The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 6, 1929. NO. 18.
WHAT'S GOING ON I
NEWS REVIEW OF
GURRENTEVENTS
House Passes Tariff Bill
Boosting the Duties on
Nearly All Articles.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
IMPORT duties on many agricul
tural and Industrial products are
raised to new high levels by the Haw
ley tariff bill which was passed by the
house of representatives. The final
vote was 204 to 147. Twelve Repub
licans voted against the measure, but
on the other hand twenty Democrats,
mostly from the Southern states, vot
ed for It. The dozen Republicans In
opposition were: A. II. Andresen,
Victor Chrlstgau, Frank Clague, G. G.
Goodwin and C. G. Selvlg (Minn.),
Merlin Hull (Wis.), E. H. Campbell
(Iown), C..A. Christopherson (S. D.),
T. J. Halsey (Mo.), W. P. Lambert
son (Kan.), F. H. La Gunrdia (N. Y.),
and James M. Beck (Pa.).
The Republicans from central agri
cultural states voted against the bill,
chiefly because of failure to boost
duties on dairy and other farm prod
ucts high enough and because of the
Imposition of duties on building ma
terials. The Increased duty on sugar
was the chief reason for the adverse
vote of Representative La Guardla.
All of the more Important changes
made In the tariff by the measure are
upward except that the rates on chil
dren's books are reduced. So, too. Is
the rate on carillons, if any.
The bill ends the terms of mem
bers of the present bipartisan tariff
commission and provides for the ap
pointment of seven new members on
a nonpartisan basis, with salaries of
$12,000. The flexible tariff system Is
retained, but with a change In formula
for the ascertainment of costs.
The senate finance committee, to
whose hands the Hawley bill Is now
committed, will take several months
to rewrite the measure, after which
It will be debated by the senators.
During that period, it Is hoped, con
gress can take a recess and escape
some of the hot weather.
BY THE decisive vote of 57 to 26 the
senate passed the combined cen
sus-reapportlonment bill that was so
obnoxious to the drj-s of the South.
Its main features have been told be
fore In these columns. Passage of the
measure by the house was considered
? certainty.
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S first Mem
orial day address, delivered at
Arlington National cemetery, was an
earnest plea to all the nations of the
world to join In the peace movement
by making the Kellogg pact effective.
He urged that they all reduce their
naval armaments and navy building
programs to the limit required by the
needs of national defense. The main
tenance of permanent peace, the Presi
dent declared, would be the highest
honor that could be accorded the
memory of those who had died In
war.
X/fRS. MABEL WILLEBRANDT re
signed as assistant attorney gen
eral In charge of dry law prosecutions,
and the President accepted the resig
nation In a letter expressing deep re
gret at her leaving the government
service and appreciation of the work
she has done. She Is to become
Washington counsel for the Aviation
corporation.
Reports that Mrs. Wlllebrandt
planned to leave the government had
been current since It became known
that President Hoover had no Inten
tion of placing her In charge of all
prohibition enforcement when the dry
bureau Is transferred from the Treas
ury department to the Department of
Justice. It was stated In Washington
that Mr. Hoover would not select Mr*.
Wlllebrandt's successor until about
the time she retires, which will be
June 15.
PRESIDENT HOOVER S special law
* enforcement commission held Its
first meetings and began the work of
organization to get In readiness for
Its gigantic task which It Is believed
will keep It busy for two years. In
n brief address to the commission the
President said:
"It Is my hope that the commission
shall secure an accurate determination
of fact and cause, following them with
constructive, courageous conclusions
which will bring public understanding
and commnnd public support of Its so
lutions. The general public approval
of the necessity for the creation of
this commission and the extraordinary
universality of approval of Its mem
bership are In themselves evidences
of the responsibility that lies upon
you and of the great public concern
In your task and of the hopes that
you may succeed.
"I do pray for the success of your
endeavors, for by such success you
will have performed one of the great
est services to our generation."
fOL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
and Miss Anne Morrow were mar
ried Monday afternoon at the Morrow
estate Just outside of Englewood, N.
