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Sunday between 6 and 6 o'clock, daylight time, the planet Saturn as viewed by an observer In the latitude of Bridgeport or vicinity will be occulted by the moon, that Is. it paw directly In back of the moon and be snuffed out of sight for about on hour, then reappearing on the opposite limb of the moon. Unfortunately this somewhat rare and interesting event occurs during the daylight hours, so that even If the sky Is it will require a telescope or exceptionally good pair of binoculars to observe It. For the benefit of those peopte who like to keep track of celestlnl events (and their name is legion, Judging by the number of inquiries received thla piper), the Telegram wlU print prediction of the time of the disappearance and reappearance of the planet, so that those Interested In the may have a dunce to see it without undue waiting. of stars by the moon are of fairly common occurrence, but the oecultatlon of tbe brighter planets such Saturn or Venus 18 much rarer.

The -American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, published by the government, for a year in advance the time of all the star occulti- tloas that are visible hereabouts, so aciybady Interested may keep himself posted from that source. An interesting feature of the atar occultattons, wMeh tends te prove two Important astronomical facts, may be checked by an observer. The (Irst of thwe points a star Is so far away that it In the sky only as a mathematical point of light, having no diameter that may be measured. The other is the (act that tbe moon has no atmosphere. It will be seen that If a star had any measurable diameter as seen by us, its disc would take an appreciable length at time to disappear behind the edge or llaab of the moon.

Also, if the moon Bad any atmosphere, even as much at 1-100th part of the earth's atmosphere, there would be refraction which would alow up the star's disappearance, Just ai our atmosphere slows up the suns disappearance and gives us twlligh! after sunset. But a matter of fact the star's tfaappearance Is Instantaneous, so quick In fact, that the first time ono observes such an event he Is almost certain to be caught off his guard by It. There no melting away One moment the star Is fully visible as It approaches the limb of the moon. The next instant it Is gone--a case of "now you see It and now you don't." Its reappearance equally sudden and dramatic. In the ease of' Saturn, the perfo manee will be slower as viewed through a telescope, for Saturn Is a planet, a star, and has a considerable disc which will be seen to pass gradually behind the limb of the moon This summer and fall is the moit propitious time for viewing Saturn, for that planet (after a cycle of six years) has turned around in sueh a way as to exhibit her rings to their fullest, as viewed from the earth.

The cycle will BOW begin its other phase and the rings will gradually turn away from us until they are edgewise toward the earth when they will appear only as a thin line. MURDER ON WHEELS. This happened on the Mllford turnpike in the early hours of Saturday morning: Anthony Dullo, 19, of 236 East 28th etreet. New York, was walking along the turnpike in company with another youth. A motor came whirling "at terrific speed," struck Dullo squarely, hurled him 30 feet into the ejr.

Into the Woodruff farm adjoining tbe highway. The motorist snapped off hie and made his escape, while Dullo lay dying in the field. This sort of thing comes very close to feeing Just plain murder. Superintendent Nichols, newly appointed executive head of the state police, aays that he cannot spare enough men to patrol this dangerous bit of highway where fourteen lives have been sacrificed since January 1. Somebody may get sarcastic and ask the superintendent what the state police are doing that Is more Important.

ft would be a good thing to Institute state police drive, up and down the roat road for two or three weeke, and clean up the reckless drivers, the corner-cutters, the speeders, and the smartles who like to weave their cars in and out of a crowded line of traffic. The police would save lives by this process, would remind everybody of the duty of driving with more discretion, and Incidentally would find a high percentage of motor thieves, bootleggers and other criminals caught In their reckless-driving net. RHODES When Cecil African adventurer and British emplfe builder founded the Rhodes scholarships more than twenty years ago he hoped foi' a closer knitting of the English speaking nations as result of the sending of carefully-selected jouths from the United States and the British dominions to the UiilieiMU of Oxford tm'oucc i the Idee of Oxford 1 lie nsstm ect thn' so electee. anc 1 so educate'! Ould jatei jj.C'« In tiie.i coun'UM. Bv.

