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SUNDAY Ctilunt MAY 5, 1929 B-3 postcards Europe -By REV. S. PARKES CADMAN Radio Minister Federal Council 'oChmchaoCnrm America. CHES TEk ROWEL Caliomia Publicist and Former Newspaper Publisher LANTERN By niAwardiHopt i i i By BRUCE BARTON iHE liberties of America were 'forfeited, after all, without STRASBURG This ancient city once more French lri name, if not In nature, still seems to be suffering from its dual personality which may account for a headline which recently appeared In one of its myriad newspapers. It reads: M.

HARRY SINCLAIR The well-irnow author is condemned to three months in prison for offenging the senate. Acoustomed as Strasburg is to being now anti-German and now ven waiting for the World anti-French in reverse ratio to its A PRESS association has mad up another of those lifts et the ten most interesting men In tha world. One great thing about a list of that sort 1 that it almost sura to please ten men. And' dissatisfaction with such a list, even among tha hundred thousand or so who disagree, is limited. Each of tha minority reporters would be content to point out ona absurd omission.

Each, that is, except George Bernard Bhaw. who would probably award the first aeven places to a certain British dramatist, and stop official fealty and thus offering a sort of average in citizenship, it is the autobiography of Benjamin Haydorip- the painter who was the friend of Wordsworth and Scott llaus can one in middle life break a long habit of aoubt and unbelief? I used to follow all the prescribed ceremonies of my church and even taught Sunday school classes. Finally, because I never accepted literally the Bible, but had to pretend I did, to be tolerated in my home, I gradually drifted away from religion. Going to church has always been for me merely doing penance, except for a fine sermon now and again. I was reared in Puritanically strict parsonage, where one of my first memories is of getting spanked because 1 did not learn my prayers as readily as my nervous, impatient father thought perhaps not unnatural that Sinclair Lewis and Harry Sinclair- are juggled into one entity.

It is Court to do it to us. In fact, it was Senator Johnson who did it to us himself which is at least interesting, considering the Senator's widely broadcast effort to scare tie out of the Court by the bugaboo that we might have to submit the "I'm Alone" case to a tribunal dominated by "foreigners." Now the case is actually before such a tribunal, by the of a treaty five -years old, to wtiose ratification Senator John- 'r son was a party. That ias passed In 1924. Senator Johnson was a member of the committee which recommended It, and of the Senate which approved it, and" he made no objec usually a safe bet if you ask an Alsatian for pate-de-fois-gras, he prefers to sell you Gaenzeleber ana and Lamb. I found this entry- tha list there.

vice-versa. That, of course, may be because he speaks as bad French as he does German and either language in whioh you address him sounds so wrong that he I II I It I 1 1 B.1IMt 1 JTV x4W 1 Af lit At aL 1 I takes for granted the other is your native tongue. should. However, I had faith in his As to the fabrication of a com character and did not really lose all posite personality in the form of a Harry Sinclair Lewis, it probably December 1822 at half-past eleven in the forenoon was born Frank Haydon, whom pray God to make a better m4h than his father. God bless him! and grant him life, and virtue, and dauntless energy and health, and above requires no more painful a process than the creation of that famous interest in spiritual things until I went to teach in denominational institution, where I saw so much un-windness and double dealing that i goose-liver appetizer fof which the city is famous.

Or is it painful 7 The goose it is true; must lead a restricted life to produce the have grown to wonder what the average person really means when he quality of organ desired. He is, in fact, securely, if not uncomfort WeU, the Rockefeller opera house project Is now all arranged for completion, but even when -the Metropolitan company moves in- and goes to work, there'll be a lot less singing than there is now la the speakeasies of 'the district. A Frenchman on a sea-going bicycle has broken the sea-going bicycle speed record for the English channel, and nothing much remains now but for a flagpole-sitter to cross the channel on tha mast of a steamer and eat two hundred and seventy-three doughnuts en route. The motion picture Interests of France demand that their Holly-x wood competitiors buy ona French picture for every three American films sold in France. And if they take a strong stand on theme songa they may be spared them entirely.

professes to be a Christian. ably, strapped to a board. This is to avoid over-exercise; But On the other hand; he is allowed to make Please give me some help toward a genu ins faith. I know the usual word formulas, but they get me nowhere. How far should one go in up in gormandizing what he misses in not being able to do his dairy dozen.

