111 -i 1 Vm3L&ZA5F?K /? ?-&/-*&?/os*r/ /Hot i By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN K^l 17 |e who fear death take heed I^U I Spring? Spring with Its bursting sod I That cries, Q Death, where is t LkhhI I bring Dew life from God." Ye who rear death now hope acclaim, Be brave among the br^ve; "Christ is risen," the belllB proclaim, "No vict'ry hath the gra|ve." Y'e who fear death with (lfe at strife Have faith in Easter Day With message of immortal life For all our mortal clay! 1 Easter makes a many-sided appeal to t! many-aided Twentieth Century American. For 1 complex civilization of Twentieth Century Am lea has produced a complex man. This is i mittedly a materialistic age. And it is oft stated that the American of today does not go church. Yet the statistics show that the chui membership Is increasing much faster than t population. In 1890 the church membership w 34 per cent of the population and in 1922 it w 45 per cent. In the latter year there were 243,.' churches, with 47,407,251 members, 214,385 m isters, and 204,464 Sunday schools with 25,189.^ members. The total amount of money raised all churches was-$518,317,578. So to approximately one-half of the Americ people the season of the Resurrection is one paramount! Importance. The Resurrection is, course, at all times a basic fact in their rellglc life. But {at Easter all hearts and minds t attuned to the message of the day, "Christ Risen." Doubtless most of the other half of our peoj are more concerned about the Easter messa than Is apparent. Not every man who pondi over the mystery of death and has hope in t s message, "Death is swallowed up in victory," is church-goer. And many a reverent mind and Ilevlug heart Is to be found outside the churci on Easter Sunday. This is shown by the rema able picture showing early morning Easter se Ices near Los Angeles. This earth, it should be remembered, is ve very old. And man'has been on It a long, lc time. Man for untold ages has rejoiced over I coming of Spring. To primitive man In most pa of the earth winter was a time of privation, menace to existence and often of death. So 1 coming of Spring was literally the promise renewed life. And great was his rejoicing there When Christianity came to bless the wo: Easter was already a festival. The Church w quick to Impart the religious significance Easter to the rejoicing of the pagan festival, it is today that there till lingers much of I ^ Easter of prehistoric times. So it is today that c Twentieth Century Easter is a euriou# co mingling of the Christian and the pagan. The nature-lover of Unlay Is an object lesson the persistence of man's close affinity with Natl which even a material and artificial clvilizat: has'been largely powerless to destroy. In anch Chinese poetry is to be found such lines as the! |. . . Suddenly there comes The revelation of the ancient wind, Flooding my soul with glory; till I feel One with the brightness of the flrst fair dawn One with the many-colored spring; and all The secrets of the scrtited hearts of flowers Are whispered through me . . . This ancient Chinese poet san^long bef< Christianity had come to man. The modi nature-lover sings: Touched by a light that has no name, A beauty never Sung; Aloft on sky and mountain wall Are Ood's great pictures hung. Yes, the modern Dature-lover sees God Nature. He may not be conventional In religious connection and performance, but he w ships with a sincere faith and a believing lies He sees in Ithe magnificent response of his o being to "God's great pictures" the proof divinity in humanity. In the presence of A beauty perfect, ripe, complete That Art's own hand could only smutch And Nature's self not better much the nature-lcjver realizes that he is the only anfr who can thlpk, "I am; I ought; I can." And it In the presence of this majestic beauty of Natl that the nature-lover is most apt to resolve, will." Many a high ideal has! been found an lofty mountain peaks. It is because the nature-lover! so universally s a J D1 ? iviysiery r uxy A uiuajr< . -j Every Good Friday at Monaco, on o< belli tive ahores cjf the Mediterranean, a way ar< "Mystery Play" Is performed. I In It which all who took part In that greatest and stately most divine drama which the world Pilate ever knew are represented In the pro- servant cession, by the specially chosen mem- parasol ?v?r? of a religions brotherhood, utters I "torches are lighted, and the drama or i ecno u the national I gqanj supply the place J lurieeS. I J ; J J '/y7^ ? ^Mwktf m? ^ M U^ tW*?.?