Zurich Herald, 1922-05-04, Page 7Where Community Life Flourishes
There is one republic unknown to
• the outei world, whieh t ignores, for
-it is ' saale to assert that fewer than
three thousand people in all the pop-
ulation of Europe are familiar with
it, though this republic can count
500 years 'and more of history.
In this meat- tencient. republic, the
territory of which lies four theasand
feet above the valley leading to it, no
fernily has ani inch more land then its
-neighbor and property remains to -day
on its original basis. In it individuals
are nothing and the folk as a nmee are
everything. All are equal, and though
money is need for purposes in the
-outer world, barter and exchanee form
, the basis of any commercial transec-
etions: There ,beieg no inferiority of
wealth there is. el° pride ofeeurse, and
the conditions a all being known there
is no preteesion, no ostentation. The
• Government es • traditional, and the
qualifications of the head functionary
•-ake nothing more than yeare, memory
and uprightness. There is no council
• end no court roam. Seated before his
door the head of the republic 'gives his
decisions, founded on use and wont
and tradition.
• Andorre, a small country high up
among the Pyrenees, With, its thread
•be dependence •on Or connection with
Spain, is well creough Itnown, bet the
other and older, Genet, sheltezed by
France eernains sto-da.y as centuries
• ago --familiar onle to those in its im-
mediate •neighbarhood.• ,,
Goust lies among the higher re-
; ceases of the French 1?errenees be-
yond the south end of the °semi Wil-
ley, Than the eizzytrack to the re-
publie begins end winde along the face
of the precipieee, tervegh forests,.
rocky gergee and cloude up to the
mouttain top. There lieTeGoust—an
oasis et green trees and bushes, gar-
dens,*Aelds anti houses, among the
eleack rocks. Amid a clamp of trees
stand its ten houses, inhabited' by its
population of fifty to eixtar* men, wo-
men and chileleen, for seldom has the
Goust Republic- exceeded that rannber,
and the sum of the houseshas been
the slime throegh all tiadittoe.
When the population inere,asee and
threatens to stint supplies, which are
held in common, luxuries ane neees-
series alike, youngster are equipped
and sent to pueh their fortune in the
valley below. There, too, the young
men find their wives for Goust is
strictly Catholic and observes the pro-
hibited deerees of consanguinity. It
has no priest or chapel, but the folk,
except when winter snows shut them
of, descend, regulaaey to Laruns. Here
they are baptized, married and buried.
To this day their agriculture and Me
plemente, man,ners and muelt of their
knowledge are of Fraece of the six-
teenth ;century. -
• Goust, . escaping • interference
through its -poverty and eemotenege
grew, up eel -Aeries ago into a eelf-
• ruling,self-eupperting community.
Ties tiny republic within a' republic
has kept a traditional independence
peacefully in the inidtt of political
Changes which have eonvelsed Europe.
Sf0 ET OF
If it were asked whet discovery with
VE SECR
in
the limits of the reasetiably coneeiea-
• ble would at the present time, be most
MYSTERIOUS FLUID Visa
u, to mankind the reply might
• well be, a means for converting heat
&redly into electaleity. This 'phase
of the problem has long been one .of
deepest interest to experimenters, ow-
ing to the great waste in producing
cm -rent.
That this is not an imposibility in
physics is proved by the fact that
when two...different metals are solder-
ed together; liet being eppliedto the
paint of joining, 'electricity is pro-
duced. That is to Say, heat is convert-
ed climectly into electricity without in-
tervention ' of a steam engine. If a
member pairs ef metalis be taken
they wiil serve to compose a sort of
battery, eurnieleing eneugh eel -rent
for 'a srnell installattion.
'Here poseibly ie• the germ of a prac-
tical sob:teen of a, tremendous prob-
lem.: How can the same thing lie dene
on a' large stale at a reasonably loav
cost. A saei.efactotry ansieeie to that
quote= means a simple apparatus
that may be installed in any •dwelling,
and which will furnish illumination,
heat the hoese and do the cooking.
