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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. Vent v Years Ago in 1 his Palace in France PAYSON. UTAH In so far as this article has listed so many provisions of the Treaty of Versailles which Germany has not honored, it seems rather superfluous to mention an- other, since it has to do with of all things! a skull. Article 246 of the treaty says. "Germany will hand over to His Britannic Majestys government the skull of the Sultan Mkwawa which was removed from the protectorate of German East Africa and taken to Germany." And thereby hangs Frederick the Great Knew Hew To Rebuke a Grumbling OSc O" It is a story they tell of Frederick the Great, how at one of his levees toward the end of his reign an old field officer came up and prayed a word with his majesty. Why not? says Frederick, who loved his soldiers. Step over to the window with me, good Herr Oberst. You weie saj ing this tale: Majesty, says the Oberst, When the Germans began their have spent my life in your service. followpenetrations of East Africa in My hair has grown giay,health is the last decades of the Nineteenth ing your standard. My century, they met strong opposi- broken, my old body is covered tion from certain Bantu tribes, with wounds, from your camwho were Wahabi Moslems. paigns and your battles. And MajAmong the peoples of Africa esty, all these hard years, all this the Bantus are regarded as the toil, all these battles and marches bravest and most advanced, and count as nothing when I see in the Mohammedan religion the promoted over my head chil- Wahabis are the fanatical Puritan ' 1 youn-ker- Statesmen, Known as the Big Four,' Ing Siuu cu 80 M ipeij ion. i5ctai A Mtf type and best fighters. A Magic Charm. Beginning in 1870 the sultans of the Bantus, leaders of this fierce Wahabi sect, fought the German occupation of their lands for around Lake Tanganyika nearly 30 years. The last and greatest of these was Sultan Mk- wawa who added a mystical note to the native shrew'dness and courage of his predecessors. The word spread among his people that he had a magic charm which would prevent his ever being cap- tured by his enemies. So the young Bantus .flocked to his standard, resolved to fight to the death against the oppres-- 1 sions of the Germans. German soldiers found it dangerous to wander far from their posts lest they be w'iped out in a Bantu ambush. Eventually, however, the German Mausers wore down the resistance of the poorly armed Bantus. In the late nineties the sultanate, which had held its own since 1870, found itself on its last legs. Mkw'awa, who had convinced himself and his followers that Allah would never let him be taken, found The Art of Conversation On the Road r RIVING is often monoto-nous- , and to break the tedium drivers indulge in conversation. Sometimes this pastime leads to serious accidents. Following is a guide for motor- ists: Dont discuss anything debatable or join in any arguments. ' Converse on innocuous subsuch as the weather, clothes, sports, hobbies, art, entertainment and books. Dont tell or allow your passengers to tell jokes. A person often closes his eyes while jects Joan Edlaughing heartily. wards in Kansas City Star. s dren who were cadets when I led a company m your gienudieis Look at so and so, look at that one lieutenant generals, and I am still a major. Majesty, I grow to the end of my mortal term. For all my years of service, if for nothing else, giant me promotion. The Prussian king took his arm and pointed to the window, where a picket line of artillery mules munched their straw. Major, you see those mules? You see the old mule at this end- They have made many campaigns, the old one, this way, has made 20 campaigns. But, my good Heir Oberst, they aie John W. Thomason still mules! Jr. in American Mercury. flea-bitte- n - Repairing Sea Cables New FIeator Boy llis Fir.t (and l.ast ) Day A Basement Going up! First floor all mens wear, shirts, suits, baby linen, soft furnishings. Going up. Which floor, madam? Second floor all ladies' wear, babies suits, soft shirts, haberGoing up. dashery, furnishings. Seven? Which floor, madam? no seventh Theie is floor, madam. Third floor all mens wear, shirts, baby haberdashery, and ladies Shoots and furnishings. hoes. Madam, there is no seventh floor. lall wadies Fourth floor s mear, hubersuits, shoft hah furneshary. L! madam, theres no seventh floor. Fifth floor oots and boes, the Lambeth Walk, faby burmshings, and oh, etcetera. Madam, for the last time, theres no seventh haberur-nishmg- The captain of a cable ship recently reported that lie had repaired a break in a submarine ca- floor! ble off the coast of South Africa Sixth floor sirts and shuits, Howwith little or no difficulty. haberladies dashery, lady binen. ever, even if all goes well, the job For the last time (CRASH!) of locating and repairing an ocean Now will you believe there isnt cable seems intricate and arduous a seventh floor? to a landlubber. Electricians on shore first determine by means of special inAlan Not So Smart struments where the cable is broken. Then the cable ship steams to the spot. The ship lowers a Thousands of years before man grappling hook and steams slowly began to have afternoon headback and forth at right angles to aches from trying to think, the the path of the cable. a streamlined body, had turtle When the cable, which is often buried in the mud, is hooked, it is turret top, retractable landing