The result is a large and succulent liver and, unquestionably, public confession, in' making restitution, and above all, how can I shake a tempting delicacy. off mr deadly I want i But it must be admitted that while the' emotions of re-and-de cerely to believe something thai mill anchor, mr soul. trhen was tion to it in either body. It obligated us to submit just such cases to a board in which we would be outvoted two to one by "foreigners," and we have now done so. If that was a surrender of the ln-dependence'of America, it was not the Court that did it, and if we lose the case before that "packed" tribunal, theCourt will not be responsible.

Senator Johnson will. OF course. Senator Johnson was right "in favoring that treaty. His error is in for-! getting this entirely creditable chapter in his international record, or in supposing that we would. It la right to arbitrate this dispute before 'temporary tribunal, and it would have been Mill better to ad-Judicata It before the permanent Court, against which he so excitedly warned It Is better to arbitrate such a matter even If we lose, than it would be to win It by bluff and bluster and the pretense that a matter involving two nations can be decided by.

one of them. If we lose, we will pay, as a law-abiding nation should. If we win, we will win decently, as a self-respecting nation should. The only completely uncivilized course would have been refuse to submit case to anybody. But how much better adjudication before the Court would have been than even this arbitration! fio at least Presidents McKlnley and Roosevelt thought, when they proposed this" court, "and Presidents Harding, Coolldge.

and Hoover, ffthen they advocated accepting our -Own InvitnHnn inin If At.KUt.c valine some, one had had the pa' patriated Alsa'tlons seem to be as mixed as their understanding of American heroes and complaints tience to explain things instead of I 1 utvn are heard now as before 1918, so slamming the- door lin my face, life would have been very different with otlon picture song-wrttlng la far" as they are limited to the too human beings. The geesestill accept their martrydom compla cently. me. just beginning to be known (be cess, he said. what a satisfaction it must be to have made your name stand for quality and square dealing ginning now) as tha themy side of Without entering at length into the painful personal history you all, genius! At the bottom of the page, in small type, the editor of the volume had added a tragic footnote: Frank Haydon became an official at the Public Record Office.

He died by his own hand, October 11th, 1887. What a world of pathos is in those two quotations. The joyous thrill of the father at the arrival of his firstborn son! The dreams of both parents for the future; their willing sacrifice of their own comfort and pleasure that this new young life might have a better start. The years of manhood. And at the end of it all, the wreck! relate, permit me to suggest that not only in your own country but ever penetrate deeper into this most there Is but one way ior a lire ai throughout the world! Surely few baffling of all Nature's secrets? verted as yours has been to regain its true course.

Return to the original sources of the -Christian 3 men have so much "reason to be congratulated." Gospel, study them in the light of Christ's teaching, discard anything Shall we some day understand which does net harmonize witn that teaching, resolve to be guided PARIS. Extensive changes In one of the favorite attraction for tourists in Paris are under contemplation. The "Invalldes," It Is stated, will be entirely transformed. Naturally the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, together with the famous hat, will remain; but the plan of the authorities is to remove eleswhere most of the other attractions. Chief among these is the military museum, containing an unique collection of flags, uniforms and trappings, particularly of 4he Napoleonic period.

Another section of the "Irival- by Us precepts and by these alone. Essential religion centers In life to be lived, hence the creed you finally accept should function The famous man made no reply for several minutes. Finally he to that end. Christianity Is not form of words, not a tradition, not a closely articulated system of turned, with a haggard look. theology.

