hap- he ways, to persuade the public to He explained that drink brer for which no authoritative pened In Hawaii. no on now Hunt can pive testimony physiologist living has a good word. as to the exact dates ol these The medical expert then savg no and that such dates must be one will deny the potency of sunlight established for- - the benefit of court as an agent in curing disease, and he makes a plea to the British authori proceedings. ; ' r. -- N 'Writer er Hawaiian Lawmaker Would Observe All Holidays on Monday one-thir- d octur-rences, election. Th English paper font nue to a ok whether wey will annex Essen. I recite thia to emphasise that In thirty j ears' . political- - experience ,i " cannot remember so many monotonous, uneventful weeks end months In succession., Everywhere there Is nothing but incurable mediocrity and indecision. Nobody goes to the of things and there seems little big-fe- at ultra-mode- fain- ht obligation. Noted Actress Resident. Flverythlng is cheap in Guernsey Jersey and the Isle of Man Vhisk is six shillings a bottle, instead of twelve shillings and sixpence as here Other liquors are in proportion. Food is cheaper, too, and houseware rented for a song, compared to the same paid in the rest of the British Isles Tho weather is warm every month in the year. The island abounds with golf jink places of historic interest and beautiful scenery. Mrs. James Brown Potter famous aetress of a decade ago, and mother of Mrs. Fifl Stillman, central figure Rtillman divorce In the sensational suit, has permanently settled in GuernShe lives in a vttla Havelnt sey Hall on the topmost peak of the Island, next to Victor Hugo s former home, and appears as voung today as in her heyday She is a leader in the social life of the island She says "I live in Guernsey because it is cheap and because 1 love itof It is theI Youth nearest to the Fountain bave-iou.after traveling the world nd ties to stamp out what he catH the disease of darkness, and restore Ens gland's black cities and blighted to their place in the sun "W are not only badly housed he observer. with Infamous slums Mbut our national source of power is our barbaric combustion of soft coal, which renders our cities the darkest on earth Thanks to our urbanisation our Industrialisation, and our neglect of agriculture, we are very poorly supplied with those fresh and natural foods which abound in vitamins It is time we learned the value of milk and sunlight They are more needed by us than any nation on earth. citi-xen- RADIO TO PICK UP SIGNALS OF DISTRESS Parts Asw-late- - ly -- ul kt-ch- rer-vtc- 7Bv Jan-uar- lUdio-FVanc- Universal Service Cable A radio LONDON, March 31 for automatically pirklng op and announcing distress signals from ships at sea has been invented bv the wireless department of the poetofflce It U at pre,nt und,roin, reliability testa at North Foreland wireless sta tion. which la one of rha most exacting tn the world from testing point of view. 80 far all testa haie proved satisfactory, and the postof-fi- c engineers have great hopes centered in their Invention Further tests sre to be made aboard ships, and If they prove successful Great Britain will submit the device to the next international wireless convention for world-wid- e adoption Technical details are not available except that the instrument works on a system of relays. The net result ts that If a ship Is within a limit of the device, which transmits a fifteen second dash, an alarm bell will ring end draw the attention of the operator. With a Haul the use of the Invehtlon necessarily will be restricted to coastal niVa b g ' trade routes Large ships carrvlng three wireless will not remilre t but the operator, great proportion of ships fitted with wireless carry only one or two operators, who cannot efficiently main-laia continuous "watch. - i oe-vi- 100-mt- le n Price to Japan v, e. v Mohammedans Declared to Be Host Device Invented by Wireless Department of Postoffice Is Undergoing Tests. v on Earth 111 n, one-lev- two-lei- O 1 1 English la being studied as never before in cent ml Eajvooc. In the of sdioot foreign Hanruaa Vienna th number of those riudv-m-of more that U Is than double H j The students of the other lan- Mans of the combined Suages are learning nglish for use heie English is recognised as the future language of business but a great many are sludvlng in the hopt that sometime and somehow the wil go to the United States "I - TARD1EU. it sprrijjM, 0VX. by < Ask. Tripos, PAftfS, April 7. Tbe hatch pf our Caster eggs