^ ' ^ || ? . w>M!???? ?fc?l.?b<^1>WI>?.rw.?.?^ H w^wtCVfa) t. r>?.??, H Lihiwi'IKBIUILI n I a*M h >> ^ >1 >?g*H. ^ I I )b?n|i l|^_ 2jj|^ :en to God Id Nature that Luther Burbank's recent ch public declaration that he la an "Infidel" la evoking :he ao much discussion. Everyone knows that the ras "plant wizard" has achieved seeming miracles In ^ as creating new plants, flowers and fruits. And nearUS 'y everyone Is surprised at the conclusion he has ! In- now come to. He says. In part: 5 119 I do recognise the existence of s greet universal by power?a power whloh we can't even begin to comprehend and. might a? well net attempt to. It may be a conscious mind and It may not. I don't an know. As a scientist I should like to know, but of as a man I am not so vitally concerned. 0f As for Christ?well. He has been most outrageously belled. His followers . . . have so gar>us bled His words and conduct that many of them no ire longer apply to present life. . , He was an lg lnfldel of His day, because He rebelled against the prevailing religion and government. , I am a lover of Christ as a man and His works ^ and all things that help humanity, but, nevertheless, just as He was an lnfldel then, I am an lnfldel ;rs ' today. I do not believe what has been served to be me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When It can be proved to me that there ' a Is lmmortalltjy, that there Is resurrection beyond be- the, gates of death, ttffln will 1 believe. Until then," no. rk- Mr. Burbank. it will be noted, demands "proof rv- by the crucible" of future life. Doubtless many half-thinkers will say, "Well, Burbank should ry, know." But Mr. Burbunk does not know. Nobody ing in all the world knows. Immortality rests largely he on a foundation of universal human longing and rts of faith. Mankind has clung to the hope of a life of beyond the grave from the very dawn of the the face. The relics of the Stone Age give evidence, of You find it In the records of the ancient Egyptians, at. The aboriginal American had it. Cicero, the famous rl(j writer and orator of old Home, wrote this: ras There Is. I know not how, In the minds of men, of a certain presage, as It were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most #lsflnvgrohla In t h? if rpn f fenlusco on/4 _ _ he alted souls. >ur, Cleero may have had the right of it. But no m- breast of man or woman Is too humble to have the belief and hope. Nor Is this belief and hope of something to be hidden from public sight. Pick Jce up any newspaper and you will find expression of lon It in the "In Memorlam" verse of the "Death ent Notices." Here are two examples, taken at ran9e; dom. with names omitted: Often we pause and think of you And think of how sudden you died; To think you could not say good-bye i. Before you closed your eyes. We think of you as one who sleeps All free from grief and pain; Happy days we know will come When we shall meet again. jre ?rn A sad and lonely year has pashed girtce our dearvmother was taken away; Shadows over our lives are cast, And dark is our home, today. Without her the world seems very different we find, But sweet are the memories she left behind. God knew best and took her to the beautiful shore, Where we shall soon meet her, to part no more. in hig Easter has Its importance, entirely aside from . or. the question whether the venerable "plant wizard ,rf. infidel" Is right or wrong. Men may differ over wn whether the resurrection experiences of the folof lowers of Jesus were subjective or objective. Bute history establishes the fact that these experiences were of world-wide Importance. The followers of Jesus believed that He who had been upon the cross and had lain In Joseph's tomb survived lh Qal their midst a real and living presence. This faith is brought together the scattered groups. This faith ire changed dejection to rejoicing. This faith carried "I them through bitter persecution. This faith won nld Increasing inherents. This faith triumphed over all opposition. It became the message of life ees eternal. It Is the Easter message of today. |V rN i slave presents him with the 5 UlVine Ur&lllH i Of water which he bears. H _ ! four doctors of law, arrayi ; and cap; yonder King Her i which are wanting." On the ! den crown surmountjng h s portrayed the various stations ; venerable gray; Saint Pete marked that one-time sad and i cock, which must to all tl passage to Calvary; Pontius j to