J., and the cohorts of reporters and
news photographers, who have dogged
every move of the young couple, knew
nothing about it until the affair was
all over and the bride and groom had
sped away In an automobile. Much as
the people of the United States are
Interested In Llndy and his doings, a
gleeful chuckle ran all across the con
tinent when It was learned that he
had put one over on the press and
camera men. The wedding ceremony
was of the simplest, with no brides
maid or best man and with only
members of the families present. The
nuptial service was conducted by Rev.
Dr. William Adams Brown of Unjon
Theological seminary, a close frlqnd
of Ambassador Morrow. At Its con
clusion Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
entered a waiting automobile, clever
ly evaded pursuing reporters who
thought they were Just going for a
ride, and disappeared entirely from
the ken of the public.
X/IME. ROSIKA SCHWIJIMER'S
long light for naturalization In
the United States came to an end
when the Supreme court affirmed the
decision of the Chicago Federal Dis
trict court that the famous HungaMan
radical and pacifist Is unfit for Amer
ican citizenship. The majority of the
high tribunal. In an opinion read* by
Justice Butler, reversed the Circuit
Court of Appeals and found with the
Chicago District court, that Mademoi
selle Scliwlmmer's admitted lack of
nationalistic sense and boasted "un
compromising pacifism" make her
"liable to be Incapable of that attach
ment for and devotion to the princi
ples of our Constitution that Is re
quired of aliens seeking naturaliza
tion." Justices Holmes, Brandels and
Sanford dissented.
ANOTHER decision by the Supreme
court 'upheld the Presidential
"pocket vetoes" which have been used
by nearly all Presidents to kill leg
lslatlon they deemed undesirable. The
opinion Interpreted for the first time
that section of the Constitution which
provides that bills not signed by the
President within ten days or returned
without his signature before congresi
adjourns shall not become law. II
came as a blow to those advocates 01
government ownership and operatloi
who Insisted that the Muscle Shoals
resolution, "pocket vetoed" by PresI
dent Cooltdge at the end of the first
session of the last congress, becanx
law without his signature.
Senator Norrls at once Introduced
another resolution Identical with tb<
one killed, and It was reported favor
ably by the committee on agriculture
but the Nobraskan bad little hope thai
the senate could act on It before thi
summer recess.
THERE Is a great to-do over gov
ernmental affairs In the Philip
pines. Insular Auditor Ben F. Wrlgh
refused to Issue a certificate releaslni
the million-dollar fund for a whar
development scheme at the dty o
Ololo, asserting the contract was In
valid. He was sentenced to prlsoi
for this refusal but has been set frei
by a habeas corpus writ granted bj
Supreme Court Justice Street, am
thus the case will come before the ful
court In July. Americans In the la
lands say Mr. Wright sought to pro
tect American funds and faced thi
penitentiary for protecting the treai
ury, which In turn represents million
In bonds Issued by the bureau of pub
?
11c works and chiefly held by Ameri
cans. It he loses In the Island courts
he contemplates currying the case to
the Supreme court of the United
States. Opposed to Mr. Wright ore
Manuel Quezon and his followers, who
ore striving for complete autonomy.
PEACE, at least to a degree, has
come to Ellzabethton, Tenn., for
the striking workers In the textile
mills voted to accept the terms of the
employers and apply for reinstate
ment In their old Jobs. The settle
ment was largely due to the efforts
of Miss Anna IVelnstoek, who was
sent to the scene by the federal De
partment of Labor. She obtained from
the rayon mills an offer that was
much more conciliatory than any pre
viously made. The companies agreed
not to discriminate agulnst any for
mer employee because of his or her
affiliation with the union, provided the
employee's activities were legitimate
and were not carried on at the plants.
The management agrees to meet a
committee of employees for the pur:
pose of adjusting any grievance.