Includes these facts. The Ruhr manufactures incited the working men agsbist the French, who were obliged to defend themselves. The Turks are socking a last ref- - and tho nobillly. In Adverlm there is peace, money and- s chance to make one secure, (fieap Food, Rent and Liquor Make Cfiannef Isfes Paradise Conditions. v V'--S Deemed Profitable Source. It is pointed out by those who vor the scheme that if France, Mediocre Statesmanship Intimated as Cause of Is xeetJtcrc Ok Liter. A. a "A V Scientists, Musicians, La borers and Nobility Long for Ship Fare. Huiy-arw-j- ' lx -- i hTy'S; A - Anglo-Saxon- Anglo-Saxo- V v eTl e'V K a. - -- . ,v ' " 1 I ' Crf jvt- - . tcspA,f?jAr,- Lottery. Has Eye Government on Rakeoff Now Enjoyed by Professionals. f r N1 to marry, the bot-'to- m Kywta 'ityd-ati- c, April 7. common dtnease, but one pronpect almost unknown to the general public by name. Is caused by dog according to Lira. J. BerMst, trand and G MedakuwiU'h. who lectured on the matter before tho Anatomical Hocdety of France Dogs' tongues, said the doctor frequently sre carriers of an invisible microbe which causes an- resembling cancer of tha brain. Jackals and wolves are also subject to the disease No dog owner should permit Ms pet to lick his hands or face In attempts to show his friendliness, ssy the professors. of change. Rohr Situation Unchanged. Iii the Ruhr on the German side there ia passive resistance and nn the French side passive action, in England there is nothing official, wh le the businesa men try to discover oc.whether th French cupation will prove costly or benefit ial to them. The coal and coke i producers see prices rising, - while manufacturers complain they cannot meet such an Increase. At oolen merchants complain the German market is failing off and British mins owners fetr American competition, as they seen msny German colliers crossing th Atlantic., in Turkey the need for common action increases. Kcmal. who Is far from being rtnpid, continues t endeavor to drive s wedge between the British and French He ia eeraving to blackmail each In turn. The h maxing concessions which were granted to him at lausanne do Hatsirv either him or those who are behind him in facti it ia the tatter who offend, because, to koep his power, hemal has been obliged to yield to Ihe.r constantly Increasing demands. AAhat ia happening in uncultured r Turkey Is not greatly different to what is going on In cultured nations. Forpolicy serves sa an instrument Patagonia Discovery May ofeignInternational politics. That la what States when happened Cause Full Revision of Wilson - fell InandtheIn tnited France when Clem, To r fell. of the man. enerattrid get t policies were denounced onlr to Ideas on Age of Man. his be tsken up again when he had been disposed of. But generally this conies too late. j ? n , AssoIxD.VDON, ApHi 7, (By th ciated prsp ) Much speculation si to the age of man has arisen as a result of the recent discoveries of fossil human skulls in South America, Patagonia and the island of Jersey. The estimates as to the antiquity of tha humaa race range all the way from ten thousand to a million years. Dr. Wolfs reported discovery , In Patagonia of a fossilised human akuil of the tertiary period however, may nullify all previous scientific calculations on this subject, and the public is now getting a little chary about accepting even scientists estimates regarding the date of the origin of th human race Fiver eince the unearthing of the ashes of King Tutankhamen, who, in th view of anthropologists, Is to be reckoned oniy as an "infant," aa the age of man goes, startling discoveries heve been made all over the world which upset ell well established anthropological foundation. Dr. A. Bmith Mood ward, director of the geological department of the British museum, makes some Interesting commentaries on th latest discoveries In skulls and bones. "For a moment," says ha, the public seemed to assume that we had found at last 1tha first man who lived on earth. fear, however, that these conjectures are as haseiess as they are interesting Bince the skull from is ssid to have been found Jersry near a neolithic batrial chamber. It is prooabiy much nesrer our period than anv of the skull of fossil men which show .resemblance to their e ancestor. And since the specimen from Fats font comes from a country which has furnished more 'mares nests' In the study of prehistoric and ancestral man than any other part of the world. It will not excite interest among anthropologists until some geologist