his discredit; Thomas, t walks gloomily, "escorted by ajlous; and Judas, false and who carfles a large white friend of all. Three shrou over nis neaa, wniie, as he clad, and weeping female \ those hateful words which still resent the Marys; the Jev own through the listening een- their axes; while even -"I wash my hands of It," a Eve follow In the train. "1 I j POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRY ON, Jv~ ! So the vital meaning of the Easter message of ; today is that It is possible for every man to live In the light and power of the life eternal, both now and forever. Easter, as all good church people know, falls ]this year on April 4. Last year It fell on April d2. Next year It will fall on April 17. Seldom 4Hoes It fall on the same date In successive years. Its earliest date In recent times was March 22 In the year 1818; Its latest appears to have been April 25 In 1886. Future years In which Easter ~ *" 4' rnnnlk koua hAAn Will rail On cue same any UI Uir luumu ..u.v calculated thug: March 23?2008. 2160, 2228, 2380. March 31?1929, 1991, 2002, 2013. April 1?1984, 194S, 1956, 2018. April 4?1926, 1999, 2010. April 7?1985, 1996, 2075, 2080. April 8?1928, 2007. 2012, 2001. April 12?1925, 1956, 1998, 2209. April 20?1930, 2003, 2004. April 23?2000. 2079. The moon Is to blame for the variableness of the Easter date. In the early days of the Christian church the fixing of tjie Easter date was a vexed question for several centuries. The Christians of Jewish descent did not care whether Easter fell on Sunday or on a week day. The Christians of Gentile descent wanted It to fall on Sunday. The question was not decided till the Council of Nice took action In 325. Sooner or later, however?and It may be surprisingly soon?we shall have a new calendar which will change all this. This new calendar will have a year of 13 months and It will work some radical changes. Christmas and New Year's Day will always fall on the same day of the week and so will the Fourth of July and Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday. And this new calendar will also flx^the date of Easter Sunday, so that It will fall on the same day of the same month each year. It will be the business Interests of the world that bring about the adoption of this new calendar?If It Is adopted. And, If you stop to think, this fixing of the Easter date will please many peoplel For many people are engaged in pursuits In which Easter bulks large. There are, for example, the florists. Eastertide Is one of their harvest times. It Is easily to be Imagined that a variation of a whole month In the falling of Easter does not .fill them with joy. For, of course, they must have their flowers ready to the house to catch the cream of the market. Easter Is a time for new clothing?and especially for new hats for the fair sex. A fixed Easter date would ufadoubtedly be hailed with Joy by fashion-designers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, to say nothing of ?e people who wear the new clothing and the new hats In the fashion parades of Easter Sunday. The egg men also have to keep a weather-eye out for the shifting dates of Easter. Also the Incubator men who furnish the cute little chicks for Show windows. LJKewise me chuuy-uiueni. adu as the beginning of Lent depeijifls ijpon the Easter date the dealers In fish must watch their calendars. Altogether the date of the falling of Easter each year Is of financial Interest to many people. Of course, the business world. In working on a 13-month calendar, Is only Incidentally concerned about Easter. But It all serves as an object lesson of how closely our social, industrial and religious llvies are linked by modern civilization. silver eWer of Louis Qulnze, with powdered wlga, 4re are the eating apples off the bough of an or?d In gown ange tree." od, his gol 19 Odd Make-Up r, with that - , ^ me witness Occasionally we meet a man who he lncredu- deBP,l,e8 the people who flatter him moot cruel and hate* thoae who do not flatter de* black- 111111 at "".-Exchange. figures rep- j 's brandish Tune 'Em Oat Adam and Some radio singers are lucky they're n costumes ha?r<1 n rl not - - - 1 !' ' \ ! : 1 \. < ! . ' ;| j . ' 'I I. *?. i . ' fin-lefil- "ifflb'n ~?Wi i * rh^t iii vAt 1 T ?u \ Ancient W; : (I repared bV 'th* National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.) < RUMORS In European diplomat!