net fttcorcl- to MI ifii been made ey CoiV'sia Methodist university, for the Aiopit Kahn foundation. Professor. Beaty's report quotes the Rt. Honorable A. Ik Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, and trustee of the fund, to the effect that the scholarships have "failed utterly" to come up to expectations, because few of the scholars have attained any prominence since returning to America Professor Bcaty adds on his own account that the knowledge of Greek required of candidates limits the asplr- to a mere handful; that the arbitrary assignment of two scholars to each state regardless of population further lestricts choice And finally- and this is tbe hardest blow of all-that some of the American scholars have done more harm than good by acquiring at Oxfond an exaggerated form of British mannerisms and accent, making themselves offensive thereby at home.

Ehodes himself was an Oxford man, and a loyal one, but those who study his African career will conclude that most of his brilliant strokes were made when, for the time being, he temporarily laid aside any Oxonian culture which he had acquired and allowed himself to "go native And the scholarship plan failed to take into consideration the fact that what both America and Great Britain really need, for better understanding and mutual respect, is not Imitation of the other on the part of either, but rather respect and uhderstanding of eacli other's Individualism, without any desire to reform It to the native model ANOTHER RECORD. Chamberlln and Levlne are evidently out to break the non-stop record for length of their stay in Europe. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. March news: Coolldge has lost the West. His veto of the McNary-Haugen bill has whipped the farming interests into fury.

Antl-Coolidge clubs are being formed throughout the corn and wheat belts. April news: Coolldge's plan to pass his summer vacation In the heart of the enemy country Is regarded as a transparent dodge to win back some of the favor he has lost through his veto of the McNary-Haugen bill. Experienced politicians point out that he will only Injure himself thereby. May news: Fourteen states and 536 townships have sent separate invitations to the President to be their guest during his summer vacation. The President is said to favor the Black Hills region of South Dakota, but experienced politicians point out that no matter what his choice may be, all the other regions will be disappointed and he will-make many enemies June news: President Coolldge catches trout by using worms for bait Experienced politicians point out that this will offend all the fly-fisheimen of America and cost the President many votes.

July news: A canvass of the corn and wheat beltij shows that President Cool- ldge's leadership in being the first to establish a summer White House In the West has gained him Immense In that region and Invitations are showering upon him from all the nearby states. Leading citizens everywhere are singing his praises. Experienced politicians point out that while the farmer may feel that he has not been treated squarely by Congress In the matter of the McNary-Haugen legislation, he bears no grudge against the President and will vote the Republican ticket anyhow. Letters to the Editor Free expreaalona pf opinion from Tele- cram readers are Inrlted mast he iTltb correct name and addreia but will be confidently If ri exceeding 900 nordn In lenittn will be ftduced In at the dlarretlon of tne cdltort. ho attention paid to WORKERS AND HOLIDAYS.

Avoids Boston Post Road On Saturdays and Sundays aud Enjojs Country Roads. To the Editor: Holidays mean happiness to many and great sorrow to others. It seems each year when our great American public gets a holiday the accidents and casualties Increase over the previous years. Why is this? Your morning paper Monday morning contained so many accidents. either from motor smash-ups or fireworks that It made my blood run cold When the great mass of workers cease their labors for a holiday they go wild with Joy They become careless and as a result pay the penalty in a great many cases You would think that workers in general would appreciate the two-day holiday and stay at home and rest up from their laborious tasks in order to be better fitted for their work on the coming week.

But such is not the case. They stay up later and disslj-ate more and then when the workday rolls around they are "all In Of course I don't mean to Include all workers, but the rank and file indulge In too strenuous recreation I am a family man with a wife and two children There is no one likes a little vacation better thin I do. Do you know how I spent my holiday? My wife packed a picnic lunch for the whole family and we got in our little old car and went out In the country for the day. But most of my associates "burnt up the road." The Boston Post road Is a good place to stay off of Saturdays and Sundays I take to the back country roads and enjoy the scenery, while the Post road riders fuss and fume and inhale gasoline odors. A WORKER.