These have grown out Udes," as the name itself indicates, of it, not it from them, and they must be correctly judged Jy their correspondence with the mlnd of tion will settle this case. The Couttt would have settled the la. Whether we win or lose'thls cas why it was that the son of shiftless Thomas Lincoln became the greatest American, wjule the son of the powerful Napoleon was 'of no account? Why two good parents produce a Washington, and two others, seemingly also good, a Benedict Arnold? Surely no area of human life is more important or less explored life. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford will appear together in an all-talking picture which is to be made of "The Taming of the And if there is anything at all In spiritualism, the ahade of Shakespeare will surely come back to dictate a scene In which Petrachlo swings across a canyon on the branch if a tree, lands on a balcony and from that Just In time to wipe out six villains with a few iveU-almed kicks in the face. It would seem like a far cry t-om America's Sweetheart to the hrew, but Art Is wonderful.

The new paper money that la to issued in July la quite a lot nailer than the present kind, but will not slip through tha fingers -ny tporeeasIly. It couldn't. Tha new currency will save the overnment 1000 acrea of paper, hlch Isn't really ao much whan uu think of tha millions of square nlles of paper profits that change nvners In Wall Street every day. Tha aavad paper will ba turned 'over to tha Navy Department to be made Into ships. the Master.

is In part a gamble on the" person So obliterate as far as possible the sorry "past. G.lve no heed to la numv xur uiBiLuieu nuiuifsro. They may be seen dally going to and fro in their hand-propelled tricycle, for practically all of them are men wounded in the spine, and unable to use their legs. The government feels, It Is said, that these cripples would be better "Your words are very kind," he answered. "Under other circumstances I should probably feel exactly as you suggest.

But what does it all amount to when your son is a theories about the Bible, nor to the shortcomings of ill-paid and overworked teachers In denominational institutions. Their directors and dogmatists have much to answer oft in a less crowded section of for of which many of us are aware, ality of the third arbitrator. Before the Court it would have been an appeal to the judgments of 11 of the ablest Jurists in the world, Conscious of their responsibility at the bar of history. If we had won, the prinicple would have been If we had lost, we would have known what new treaties we need to negotiate. Arbitration is good.

Adjudication is better. a MOST of the protest against President Hoover's Ictum that disregard for some laws Yet out of these same Institutions have come not a few of the ripest Who will found a laboratory to disr fool?" scholars and purest saints, who Paris, or perhaps in the suburbs. Automobile trafflo has Increased Immensely In recent years, and there are serious fears for the safety of the trlcycllsts when they venture out upon the streets. Another fact is that the government needs more room for offices. serve the Christian church and it Founder.

A friend of mine sat one day in a foreign hotel beside a man whom he recognized from newspaper photographs as one of America's great manufacturers. He introduced himself. You must pardon me, sir, for addressing you, but every American feels a personal pride in your sue- No 'confession is necessary from you concerning dogmas you cannot conscientiously believe. You do and these must necessarily be In an accessible location. The "Inval cover what parents can do for their children without doing too much? Who will win the undying gratitude of the race by teaching us how to raise sons? not have to betray your intellec destroys respect for all law waa tual integrity at any man's behest ldes is only ar few blocks from the war ministry, and would be The one restitution you should It is a disheartening thing that with all our increase in knowledge we have learned so little about the reasons for success or failure in the molding of human lives.

Shall we Vectors' Jtaespapsr iystftesta. were Incoherent roar, from baffled thirst and anger, or the attempt, In better English, to sell more make is to give your very self to- well situated to receive some of lit rightful owner. You are Christ's and He Is God s. Therefore an papers among the roarer. But of thlnes true, honorable and of course the New Republlo had to put a more rational face on it.

good report are yours. Cling to and obey Him and the spirltuall ties you crave will become your the overflow. As for the military museum, It Is felt that it would be as appropriately housed at Versailles, and almost as accessible to tourists. There are many protests, however, against the new measures. Old friends of the "Invalldes" and of its museum and infirmary regret seeing its consecrated to other and less glorious purposes.