* circles that Oreat Britain ma* consent to Italy's taking ovei a pprt of southwestern Ash M nor seen! to revive plans formulat ed toward the close of the World wa: whereby Adalla and the surroundinf couijtry were to become Italian terrl to 'V, In this rjeglon Italy already pos se ises the sizable island of Rhodes of th > southwestern corner of Asia Mlnoi an J the little island of Kastelorizo, 71 milep farther east and close to th( mi itiland. The mainland here form: a )lunt peninsula, known as Lycla Ir thd days of Greek supremacy In Aslf Mljior. The city of Adalla Is at th< eastern base of this peninsula, at the he ad of the Gulf of Adalla. ] p almost every era since the dawr of history Rhodes has had Its years 01 Im iortance. It was In the favorec location in early times, at the cross ing of the marine highways betweer Byriahtluro. Greece and Italy or th? one hand, and on the other Egypl .a, Ikraolarn Aclo Minor Bnd Svfla gateway to the East. Inevitably t great maritime and commercial com munlty grew up on Rhodes; It tool the torch of Mediterranean commerce from Phoenicia to pass It on later t< By :antlum, Rome, "Genoa and Venice J .s a result of Rhodes' dominant corinperclal position. Its laws and coin age were the standards of their daj throughout the Mediterranean. The Rh odians, too. were colonizers and plaited their stations on the shores ol Asia Minor, Africa. Greece, Italy and even Spain. lite Washington, D. C.. the city ot Rhodes was laid out, on Its establish meut In 408 B. C., according to an or derwj plan, by an architectural engl ne?er, Hlppodamus of Miletus. The nevr city was given a sort of "com mission form" of government consisting of a group of six executives When Rhodes was destroyed by earth quake In 227 B. C., it received the practical sympathy of its world as Tolyo did in 1023; relief funds were sen from all the Hellenic states tc repair the damage. Even the Greti Colossus was a "victory statue," made of enemy catapults and other war en gines-j? the "gun-metal" of the day. Stronghold of Crusaders. P?rjiaps the most picturesque era In Rhodes' history was from 1309 to 1f>2when It was the stronghold of the crutadlng Knights of St. .*>hn and the bulwark of Christendom against the Moslems. The old Greek city had prae tically disappeared when the knights came and they built anew great moats and walls, bastions and towers, and staunch stone dwellings The r evacuated the city to the Turkf In 1 >22, but the deep marks their twr centuries of occupancy left remain to day. It Is doubtful If In all Burop? Is tr be found a more perfect example of n European fortified city of the Fifteenth century than Is to be seer In Rhodes, geographically and elimat Icall y the quintessence of the Neai East. In the city's main thoroughfare, th? Stre>t: of the Knights, are the same tine old windows, even if most of them are disfigured by superimposed lattices to shield harem ladles from unauthjrized view. Built into the walls of ti e old knights' residences are the coat;-of-arms of some of the most famous t^oble families of Kurope. No trace of the famous Colossus oi Rho<: es remains today. This bronze 8tatue,jmore than a hundred feet high, whic 1 ranked as one of the seven wonders of the world, was toppled over by an earthquake in 224 B. C., after standing only 56 years] j The piece? {lay where they had fallen fQr nearly 900 years when a more ignominlcus fate overtook them. They were sold to a junk dealer. In May, 1912, an Italian fleet landed a force on the island of Khodes, and in a short time compelled the small Turkish garrison to capitulate. Accotding to an Italian census of the city of Rhodes taken soon after the occupation, the population numbered 13,744 ; namely, 4,890 Moslems, 4,290 lews and 3,564 Greeks, making practically an equal division among the three nationalities. The Jews and Moslems are crowded, for the most part, within the walls, while the Greeks are spread around among the little suburban villages. An excursion along the coast to the HOUSEHOLD HINTS The larger a loaf or cake the lower the te ooperature of the oven should be. T A high-backed settle with a hinged seat nakes an excellent wood box for he 11 dng room. ' \ * * * Instead cf placing pastry on Ice In order to kle^p It cool, so It will be laky, try filling a quart-sized vinegar bottle with small pieces of Ice and use M i rolling pin. ( / } Ill* of Adalia. i ancient site of Ialvsos, which was on< ! of the earliest Dorian settlements 01 4 T the island, affords an opportunity tt 1 see something of the country peopk J of the island, who are for the niosi j part Greek. The Greek schools ant 1 churches are very good, considering j the fact that the people practical!