OHANOK DIET. Writer Resorts to Verip tn Commenting On Height KprliK IIIR Class Now Running In Telegram. To the Edltoi I'm going to tdl you a secret. And I hope you'll keep it quiet. The fat of our great city Are all on the orange diet No longer we'll see the bounceifl Waddling through our fctieets, For they have reduced, and everyone Is a perfect thuty-slx.

Bargains It: coats nnd dresses, tic they 11 able to While in the past, therc'd be none to No matter ulieie tj.cy'cl i Tlipy all a nappy fl' cl c' 1 ncem gay, Witli i CL.IICO oiaiige diet, So since I'm as big as any of them. I think I'll have to try It. MM. BLLA O. MORGAN.

SAFE AND BANE FOURTH 'Old Fashioned Fourth Preferred to Accidents Caused by Motor Cars-New Kules Needed. To the Editor: Thcr yearly propaganda against the normal old fashioned Fourth Is in order again and were It not so irritating it would be humorous. I have before me the list' of 14 casualties and only two seam to be of native-born origin. That our traditions should be set aside because the foreign-born cannot cope with them is getting a bit too thick. There Is a great hue and cry, and deservedly so, because there has been enacte-d prohibition legislation taking away the rights of normal citizens because a few could not cope with the situation and keep their moral balance.

Here Is a case of the same kind la the legislating out of exlsU K.C.- an age old tradition regarding the tjlabratlon of the signing of the of Independence I hear nothing said regarding the legislating out of existence motor cars because there are so many who cannot cope with that situation successfully and the deaths from motor cars make this a much more serious affair than the Fourth. I have no sympathy with paternalistic measures of this kind for they are entirely unnecessary as the situation can be handled without them if our public officials wish to do so. Did the graft in fireworks and fireworks manufacturing mean as much as It does In prohibition or no prohibition or in the event that the motor cars we're banned there would be no such concert of action. I would much rather have trfe old fashioned Fourth than the "Hell on Wheels" that now takes Its place. CONSISTENT.

THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 THE WEIRD MYSTERY 0 THE GAME WARDENS 4 THE GAME THE GAME HOGb MAK.IJ AM- THKSI; BIG Manhattan Days and Nights BY HERBERT COREY. NEW YORK, July an apology should run with this. After all, Jack Dempsey Is an ex-champion So far ex that In the opinion ol this chronicler Jack Sharkey will cover him with painful bumps when they meet Whereupon, to diverge for a moment from Mr. Dempsey and his fortunes, It Is likewise the opinion of tho same person that Mr, Sharkey will so ar- lange matters that Mr. Tunney may give his entire leisure to the: Boy Scout 'movement.

These prophecies are admittedly based on a bias that Is as wide and about as long as the Boston Post road. When heavyweight champions are being considered, I like 'era tough. Jack Sharkey fills the bill. He bites steel bars. They exercise him In chains.

When he grits his teeth It sounds like a buzz saw hitting a nail. At mealtimes they throw him chunks of raw meat-- For all that Mr. Dempsey Is the more Interesting. Only a little, while ago our box-fight customers spent their hours weaving him wreaths of raspberiy. He had always fought on the level--burring a few twenty dollar scraps when he was a kid--but the crowd booed whenever he appeared.

He had never so6ked a smaller man during a social function-One would not put this past Mr. Sharkey. Mayhap one does him an Injustice. Mayhap no-Yet Dempsey was at least superficially disliked. As a matter of fact I think he was a more popular champ than we realized.

It had gotten to be a habit to razz him, partly because of his shipbuilding activities while we were saving small nations, and partly because of Mr. Kearns. Somehow, we never learned to love Pink Shirt Jack. But his defeat by Tunney was taken very hard by the followers. They mourned.

No doubt about It. They mourned. If they had expressed a wish It would have been that Dempsey get the everlasting whey knocked out of him, and then come back by a miracle as he did In the Plrpo fight and win. Dempsey's dramatics made the crowd love him in its subconscious. Now that he is one of last year's roses they whoop when thsy see his picture on the' screen.