Even the lowbrow view has to be translated into highbrowese. So it has an article by Professor deeply felt experiences. I hope ftobert C. Binkley of New York may have made the way a little clearer for your perplexed but sincere search for a faith not lost but niVPrSthv ntflirvilni he. It Id iIa Maybe That's What Happen When You Bang Your Finger With Hammer (Notice found In The Michigan Dally, of tha University of Michigan, by John H.

Ferris.) Physics CoUoquInral Dr. H. L. Smith will apeak on "Simultaneous Ionization and Excitation of Moleculea by Impacts with Positive Ions and Excited i Atoms," at 4:15 Tuesday, March in room 1041, East Physics Building. W.

F. Colby. It strikes ns that the greatest possibility of the talkies is that now we may hear the great singers perform in their right- for officials and people to 11 win tie interesting to see Ed.a A.Gestr- which side wins. Unity IF THIS good by were a good by forever, Reaction WHEN I am heavy with the end, my sorrow Will be, I think, not that I must depart, But that there will not be another morrow In which to learn the things beside my heart. In which to understand why there un And all to-morrows ended with And worth knows not provement or decay.

today, lect what laws they will enforce support. Those who think otherwise are lawyers, and therefore do not know law. The fundamental fallacy, says Professor Binkley, is the outgrown notlqn of the "separation of powers," into legislative, executive and Judicial. That was a theory temporarily popular, about the time our Constitution was adopted, but long Bince given up by ail. those who know anything about it.

On the contrary, law has always been something very different from the enactments of a legislative body. The king's Judges, in Old England, decided which law thev would en. That close would be of seeming only never Shall you and take to a separ If the Administration Is sincere it As manhood was and is, so ate way. For we have more than outer flesh in its belief that the government should not compete with private enterprise, we can't aea any Justification for tha night club trials, which make tha federal court a direct competitor of tha after-theater places. 10 noia us; More than the years between us It is not what we gain and tor away, Nor what proud post we hold a little while, On other leaders soon the throng shall smile, Others are winning money every day?" Where now we soon conquer others may, Bettering the speed with which we run the mile.

But honor alters never with the style, is our bond; There is an inner unity to fold ua will he. Time may change customs but these human needs Of friendship, sacrifice and kindly deeds Will be the same throughout eternity. The man who in a tangled world stands straight, Is fair and kindly, always will be great. Within the permanence that lie force in each community, according to local custom, and our cities Heaven may protect the working Deyond girl, as Maria Dressier used to sing. is lonely Desire in tha soft Imminence of rain.

And if hills find their gentle beauty only After millenniums of bitter pain In which" to learn why the Impulsive quiver Of a bird's throat wells longing to the eyes To understand the melody the river Murmurs In wistful rhythm to the skies In which to grasp the word the leaf Is bending Above the broken root regretfully Tha pity of the wind's breath but New York juries don't believe In leaving jiuch thinga to supernatural powers. noia elections on the Issue which of the state or national Jaws shall be enforced In them. The people have always obeyed some laws and disregarded others. The ones they Ignore, they do not regard as law. This, says the professor, is not anarchy.

It is an interesting argument. What will those who now applaud it say when th ev Hen Tha City of Paria Is considering an escalator to take people up Beyond the dawn In whose essential shimmer The face must, soma time, fall the waking eye-Beyond the dusk whose sympathetic glimmer Must lose the portrait clouded In the sky-Beyond the rain from whose ephemeral fingers Tone must fall on an inattentive ear- Montmartre. And a chute will ba all that Is needed to get most of tha American tourists down again. flung back at them in defense of assault and battery, and the de Stirs on the stricken margin of struction or property, during the The Rothsteln wiU may be settled ont of court, which is the way the Rothsteln murder case will be settled, if at all. Only (8 per cent of tha ministers The Little Fox THE vistas of my mind ara hung with things Trivial, Inconsequential, It may be A lark's high note: the audden rush of wings At twilight when the rain falls tenderly: The splendid dogwood, April's lovely flower, vHer waxen petals of pale pink and white, The perfect silence captured at the hour When dusk fades Into twilight and to night.