THERE was great excitement among
the universities of the Middle West
when the faculty committee of the
Western Conference, usually known as
the Big Ten, expelled the University of
Iown from the conference, effective
January 1, 1930. But In a few words,
the reason for this drastic action was
that Iowa had been administering so
called athletic funds for the support of
Individual athletes. The Iowa authori
ties, from President Jessup down, pro
fessed to be exceedingly surprised by
the expulsion, and t.'ie student body In
Iowa City was tremendously worked
up. There were ominous threats that
the action would result In the breaking
up of the Western Conference because
other Institutions also were vulnerable.
It seems not unlikely that the date of
actual expulsion was set so far ahead
In order that the trouble might be ad
justed meanwhile and Iowa permitted
to retain her membership, and there
are predictions that this Is what will
happen.
The championship track and field
meet of the Big Ten was held at
Northwestern Just before Iowa was ex
pelled, and was won by the University
of Illinois. Two new world records
were set. Tolan, young colored sprint
er of the University of Michigan, ran
100 yards in 10 6-10 seconds; and
Rocltuway of Ohio State university
negotiated the 220 yards low hurdles
In 22 8-10 seconds.
RAY KEECH won the 500 mile auto
mobile race In Indianapolis, his
average speed being 95.5S5 miles an
hour. Louie Meyer was second. Billy
Spence was killed when Ills car was
overturned. Out of thirty-three stnrt
ers, thirteen finished, dividing the
prize money of $100,000.
JAMES KELLY and R. L. Robblns,
flying a re conditioned plane over
Fort Worth, Texas, shattered all records
for sustained flight, remaining up for
172 hours and 31 minutes. They came
down then only because their propeller
blades had been cracked by hall.
Lieut W. G. Tomllnson of the navy
won the Curtlss seaplane trophy, mak
ing a new speed record of 175 miles
an bour.
REPARATIONS experts reached an
almost complete agreement In
Paris and If the German reservations
can be adjusted the great problem
will soon be solved. As the plan stands
Germany will pay a total of about
eight and a half billion dollars over
a period of fifty-eight years, the
annuity figure being approximately
$487,900,000. Payments under this
Young plan are to begin on September
1. The matter of early evacuation of
. the Rhlneland, being purely political,
. was not considered by the gxperts.
t Dr. Gustav Stresemann, German f;r
5 elgn minister, announced he would be
t In Talis Monday, when It was hoped
( the Belgians and Germans would
. reach a settlement of certain disputes
i that hampered full agreement.
AMANCLLAH has abandoned bla
efforts to regain the throne of Af
I ghanlstan and has passed through
e India on his way to Italy, where he
- will reside. The former king does not
e believe Bacba Sakao, who seized the
i- throne, will be able to retain it very
s long, his possible successor being Gen.
h Nadir Kban.
Seeking New Light on
Early Indian Hutory
'"harred timbers, felled more than
1,200 years ago to erect some of Amer
ica's flrst "apartment" houses, will be
K"Ught this summer In New Mexico to
complete the life story of pre-Spnnlsh
Indians of the Southwest.
From the tree rings of the wood
four scientists hope to develop a nat
ural calendar which will exactly date
?he erection of Poeblo Bonlto, a huge
?truptgrg |g sortaw?twa tir* Mexico,
t
which hooted under one roof ? llttli
city of 2,500 people.
The annual rings built up by grow
Ing trees have formed a perfect caleti
dar that extends backward without i
break from the present to 1360 A. t
A period of 700 years la covered b
the beams from Pueblo Bonlto, but be
tween the two series a gup exists tba
must be closed.
During the "gap" period the ances
tori of the Hopt Indiana dwelt In th
open, and the beams they uftd hav
tutted aur. The only hope la to dli
e cover mini to which charred hen rag
which resist rotting may be found.
The expedition will be under aua
- plcea of the National Geographic so
? cietj. In continuation of researches In
>. augurated some time ago.
r In the party will be Dr. Nell M.