Most of the fans, I think, believe he will whip Sharkey. They do not reason about It. They love Dempsey now, and they want him to win. My own purely personal hunch Is that Dempsey knows he it through. He may not know he knows it, but he knows.

Here Is the reasoning. When he met Sharkey to sign articles lie "gave him the eye." Very debonair and patronizing, you know. He patted Sharkey on the back: "You aie a fine laddybuck," he seemed to say. The spotting writers took this as a proof of Dempsey's moral superiority. He: out-eyed Sharkey, they maintain.

The Stone Age man could not meet the Dempsey optic. The tough was as awed as you and I are when we meet a banker. All veiy fine. But that has never been Dempsey's way. When he fought Wlllard It was Wlllard who had the hard eye, the moral superiority, the patting hand.

Dempsey sulked In his corner and glowered. He did not give the eye He' was gilm and deadly. He was not handing out any eye medicine when he met Flrpo He didn't have to in those days. He had confidence In himself. He may not realize it him- telf.

but now he Is falling back on weapons he never needed before. That giving the eyei to Sharkey was a con. fessjon of weakness and not a proof of strength. It probably didn't make much i ference to that Knight of the Rugged Neck. He has gotten what he 1ms been yelling about for a long time.

A fight with Dempsey. He Is perfectly certain that he can whack Dempsey and then feo on and take Tunney So am I. One of the unreconstructed hereby yearns publicly for a tough guy as a champion. One that will beat resounding chest and brag and cuss nnd be generally hlphoroarlous Our champs Have been too confounded nice lately. Even Dempsey was nice.

One story told of Sharkey made me love him He had been unpopular. Then he licked Jim Maloney. who was popular. On the way out the frothing populace sought to beat i on the bhoulders. "Attaboy, Jack," they yowled.

Mr Sharkey turned a sardonic eye upon them It's as cold an eye as a baby's tombstone Said he' Where you guys been before?" SHOW LICENSE OR COME VSHTM Every Day Questions ANSWERED BX DR. S. PARKBS CADMAN Questions from Telegram and I'oit ruden an ttllr br the Bar Pr. 8. tadman, of HIP Kxtern! (anwll of of Cnrtol III America.

I). Cadman to 1iuiulr.fi that ippeor It be the laanaa of thought In tbo many Mtms which ba nn.vn. THERE SEEMS TO BK PLEXTY OF THEM OX AJjL OCCASIONS POLITICAL POINTERS Another indication that formei Mayor Clifford B. Wilson Is the most popular man in Bridgeport today, even though he has been absent from puWyic life since 1921, was the reception he was given when called upon to speak at the YD banquet. The crowd cheered and applauded with vim and vigor, keeping up the handclapplng lor a full minute.

Architect Joseph Northrop may say that he isn't offeiing to do a "cut if allowed to become architect for the new addition to Columbus school, and It Is true that he Isn't cutting his own rates But the fact remains that since 1923 the school board has been paying bix per cent to architects and lie is offering to do the work for the cut rate price of four per cent The four per cent represents a cut rate too, under his own price for the Black Bock school addition, the last school work he did for the city. According to MB bill and the contract the school board had with him ho received four and quarter per His offer IB a novel contrast, to the usual piactici- of Jacking up the cost ol anything done for the city. The City hall woiklng day, which isn't such a terrible strain on working there, Is now shortened, for the next two months. When Associate Justice Howard Curtis retired from the Supreme court bench on June 29, nt the age of 70, it marked the close of a notable stietch of judicial service in the courts of Connecticut, covering a period of 34 years, lacking two days Judga Curtis entered upon his duties a.s of the Common Pleas couit of Fahflelcl county July 1, 1893. He berved 14 years In that court and then went to the Superior court, there to seive 13 years.