But at the heart of all there la the fear That I may pass and know these thlngg no more; Never again to see or feel or hear The mad set beating on the curving shore. Never to know when April shall return, Her feet bound with bright sandals of the rain; Never to see the autumn candles burn When scarlet rowans pierce mist again: Never to stand upon a hill to face The wind that sweeps across un-echoing stars, 1 Cleansing my heart of all the common-place, Healing the ragged edges of new scars; Never another dawn, another aun Nothing but dark and silence and deep rest For me whose of Ufa. were never run So low I did not feel within my breast Passionate longing) shall this be the end? A little mound beneath a cypres tree, A kindly sigh, a prayer from some true friend, Then solitude, for all eternity? Eleanor Alleta Chaffee. Song THE years have ebbed since the first wistful measure And pattern of the song wa called our Whose sensitive delight waa our to treasure, Whose throb wa thought a made for us alone. Time has been long slnos Hi first poignant quiver.

-Met our Incredulously waiting ears, Since Its soft consonance 'became the giver Of beauty fOr the heritage of years. the sea. I think, In -going, I shall not be grieving For any great thing lost or past recall. But for the lonely things I shall be leaving who answered a recent Question obscured by needless requirements. hats been brought up in the Church, married to a man of a dif-i ferant faith than my own and had several children.

After hit death I married a man of my own faith but not that of the children. This condition has made bitterness in the family. The children are now with their father's people and they have denied them to me on the ground that they do not think I ami proper person to have- their care on account of my religious faith. Now I have got to fight to get them. Would you please teU me what you think my duty is under the circumstance, having in mind what is beit for the children? Are you in a position to provide for and educate your children? Is your, husband willing to aid you in these matters? If the answer is in the affirmative I know of no reason why your children should not be with their mother.

They are yours and unless there is soma legal impediment of which I am not cognizant you should claim them. I have never heard of a case where grandparents can legally assume charge of younger members of the family on the ground that the mother is an improper person to do so by reason of her religious beliefs. Consult an attorney place all the facts before him, concealing nothing relevant to the situation, and be guided by' his advice as to the legal steps to be taken. Your letter is but another demon-staratlon of, the risks of mixed marriages, Hp 0 As a believer in, reincarnation, I wonder if there is any poetry bearing upon that doctrine which you could recommend? Is it spreading? "An Anthology on Reincarnation" has recently been published in London, edited by Miss Eva Martin, which "The Spectator" of that lty commends to the large, number of people interested in the theory. The volume's object la to trace the reincarnation idea through the ages.

Its contents vary in quality, but it contains a fine poem by John Mass-field, entitled "A Creed," one stanza of which is wosUmuoting here: "These eyes of mine have blinked and shone In Thebes, in Troy, in Babylon, I know that in my lives to be My sorry heart will ache and burn. And worship unavaillngly The women whom I used to spurn, Until this case, this clogging mold. Be smithied all to kingly gold." Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia'' also treats the theory at some length, and probably you know W. Henley's Was a King in Babylon." Judging from the numerous questions I receive on thta doctrine it has revived since the World War in Great Britala and to' naire believe that Hell actually exists. And If they had been asked its exact location, wa are willing to bet, they would have aald that it The wistful things that are so Beyond the wind that, warmly though it lingers, Must chill the breath the body follows nean- Beyond the moment sweeping to the hour Aversion cannot compass or forestall Beyond the breath of intellect or power Caught, traitor-wise, on a forbld-.

den wall! Jerry -Evans. dim and small. Gratiae THANK God, when death the parish house disperses. And from the reading ranks expunges me. .1 shall be spared perusing Evans' verses In poetress (I Jujpe) eternity.

I shall escape the gloom of the departed Affinities that left him stark and cold; That strayed, forgot, succumbed Perhans riiuhpnrtpnerl is bounded on tha west by the Hudson river, and on tha north by Yonkers. Jerry Evan. Forewarning i -i i i ktw (Copyright, 1929, Edgar A. Guest) T'M SORRY if my murmurlngs A offend you And garnish you with symptoms Departure or despair. By maudlin rimes of melody and mold.