It seems not uareeasoriable to be-
lieve that the time is eeniing when an
apparatus of the kthid i1rbe as much
a matter of 'course hi dwelling houses
es• a coal furnace es to -day. The de-
• ineetic electric furnace will be Metal-
.
led in kitehen or cellar, and, through
wires passing to every room, it will
sepplp light and heat and run fans in
response to the pushing of the proper
buttone The ,mst of the outfit and the
expense of operating it (the •earaM1113-
tion of fuel being small) will be so lit -
tib that the humblest home and poor-
est family can afford to have its inde-
pendent olectsid plant.
Let this problem of converting heat
:ELECTRICITY'S IDENTITY
NEAR SCIENTISTS'
GRASP.
Means for Converting Heat
Directly Into Electricity Most
Pressing Problem.
In rUcent eatpeximente ,at th,e 'Uni-
• versity of Chicago a temperature of
. more than 50a000 degreesa--20,000 de-.
, Trees higher than that,of the -hottest
stars ---Was obtained ,by 'cliseltarging
-a Jorge" queenly of electricity Atm
a. 'condenser thee:ugh a yery fine -Wife.
means of this enormous heat the
• metal tungsten was 'actually changed
• to helium—an unpreced.ented, ancl mese
•estaniehing feat, seeming to -prove
• that atoms of matter are not incle-
strectible, -
- .
Asat preseet coeeeived, an atom of.,
matter is a tiny package containing a
number of 'electrons. This number
varies witUi different kinds of matter,
• but the substance eomposin,g the elec.-
trans is always the same. It is the
•eubaltance out ef which ali things are
made, and it fills all space, being no-
thing :mom or less. than what we have
been accustomed' to call the 'inter-
stellar ether."
The sun, a . 'gigantic source of
etnergy, transmits this energy to us
through the medium of "waves" in the
teller.' When theiewayee strike the eye
. they irritate the, retina and produce
the effect evhich we call light. In
other-manifestatione they 'produce ef- directly into electricity once be eolv-
• feet§ weirch we teem electrical. But
• the enerey is, all the same- energy._ It
•appeafs also .fn'the4orre of .heat,' to
warm the,eeie if air aii`wittelt we daeell.
Ethel. is All-Peivading.
We haue thus aerie to tinders:tend
(first) that ether ei the fundamental
•eubitance ,out of Whielf all things in
nature; from reekte human beings,
are bnadIe and (sewed) that all of
• the seacalled "void" ef 'space is, filled
With. th1 etruettereless material;
• whoee vilerations carrie:eie us ,the
•energy :o he sum Purtheeinore, we
140 mole .able to, ,repognize -this energy
its eitere.
tp. goveres weather oii the earth. It
eantrols our pfif net as an elettrie
and therefoie governs Whet We call
• magnetic phenomena... It procluceit oti
ecceSions 'the aurera borealis, which
disturbe the working of telegraphic
instruments. All of this, and in-
enitely more -it -aecomplialies thraugh
the mechean i'afathe , interstellar .ether.
• New that We have, coney to know
•these thiugs, weetre for the ,fiesteinie
' a poisitien to enter e new aed won-
derful domain of itieee.overy and inven-
• Radio, winh. uttliines theric
eibiatione for sending .tneseageseever
ecia and in manufacturing plants 'great
engines and huge bailees will be re-
placed by electric furnaces that take
up only srnall spaee, with a neater for
earth machine. Production of manu-
factured efroducts will he vastlar
cheapened, 'and their cost to consum-
ers earrespondbitgly less. A single.
outfit ef the kind will provide for all
the need e of the biggest hatel„includ-
ing lighting, heating, eo.oleing, (re-
frigeration ancl the <venation of the
laundry. And if this be 'practicable,
why might it not be equally GO for a
trans-Atlantic eteamship, which is -a
fleeting ,hotel, and which Might be
equipped fee likeepurposeseevith an,
electric fueneee in the holdeT•perhaps,
even furnishing its motive Pewee?
Courtesy.
The finest, .cettrtesy is that thich
, m
coes fromhe t'sparitaneaus'-inenda
'festation of good'will. Yet often pee,.
ple,who fesi gOod, will toware, others
ere. net potable .for 'cauttesy, When
there is any failure in courtesy it eani
ahnotet inveriaber be aim -eyed to fear.