admittedly skilled 'n such matters his satisfied himself that this ia a true fossil, definitely associated with the remains of extinct animals. ape-lik- Older Than Mountains. Who, then. Dr. Woodward asks, was on earth To be stricthe replies, we have not ly accurate yet found him, although we have some reason to think we know where to look In th dim borderland of time which separates man from monkey the first man Regrets Evident. Americans who now are se-- k ng means te participate in European life cannot use the treaty whirh failed to ratify as a stepping-stonthey The French, who discredited the same treaty as insufficient, now would be very glad if they could hope to get what they once were so sure they could obtain Too late Opportunity knock only once. Angora will learn this, too. These reflections mav surprise Americans, but look again and you wilt tind they ar true. The reason is that everybody has turned their backs on tha lessons that were taught by the war. Fivery one of us now is doing the exact opposite of what once won the war and the result Is that events sre ' marching pa a wav from our goal just like a reversed film. Perhaps in th end wo may see thi and draw the proper conclusion, but there is no evidence st this moment that this time is at hand. some e. First Rendition of Home, Sweet Home Is Again Recalled Universal Service LONDON March Ctble. si. rtose t hundred year aao n per a th the or Th romantic title of VlarL was produced Maid of Milan tt Covent Garden The Fbrttto wae mritUn by a wandering Amoricnii John Howard Payne, and the mu' was composed by the facile and popular Bir Hitnr Btohop. Tha production was a failure and i today tha very name of the Yat in tha for (gotten. second aei a aimpi sonf which todav there i better known than any other a r throughout the world. U wtvaa Home, Hweet frame The ffonf was a perfect expression of ad the homesick nes of ail tha exhe of races during a the hundred years of adventure and colonisation. May S 1JT3, was the actual date Home when V!ari PwM and Home flrat fell upon the ears of tha world Few of those who love th song know the theme of th opera i the adventure of a farmer preitv daughter, who reforms a wgyward duke and marries him. It ia hoped that the centenary of the tong will be marked by tne tinting of " it at concerts all over the world Bir Htnrir Wood ha not arranged any centenary celebration for th Queen s hall, and the director of on Of the greatest concert agencies in the world was grateful to a Universal Service representative who fumtehed him with the date when Home, bweet Home was first sung J H Payne, the lonelv wandeier who wrote the song, will never be forgotten Its words expressed the desolation of hi own heart. He was fated never to reach and home, sweet home, died an exile In Tunis u tra LncHah-epeakl- there roamed, somewhere in Central Asia, a form of ape destined te be the precursor of man. It ia impossible to fix a date for his appearance. but we do know that when he came into being the Himalayan mountains had not yet reared thalr peak. eminent British ' The geologist says nothing has yet been discovered respecting the habits and life of these apes. A party of American naturalist is now searching for themyin promising localities in Mongolia, he adds. It was In the Neanderthal, near DueesetdorX, Germany, writes Dr Woodward that the remains of the earliest man of whom anything Is really known ware discovered. "Compared with our knowledge of hi ancestors.' he sayg. We Is an intimate aoquain lance. But It Is impossible to assign him a date in year. Swedish geologists petticoats. We have also found rereckon his age as about 17,900 years.' main of paint and rouge, which seem to signify the dawn of vanity. Habits Are Recorded! Most remarkable of all we hav continwfct tha ascertained that these early human Neanderihal man British scientist, "was definitely a being believed In a future lire an man He lived in caves from which enormous advarce hi thought T iei he sallied forth to hunt h animals, buried their dead and with the d h such a mammoth rhinoceros, re'n-de- we have found both stone implement and bison ahich then roamed and the bones of animals hr A over Europe. We have found his tool been buried when Ntill covered w th have found fleob, and were doubtless Inter ded to flint and hone, and even the bon pin with which poesi-be ued aa food in case th oepartet the early women- - fastened the spirit should sufler the pangs of hich akin served them for rough hunger large-brain- I er hb bl W 4 |