In 1920 he was advanced to the Supreme court bench to serve seven years more. Few judges of the state's highest couit have had such length of service. Chief Justice George W. Wheeler has already passed it by a few days," He went on the Superior court bench July 1, 1893 served 17 years there and then went to the Supreme to serve as an asso- te Justice for 10 years aiu; has a Accord of seven years at the head of the court Speaking of Judge Wheeler and Curtis together is a lemlnder that they have had a unique and unusual association in several ways for neaily half a century. One, Judge Curtis, born in Stiatford, the oUiei, Chief Justice Wheeler, born in Woodville, Mississippi Yale was the medium to biinp; them together, both '81, both of '83 law After giacluation the Him of Wheelei and Curtis was foimed for the practice of law, the office was in the Sanford building Judicial oppoitunltlcs came to both In 1893'when Luzon Morris was goveinor The senior partner was iiKmed to the Superior couH bench, the junior to the Common pleas bench Both weic in the judicial service of the dtttte, ona starting before he was 31, the other to bejin Just after his 30th birthday.

In 1007 they came ft little closer in association when Judge Curtis was, made a judge of the Supei- ior couit. Tlnee J-CDIS later Judge Wheeler went to the Supreme court A Judge of that tribunal Is, howevei also a Judge of the Superior court Then in 1920 Judge Curtis went to the Snpieme court and the close as- poclation was lesumed It may also inteiest those who follow the national game to know that in their younger dajs these two preat loved to Ret out on the dlamord Then Judge Curtis would pick up grounders around shoitshop and Judee Wheeler take his tosses in the double plays at second base. By the advance of John Banks to the Supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the of Judge Curtis, the state's highest tribunal will contain foui associate justices who were named to tho Superior court by Governor Holcomta What Is also of interest Is that tho four--Maltbie, Haines, Hlnman and Banks--did not serve a full term of eight years on the trial court bench before opportunity came to take them to the court of last resort, so rapid have been the changes in the Supreme court in the last two yeais All four of these men were exceptional triers. The lawyers about the state, while recognizing the unwritten law which promotes these men, all realize that the trial tribunal has lost four of the best trlera ever on the bench of that court It will be noted that In this change the strength oi the Fairfield county bar on tho Supreme court bench remains undimln- Ichecl. AVIATORS BY WALT MASON I see the airmen nobly faring along their peril-ridden waj, "There is no end to human daring, to human fortitude," I say.

Tile oilmen turn their dauntless faces to empty wastes" o'er land and sea; some disappear and no traces in the enshrouding mystery. There is no route so fraught with danger tha airmen won't that couise pursue, and look for routes still wilder, stranger, where none before them ever flew. "What is the use," some are inquiring, "of killing useful man In crowds? What pi of its all this untiring up there among the drifting clouds? This flying business is so deadly the crowner has no time to shave, and every day we slni; a medley of dirges at some victim's grave. What do gain by all this flying, this soaring down the cloudy aisles, since fine young men are dally dying, smashed up by fallng seven miles?" No doubt such questions came from tailors and laundrymen in olden times, when seeing llonhearted sailors set forth to look for other climes. Majestic steamers now are sailing, as safe as churches, o'er the teas, with lux- uiy and speed unfallng, because 'of pioneers like these.

Some day we'll spurn the mud and gravel that now make journeys hard to bear, In safety and in state we'll travel in noble ships that plow the air. In Rochester or fair Hoboken we'll pour the breakfast coffee down, and when the evening bread Is bioken It will be done In Lunnon town. We'll watch'the fleets of airships and know the meaning, doubtless, then, of all these accidents, this dying, this lining up of crippled men. SENTENCE SERMONS liofttoit, Mass. I have heard a beautiful counsel by one Mollnoe recited In the pulpit.

Can you tell me who IIP wan? You probably have In mind Miguel de Mollnos, a Spanish divine and mystic, who lived from 1640 to 1697. was charged with heresy and died In prison. He became the leader of the religious revival known as Quietism which he advocated with courage and tenacity. Pew writers upon sacred themes have striven more nobly to disengage the essences of the Christ- Ian faith from their creedal forms. Perhaps best known counsel Is that which you heard.