} 1 live from hand to mouth. Farminf | methods are wholly primitive. Thf I ancient plan of irrigating from wellf j| Is still in vogue. The water is lirtec ; and poured inib ditches which lea ancient Lycla pierce the aiure blue. ,! The scene Is varied by a changing view t! of Immense precipices over which .: plunge thundering torrents of melted r snow Into deep gorges, cut Into the > lower hills which separate the highI er ranges from the plain and sea. f A Stay at Fineka near the point ol I the LVcian peninsula enables one to study (he life and customs of the naf fives in a section of Asia Minor seldom vjlslted by a stranger. Everything (s primitive, and, with the exception) of a few large estate owners, the people are wretchedly poor. They live inI miserable hnts, which neither keep out the cold of winter nor the heat of) summer. In this section are a large inumber of genuine African negroes who have lived and intermar. Hod with the Turks for generations . past. They are all Moslems In re> llglon. Adalia la Interesting. : Few towns In Tur'-ey can vie with Adalia In real genuine Interest from the viewpoint of presenting to the stranger a deep Insight Into the hab1 its and customs of the people. The ! harbor itself is small but deep, and ' I only little coasting steamers can an' jchor well In toward the quay. The town has been built upon a ' J cliff 120 feet high, which command? jthe sea and over which tumble In' numerable streams of clear, cold water that have their sources far up | among the distant snow-clad moun' tains. These streams serve at the ' same time to Irrigate magnificent orchards of flgs, pears and mandarins. , One sees In every part of ^datla , pieces of ancient sculptures used as * adornments In the walls, street corners, doorways, courtyards and foun. tains. About the only antiquity, how ever, that has retained Its original bositloo is the splendid wall, which \ had been preserved almost in Its en| flrety. although belonging to different epochs of | history, and which has Fiaturallv been patched and repaired requently during the hundreds of years of Its existence. The wall ground Adalia is similar in many respects to the one at Wlsby, on the Is, land of Gotland, In the Baltic sea. I Adalia Is noted for its dancing dervishes. Greeks of this section have lived so exclusively among themselves for generations that they have retained ,many ancient habits of their ijace. This is also true of the Jews Who resldq here. The bazaars and MnAn/aiiAa oma oIoa avteamalv 1 nf n ami f iuui3q uro air aioo rAUcmcij iiucvoi ing, inasmuch as they have retained tnelr distinctly Turkish character since medieval times. In some places the streets are very narrow, and the balconies of many of the houses project outward one above the other to siich an extent that two persons can ajlmogt join hands across the street from the upper stories. Adalia also has a considerable silk industry, as the climate of this section Is conducive to the growth of the mulberry tree. The cocoon sheds are erected outside the city limits and are interesting, for the reason that the laborers employed are made up of the different nationalities residing In the district. "i:? Orange flavoring for cake filling is ohe that Is seldom tired of. Common table salt applied with damp cloth will remove egg stains from silver. A. good salad Is sorrel mixed with shredded cabbage or lettuce, with French dressing. jTo remove mercury from gold Jew> elry use a soft-soap eraser and rub It aa yon would polish. i i \ . j.. . - ' T c\u x. ^^Hr Doesn't I , v "Freezonc" !' ly that ? ?,ri, . | !j'rf Ijr you lift . . ^'a'B Your tlrnu-.v 'l|i' "Freezone" J '^1 remove ever. - "'it corn betue. calluses, wit!,. , p "? .? I pill I 1 . (CHILDRLNW^JJ i NEED 1'HLpQpM Don't deli. a child has worms t destroy his r.ealth. If?! I his teeth, pi, V.% his beware! These ar!*W symptoms. Disordered!^! ach is another. "(M Immediately a,,t hinf mifuge. It hat ! rcn ,{.,? table worm methane I#.^B dorsing it, took ii i<> the imtH it was deposited and stnmpri! [kwJ > ?. 1 flB wjjL- M The Best Recommendation H Bare-to-Bal Is the number who ire to Imitate it If Bare-teil^H was not growing hair on heads there would be nolrfH tore. If there la baldma^H signs of it you can't neglect to u?e Forat'i Ori^fl Bare-to-Hair. 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