- Judd, curator of American archeology
t of the National mnseum. Washington;
Dr. A. K. Douglass of Steward ob
i- servatory, University of Arizona; Dr.
e Harold 8. Colton, director of the Mu
e senm of Northern Arlxona. and Lyn
h don Hargrove of tha aaaa Inalltntlrm
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RUTH sat with her hands clasped ,
tightly In her lap and listened j
to Mr. Ellington, her new em
ployer, explain their product.
The offices were glaringly new; new ,
rug, new yellow oaken furniture. Dew
typewriter and a lecture room ad- i
joining with several rows of new yel- i
low chairs, facing a brand new black- i
board.
"You see," said Mr. Ellington with ,
eloquent gestures of his fat, bejewcled
hand, "we have them In nearly all the |
largest cities In the country; Chicago, |
New York, Boston, St. Louis, San Fran
cisco?the greatest little money-maker
ever Invented. People must eat I All i
right! These machines are filled
dally with box lunches, compact and
sauitary?sandwich, pickle, fruit, pie
or cake, see? And these pasteboard
boxes are fitted Into slot machines - ,
which are refilled by our wagons from
the factory several times a day, see?
These machines are set up near fac
tories, schools, recreation centers, of
fice buildings and so on. They deposit
a quarter and presto! A lunch I Bound
to sell I Can't help It! Now our part
here In this office Is to sell the ma
chines. We are putting on a force
it salesmen who will cover the city
and sell these slot machines to Indi
viduals at $150 each, see? And out
of the dally proceeds from the lunches
purchased, the owner of that machine
gets half. Greatest little money maker
In the country?the machine pays for
Itself In a year at the rate these
lunches sell when they get started,
and then It Is all clean gravy, see?
Ruth nodded absently. Mr. Elllng- <
ton smelted of hair tonic. ,
"Now," he continued, "we will start
on folding these circulars and getting
them ready. The ads for salesmen
are In all the pnpera today and they
will be coming In here by the dozens.
Tomorrow we start our lectures and
next week there will be several ma
chines In operation. Greatest little
money-maker In the world, Miss Har
rison."
Ruth sat at the bright yellow desk
and started to fold the circulars be
fore her. She didn't like Mr. Elling
ton; she didn't like the Job. She
longed for the dally orderly routine
she bad followed for seven years
over Id Mr. Aiken's law office; the po
sition she hud left just yesterday, so
that Don couldn't find her. She would
show him I lie would be calling up
this morning and no one knew where
I Bite u guiic-.
It hnd been a bitter quarrel and
Don had said?although his eyes had
told her otherwise?that he never
wanted to see her again until she
had taken back what she had said. She
had replied she never would, but of
course, Don would coine back to her.
He just couldn't stay away. They loved
each other; they bad been engaged
three years, and were to be married
In June! The thousand dollars which
they had set as their goal was In
the bank?their "nest-egg" with which
to furnish their little apartment. Don
hnd worked hard to accumulate that
money and they were both very proud
of the little bank book Ruth had kept
nntll she gave It hack to him?the
night they quarreled.
"Finest little money-maker In the'
I country?" Mr. Ellington was say
ing to a shabby, tired looking young
j man who bad come In In response
j to the ad. "Our salesmen make
' on every machine they sell and the
' salesmen In St. Louis average around
$400 per week. Just come back to
morrow and attend our lecture. We
show you how?Tell you how?"
The Happy Hooligan Lunch com
pany flourished the first few weeks.
! Their advertising drew salesmen by
the dozens, and they sold the ma
chines. Business was good?and then
It lagged. Rath was very anhappy.
There had been two letters from Don
the first week and one night he had
called at the house and urged Mrs.
Adams, her landlady, to ask Ruth to
the door, but the good woman faith
fully followed Ruth's Instructions.
Then be had written her a note. "You
* won't give me a chance and I've tried
1 to see you. I'm through. The next
move will be yours." %
And then the "Happy Hooligan
Luncb company" met with serious re
verses. The civic organizations In
vestigated and there was considerable
publicity. Mr. Ellington and his ss
slstants were worried. The salesmen
dropped off one by one; men came
Into the office and held long confer
ences. Rnth saw suspicious corre
spondence handled over her desk, and
It was on the day that she thorongbly
realised she was In the employ of fake
promoters who had gained disrepute
la other cities, that one of the few
remaining salesmen on the force
rushed Into the office waving a paper
In his hand.