I placed It In a brlof biography of a Methodist saint who made It the practice of his life. Here It is: "Thou art to know soul is the center, habitation and kingdom of God. That therefore to the end the sovereign King may rest on that throne of thy soul, thou oughtest to take pains to keep it clean quiet, void and peaceable; clean from guilt and defects, quiet from feart; void of affectation, desires and thoughts and peaceable In temptation and tribulations." Philadelphia, 1'a. I am the victim of feara and foreboding') arising from Internal rather than rxtemnl They make my life miserable. My mornings are unusually Kail.

I awake with this terror of something vague yet menacingly heavy upon me. What can I do? Your experience is common among individuals of a highly sensitive sort, with an ill regulated Imagination prone to fancy tbe worst and quick to visualize the seamy side of life. The thick-skiuued, i insensate parson who simply cannot realize your distress has little sympathy with it. Have you had some severe disappointment' If obliterate the memory of it, for this accentuates your malady. It is purely mental and therefore should be offset by a thorough course of Intellectual and spiritual hygiene.

Do not confuse your dlaease with cowardice It Is the work of what George Meredith once called the chief demon of modern life, that foreboding fear which Is a Hangover from primitive ages It threatens to many a brave, resolute soul in these tumultuous days and evidently aisitlls you. Read "The Autobiography of James Edwprds," published by the Macmll- lan Company a book concerning which Dr. Joseph Fort Neyton Justly asserts AMBITION- IS a hard task master Is the hope ol progress. Is a divine discontent. Is an element of divinity within us Makes the difference between success and failure.

Is never satisfied while it lives Laughs at obstacles. BLUE SKIES By ANN11 CAMPBELL The skies above our avenue Aie colored with a clearer blur. Than any other skies that meet Above most any other street. Tha sun shines with a brighter gold The lawns are greener to behold. The trees are kinder, and bend down To shade the nicest btreet In town.

I never knew that this was so Until, one time, I had to go For many awny from where Our sidewalks stretches broad and fair When I came back, how blue, how green, How golden the familial scene' Mall this woild no skies' as blue As those above our street--ancl you' that it not only describaa vpur situation, but shows a way out of It Cultivate the mystical element! of Christian religion. Nothing surpasses these for Instilling tranquil assurance as your Inward control. Otherwise your difficulty will generate the miseries on which It It makes millionaires dread poverty and even dying man and woman dread life. Those who are gripped by It shiver at a thousand and one things which coula not possibly happen to them. Affirm your belief in Ood.

In Christ, In Immortal blessedness Guard your waking thoughts. Read no morbid literature. See a cheerful play a week. Saturate your prayers In Wwnjwgivlng. Treat life.

confUUngV and It will repay you In kind. CharlMtoon, r. what your Interpretation of Samuel, MUeentli chapter, fourteenth versef "But the spirit of the Lord departed from Kniil anil an evil spirit from the Lord him." Diseases which are now scientifically diagnosed as nervous developments were regarded In ancient times as manlfestlons of demoniac possession. It was also believed that Jehovah was supreme In the Invisible realm and that He dispatched this evl) spirit to plague the guilty king. The incident should be Interpreted In the light of contemporary Ideas which since have been blotted out by the advantage of knowledge.

But the facts they were advanced to aiplaln are not blotted out of human life. Conscience still makes cowards of us all. and Saul's recurrent mania now as then Is only temporary soothed by music. The annalist of I Samuel understood thatthe monarch had not fulfilled the high expectations of his nation. Its hopes faded with the decline of his jnce brilliant His vanity, Jealousy, willfulness and hate of the young hero David obscured what might otherwise have been a great and prosperous reign.

The quaint yet vivid lauzuage of the record has its modern applications. Read the life of "Wll- helm Hohenzollern. the Last of the Kalcers." by that great German, Emll Ludwlg. for an amazing story of autocratic arrogance and shameful flattery varied by occasional outbursts of meanness and dupllcty. Recall that this prince was adored by who died for his dynasty and also what he cost civilization.