Perhaps the -person i atfraid of
as-
suming toe, mush imp oetance .ancl
long distances, and, eyen, for „the trans- appearing egotistioal arid therefore
o slYU1Td by *l'e :"Wire4ess" lurks in the ebatkgroped when, he nrolee,
is eet: ,begiening. We may
lt
- ' eeelcl 'come forweed... 'Perhape he
; et find a means orf employing thein
feerertleat some ,one will think ebat he
is trying to curry favoie and there-
fore he is se distantly' politeefe alMast
,
to be rude. Perhaps his greae wiflts
'so iningleale with admiration as be
• make hire awkward and embarrassed';
the ',fear of being regarded as cora-
rnoeplaoe end unimportant; as lie cana
not help knowing' himself to be pre -
vette hire from'ehowing proper 'cove
esy. Or, .en the other bated, the leer
that„ ,cetertesy will be interpeeted as
Wealone,se c,ausee thine to ee aa,eertive,
oeerlaeanng 01' trucelerit. , • •
ie the ginat .eneeny to happi-
ness and aeeorripliehinent. One of the
meet effective ways in which fear
Weeks is through etrabing or suppress-
ing the dorattee4s reannere end actions
that, if. it wove not establiehed In
'We el; ,now for the erg time, get- position of authoority, would display
bieg eteion of what electricity, the .themselves as the natural expression
itp-ealled "meet:crime fluel.," really of the heerte—Yeethe Cerneatioll.
y.wuch an artifieiai daylight can be
produced for the . illiumiigtion o:
*Yeses. . This is the field it, which
•eeveral inaresegaters have alreade
Worked.
• If thet problem eooa'ld be solved, we
'might be able to flood at diwelling
evith light by the mere 'turning of e
eeh or pushing of A betten-ea
ind of light, theft is to say, evhieh
• ld not be distributed from chain
•eters or other fixtures, bet whieli
•would, like . daylight, fill th,e house
eriehg getheral end diffused illumine -
fame It might serve ift the same way
to illtmainete large beehive or con.
rivably for ehe lighting et a 'city at
eight;
•
On. the Way to, Soletiore
IffeLf
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leeeoe
•
ee eel.;
:'where Do We 6r) From Hore,Boys?
Believers.
• Belief in us is the first ineentive and
the -last. teee`ylother stimulus Sooner
or later may grew weak and fell. Noe
se with confidence He who helps -e
friend helps him- most of all by trust
in him. He Wee betrays a friendship
does so most sadly -when he breaks
faith by his coeduct with that trust
reposed.
It is a netural tendency in each of
us to idealize—if not to idel•ize. We
cannot help it; we were born so. Man-
kind worships a hero, as all the world
is said to love a jovee. When that
hero turns out withewings of wax, or
Spine of straw, .or feet of clay—great
is the -fall, as of a demigod to some-
thing less than a rnan.
• Spire, It is what one man asks of
another; it is what Heaven, unseen,
ieecrutable, eternal, asks ef earth
l
e materia, literal. and
'obvious. ,
•e All things are possible not merely WILL "14E LNG LOST
to the believers, but to those -who are .
believed. It is for them to prove that
they are worthy of belief.
e Ivory Carvers of Bering Sea
Winter 'Mee littera frozen North lame).
iteeed by thoee enteetaller .with et to
be as dull es, a. grounded' lee floe. it
Is pretty geaerally believed teat, the
long nieltts are event ermine a smoky
lainp with the eteeeres' of core
venetian, frozeu solid, Ince the tundra.
But this is e. miseakee =that and fur
from true.
Tee aative villagers et the North
hey° a peculiar platlosophy, and
voluines, have been, written about tbeir
mailmen and customs. I, however,
state endeavor to tell of a particular
eleee of worker's who ply 'their trade
almoet entirely in winter, Tense see
the ivory cervere, of whom m
taest
every village can bout one oa- more.