"I got that bird at last, but he was
a bard nut to crack 1 But 1 got him?
to the tune of sli machines. One
:bousand and fifty dollar*I Told blm
lie would be rlcl. Id a year i 1 am
joins to meet him at 12 o'clock at
:he National bank and get?cold cash I
2ome on, Ellington, sign your John
llancock to a little check tor me
?I need It!"
Mr. Ellington bentned and rubbed
Ills fat hands together rasplngly.
?That is line, O'Connor?line I That
will add a little Impetus to our ar
guments today. Miss Harrison will
yon prepare this contract ready for
our prospect's signature this noon,
and 1 can show It to those three who
promised to come in at 11." He
turned 'o leave the office. "And
O'Connor, I'll pay you your commis
sion when 1 see that thousand Hfty
?cold cash?and his name on the
dotted line."
lluth Inserted a contract form In
Iter typewriter nnd looked down at
the paper on her desk. A name
lumped out of the scrawl?"Donald
Mullen." Don?One thousand" unit
fifty dollars! Their "nest egg." At
12 o'clock that precious savings ac
count would he In the hands of the
"Happy Hooligan l.unch company."
lost. She saw O'Connor leave the
office at 11:43. She could not leave
until on the hour. The bank was
four blocks uway nnd the usunl
noonday crowds thronged the
streets. It was 12:10 when she sped
through the portals of the National
bank. At the further end before the
tellers' window she saw Don?dear
Don?counting a shenf of hills In
his hand. O'Connor stood expect
antly near, hand outstretched.
She was Just half-way down that
long stretch of floor when Don
started to hand the money to the
salesman.
"Don," she cried, "Don! Oh, don't."
Donald looked up quickly and
O'Connor made a move to take the
money. Ruth darted between them,
breathless. "Don," she whispered,
"Don?don't?don't?lose?our ? nest
egg. Let me explain."
He took her arm gently. "Why,
Rutlde, what Is It?"
O'Connor hrokt In gruffly: "Well,
let's settle this business first, Mullen,
so 1 can be on my way. Ten fifty?
nnd here Is the coutract."
"The business Is settled, Mr. O'Con
nor. Mr. Mullen Is?not?going?to?
buy?one of?those machines." Ruth
spoke clearly, slowly.
"This Is Infamous, Miss Harrison. I
shall report you to Mr. Ellington at
once."
"Please do. Also tell him that he
can have iny half-week's salary. He
will need It to get back East on. You
can tell him I have resigned to get
married?nnd that that money Is go
ing to buy furniture?no sandwiches,
pickles nnd cake machines?and be
will understand."
Clay-Marshall Dual
Refore the famous Humphrey Mar
shall became a United States senator,
lie was a member of tbe Kentucky
legislature. At the time llenry Clay
was speaker of the same hody, (.'lay's
initial act In tbe Interest of protective
tariff was to Introduce n resolution
that the legislature should wear only
clothes of domestic manufacture.
Marshall and Clay crossed In debate
on the subject, had an altercation and
a duel with pistols was tbe result.
Roth were slightly wounded In tbe en
counter on the "field of honor." but
nothing more serious was the result.?
Detroit News. 4
Largest Locomotive
The Itallrond Trainman says that
the largest steel locomotive In the
world has been constructed for the
Northern Pacific railroad. It Is 12.1
feet long and was built by the Amer
ican Locomotive company, Schenec
tady. N. Y. In working order with
coal and water. It weighs 1.110.UUO
pounds. It has a mechanical stoker
which Is capable of closing, delivering
and distributing to the firebox hourly
a maximum of 45,000 pounds, or 22'/4
tons of coal. Its tender has a capacity
of 22 gallons of water and 27 tons
of coal.