But if your dreams on tha beyond WOKE tonight a little before I depend, you dawn, Had better know what may await I'll know the bliss that his rtenrl Deserted Orchard THEY have given the orchard back to Itself again And left it to huddle, untended Under the hill, companioned by onl a fence That never was mended. you there. loves inherit loi iHn lin You'd better know The Lantern imbo, where" the Lantern My heart as empty as a china cup Drained by your lips, tossed from you, downside up doesn't shine. Is eternal. Since Hope is so- at least, that'a what they say And, half asleep, I knew that you And even In an atmosphere super Tha dead boughs twist and slant nai, You'll run across tha same old were gone.

I saw tha station with Its Una of lights And emelled tha clndery-close travel smell stuff soma day. Jerry Evans. Eloquence ET lips be jsllent; In the bloom of the White petals drift and scatter With no one to measure tha coming yield or to think That apples matter vu mo ovner nana, su per cent of ministers believe in an actual Heaven, and that seems to leave per cent with the Impression that they have everything to win and nothing to lose. It is our observation, however, that tha ministers who don't be-lleve in Hell have a good deal of faith in tha federal penitentiaries as substitutes. A man in Newark spent hour shooting people for no good reason; and we were rather surprised to learn that he waa an ordinary maniac and not a prohibition agent.

The government Is about to recruit 170 new enforcement me-i. The moat likely places to find i with the right enthusiasm -the Job are the shooting galled Some of our represcntu; being advised, "Vote as you seem to have taken "as" in i as a synonym of "while." Prosecution may teach men a lc 1 I 1 That I have missed so long and Suggestion (With the tongue appropriately tucked into the cheek:) me, lady; soft and clear Lorelei's your song. And as sweet; yet, shall I veer From my chartered course for long? Lure me, lady, with the bright Pearl and coral of your smile, With your" down-fluehed euch light May attract me for a while. Charm me, lady, with the Moonlight-blue, your eyes can cast On my soul; but who shall tell Whether even that will last? Snare, me, lady, if you will, With your golden tresses wound All about my heart; and still You may find me not quite bound. Listen, if for ail Time you'd hold me, my heart ---fused With your own, and iff your thrall-Keep me constantly-amused! Vegetables known so well.

Anil thought: This la the first of hiany nights. A-1 There are. so many other in a year or a me. hui tha or things to speak. Trains Being ruthless as ara beasts The forest colors of the misty Jerry's pathos cannot touch the sperrlt, Nor wring the tears from speddl-tual eyne.t License claimed for this.

this. G. W. H. 1 Town Girl's Song OH'should a gypsy lad come by A-Journeying from north to 1 south, "Perhaps I'd my stride to I his; 1: And take his kiss upon my mouth.

But on the other hand, perhaps, 1 I'd only smile and wave njy hand And wish him godspeed 1 on the way Cairo or to Samarkand. 1 Marion Bussang. chard, forth Its fruit, And In time the apples tumble, woodland. Slice open and crush on a stone Tha sun bathed moon fading against the sky, or smother In grass. A man might stumble The friendly hills, the wind-swept the The beauty of invoking from Of PW- And Time as cruel as a careless loverT Since you have said good-by and gone away Thwe's little chance for roe that I discover.

"i Better to twist and turn and, Counting sheep mountain peak. The ribbon of the roving road on un meanings nere well as an high, orchard hummocks. With even the fence uncaring. The muted eloquence of these who scattered Remembered notes, eachvother'a Hps and eyes, sheltering the only faith that mattered. Enough' for rhythm to lmmor-.

Uligal Jarrp Evans, can outvie? Tha trees will blossom and yield LOver-and over, forget that I should Let lips be silent, then, and until petals are ended And ended the bearing, Frances M. Frost shy." Louisa Coin. weep i ut, Frances --Park. al asser-extent in-America..