• Tee natives have found that while
the, 11(0,17 no Imager a, necessity to
them, it eau be made into trinkets, and
ornamerite of va,rioua keels that made
ly to eummer visitors at good
Prreee. At lebeg Iseanda a' stare die
tanoe from Noine, almo.st the entire
male population engeges in the trade,
and at aleaost every villege up and
claw; the coast the week is eareled on•
• to a greater or lees extent.
The ivory used in ties werk COMOG
aallarOISIt exclusively from the walrus.
These amiraele are still Lately apemen
ili inany parts' of the North, thanks. to
the protection the IY.S. government
has glean them Natives( ere permit..
tee to them for their Orlinl uee, but'
the alr,ins esamot be ehippee from
Alaskan waters. In etelitiou to thee
Vote of the elain aniroals, some use lel
Made of ,these -Match have beau buried
in the floe tor agee and laave begrime
elemefosellized. These ere black or
brown: with time, and the most highly
Prized of ell trete% Also, -in some
pleeee tee tusks. of the prehistartc
niammoth, that long-baired aaretie ele.
phatt, are used. Tbese Lesko are
usually called "reasterlon tvory" in the
North,
The ivory carver lase four stoce
ortieles of trade tar which he always
agdo a ready salThesee. ese are beads
eriebage boards, napicia rings, and
crochet needles Beattie% these, a, loug
list of sundry objects), outline the
fancy of the beliviclea,1 woeleraan,
ooulid be made,
Of Late years. I have 60371 coeseclee
aele modern equipment assembled by
the Ivory -carvers. Chisels., bracket
,saa, haelesa-ws, breast drille, jewelere
fires, its., are quite common, ead *nee
le a while a Teal foot -power lathe is
seen, But Wffile the week turned out
is eagerly bought by amateur* it
'really done not possese the attractive
nese of the ptecee, made arida the etude
implements of the past.—G.ballse
Henna
that is e.riit.
TRIBES RETURN?
hack to Israel. To what exteet thee
will bring *beat the fulfillment of
other prophecies by returning, std re,
mains, to be seen.
*
• So much for the prophecies that
have already been fulfilled. Now what
of those which it seems certain are
Big Trade With Thihet. TO THEIR ANCIENT HOME
•" About nine years ago the British
sent an 'expedition through one of the
p.assee of the Himalayas into Thibet,
under the leadership of Colonel 'Sir-
Franeis Yoenghusbane. It was pertly
scientific (foe exploration), pertly
diplomatic but chiefly militaey, being
But weo has not seen fairly ordi- There was considerable fighting, but "Chosen People? of Old.
Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, and several ethel
backed by an ea -my of 5,000 troops.
transformed into an image much morel '
, , lase the 'capital, was leached and Out of the "C4rapes of 'Wrath," trod,
a a -leerily :treaty mafde with the Grand den the *hie vat of the World War e•sufbeiheectprophets, have said on the same
nary stuff, in an average mortal el
closely resembling the dee b tl
me, y Lem.. . have flowed strange vintagee raost of'
{about to eome to pass? With Israel
AT JERUSALEM:
once more open to them, and with a
World War Has Opened Up
Joyous Prospects to the
highway stretching fair before them,
will the Lost Tribes return to that
New Jerusalem? Of many prophecies
in point, one from Jefretata'h (exile
3) will suffice, In its explicitness 01
expression it is but typical ef what
Will great influence a a greet 'pereona -ther the remnant of
ity? It may not be a personality that ' treatyis aceomplished the main them bitter if .not poisonous, writes "And /
object of the expeclition hi h
the world has downed with fame. It open up Thibet to trade with India. L wis. R Freeman. One of the few my fleck out of all countries whithea
, ay. lc was to
may be some One living a simple, Already the trade, through stations
quiet life in humble station, Yet established for the purpose, has be -
there is no life so lowly that it can- come eery considerable, the most im-
not lift another higher; there is neee portant exports being yak, tails, geld,
so powerless that it cannot raisee-ea borax, mush, fee skins, .goate hair and
drag down--another-life veith which wool. 'The Thibetans produce great
it comes in contact. - quantities If very superior wool 'and, suffered
the dying: tivity, or who fie& to avoid being ear -
When you and I peeform ignombe in their homes, they weave- magnifica , grip oe the tentacles of