You mav then better understand why the author of i Samuel should have looked upon the fateful events of Saul's rif i vi 11 of the conflict between good and evil spirits The Daily Mirror Of Washington BY CLINTON W. GILBERT. men In another boat, The girl's condition was such that she was taken to the Johnson hospital at Stafford. The hay was able to go to the home of his uncle, Azlzr SarUouh, Stafford Springs where he had teen staying. The party was speeding the after- WASHINQTON.

Ally 4 --It Is a novel on the lak in a round bottom idea that the Virginians entertain of loat Shortly after 4 o'clock when holding the 1928 Democratic National the art started to change Convention on the campus of the TJnl- 8ea ts the craft overturned throwing verslty of Virginia at Charlottesvllle, the occupants Into the Va. The plan Is to put a temporary The screams of the two Bin, roof of canvas over the football sta- ed the attention of HarrV wmi? dlum on the university grounds and of Hartford, and wl ms the delegates under its shel- Windsor Hills, who with Sri. win. ter. and Miss av i "Uiiamj Sentimentally, the scheme has a lot man Cantor i.

bo an1 "or- to be said for It It would make near which lies Monti- bottomed tost cello, the old home of Thomas Jeffer- Williams' boat was son, a sort of for the Democra- the sccns and the vmmJI! re ch tic-party. There could be. during the pulled out of the water i convention, a pilgrimage to Montlcello, was clinging to her who miles away, and another to taken Into the rescuing too Stauuton. Va thirty miles away, where Olga were not seen nd the old manse Is In which Woodrow Azeezie, was Wilson was bom A sort of camp-meet- Shahood, were tiansferred ing fervor over Jeffersonlsm' might be boat and Mrs Williams expected to develop over a Mslt to th- zitr, both of whom are shrine of Democracy, ana, according to over them for some tim. worlle1 those who entertain this fancv of an were revived oerore they open-air convention at the University The girl and bov t.v.

of Virginia, there mlsht be a sort of to the cottage, of w. hor i nlr4 Qf Joll IT KOIUer KPtrf He had the and after treating" lot man Casker. of HartfoM I or of ing In the vlclnltv from vlclnltv from n1 redodication of the party to the old At any rate, the idea is has a touch of something like religion in it and has dramatic possibilities An a I home 1 Contrast to Madison Square State police a canvas roof over a football stadium Strlnir 3 barrau no D0 nt him Education on Shipboard BY DR. FRANK CRANE The proolem of conducting a school on a trans-Atlantic liner going around the world and occupying the same time as the school year, has already been tiled with reasonable success Of course objections have been found, but objections be found to almost any system. Nothing in this sublunary existence is perfect The question arises, however.

Why a school year on board a ship 0 The one dominant note In modern education is to make it more practical, to depend more upon doing fiingb than upon books In teaching chlldien A child wno learns botany by walking with an Instructor the fields and examining the various plants certainly has a better working knowledge of the science than If he learned it simply from books A student learning the science of medicine by actual practice in a hospital will know more about the art than if he meiely btudled the text books To learn geology by picking up and examining the rocks arid other sub- stoncea of the eaith la a more vivid way of learning it than by studying somebody's manual. Learning by doing is the method coming more and moie Into vogtie If that Is so, why is not a world tour under propel auspices and training a better medium for education than residence In a college' Geography can be more accurately comprehended by visiting the various countiles than by studying the atlas, One's Idea of Illinois and Kentucky is more vivid from traveling through these states than If he gets the Impression from books that Illinois is red nnd Kentucky Is blue. The difference in vailous rnces. the different points of view of Mohamme- dans, for instance, Buddhists and Christians, are moie accurately comprehended by seeing these people and mingling with them than bv reading about them. One not only lear.is the facts concerning these people, but he actually leains the feel of them and gets something of their spliit Often much of the "wander yeoi" Is occupied In meie aimless voyaging But to have the tiip under pioper tutelage and learn how to correlate all the facts observed under piosvi in- stiuctlon must be oC Inestimable value to the youth.