Moimmediately pulled to the surface gear and a portable house. bile Register. and repaired. himself cornered. the Treaty That Ended World War " lied By ELINIO SCOTT WATSON VEST 'Released by Western Newspaper Union. JUNE 28, 1919, the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France, for the third time in its world-wid- e sig-chistory, was the scene of an event of On that date was signed the treaty of peace which officially the World war. ;his same hall on January 18, 1871, the King of Prussia, if a conquering army, had been proclaimed Emperor rmanv and e. there on the same year this independence shall be inaliexcept with the consent reliminary treaty of enable, of the council of the League of n concluding the Franco-aNations. So read one of the parwar had been agraphs in the treaty. What It ended that war, it would be the thoughts of Kurt ary 26 of but those two ;, he o . lies, lonth, Four ) topi itinctfl iful k warn ' Czecho-Slova- of the e of Gieat Britain, Wood-ilso- . by the principal allied and sociated powers and the other inHas Eduard terested states. of former president Benes, Georges Clemen-o- f France, David Lloyd XJMM0S of the Germa- complete independence k state . . Treaty of the fronsigned 20 years ago ny hereby recognizes were known as the tiers of this state as determined as- authors non Ta former chancellor Schuschnigg, an-an- tel SQU events of Austria and recently released d foundations for from a Nazi prison (or was he?), greater war which upon reading those words now? flame forth 43 years . . recognizes the Germany n States iittorio Orlando of Italy, had stated their desire to about a firm, just and In the light of what fpppened since then, it now 1 extremely doubtful if they JJ4 the right adjectives to Frd peace" especially the of the United Czecho-Slovaki- a, now a lecturer in the United States, learned dur-eacenough of our American idiom to Courts say Oh, yeah? if shown that short passage in the treaty. No Fortifications? time o on. Germany is forbidden to maintain and construct any fortire! fications either on the left bank 20 years later finds that of the Rhine or on the right bank and of the Rhine west of a line drawn firm anything but ble and that, according to 50 kilometers east of the Rhine resent head of the nation In the area defined above, had no other choice but to and the assem;1ectTK maintenance the t it, is because it was much bly of armed forces, and milias 'an a just peace. Now on eir uak; tary maneuvers of any kind 'entieth anniversary of the well as the upkeep of all permarheKON of the tiy p"! Treaty of Ver-- 5 nent works for mobilization, are it is not inappropriate to in the same way forbidden. in bed' !ne some of its provisions Would Adolf Hitler's lips curl Ee what tneir present status an ironical smile if you should mu "S to Her iBt'h point out those paragraphs The League of Nations. him? s, led S' first of those The military, naval and aerial provisions joe Covenant of the League provisions of the treaty stated Jhons. The principal expo- - that the German army was to that covenant, which was be limited to 100,000 men (Hitler Zll sed to be inettj a guarantee is said to have had 100,000 men st future TheT under arms during the Czech criwars, was Wood-ulsopublirj President of the Unit- sis and he occupied the Sudelen-lan- d Umversa with 250.000). ies. Yet his country almost iiirrN oiately refused to join it compulsory military service shall ne said passing of two decades be abolished in Germany en Japan and 500,000 Italy, two the treaty. (Each year founders, leave it and Ger-young Germans are being put ater liner, from into uniform, according to reliaresign Joe two principal weapons ble reports.) . teague which were to en-- ? German naval forces were lims decrees battleships, economic and ited to six 10,000-to12 destroyers ry sanctions have proved six light cruisers, and the conrnpotent and today the and 12 torpedo boats Na'lons exists more in struction or acquisition of submathan in fact the rines were forbidden Ask been teCt,n and third provisions German workmen who have dealt with the boun- - building 35,000 and 26 IA'1 ., 0 Germany and reassign-j- j ships and a whole fleet of I boats 'Kjjj about that provision! p European territories. The armed forces of Germajte,r.r;?nce stH has Alsace--f er militlle Saar Basin is ny must not include any Go filtM forces. O der the sovereignty of naval air or tary Charles Lindbergh could furnish to some interesting testimony as l clause of that Tescpp and to' atknnw!edges the observance i strictly the independ- - the treaty. 10f Austna-s- he No fortifications commanding agrees that e. ... . yortuf-vid- n, , V n 000-to- km n the routes between the North sea and the Baltic were to be maintained. The fortifications and naval harbors of the islands of Heligoland and Dune were to be destroyed, and no new fortifications were to be constructed within 50 kilometers of the German coast. Ask the captain of any ship which steams past Heligoland whether or not any fortifications are noticeable! With Herr Hitler repeatedly referring to the return of Germanys lost colonies, it is interesting to read in the Treaty of Versailles this sentence: Germany renounces in. favor of the principal allied and associated powers all her rights and titles of her oversea possessions. Look in the of the Statistical Year-BooLeague of Nations and youll find this table: k Present Mandatory Power Belgium Colony Ruanda Urundi Great