ee:ried. into eaptivity; and the descend- ,
iouslY, the shame and the sting of our ant rugs. The women tan 'and sew I Ottoman octopus. The difficulty
ol latee end more voluatary
malfeasance are, that we have die- their own 'sheepskin gams Neaele extending succor to the young Armen-l'allts'
appointed . some one who believed in °ill el the teede is by barter, the Thibe- tan republic may mean that it will yet : flligeatioes. The former Movement
in the main toward the east, ane
Ili, and believed better than this evil ten% in exchange for their wool and have to lace for many years the threat • was
for, the eocurred previous to 586 B,C., the date
that we did. We thought we wel,:i by other arreagleediee, eatlaing. paience ef Tua•k and Bolsheveg but
erf the final destruction of the king -
ourselves; we thought we wereereeeepathe, ,earneres, tea, tobaeco, nera Sews of Palestine—with' a serene hut Nelauchadnezale the -
leased to do as we - pleaque we roes acap butterie needles . ' ta 1 I liberal British protectorate* establish- 6°' b`f "'lath' by a , I , , . , , spec 'ease
ga
have driven them, and will beteg
that sparkles with the bright, effer- 1
them again to their folds; and they
vescende ef peomise is feat which
eke. shall be fruitful land inereasee
typifies the eelease froni their
The Jews are found all over the
buries of Turkish bondage of the Jews;
lie. world at the present day. Speaking
Armenians, and Arabs, to seer
very broadly, these may be ,divided
thing of various and sundry odds and
Unto two classes; the d.eseendants of
ends of lesser peo.ple who had long
1 e et -tee the tribes which were carriereinto cap- :
* i t -
thought censciente cauld keep holidaye umbreeles, kerosene, peacock feathers,
and selfish self was free. But the' watehes, peaces, diamond's end mitten
obligation by which we are borne!, to for butter -lamp wicks. Which shows
those who believe in us has no sense that the 'ershvbile "heernit" land) of
of location, ane, it knows nothing of the lamas is waking up, --
e boundary. Wherever we go, it fol- Their literature, unfortunately, is
trews like "the hound of Heaven." stile backward, all Thibeban books be -
Wherever we are, love watches. When ing -written by hand Or printed from
we are unaware, 'a- mind is sensitive, engraved blocks on paper made from once of scant honor in their own coun-
a thought out -travels light, we are coarse gra.se. try, pointing out how prophecies al-
sornehow cared for though we have
ceaerd to care. There are daily mile
moles of tolerance; commiseration, per
ception and wise and timely counsel
to restore us to the track er kee,p us
going bemuse some one believes, some
one, though afar, is sufficiently con-
cerned, and even across a distance .
wilt nC
not let us go, eLearning.
Cs --"An'
Road to
.howo as your boy
latter movement has been avestresece
ed, and ultimate autonomy in sight—
most of it in the Christian Era. The
emigration ef European Jews to
there is Lardy a cloud an the horizon.
' And for those who were mice called
"Gad's:Chosen" the vintage of the war
has brought more than freedom—it
has brought fulfillment. To the ends
of the world Jews are thumbing the
pages of Isaiah Jeremiah, and. others
Just So..
ready come true have opened the way
for the fulfillment of others of even
Custonier—"Waitera little bled told
me this coffee was not strained." greater import, leading up to a virtual
,
renaissance of the race and! the estab-
Waiter—"A little bird, sec?" lishment of their long -dreamed -of
nt'Yes; a swallow." New Jerusalem. I shall discuss, here
only that covered, by two verses from
Ieaiah. Because the war has made the
"highways?' referred. to an aceomplish-
desert country another land of Canaan
Mickey gin ' along in school...?" ed fed, that prophecy has now been —a land literally- flowing with milk
Plaimery--"Foine, faine. Sure, the fulfilled. Visioning the return of the and honey.
Leacher licks him every day fr meet Tribes?' of Israel, Isaiah wrote
fightine" ' (xi:16):
Friendship never lives merely by
'material exchanges. The tangible
things may be—and often they are—
the missives of an abiding anda true
affectien. But the most and the best
one mortal can give to another pil-
grim on—the huMan way is belief,
whose other name is love. There is
nothing like that to move and to in-
eanerica issehe final wave of thie woe"-
erly drift.