Veiy often a boy is sent abior.d ter he finishes college to "bioaden his outlook" And veiy often this t.me Is spent in much aimless dissipation To combine hib studies and his tiave- liiiET ouRht to be a good tiling and those parents whoo can afford It ought eagerly to gmsp the opportunity to have 1 theii child tifivel and be tialned at tile same time Beside this, the youth lecelvcs many beneficial impressions as to world unity. If ho Is not so rampant an Amei- Ican, which means so provincial a patriot, but he more and moie how much the laiger term "humanity" is than the term "nation And in another generation inteinatl question must be looked upon with diffeient eyes It Is significant that the Cunard Line, wlitch was one of the pioneers of the shipping Industry has tnown Its appreciation of the future of this business by setting aside Its latest boat, the Auranla, for this purpose. from could not be Improved upon. No "sidewalks of New York" there. And a discourager of a long-deadlocked convention like that of 1924.

the incon- venlencen of the football atndlum and of a small town could not be surpassed The University of Virginia is ctoselv associated with the name of Thomas Jefferson. He founded It near the mountain, the top of which he leveled off as a site for his home The quadrangle around which stand the main buildings of the university, includlns the old dormitories, was laid out by the singularly versatile founder of the Demociatic paitv, who was not only a greet politician, but an aichitect-- he designed his own be-uitiful home-and a scientist The delegates to the Democratic convention might be hor.s- ed the old dormitories aid rooms provided for the business of picking candidates and rounding up delerates mlpht be Drovided In the lecture halls of the university the bodiea. the search for THE WEATHhR dis- of And a meeting of the convention In Virginia would undoubtedly please the South from which most of the Derro- ci'Rtlc votes come. The drys and the wets oupht to be able to tet together at the Jeffeison shrine since both of them appeal to him as their authority The supporters of Governor Smith could take his opponents UD to Jefferson's tomb and rend how he was the author of a statute of reliqlous tolerance. SISTER, BROTHER DROWN IN LAKE Four Thrown into Water at Crystal Lake When Boat Overturns.

STAFFORD SPRINGS. July 4 Associated Pi ess Ises Farkoh seventeen, and his sister. Olga, eighteen children of Rey. and Mrs Fred Farkoh wore drowned this afternoon when I their boat capsized at Crystal Lake Their bodies had not been lecovercd up to a late hour tonight Azzeezle Farkoh, fourteen, another sister, and George Shahood, nineteen of New York city, a cousin, who were also in the boat, were rescued by two norther sections. Winds--North of sandy Hook- Moderate west of northwest winds and fair weather Tuesday.

Sandy Hook to Hatteras--Moderate northeast or north winds and fair Wednesday TEMPER P8 rmh 'S 1 0 erV t10111 Bar. Wea. A 3000 83 Clear Atlantic Cltv 3006 68 Clear Block Island SO 00 62 Clear Boston 3000 62 Clear Bu a 3018 64 Clear Cincinnati 3020 68 Clear Chicago 3022 62 Cloudy I nv 2974 84 Cloudy 'Detroit 3024 66 Clear Duluth 30.20 54 Clear Hatterss 30 08 8 Cloudy Jacksonville 30.04 76 Cloudy Kansas City 30 06 84 Clear I Nautucket 29 98 62 Cloudy 1 New Haven so 07 Clear New Orleans in 06 80 Cloudy i New Yoik 80.08 66 Clear Norfolk 3012 70 Cloudy Northfleld 30 04 52 Cloudy Pittsburgh 30 22 68 clear Portland 2996 58 Clear St Louis 3016 80 Clear Minneapolis 30 06 68 Cloudy Washington 30.10 70 Clear DAILY ALMANAC. Compiled bv the Mldaiebroek New England Almanac for the Telegram, fopirlcht. Eastern Standard Time.

4:38 AX. Sun 7:29 P.M. High water 3:5.1 P.M. Low water 10:17 TM. INEWSPAPERif.

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