Britain France Great Britain France Great Britain Tanganyika Cameroons Cameroons Toeoland Togoland Souhwest Africa Union of Africa Pacific Islands South Japan (Caroline. Marianne. Marshall Islands) New Guinea Nauru Western Samoa Australia Australia New Zealand But, you say, werent Italy and the United States both Allied Powers during the war? How come, then, that they arent listed among the mandatory powers? The answer is, of course, that Uncle Sam didnt want any of the former German possessions. Italy did, and by the London treaty of 1915 had been promised equitable compensation in the event that France and Great Britain increased their colonial territories in Africa at the ex1919 she pense of Germany. In wanted those two nations to make good on their promise. But obit wasnt until 1925 that Italy BritGreat from Jubaland tained ain and some unimportant "rectification" of frontier lines through uninhabited wastes from France. And that's one reason for the celof Rome-Berliaxis ebrated What he told his followers is unknown. He had guaranteed he could not be captured; he could make certain he would never be taken alive. So he committed suicide, believing it Allah's will. But he was not quick enough. The advance guard of Captain Von Prinzs Germans, headed by Sergeant Merkal, came upon the body before it could be spirited away. Sergeant Merkal had little thought of charms, of magic, of the will of Allah. He was a matter-of-fact modern European. But the head had a definite value for him, for the government offered 6,000 rupees for the man who would take Mkwawa, dead or alive. He severed the head from the body, and preserved it in alcohol, as evidence that he was entitled to the reward. Feeling that the country was now pacified, Captain Von Prinz ordered his men to return to the nearest blockhouse for a rest. The sultans head was locked in the cellar of the fort. One night, when the garrison was sleeping, a handful of men slipped into the blockhouse, and groped their way into the cellar. They took the head preserved in its alcohol and made their way out without disturbing anyone. Head Is Stolen. In the morning it was found that Mkwawas head and the alcohol were gone. In its place was a freshly severed Bantu head. Perhaps it had belonged to an informer who had betrayed the sultans whereabouts to the Germans. Since then both heads have bedeviled the Germans, one by its absence, the other by its presence. The head of the sultan, buried somewhere in the territory, could be resurrected at any time as a signal for Bantu revolt. The presence of the other head gave color to the idea that the Germans were lying when they claimed to have lost the sultans skull. After the World war, when German East Africa became Tanganyika territory, a British mandate, the English wished possession of the sultans skull. Perhaps they thought it would add to the native respect of their new rule. Perhaps they wished to present it to the natives as evidence of British kindliness as contrasted with German cruelty. Anyhow, they had Article 246 written into the Treaty of Ver- v. C0RDIR0DYIG1VES AGAINSTJB10W0UTS SCIENTinClSAFETYlTREAD GIYESUONGlNONrlKIDlHItEAGE Irs big . . . its tough . . . its packed with thousands upon thousands of miles of safer, more dependable service. Its backed by a written Lifetime Guarantee, No Time or Mileage Limit. Its the value sensation of 1939. The famous Firestone Standard Tire is now priced so low that every car owner in America can afford to buy genuine Firestone quality. 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THE BIG BUY FOR YOU TRUCK OWNERS CONVOY sailles But it turned out that the sultoday. tan's skull was probably one of Of course, there are a number those reparations which Germaof ny lacked the capacity to pay. of other items in the Treaty Versailles which arent worth the Evidence was taken among the on soldiers who had been present in theyre written paper so to speak. of the blockhouse, and from the widpaper straps to a treaAll add of Captain Von Prinz. ow up they Altogether decades has fallen agreed that the head had been ty that m two far short of bringing about the lost, was still buried in some se..firrn pM and durable peace" cret place in Africa, ready to be believed produced again when the time Big Four wl .oh' toe when on June for revolt was ripe. achieved rad they the In 1920 the British appeared to og pn:i. they summoned into l be satisfied with the explanation. Hall of Mirrors German repre-ard said to them in Yet in several cases the sultans spl l3. dotted line on skull bobbed up unexpectedly to efTeot, Here is the disturb the British parliament whicii vou are to sign. a when some member of that body after peace years Forty-thre1871, asked why Article 246 of the was signed at Versailles in were again Treaty of Versailles had never and Germany France itbeen complied with. It is doubtat war. Will history repeat war ful, though, if it is likely to come at them find again and self up again. There are too many 13 years after the Verm 11 wall it others vastly more important to Or 1919? of sailles treaty that? worry about now! come much sooner than n 01 roOBOBGHDQHB Heres a long-wearin- ifs .acor rip Tr taore S,e r . g economy tire for the thrifty truck operator. Built with Firestones famous patented construction features, the Firestone Convoy is the value sensation of 1939 for truck service. Get our low prices today! 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