Paca Bound to Tall
Not long ago a Times Srpiarcfaror
was housed In the Tombs for tittering
at the Volstead law, reports Wlllard
Keefe, our Tombs representative. Un
able to get ball, he did six weeks
there, when a pal called. The chum
marveled at the fellow's decided
change In appearance, the nlght-llfe
pallor having yielded to the healthy
glow provided by regular hours, sleep
and wholesome food.
"Yeah," sighed the Jailbird, "I guess
the pace In here Is beginning to tell."
?New York Evening Graphic.
It Pays
Senator Borah was talking about
the hero of a financial scandal.
"The man Is honest," Senator Borah
sold. "Isn't It a matter of record that
be once said to his pastor:
" 'Reverend. I'm one of those old
fashioned fellows who believe that
bonesty pays.'
"Then he nudged his pastor In the
ribs and added wilb a chuckle:
" 'And I believe Just as firmly, rev
erend. tbat dishonesty gets paid.'"
Sea Marmora i
View of Bruta, Asiatic Turkey.
(Prepared by the National OeoKrapnio
Society. Washington. O. C.l
TO SAIL on one of the cargo
boats from Constantinople that
feels Its way, according to the
available freight, from port to
port along the shores of the sea of
Marmora, Is to obtain a charming
mixture of contrasting ages.
Perhaps you will'touch first at the
Princes Inlands, which can be visit
ed by motor boat. CTf these, llalkl
especially breathes of on untouched
simplicity and charm which Is the
more appreciated when one's marine
glasses reveal across the way the
cloudy city where live Constanti
nople's teeming thousands.
Instead of the monster summer
hotels which the proximity of an
American metropolis would bring to
such a spot, one finds nothing of Con
stantinople among these pine-dark
ened, sea-commanding heights except
hill-topping monasteries, where me
dieval emperors, blinded or In chains,
passed their exile.
Sheep bells tiukle among the olive
orchurds. Down the road, with his
laden donkey, conies the seller of
charcoal or drinking water. In the
ilnv square sit silent, net-mending
fishermen. And that Is all, except the
monastery bell clanging lis angelus
under the glow of a sea sunset. Con
stantinople might be oceans away.
The exile ground of emperors and
dogs?that spells the melancholy his
tory of these lovely Islands. Constan
tinople's age-old dog pest developed
under the Koran's benign Injunction
of kindness to dumb creatures?a
stumbling block which the young
Turks of 1903 sought to circumvent
hy offering the entire canine popula
tion to a Christian glove manufactur
?r. Upon bis declining tills dog conces
sion they shipped the round-up of
parluhs lo barren Oxla, one of the
Princes group, where the outcasts In
continently devoured one another.
From the Islands It Is only a step
across me aiarmora to its asiuiic
const, and n forty mile run up the
charming gulf of Ismld. A dirty hill
side town, passingly enchanting under
the springtide glow of fruit blossoms,
turns out to be all that remains of
Klcomedia, the one proud city of Dio
cletian (modern Ismld).
Ilut Home's bridges have outlasted
her empire, and a few years ago the
Inhabitants of Greek villages which
hud been burned by Kcmnllst Irregu
lars came thronging across the stone
archways built of old for the passage
of [toman legions Into Asia Minor.
Relics of German Ambition.
Descending the gulf, one passes at
Derlndje a relic of the latest bid for
empire In the shape of a vast ware
house containing a million and a half
square feet of floor space, constructed
by German engineers for the storage
of grain arriving over tbe Bagdad
railway.
Still farther along, at Hereke, Is a
palace which was built almost over
night by Sultan Abdul nntnld for tbe
purpose of entertaining bis friend
William when, In 1010, the German
emperor passer) en route for bis tour
In Syria and I'slestlne. Here, In this
charming, sea-bordered villa, sultan
aud emperor dined and chattered for
three hours, while the speclnl train
waited; then they parted, and this
creation for one Arabian night, un
tenanted before or since, passed Into
the realm of yesterdays.