* * *
To one who knows the Palestine
of to -day, the first question that pre-
sent itself in connection with- the re-
turn of any considerable number of
the Jewish race is: "Can that dry and
barren country support a population
greatly in excess pf the 'comparatively
sparse one which lives there now?"
The answer would be a niot emphatic -
were it not for the fact that the
way appears to be open fee reelama.
tion which bids fair to make of this
"Ancl there shall be an highway
for the remnant of his people, which
Authexess—"My new novel has ite shall be left, from A,seyria; like as it
scenes laid in the wheat fields." was to Israel in the day that he came
a A New Serial,.
Editer—"The.ai I suppase you are go -
up out of the land of Egypt."
And -again Oche 23) :
"In that day shall there be a high-
way ,out of Egypt to Assyria, anti the
Assyrian shall conie into Egypt, and
Egyetiana shall serve with the As-
eyrianse
Pie Egyptian into Assyria, and the
just what a highway connoted to
Isaiah, it would be interesting to
know. Doubtless, however, clear -see-
ing as was the great propbet of the
redemption, it la not peobable that he
visualized much more than a long
series a wells and tanks, elutes, .ane his teeth, a liqueur at his elbow. His
caeavansariee, marking the windings freed, leleses, sat opposite, likewise
of a dtisty camel and ass-beatenpath 'fortified,
across the desert. , Certainly-, not in. The Met was bewailing the enor-
mous cost of keeping his son at sol.
lege.
"Such expenses'!" he cried, "And
the vorst of allis the larigvadgese
"Langvadges?" repeated his friend.
"How's that?'
"Tell," said his host, "there is one
item in the bill vhich runs, Tor
Sootch, fifty poendse "
'You must measure the strength of a
man by the power of the feelings he
'subdue, not, by the power of those
which subdue hbs.
ing to run it in cereal form."
and the worst is yet to come
Le-teee-e--•--e-eeeere
r Ols Ogill-PVIt
1110
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—e-e--eene
at
‘lee
ott*teei.efetetwal
The Bragger..
lens. O'Toole cranked the mangle
for the last time, and gathered up a
huge pile of weeltimg and tatidled into ,
the front garden to bang it on the
fence. ,
' She had just fineihed her "banging"
when she caught Sigh,t of a newly
erected sign across the road, -*Mob
reed, "Washing anal ironing donee .
"Just you look at- ,that!" gasped Mee
O'Toole. "Sul* she' sbeeten mo,
grant; but there's no need to brag
about it!"
• Costly Languages.
In one of the palatial homes of the
new -rich somewhere off Park Lane ir
London,. a „Jewish gentleman set bee
fore a blazing fire, a tiger between
the farthest -flung vista et hie vision
could he have seen the glistening
traele the thundering trains, the
crowded station yards that differenti-
ate the modem railway and railway
travel from that by the Ancient cara-
van. Axid yet it is in the railway that
the reophecy comes to fulfillment.
Prom thousands og.miles beyond the
outermost limits of the known world
of Isaiales thee it is now possible to
reiveh Jerusalem by rail, The high-
way from Egypt to Assyria, via Pales -
title; is ,ah.accomplished fact; bet that
(save, an it fulfills the letter of the
prophecy) seems hardly more, than a
negligible incidental when one learns
that the whole of the European rail-
way santem, together with great and
itereesing lengths of those of Africa
and Asia, have been brought—almost
overnight as et were—in rail Nemec -
'Mon with Jerusalem. No Matter
whither, en any one of these thee
tontinentS, the most 'restless reennatte
of any 'of the lost tribes has wandered,
there are few who would have te
match eor More than a day or two to ,
reach a hightvey that will lead teen&
oar
There are seventeen tis-
sue salts necessary to the
operation and repair of the
body. The miller and the
refiner l!ind ;thecook are
throwing away some of
these and we cannot spare
one. As a result we are
sometimes going' physioally
bankrupt in several ways
at the same time.