A few hours' run along the Asiatic
coast brings one's sblp within sight of
the somnolent little port of Mudanla,
where the victory-flushed Kemallsts
decided not to swoop across the allied
held straits to Constantinople.
Olives are taken aboard and yon
And that you will have time, If you
choose, to visit nearby Brusa.
Snaking opward through tbe hills
lie narrow-gauge rails, and a wheezy
toot from a toy train warns that It
positively will not delay Its departure
beyond hslf an boor or so en your ac
count, rou eaten it id just _u minutes.
Gradually widening vistas, where
mile on inlle <>f olive and mulberry
groves clothe the sea-sklrtlng hills, re
veal the countryside's two staples.
The olive, the cocoon, the seaboard?
for centuries the Anatolian Greek
identified himself with this trio. The
trio remains; but the Greek, because
of the post-war shift of populations,
has deported.
Itlslng ahead the Asian Olympus re
calls by Its very name that Greek
colonists were here, christening land
marks In honor of sacred spots at
home, many centuries before the
Turks began their big westward push
across Asia Minor.
Along the flanks of overshadowing
Olympus. Brusa scatters Itself like
some great patch of white wild flow
rrs. almost fulryllke In Its aerial grace,
with mosque domes resembling rich
blossoms and minarets the slender
stalks, as they rise against the somber
cypress groves. So many mosques
are there that one Is tempted to
Imagine that, flowerlike, they seated
themselves at random whenever spring
winds blew. "A walk for each day In
the year, n mosque each walk," runs
the proverb of Brusa.
Silk Industry of Brusa.
Today the sultan and sultana of
Brusa are n pair of white, brown
spotted worms. Indeed, they produce
n royal fabric, whereby, to Near East
ern peoples, the name Brusa connotes
silk just as Kimberly connotes dia
monds. Moreover, a Brusan treats
them as royalty to the extent of turn
ing his house over to them In the
feeding season; for whenever his at
tic floor becomes covered with mul
berry leaves, each with Its hungry
worm, he carpets the rooms down
stairs with more leaves and sleeps out
In the garden.
During the war. when the silk fac
tories were destroyed, the workers dis
persed, and the very mulberry trees
CUI down iyr iUI-I, i>rus? s uucieiu in
dustry was. to all appearances, dead;
but la 1010 returning refugees found,
to their amazement, that its germ had
survived. A mere handful of old wom
en, who had remained In the town, bad
saved n few mulberry trees and had
guarded, season after season, the
cycle of cocoon, moth, hatched out
eggs, and feeding worm. In time of
war they had prepared for peace.
The silkworm has a voracious appe
tite for a creature 3Vi Inches long, and
during Its brief life ft thirty days It
consumes six times Its own weight In
mulberry leaves.
Scenes of War for Ages.
Leaving Mudanla, your bout Is soon
dipping seaward through the Darda
nelles, where fortress-bearing heights
gradually slope, on the Asiatic side.
Into Troy's plain, and on the Euro
pean Into the sparsely clad spit of
CalllpolL
Surely, In the New world, magnifi
cent residences would crown such sea
commanding heights. Instead, only a
few mean villages dot the shores of
that 43 mile passage, along which two
continents face each other almost
within shouting distance.
Those sixteen hundred yards which
separate Sestos from Abydos have
been dedicated to war for over two
thousand years. There the andent
Persians crossed by boat bridges to
Invade Europe. There the Greeks un
der Alexander crossed to Invade Asia;
and In the middle of the Fifteenth cen
tury the Orient's turn came again
when the Ottoman Turks passed over
at the same spot, planting their ban
ner In Europe for the first time.
It Is the ferry to conquest?or dis
aster.! Legends of a seven years' siege
beckon from the abutting Trojan plain,
while Just opposite, off Galllpoll, the
Aegean ran blood red with the terrible
allied losses of 1913. Today some
acres of wooden crosses alone mark
the desolate seen* of that modern
Died
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